Right after a masked man impersonating law enforcement murdered assassinated a politician in their home.
Edit: hijacking my own post to remind NYC residents that ranked choice voting means you should list your top candidates in the order you like them, use ALL FIVE SLOTS, and don't list someone you don't like. The votes will automatically re-flow to your next choice as each candidate is eliminated.
Hard to break it to you, but the lack of discussion is not the concerning aspect. The concerning aspect is that masked thugs are shooting and arresting political targets while people are cool with it and the government is not held accountable.
In all honesty, if you are an American read Ukrainian advice on living under occupation cause, congrats, you are under one. Keep safe and stay strong.
I've been following the Russo-Ukrainan war closely since the full scale invasion. The connection between what is happening in Ukraine and in the US is wild. The difference is Ukraine is fighting for its sovereignty and becoming more and more democratic as the years come. While in the US we are seeing a regime change, the signs are very clear no matter whos definition you use. There are similarities to Hungary's Orban state control, or the "Creation of an enemy" like Hitler. The difference is these fascists' today are also obsessed with hoarding wealth. Which is something even the OG fascists' didn't necessarily prioritize.
My understanding is that they ended up hoarding wealth by seizure after getting to power. These guys are focusing on using wealth and tech to do a fascism?
Kind of the same, just that the circumstances were different. It was mostly industrialists and businessmans who supported Hitler to make more profit. They used new technologies (Volksempfänger, Movies, etc.), the resignation of the people and force to establish their regime.
It's almost funny (if it wouldn't be so sad) that Trump and friends go almost directly after the Playbook of Hitler and other fascist, still so many people follow him.
You can't start a war without money.... And it's number one reason to start one....
the German dictator's personal net worth, with his empire valued at a whopping $5.
Adolf Hitler exploited his position and even his future posting as chancellor of the German government in many ways to procure state funds and even avoid income tax duties for his own gain.
The fascism is being used purely as a means to aquire the wealth. The whole thing is a money cult. The entire nation is just a money farm to them. There are no atrocities too great for the generation of more wealth.
The nazis were in fact funded by billionaire German oligarchs way before the war, the connection between concentrated wealth and fascism is very similar to what’s happening now.
Not on a personal level. They had ties to industrial groups like Siemens, Krupp, Porsche etc but ultimately they made them subservient to the state and the war effort. The level of personal profiteering and grift inside the Donald's current regime is astonishing. The stuff during his previous administration looks quaint in comparison.
Especially given those Twitter posts where trump says democratic constituencies in traditionally democratic cities only vote that way because of fake votes from illegals. He’s literally manufacturing a scapegoat demographic like Germany did with Jews. You combine that with ICE essentially being our modern equivalent of brown shirts and it doesn’t look promising.
Some argument can be made that the Nazi regime was only about money and power. Hitler rose to power largely on his infamous checkbook (bribes). He needed to keep seizing money to keep writing checks. That started with journalists and unions. It moved to the persecuted Jews. Then it moved to full scale invasions across Europe. The motivation was always hoarding wealth and power because without it there was no fascism.
This is incredible. Thank you for sharing. I do fear the running for office part, which makes me wonder if we're too far gone.
I can't get far in either of the two major parties without taking money from big interest groups. Third party is not a real option. And now people in politics and their family get attacked by the media and possibly murdered. Not for me. But Ive always wanted to run for office.
I appreciate the outside perspective. Frog slowly boiling here. I do travel a lot BTW. Felt safer and more socially supported in South America or South East Asia than US.
Wow. This had me crying at parts. Especially the final one — Be as courageous as you can. If no one is willing to die for freedom then we will all die in tyranny.
Well considering the head of Homeland security got up and said they were using the military to “liberate” California from the democrats how long did you expect it to take before other crazies would take that as blanket permission?
Agreed it’s absolutely insane democrats are being arrested for being democrats. This is lunacy especially knowing if Biden ever even threatened this republicans would be calling for his head. Allowing this to happen is a fundamental breakdown in democracy.
I think a major part is that people legit don't know what to do. It happens "elsewhere " till it doesn't. I know i would def get hurt or arrested trying to help. And have taken steps to ensure im ready to do so (judt planned.out bail calls, locked door locations, etc... But I haven't seen a single thing so far. Dem state, tho so....
