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Every single person sent to El Salvador were innocent. Not a single one of them had their due process! This is all bullshit. ICE must be destroyed
- CitricBase@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
Yep. Innocent until proven guilty, and not a single one of them was so much as indicted, much less charged or convicted. Blatant disregard for the constitution as well as human rights, everyone all the way up the chain of command needs to be prosecuted for this.
- Snowflake2901@lemmynsfw.comEnglish1 year
the fact that the democrats aren’t filing articles of impeachment every single day tells you where they’re at
- catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish1 year
You’d need
fourtwenty Republican senators to convict. I can’t imagine that happening.- ThePyroPython@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
It’d still be something. Bemoaning “oh there’s no point because it’s hopeless” gives these fuckers more fuel because the opposition is just etting it happen without any complaints.
It’d be like a cop kneeling on your neck and not bothering to scream “help I can’t breathe! they’re killing me!” because you’ve just accepted that they’re going to suffocate you to death.
- catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish1 year
It would be something. Would it be the most effective use of their time? Unlikely.
“Something must be done, this is something, therefore this must be done” is a joke, not something to take seriously.
1 yearFeel free to offer your own brilliant alternatives that would be a more effective use of their time. You must have at least one since you’re so confident that this isn’t it.
- Snowflake2901@lemmynsfw.comEnglish1 year
don’t need to convict to gum up the works of government while the fascists try to do their genocide
- catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish1 year
The works are sufficiently gummed already. Any path forward seems to involve action only implied in the constitution. Maybe a rereading of the Declaration of Independence is in order as well.
- ubergeek@lemmy.todayEnglish1 year
Before that, though, we need SOMEONE to actually propose the articles…
- catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish1 year
Impeachment comes from the house. But yes it’s actually 20 Republican senators to convict since it’s two-thirds, not a simple majority (assuming all 45 Democrats and two independents vote to convict).
20 is definitely not happening. Even in the last two trials, they only got one vote in one trial.
All it takes for evil to triumph is for “good men” to do nothing.
- CmdrShepard42@lemm.eeEnglish1 year
So were the 50+ votes to repeal the ACA when the Republicans had a minority control but they still did it to send a message.
- 1 year
Further demonstrating how vacuous and generally shitty they are. Even the backward degenerate voters want the fucking ACA.
Impeachment has been of no consequence for half a fucking century.
Maybe we ought to start doing shit that hasn’t been proven ineffective.
Thats the thing. Rounding up people from the street will not catch any criminals (legally speaking), by definition: if they committed a crime, and a judge deemed them guilty, they would be in jail or they would be fugitives. In either case, they are not unknowns, and authorities must’ve already knew about them. Getting people randomly off the street, you cannot, legally speaking, be catching criminals.
This is, unfortunately, incredibly common in law enforcement circles. If you’re paranoid, EVERYTHING is gang related somehow.
Not only that, but they circulate bad information among themselves. Booklets about how every sports team has it’s own gang affiliation, etc.
From another article, one of the tattoos in question:
- 1 year
The US has a greater obsession with tattoos than Japan by this point. If you go to a place in Japan and show off a tattoo, the owner might ask you to leave. The US they’ll gulag your ass.
- RedAggroBest@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
Only of you’re brown, white people with tattoos are perfectly acceptable, just look at all the neonazis
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Now that’s a fucking gang tattoo if I’ve ever seen one. Not like the literal Awareness Ribbon. 🎗️
- SulaymanF@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
That’s only one view, he just posted photos on X with even more white supremacist tattoos.
Not only that, but they circulate bad information among themselves. Booklets about how every sports team has it’s own gang affiliation, etc.
We all know it’s the bowling teams that are the gangbangers. I mean look at them. total miscreants!
What Nazi Germany classed as “untermenschen:”
- People of Jewish descent
- People of Slavic descent
- People of African descent
- People of Romani descent
- Homosexuals
- The mentally disabled
- The physically disabled
- Political dissidents
- POWs
Qualifying people were dehumanized, arrested and initially deported, but eventually taken to camps and either systematically exterminated or put into slavery.
It’s not enough to say that there are parallels, America is playing exactly by the Nazi guide book.
- tacobellhop@midwest.socialEnglish1 year
Also worth noting they basically learned all that from Andrew Jackson the first time around
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I know we’re largely focused on stopping Trump, and we need to.
But how do we save these guys?
- 1 year
Get NATO Countries (excluding the US, obviously) to send the military to liberate El Salvador.
Edit: Reworded for clarification
- Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish1 year
That is not how NATO works or what it is
Not saying we shouldn’t try to free political undesirable prisoners, just saying that that is not what NATO is for, won’t happen
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Obviously, this is not about the article 4/5 invocations. I’m talking about in a joint operation, unrelated to the NATO treaty, that are done by European Countries.
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Are there Non-Nato countries with a military capable and willing to do that?
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For clarification, I said NATO Countries excluding the US
- ubergeek@lemmy.todayEnglish1 year
Most countries would be able to take El Salvador on in a head-on-head fight.
Now, which ones can do so, if the US is backing the dictatorship there? That’s a big question.
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Yes. But it would be a violation of international law, so they should not be willing.
If the matter somehow transforms to obtaining the assistance of El Salvador in this case, a credible proposal of EU economic sanctions would hasten a compromise.
To be honest, I’m not fully understanding why El Salvador accepted those people from the US.
- SulaymanF@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
The courts might be able to stop future renditions, but the president or Congress have the power to end this or return them. Congress could cut off the funding (bribes) to El Salvador or president could force them to release people.
America has its Gestapo now. How much longer until they create SS that swears fealty not to the US but to Trump?
- WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
They’ve already sworn fealty to Trump. Non-fascists don’t join ICE.
- 1 year
That was 10 years ago. DHS is the Gestapo you’re seeing now, courtesy of the Patriot Act. They’ve already sworn fealty to Trump. People are looking at January 6th as an isolated event, but it proved how far the right-wing could get if they wanted to forcefully take over the government.
- 1 year
This is the only standard by which the Trump administration operates.
