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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 179 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Some more evidence this is motivated by racism and evil (I know, redundant to say) is that if there was even an ounce of logic in these fuckers heads they would either escort the kid home, or tail/surveil him to identify his home, then grab the whole family.

This is not how you would run an organized campaign actually attempting to achieve their stated goals. This is intentionally causing extra emotional distress and chaos.

I know, I know, that's been the obvious case the whole time. Just had to get this scream into the void.

Like, I don't get how anyone could support this. Even the racists. If you want these people out why would you cheer for such an obviously horrifically mismanaged clusterfuck? Ugh.

Reality needs to get some better writers, this shit is getting too unbelievable.

[–] mtpender@piefed.social 84 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're just straight-up Brown Shirts at this point, the chaos is the point. What's funnier to me is that they think they wont be given the "Night of the Long Knives" treatment.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 week ago

Only silver lining is that it's right around the corner, I've seen paranoid dictator. I have yet to see dementia riddled dumbass brain paranoid dictator.

[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If you want these people out why would you cheer for such an obviously horrifically mismanaged clusterfuck? Ugh.

Because they're too stupid/brainwashed to understand how much of a clusterfuck ICE is. You really expect someone who thinks Trump is a genius to think through the logistics of mass deportation? Racists are emotionally dysregulated; any powers of analytical reasoning are dominated by visceral fear and revulsion that overpowers everything else.

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[–] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 64 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Law enforcement asking kids for ID for walking down the street?

And its NOT The Onion?

[–] PsycyTuna@feddit.nl 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What jurisdiction does ICE have again?

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

The backing of the Commander In Chief, Congress, and the Supreme Court. Written laws don't matter right now.

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[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 63 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We need to extradite ICE agents to the home countries of their victims. Let them stand trial there, in a place they may actually face justice.

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 62 points 1 week ago (8 children)

The home country of many (if not most) of their victims is the USA.

Sure, ICE are inhumane nazi monsters, but extraditing them to that god forsaken shithole would evidently count as cruel and unusual, even for the likes of them.

Not only that, but “justice” there is a tragic parody of itself; they'd inevitably end up back on the streets.

Don't overcomplicate it. Just put them down like the rabid pigs they are, and then go for the even more monstrous bastards that sicced them on the streets.

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[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago (5 children)

So the administration has quadrupled down on saying they are only going after thugs and criminals and narco terrorists and then they snatch little kids off the street? Because they can't prove they are a citizen? There isn't a single person on that ICE squad that can confidently tell me that they carried their identification on them at all times as a kid.

Republicans, what the fuck is wrong with you? Wake the fuck up and help us stop this insanity.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They also just publicly executed another person in Minneapolis this morning. Murderers.

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/m1xOMR7R4q8

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[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Republicans don't see a child, they see a racial slur.

Most republicans are even bigger cowards than ICE.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Every hang around a 7 year old, with all their 6-7 shit, and what not? They're ALL little terrorists.

Good think ICE is here to round up all these terrorist children and babies.

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[–] tomiant@piefed.social 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Literally "papieren, bitte!"

[–] Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)
[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Ab ins Grammatikkonzentrationslager mit dem miesen Verbrecher!

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[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 week ago

In the laaaaaand of the Naziiiii

And the hoooome of the depraaaaaved

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 39 points 1 week ago

In sophisticated circles, we call that a "shithole country"

[–] horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Please can people provide reputable sources for random images like this? At this point, to me, it's just ragebait.

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 65 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Seems the photographer Mostafa Bassim sells his photos on gettyimages:
https://www.gettyimages.com/search/2/image?artistexact=anadolu&phrase=mostafa+bassim&sort=newest&license=rf%2Crm
https://www.mostafabassim.net/biography

The text from the photographer on gettyimages:

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, U.S. â" JANUARY 12: U.S. Border Patrol agents question a person who appears to be a minor before arresting him during immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota, U.S., January 12, 2026. (Photo by Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Here's another bunch of photos of the same boy (found on page three from the first gettyimages link):

[–] TRock@feddit.dk 22 points 1 week ago

Great work my guy

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[–] Waldelfe@feddit.org 34 points 1 week ago

Every morning I read the news from the US and am shocked by how much they sound like a homework exercise with the prompt: Imagine the Hitler regime happened today. What would the news headlines look like?

