They mounted a tripod gun on the roof of the broadview facility. I challenge anyone to think about “shithole” areas of the world and not envision unmarked paramilitary wearing masks, body armor, and carrying something like an ar15.
If someone entered the sanctity of my home without first presenting an Article III warrant, they’d get a bullet in their skull
I hate the fact that the international community is just sitting by because it’s an internal affair and only speaking up about trade issues, etc… That’s what gave Nazi Germany carte blanche to do it’s thing leading up to 39.
Every sane country on earth needs to be embargoing the fuck out of the U.S., not just for their own sake, but for the sake of forcing the American political establishment to deal with their own fascist problem or become a paraiah on the world stage.
Yeah but the problem is he didn’t achieve power by some manipulation of the vote at least not primarily he achieved it by getting a bunch of Americans to vote for him. A bunch of stupid ignorant Americans wearing silly hats voted for him.
Shy of any evidence to say otherwise he is the democratically elected leader of the United States. All the countries can’t be setting the precedent that if they don’t like a particular leader they will assist in their downfall.
Besides if Europe playes it’s cards right it’s about to become the economic superpower of the world. The current economic superpower appears to be continuously blowing their own feet off and giggling.
Yeah. That’s very true. I hadn’t thought about it that way. Thanks for giving me something to think about.
Hitler was votes in. So was Mussolini. Kind of.
Does USA needs a bit of democracy?
Fuck off. We’ve been watching this for months. Do something about it already.
I keep seeing this. What is there to do?
Commit suicide by
copcapital defense force? Because that’s basically what “doing something” entails.Any positions that could “do something” are on the Fascist’s side, including the for profit news media. We are just as trapped in this capitalist web of coercion as we were before it went full fascist.
Why do you think filthy socialists and commies like myself were telling anyone who would listen, including getting laughed off of occupy Wall Street by the people we were trying to save, I was there, that the capital markets were our doom and our end? Because they were, and here we are.
I’m just glad their dream of this malice continuing in perpetuity truly is just a malignant dream. Climate change has something for this greedy, sociopathic civilization’s ass, and the fact that we’re turning our habitat against the species effectively permanently can’t be bribed, black bagged, discredited, dissappeared, reframed, or any of the other dirty tricks the capitalist fascists have used to get their way and steamroll the innocent.
Bring the economy to a halt via general strike and street marches that disrupt traffic. Nothing short of that will get anyone’s attention.
The US, it bears repeating captured by our capital markets, keeps most Americans on a paycheck to paycheck knives edge for that very reason. The ones most inclined to strike are the ones that have the most to lose by striking.
You’re asking tens of millions of people to lose the roof over their heads for a very uncertain outcome.
The sad reality is that the capitalist bastards have their bases covered. Not surprising considering their effectively limiltess capital and the generational grudge the wealth class has over the formation of unions here to begin with.
And you’re asking for death camps and fascism.
I mean, in my perfect world the people would unite and burn the capital markets that have brought us to this place to cinder, and have a people’s tribunal bring justice to the former largest stakeholders.
That could begin to right this ship, and really nothing short of that.
But I know they’d use their media to get us burning down each other’s homes looong before we get to Wall Street, so I know we’re irrevocably cooked. What do you propose that could conceivably circumvent all the soft and hard protections they’ve put in place?
Start our own police force?
I mean, that’s just forming a gang, which I consider American police to simply be the largest and most well resourced of, a state sanctioned gang of gleefully violent thugs, unlike police in the developed world.
Police force, gang, militia…
The thing is people don’t like to hear it but history has the answer. The only thing that stopped the Nazis was violence. If Hitler’s assassination attempt in the early 1940s had been successful history would never have even recorded his name.
And violence, starts at home. The international community won’t help and couldn’t help even if they wanted to. That will come in time, but Americans have to take responsibility for starting it.
If you won’t stand up for yourself, how do you expect anyone else to stand up for you. Seems pretty simple.
