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by lurk2 11mo ago
> in that particular instance they were only welding the back door. It happened more than once. Uploaded 2022-01-06: Xi’an. Clearly a front door. https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/rxddgp&#x2F
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by lurk2 1y ago
> China protected their entire population until a vaccine was made available. China was welding doors shut to keep people from leaving their apartments.
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by lurk2 1y ago
> I see that you're not willing to substantially engage in discussing the blatant constitutional violations of DHS/ICE/CBP. I've explicitly addressed everything you've posted. > Have a good day. I hope you don
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by lurk2 1y ago
> It is claimed that ICE does not need a warrant to enter a place. That was never claimed. What I said was that a warrant is not required when officers are pursuing the suspected perpetrator of a crime. You can feel however you want abou
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by lurk2 1y ago
> Okay. How many Americans being murdered, beaten and deported without warrant, due process or oversight, all in explicit and direct violation of the Constitution are you willing to tolerate. Ten? A hundred? A hundred thousand? […] As fo
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by lurk2 1y ago
You’re misconstruing what I’ve said. I would direct you to the site guidelines: > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. > Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not
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by lurk2 1y ago
> All that said, you're claiming that a non-zero number of people falsely deported (a clear violation of the Constitution) is acceptable to you? If you read what I wrote in my comment (not what you wanted my comment to be, but the
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by lurk2 1y ago
> Your usage of "narco-terrorist" It’s an accurate description of what these organizations are. Latin American history is basically a story of central governments trying to control these crime syndicates, failing, and then desc
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by lurk2 1y ago
You need psychiatric help.
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This has nothing to do with my comment.
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by lurk2 1y ago
> If so, what's the upper limit on an acceptable number of citizens being disappeared? I didn’t articulate that properly. There have probably been a non-zero number of illegal detentions, and a few instances (only about a dozen that
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by lurk2 1y ago
> Pretty obviously. You're telling me it's obvious but I still don't think that you'd agree with the statement that: "your only objection to these activities is their real or potential impact on the civil rights
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by lurk2 1y ago
> You assumed for some reason I was talking about deporting people and not attacking people in boats with hellfire missiles. No, I understood you clearly as you said “outside the United States.” My point was that American military advent
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by lurk2 1y ago
So you believe that America has a fundamental right to enforce its immigration laws, and that enforcement of those laws is permissible provided that such enforcement occurs within whatever bounds you deem to be humane, and your only objecti
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by lurk2 1y ago
> The US is currently attacking foreign citizens outside the United States without due process. This is how Osama Bin Laden justified 9/11. To be clear, virtually all of those being deported do not have a legal right to reside in t
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by lurk2 1y ago
I’m not at all worried about my family being deported for the simple reason that they have legal status to reside in the places where they reside. I wouldn’t have approached it the same way, but for the sole reason that you end up with citi
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by lurk2 1y ago
If the Native Americans had been slightly more fearful of immigrants we might be having this conversation in Cherokee.
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by lurk2 1y ago
> and his rent is not skyrocketing because of "illegals" Why is it skyrocketing?
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by lurk2 1y ago
> An arbitrary group has been selected as being an enemy It is not an arbitrary group, it’s a group of people who are residing in the United States illegally. > Gestapo/ICE If Mexico is so awful that being deported there is tanta
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by lurk2 1y ago
> have to explain to kids why their friends aren’t around anymore. How does that conversation go?
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> before you found something you thought you could pull a misleading quote from Do you have any information not presented in the article that suggests that this woman had legal status to reside in the country, and / or that she was
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by lurk2 1y ago
If 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
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by lurk2 1y ago
When? Where? The instances listed in the article are not compelling. Here’s an excerpt from the second article: > According to Homeland Security deputy secretary Tricia McLaughlin, officers were trying to conduct a “targeted traffic stop
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by lurk2 1y ago
What legal protections are being infringed upon?
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by lurk2 1y ago
These demonstrations were nominally dedicated to protesting police brutality, not crime, and the policies they advocated for generally had an adverse impact on the crime rate in subsequent years.
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by lurk2 1y ago
50 every weekend is an exaggeration, but more people were murdered in Chicago from 2001 to 2021 than American soldiers died during the Global War on Terror (6,593 died in Iraq and Afghanistan vs. 11,561 in Chicago). This is something of a r
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by lurk2 1y ago
> and even in developed countries you can get sent to jail pretty quickly for running something like this This would only happen in developed countries. Nowhere else in the world cares about foreign copyrights being infringed.
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by lurk2 1y ago
> Smart people are not as smart as they think, they usually perform better because they're overspecialized. This isn’t true at all.
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This but unironically.
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by lurk2 1y ago
> if you need money but don't want to ask for it upfront, you will need to have someone to ask for it individually to each person mid party. If someone invited me to a party and asked for money after I arrived I would in all likelih

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