• Alteon@lemmy.world
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    Ah yes, the dangerous criminals that are out farming for slave wages. Good job ICE. I’m assuming that ICE is going to punish the farmer that employed these dangerous criminals? ICE has entirely lost the fucking plot…

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      I can’t wait for those MAGAS to finally get those lost jobs, and go pick up fruits and veggies for * check notes * 2 dollar an hour!

      Surely we’ll see republicans back to the farms, any moment from now

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      The plot is to make people angry enough where they do something worthy of getting black bagged. The US government wants people to act irrationally.

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    I’m at a point now where I can’t wait for this all to blow up. Literally and figuratively.

    Going after our farm workers is not going to end well for anyone. I can only hope that someone in power will wake up and do something about it.

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      They just need to make them prisoners and then they will be able to get back to working in the fields again.

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      The people in power all see this as an absolute win. The things they’re trying to do about it is hire more ICE agents. It’s going to take a while before this blows up, and the only real way out of it is to hope that we have elections in a few years.

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    This is such a limp dick country… I fucking hate the USA… Genocidal fascist imperialist shit stain of a country.

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    food is going to get so fucking expensive…

    like eggs, we’re heading toward a produce shortage. Our supply of eggs is fine now, but prices are still high. They’re gonna do the same thing with produce.

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    Cool, so we can look forward to empty shelves in grocery stores for domestic products and steep tariffs on foreign food products?

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      Gaza is the testing grounds for what life is about to be like in the West. Starvation will be used as a weapon eventually, and who’s gonna stop them?

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        How much does an ICE agent make?

        Does a government job pay well enough that they can afford their grocery bill doubling? I have a government job, and I’m thinking of leaving to start my own thing, because I can anticipate that we’re not going to be able to afford to eat for much longer. The selection of produce in stores is already getting worse.

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            I see you’ve never been outside of America.

            It is possible for there to just not be something. It’s called no one grew it or ranched it or imported it because most people are priced out of buying it.

            But good luck with praying to the market, I’m sure that will go well.

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              good luck praying to the market

              Don’t need luck. I got my ford F50000 fleshreaper (BLOOD FOR THE CAR GOD™) and a lift kit, plus a commute that takes me past not one but two elementary schools. The moloch markets’ll be plenty pleased with my sacrifice

              it’s called noone grew it or ranched it or imported it

              What’s that got to do with anything? I ain’t some DIY hippie type. I spend money to get what i need. Money makes stuff appear. Clearly you ain’t ever had any.

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    Oh but your average employment-seeker will totally line up to do that job for slave wages, so it’s all gud. /s

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    We’ve already seen the ghost of Christmas future here, it’s when Georgia implemented their live scan law and all the small and mid size farmers in Georgia lost their whole harvest (and subsequently, the farm) because they just couldn’t get Americans to come and pick for what they’re willing to pay. A lot of these farmers voted and stumped for Trump, believing that certainly the face eating leopard who eats everyone’s face and promises to eat everyone’s face wouldn’t eat their face. Get ready for a lot of “waaahhh, I didn’t think he would hurt meeeeeeee” from these guys as millions of pounds of tomatoes rot on the vine this summer.

    Also, this just fucking sucks. I live in the central valley, ag is a really big deal here, and a lot of ag workers are really hard-working stand up folks. Nobody deserves ICE, but these folks especially don’t deserve it. I’d like to take this opportunity to wish ICE agents a very merry court date ASAP.

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      It’s only a crime to be an exploited worker. It’s not a crime to exploit workers.

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    Every day I get news about the gestapo capturing the enemies of the reich and throwing them in box cars, and I hear nothing about citizens doing anything to stop them.

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      There are protests and people mobbing ice agents and standing in front of the boxcars and stuff. In LA/Paramount there were enough that they shit their pants and called daddy for backup. It’s not really possible for these remote farming communities to have mobs of people overwhelming ice because there just aren’t that many people in the middle of nowhere farms.

      If you haven’t heard about any resistance activity I strongly recommend you reconsider how and where you consume media.

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        100% this. There’s been resistance everywhere over this. Minnesota drove out a bunch of ICE agents from their neighborhoods, there’s been major protests all over the US about it. Like… we’re for sure doing it.

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      It’s a big country and unless the protesters have someway of knowing where the raids would happen before hand, you wont see them there. That’s why you see them(or don’t if the media is suppressing the story) at the detention centers or hotels they’re staying at.

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      ICE is sneaking around the back roads in my city, and a local network sends out warning messages to local immigrants. I’m looking into what I can do as a citizen to make it more difficult for ICE, but I’m impressed by the messaging network that has been set up.

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          I think they’ve got this on lock? But if you were to recommend something, what would you tell them? Most immigrants use WhatsApp anyway, which is secure, but i do have a friend who’s closely allied with this group.

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            WhatsApp doesn’t really have as much of the baggage that the rest of Meta does, but it is still their product, so I would move if possible. Signal is another good app to get people on. At least if there is a “core” team that is sourcing and redistributing info around should be made aware of privacy and anonymity, so that the network does not get decapitated so to speak.

            The Hated One is a good youtube channel with resources around protesting. The guy is a bit of a paranoid, but his points still stand. He has some vids on how to make a burner phone. Some mesh network apps, and some info about removing metadata on digital files that might get shared around.

            As we get serious about protesting we need to be serious about our digital and physical security. We don’t want to use pages that can be taken down, nor do we want to give information that will allow ICE to take down our resistance networks in detail.

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          The local Hispanic community started the message chain for the local Hispanic community, and they definitely have the system worked out amazingly: I get messages (in Spanish) about the presence of ICE in specific locations, as well as messages quashing false rumors about ICE. I know people in this organization are even following ICE vehicles around and messaging covertly… I mean, it’s just super impressive. Every undocumented immigrant I have asked (I know a lot) is already connected to this message group. I don’t know that an app would improve it in any way?

          Though, the group seems to be using some sort of program because when I signed up I got a few automated messages asking for some of my information, and I know that multiple people are messaging through this number with notifications.

          Regardless, go team! They are doing so much good.

  • Ronno@feddit.nl
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    Like the scene in Andor. That series was very on point when it comes to the political landscape in the US today.

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      This at the same time maga is calling for a boycott of walmart. They just keep punching themselves in the face.

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        Someone posted the other day something like “A stupid person is someone who creates net negative gains. For example, they hurt themselves and others, and gain nothing from it.”

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          Sadistic people like seeing others harmed. They will bear costs to themselves for the sake of seeing others suffer.