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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

there should be publicized webpages of all ice and cbp agents all over the internet. just dox them all and their families.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Perhaps a federated platform for it?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Dox them all, let 4chan sort them out

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

pretty sure the ice agents are the ones posting on 4chan

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

4chan

I've got some bad news...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

pretty sure they’re back as of like yesterday

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

yup, checked

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

You can starve the trolls, but you can't ever get rid of them

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Sorry to say that the fast majority of German Nazis did not only get off without any form of repercussions after 1945, they often even kept their jobs in government. The Nürnberg and subsequent trials only covered the high profile cases, that had not successfully fled. For the Nürnberg trials that were 22 people, while the subsequent trials only found 2,500 of 100,000 arrested Germans guilty of war crimes. Of those only 177 were tried, 142 were convinced and 25 were sentenced to death. These numbers also exclude the 1,600 German scientists, engineers and technicians that the US government took with project paperclip.

And it wasn't for a lack of documents.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

There are a surprising amount of German surnames in Argentina and Brazil

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Those were the evil Germans immigrating after the war. Not to be confused with the fine upstanding Ohio Hitlers.

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

One stay in Germany and become the rector of a managerial university, died in 2000ish with national funeral

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't think there's gonna be a Nuremberg trials this time around

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

Don't have to wait for trials. Operation anthropoid is an example of some chads taking matters into their own hands.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The trials will be home brewed.

Americans don't like being told what to do by foreigners.

This time around though, there will be no appeasement that allows for a Southern Strategy again.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

Well you're certainly more optimistic than me.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (9 children)

You can evade justice if your Reich lasts long enough.

It's sad when old corrupt criminals just outlive any repercussions, and the systems that shields them becomes the norm.

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

Even if WW2 was won by Germany, nazis were the targets of assassinations. They would not have been safe for the rest of their life.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They did it during Black Lives Matter. Would cover their faces, remove their badges, and use rental cars to pull people off the street and disappear them. It's happening now with ICE.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

We went to Centennial park in Atlanta and were actually relieved to see the National Guard deployed there (summer 2020) because it meant that we would be less likely to be shot

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To be clear:

ICE agents have home addresses. They have lives away from work. People in their lives, from family members to acquaintances, who have direct knowledge of them being ICE agents.

Start collecting identifying information, that will help apprehend them after this regime falls.

When this regime falls; they won't permit being voted out of office.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Why wait until after? These people need to be named and shamed. Prosecute them while we still have the ability to do so.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

I can see no issue with resisting in any way plausible in any moment, from the present moving forward.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (22 children)

How so? Masked men grabbed Rumeysa Ozturk off the street, caught on camera and even questioned by passers by. I haven't seen their identites released, and I don't see how it will happen unless the federal government wants it to happen.

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

The video of Rumeysa being disappeared is so chilling. The passers by asking why they are covering their faces. They say they are police, but they are not wearing uniforms. It's hard to hear in the video for me, but they're just wrangling her like an animal. Taking her bag off of her back while she is terrified and turning in circles. Where is due process for anything? (This question is rhetorical. Sad that constitutional enforcement is a rhetorical point now.)

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 days ago (14 children)

We need a wiki where regular people can document and store evidence on the nazis, fascists and enablers currently destroying America. Not just ICE, but everyone. A place where sleuths can unmask and put a name on the worst of them. Where hackers can upload ICE payroll or employee databases. Perhaps even put together an interactive map showing where these people live so their neighbors can be safe.

Once the bastards see their names in print with proof of their crimes out in public perhaps they'll realize how short their future is. Otherwise it'll come in handy for the trials.

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