Well, if any Americans ever wondered how you would act if you lived through the Hitler takeover of Germany, you need wonder no more. You are currently living it, and the way you act is it.
Cruelty is the entire point. They’ve weaponized it against the American people as a deterrent to whomever they perceive as being a nuisance.
At the moment it’s about racism. The goal is to make America less friendly to immigrants. They haven’t started to really hit “nuisances” yet. That’ll come later once this is all normalized.
Republicans: But she’s brown! All the other cruelties make sense!
Seriously, fuck this failed place. Let it all burn down…
Can’t wait to see the scumbag Homan hanging by his feet.
Maga/gop/republicans are building reputation that is going to be remebered for generations.
Think of the ww2 vets thats hated nazis and communism until the day they died. Those deep seeded feelings that stem from trauma just dont go away.
These feelings of hate and resentment are going to haunt the gop for at least a generation, maybe more.
Maga/gop/republicans are building reputation that is going to be remebered for generations.
That’s what I thought during the Bush years. I thought so again during Trump 1.0.
Then they forgot.
Trump killed over 1 million Americans through his completely fucked up and politicized Covid response.
Literally there’s more dead Americans from Covid than anywhwre else. AND we’re the 18th highest in deaths per capita despite being so very spread out.
Bush didn’t let everyone’s grandparents die in a pandemic then bail out his corpo friends with an unmonitored 1.7 trillion dollar blank check while the economy was failing.
No one forgot Bush. Trump is the concentrated malignant greed at the heart of how Bush got elected. He is magnitudes worse of a leader in every measurable and conceivable way. He corrupted the GOP from one that publically hated him into one that literally worships him as a king. He literally killed the GOP by converting them to his own MAGA religion, and they let him. So he’s now killing millions through starvation with the death of USAID and SNAP benefits while demolishing the Whitehouse and extorting American corporations for the money to do so.
Bush was no where near this level of fucking insanity.
MAGA is now the face of the GOP. So the GOP is never coming back.
Okay but they still forgot MAGA between 2020 and 2024. The reason MAGA and the GOP won isn’t because they got more people to vote for them, it’s because 8 Million who voted for Biden in 2020 did not vote for Harris in 2024. I really wish this were the same political landscape as the 1960s where we can hold on to our grudges forever, but clearly the advent of propoganda like Fox News, TikTok, X-Twitter, and FaceBook have made it very easy to program people en masse.
Don’t forget a significant chunk of America was happy to let those people die so the well could still go to Applebee’s and not wear masks. They were old and weak, and they were going to die anyway, right?
Many look at Bush fondly because he makes paintings and refused to vote for Trump.
And the dems rolled over again and again and didn’t erect barriers to further destruction so they could appease the “centrists.”
I hear you but Bush unknowingly approved a lot of fucked up shit a la dick Cheney.
Think of the ww2 vets thats hated nazis and communism until the day they died. Those deep seeded feelings that stem from trauma just dont go away.
That is some wishful thinking, how many ww2 veterans went home and supported segregation?
hollywood and the US propaganda machine managed to completely whitewash the USA post WW2 if you genuinely believe this.
Segregation is not mass murder. That’s how they could live with themselves. They just didn’t want Those People living next to them. They could be over here. Away from them. They would unironically think they were better than nazis.
As a black person, I’ll say that of the choices, I do think that segregation worked out better for black people. There is simply more POC wealth in historically segregated areas than areas there that’s not true. Turns it, it was actually better to keep racists away from you than letting them torment you while you were trying to establish your community from an even from horrific situation (everything abojt Jim crow and slavery.). I think the battle for integration was a good one, but it was done once there was such a thing as middle class blacks.
Nope, you’re gonna get a Mexican Joker. Way worse! Honestly, the cruelty is the point, they are laughing about this shit behind those walls. These are not your neighbours, or fellow citizens. They are traitors to the country and the private police force for Drumpf’s crown. Act accordingly. All for one and one for all!
