• RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    This is perfect. It is a wonderful and beautiful encapsulation of everything the Democrats stand for. The liberal masses are unable to read through the lines on shit like this; they likely don’t even wonder what is not being said here. The “masked men” narrative is one they’ve been spinning since the ICE raids began. Gruesome Newsom is out there passing anti-masking laws for law enforcement agents, as if that’s what sits at the core of people’s issues. Agencies like ICE get bipartisan support. Border and immigration enforcement are effectively identical between both parties. The only thing that changes between the two is the visibility of the policy. We are a nation that runs on spectacle, and this statement from Eric Swalwell is like a cell in the larger germ that constitutes the Democrats entire modus operandi. We build an outrage narrative about how disgusting it is that ICE dares hide their faces, as a way to subvert the actual grievance at hand, then implement a solution to this manufactured grievance that presents the illusion of progress. It ignores the fundamental reality that laws can only be enforced when the enforcers care about the law. The media have no incentive to discuss the realities of the situation in the same way that the commentators on the sidelines of a WWE event have no incentive to discuss the skillful choreography being displayed by the wrestlers in the ring. Part of enjoying a royal rumble is the immersion, being taken in by the story lines and believing that they’re real, and breaking that illusion would transform this live sporting event into a kind of ballet. When the Democrats have the majority, it’ll be their time to write the script, decide who is the face, and who becomes the heel, set the stakes, and drive the drama. All while quietly working backstage to ensure that nothing materially changes.

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    part-of-history they say the next group of roided up idiots that break down our door at 1 AM to kidnap us won’t have masks on

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    At some point over the last few months these people sat in a room, behind closed doors, and came up with a strategy. They see it as a tremendous opportunity to capture the pro-police, pro-order conservatives who are outraged at the government overreach occurring. After 2020, they want to further rehabilitate the image of Democrats hating police. If they win in 2028 they will tell ICE that they were just following orders. The dept had been taken over by unsavory bad actors and that’s over now. They will push actual diversity hires so that cover up the inherent racism of ICE. They will say a lot of stuff about how this isn’t who we are as a nation and that ICE can serve a better purpose, combating foreign threats than domestic. Dems will show their commitment to law and order by expanding ICE in regards to contracting big tech. They will push that agents be unmasked and that they are to identify themselves as agents. That will quietly disappear from the media and never be implemented. They will re-appoint at least one person from Trump’s appointments.

    You can trust that the Democrats-as-2004-Republicans under Trump 1 are fading away to be replaced by Democrats-as-2008-Libertarians under Trump 2. They will frame any investigation or act on Trump in constitutional bullshit and limited government philosophy. They will slide to the right.

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    “We did keep increasing their funding after Trump left office the first time, and we allowed them to indefinitely detain migrants while also arguing they did not have the right to a speedy trial while continuing basically everything Trump did, but we promise we won’t do anything like that again” sus-lovecraft

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    Not that long ago, someone posted that ICE agent doxxing page, and it had the text “Real police don’t wear masks” on it liberalism

    Unsurprising, since that site is run by 50501 or whatever it’s called.

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      im guilty of that. Some unmarked fucks put me on the floor last time. Felt gross not to even know who tf that was, like there’s no accountability. I know there never was any accountability but it still felt weird

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    I was joking last night that Newsom was going to win the presidency and keep this shit going with better pr. I think I was right about the first part but maybe wrong about the PR part.

    I hope people fucking wake up to the Dems being equally Nazi.