no matter what you think of (maybe illegal) immigrants, tying up minors is totally stupid. typically american, i would even say!
this post was submitted on 31 May 2025
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This is America now.
I'm ashamed of my country.
This has always been America. We are just seeing pictures this time.
The pretense has fallen
If people wondered what they would do during the 1930s, now we know.
A lot of people would cheer for the Nazis.
I know I'm not doing enough, and it's depressing as heck. Most people I know are doing less. No protests. Not talking about it. Just head in the sand.
It's still early. The Nazis took over in 1933, but their first euthanasia program didn't start until 1936. The Holocaust didn't really start in earnest until about 1939.
We can't let it get that far, of course, but the point is that it will take some time to get bad enough for people to start really fighting back. I suspect that protests will get really ugly and violent next summer, in the closing stretch before the 2026 Midterm Election.
There are a lot of different ways to resist. I'm throwing my money and some volunteer effort at lawsuits to gum up the works, add friction to a bunch of the Trump administration's decisions, and make them expend a ton of resources even to accomplish the things within their power (or that are inevitable).
I know people who are feeding bad data into the surveillance state, clogging immigration and DEI tip lines with plausible but ultimately incorrect leads that waste their time.
There's a pretty serious boycott movement and it is making a difference to some businesses' bottom lines.
There's a bunch of other ways to contribute:
- Stirring the pot and feeding internal faction rivalries, like DOGE vs populist MAGA vs business interests. Elon Musk has lost a few prominent internal fights (China briefing at the Pentagon, hand picked IRS chief fired less than a week in, his NASA pick being withdrawn). These guys think chaos is a ladder, but chaos can swallow them up, too.
- Disruption with plausible deniability: blocking doors and driveways that look unintentional, jury nullification, firing Trumpers for pretextual reasons, wasting Trump supporting businesses' time and money, pranks that cause Trumpers to gather in the wrong place, etc.
- Further escalation as situations warrant.
If things escalate to where property destruction, outright fraud or scams or other white collar crime, or violence is justified, it won't be sudden. It will be a gradual build up, with legal resistance giving way to nonviolent disruption to property destruction and theft to violent resistance. But I think it's worth exhausting the less disruptive options first, and be satisfied that escalation is justified at each step where that actually happens.
I like the way you think.
I particularly think sabotage and malicious compliance strategies can be very effective at weaponizing their virtuosic incompetence against them.
I think some of these protests so far are controlled opposition to prevent real progressive movement in preference for same old bs from DNC. We need to weed out the fakes
What makes you think that that sentiment itself isn't fostered by controlled opposition? Don't get me wrong, as an anarchist I have no love for Democrats or republicans. But unfortunately with our electoral system the way it is. Realistically we have to be bedfellows with one or the other at some level of government.
At least of course until all national parties are abolished, and the electoral system reformed. Trying to push change from the top down has backfired every single time. The unions thought it would be good to give Carter a lesson. And instead Carter lost and they ended up becoming irrelevant. There's plenty of parallels between that and the recent presidential election. Honestly I don't think the Office of the President shouldn't even exist. It's too much power just begging to be abused as it currently is.
That will only change however by building up local parties and making National parties irrelevant, or at least serving the interest of the accountable local parties. Till then we can gnash and wail, grinding our teeth at every shitty candidate the National Party puts forward. But as long as they are in control and full of shitty candidate fodder. That's never going to change. But us focusing on that over everything else certainly enables the worst actors in society.
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America needs to change their anthem.
Team America has some bangers they could use. And most would not even get the satire
team america only starts as satire, in the end it's pretty ra ra usa
Parker and Stone would also just make a cartoon character about an American soil genocide, but have it to the B plot of an episode bullying trans people.
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That sundress and hair bow are a clear sign of possible violence. I'm pretty sure that pink butterflies are some sort of gang sign. I'm so glad those officers are now safe from that threat. Bless. 🙏
Sundress is where they hide their handguns though
Nazis doing Nazi things.
but if I were to cut them loose, I would be the criminal?
If you were to shoot the fascists next to them in the head, I would consider you to be the hero.
Hell, I'll chip in for bail
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Nazi fucks.
The Americans don't consider them children, to them they are "subhumans"
Republicans like to call the minorities “adults” the moment they’re born in an attempt to diminish their innocence.
you mean "the moment they're conceived", right? adulthood starts at conception obv
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All immigration officers that follow orders are like Nazi SS, a human would refuse to carry these ideals through
The Nazis were very much humans. We need to stop "othering" evil. The Nazis weren't some grand anomaly of people and Fascism works by prying on the same vulnerabilities that are present in all humans when it gets enabled through capitalist policies
Es waren nicht Hitler, Göring, Goebbels, Himmler oder wie die anderen heißen, die mich wegschleppen und prügeln ließen. Nein, es war der Schuster, der Nachbar, der Alte, der Milchmann, der Postbote, die Formlosen bekamen plötzlich Armbinden und eine Mütze auf dem Kopf und dann waren sie die Herrenrasse.
-Karel Stojka, Ausschwitz survivor
"It wasn't Hitler, Göring, Goebbels, Himmler or whatever the others were called who had me dragged away and beaten. No, it was the cobbler, the neighbor, the old man, the milkman, the letter carrier, the shapeless suddenly got armbands and a cap on their heads and then they were the master race."
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Keep it classy America
“Hans, are we the bad guys?”
No need for human rights when you're not viewed as a human 👍
This is so fucked.
Big bad pigs, afraid of children.
The judges complicit in this fascist administration will be on the same list as the rest of the fascists
They will be prosecuted at the next Nuremberg Trials
Not here. Please... Not anywhere, but please not here... This is the most disappointed I've ever been of my hometown.
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Good. God knows what they capable of hands-free. Assault rifles are nothing in these demigods.
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Oh fuck this.
Fucking disgusting. But to be fair, with all the school shootings in the US I wouldn't trust children either /jk
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