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[–] bonenode@piefed.social 159 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

Gestapo/Stasi vibes all over.

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 131 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

During Gestapo and Stasi times most informants did their best to remain anonymous because no one likes snitches. Openly following someone and bragging about it is sociopathic even by nazi and Stalinist standards.

[–] Slotos@feddit.nl 79 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, they just didn’t realize that they are easy targets themselves. Early days are always like this.

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[–] ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world 151 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

This comment of the lady taking the picture really reminds me of the early Nazi era regime where people were hunting for undocumented Jews. This makes me incredibly sad to see history is repeating itself yet again.

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 73 points 3 weeks ago (16 children)

There are still WWII veterans alive that fought the Nazis in Germany just to watch it repeat itself in their own fucking country.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 31 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I've actually started keeping screenshots of people I know who are supportive of ICE, in part so I have my own little database of people who I know can't be trusted, and so that I can hopefully publish them later when these same people try to pretend they didn't support this.

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[–] cv_octavio@piefed.ca 30 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I can't even begin to imagine the violence I would be inspired to visit on someone who pulled that on me or someone I know. Like if smug bitch thinks she just "Got me", and I now have nothing to lose, and she's not the armed Gestapo, and that's a brick lying on the ground....

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[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 12 points 3 weeks ago

I much prefer the classic image of a woman smacking a Nazi over the head with her purse.

[–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 88 points 3 weeks ago (17 children)

So important to document all these tactics and counter-tactics. It will also come to parts of Europe soon. Sweden has under the current government implemented prisons for children and forced government employees to report suspected undocumented children and families. And the far-right has not even officially been included in the government yet. We probably have to prepare here too.

[–] adb@lemmy.ml 53 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

In France we have people on far-right billionaire-funded yet widely popular TV channel openly advocating for the adoption of ICE tactics.

We’ve also already got special administrative prisons with inhumane conditions for undocumented migrants for a while. Likewise, on paper, the far-right has never participated in any government since 1945.

Let’s not forget that the EU has delegated arbitrary arrest and violent policing of migrants to other states for quite a while now.

Dark times ahead, we need to fight now, but, indeed, also prepare for a worsening of the situation.

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[–] frtzngbllr@lemmy.world 68 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think I might've seen this somewhere. Hope you got this over there. Greetings from Germany.

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[–] eattherich@feddit.online 67 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

Time to bring back the proud American tradition of shooting Nazis.

[–] ThanksObama@sh.itjust.works 49 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

I would prefer the bat method. They should feel it.

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 61 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I fucking loathe conservatives. They are proud Nazis but scoff at the use of the term. But it's the only term that really describes them. Fucking Nazis.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

But it’s the only term that really describes them.

Fascists.

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[–] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 58 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Weak little fucking cowards hiding behind the state to feel empowered for their gold stars. Little rat class traitors like that deserve open hostility every second of their lives.

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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 53 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (17 children)

Paper is the new privacy measure

Always has been.

Protip: for anyone seeking to use typewriters to further circumvent surveillance, please know that the ribbon is a complete log of every keystroke. Also, the pressure your pen makes on paper can be recovered from soft-ish surfaces and sheets underneath it. Act accordingly.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

And your printer puts microscopic marks that can be traced back to the specific one.

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[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 18 points 3 weeks ago

We have messaging apps that are secure and can timed autodelete by text “for everyone”.

And yet people keep on using Facebook Messenger.

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I can't wait for glued on words from magazines to come back

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 50 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

How are we supposed to live side by side with these people?

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 3 weeks ago

Unless those on the attacking side (MAGA) decide they don't want to murder more of us, I'm not sure we can. The first civil war was incredibly bloody and tensions between the sides never settled down fully. We are in this situation partly because there is no way to have a compromise with people that believe some of our society's members aren't human. The white supremacist view of slave owners and supporters of slavery never went away, it needs to be cut out from the root.

[–] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

The question that should have been asked and answered when your first Civil War ended: you can’t. They have forfeit their right to live in America by being traitors to its constitution. Maybe after this second one, if the Left somehow wins, they’ll learn from that mistake and get rid of the remaining Right by whatever means are convenient.

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[–] azureskypirate@lemmy.zip 44 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Walking some home with their consent (or consent of their guardian) is not a crime.

Following someone home is stalking. 

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[–] Janx@piefed.social 43 points 3 weeks ago

This is so sad. But the upside is there are apparently enough people that don't want others kidnapped they are delivering groceries and are willing to eat paper if (illegally) stopped by ICE. Y'all should be celebrated forever...

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 41 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Start delivering grocceries to people ICE isn't targeting. Flood the streets with deliveries so its impossible for them to track everyone doing it.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 24 points 3 weeks ago

I like it. Walk groceries down the street to your 30yo kid. Grandmas house. Or just shop each others lists. Make it so busy they can’t keep up.

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[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 32 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Little tip, put the duress pin as your birth date. Because that's the first thing that a law enforcement officer might try. Then the phone deletes itself and they can't claim that you did it because they were the ones to enter it, unprompted.

[–] zeca@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

How do i configure a duress pin on android? Is it a native feature or do i need an app? Using lineage os btw

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

How do i configure a duress pin on android? Is it a native feature or do i need an app? Using lineage os btw

Duress PIN is a native feature of GrapheneOS. It is one of many privacy friendly features in GrapheneOS.

When I think about how Google could relatively inexpensively back-port those features into Android, and how they have not done so... it makes me feel uncomfortable with how long I trusted Google with most of my digital identity.

Edit: I'm not aware of another good way to set a duress pin. When I search for "Android duress pin" all I find, at the moment, are links to GrapheneOS.

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[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 28 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

There are credible reports from ICE observers in cars being lead to their own houses. To be more clear, ICE is cars being observed as is one's constitutionally protected right, are driving to the homes of the cars observing them. This is intended to let the observers know that ICE knows who they are.

It does seem like a bad idea to let the general public determine a location for ICE to drive to in a way that will highlight which car is full of ICE agents, but that is just me.

[–] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 49 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Now I'm fairly sleep deprived at the moment so it could just be me, but I can't parse your first paragraph at all, especially the second sentence.

[–] axexrx@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

A couple key typos i think

I think hes saying ice notices a civilain tail, pulls their info, then drives to the tail's adress, letting them know that thw agents know who they are and can get to them any time, as a threat

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[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Well normally when you have a car full of dangerous felons following you then the best place to drive to was the police station but it's 2026 and well, here we are..

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[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Partially related: Grocery store apps "tailoring" the price of groceries to the individual? Oh fuck you motherfuckers, cash for me from now on.

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 26 points 3 weeks ago

Gestapo at work.

[–] alpenloui@feddit.org 24 points 3 weeks ago

Germany 1930s. We all know the playbook.

[–] JackBinimbul@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That last Nazi collaborator . . . I am not an angry or violent person, but oh boy I cannot be held responsible for how I might react.

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[–] happydoors@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is very true. Minneapolis suburb here. They are following even old ladies back to their homes 30 min away.

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