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niyad

(125,570 posts) Mon Jun 23, 2025, 10:26 PM Jun 23

A really ugly thought keeps running through my head, based on stories [View all]

from other regimes and pogroms and witch hunts (the REAL ones), and thinking about the seeming randomness of sone of their "captures". How many of them are based on anonymous "tips" from hateful or disguntled neighbors, acquaintances, rivals, etc.We all know how it worked during those terrible times. Is it happening again, here and now, in what used to be at least a semi-functioning not-dictatorship?

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A really ugly thought keeps running through my head, based on stories [View all] niyad Jun 23 OP

And the rumor that a lot of the J6 convicts have been recruited by ICE. marble falls Jun 23 #1

Hiding their faces so we don't photograph and compare them to mug shots of J6ers Attilatheblond Jun 24 #27

Honestly, that is what they are doing. marble falls Jun 24 #28

It is. TommyT139 Jun 23 #2

Last summer our crazy neighbor called the cops on our roofers. johnp3907 Jun 23 #3

Your thoughts make more sense than KentuckyWoman Jun 24 #4

A practical question: how does one quickly demonstrate one's citizenship to an armed thug who hates one's guts? 0rganism Jun 24 #5

Old playbook Iamscrewed Jun 24 #6

I fear you are right. There also could be a "reward" for turning in an "illegal". LoisB Jun 24 #7

There are already rewards for turning in "abortionists." yardwork Jun 24 #18

Geez! What the heck have we become as a country? LoisB Jun 24 #29

Good question. yardwork Jun 24 #30

A theocratic, authoritarian, misogynistic, third-world shithole??? niyad Jun 24 #31

Yep. LoisB Jun 24 #33

based on the irrational hatred I see coming from MAGAts Skittles Jun 24 #8

Yep it's ugly and also true canetoad Jun 24 #9

I'm pretty sure that's what's going on and it's disgusting. ecstatic Jun 24 #10

. . . niyad Jun 24 #11

Try turning in Marco Rubio and see how that works. Either way, the results will be interesting. nt eppur_se_muova Jun 24 #12

100% Blue Full Moon Jun 24 #13

That was definitely one that got my antennae going. niyad Jun 24 #14

Star athlete? Somebody's kid was being overlooked. yardwork Jun 24 #17

It's an extension of doxxing and swatting. Hugin Jun 24 #15

Definitely. This is one of things that happens under authoritarianism. yardwork Jun 24 #16

Same thing in the Burning Times. .well, that, and eliminating women niyad Jun 24 #21

A twofer. Probably swept up gay and trans people that way, too. yardwork Jun 24 #23

Exactly!!! niyad Jun 24 #24

I said same thing yesterday! Bluesaph Jun 24 #19

It seemed pretty obvious, but I had not noticed it being mentioned niyad Jun 24 #20

True story... Bluesaph Jun 24 #22

Sadly, there are many truly hate-filled, ugly people out there. niyad Jun 24 #25

Another vender who wants a tamale stand location. Irish_Dem Jun 24 #26

Hypernormalization Kid Berwyn Jun 24 #32