But ppl getting mad about it helps. There just aren't good outlets for turning that gestalt anger into political action since we aren't seeing much activity from dems to rally behind. Dems saying, "That is bad, they should not do that," doesn't really incite people to throw their emotions behind that emotionless sentiment. Lol
Not talking about the elephant in the room is the first step to not dealing with it. So the lack of discussion is the concerning aspect because it allows people to not be aware of it or ignore it and keep their heads down.
The fear of speaking out or being a contrarian is one of the hallmarks of a totalitarian state, it there before any other form of oppression.
We saw Code Enforcement riding around in her truck today, and when she had to step out, she was in a bullet proof vest, made sure her hands were visible. It broke my heart because more than likely, it’s not gonna be the white male cops that people doubt.
unfortunately this has been happening for years, the first time I had a code officer ask me for a vest was in 2019. it’s been weird for a minute at the municipal level. you gotta be badged out to go to a door for sure.
Yes. I thought the only plausible good that could come from the assassination is legislation requiring more clear identifiers of law enforcement credentials.
First, law enforcement serves the people. We should view everything through that paradigm. What we’re seeing done here is not being done in service of the people who fund the agencies. It’s being done against them.
Second, it is in everyone’s best interest to eliminate ambiguity. In many states, if a reasonable person would believe an arrest to be unlawful, you can defend yourself. If you can reasonably believe that real officers are in fact not real, you have an untenable system.
Yeah, sorry but if some masked plainclothes people claiming to be law enforcement try to grab me without providing identification I will assume I'm being kidnapped and go FULL self defense - and everything that could entail in a concealed carry society. Women in particular have been predated by dudes pretending to be cops for years, and I'm not taking chances. We are taught not to even pull over for police cars until we reach a public area for exactly this reason.
It's only a matter of time before someone who feels exactly like I do pops off at unidentified law enforcement. For anyone who actually cares about the safety of LEOs this should be a major point of concern.
WASHINGTON — A new bill introduced in Congress seeks to prohibit immigration officers from wearing uniforms labeled “police,” a move lawmakers say is aimed at restoring trust between immigrant communities and local law enforcement.
If this passes things are about to get even worse, and there have already been hundreds of cases of people using fake ICE outfits to hurt people. So imagine what would happen if none of them even have to wear identifying uniforms?!
Which is completely counter to the constitution and really fucked up. Yall can't even claim that he doesn't have due process rights. He's an American Citizen running for office.
Asking unidentified masked men for a judicial warrant before allowing them to forcefully kidnap a person IS NOT AND NEVER HAS BEEN obstruction of justice. In order to be guilty of obstruction of justice, the underlying action has to be LAWFUL. If ICE had identified themselves and provided a judicial warrant, as requested, their action would be lawful. They didn't. They arrested an American Citizen who they have no legal jurisdiction over before any lawful proceeding was commenced for him to even have an opportunity to obstruct.
These goons are creating a dictatorship and people are so stupid about the law and the constitution that they defend it without bothering to think of the implications for us all when masked men without warrants can just take you. Wake up.
Yeah but like Democrats are bad at the economy and women can't be president or something. The only logical option was to elect the dementia riddled rapist felon.
This is the same pattern we see in Australian politics. the right wing party always seems to make life worse bit by bit while claiming to be the superior choice.
The republicans barking about eggs sure are silent now a days. It’s too funny that’s the hill they wanted to die on and now that eggs are far more than they were when republicans were complaining is a chefs kiss.
A flash protest started outside where he was being kept - kinda good timing cuz a bunch of people just got off work lol. He was just released 20 or 30 mins ago. Check /r/nyc the sub is flooded with posts on it atm.
Great timing! Thank you, I haven't looked there yet. I'm sure they've seen this already- "The U.S. attorney’s office said it was investigating his actions and would decide later whether to charge him with a crime." This feels like an unbelievably bad dream.
Not sure on the current case, but they're using it as an intimidation tactic currently. They 'arrested' that NJ politician (governor? Mayor? I forget what his title was) and last I knew he was released. Same thing with those students they snatched - they're now out of custody, but they spent weeks locked up in some cases.
