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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago

Boy, what a self aware example that shows of so many of the issues on the right.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

Pretty sure the idea of due process extends to ensuring the government respects "certain unalienable rights" that America recognizes all people are born with--that includes non-citizens

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Bitch you asked

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

unalienable

[–] [email protected] 135 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

A reminder about your rights. If the government can declare you to have an attribute that negates your rights, then you have no rights.

In laymen's terms, if ICE arrests you and fast deports you, whose going to stop them? Okay but you get to a consulate in the foreign country and get back home. When you come out of your lawyer's office (because you're suing ICE), ICE arrests you again, this time as a criminal illegal alien because you came back in. They tell no one they have you, they tell no one where you are. You have no rights according to them. You are sent to an El Salvadoran prison in contravention of a court order not to deport you.

These are all things that have happened separately. We've accidently deported Americans. We've deported Americans on purpose. (Trump sent American kids away so he could deport their parents too) We've deported someone to an El Salvadoran prison in contravention of a court order.

If they don't have rights, then neither do you because the government can just declare you a member of that group and as long as the guys with guns maintain that fiction, nobody can stop them.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 days ago (3 children)

This is also why the attacks on identification documentation for transgender people should concern everyone. We used to consider ex post facto laws unconstitutional - even things like sex registry acts have been historically controversial because they were adding a punishment that had not been previously ordained.

I spent $5500 that I could not afford (as in, I ended up having to do sex work to pay for it) - to get my “irreversible and permanent” surgery that the state I lived in said would qualify to have my legal sex changed. Like, I would have preferred to wait until I was in a more financially stable situation or might not have even bothered because I didn’t even really need to bind to pass - but the drivers license with an “F” is a problem once you have a full beard.

I followed their rules, I played their games. And now they get to say, nope, doesn’t count anymore. That’s not how the law is supposed to work.

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[–] Spazz 4 points 1 day ago

Fucking fascists

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Assemble a list of MAGAts. Denounce all of them as illegal aliens. At least a few of them will be deported.

Repeat ad infinitum.

[–] [email protected] 377 points 3 days ago (5 children)

If "due process" only applies to US citizens, then no one has due process. Because all they have to do is claim you're not a US citizen and then there's no due process by which you can refute their claim.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 days ago

If others don't have rights, you don't either.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 days ago (1 children)

definition of a bad actor right there.

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[–] [email protected] 172 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

It states all 'persons' not all citizens. It comes off as them not knowing this. Blatant ignorance of the constitution.

[–] [email protected] 143 points 3 days ago

"Don't care."

Not just blatantly ignorant, willfully choosing to ignore the Constitution even when confronted with it.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (14 children)

We would have taken all of this a lot more seriously if we broadly understood that this group doesn't seek outcomes.

I know it seems loaded, but it solves so much of our bafflement. They don't care about outcomes, they don't want solutions or leadership or policies or better futures for themselves or anyone else.

They're just mad and stupid and the left did nothing to manage and redirect this toddlerish rage and incompetence, instead we pretended the system was fair and the idiots wouldn't have power because how could they. Naive and foolish on both sides.

If we worked harder to give these people better stories and targets to hate (hint: the rich really don't want a class war) then maybe they would have made better choices.

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 3 days ago (2 children)

When your knowledge of the constitution is based on vibes.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago

Annie got a gun but not a brain. Without the right to due process for EVERYONE, the state can just snatch anyone they want off the street and claim the person they snatched is a member of a group that isn't entitled to due process. The person, even if they are a citizen, will have no hearing or trial, no right to contact anyone, and be whisked away to a secret prison labor camp or even a death camp. Hey Annie, I'm from the government and I've decided you look like a foreigner. No phone calls, no judge, no jury, straight to the camp with you. #Fascism #PoliceState #MagaIdiot

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 days ago (3 children)

That about sums it up. They don't believe the outgroup deserves rights. But if the outgroup doesn't have rights nobody does, they're just privileges that can be taken away at any time

And, it should be noted, the purpose of due process includes to check if these people are breaking any rules and if they're supposed to be here as well as if they're citizens.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 days ago

Without due process, we have no way to know for sure if they are 'illegal aliens' or just citizens with the wrong [fill in the blank].

[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 days ago

I think I just caught a glimpse of the suffering of Americans who use, well, American social media. Y'all have it rough.

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