• Hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Its worth remembering that ICE continues to exist even when republicans are not in the white house.

    You can and should oppose ICE all the time. Less deportations happen when people resist. Direct action is more effective than voting. The work doesn’t stop when your pick is in the office.

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      This is a huge thing the Democratic Party needs to internalize unless they want to keep losing.

      Support and work with local groups doing actual good on the ground outside of election season, maybe, like, I dunno, fund them a little with that massive fucking warchest? Be a much better use of the money than a deluge of YouTube ads.

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    Aggressive quotas for arrest are a notable element of the the NKVD during the Soviet purges under Stalin.

    The goal of it was to create pressure on low levels to find reasons to arrest people. To cut corners and make up nonsense reasons. To create a sense of terror that scared the target population. Even those who had no good reason to be scared found them selves taking precautions and acting overly loyal.

    There is a strong argument to be made that the goal was less to arrest dissenter but to increase the number of people being sent to labor camps to do free labor for the state.

    eyes prison industrial complex and prison labor system of the US

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    It’s worth remembering that immigrants commit fewer crimes than citizens and are more economically productive.

    Not only should we act against these ICE raids because they’re inhuman fascist theatre, but because the make the country less safe and poorer.

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    I still can’t get over the fact there’s a fucking quota…

    DEI bad: all quota, no merit!

    Deportation quota good: all quota, who cares!? Got arrested as an American citizen? Well you shouldn’t have been brown now should you?

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    This is very similar to the last time Trump was president. People worked against his policy, making it harder for ICE to do their job, wich is a good thing.

    Last time it was prisons, talking down their tv’s advertising who had recently been incarcerated. This simple action reduced ICE numbers considerably.

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    Anyone have any digital copies of the pamphlets mentioned in the article? It sounds like info that’s nice to have in general.