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That's what you're complaining about? You guys are fucking lucky that people aren't just walking up to you and shooting you in the head. They aren’t human.

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[–] JuBe@lemmy.world 33 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Can you please change the comment to this post. Otherwise I have to take it down.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago

Why people downvote this? Mod being friendly and polite, giving a chance to keep the post up instead of just deleting it on the spot like SOME websites do. This rule isn't arbitrary. You need written permission from the original author to reproduce an article.

[–] PoastRotato@lemmy.world 123 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (13 children)

Fuck ICE, but stop saying they aren't human. For one thing, their cruelty and depravity should stand as a reminder of what the worst of humanity is capable of. But more than that, dehumanization of one's enemy is the first step toward radicalism. How else do you think they came to have their own terrible views?

They weren't born like this. They were made this way.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 72 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I agree. The complacent myth that the Nazis were subhuman monsters and not people like us is part of what got us this resurgence of fascism. We need to admit that the worst people are more like us than we're comfortable with.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 65 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I sometimes fear that
people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress
worn by grotesques and monsters

as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis.

Fascism arrives as your friend.
It will restore your honour,
make you feel proud,
protect your house,
give you a job,
clean up the neighbourhood,
remind you of how great you once were,
clear out the venal and the corrupt,
remove anything you feel is unlike you...

It doesn't walk in saying,
"Our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution."

  • Michael Rosen

https://michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/fascism-i-sometimes-fear.html?m=1

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[–] saimen@feddit.org 12 points 5 days ago

“It wasn’t Hitler or Himmler who deported me, beat me, and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor, who were given a uniform and then believed they were the master race.”

  • Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor
[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They were born humans, but they've surely lost their humanity by now.

[–] PoastRotato@lemmy.world 33 points 6 days ago (1 children)

People don't stop being people just because they're terrible. That just makes them terrible people. Never forget that the capacity for evil lives in all of us.

Furthermore, the only real purpose of claiming someone has "lost their humanity" is as a justification for treating them as less than human. Which is precisely why you and I despise them in the first place.

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[–] ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I don't approve of that kind of rhetoric as a general rule, but conflating calling someone inhuman for their cruel actions with calling someone inhuman for their perceived racial inferiority is incredibly disingenuous.

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[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Well this begs the question of whether or not radical actions are required at a certain point and where that point actually is. Surely complacency only gets more necks stepped on.

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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 101 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Let it persist beyond their assignment.

They should feel unwelcome everywhere. Forever.

[–] whereIsTamara@lemmy.org 96 points 6 days ago (5 children)

We should flip over their portable toilets… with them in it

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 45 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Tip forward so it's harder for them to get out.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

We should arrest them for dragging women detainees into them...

We should push them over when they're solo too, but silly pranks isn't enough, we need justice.

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[–] MushuChupacabra@piefed.world 31 points 5 days ago

They won't let us use their bathrooms to go pee.

Definitely use that to garner sympathy when you're at the Hague.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

When an agent moved to detain the person who spit on him, the crowd tackled and attacked the agents while surrounding them.

heroes

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[–] mrslt@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Aww, is the Gestapo getting their feefees hurt?

No, they're getting their peepees hurt.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 44 points 6 days ago

Piss your pants fuckfaces

[–] anubis2814@lemmy.today 23 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Wear diapers ya big babies!

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago

Just like daddy Trump.

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[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 6 days ago

lol, lmao even. Fucking idiots, the disconnection with reality is unreal

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 36 points 6 days ago

Shitheads should speak with nurses like Pretti about how long they must go without taking a piss.

Such pansies.

[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 5 days ago (8 children)

which amendment is the guarantee against soldiers being quartered in homes?

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[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 37 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How about this: the general public treats ICE as well as they treat their worst-abused prisoner. Deal?

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oh man must be so awful for them to have people making it impossible to pee in peace cant ever imagine what that's like.

[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

ICE are claiming how tough they are but cry at the most tiny aspect of people holding accountable treating them like the Nazi scum they are.

[–] TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 30 points 6 days ago

Let the children out of the cages you fucking scumbags and then maybe you can piss in each others mouths

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Welcome to the reality of your existence ICEholes. We don't support you and need you to go back to your proud boi/KKK hole and continue to degrade.

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It must be a sobering reality thinking what you're doing is lawful and the population is on your side, and then you have people on the street screaming slurs at you, hotels are kicking you out, and businesses won't let you take a shit.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

Nah, Most of them are always the victim, never the victimizer. They cannot conceive of being the bad guy. The ones that do are scorned to silence by the ones that have no ability to see themselves as wrong. Those are the people that feel anything they do is justified and are capable of horrors.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 30 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Waaah! Somebody's gotta wear a diaper. Waaah!

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago

They wanna larp like marines anyways, might as well go all in and give them the adult diapers too.

They want to be "at war" with citizens, yet still demand citizens treat them like the social contract is intact

It's common with fascists, because basic shit like this does have an effect on the jackboots.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

Kudos to the Minnesotans and the ICE asswipes can piss and 60shit their pants in their $60k plus vehicles.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago

Nazis are like vampires you never invite them in

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

If the police weren't so buddy buddy with them, I'd say follow them around. The second they piss in a corner, get them for public urination. If it were on school grounds or close by? (don't remember if there's a distance cutoff) you could have them in the sex offender registry, which tracks them and is fully public.

ETA: The ones who aren't already on that list

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 days ago

Is this how we end up with public bathrooms?

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[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Pee your pants, you redneck pieces of shit. Isn't that what you do anyway?

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Do they let the immigrant children they ship off take breaks?

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[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

Stop being crybabies you shut nazis

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 19 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

That's a lame excuse for pissing yourself from the slightest resistance from someone you can't just shoot anymore. Do like your boss and get a diaper if you can't cope via other means.

[–] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 17 points 6 days ago

Lol maybe if they don't want a UTI they shouldn't have signed up to terrorize people

[–] wolfeh@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 days ago

It's for their own protection! God forbid, there might be a trans person in there.

/s, obviously.

[–] Eddbopkins@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

o noooo, your right as a human being is being infringed upon by another human being? o NOOOO i do not feel bad for you. what are we to dooooo.

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