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Most fucked up part? Chile is the whitest South American country. There was an old statistic from the mid 2000s that put Chile at 95% white European heritage people.
The only way it would get more fucked is if they deported Spaniards from Spain to El Salvador...
Deporting the British to America and Elon to Belgium
Note the reference to Kristi Noem - South Dakota's former governor, who decided to handle COVID with "freedom and personal responsibility," spending $5 million of her state's federal COVID money on a tourism campaign. Like the line from Steve Martin's King Tut song, "He gave his life for tourism" - thanks to her, some South Dakotans probably did.
Fascism in America. Brought to you by conservatives.
Start arming yourselves. If you have friends and family that aren't armed, help them get armed.
The Trump administration has set strict quotas for arresting anyone even suspected of being in the country illegally, with Stephen Miller ordering that 3,000 people be arrested every single day, or ICE officers will face consequences
What the fuck
Quotas are supposed to be illegal for law enforcement, not that they care about rule of law, but should be another note for the second Nuremberg Trials.
Nazis. That's what the fuck. It is all so "by the book". That book was supposed to warm us away from stuff like this. But nazi rhetoric is being wielded so fiercely in 2025 that the rest of us are, justifiably, pretty confused.
3000 abductions a day is the ICE quota. They just want warm (non-white) bodies.
Hey is it ok for me to say we should run over ICE with our cars yet?
Maybe stop banning people for that in the middle of a civil war
It's a lot easier to get away with killing people if you use a car. They might even blame the victim (or recently, their parents).
When driving over ice, don't hit the brakes. You might lose traction. Just hold the steering wheel steady, and keep moving.
You got banned from here for that?
I literally left Reddit after they temporarily banned my account for writing that Trump's trial will be televised just like Saddam's.
Why do we only control the speech of leftists?
Because other than obvious hate-speech, leftists are the ones who actually practice freedom of speech while the right screams and yells and bans books.
You can get banned here for similar reasons as you'd get banned from things on Reddit. In theory the federated setup helps to mitigate it somewhat, in that if you get banned from your primary instance you can hop over to one that's a bit more agreeable to your perspective and continue on.
For example, I was recently banned from LGBTQ+ on, I think the world server, cause I posted a fairly benign straight opinion to a post that had an image basically asking for cis commentary. It had like 5-7 upvotes, about 13-15 down votes at the time the mods kicked me out -- so even amongst the community it was a bit wishy washy, but the mods still opted to take action. On Reddit, that might've gotten me flagged / banned site-wide, depending on which White House narrative the company is marching to on that day. Here I just lose access to the LGBTQ+ community, shrug at them echo chambering up, and continue about my day.
In terms of "Why do we only control the speech of leftists", I imagine it's because the threads you continue to access are left leaning -- meaning those left in your bubbles, are the left-leaning sorts saying they'd been banned. Right leaning comments, and even (in my view) some centrist / neutral comments, still get people banned. These days we all basically have to assume that there are companies / algorithms creating bubbles in online spaces; you need to temper it with a good bit of secondary sources outside of 'social media' to get a more accurate picture of people's mindsets/trends. Eg. Social Media + direct views of national/local news paper sites + in person discussion with various sorts.
DARVO
Tourists should avoid the USA (not to blame the tourists in this story, of course)
American citizens should be avoiding the USA at this point as well. No-one is safe.
No-one is safe.
Not until we make the police and ICE agents feel unsafe.
I'm an American citizen and I got out. Absolutely zero regrets. Apparently it's rapidly becoming increasingly common
Do not visit the USA. Just don't. Spend your money elsewhere for your sake and for our sake. It's no good to anybody for you to spend it here right now.
Go visit Canada. Nice people, beautiful country this time of year. And they won't disappear you. I know because the Canadians have always been our good friends. It's very sad how they've been treated.
There is a reason a lot of countries have travel warnings against the US
Anyone who still doesn't see how similiar this is to 1930s Germany, is lying, a child or ignorant to the point where they their opinion should be ignored.
This isn't really a "boring" dystopia anymore. Can we go back to the boring one please
Bastards burn it all down guillotines the fucking lot
I STILL see reactionaries tout this ICE fiasco as some type of moral victory over "evil cartel criminals" i.e. single mothers, and working men.
You mean racist morons?
And then they all go "Please! We need tourist money!"
Yeah…. Nah…
I'm an American (Californian) and I go out of my way to buy non-American. If not that, I use Goods Unite Us to boycott any company that donates to the fascist GOP.
United Shitholes of America
I hope she sues the fuck out of them . NYPD is ICE thanks to Eric Adams.
NYPD has always been shit. Yes, it's probably worse now, but they've never been the good guys.
"We've looked into it and decided its not illegal, also welcome to El Salvador"
"We investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing."
This gritty new Home Alone: Lost In New York reboot, starring Donald Trump, is just a bit on the nose
Nothing short of violent revolution will change anything in the states at this point. The courts are powerless, and the entire political system is rotten to the core.
Until the last three days, I've actually been fairly optimistic.
While slow, the courts had acted to curb Donald's worst abuses. The tariffs wreaked havoc, but we saw when the bond markets reacted that someone in his administration was able to make him see reason. (My own retirement has recovered its losses from February.) Elon Musk was finally being thrown out of the administration.
But here we are now, and this is genuinely scary stuff for absolutely everyone that isn't independently wealthy. The reaction of California and the courts will dictate how things proceed. This isn't the well-organized, institutionalized abuses of immigrants of Dubya, Obama and Biden. It's the heavy-handed, sloppy, careless and unmitigated cruelty of the Gestapo.
And, for me, I just can't get around the fact that this is probably happening because a meme hurt Donald's ego.
Why wasn't this dude arrested for his efforts during Jan 6th?
This seems like the kind of thing that's going to get a kidnapping cop shot, and they'll deserve that, but what happens after is a real wildcard.