Just more winning! Starving kids! Disappearing brown people! America is beyond great!
Also, Trump is a pedophile and human trafficker. And a rapist. And suffering from dementia. And a felon. And wears makeup.
He isn’t doing this alone
Oh I know. The KKK cunt that married her dad’s friend spewing propaganda. Stephen miller doing everything he can to the pull strings. Johnson sharing how often he’s jerking off with his son. Totally not weird. Bondi is just doing what the sleepy diddler is focused on for the minute. And Noem is stealing as much money as she can to fly around the world on her private plane to hunt dogs. Fuck all of them.
And then you have every single politician in DC either outright agreeing and enjoying this. Or at best writing a tweet against it. None of them are actually doing anything to stop it.
Johnson sharing how often he’s jerking off with his son.
Definitely took the words the wrong way at first, as:
Johnson sharing how often he and his son jerk off together.
lol. Te be fair, I would rule it out. You have to share that kind of Christian teaching.
Johnson: Remember, son, the Bible doesn’t explicitly state that the whore has to be alive, just that your seed is better in their belly than on the ground.
(And checking the internet before posting this is how I learned that the Bible doesn’t actually say this, it’s just widely thought to)
Wonder how the homie feels for supporting trump knowing his green card from getting married might not save him (not really friends anymore, got tired of seeing the trump driding, then he posted that he got his green card after getting married, like mf you werent even born here, I grew up with this dude in a town of mostly immigrants and he’s out here covering his ass getting married at 25 to get a green card trying to fuck others over who can’t just find a willing us citizen lol)
Why we don’t have massive coverage of this disappearances on the media?
Guess who owns the media?
Corporations?
Well, one, this has been going on for several months.
Two, the media corporations are controlled by the regime.
Three, they really don’t want anyone to know what’s happening to the women. If we can ever locate them.
This could easily be me. I live with that terror every single day. That terror intentionally inflicted upon me by the right. Gleefully done. Boastfully done.
Let these ghoul’s bodies rot in the streets for their fellows to admire.
You’re probably taking precautions but be careful about sharing potentially risky information like this online. Automated mass surveillance of online communications is already here in the form of Palantir.
Hey, that could spread disease to the rest of us. At least toss them outside of town.
We can all hope so, but the reality is the title is more “you first” thinking rather than practical solutions that actual people will do.
To put an at least temporary stop to this, people will have to continue resisting until midterms, where anything short of a democrat sweep will seal the US’s fate.
All the people who don’t want this, center right to tankie should be campaigning their asses off about this, because this will continue to be the reality until you accept that pragmatism often requires taking shitty solutions and working them into being better rather than just hoping magically for a hail mary.
Or John Wick.
This is just stupid and cruel. It serves no purpose. I would love to think the people responsible will get their comeuppance but I know it won’t happen.
The USA is now a full blown fascist state. Fuck Nazis.
Fuck every citizen who sits by not fighting. Especially those who think voting or protesting is resisting.
Your passion and energy are correct, but your message and delivery is all wrong, and isnt going to attract followers. You catch more flys with honey than with vinegar.
People want to be led. There are millions of people who can volunteer a few hours, if someone laid out a simple plan for them. Be very explicit. Say “we need 20 volunteers to sign up here and do X so that Y which helps Z”.
Dont alienate your would be contributors and voluneers. Be a leader. Lead.
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
I wholly agree with the sentiment you’re expressing here. I would like to note that, experimentally and literally, you catch more flies with vinegar than with honey. Apparently the acetic acid is very attractive to them.
I suppose the takeaway could be that the thing that a person assumes would draw people in may not be the real thing, and serves as a reminder to examine reality before assuming what will work for your goal. One may hope that the messaging you suggest would attract more people than the parent commenter’s.
Ah yes the classic “you should go die in a war i dont understand why you won’t go start a war” argument.
