Comment on What would/could the US government actually do if they found out the real identities behind all the "guillotine memes" that people post online?

• 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 ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Right now, juries still decide.

    Exhibit A: I think they acquitted the “threw a ham sandwich dude”…

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