🔔🔔🔔 We have a winner
Yeah inside how angry the people actually dealing with it are, fucking idiot
So angry that they’re willing to sit there and watch television while telling the world they can’t possibly do anything.
They will continue to escalate, also. They need a reason to halt the midterms. If they succeed at raids without opposition they get rid of a lot of people they already don’t like, and if we fight back, tRump enacts
MarshallMartial Law. We were fucked as soon as SCOUTS said presidents were above the law…*Martial
Sorry, it’s important.
I half did it in jest and half because I’m just a lowly registry hive!
Lol got it
So it’s witnessed by dozens and filmed by none?
I’m thinking ICE was not given all that funding for nothing. They were probably already over-funded even before this year, and now they have multiples of what they had before.
Ghouls like Stephen Miller want to see that money spent on inflicting pain on others…
This is absolutely insane and highly illegal. The government cannot just kick down a whole apartment building full of doors, enter homes, and arrest people at random without a warrant or exigent circumstances. The law is quite settled on this.
This is absolutely insane and highly illegal.
Add it to the list.
The “law” is being ignored as it was in pre- Nazi Germany when the brown shirts started arresting and beating and intimidating people. There is no law currently.
The big problem is that there IS law: the kind that favors the government. As of right now, people can’t go out and crush some ICE without the courts and police doing something about it.
Laws for thee, never for me
-The Conservative mantra playing out yet again.
See thats the fun part is ICE generates their own warrants without any attorneys or judges involved.
They are literally Gestapo.
Those do not allow entrance in a home ( but they won’t tell you that )
ICE Agent scribbles with crayon on a piece of paper
The ICE Agent proudly exclaims “Look! It’s a warrant!”
And y’all think violence isnt the answer? That is literally all their monkey brains can comprehend
It’s quite unreal to watch from the outside what’s happening down there. Violence is the only answer.
And what do you expect us to achieve other than getting ourselves killed?
General strike is the only answer.
So you know an appropriate answer yet here we are seeing nothing.
This would make Trump really happy.
This, and Epstein is why he’s doing this shit: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trumps-approval-rating-hits-record-low-for-second-term-10815700
Yeah? Well I say we make him cream his diaper. It’s way past time to fight fire with fire. Give them what they seem to crave. The current response is not sufficient.
To these cunts a lack of retaliation is seen as assent.
If even a quarter of those doors had someone returning buck shot this would probably be the last ice raid like that.
Maybe. They would likely call in heavier reinforcement if that became common. Solo fighters stand little chance of making a dent in them even when properly trained and armed. Sadly, that is a situation too many face given so many are so vehemently against violence of any kind. Maybe my ideas are colored by the media and there are more willing to go visceral than the media wants us to believe
A single child with a gun held dozens of cops at bay for hours after the “heavier reinforcements” showed up.
These people are cowards and are only acting this way because they know they won’t face any resistance.
These cops are functionallly bullies, it they realized there was real danger it would stop them. They’ve been avoiding anything actually dangerous for a reason. They might be able to call in a swat team for assistance, but it would destroy their ability to do widespread raids if there was legitimate fear for their own safety.
You’re 100% right.
They’re targeting Democratic cities with large numbers of democratic gun owners because they’re hoping for a confrontation.
It might be inevitable, but I guarantee you they will not back down once you give them what they have been trying to incite.
There’s a reason Miller, Hegseth, and Bondi made an appearance, got all those armed people pumped full of adrenaline, and then literally slipped out the back door yesterday before flying far, far away. They don’t plan on being present on the battlefield for the war they’re creating.
They need people to fight and die while they give orders and watch comfortably from afar like it’s some kind of UFC ultimate match.
So Americans, you ready to put a stop to this yet?
General strike now. Shut it down. Organize, disrupt, disobey.
Sign your general strike card! It only takes 3.5% of the population to bring the economy to its knees.
Unemployed people be like:
Don’t worry, there will surely be people left to speak up for us when they come for us.