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Maybe some people should wear a patch to identify themselves /s

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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I hope the families of all these ICE "heros" see this pic and understand that their sons and daughters in ICE are shitbags and that they themselves utterly failed as parents and citizens. Any group that gets their jollies off of abusing minors needs to be dealt with harshly.

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[–] JackBinimbul@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Good thing they have four armed goons for a fucking 12 year old.

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[–] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago
[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 week ago

This is winning!!!! That kid is the mastermind behind everything Biden is doing!!!

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

This isn't how our law enforcement is supposed to work we're not supposed to prove anything to them. They have to attain enough evidence to arrest someone. The burden of proof is on them, what probable cause did they have to arrest that boy? Is he going to get a probable cause hearing. Is that dhs asshat going to file a report?

Christ!

[–] mech@feddit.org 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

Fuck ICE but this pic and specific wording sets off my gen AI Facebook bullshit detector.
Who took that photo and got away? The linked photographer doesn't exist. If they did, why did a different account post this, and knows what was said verbatim? What is the guy on the left holding?
What's written on his chest patch?

Edit: Correction - The photographer does exist. Can't find this pic on his socials (which are set to not show anything at least for the public) or his website. That thing on the left does look like a weapon (but I can't tell which), and there are no 100% clear AI tells in the picture, except it all seems a bit "off" to me, and too perfectly composed to match the very specific and cliche message text.

Fuck, this shit is getting harder and harder. If there's one thing AI is getting good at, it's lying, and manipulating social media algorithms in a way that even legit human posters are pushed to imitate its style. So stay critical even if you agree with the message, and please excuse my premature assessment.

Edit: 2: Pic is legit, sorry for the mistake!: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/ice-descends-on-minneapolis/?hl=en-GB

[–] Waldelfe@feddit.org 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The photo seems to be zoomed in on a smartphone camera. Looks to me like the person who took the picture stood further away and used a digital zoom. And the guy on the left is holding a weapon. The chest patch of the guy on the left is at an angle where you can't read it anyway. I don't see signs of AI, just a low quality, zoomed in smartphone picture.

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 16 points 1 week ago

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/ice-descends-on-minneapolis/?hl=en-GB

I can't confirm the exact narrative given but it does seem to be a real image of a boy being arrested.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If there’s one thing AI is getting good at, it’s lying

Thank you for summing up the key reason that AI bothers me, giving words to the off-putting feeling in my gut whenever I think about it.

Theft, attacking artistic integrity, energy-consumption, these are all things I've heard and seen people say against it. But the simple fact is that AI is a liar, and it's muddying the line between truth and fiction in a way that no propaganda can match. It's insidious, it's powerful, and it's everywhere. It sprung up in a time and place where reality was already under attack and poured fuel onto the fire of rampant disinformation.

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[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

required items for your kids to bring when going outside alone in the second trump term.

  1. grenade (use whatever you can get)
  2. estonian M1938 mosin-nagant variant
  3. M1940-63 helmet
  4. M60E6 machine gun
  5. NLAW anti-tank missile launcher
  6. yakutian knife

optional items

  1. THeMIS Unmanned Ground Vehicle
  2. CZ P-10 C
  3. RBS 70 (Robotsystem 70) MANPADS system

:3

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[–] Shamber@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

They just killed a 37 year old man in minneapolis, this shit keeps getting worse by the minute

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That kid doesn't look like the 'worst of the worst' to me.

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[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They KIDNAPPED a Child in Plain Daylight? At LEAST Kristi Noem and The Trump Administration are doing EVERYTHING in Their Powers to ENSURE that these Kids are Well taken care of by Trained Professionals and ARENT being Sent to Private Prisons that Law Enforcement and Lawmakers ARENT Allowed into! And it's probably JUST a Coincidence they've DEFUND the Part of the FBI INVESTIGATING Child Sex Crimes!

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[–] plateee@piefed.social 14 points 1 week ago

Well, obviously that kid was the kingpin of the twin cities snack thieving ring that's been terrorizing good, honest Americans for the past (how old was he?) let's say, 4 years?

I for one am so happy that the most dangerous are the only ones getting caught up in this totally legitimate and not at all fascist policing!

/s

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 week ago

That's so fucked up.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, at this point, America has no spine whatsoever, if they can kidnap and rape your kids in broad daylight, what is there to live for?

Anyway, they aren't normal nazis that are after inferior races, or whatever bs they want. These people are actively after the deaths of their own citizens, all of them. Because they want to EXTERMINATE humanity.

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Backward ass 3rd World dump and MAGA calls this shit winning.

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