c/nottheonion · by bytesonbike@discuss.online · 291d

ICE Asked to Pause Operations for Halloween So Children Can Trick or Treat

https://www.newsweek.com/ice-asked-to-pause-operations-for-halloween-children-trick-or-treat-10963836

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has reportedly requested that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and senior ICE officials suspend immigration enforcement operations in Chicago for Halloween.

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pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 209 pts · 291d (7 replies)

Hey republicans, this is the world you're creating.

MyOpinion@lemmy.today · 96 pts · 291d

MAGAts have no shame they celebrate the evil they bring to the world.

toomanypancakes@piefed.world · 51 pts · 291d (1 reply)

This is the world they want.

Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 291d

Exactly.

For the Fascists, the ones they see as lesser are pretty much sub-human and to be treated as vermin, and they have no more empathy for the younger "vermin" than they have for the adult "vermin".

Just look at Nazi Germany and Zionist Israel for very obvious examples of how for these people the children of the "lesser" races aren't really human and get targetted same as all the other members of the ethnicities they literally call "vermin".

If these people were both capable of empathy and unable to block their empathy on a per-ethnicity basis, they wouldn't be Fascists.

WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 291d (3 replies)

You can't shame a fascist. Time to change strategy.

dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net · 18 pts · 291d (1 reply)

Shame is dead, time for kicking.

foggy@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 291d

I think we need to bring back tar and feathering.

gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 291d

Do things that demonstrate how shameful they are to the large group of people who don't pay attention to the news or politics until that large group gets fed up with fascists' bullshit

exu@feditown.com · 93 pts · 291d (5 replies)

But that's the perfect opportunity to round up all the neighborhood children /s

zd9@lemmy.world · 71 pts · 291d (4 replies)

Get rid of the /s and add "brown" in front of children that's their actual plan.

Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 43 pts · 291d

Pretty sure republicans plans for children have more than just "get rid of" in them.

otp@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 291d (1 reply)

Wouldn't want to accidentally grab a white kid in blackface /s

Akasazh@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 291d

Oh that's dark.

Bravo

SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 291d

I think they will use the fact that white people are disguised on Halloween, to add them to the trafficking cages. $1,500 a head, plus "fun" for ICE predators before shipping out the merchandise.

ICE only loves dispensing pain and reveling in their own power. They have no loyalty to the nation nor the people.

ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 85 pts · 291d (10 replies)

US is sounding more like a developing country with authoritarian government all the time

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 291d (4 replies)

That's because it is

ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 291d (2 replies)

I remember someone describing the US once as a third world country under a first world trench coat.

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 291d

We're fifty-five third-world territories in a trenchcoat

rozodru@pie.andmc.ca · 8 pts · 291d

it is. it's a "first world" nation where the healthcare of you and your family is directly tied to your place of employment. it's a "first world" nation where mass shootings are the norm and there's an insanely strong refusal to do anything about it. It's a "first world" nation where you're actively discouraged from seeking assistance from the government and in doing so is a sign of weakness. It's a "first world" nation where the citizens taxes will go more towards military spending as opposed to infrastructure.

There's nothing "first world" about the united states of america. It's a country built on a system that was designed to prevent uprisings. If you protest constantly for change there's the strong likely hood that you'll lose your job, thus your healthcare, thus your ability to eat.

It's a guy wearing an uncle sam halloween costume with a nazi armband underneath.

arrow74@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 291d

Oh no it's worse, we're a developed nation with global military capabilities that's becoming (is?) authoritarian

NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 36 pts · 291d

Even in (most) developing countries with authoritarian governments people don't randomly get caught off the street; this is fascist business.

MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net · 20 pts · 291d

Oh, we're developing alright. It's cancer.

HubertManne@piefed.social · 15 pts · 291d

it has been the moment masked unmarked paramilitary started snatching people off the streets. this is the hallmark of every shithole country.

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 291d

The US is forty or so 3rd world countries being held up by the remaining states that could reasonably function as first world countries themselves, except we’re all in a big trenchcoat and we have thousands of nukes and a fuck-off huge military. This place hasn’t been “one country” for a while now.

Glifted@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 291d

We're already there

Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 49 pts · 291d (11 replies)

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 291d (10 replies)

I'd rather hide ICE. prefferably someplace deep, dark, dank, and with no exits. maybe a few spikes at the bottom? Rats, too.

TheTurner@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 291d (2 replies)

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FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 291d (1 reply)

remind me... do they come with rats or really big spiders with really painful bites?

TheTurner@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 291d

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Whostosay@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 291d (4 replies)

I know that the sun doesn't have any of those features, but I nominate it. We just have to send them there at like .0000004 meters per second and we're golden.

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 291d (3 replies)

carbon footprint and monetary costs, and it'd take too long.... Pits are more effecient, cheaper and quicker.

though, if we're not worried about that, I'd agree that'd be a good option. Alternatively, I hear ocean gate is trying to do more tours.

Whostosay@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 291d (2 replies)

What if we just let 'er orbit indefinitely

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 291d (1 reply)

most of the energy is actually spent in the first few moments of take off, lol :P (also can you imagine, a decade or two from now having dessicated orange ass falling on you? ew.)

