• a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world
    54·
    22 hours ago

    All fun and games until they throw her in a cage. I hate to break it to you, when ICE is kidnapping people, they aren’t checking your documents first. They’re just disappearing you to the back of the van. If they happen to get a few citizens too, well that’s just collateral damage.

    One can hope it would result in a massive lawsuit, public outrage, and change. My bet is that it doesn’t even make headlines, Faux News slanders the woman for being an “immigrant sympathizer” and the Trump administration tries to strip her citizenship for aiding and abetting enemies of the state (you know Jesus who pays his taxes and picks fruit seasonally in Arizona).

  • Bwaz@lemmy.world
    26·
    20 hours ago

    I’m pretty sure that any of the psychos signing up to be ICE thigs would LOVE to have a Mexican flag sticker plastered on their car’s back bumper. Pretty sure.

    • ssillyssadass@lemmy.worldEnglish
      83·
      20 hours ago

      What’s even more disgusting is the American citizens’ lackadaisical response to it.

      “Haha look I resist by wasting their time”

      • Waldelfe@feddit.org
        16·
        19 hours ago

        While I agree that there should be a way harsher response, wasting the regimes resources and thereby throwing a spanner in the works is a legit way of protest.

  • Justas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.works
    28·
    1 day ago

    Use old flags of European countries and say you are a history buff.

    Use flags of fictional countries and say that you are a fantasy buff.

    So many opportunities.

  • heyWhatsay@slrpnk.netEnglish
    271·
    1 day ago

    Better option: find a swasticar, and stick a flag on the back of it. Waste the time of the pig and the trumpster in a cybertruck

    • Pup Biru@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      6 hours ago

      a mexican flag with a gun under it that says “come at me ICE”… hopefully they’ll call all their mates and go full war zone roleplay for maximum time wasting

    • Soapbox@lemmy.zipEnglish
      11·
      17 hours ago

      Just be sure to wear a mask. The cameras on Teslas constantly record everything around them even when parked.

  • undergroundoverground@lemmy.world
    136·
    2 days ago

    This is an example of resistance as culture. It might be a small act but it demonstrates the point.

    I think that’s something that could work. Things like fashion to mess with facial recognition. Movies or tasks to mess with our algorithms. Distracting facsists with a flag. Culturally, capitalism feeds on the creativity of leftists type people and always has done. We can’t feed it anti-capitalism because that just feeds it. So, we have to make fucking with the machine the culture itself and offer something they never can: warmth, community and authenticity.

    • Waldelfe@feddit.org
      8·
      19 hours ago

      An American friend that lives here in Germany sent our city’s flag to her parents. They put it up in their front yard to mess with their racist neighbors. When they got mad they just innocently said “Well, that’s just a souvenir from our daughter.”

    • Agent641@lemmy.world
      751·
      1 day ago

      It’s the little things that really add up.

      • add a Mexican flag to your vehicle

      • cover your face with a wide brimmed hat and mask

      • wear t-shirts with faces of Mexican people on it to mess with facial recognition

      • telephone the ice hotline and report illegals hanging out at a local business, give them the address of a police station or ® senators office

      • film every interaction you see and upload it to social media

      • follow ICE vehicles back to their depots, then follow the agents home and make a note of their address

      • send printed covertly taken photos of their spouses, parents, and children along with a boxcutter to their office

      Just little things we can do as a community.

  • Nougat@fedia.io
    2352·
    2 days ago

    The correct answer to “Why the sticker?” is “Why the fascism?”

        • Ginny [they/she]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          11·
          24 hours ago

          Option 1: Tell them you did it to waste their time. Outcome: You’ve wasted their time, and you caught a charge for wasting police time, obstruction, or whatever it is they call it there for your trouble.

          Option 2: Plead ignorance. Outcome: You’ve wasted exactly the same amount of their time, plus you lied to the police, and you’ve faced no consequences for it.

          Picking option 1 isn’t brave, it’s just stupid.

        • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
          211·
          1 day ago

          Yeah, let’s see how brave you are when you’ve got facists in your face.

          ~Hint: you’ll probably piss yourself.~

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        37·
        2 days ago

        In a Rambo movie, its cool as hell.