I doubt you would start a war in the same position. People tend to value their own lives above the injustices of others. This isn’t always the case of course
I am relieved that the overall sentiment seems to be heading back to a more rational position, probably because the reality of needing to resist is really settling in for some of us. You’re not helping the cause going out and openly blasting a pack of ICE goons. Not yet. All that would do RIGHT NOW is give them a broadly supported reason to crack down harder, and they want that but the optics are bad right now. The work to be doing right now is training, organizing, and preparing. Because WHEN(not if, unfortunately imo) it’s time to go weapons live I for one will want some type of support network making sure I continue to receive ammunition, food, supplies, and I would prefer there be some type of medical support in case I get shot. But if you think you’re John fucking Rambo then be my guest, make everything even worse before it needs to be.
What’s your name so we can look out for your news headline when you fight back?
Shut the fuck up
are you a US citizen?
Probably not. They’re probably a Russian troll sent to sow division.
If they are a US citizen, then lead by example or shut the ever living fuck up you keyboard warrior bitch.
If they are a US citizen, then lead by example or shut the ever living fuck up
and shut the fuck up. No need to leave evidence trails.
Touché!
Get a load of the ICE agent over here.
Why do you think you’re talking to an ICE agent?
This is is both a reasonable response to the comment on its own but could easily be misread as assuming nationality based on the user name. I’m going with the former.
It’s also the likely conclusion from reading their post history.
it’s chinese, and means “grass mud horse” according to google
The main issue, so far, is the ‘protests’ are meek and lacklustre. It’s just a bunch of people hanging out, or taking a stroll together, while some of them carry signs.
Which would be fine if it wasn’t every 4 months or so. These protests need to happen more frequently.Ok, maybe not every week. Which would be brilliant. But once a month at the minimum, not a few times a fucking year!!
If they can’t organise and band together more than a few times a year then there’s absolutely no chance of anything else happening.
It’s ramping up, and the people attending aren’t to blame for it not ramping up faster.
People don’t care, people don’t want to die. They will spam news, make it even more drama, but fight? No, never.
Enter with force in capitol and dethrone Trump? No, it’s not right. But living Trump to do what he does, braking laws day after day, destroying your country, along with rich people and companies, is not fighting, its surrendering.\But guess what, we, the rest of the world, have to eat in face for the rest of his fucking period.
Take my upvote.
Invade then, pussy
I doubt this will lead to a punisher origin story. ICE does not go after anyone actually dangerous.
They have stayed out of most areas where cartels, gangs, etc operate. If ICE cuts into their money? Then shit gets weird.
I’ll bet they have picked up plenty of actual gang/cartel members, figured it out, and got them released. It’s not just the cartels that profit from the cartel business.
Is there an article or something? The tweet is in quotes, but searching the text just returns tweets.
Here’s a story with a valid source that makes a very similar point.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/07/ice-video-unconscious-man-child-arrest
Asking the important questions
no for real. this is a tweet. with a smiling w/ tears in eyes emoji, followed by streaming tears emoji and a pointing emoji.
this IS a photo of a guy crying in a parking lot.
no context how the tweeter knew anything about this or anything substantiating of any kind, at all.
first reply here on lemmy: whats wrong with you, america?!
im NOT saying shit like this isn’t happening left and right. I AM saying reading a post like this and just believing what is written puts people on the same level as right wingers who see a facebook photo of a drag queen and believe the block of text that this person spit in the face of a social worker when they didnt get their welfare benefits from the window of their penthouse during an orgy next to an elementary school and writes a comment about how lgbt+ people are monsters
I’ve got context.
That area is a parking lot by the ICE facility. So it doesn’t appear to just be any old photo of a man crying in a parking lot. Both the color and density of the bricks, distance of the grass, color of the parking lines, and placement of the door, which I initially was led to believe was a pole based on the angle, are all a match, though whatever’s partially obscuring the second photo in the original post is something that was likely added later on, as the most recent street view photos are from about 3-4 months ago, give or take.
Both reverse image searches on the attached photos, and facial recognition scans via PimEyes of his face turn up no results.
