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Literal fascists in the streets in US right now racial profiling people left and right hiding behind a badge. HN: OH MY GOD SOCIAL MEDIA BANS ARE GOVERNMENT OV

by olelele 10mo ago

Literal fascists in the streets in US right now racial profiling people left and right hiding behind a badge. HN: OH MY GOD SOCIAL MEDIA BANS ARE GOVERNMENT OVERREACH!!

pb7 10mo ago
Correct. Deporting illegal aliens is exactly the job of the federal government.
- nielsbot 10mo ago
  Clever snark! We should think about the consequences to everyone’s lives of having thugs cosplaying as soldiers running around disappearing innocent people off the streets because they’re brown.
  - pb7 10mo ago
    They're literally federal law enforcement officers, not thugs. And they're not "disappearing" people because they're brown, they're deporting them to their homeland because they no one gave them permission to be in our country. I'm sure you're used to this alarmist dramatic language working in your circles but it won't here. We should think about the consequences of letting in tens of million of illegals instead.
    - nielsbot 10mo ago
      Thugs is as thugs does. They're detaining citizens: - https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025.12.8_ICE-Report-revised-FINAL.pdf https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025.12.8_IC... - https://www.visaverge.com/news/congressional-probe-finds-agents-detain-and-mistreat-citizens/ https://www.visaverge.com/news/congressional-probe-finds-age... They're doing it because they're brown: - https://www.brookings.edu/articles/racial-profiling-by-ice-will-have-a-marked-impact-on-latino-communities/ https://www.brookings.edu/articles/racial-profiling-by-ice-w... They're deporting them third countries: https://www.cfr.org/article/what-are-third-country-deportations-and-why-trump-using-them https://www.cfr.org/article/what-are-third-country-deportati... > We should think about the consequences of letting in tens of million of illegals instead. What are the consequences exactly?
redwall_hp 10mo ago
Yes, the global rise of fascism is a huge problem. Gleefully handing fascists more power over communications and a means of de-anonymizing access to information and communications is exactly what you don't want to do. That's what this sudden movement is really about: maintaining bubbles of indoctrination to maintain the rightward slide of the Overton Window, and installing a permanent means of tying Internet activity to identity for monitoring. It's important that things like the first amendment never be compromised precisely because that erosion becomes a tool of fascism. We're inches away from neo-McCarthyism, and this is the tool to enable it.

by olelele 10mo ago

Literal fascists in the streets in US right now racial profiling people left and right hiding behind a badge. HN: OH MY GOD SOCIAL MEDIA BANS ARE GOVERNMENT OVERREACH!!

pb7 10mo ago

Correct. Deporting illegal aliens is exactly the job of the federal government.

nielsbot 10mo ago
Clever snark! We should think about the consequences to everyone’s lives of having thugs cosplaying as soldiers running around disappearing innocent people off the streets because they’re brown.
- pb7 10mo ago
  They're literally federal law enforcement officers, not thugs. And they're not "disappearing" people because they're brown, they're deporting them to their homeland because they no one gave them permission to be in our country. I'm sure you're used to this alarmist dramatic language working in your circles but it won't here. We should think about the consequences of letting in tens of million of illegals instead.
  - nielsbot 10mo ago
    Thugs is as thugs does. They're detaining citizens: - https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025.12.8_ICE-Report-revised-FINAL.pdf https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025.12.8_IC... - https://www.visaverge.com/news/congressional-probe-finds-agents-detain-and-mistreat-citizens/ https://www.visaverge.com/news/congressional-probe-finds-age... They're doing it because they're brown: - https://www.brookings.edu/articles/racial-profiling-by-ice-will-have-a-marked-impact-on-latino-communities/ https://www.brookings.edu/articles/racial-profiling-by-ice-w... They're deporting them third countries: https://www.cfr.org/article/what-are-third-country-deportations-and-why-trump-using-them https://www.cfr.org/article/what-are-third-country-deportati... > We should think about the consequences of letting in tens of million of illegals instead. What are the consequences exactly?

redwall_hp 10mo ago

Yes, the global rise of fascism is a huge problem. Gleefully handing fascists more power over communications and a means of de-anonymizing access to information and communications is exactly what you don't want to do. That's what this sudden movement is really about: maintaining bubbles of indoctrination to maintain the rightward slide of the Overton Window, and installing a permanent means of tying Internet activity to identity for monitoring. It's important that things like the first amendment never be compromised precisely because that erosion becomes a tool of fascism. We're inches away from neo-McCarthyism, and this is the tool to enable it.