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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 58 minutes ago

This hump has all the charm of an unwiped asshole.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Do they have enough paramilitary to surround the polls?

[–] CouldntCareBear@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Just the democrat voting ones with high immigrant populations in swing states I expect.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

That's cool, cause they seem to be losing elections in red states. The swing appears to be such that short of screening for voter intentions at the door would still have them lose. Not that I have much faith they won't adjust the results after the fact.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 minutes ago* (last edited 12 minutes ago)

Yeah, they don't need to worry about red states because god emperor Trump will just order the Republicans in power in those states to cook the books and give them the win no matter what.

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 61 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

You're gonna try to steal the elections. Got it. Thanks for confirming in advance.

Every accusation is a confession from these fuckers. Everyone should know that by now and everyone should take this very seriously.

Edit: maybe stash a maga hat hidden somewhere, if you see ICE approaching to possibly arrest you and prevent you from voting, put the hat on.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 20 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

They don't even need to do a single thing other than stand there, and that would still be stealing the election by instilling fear into people and causing some to decide not to vote.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

maybe stash a maga hat hidden somewhere, if you see ICE approaching to possibly arrest you and prevent you from voting, put the hat on.

That's legitimately genius and hilarious at the same time.

[–] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Or perhaps common sense and depressing.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 81 points 5 hours ago (5 children)

Here you go Muricans... you will not be able to vote your way out of this one

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[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 36 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

If you have a right to vote, and some ICE thugs try to stop you, kill them. They are committing a crime worthy of death. Democracy is worth killing for.

[–] alaphic@lemmy.world 31 points 4 hours ago

"The tree of liberty must be watered regularly with the blood of tyrants and patriots." - Thomas Jefferson

I hope one day we can form a society that will prove Mr. Jefferson to be incorrect...

[–] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Im thinking some sort of open carry "protectors of the vote" group needs to be formed.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately, most of the polling places in my state (and probably many others) are conveniently located at schools, libraries, or other government buildings which have long since been declared Gun Free Zones.

You'd get arrested just for showing up. Otherwise you'd all have to mill around outside the property line which in most cases would be quite some distance away, where you can be safely ignored and/or not be able to see anything that may be going down inside anyway. And the "gun free zones" around schools specifically here extend for quite some distance away from the school property itself, IIRC several hundred yards.

[–] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Great point. Maybe the legal observer and whistle approach, coupled with a de-arresting strategy would work? Im just throwing ideas out there. We need to be thinking and acting now to be ready come Nov.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 2 points 17 minutes ago

The vanguard who doesn't have to fear ICE can go vote in the morning then just start gathering next to wherever they're hanging out. By midday the concept of anyone being stopped by the voting station will look infeasible.

Also, wherever MAGA is not firmly in control, protect vote by mail and early voting. And make sure people send their votes early enough to avoid postal manipulation.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I'm wondering what people think this "de-arresting strategy" is supposed to look like, exactly.

If you think you're going to get anyone who's just been kidnapped out of the back of the black SUV, you're going to need to turn up with more guys than they've got at minimum, and very quickly.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 2 points 25 minutes ago

That's exactly how it works. You don't let them get to the back of the SUV in the first place, but there are more of us than there are of them.

[–] PedroMaldonado@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

GODDAMMIT. We ALL know what they are pulling! What's it gonna take to stop this shit?

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] TrollTrollrolllol@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago

National Strike.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 22 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Democratic governors that are letting ICE do whatever the fuck they want in their states need listen up.

Set the precedent NOW that ICE can’t do whatever they want in your state without intervention from local police and national guard or else you are going to lose every election from here on out.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 6 points 2 hours ago

By this standard of letting Ice summarily execute state residents under false pretense and not charging them in state law, Ice could execute a Governor, a prosecutor, a mayor, under false pretense, and only answer to the feds.

This is a must, the State needs to file charges for Ms. Good and Mr. Pretti. This is non negotiable, and if prosecutors are too cowardly to do it they need to be immediately recalled and replaced with someone that will cover the citizens of the Great State of Minnesota with the Shield of American Law.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 7 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

If I was a governor, and I heard that ICE was on its way, I'd station Troopers at every border crossing into my state, and pull over every ICE vehicle that crosses. Record their IDs, photograph their faces, search their vehicles, etc., and hang them up for a while, and let them know they will not be having a good time in the state.

