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Let me break this down:

Openly defying court orders multiple times= dictatorship Threatening to jail political opponents despite them being pardoned= dictatorship Deporting American citizens who have legal citizenship= dictatorship Can’t put it any simpler.

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[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 221 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is happening again and again: judges rule that deportations are illegal, then Trump's people just kidnap the victim and deport them anyway. A whole lot of people were just deported to a prison in a foreign country whose government has said they will never be released. They will be slave labor for a foreign country until they die, and there was no trial, no due process, no evidence presented for their being guilty of any crime. It's just the US government kidnapping people and trafficking them into slavery abroad, completely ignoring its own judicial system. The USA is already a dictatorship, and it only took a few weeks.

[-] LonstedBrowryBased@lemm.ee 31 points 1 month ago

It’s time for armed resistance

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If these unjust and illegal actions can't be stopped through elections, politicians or courts, it does seem the only ways to stop them would involve physically obstructing them.

[-] felsiq@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 month ago

Anyone have a good source on the illegal kidnappings and the prison that won’t release people? I’ve been trying not to follow US politics but goddamn clearly I need to when they’re up to this shit already

[-] geekgrrl0@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago

NPR, the source that floofloof linked above, is a pretty solid news source. The article linked discusses the mega-prison in El Salvador.

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[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 113 points 1 month ago

Hey where was the motherfucker arguing they wouldnt deport legal people with me here? Huh? Where ya at?

[-] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 66 points 1 month ago

They literally don't care. All they want is to win an argument against leftists in the moment; they actually see it as a weakness to be beholden to facts.

They're playing a different "game" entirely, one where rhetoric is more important than reality.

[-] madeinthebackseat@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

This point should be understood by all - they're programmed to get a dopamine hit in the moment by pissing you off.

They're not arguing in good faith and all the time you spend making rational statements is a waste. Nobody is keeping a scorecard that punishes them for losing an intellectual discussion.

The opposition to MAGA has to find a new path, because applying rational arguments in discussions ain't going to work.

[-] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

This is why calling them weird was sort of effective. It's not a fact, it's an opinion. Now, I think it's a widely held opinion, but the point is it wasn't something they could argue with. It was sort of playing the game they've been playing.

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[-] whostosay@lemmy.world 57 points 1 month ago

They're at the other goalpost, we just don't know where it's been moved right now

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[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 85 points 1 month ago

I hope Trump's Supreme Court are happy residing over a branch of government that no longer matters.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 33 points 1 month ago

As long as the vacations and RVs keep coming, you bet they are.

[-] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago

They'll do just fine as long as they deliver him what he wants.

[-] Crikeste@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago

They made it so, why wouldn’t they be happy?

[-] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

It was what they were working towards

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[-] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 64 points 1 month ago

If only we could have foreseen this and prevented it somehow

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[-] BlitzFitz@lemmy.world 54 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Constitutional crisis time! Who's ready to defend their rights and fight for democracy!

[-] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 month ago

"I'll stand peacefully on a sidewalk holding up a sign to defend democracy, so long as no harm comes to me." - Americans

[-] BlitzFitz@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

As an anti gun person my whole life, I am considering buying a gun to defend my rights as our 2nd amendment was designed to protect.

I think Democrats need to start forming or partnering with like like minded, armed groups, to help reinforce the importance and need for action. Then we have our support shown how we will defend our rights if actions are not taken.

I am not advocating for violence, but we cannot show up to a gun right with cardboard signs.

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[-] Crikeste@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago

Most of America has work tomorrow, sorry.

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[-] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 52 points 1 month ago

This is getting uglier. Ugh

[-] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

I just want to know when and how the nightmare will end

[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

It will end in (threats of) vioIence. Either by the people being completely owned or taking a stand.

[-] Crikeste@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

The violence has already started on the part of the federal government.

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[-] Shameless@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago

Deporting doctors, unbelievable.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Everything they do suggests the goal is just to ruin the USA and its (former) allies.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Though the Trump administration did not initially detail their rationale for detaining Alawieh, Hilton Beckham, the assistant commissioner of public affairs for Customs and Border Protection, told HuffPost that "arriving aliens bear the burden of establishing admissibility to the United States.”

Which a valid visa is literally proof of, you ridiculously named fascist henchcritter! 🤦🤬

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[-] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 36 points 1 month ago

So what are we gonna do about it?

[-] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago

Watch in horror

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago

I noticed my local Tesla dealership is not currently on fire…

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[-] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 1 month ago

Among other terrible things, this is exactly why Google shoving Android "SafetyCore" onto all Android phones is absolutely evil. Illegal phone searches become a casual click on a cloud interface to target millions with whatever they want to find.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago

good thing we can delete that, i deleted that app as soon as i saw the post, but i heard it comes back everytime it updates. and im pretty sure google will make that a permanent thing down the line. (probably againt pixel phones)

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[-] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 28 points 1 month ago

Whoever ignored that order should be held in contempt. You don't just "whoopsie" a judge's order.

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[-] iarigby@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

If anyone wants context for why she was denied entry, apart from photos supportive of terrorists found on the phone

The doctor also reportedly told agents that she attended the funeral of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah while in Lebanon, but that she supported him “from a religious perspective” and not a political one.

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

The article says that Customs and Border Patrol agents "found “sympathetic photos and videos” of prominent Hezbollah figures in the deleted items folder of her cellphone."

That statement is vague enough in itself (could be memes from a group chat, could be something someone shared in a whatsapp chat that she had no interest in - we don't know). What we do know is that having pictures sympathetic to Hezbollah figures on your phone is not illegal, and it doesn't automatically equate to 'being supportive of terrorists'. I have photos of Trump in my phone from group chats and from web cache of viewed articles, and I hate the treasonous c*nt.

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[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

Well obviously it's because they were Brown

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