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[–] [email protected] 380 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Every single person sent to El Salvador were innocent. Not a single one of them had their due process! This is all bullshit. ICE must be destroyed

[–] [email protected] 165 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yep. Innocent until proven guilty, and not a single one of them was so much as indicted, much less charged or convicted. Blatant disregard for the constitution as well as human rights, everyone all the way up the chain of command needs to be prosecuted for this.

[–] Snowflake2901 77 points 1 month ago (3 children)

the fact that the democrats aren't filing articles of impeachment every single day tells you where they're at

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

You'd need ~~four~~ twenty Republican senators to convict. I can't imagine that happening.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It'd still be something. Bemoaning "oh there's no point because it's hopeless" gives these fuckers more fuel because the opposition is just etting it happen without any complaints.

It'd be like a cop kneeling on your neck and not bothering to scream "help I can't breathe! they're killing me!" because you've just accepted that they're going to suffocate you to death.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It would be something. Would it be the most effective use of their time? Unlikely.

"Something must be done, this is something, therefore this must be done" is a joke, not something to take seriously.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Feel free to offer your own brilliant alternatives that would be a more effective use of their time. You must have at least one since you're so confident that this isn't it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If I did, they would likely be removed by a mod or admin.

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[–] Snowflake2901 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

don't need to convict to gum up the works of government while the fascists try to do their genocide

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I don't even think we can gum up the works if we tried. If we try they will just do things without a law saying they can or can't. It's not like they are facing any consequences.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You’re right we should just go down with decorum instead of with a fight, it’s the right thing to do 🙄

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

It's just that fighting lawfully is not enough. There are other ways to fight this, but filing for impeachment won't do it.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

The works are sufficiently gummed already. Any path forward seems to involve action only implied in the constitution. Maybe a rereading of the Declaration of Independence is in order as well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You need four Republicans to impeach. A lot more to convict.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Impeachment comes from the house. But yes it's actually 20 Republican senators to convict since it's two-thirds, not a simple majority (assuming all 45 Democrats and two independents vote to convict).

20 is definitely not happening. Even in the last two trials, they only got one vote in one trial.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Before that, though, we need SOMEONE to actually propose the articles...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

All it takes for evil to triumph is for "good men" to do nothing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Impeachment is beyond useless.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So were the 50+ votes to repeal the ACA when the Republicans had a minority control but they still did it to send a message.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago

You're asking Hitler to get rid of the Gestapo.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Thats the thing. Rounding up people from the street will not catch any criminals (legally speaking), by definition: if they committed a crime, and a judge deemed them guilty, they would be in jail or they would be fugitives. In either case, they are not unknowns, and authorities must've already knew about them. Getting people randomly off the street, you cannot, legally speaking, be catching criminals.

[–] [email protected] 118 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is, unfortunately, incredibly common in law enforcement circles. If you're paranoid, EVERYTHING is gang related somehow.

Not only that, but they circulate bad information among themselves. Booklets about how every sports team has it's own gang affiliation, etc.

From another article, one of the tattoos in question:

https://www.latintimes.com/man-detained-ice-autism-awareness-tattoo-still-sent-prison-after-officers-declared-him-clean-579373

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The US has a greater obsession with tattoos than Japan by this point. If you go to a place in Japan and show off a tattoo, the owner might ask you to leave. The US they'll gulag your ass.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Only of you're brown, white people with tattoos are perfectly acceptable, just look at all the neonazis

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Just look at our current secretary of defense.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Now that's a fucking gang tattoo if I've ever seen one. Not like the literal Awareness Ribbon. 🎗️

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

And the tramp stamps on their bleach blonde bimbos.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Seems like most cops have tattoos now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Those are the gang tattoos we need to worry about.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not only that, but they circulate bad information among themselves. Booklets about how every sports team has it’s own gang affiliation, etc.

We all know it's the bowling teams that are the gangbangers. I mean look at them. total miscreants!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Nobody fucks with the Jesus!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Also, I'm going to add here, the pickleball maffia.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What Nazi Germany classed as "untermenschen:"

  • People of Jewish descent
  • People of Slavic descent
  • People of African descent
  • People of Romani descent
  • Homosexuals
  • The mentally disabled
  • The physically disabled
  • Political dissidents
  • POWs

Qualifying people were dehumanized, arrested and initially deported, but eventually taken to camps and either systematically exterminated or put into slavery.

It's not enough to say that there are parallels, America is playing exactly by the Nazi guide book.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Also worth noting they basically learned all that from Andrew Jackson the first time around

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I know we're largely focused on stopping Trump, and we need to.

But how do we save these guys?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

The courts might be able to stop future renditions, but the president or Congress have the power to end this or return them. Congress could cut off the funding (bribes) to El Salvador or president could force them to release people.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 month ago (2 children)

America has its Gestapo now. How much longer until they create SS that swears fealty not to the US but to Trump?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They've already sworn fealty to Trump. Non-fascists don't join ICE.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

That was 10 years ago. DHS is the Gestapo you're seeing now, courtesy of the Patriot Act. They've already sworn fealty to Trump. People are looking at January 6th as an isolated event, but it proved how far the right-wing could get if they wanted to forcefully take over the government.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This is the only standard by which the Trump administration operates.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Republicans: Meh, what's the big deal?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

NotTheOnion

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

This is horrific. Shame of the country.

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