• Substance_P@lemmy.world
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    This administration is pretty much tossing every part of the Constitution aside. I can’t help but wonder what the founding fathers would think after just fighting a long war to get these rights written down…

    You can’t protest what they’re doing. Only their supporters should have guns (remember when Trump said, ‘Take their guns’?)

    If you don’t let ICE crash at your place, you can’t do business, MAGA will dox it.

    ICE can stop and hold you whenever they feel like it.

    They can keep you locked up without charging you, so forget about due process.

    They can deport you before you even get a chance to go to court, even if the court says not to.

    ICE claims they can use military courts instead of regular juries, and they say they’re immune to all laws.

    Citizens can be deported without a trial.

    You are starting to lose the right to just be out and about without showing ID (if ICE even asks to see it). Soon you’ll need a driver’s license just to walk to the store.

    ICE, as a federal agency, has more power than the states, even though states should have rights over the federal government.

    This is a tipping point in history.

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        Fuck everyone who wished to “live in interesting times” over “good times” because they can’t entertain themselves and need the world to be entertaining for them. Lol

        They got their wish.

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      re: driver’s license to walk to store - there are already enough examples in recent history in the US of pretty much exactly this situation happening.

      example: the civil rights lawyer (YT), video “CVS employee arrested waiting on bench”. guy got off work, sat on the bench outside the store waiting for his Lyft, wouldn’t provide ID, got arrested.

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    They’re probably receiving guidance from above that this is the way to go because the administration wants some of them to get shot to escalate things further.

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      Right, can you imagine that after signing up for a $50,000 bonus—money that can only be collected after five years of service—your boss tells you to break and enter into suburban houses with the full knowledge that the United States has the highest number of guns per capita, 120.5 guns for every 100 residents, and rights to protect themselves? All while the hope is that one of these goons gets shot for Trumps big martial law experiment.

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          You are right and I think its more nuanced than this. I originally heard it on a reddit post HERE, I think its more like

          An immediate $10,000 signing bonus upon joining.

          An additional $10,000 is paid if the application is completed before an early August deadline.

          The remaining $30,000 is distributed as $10,000 annually over the subsequent three years.

          So I was wrong according to reddit, sadly the specific details are not easy to find without getting in a quagmire of MSM news websites that only give thin overviews.

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    Notice how they flash their tasers when they get into the house and she keeps asking for the warrant? Intimidation tactic. Fucked up.

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    Every time they do something like this without actual police arresting them and judges condemning them to prison, the US steps one clear bold step further into fascism.

    Let’s face it: it won’t be the NRA-type militia people that’ll stop it, likely not local PD… Their best bet (in the US) is to have part of their military completely split from the rest and from the regime.

    The only way that happens is if there’s a clearly articulated, constitution-focused leader that emerged, rallies the troops around their actual oath, and starts fighting.

    Mark Kelly, Pete Buttigieg, other politicians with strong military credibility better start a proper resistance before they’re removed by anticipation…

    Edit: and the most infuriating thing? This whole thing is the insanely accurate depiction of what Putin’s winning endgame is, has always been: a US so destabilized and stuck in infightining that Russia can re expand its borders unchallenged… Putput must be creaming it hard these days.

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      The US has been a fascist police state since the early 2000s. The difference is under trump they’re going mask off and people are starting to notice.

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      Then everyone nearby knows ICE is in the area, and takes whatever action they need to take before ICE gets a chance to get to them too.

      You can’t help being first on their list when they hit your area, but with some warning there’s a non-zero chance you can help being the second.

      And every whistle, effectively helpful or not, is the sound of a neighbor who cares enough to try to have your back.

      Don’t mock the whistles. They’re not there to impress you.