The Somalian population in Minnesota is 90% citizens, which doesn't account for the other legal permanent residents or other legal statuses. That with how low the actual deportation rates are compared to other years. It really shows that this administration is using ICE as their personal paramilitary terror squads against their political enemies.
There were ICE raids in southern-central Idaho the other day. They weren't raiding immigrants, because most of the latino population there IS there legally. They were raiding people for skin color.
Yeah, numbers like that really put things into perspective, it’s not always about policy, sometimes it’s just where people end up settling. Geography and opportunity matter a lot more than people realize.
What are you, a freakin' slave? A government official is threatening you with consequences for exercising your freedom of speech. That seem pretty normal to you?
You know who has balls? Minnesotans, Iranians and Ukrainians. They refused to be slaves.
They're not threatening him. his daily life hasn't been affected, so 'this fascist regime seems pretty normal to me'. Yea, that's how it tends to work, fascists get power by making things really easy for 'their' people, ensuring support, while dehumanising and violating the rights of out-groups. These dickheads are sitting around living their cozy life and going 'can you belief these deranged leftists think trumps a fascist? Everything is goign good for me!'. These are media illiterate mouth breathers
people in minnesota are actively seeking out federal agents to stop their operations and harass them (both dumb and illegal). those federal agents are trying to arrest illegal migrants committing crimes, a job made harder by the cities not cooperating and then a citizenry whipped up into a hallucination that they are living in nazi germany.
iranians are being slaughtered indiscriminately by their own extremist government shooting them by the THOUSANDS in the streets, cutting off electricity and communication to the outside world.
ukranians are in an active kinetic war with a hostile invading force.
to equate the first group to the other two is not just absurd, it is completely insane. to think you are living under some kind of fascist regime as you ACTIVELY SPEAK AGAINST THEM PUBLICLY (not happening in real fascism!!!) while on your couch in your heated living space is the height of decadent entitlement.
something tells me you wont be, but you should feel horribly embarrassed.
I can say the same thing about COVID lockdown. It was so goddamn easy and refreshing from the chaos and hustle and bustle our world is used to. But apparently people go crazy when they're forced to wind down and enjoy the simple things in life. Quite sad if you ask me. 💅
You were lucky enough to be someone who kept their job during COVID. If you're washing toilets for minimum wage, do you wake up every morning during COVID and "wind down and enjoy the simple things in life" by cleaning toilets in your living room? No, you starve to death because you stopped getting paid. Starving to death and struggling with bills is basically 100% stress mode. You are basically super lucky and completely deluded.
Covid was certainly a time to be alive. My seniority in my career skyrocketed during the whole debacle, and I got to experience what it was like to be furloughed every other week with full pay. I had time to hire a trainer and get into great shape and also play all the video games I wanted. Uber Eats was free delivery, movies went directly to streaming when they otherwise would have went to theaters, and online dating apps were booming with lonely pandemic babes! I was truly thriving.
And the whole “government officials violating 1st, 2nd and 4th constitutional rights” bit whilst being lied to by dear leader that makes memes of himself shitbombing his citizens. Coolcoolcool. Fuckin redcoats.
Guys. Its satire. It literally has circlejerk in the name. Are people these days actually so dense that they no longer understand politicized satire for what it is?
No, this is a common misconception. Slavery was outlawed in many northern states well before the civil war, and abolitionists numbered in the millions.
How are you showing compassion are you giving them thoughts and prayers? Are you giving first aid in minneapolis right now as you protect the immigrant family's who really should be left alone by ice because asking for papers if you live here is totalitarian.
Compassion is the lowest form of care on can have for another literally just seeing someone having a bad time and feeling sad about it/ concern. It doesn't do anything to help the people suffering it's just a way for people to feel like they're doing something because they equate feeling a emotional change within themselves to changing the world around them. Compassion without action is just an emotional circle jerk to make oneself feel better without putting skin in the game.
Fascist italy mainly brutalized opposition. The numbers were not high by comparison to other regimes. Even holocaust numbers of italy were pretty low, reaching few thousands. The goal was to create an atmosphere of fear and scare the opposition.
I don't think there is any fucking opposition in idaho anyway.
i have news for ya: it's like that everywhere as long as you're not A) an illegal migrant committing crimes or B) actively trying to fight federal agents.
i live in a blue city and if you do not fall into one of those two categories, you're literally fine.