Whostosay@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 291d

I feel like you're missing the bright sides here, we could make a new religion of it

orbitz@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 291d (1 reply)

This isn't directed to you just where I ended up replying.

Not even from the US but those brown shirts gotta go somehow. I hope there is a reckoning before their final crayon drawn plan.

Also I understand the people with the plan don't use crayons that's the worst part. Everyone is allowing an imbecile to be the figurehead while the people in charge have a proper plan that is being acted out. Not nearly the front facade that the US used to try and have for sure. We all knew they did shit, but we're mostly half decent. Now it's full on Nazi.

The imbecile tore down like an arm of what the US called the beacon of democracy (East Wing). And no immediate protests, general strike. If the population doesn't do something who will? Oh yes let's let other countries handle the largest military on earth.

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 291d

there are protests pretty much everywhere. persistent and on going.
tearing down the east wing may have been retaliation for no kings 2 in which 7-8 million people turned up across the nation, setting records for turn out- at least as the largest turn out in US history; and I can think of a small handful globally that are larger.
going on a general strike means not earning money, means not being able to feed your kids.
If you're wondering why we're not protesting in DC...The US is the size of the EU. imagine going from Madrid to Amstardam. That's the same straightline distance from me to DC. and I'm only in Minneapolis- people In LA? that's more than double. forget people in Hawai'i, or any of the pacific Islanders. Or Alaska. driving, that's a 16 hour drive, non stop, one way.

It's easy to sit there and feed into this narrative that americans are just going along with it. We're not. you don't hear about it because mainstream media here isn't covering it. and no, we're not asking you to come save us. if it comes to it- and right now, it's looking like it will- we're going to civil war.

lectricleopard@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 291d

Please remove law enforcement from the streets so our children are safe. My town growing up had no police within 30 min drive and we were fine. We dont need them.

Ive never trusted cops, even back when they came to my school as a kid. They had that stranger with candy vibe, like they're being too nice. People are only too nice in the moment if they think their other actions (past, present, or future) would scare people off.

Priests and cops. Never trust em.

Lianodel@ttrpg.network · 39 pts · 291d (4 replies)

ICE is ruining Halloween, the shutdown is ruining Thanksgiving, but Trump has one surefire way to save Christmas.

dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net · 17 pts · 291d (1 reply)

Suicide bombing an all-hands meeting of his cabinet?

reptar@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 291d

Hmmm. I think I've read about plots like that

Scrawny@reddthat.com · 10 pts · 291d

Deploy the troops because the liberals have had a war on Christmas?

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 291d

he canceled christmas already

DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 291d

I remember when I was that kid, when I barely understood the world, before I have even leared of the reality of wars, bigotry, government oppression, propaganda.

I remember that 8 year old kid, my previous country facing massive political and economic issues (not that I understood that at the time), that's why my parents left. I was already having trouble fitting in, learning the language was difficult, and being an introvert made that stuggle harder.

I remember my mother kinda just pushed me into doing trick or treating, I didn't wanted to do it... too many people... but I mean, I guess I kinda was fine, free candy lol, at a time when my parents were kinda stuggling. In hindsight, it was a quite nostalgic and pleasant memory, compared to many other memories.

I remember running into classmates and um... that was so awkward for me, because I'm kinda socially awkward.

I remember the candy I hated the most was Reeses and Twizzlers. I know some of y'all would probably disagree, but that's just me lol, everyone's different.

But like... holy shit... imagine if this was the shit that happened back then.

I reflect on 8 year old me, and I think of the immigrant children today, and I see that reflection of my 8 year old self, I see that spirit in these kids.

I... idk how to describe this. But like I think about alt-timeline often, and I could imagine how terrified 8 year old me would be if some adults took me away, I can imagine the same fear if it happend to these kids today, literally tonight in about 12 hours or so.

I was alone once at age 5-7 (forgot the exact age) because I had a fight with my older brother and ran away, and I could've been kidnapped. But I could imagine a timeline if I had been. And it's 10x worse if its people from the government, because kids used to see them as protectors, that belief being shattered at such a young age is gonna cause a lot of developmental issues. Its gonna be hard to even form friendships, I mean I didn't even face much government oppression and I already had such issues from family troubles, imagime being also facing overt government oppression.

Its so sad.

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 28 pts · 291d (4 replies)

Also now that I think about it: Trick or treaters dressed as ICE agents (or, fuck it, LEOs in general) should be refused candy.

mushroommunk@lemmy.today · 28 pts · 291d (2 replies)

I dunno, the tradition of Halloween is to dress as scary things so they can't recognize you or hurt you. Seems like the perfect time to dress as one of those y'all-qaeda

Witchfire@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 291d (1 reply)

There's scary and then there's problematic

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 12 pts · 291d

In this case, it is both. They're scary because of their problematicness.

stretch2m@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 291d

Any kids who do this are pawns of their parents and don't deserve to be punished. They don't understand.

hellfire103@lemmy.ca · 27 pts · 291d (1 reply)