I can’t believe I have to tell journalists this, but disappearing people for constitutionally protected free speech is not an “arrest.” SMDH
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Why stop there? Call ICE what they are: secret police.
and call police what they are, nothing more than enforcers for the owner class. Not your friends, not there for ‘justice’, not there to save you. They exist to exert control and dominance over the exploited.
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Mein Leben!
Nah, secret police would fit better. The Sturmabteilung (SA) and the Schutzstaffel (SS) were more like the Proud Boys, doing marches and stuff.
The secret state police, the Geheime Staatspolizei in German, is what resembles these guys. You might be more familiar with the abbreviation Gestapo.
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The problem is that “secret police” sounds like a good thing in our fascist society.
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Hostages is not quite right either. Hostage implies release conditions.
Abductees?
Political prisoners?
Kidnapping victims?
Captives?
The students are definitely political prisoners.
It’s terrorism. It’s intended to terrorize anyone who dares speak out about Israel’s genocide and daily war crimes.
The USA is working very hard to create more anti-USA terrorists. If you want to radicalize people quickly; this is how you do it.
Corporate News is not going to change. We have to.
i advise everyone to start thinking of themselves as a reporter and a journalist. fact check things best you can. ask what the real story is. ask who what when where and why. and then tell people what you found. journalism is being killed by the same corporate overlords who are meant to be kept in check by it
Good start: https://www.bellingcat.com/workshops/
At least bootlickers know that this can’t happen to them 🤡
Why didn’t she just shoot them?
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Against the “good advice” of people on the internet… This woman chose to live.
It might come to that. People should organize and arm now. Even though that’s kind of hard and scary and I don’t know where to begin.
Hadn’t heard of SRA before and this org is a massive resource for information. Thanks for link!
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Also, watch for opposites. I’ve seen this the most lately. The current administration does something super duper nazi and/or fascist, then it’s always the democrats fault. It seems to be working somehow?
“Once we isolate key people, we look for people we know are in their upstream – people that they read posts from, but who themselves are less influential. We then either start flame wars with bots to derail the conversations that are influencing influential people, or else send off specific tasks for sockpuppets (changing this wording of an idea here; cause an ideological split there; etc).”
The goal is to keep opinions we don’t want fragmented and from coalescing in to a single voice for long enough that the memes we do want can,…
Took the time to read the whole thread you referenced and it was worth the time imo. Also took me too long to realize it’s from 10 fuckin years ago… we’re undoubtedly reaping our “reward” from the apathy and ignorance at that time about how these tools could be used to influence the general populace through just social media and consumer data. Womp womp :(
We had a lot of really intelligent people with no empathy or morals working on it since at least 10 years ago. It’s really depressing how good they are at it. Thankfully, when it happens here on Lemmy, it’s way more obvious. I try to call it out, but I end up sounding like a broken record. Most of our media is playing along too. Again, help your community and watch what they do, not what they say (not telling you specifically, but in general).
It’s hard to encourage others to put on their “critical thinking cap” when some of them (okay probably the vast majority) have been unknowingly influenced by this kind of media manipulation for so long. I have a hard time knowing how to bring it to people’s attention without sounding like a broken record myself. I think critical thinking has simply become unattractive to a lot of people cause it takes more time and effort than they’re accustomed to. It’s easier to blindly trust and if it hasn’t killed me so far, how could it possibly be bad?
They probably don’t even teach kids in school to read multiple news sources or how to check for reporting bias anymore.
In any case, your suggestions to help community and watch actions over words are important ones that I try to encourage in those around me as well. Enough to reiterate in caps:
LISTEN TO AND SUPPORT YOUR NEIGHBORS! They will be the first ones you hear from when your community is being threatened. Either we can all be allies against the regime together or we can let it infest our communities through distrust and let it ruin us. Fascism ain’t no joke.
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I find it disturbing how often discussions about the current administration bring out people talking about taking up arms. I have to wonder how much of that is organic, because, aside from the ethical issues, there’s no surer way to delegitimize your movement in the eyes of the public and give the FBI free rein to move on you like a bitch. There’s an old saw in activist circles about avoiding people who talk about going violent, because those people are often informants.
I was wondering about that too. It gets pretty heavy handed here sometimes talking about that stuff. It makes things hard to mod as well. I can’t tell if they’re being serious or not.
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Corporate media has been a pliable handmaid to genocide, don’t expect it to be brave over this.
When I was young we used to hear of people being disappeared in Chile and Argentina under their dictatorships. Now this is happening in the USA every day.
When I saw that video I dry heaved. I wish I had been there on the street when it happened. I would have run over to help.
Normal people don’t do this.
But capitalist media normalizes fascism at every opportunity.
When’s the “take up arms” party happening? Or do we just wait and see what happens?
Americans are too domesticated. You can have the MAGA fascist storm the capital, but the left won’t even manage that. Not that it would help. The American left is gonna roll over and die.
The planet is facing the most overwhelmingly violent fascists in the history of the planet.
Don’t blame regular people for not wanting to be murdered.
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