• GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works
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    18 hours ago

    They are swarming Florida and Texas. And with comparatively much more cooperation/less protest, because they are more popular there. The white house even made a post bragging about how rent was down in Texas.

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    2 days ago

    Donald trump is not intelligent enough to create this plan. Let’s not forget he is only the figurehead for an entire movement.

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    We know. But more people should.

    The whole point of the government shutdown was to start riots. The Republicans wanted to take healthcare from millions. The Democrats stopped them, but the cost was SNAP (food stamps) benefits. The Republicans were willing to starve their voting base to push the healthcare cuts — either would likely result in riots. Now it’s literally attacking Americans. The goal is to push martial law and suspend elections. That is the whole point.

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      And with a minimum of three more years of this, they will eventually get what they want. There is no way that this administration ends without the US military acting against domestic Americans, at some point. It is going to happen.

      As much as I’m tempted to play the accellerationist and demand that we give them what they’re asking for, I know that we can’t rip off the bandaid like that. Americans are not yet mentally prepared to take up arms against their government. The government will strike first, after they exhaust all attempts to get the people to make the first move. Trump needs martial law or some equivalent immunity before his time in the Oval Office is up.

      Our best bet might be that Trump dies of a blood clot, Vance is too unlikable to hold the tenuous fascist truces together, and the momentum falls apart.

      • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        They already have. They executed a woman on the streets because she saw too much, or they thought she did. She didn’t do anything wrong, but they decided that she needed to die rather than be allowed to leave peacefully, as she was trying to do. She was a white woman, not an immigrant. (She was also gay, but they probably didn’t know that at the time.) And they still executed her right then and there on the spot.

        Side note: is your avatar the playable character from Noita?

  • will@piefed.zip
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    Don’t forget about Maine, which ICE is gearing up for next, probably because Governor Mills sticking up against Trump.

    Not sure how accurate this is, but Maine has a whooping 5,000

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      11 hours ago

      They have just arrived in my city as of today, the largest in the state with a population of 65,000. Hell the entire state population is only 1.3 million.

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    2 days ago

    I hate to burst your bubble, but ICE is all over both Florida & Texas, your corporate news media simply isn’t reporting it.

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      Probably because people there are mostly “okay with it”. If there were big protests going on in Houston or Jacksonville, we’d hear about it.

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        Also the leadership of those states is aligned with the federal government, it’s a lot less safe to be a protestor down there.

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    Even my hard red family member told me they want to incite violence. I couldn’t tell if he thought it was good or bad though.

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    ICE is obviously a secret police force. This was already clear when the regime (with extensive support from the Democrats btw) approved a budget for this “agency” that exceeds the military spending of medium-sized countries.

    What is so difficult to understand about this? The economic elite in the US, which has been ruling the country de facto for ages, now wants to transition to a more Russian-style system (open autocracy with corresponding repressive measures), and ICE is ideally suited to make undesirable dissidents disappear.

    I think everyone has been aware of this since around February 2025, except apparently the US citizens, who, despite all the absurdity, still cling to the illusion that the US is a constitutional state or even a democracy - which has not been the case for at least 30 years.

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    Wasn’t sure if this was just a population thing, so:

    State | population | Undocumented est |  % undocumented
    TX    |     31M    |     2.0 M        |   6.4%
    FL    |     23M    |     1.2 M        |   5.2%
    IL    |     13M    |     0.59 M       |   4.5%
    MN    |     5.8M   |      100 k       |   1.7%
    CA    |     39M    |     2.9 M        |   7.4%
    
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      It basically is. California has the most, then texas, then Florida. All around the same percentage.

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        If 5-ish% of most state populations are undocumented, doesn’t that make it even more bizarre to go into Minnesota, where they don’t even have half the national average?

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          I’m not talking about ICE. I’m talking about how Florida and Texas have more. It’s the same as showing a map of a statistic and it’s basically just a population map.

          ICE being in Minnesota is because Donny got his feelings hurt.

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      You are correct, according to government data for 2023 the Florida and Texas numbers here are a little low. Additionally, the estimate for Illinois is also a little high. If you look at the government estimates, the point of the posting only becomes more true

      • Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone
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        Looking into it the migration policy institute which is what is cited as the bottom seems to use census data so the numbers would ostensibly be from 2020. So that seems to be why the numbers seem off?