Trump admin hounds Reddit to reveal identity of user who criticized ICE

geekydee

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Did you see the recent news articles about James Donald Bowman* accusing Europeans of meddling in Hungarian elections?
JD Vance praises Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán, accuses EU of influencing upcoming election

And also:
Orban’s Chances of Winning Hungary Election Drop After JD Vance Rally

* who prefers to use JD Vance over the name on his birth certificate.
To be fair, wouldn't you want to do that, too, if your name was Junior Dickhead? Those crazy Appalacians, amirite?!?
 
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Sajuuk

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I actually said it wasn’t worth being killed over. But it’s dumb to pretend being shot for filming an on duty ICE agent is the same as being shot because you are firing an AK in a neighborhood. Kinda obvious why it’s not being lumped together.

I also find it ludicrous that a person with a gun isnt a threat. Especially one who is firing it into the air.
How can someone be a threat and not warrant violence in self-defense?

Was Alex Peretti a threat?
 
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Sajuuk

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How did open unprotected borders go for the Native Americans?
Native Americans protected their "borders." We had literal centuries of warfare over it. They lost because an industrial colonial power wanted their stuff and their populations were devastated by disease.

Exactly what industrial colonial power do you imagine is making a concerted effort to invade the global superpower?

edit: also, as noted, what about abolishing ICE would leave our borders unprotected? You know Border Patrol is a real thing that also really exists, yes?
 
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The thing that bugs me (ok... one of many things, but the one that popped up first), was why this person?

Surely there are countless people making similar comments on all kinds of social media, taking the Trump regime to task, so why show this level of interest in this one spefically. I mean, what ridiculous sequence of events would it need for this person specifically being of such interest to them, that they ended up twisting the law up like a pretzel, to get a grand jury summons applied to Reddit.
I’m sure it’s just a rando. The entire point is to chill dissenting speech, and any target is as good as the next schlub. All they need is media attention on Pirro going after deeznahts2314 and they hope folks think twice before posting their own dissent. Fascism 101
 
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One can hope. A grand jury made-up of hand-selected sycophants isn’t out of the realm of possibility anymore, though. Unlike normal juries, where both sides select the jurors, a grand jury is selected by the prosecution exclusively.
Grand jury's are not like regular jury's. You serve 1 day a week for 18 months with a possibility of extensions and you hear various cases from various prosecutors for whatever criminal category your grand jury is for. There is also no interviews before selection and I'm pretty sure you get selected by a judge.
 
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I am Canadian

Come at me Trump, you racist pedophile small dicked morbidly obese piece of shit
That's horrible! Small-dicked should be hyphenated.
Small-mushroom-dicked would be more accurate and still grammatically correct. And to that lickspittle Pirromaniac perverter of the law, up yours!
 
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Thinker_in_TX

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Somehow black people in the US murder significantly more white people than vice versa.

I'm from Ireland, so it is of no immediate import to me. But the statistics are freely available. Check them out.
Thank you geekydee.
Had to add another person (The Lurker Beneath) to ignore. I see Dark Jaguar also did too. I had to search for the option to do so. Good god, where do these people come from? Answer, probably mostly some southern US state in spite his claim to be from Ireland.
 
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The Trump administration has accused ICE critics of doxxing agents in some cases.

So? They're public servants, employed by the government, supposedly enforcing the laws of the government. Why should they be anonymous? I get to see the lawmakers enacting those laws and the judges ruling on the laws, I should absolutely get to see who is on the streets enforcing them as well.

Don't want your work publicly scrutinized? Get a different fucking job, cupcake.
 
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This regime is just the worst! They claim to be the protectors of freedom and the constitution but all we’ve seen is the complete opposite, Trump would love nothing more than to burn the constitution and take full control of the country. Trumpers would be fine with it and simply follow Trump off a cliff like the dodos they are.

Republicans are the biggest morons in history.
 
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Somehow black people in the US murder significantly more white people than vice versa.
The point that you've missed completely is that representatives of the government, our literal employees, should not be arbitrarily murdering any of us. There's an excellent movie that examines the wounds inflicted upon a nation when perpetrators of such official criminality go unpunished--Bloody Sunday. Maybe look that up and give it some thought.
 
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If you’re a liberal and don’t own a gun, get one and learn how to use it.
Hopefully you won’t need it, but by the time you do it will be far too late.
Yes, also build a bug out bag. One item I never see mentioned to include is about 3 months worth of cash. Do you have $30 grand in the bank? Not without electricity, your bank is closed, your cash is not accessible, you are broke.
 
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Alfonse

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Yes, also build a bug out bag. One item I never see mentioned to include is about 3 months worth of cash. Do you have $30 grand in the bank? Not without electricity, your bank is closed, your cash is not accessible, you are broke.

If shit gets that dire that banks don't work, I don't think paper is going to get you very much. I mean, what is the person you're giving that "money" to going to do with it?
 
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Yes, also build a bug out bag. One item I never see mentioned to include is about 3 months worth of cash. Do you have $30 grand in the bank? Not without electricity, your bank is closed, your cash is not accessible, you are broke.
Who's got 30 K, in either cash or a bank? Most Americans couldn't afford a $400 emergency, which is a little over a day's expenses ($30,000 ÷ 90 days), myself among them.
Because they're a fucking racist wanting to parade their bigotry.
You should see them express fear and loathing about non-hetreosexuals. Lurker is a thoroughly garbage human being.
 
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Oh great, if the government wins this one, all of us who have called Trump a POS here on Ars are going to get targeted for legal action through some obscure nineteenth century law about bird smuggling or some shit.
I am Spartacus!

Trump is a vile piece of shit.
 
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Jupitor13

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If shit gets that dire that banks don't work, I don't think paper is going to get you very much. I mean, what is the person you're giving that "money" to going to do with it?

Good point, I was thinking of a week or so grid outage.

Minted gold coins would be the way to go.

Yes, sucks that 1/10 Oz coins have such a obscene premium.

Who's got 30 K, in either cash or a bank? Most Americans couldn't afford a $400 emergency, which is a little over a day's expenses ($30,000 ÷ 90 days), myself among them.
Thank you for that reality check. I deserved it.
 
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Let me just say...I'm pleasantly surprised u/Spez is showing backbone on this. I took him for a roll-over and beg type.
If reddit did not and people found out, people would file out of the site. And reddit has a user-shedding incident every six months it appears.
Given the many comments on here against ICE, Trump, and this fascist, authoritarian regime, I wonder when Ars and/or Condé Nast will receive a summons or subpoena.
...or admit that they have.
I VERY MUCH want to see ICE reformed - majorly reformed - but not disbanded completely. We do have borders that need to be protected.
ICE has been corrupt and overreaching since its establishment 20 something years ago. The muzzle is off, and they've shown what they can be. There is no reforming this. It must be shattered and rebuilt into separate smaller agencies for Immigration, Customs, and Border Security.
 
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