That's the One

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balderdash9@lemmy.zip · 48 pts · 210d (13 replies)

Tear down the system that lead to a militarized police force and nation-wide surveillance? Nonono, that's crazy talk.

frisbird@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 210d (1 reply)

That system? The United States of America.

defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 210d

More accurately, capitalism.

Any system that involves people having power over other people is inevitably going to end up like this.

IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 210d (8 replies)
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Cruxifux@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 210d (7 replies)

I was talking to my friend the other day about how a massive EMP strike would ultimately do our society some good if we had to interact with our communities and neighbours again for necessities and entertainment again.

a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 210d (4 replies)

That's true, but I suspect you're going to miss the many people who are going to die as a result.

Cruxifux@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 210d (3 replies)

Absolutely. And I in all likeliness would also die. It would be a great tragedy. Maybe one that would cause humanity to step up. Start cooperating to fix this.

a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 210d (2 replies)

I, too, would die.

Cruxifux@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 210d (1 reply)

Most of the scenarios I see on the world scale right now involve me dying or living in slow decline to poverty as the world changes. Maybe I’m just being pessimistic but it doesnt feel like it.

a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 210d

I'm not pessimistic, I'm just sick.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 210d (1 reply)

One of the best days I had in college was when the hurricane knocked out power so me and the neighbors had a drunk chess tournament (you lose a piece, you take a sip. End of the game, finish the can. Drink of your choice but one of the neighbors had a cooler of coronas they were sharing so that and water's what post of us drank. I was smoking sassages for the group. Probably won 2 games?) We all just hung out, playing chess, listening to music, eating sassages, drinking corona, and waiting to see if the hurricane was going to give us bad weather again all half expecting to drunken scramble into one of the ground floor apartments if shit started flying. It did not and we all eventually went home and to bed. Most of us never really hung out before then, and some of them I never saw after.

Cruxifux@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 210d

Every time I’ve moved I always make an effort to be friends with the neighbours, with varying rates of success.

can@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 210d

So like, the constitution or...

Drusas@fedia.io · 1 pts · 210d

Racism and class war, for example? Absolutely, but those will take a little longer.

Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone · 38 pts · 210d

Abolish ICE and then prosecute them. Or the other way around, not that important.

Bazell@lemmy.zip · 30 pts · 210d

JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 28 pts · 210d

Limonene@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 210d

trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 210d (10 replies)

When you finally denazify, please do it properly. Otherwise they and their ideology will fester in your institutions like a cancer, waiting to return when the time is right.

Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 210d

They won't, Dems paved the way and they liked it just fine.
No 2 white people got shot.

bryophile@lemmy.zip · -5 pts · 210d (8 replies)

Good point but what does it mean?

Any move against them, especially penalising them, will evoke a counter reaction. The ideology will linger on and fester.

How do you decide who to "weed out"? Does it come down to removing all Trump supporters? That will create more tensions..

trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 210d (5 replies)

At least weed them out in all public institutions. Not like it was done in post WW2 Germany, where they were pretty much all left in place.

Drusas@fedia.io · 6 pts · 210d (1 reply)

The US doing largely the same after our civil war is a huge part of how we got into this mess.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 210d

It's like we tried nothing twice and got the same result

Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 210d (2 replies)

That county is clueless and hopeless.
Just look at how they still adore the Drone King Obama, mass-murderer and Deporter-in-chief.
The scumbag now hypocritically criticizing ICE, while he expanded it.

Drusas@fedia.io · 0 pts · 208d (1 reply)

Do you do anything but spout off like a MAGAt?

Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 208d

LOL the typical dumb american.
Can't say anything about the other asscheek of you uniparty without being called that.
Pathetic, I hate all of you scumbags, get it now?

trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 209d (1 reply)

They are murdering people in the streets with impunity. You are way beyond the "creating more tensions" stage.

bryophile@lemmy.zip · -1 pts · 209d

Yeah, but this talk of "weeding out" and "denazification" will only create more violence. You guys need to learn to chill.

Who will you "weed out" anyway? Trump? His inner circle? ICE employees? Those who support ICE? Those who support Trump?

All this tough talk does nothing but escalate the situation. The US really needs to learn how to be a functional democracy again. And no, that does not involve "weeding out" anyone.

UnspecificGravity@piefed.social · 16 pts · 210d

Worth remembering that both of the most recent fatal shootings were carried out by border patrol officers. It doesn't end with ice.

SaltSong@startrek.website · 15 pts · 210d (2 replies)

First the one, then the other.

axexrx@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 210d (1 reply)

Then farm them out as manual labor under the 13th amendment.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 210d

Maybe I still have too much of a soul left because I still feel like enslavement is a step too far.

TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 210d

It's possible and necessary to do both.

samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 210d (1 reply)

Execute ICE

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 210d

every single ICE agent has committed treason against the United States, capital punishment is a suitable publishment

eattherich@feddit.online · 9 pts · 210d (1 reply)

I bet the land of the free has a political party you can vote for that is running on that platform -- right?

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 210d

they all committed treason against America. guess what is an available punishment.

Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 210d

Shatter every member of ice. Letting them survive in prison isn't good enough.

coffee_nutcase207@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 209d

Both please.

thorhop@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 210d

Blow ICE out of the airlock.

Xerxos@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 210d

Both?

Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 210d

Melt ice.

crazycraw@crazypeople.online · 5 pts · 210d

prosecute... like they ...prosecuted our fellow citizens?

hmm that system don't work no mo

commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 210d

prisons are bad. abolish ice and the prisons

ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 210d

Kill ICE.

Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 210d

Lynch ICE.

betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 210d

Let's see if they remember the penalty for treason. Give it time, it'll come to them.

BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 210d

Melt ICE.

Agent641@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 210d

Melt ice in your bathtub.

baka@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 210d (2 replies)

Deport ICE

trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 209d (1 reply)

But where? Nobody wants nor needs those Nazi thugs.

baka@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 209d

Put them in the middle of the ocean to help fight global warming or space..

dipcart@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 209d

Melt ice

MattR@feddit.org · 1 pts · 209d

They should be classified as terrorist organisation and in case any of those fuckers steps on European soil, they should be arrested and trialed as war criminal. Fuck those fucking assholes, I hope everyone of the ICE staff dies the most painful death.

WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 210d

Do what I do, and lick ice.

lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com · -5 pts · 210d (1 reply)

People pretending abolishing ICE makes sense: as long as the laws in their area of enforcement exist, you understand that makes absolutely 0 logical sense, right?

You also understand the real problem is the administration abusing authority delegated through the presidency? That doesn't end by abolishing an agency? They can move resources or personnel anywhere in the executive branch? Hello? Any critical thought anywhere? ::: spoiler Post needs text alternative. Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative:

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explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 210d

Mentally adding "only" to a leftist slogan is a bad faith interpretation.