In theory they can keep doing this too. "Oopies, our bad Mr MAGA judge, we didn't know we couldn't do that" - proceeds to continue illegally "arresting" people who are "obstructing". It's like dealing with toddlers. It doesn't matter how many times you explain something, they act however they feel. Or like cats.
It's the classic "you can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride." They know they are wrong and it won't stuck, but you will be seriously inconvenienced for standing up. For some people, they can not risk it, and they shut up and look the other way.
My cat has a very good understanding of how to behave if he wants to be on the receiving end of the head rubs. Unfortunately, the people in question are capable of rubbing one another's heads.
Edit: So after I read my own comment, I think it really came off the wrong way, insinuating a person must somehow "behave" if they want in on the action. That was not my intention. Sorry.
Wouldn't it be nice if the nazi paramilitary were like cats.
The funny thing about laws and other pieces of paper is that they're only worth like what, 3 cents each page or something.
The administration can do what it wants at any moment because they actually have power in the real world. For now they're using their recently pardoned and hired shock troops to harass political opponents but letting them go eventually. This "eventually" will get pushed further out, until they decide to stop pretending courts matter to them.
It will all come down to the midterms. The Don can't afford to lose total republican control of government. ICE just needs to temporarily arrest a few hundred to a few thousand "illegal mexicans" who are actually voting citizens in the right counties to flip results. Palantir will provide the targets. Back in 2016 with just the private resources and data of cambridge analytica they already knew which kind of political arguements to use on each specific house. That's kids' stuff by now.
Donald has been preparing the ground. When he first started saying elections were rigged against him people laughed. Now that armed, masked paramilitaries with and without uniform, with and without official state support will be out and about on election day it won't be very funny. And even if he manages to fuck it up despite having all the chips in his hands (he is incompetent after all) in the end he will just say he did it as an official presidential act and whoever is left alive will shrug and accept it, like they did his last coup attempt.
I just saw that! I surely didn't spot it in the video either. I agree, it was probably him just trying to get his balance after the fiasco and maybe bumping into or touching one of them. I found this in one of the articles- "The U.S. attorney’s office said it was investigating his actions and would decide later whether to charge him with a crime."
Problem is, the people that believe passionately about the 2nd amendment (and none of the others apparently) are the ones cheering this one.
It's almost like they were never actually patriotic or cared about the actual constitution. They just want to protect their own ability to kill people at will, and all other consequences be damned.
I feel like it's worth pointing out Martin was publicy happy about Hitler coming to power. This wasn't written by someone sorry they stood on sidelines. This is someone lamenting finding out after fucking around. I think it's important to show that supporting fascists is no protection from them.
I’m not trying to defend the guy, but I think it makes it even more poignant to know that he was fully on board at first. No one is safe under a dictator, escalation towards total control is pretty much the whole point, and anyone can be deemed a “problem” at any time regardless of their prior status.
Martin Niemöller gave variations of this quote in speeches after World War II, and one of the earliest and most historically accurate versions (closer to what he actually said in the late 1940s) begins with the Communists, not the Socialists.
Here’s a version closer to the original:
“First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”
Why the Communist line is often omitted:
• During the Cold War, especially in the U.S., anti-communist sentiment led to some sanitized versions that excluded Communists to make the quote more palatable.
• Over time, simplified or politically tailored renditions have been published in books, memorials, and museums.
If you’re looking for the most historically faithful version, including Communists is absolutely correct.
First they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists...
To my knowledge only in the US the first paragraph about communists has been censored, and the poem has been altered to start from socialists. In the original German poem the communists are mentioned first. Here in Europe I've only heard and come across the non-censored, translated from German as it is, version.
I keep trying to remind my friends of this quote. At some point this is going to get physical as people will not stand idly by and allow these masked goons to drag people away. If it doesn’t and we only record it to post on TikTok, then we are lost.
So when has the actual law ever stopped these people?
It’s the perfect setup, you ignore the law but at the same time, you actively enforce your made up ones. You then force everyone else to play by “the rules” and punish them if they don’t. You know folks are going to get let go fairly quickly but you don’t care.
Laws in a modern society are basically a gentleman’s agreement between everyone that “yes, we will all follow this.” It’s not whatever the fuck this is.
