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I live in Chicago, and this article doesn't even scratch the surface of how bad it is. My wife went to the beach yesterday for 10 minutes to try and rest from t
by tedivm 11mo ago
I live in Chicago, and this article doesn't even scratch the surface of how bad it is. My wife went to the beach yesterday for 10 minutes to try and rest from the chaos and a fucking black hawk helicopter buzzed by her. They literally fly over my house daily.
People, US citizens included, are literally being abducted. People have been shot and killed by masked agents. People have had their children abandoned on the side of the road after being kidnapped. Just today they raided Little Village with hundreds of masked troops. I'm in a dozen signal groups to get alerted about where things are.
What scares me the most is how few people seem to actually know what is happening here. I talk to people outside of Chicago, and watch the news, and I don't see or hear about anything that's going on here. I tell them what's happening and they are shocked.
It is impossible to convey what is happening here, how scared we all are for this country, and how much things seem to escalate every single day that this goes on.
Edit: This post has been flagged and hidden, just demonstrating how much this country wants to pretend this isn't happening. It's unflagged now, but the fact that anyone would want to hide what's happening here shows how bad things are for all of us.
- SlightlyLeftPad 11mo agoThe media has an existential threat of having their broadcast licenses revoked so yeah that probably has a lot to do with why there’s no coverage. If the media had balls, they’d broadcast anyway, license or not.
- tedivm 11mo agoThere's a lot of good independent media looking at this. Some good sources: https://bsky.app/profile/unraveledpress.com https://bsky.app/profile/unraveledpress.com https://bsky.app/profile/djbyrnes1.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/djbyrnes1.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/thetriibe.com https://bsky.app/profile/thetriibe.com https://bsky.app/profile/prisonculture.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/prisonculture.bsky.social
- SlightlyLeftPad 11mo agoWhen the media wasn’t really a money printing machine for billionaires, this also wasn’t an issue.
- Uhhrrr 11mo agoMedia has almost always been a money sink, including now.
- Freedom2 11mo agoAre there any good independent media also posting on X.com? I believe HN usually prefers that particular Twitter-like source.
- fluidcruft 11mo agoThe media also has an existential threat of being taken as seriously as Russian and Chinese media are taken by the Russian and Chinese people, respectively. For many of us that ship sailed a few years ago.
- sgarland 11mo agoLet the FCC enforce the removal of a license, then. That seems to be the current administration’s approach to everything.
- jorts 11mo agoI see your post and OPs just fine.
- enraged_camel 11mo ago>> What scares me the most is how few people seem to actually know what is happening here. Submissions like this getting flagged contributes to that. I mention that because the previous submission with this article got flagged to death.
- fluidcruft 11mo agoRSNA is coming up later this month and generally I always attend but I'm probably just going to skip it. Just about nobody I know is going.
- tptacek 11mo agoUnderstandable, but note that decisions like that are part of the adminstration's objectives. This isn't a Chicago policy; it's a federal targeting of Chicago for political reasons.
- fluidcruft 11mo agoI don't need to make whatever is going on between Chicago and Trump my personal problem.
- tptacek 11mo agoTotally fair.
- defrost 11mo agoI understand a similar rational was often used in the later days of Weimar Republic.
- fluidcruft 11mo ago[flagged]
- defrost 11mo agoLooks interesting, but it's short notice to cross the globe given the state of my calender. I appreciate the invite, I did some work with mammograms way back in time, since moved on through geophysical signal processing for remote images.
- tedivm 11mo agoBefore I moved to Chicago I used to go to RSNA for work. If I didn't live in Chicago already I wouldn't be traveling here.
- underlipton 11mo ago>Visits from the ghetto birds >Facing police brutality with no accountability >Media blackout We're not beating the, "Horrible things that happen to black and indigenous Americans will eventually happen to everyone else," rap.
- testing22321 11mo ago> This post has been flagged and hidden, just demonstrating how much this country wants to pretend this isn't happening It’s so sad to see HN taking the side of violence and oppression with their “head in the sand” approach. I wonder how different the HN overlords would feel if their own families were being torn apart. This is Disgraceful and inexcusable. The shame. The only reason this is not currently flagged to oblivion is because it’s the weekend crowd.
- lurk2 11mo ago[flagged]
- testing22321 11mo agoThere are plenty of legal US citizens being abducted. From TFA: US citizens, including women and children, were grabbed from their beds, marched outside without even a chance to dress, zip-tied, and loaded into vans.
- lurk2 11mo agoIf we assume the reporting in the linked video was accurate, you’re at most talking about unlawful detention and 4th amendment violations. No one with legal status to reside in the country was reported to have disappeared in the way you are implying.
- testing22321 11mo agoYou’re fine with this? Totally cool when this happens to you and your family?
- lurk2 11mo ago[flagged]
- xdennis 11mo ago[flagged]
- tomhow 11mo ago> Show me a case where an ICE officer has been convicted of abduction. > Or are you just saying that because you think you get to have a veto over every arrest? Please don't cross-examine on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for curious conversation here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html