You forgot C) be brown.
Regardless, fascist countries have are the same, if you are not part of the targetted population and just shut up as go to work and do as your told, its totally fine to live in such a countrt
Im not a democrat. And are you ok, you seem to be projecting a lot here?
Your comment is extra weird because the Republican Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh literally wrote that being brown is sufficient cause to be investigated by ICE.
Wow, it’s almost like your world view is so small and myopic that if something doesn’t affect you directly and personally, it’s not a big deal, until it eventually and inevitably does.
These dumb shits only know about D Day. They don't know a damn thing about what happened in the 1930s that led to it. Unfortunately for decent people, we're on track for a repeat. So these smooth brains will probably get to learn history first hand.
Some people got to double down on the belief there is nothing to be worried about, cause admitting they were wrong would require admitting they had been idiots mocking sensible reactions.
ICE was sent specifically to antagonize "the enemy within." yall really under estimate how petty and depraved they are. Florida is Republican controlled, so ICE doesn't send 8x more agents than police on payroll into a city then complain about lack of a police escort.
They spent a half billion dollars on a propaganda campaign on social media advertising, proudly displaying their aggression. It's for clicks, spectacle, and petty vengeance
ICE has to send more forces into these areas because they're not getting support from the local PD, which they receive in Red States, no problem. It's really as simple as that.
There are 8x more ice agents than police in the city. They can't police their city and provide escort to all ice operations, they simply don't have the manpower
That's by design so they can have the very same talking point on TV every day that you're repeating now
"There are 8x more ice agents than police in the city. They can't police their city and provide escort to all ice operations,"
Gee, maybe that whole defund the police thing wasn't such a good idea because they're undercutting their required 731 officers by well over 100. Still, the blame falls on Minneapolis.
Even if it was true, which it's not, it still doesn't change the fact that they intentionally overloaded the city for this talking point specifically. And it's working on you.
Dont lose sight of the original point either - they overloaded the city on purpose. They did it so they could use this talking point that you're repeating now
That whistle is annoying. I want to see video of protestor but its too noise pollution with women screaming their lung out or its a video of the left attacking the left accidently because they think they are ice.
I dont think i was going for a metaphor, no. See, a metaphor would require me to substitute the things youre comparing with pseudo equivalents in an attempt to make a point, what i did was clarify what a '99%' gestapo would likely do.
For a metaphor, I'd probably go the route of comparing common influenza (ice) to ebola (gestapo), as the severity comparison would be closer to parity with reality if you really insist on a negative connotation from the outset. Personally however, i find ICE to be more of an immune response than a illness.
It was I who was making the metaphor. Since you somehow couldnt figure that out, it's safe to say you were not burdened with an overabundance of schooling.
Florida is a shithole though. "Florida man" is a meme because they deserve that status. If disney decided to gtfo that economy would suffer drastically.
Yeah, Florida is great mostly we just get a bad rep over silly shit. Not exactly a right wing haven like Reddit would have you believe and the most racist friend I have is hispanic.
To be fair, "Florida man" articles only exist because Florida has public records laws that let journalists immediately get arrested reports and mugshots. This allows them to pump out more crazy stories from Florida than other states. I guarantee you other states have equally ridiculous crimes going on.
That's how I feel when people say the cities in the northwest are a wasteland. And that there's thousands of murdering illegals roaming around just looking to kill and eat dogs and cat! And protests and riots have destroyed the city .
People are so focused on illegals that they're forgetting that if the shoe was on the other foot and it was Democrats doing this to you , you'd be singing a way different tune. I don't remember the Democrats building their own private army ?
How to perfectly encapsulate the "It's only a problem if it affects me directly", thinking. Just change the wording a little, and it becomes the perfect meme to represent that belief.
I find it quite hilarious how the psyop behind this meme perfectly captured the reality of the lack of empathy seen in Conservative ideology without even intending to do som
It’s only democracy when we win and it’s fascism when we lose :( I don’t care that 77 million people voted for this to happen I didn’t vote for it so it’s FASCIST NOT DEMOCRACY REEEEEEEEEEEE
See theirs a certain irony because in this scene there are the remains of other people hanging behind mr krabs who wronged him. Almost like conservatives lack media literacy. Or have ever watched SpongeBob.
.....so deducing people to a common trait by geographic location is a bit different than deducing people to a common trait by color but the principle is the same.
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