I was able to find two additional photos of him from this post on Bluesky, one from behind talking to officers, and another of him sitting on the ground but with a different angle of his face visible.
I found an additional photo from what appears to be the same poster on Facebook this time, showing more of his face. Still no facial rec match, though. (PimEyes doesn’t search social media for privacy reasons though, so there’s a chance it’s just missing him on there)
The org that seems to have the largest swath of the photos, and initially did the reporting, is Humanizing Through Story, who’s mission is to capture documentary-style photos of immigrants and refugees in an attempt to humanize them.
Their site links to an Instagram post by their account. That post claims that “This is what was reported to me by a community member who offered aid and resources to him on site.”
So to wrap that all up:
- He is a real person (i.e. not AI generated)
- He was actually near to the ICE facility in a parking lot
- The photos taken of him were from an organization known to take such photos, not just a random bystander
- The claimed path of the narrative was: The guy himself > Community member > Organization, and the screenshotted post is just a copy of their original post but without the context of where the information came from or any link back to the organization that actually took the photos or gathered the information.
Wow actually a useful post
excellent job with this
Wow, thank you for finding this.
So basically this hasn’t been proven false, hasn’t been proven true, but has supporting evidence for at least major parts of the narrative.
In essence, its not a smoking gun but could be a compelling story if packaged correctly and the relevant information was gotten more concretely.
More than that, it seems usual sources aren’t debunking nor covering it.
Thank you. Not sure if comments can be pinned to the top of a thread, but knowing this is real and not just an out of context photo used for propo is important. The fact that it wasn’t immediately dismissable is already sad, though.
a drag queen spit in the face of a social worker when they didnt get their welfare benefits from the window of their penthouse during an orgy next to an elementary school
god damn! lgbt+ people are monsters!
One human trait that transcends politics is a general willingness to uncritically accept propaganda that confirms one’s personal beliefs. It’s how people are so easily manipulated, yet many seem not to care as long as they’re being manipulated down a path that seems agreeable to them.
So do you think this is real or not?
The only mentions online are on social media. The one article I found from a cursory search simply references those social media mentions.
I’m 50/50. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was real, but I’ll assume it may not be until any even vaguely reputable sources provide any confirmation.
Do you believe in mainstream media outlets still?
My belief is that they can be used to confirm a story, but the absence of it does not confirm anything because they all are under the chilling effect of the regime if not owned outright by a right wing billionaire member.
Just to be clear, what I am not saying is “believe everything without evidence” what I am instead saying, is that relying on compromised sources as your version of truth, despite that in the past typically being most reasonable, may no longer be. I mean, why are we all here on lemmy anyways right?
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In this case it is consistent with the shit ICE has been confirmed to be doing by official media while your comparison is conservative fantasy to justify their evil actions.
Taking additional examples of something that is happening at face value is not the same thing as taking complete bullshit made up stories at face value.
If those additional examples are bullshit made up stories it’s exactly the same thing. You lose credibility and it gives ammunition to the “It’s not happening” crowd when they can point to made up stories.
I don’t know if this post is true or not and I do believe ICE is doing shit like this but we should all be wary of where we’re getting our information and what we’re spreading around. Stick to verifiable sources. Not tweets designed to tug at your heartstrings.
Holding plausible things that are consistent with normal actions to the same standards as ridiculous and blatant lies because the blatant liars can use that against us somehow is stupid. They don’t care about reality or how anyone else does anything, they are just going to lie about it anyway.
Sure, people should be skeptical of unverified claims from social media. That is correct to a point, we also saw the actual non-violent protesting in Oregon on social media first. Lots of the reports of people being disappeared by ICE came through social media first, because reporting takes some time to do the verification. Now that it is verified that ICE does these things maybe it isn’t unrealistic to take them at face value no matter where they are coming for.
If social media posts start reporting ICE doing mass murder, sure that should be taken with a grain of salt. But disappearing people and being shitty to family members? Just another day for ICE.
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