Sure, I’ll just go ahead and lose my job now and deprive my family of food and shelter before the Nazis get a chance to do so.
I’m all for calling out Nazi bullshit, but blanket statements like this help absolutely nobody.
You really think business are going to mass fire people if we have a general strike? Do you even know what that is?
Chickenshit response
Yes, I’m totally chickenshit for choosing to keep my family fed and sheltered over a call to revolution made by some pissant on the Internet larping as a leftist guerilla.
It takes a real man to know when to let those more capable lead the revolution.
Chickenshit response
“I don’t have people depending on me” ass response.
I’ve watched documentaries and studied the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, I don’t think Trump will get that powerful. Germany was in bad shape post WW2, and Hitler was quite young, energetic and commanding with a clear vision for his future. Trump is old, tired, and has broken too many promises to his base.
As long as the press mostly stays free, and journalists don’t face punitive measures for their reporting, Trump will come and go.
The problem is that Trump is speed running the country into shithole status (economically, I know we were already there on the healthcare, housing and wealth inequality fronts).
And the smart assholes with ambition are running the show, Miller, Vance and Johnson.
Um… I work in elder care. If my team strikes 80+ will die.
“But how do we change things without any risk or sacrifice?”
Fantastic.
If you’re OK with elderly people starving to death and dying from infected wounds to make a point, you can fuck right off.
I remember reading about a japanese bus strike where the bus drivers kept doing their job, but stopped collecting the money.
There are also examples from around the world where healthcare workers go to quite serious lengths to ensure delivery of service is maintained while a nurses/doctora strike is taken.
So a general strike could be an option, but isn’t necessary to send a message. In fact more targetted strikes that leave dialogue and service on the table shows the protestors acting in good faith, potentially opening different avenues to bridge the divide between childish-oligarchic-cunts (management/upper class), and the workers.
All i’m saying is theres more options than blowing up the system, and staged, measured, predictable responses to the others actions can be extrememely effective in showing the often ridiculous demands of the other side’s position.
I think its called game theory? Or maybe prisoner dilema. We are afraid that enough of the country is in support of the nazi regime that the strikers will lose their jobs
It’s what everyone is conditioned to think and believe
In reality, if they fight they might lose their jobs …
… if they wait to see what else happens, they’ll probably lose their jobs anyway
You’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t … if you do nothing, there is more of a chance of losing everything but if you fight back or at least protest peacefully and disrupt and disobey, there is enough of a chance that you and everyone else will have much more to gain.
Happy medium: educate and organize, in preparation for the moment.
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Speaking of, I am a little familiar with this group https://generalstrikeus.com/
I don’t see it discussed much in fediverse channels, and I don’t really know why. Curious to hear what people think of them. But they’re the only group pushing for a general strike that I can think of off the top of my head.
I don’t like having to share my phone number, which is why I haven’t signed up. Or that every social is the typical - discord, bluesky, youtube, instagram.
I’m all for the idea, but they give me big privacy worries.
Same. I looked at it but as soon as it wanted all that contact info I dipped. I already get “omg! send us money to craft these strongly worded letters in opposition!” texts. I don’t want more of them nor a centralized location someone can use to find those who support the idea of a general strike.
If it happens, people will talk about it and it’ll pick up steam like domino’s falling!
Not gonna happen. Half of the country isn’t aware anything is wrong.
Hell, a good chunk of them are sold on it. Get a perspective outside of a city, or take, I dunno, North Carolina as an example.
The fuck has happened in NC since January? Nothing, and that’s their experience. Same-same, yada-yada. Riot? Why?
There’s a small amount of resistance in rural Tennessee but the general population is hypnotized by fox news.
I think the violence will continue (and probably escalate) until the United States of America are split apart. There cannot be one central federal government. Political power must be shifted to the states. Unfortunately, due to historical reasons, not enough people are understanding this yet, because a federal system has worked so well in the past, that it first needs to be proven by Trump that the potential for abuse at the federal level is huge, and only then will the States get their Rights.
