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niyad

(129,016 posts) Mon Jun 23, 2025, 09:26 PM Jun 2025

A really ugly thought keeps running through my head, based on stories [View all]

from other regimes and pogroms and witch hunts (the REAL ones), and thinking about the seeming randomness of sone of their "captures". How many of them are based on anonymous "tips" from hateful or disguntled neighbors, acquaintances, rivals, etc.We all know how it worked during those terrible times. Is it happening again, here and now, in what used to be at least a semi-functioning not-dictatorship?

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A really ugly thought keeps running through my head, based on stories [View all] niyad Jun 2025 OP

And the rumor that a lot of the J6 convicts have been recruited by ICE. marble falls Jun 2025 #1

Hiding their faces so we don't photograph and compare them to mug shots of J6ers Attilatheblond Jun 2025 #27

Honestly, that is what they are doing. marble falls Jun 2025 #28

It is. TommyT139 Jun 2025 #2

Last summer our crazy neighbor called the cops on our roofers. johnp3907 Jun 2025 #3

Your thoughts make more sense than KentuckyWoman Jun 2025 #4

A practical question: how does one quickly demonstrate one's citizenship to an armed thug who hates one's guts? 0rganism Jun 2025 #5

Old playbook Iamscrewed Jun 2025 #6

I fear you are right. There also could be a "reward" for turning in an "illegal". LoisB Jun 2025 #7

There are already rewards for turning in "abortionists." yardwork Jun 2025 #18

Geez! What the heck have we become as a country? LoisB Jun 2025 #29

Good question. yardwork Jun 2025 #30

A theocratic, authoritarian, misogynistic, third-world shithole??? niyad Jun 2025 #31

Yep. LoisB Jun 2025 #33

based on the irrational hatred I see coming from MAGAts Skittles Jun 2025 #8

Yep it's ugly and also true canetoad Jun 2025 #9

I'm pretty sure that's what's going on and it's disgusting. ecstatic Jun 2025 #10

. . . niyad Jun 2025 #11

Try turning in Marco Rubio and see how that works. Either way, the results will be interesting. nt eppur_se_muova Jun 2025 #12

100% Blue Full Moon Jun 2025 #13

That was definitely one that got my antennae going. niyad Jun 2025 #14

Star athlete? Somebody's kid was being overlooked. yardwork Jun 2025 #17

It's an extension of doxxing and swatting. Hugin Jun 2025 #15

Definitely. This is one of things that happens under authoritarianism. yardwork Jun 2025 #16

Same thing in the Burning Times. .well, that, and eliminating women niyad Jun 2025 #21

A twofer. Probably swept up gay and trans people that way, too. yardwork Jun 2025 #23

Exactly!!! niyad Jun 2025 #24

I said same thing yesterday! Bluesaph Jun 2025 #19

It seemed pretty obvious, but I had not noticed it being mentioned niyad Jun 2025 #20

True story... Bluesaph Jun 2025 #22

Sadly, there are many truly hate-filled, ugly people out there. niyad Jun 2025 #25

Another vender who wants a tamale stand location. Irish_Dem Jun 2025 #26

Hypernormalization Kid Berwyn Jun 2025 #32