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Respondents also expressed alarm over administration efforts to deport protesters and critics of U.S.-Israel relationship

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Almost 50% of Americans. In a sane country that would probably be closer to 90% against. Ya'll are fucked.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I'm surprised that you're surprised about how messed up Americans are.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I know right!? Still a mandate though

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Four in ten Americans deserve to be sent to blackhole prisons of their own. Let them try to appeal when they get there.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Or 4 in 10 Americans are beyond reaching.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No American should be okay with others not having due process, citizen or not. Yet here we are

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Most charitably, at least some of that percent are the types who don't think about it (or are largely incapable of doing so). The types who max out on the kohlberg scale of "the law is the law and so if the law is arresting these people then it must be just because it's the law."

I think people like that can potentially still support decent things, but they basically have no chance when the current media environment is filled with so much propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"the law is the law and so if the law is arresting these people then it must be just because it's the law."

What does law have to do with it?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Basically two things: the misinformation telling them that it's legal (hell, we don't even expect cops to understand the law in the US, what chance does some the average idiot have?), and the fact that literal law enforcement agents are carrying out these arrests.

All these judges issuing injunctions against the admin's illegal actions might not be able to take down the melted cheeto directly, but we really need them to go after the people at the agencies going against their orders. The plane that was ordered to turn around? Why wasn't everyone on that thing arrested as soon as they returned, pilot included?

Can we get police to arrest ice? I think it's time to find out. Start giving them a reason to think before "just following orders".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He's referencing moral frameworks, hence the kohlberg scale comment. Some folks take the law as gospel: i.e., if something is against the law and you are arrested for it, then the only problem is you, the person arrested. According to that mind state, all of the folks who are in america illegally are therefore deserving of whatever the law (sort of says and) does to them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

No courts -> No law

Mobs with badges aren't the police.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

These are the people the Democrats were trying to court in 2024.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

They could have too, just not by trying out Republican the Republicans. People like this respond to leaders who show conviction, and that definitely isn't the Democrats.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Russian propaganda sure destroyed America, lol.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

thats a shockingly low number.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Now you know why America has a fascist dictatorship!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We gotta get rid of those other 4 Americans.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

By sending them to El Salvador?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago

I really shouldn’t have to like this. We should ALL just not want to be locked up with no evidence. God I hate this timeline.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

They should not be sending anyone to El Salvador

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

4 in 10 americans thinks the evil ass Andor prison is "based".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Imagine being so much of a nazi that even Americans are put off by it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Trump also took office with fewer than the majority of people wanting him too, it doesn't actually mean anything if you're just gonna 'not want it'

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

in a democracy that would matter

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

so 4 in 10 americans deserve 🧱

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

So, deport=send to foreign prison?