Diasgree. With no federal apparatus to guide the force of all 50 states they are weaker on their lonesome and calling aid from one to another is far more burdensome. Besides, red states rely on federal funding from taxes in blue states and would collapse without them. Red states are major crop producers that the blue states consume. Balance of powers is the best bet. It’s not perfect but it’s far superior to dissolving the federal government which would undoubtadly start inter-state and civil wars. Unfortunately, the human propensity for conflict is best utilized in keeping each other in check and is best coupled with rewarding those who suppress suppression and are prepared to employ violence against the violent.
Besides, red states rely on federal funding from taxes in blue states and would collapse without them.
I’d say that’s a reason to split apart. (slight /s)
They never said 50 states. Plenty are too small to handle themselves. Most of the southeast could all be one state as well just based on culture.
Or, you know, kick the bastards out, and close all the authoritarian loopholes. More democracy, stop subsidizing the fuck out of the rich, move that to education and research. Mandate empiricism in governance.
End US imperialism in favour of multilateral partnerships, especially around the 800 or so military bases in other countries, or else that shit returns home and gets used on Americans. The ship has sailed on being the one superpower. Adapt and evolve.
Myself, I favour smaller polities wherever possible, but given the current lack of an egalitarian basis to start from, breaking the states into countries will be a feast for the oligarchs.
The only way some sort of plan like that works is if we dont change leaders every 4 years. Its going to flip flop back and forth over and over. Unfortunately its far easier and quicker to tear things down than to build them, and so we slide farther down.
There needs to be rules and standards for politicians to be able to participate in politics.
I think the general strike is the best bet because they’re looking for a reason or excuse to have the military start massacring civilians. I honestly think a widespread peaceful general strike shutting down the economy until the oligarchs cry mercy is our best hope in this situation
Economic power is the basis of all the megaviolence. General strikes recuperate the true source of the power: worker productivity. Do it now before automation makes it moot.
We have no way of carrying out a general strike right now. GSUSA is a pretty good group trying to build capacity, and UAW President Shawn Fain is pushing for unions to renegotiate their contracts so that they all end on May 1st 2028, obvs including UAW.
General Strikes are illegal in the USA, a union can’t call a legal solidarity strike, thanks to Taft-Hartley. I’m not a legalism guy, I think legalism is an illusion the workers need to overcome. But the fact is, we haven’t overcome it. Even a lot of pretty militant leftist groups in the US have a “new constitutional convention” fetish, it’s even in the old DSA program.
There is no infrastructure for it. A few dozen Americans on Lemmy not showing up for work isn’t gonna do shit. The best chance we got is 2028, which will be badass if Trump is still in office.
There is so much work to do and frankly its frustrating when people are like “just do impossible thing”. Stand up and help us we need help so badly. I think a lot of people in USamerica who say this kind of shit have absolutely no fucking clue what they’re talking about. No one wants to give up a fraction of their quality of life to have a political discussion about real shit. People just want someone else to come along and save them, and then even if someone does come along, complain if we don’t have our butt kissed just the way we like it. The only thing we know how to do is speak to a manager. We are a nation of Karens. We are not ready.
The best chance we got is 2028, which will be badass if Trump is still in office.
He will never leave office willingly. He tried to overthrow the government last time he lost and this time he’s a LOT better entrenched. You can’t vote out a dictator. If you don’t act and put your hopes in an election that won’t help you, you’ve already lost your democracy. And honestly, you’ll deserve it.
Hes going to die by then, hes not doing well.
I’m right there with you. Even if it is lost for a little while, these things have a way of coming back around stronger than before.
But I agree 1000%, we need decisive collective action to meet this moment.
Dude I’m right there with you in thinking that we’re just not capable of a general strike. We don’t know our neighbors, don’t hang out with strangers, and really have no community outside intimate relations. Shit seems like tons of people can’t stand their friends and family either!