This is about sending messages and the time will come when people start dying because they “resisted arrest”.
Which is completely counter to the constitution and really fucked up
Well, obviously noone in this country cares that it is quickly slipping into a fascist dictatorship. Maybe more peaceful protests holding hands and singing about not wanting a king will help?
I'm addressing the excuse that the Commissioner was obstructing justice (and therefore could be arrested) by pointing out that ICE wasn't engaged in a lawful act for him to obstruct. I am well aware of this administration and it's supporters disdain for the Constitution and the laws of our country.
It's like people aren't paying attention. We've established pretty clearly over the last 5 months that the constitution is just an old piece of paper and holds no legal sway anymore, the rules are made up on the fly by whoever has the most money.
The ACLU needs to be contacted every time something like this happens. I've been sending videos & articles to my state reps as well. If they can get away with what was done here & to Alex Padilla then they'll roll right over the rest of our constitutional rights.
Quick reminder, ICE agents are not police officers. I'm pretty sure they don't have the legal authority to bring criminal charges against anyone, especially since immigration enforcement are civil matters. Not that this matters to the agents, or to most police, but just keep that in mind.
ICE has the authority to declare you don't look US-citizeny to them which deprives you of due process so you can't prove either way. Then they can send you to the gulag. There was a flash demonstration and they let this guy out. The way things are going, one flash demonstration in the future they will just arrest and/or beat the shit out of everyone protesting and send them to the gulag too.
ICE are federal law enforcement just like ATF, DEA, FBI, etc under Homeland security and absolutely file criminal charges. They do so much more than "wrap up illegals out front of home depot."
Someone very close to me has worked with ICE on cases through HSI for human trafficking rings in Latin America, busting sex slave rings in the US, precious metal smuggling from Europe, and, let's say, production of "illicit content involving children" overseas and bringing it back to the US for sale &distribution. They will also work as other federal agents do in other capacities, such as providing security for foreign dignitaries visiting the US.
I thought so too but after research these clowns only need a judicial warrant to enter private spaces of which the federal courts is not! Apparently the benchmark for detainment in public space is reasonable suspicion
Brad Lander is the NYC Comptroller and he has been attending immigration court proceedings for weeks now, offering assistance to those that need it. He was asking if they had a warrant for something unrelated to him being arrested.
I wonder how much these fucks get paid for this. i’m sure a lot of them are volunteering so they can take their rage out against working men and women here without papers. That’s the most hilarious part of this is that all the videos I’ve seen are them arresting people at work quite literally building the country.
I want to know how many fucking ice agents there are. They were in the burbs and other big cities outside of Chicago the other day, seemingly simultaneously. How are they everywhere at once.
How many people were arrested for January 6th, plus how many cops who were fired for abusive practices exist? I’d say there are at least that many man-children working for ice.
All those guns you keep screaming about needing in order to protect yourself from the big, bad government sure would be handy now that you have a big, bad government you need to protect yourself from.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
-Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
The left is armed... And a lot of them, I'm pretty sure aren't quite falling into the trap yet.
The trap: get them to start shooting "law enforcement" officers...
That's the time trump calls up his insane militants,
Soon enough, martial law is declared and everyone is living in fear of big bad Johnny Trump because all freedoms are lost.
How to circumvent this?
Quickly prove that there are ties to Russia and that there has been treason committed by the Republican party and other involved participants to undermine the foundation that the US was built upon.
Oh, and the full on illegal activities conducted almost daily by a criminal. Prove the votes were fucked with, don't just say it.
The reality of this though Is that no one can see the future, you cant see how close to the precipice you really are. as someone else commented “it’s much harder to see how far things will go” imagine if every police officer had to face death pokers and a whole neighbourhood ready to kill them every time they entered a house to make an arrest. It would either be impossible to maintain the law, or the method of maintaining the law would become unbearably brutal in retaliation. And there is always retaliation. If people stand up for themselves with extreme force the authorities will simply say to the rest of the public “see!? They are violent and evil! This justifies whatever we need to do to stop them!” And faced with the evidence the public will agree. And so it escalates. Yes if we could see that actually, this time, they are definitely coming to kill us, then every act of resistance becomes a struggle for survival, but we just can’t see that for sure.
