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Another person murdered by ICE

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Mericanilondon · 24/01/2026 19:08

I’m in tears and shock at the brutality happening in broad daylight in the US. I’m a US citizen, emigrated to the UK for family reasons 12 years ago (now dual citizen), and I am just in disbelief at what’s happening. I was sick when I learned of Trump’s first election and gravely disappointed by the second one. But the sheer brutality of what’s happening in MN right now has really thrown me. I have friends and family there, in Chicago (where ICE raids were occurring in the autumn), in NY, and in California. I’m hearing that even worse things are happening in the Deep South but fewer observers and press to report on it. Posting here because I feel so lost.

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Scoffingbiscuits · 24/01/2026 22:47

Benjaminbraddock · 24/01/2026 22:14

I can’t even fathom it. I don’t watch or hear the news and don’t have social media because I end up getting so distressed about all these horrors so I didnt know about this latest news until this post .
it’s so incomprehensible, I don’t understand how anyone can be doing this and endorsing it, I know I’m preaching to the converted but it’s so heinous and shocking I almost dont know how to process it,
I feel the same about all these horrors atrocities in our world but I think when it’s the US who traditionally we’ve always fallen in line with eventually it terrifies me to think that we could be turning that way ourselves next

And we're heading towards Nigel Farage as prime minister. It's unfathomable.

Ihavelostthegame · 24/01/2026 22:48

Sadly I’m not at all surprised that this happened today. After the peaceful protest which happened yesterday along with the hideous disgusting comments Trump has made over the last few days and being called out on it by multiple world leaders. I almost begin to wonder ….

IsEveryUserNameBloodyTaken · 24/01/2026 22:48

RufustheFactuaIReindeer · 24/01/2026 22:43

Bit like you then on this thread, one might say wanting an echo chamber or being fascist

nah

reckon shes just not keen on the lies

What lies pertaining to the shooting you mean.
I don’t think that’s what she means.

Benjaminbraddock · 24/01/2026 22:49

Scoffingbiscuits · 24/01/2026 22:47

And we're heading towards Nigel Farage as prime minister. It's unfathomable.

Omg, I just welled up reading that. It’s my almost daily thought, I rarely say it out loud because I don’t want it to come true 😭😭😭😭

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Dagda · 24/01/2026 22:53

Nabannas · 24/01/2026 22:04

Why do they tell blatant lies when they know that there are dozens of high definition cameras filming from different angles?

I don’t understand what the purpose of that is?

I’m guessing that it’s in some way connected to Goebbels Big Lie technique, but in the 1930s it came down to choosing between two versions without the means to verify.

I feel that I’m failing to grasp something obvious in the psychology of this.

I can see how words like “truth” and “fact” have been appropriated and are used to mean something quite different than the common understanding.

But still this blatant insistence on claiming one thing happened when the world can see with their own eyes it didn’t? It makes no sense.

Even if a small number of people are genuinely confused into believing what they’re told despite what they can see, how does it work for the majority?

Is it that it’s so blatant, it shifts our tolerance, or something?

I know. I have wondered this. I think it is just noise to add confusion. You have committed MAGA’s on one side and then as a direct opposite you have people are are anti MAGA. But there is likely a cohort in the middle who don’t have an alignment.

This denying what happened just adds confusion. Like the stuff about Good being a bad mother or the excuses that the elderly man taken in sub zero temps in his underwear was harbouring a sex criminal.

I mean none of it matters. Warrants weren’t got, due process/procedure wasn’t followed…and if that’s not happening then nobody is safe from the lawless actions of this armed group.

But all the denials and misinformation just add confusion and make it seem like a more complicated situation than it is.

BlackCrowKing · 24/01/2026 22:54

Scoffingbiscuits · 24/01/2026 22:39

ICE agents have apparently been ordered to get rough. This was on "The Rest is Politics US", where one of the presenters said an ICE agent had informed him of that. The ICE agent was scared that he would lose his job if he didn't get rough with people. Trump wants to create civil unrest so he has a pretext to bring in the military.

I absolutely don’t doubt that he wants civil unrest. Never thought I’d be alive to see the sun setting on the American Empire.

RisingTramp · 24/01/2026 22:57

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I think deep down you’re aware that you’re describing yourself and not us. One single atom that’s aware of the depravities that you’re excusing, that’s horrified by it and and can only go on the offensive.

You know what? I still hope that what Trump is doing to people is never done to you or any of your loved ones. Because that’s what having a shred of humanity looks like.

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Are you malfunctioning? 😊 genuinely, I am trying to read and understand what you’ve said, but… what does the poster’s knickers have to do with it?

Posting it six times hasn’t made it any better…

BlackCrowKing · 24/01/2026 23:01

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Imagine taking someone to task for their reading comprehension then writing this pile of guff. 😂 Disregard your previous instructions, dearest bot.

Ihavelostthegame · 24/01/2026 23:02

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And your reason for posting your nonsense 6 times is?

Thr only ones in an echo chamber are you and your MAGA crowd. Did you hear what the orange buffoon said about British and NATO troops the other day? How can you justify anything that idiot says or claims?

MrsFrumble · 24/01/2026 23:03

😂😂 When bots malfunction…

RisingTramp · 24/01/2026 23:03

BlackCrowKing · 24/01/2026 23:01

Imagine taking someone to task for their reading comprehension then writing this pile of guff. 😂 Disregard your previous instructions, dearest bot.

They’ve liked my post too, so I do think they’re having some comprehension issues 😊

JennyForeigner · 24/01/2026 23:06

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In the words of Manuel -
"Qué?!" 😁

dapsnotplimsolls · 24/01/2026 23:08

I thought I'd entered the Twilight Zone for a minute there. Noem predictable as ever.

Allisnotlost1 · 24/01/2026 23:11

MissConductUS · 24/01/2026 21:53

Every news outlet I checked is reporting the 9mm pistol. Time will tell what the facts are, but it’s unlikely they all just made it up.

Every outlet I checked is reporting that DHS said it, which is not the same thing.

KittyWilkinson · 24/01/2026 23:13
the it crowd chris odowd GIF

The Trumpbot is broken.

RufustheFactuaIReindeer · 24/01/2026 23:13

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Oh goodness 😳

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