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CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Not to be rude, but who cares? Authoritarian governments could send a goon squad and shoot you in the face extrajudicially. Seeing they are already doing that for such severe threats to authority as being in a public space, they have no threats left to make.

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DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Legality matters for the “Court of Public Opinion”

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- CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Does it? When brownshits can extrajudicially shoot innocents in the face without consequence “legal” and Public opinion loses much of its meaning.
  
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  - DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Public opinion is the difference between some random white dudes being sympathathetic and randomly interfering with ICE, and people forming mobs that actively hunt down immigrants
    
    Right now public opinion on ICE is terrible, especially in democratic strongholds… which is why I as a nonwhite immigrant I was able to avoid get harassed by ICE or xenophobic mobs for over a year since he took office
    
    If public opinion on immigrants goes down… if people start beliving in those xenophobic rhetotics… I could get lynched by my neighbors
    
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    CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Excellent point. Good perspective and post.
    
    people forming mobs that actively hunt down immigrants.
    
    That is ICE already. I was thinking "people forming ~~mobs~~ well regulated militias that actively hunt ICE mobs.
    
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- reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
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  - DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Right now, juries still decide.
    
    Exhibit A: I think they acquitted the “threw a ham sandwich dude”…
    
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