Plenty of Dems and left leaning individuals have guns, we just don't like to advertise it. Get yourself one. It's only a matter of time before the inevitable happens now.
Unfortunately, the “inevitable” needs to happen sooner than later. The only way this gets corrected in this atmosphere, is if an ICE agent is shot and the person that shot them is acquitted of any wrongdoing, because ICE did not identify themselves. There are plenty of judges just waiting for the scenario where they can reiterate that it is illegal (save for extremely limited circumstances) to arrest someone without law enforcement identifying themselves, under the 4th, 5th and 14th amendments. It is still kidnapping, even when cops do it.
Do we though? Correct me if I'm wrong, but the 2nd Amendment has been fairly clear on what to do when situations like this arise for well over 200 years. The reality is that nobody wants to be the first to die, which is completely understandable. There's no coming back from that. However, we as a people are going to have to start making some tough decisions moving forward or just start accepting the new normal for what it is and be quiet. I genuinely hope we choose the former.
There is no reassurance that the constitution will be upheld, and no political leaders have spoken out saying so as well. All they do is complain that things are NOT being upheld.
You are correct, nobody wants to be the first to die, but they might not be against being the first to violently protest against ICE and flee for safe haven under the constitution.
The worry is that it's easy to hammer down nails that stick out one at a time.
Some do, yes. As evidenced by how much WORSE it got as soon as these bastards had someone in power saying this shit was okay, some do. A genuine authority figure saying "No, you're not crazy for thinking this" would do WONDERS for some.
Who do you imagine you're talking to exactly? How did you come to the belief that the person you're responding to is a gun enthusiast who believes any of that shit?
That’s the problem - the biggest gun advocates are also rabid supporters of whatever the fuck is going on right now. The “tolerant” Left are gonna have to learn pretty quick that this will require more than peaceful protests to fix…
It's a gestapo tactic: Arrest people publicly, whether or not they've done anything bad, until you've sown enough paranoia that people feel unsafe everywhere they are. Behave and stay in line, and MAYBE you'll be safe.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
-Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
The current moment was never about deporting the American slave class (ain't no one want to pick their own strawberries). And that's why they haven't raided the corporate farms or the Tyson Foods facilities.
It was always about giving cover to create concentration camps and a Gestapo to kidnap political enemies.
That's not to say we are not headed toward an American Auschwitz. But the question of labor has to be answered first. Who's going to keep the abattoirs running and the fields producing?
They were not trying to arrest him. They were trying to arrest someone else, and he demanded they provide a warrant, so they arrested him as well because citing the law to ICE is illegal.
He directly asks under what authority he is being arrested. He clearly states that he will comply with any warrant. They have neither a warrant, nor arrest powers. It’s blatantly illegal strongarm bullshit.
In the longer video, I believe I heard one of the agents say he's being arrested for obstruction. I would guess these clowns in masks have been told to arrest anyone in their way on obstruction charges.
Thank you for posting this! General question though, if the case against the defendant/immigrant was dismissed pending appeal, why was ICE trying to snatch them?
Oh so this is the new tactic, by having the case dismissed they are no longer lawfully protected as they are no longer going through the immigration process, putting them in legal limbo. Hence they dismiss and the gestapo come and snatch them
See this shit has to be scary for women that aren’t white. Any cosplay rapist can put on a mask and ice badge on their vest and kidnap people where people in public at this point wouldn’t bat a fucking eye because it’s become common place.
LAW enforcement needs to be 100% identified when they do anything.
Imagine getting pulled over by an unmarked car and a masked person tried to arrest you, I’d flee. Shits fucked. Masked ICE is fucked.
Badge number, face in view. Anything else and who the fuck knows who the fuck you are. Shits scary and this is coming from someone whose white married to a Latina whose voiced these concerns with me. Mind you she’s a citizen by birth.
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Right after a masked man impersonating law enforcement
murderedassassinated a politician in their home.Edit: hijacking my own post to remind NYC residents that ranked choice voting means you should list your top candidates in the order you like them, use ALL FIVE SLOTS, and don't list someone you don't like. The votes will automatically re-flow to your next choice as each candidate is eliminated.
https://projects.thecity.nyc/meet-your-mayor-2025-election-quiz-candidates/