        IRL, I’ve got a few WW2-era relatives who will tell you how fucking hard it is to take a life for the first time. Even setting aside the consequences of doing what is going to be immediately flagged as first degree murder, it cannot be properly expressed how horrible the act of killing another person is for the human soul.

        • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
          28·
          2 days ago

          the first rambo movie is quite literally about what that shit does to a mfer

          • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            2 days ago

            Well… the first 3/4ths of the first Rambo movie.

            The back end is just “What do we do with the rest of our demolitions budget?”

        • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          17·
          2 days ago

          This is the difference between someone who wants to use their gun defensively and someone who just wants an excuse to murder people.

          You don’t unholster your gun unless you’re prepared to take a life. You pray you never have to.

          But there are just too many people who are thirsty to take a life and that should worry all of us.

        • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
          9·
          2 days ago

          Even hunting takes something out of you. It’s a feeling not like another to take a life, and not a good feeling at all.

          • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
            54·
            2 days ago

            An animal cannot choose to be a nazi nor fabricate a genocide, so yea, that’d definitely hit different.

            • Forester@pawb.socialEnglish
              72·
              2 days ago

              Something tells me you’ve never been shot at. It’s not just a videogame.

              • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
                52·
                1 day ago

                This isn’t a discussion about the horrors of war but the emotional damage of killing someone else. Please stay on topic.

                • Forester@pawb.socialEnglish
                  53·
                  2 days ago

                  You absolute nunce do you think a large armed group of humans will passively sit and be shot at and not return fire

        • callouscomic@lemmy.zip
          4·
          2 days ago

          There’s a reason why John fucking Brown is the real Jesus Christ. He’d fucking blow up the damn white house at this point.

          • Ginny [they/she]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            1·
            24 hours ago

            If John Brown were Jesus Christ, then presumably his body wouldn’t lie mouldering in the grave.

            But either way, we can assume that his soul goes marching on.

          • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
            10·
            2 days ago

            I mean, “paranoid geriatric fascist serial killer performs home invasion in an attempt to murder a baby” describes a JK Rowling character and your choice of IDF or ICE officer equally well.

            • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
              3·
              2 days ago

              When it’s a good writer writing them and not a transphobic moron, then they make perfect sense.

                • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
                  3·
                  1 day ago

                  I’m not certain of any specific usages of the word that predate Harry, but the general concept of a spirit vessel that saves mortality is not terribly new nor unique. Generally speaking, a spirit needs to have all connections with a mortal plane severed in order to move on. A spirit vessel like a horcrux is merely a separate attachment to ‘this’ world that can be separated and protected. Having more than one is also not terribly unique.

                  If Dipshit Transphobe were anywhere near a good writer, this could’ve been a big point as to why Voldyboi was an idiot for doing it, because it’d basically be cursing himself to have a near permanent connection to the mortal plane, especially with how scattered he made his crap, making his existence torture on the best of days… like a lich posessing objects, it shouldn’t be easy nor kind to the user.

                  Though since she’s an utterly shit writer, it only amounted to, “oh boy, he’s hard to permanently kill!”.

        • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
          31·
          2 days ago

          Eehhhhhhh personally I think it’d depend greatly on who it was.

          Some poor sap drafted or otherwise forced to fight against me for someone else’s cause? Yea, that’s going to suck.

          Choking out some loser who fantasizes about being hitler in 2025? Yea, I’ll sleep like a baby that night.

          While a German soldier in ww2 could go either way, some fascie piece of shit cosplaying in the US has no obligation to be such a piece of shit and has thusly chosen that path. Such a mfer who chooses to be that vile? Yea, remorse isn’t entering the equation.

  • Xanthrax@lemmy.world
    189·
    2 days ago

    One time, I was smoking a cigarette in my car, outside of my house. A cop pulled up behind me and blasted their lights. They asked me a ton of questions, most of which I refused to answer. I gave them ID which had my FUCKING address, and they still said, “You ain’t from around here are you?”. Mother fucker, you don’t even live in this zipcode. You are at MY address. It was a Pacific beach surfing sticker and a Bernie sticker. They also told me to take them off. They went off in a pout, and the deputy told me they were just training the newbie. To what, profile people?

    • Soapbox@lemmy.zipEnglish
      7·
      17 hours ago

      I tell people all the time that if they ever see a “thin blue line” sticker on my car, it’s because I have started dealing drugs, or begun some other life of crime.