And let every hotel, restaurant, and business know that anyone who serves ICE will not be getting any future business from the state.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 7 points 2 hours ago

More than that, give tickets and fines to companies doing business or sharing intelligence with them.

Identifying the Ice members and publicizing the information is a great idea, preferably after making it a law for all officers to not wear masks or hide their identities and to identify themselves as they work and not go around like a group of cartel members.

The administration will call it doxxing, but it's reasonable for police to show their faces and be accountable for their behavior, the only reason they are disguising it is to prevent them from being held accountable for their behavior. So an abuse that was committed cannot even be pinned on a team of officers as leadership of ICE obscures their identities.

It won't be long before we get more private groups of criminals, cartels, to pretend like they are ICE to murder and kidnap, and people won't know if they can defend themselves without getting murdered and then tarred as a terrorist, not knowing if it's federal agents (breaking the law, which you have a legal right to defend from I don't care what anyone says, it matters what a jury says and they would mostly agree, a badge does not give you the right to execute people without cause.)

The nation voted to deport illegals, it didn't vote to turn Ice into an extrajudicial paramilitary force accountable only to the president with a 200 billion dollar budget. They didn't vote to cancel the Bill of Rights, like the 4th amendment. They also didn't vote to deport the accused to foreign concentration camp prisons for life, or deport them to the shittiest countries they had never been to, just out of mean spiritedness. We've enough money to give ICE more than any military in the world outside of ours and china's, but not enough to honorably deal with illegal immigrants?

The administration wants to make precedents on this issue, they have the most support on it, to use later in stealing elections and crushing dissent. To nurture federal dickheads they can cherry pick for special units, and otherwise radicalize their federal agents and base with their Fox News bullshit and lies to fool their part of the population into not realizing they are trying to kill the republic and take what little working people have.

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[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 27 points 5 hours ago (5 children)

Welp, I'll make sure to get myself in front of a camera and proudly state that as a registered Republican, I gladly choose to vote straight Democratic ticket because of the unAmerican, unPatriotic, rather "commie pinko" intimidation tactics of the GOP.

Let's go REAL old school on the political shit-flinging and see how under that gross pigs skin we can get.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 17 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Oh wow you’re going to show them when they dump your ballots somewhere and your principled vote is irrelevant!

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago

With a R by my name?

Ain't gonna happen easily.

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[–] ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 40 points 5 hours ago (8 children)

When did they change ICE to stand for Illegal Colluders of Elections?

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 12 points 5 hours ago

Well, the election part is new

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[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 11 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Of course only in blue states and cities. There are 300+ polling places in Houston alone. How many ICE agents are needed for "surrounding" polls in just this city? If we're generous and say 50 per poll, that's at least 15,000 agents for one blue city. For a few weeks, because we can vote early anywhere in the county.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 minutes ago

They're not going to try to make a voting barrier, they're going to be circling it trying to intimidate citizens and hoping to grab a non-citizen they can claim was trying to vote even if he was really just showing up to his shift to clean the school. They don't need to arrest people, they just need to suppress the vote where it will matter.

[–] Limerance@piefed.social 3 points 3 hours ago

The number of polling places can be reduced and don’t take early voting being available for granted.

Trump doesn’t to control every polling station in the country. He only needs to influence a limited number of key voting districts.

Trump can let Democratic strongholds undisturbed and focus on disruption where it has the biggest impact.

[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Ice doesn't have that many agents. It would be like 1 guy at 1 out of 100 polling places, which would make them giant targets. I mean, by all means go ahead and try. I have some 50 gallon drums that need filling...

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago

They’re not going to deploy in Texas, Florida, Alabama, Mississ- you get the idea.

[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

Make sure they're polyethylene, Jessie. Stamped with LDPE.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago

Throw your toys out of the pram

He must have spent too much time with Nigel Farage

[–] Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 hours ago

Now we know why they murdered Alex.

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