It’s def the building infrastructure kind of advice and shit I wish people were doing and taking about more. How to we build that infrastructure and how do we connect with the people that are trying to build communities
I want to help correct what’s happened here but I also don’t want to fucking die or starve or become unhoused
For a lot of people, staying alive, keeping hope, is what you are doing. Just educating ourselves in a way that helps us see the world and the people in it more clearly, to recognize the connections between us and society, is itself a revolutionary act.
I had the privilege of being elected by my city’s DSA chapter to attend the national convention this year. And believe me, we are building that infrastructure. The sense of connectedness and shared mission along with about 1200 socialist organizers, not just online weirdos but actual wonderful, committed, very busy and diverse people, it has been an incredible feeling each time I was sent.
But there is a cost. I’ve been doxxed, I have my own KeyWiki page. I’m in several databases, I’ve written articles in my own name. But at a certain point I just started to see people as having a target on their back because of nothing they did, it came down to the color of their skin, their gender, who they love, what they believe or where they came from. As an middle age dude I just figured if they have a target on their back then I should do something to put one on mine too.
I’m not a fraction of the man’s measure, but Eugene Debbs, who got a million votes for president from prison in 1920, said at his trial for sedition in 1918, “As long as there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
When you’re ready and able to join the movement, I’ll have saved a place for you in it.
Who’s fucking idea was it to wait until the 18the of October to do No Kings 2?
I’ve been to several of the protests organized by those groups and I don’t think they are controller opposition but they seem to operate like psychological pressure release valves. We all feel like we’re doing something that will change things but until that mass of people shows up and then refuses to leave rather than dispersing after it actually won’t make a difference
Yes, who’s organizing it and when?
I guess this is why the orange turd said this would be a pre-crime… Whatever the fuck that means
They wont. Most are still cheering this on.
too busy reporting on it and saying we need to do something
Wtf is going on? This is like Israel war in our own highly populated cities
Refusing to vote brought the war they were protesting to their homes. As I’ve said all along.
That’s because both Israel and the USA are run by fascists.
This is just my own speculation, but I think we are seeing a new group of techbros, for lack of a better term, jostle for their seat at the table. We as a nation have refused to expand our positions of power even though we’ve grown in size. For example, we have a capped number of Senators.
We’ve funneled so much new money into the hands of these tech elite they have near run out of places to spend it. So we have multiple private space companies, a booming apocalypse bunker industry, and why not buy a few representatives as well. My point is a bunch of Ayn Rand 1950s sci-fi loving man children who control resources as vast as they do present a terrible condition for democracy and human rights. We are just watching this power struggle between the old guard and the new kids play out in real time. And the women, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ communities are the first to be rounded up this time.
It’s called the Imperial Boomerang.
That’s what palantir and oracle were practicing for
Yes Palestine is a laberatory. Everything learnt there is exported back to the US and EU.
It’s because Taco is a domestic enemy, probably put there by Russian influence. He’s effectively having the nation punch itself in the nuts.
Arm yourselves and everyone you know. Maintain networks. Communicate via encrypted messaging apps.
I kind of agree. I think we’re at the point if you get kidnapped you’re dead already so prevent your loved ones from getting disappeared if you can.
Invest in LoRa for communication. Like 30$ per person to get a mesh going
It is definitely “well regulated malitia” time. start forming a group locally. make plans. have each other backs.
ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago. We Can Stand Up To Them
I am so frustrated that there are not more views on that video. I’m sharing it everywhere. That shit should be fucking viral.
They control what goes viral.
If you want this to stop, the city/county/state needs to bring felony breaking and entering + kidnapping charges to every individual who approved this and carried it out. And like tomorrow or as soon as humanly possible.
The kinds of people who carry these operations out do not have empathy and will only change their behavior by force. A big list of felony counts and lawyer’s fees might make them pause and reconsider.
They can just arrest/hold anyone who is not outwardly displaying credentials. The feds can bail them out, assuming they have proof… Then you start the whole process again tomorrow.
