[the__alchemist]

I have a hunch most people recognize this, but many are ok with it. I have hope (But not confidence) people will see this in the upcoming US elections and more broadly. This is transparent authoritarian behavior.

Edit: Challenge: If you downvoted the parent post here (It's currently grey), I would love to hear why you think this doesn't match the pattern. Are you living in the US? I in general am struggling to understand my fellow US citizens, given the history of our nation.

[smt88]

I expect masked ICE agents to be deployed to polls in purple and blue states to "prevent non-citizens from voting" (i.e. to scare minorities away from polls)

[ecshafer]

Bet. Lets see if we can get this up on polymarket, bet on it.

[staplers]

You already lost your own bet.

"A pair of armed and masked men in tactical gear stood guard at ballot drop boxes in Mesa, Ariz., on Oct. 21 as people began early voting for the 2022 midterm elections."

They might be "off-duty" but this is during Biden's admin. They're immensely more emboldened now and local LE will absolutely not enforce any laws restricting this.

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/06/election-officials-facing-ar...

[ecshafer]

So the goal post moved from ICE or Federal agents being stationed at polling stations to any individual at all?

[staplers]

The goalposts moved when ICE's hiring standards fell to "any individual at all".

[andsoitis]

> deployed to polls in purple and blue states to "prevent non-citizens from voting" (i.e. to scare minorities away from polls)

MOST states (purple, blue, red) have mail-in voting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_voting_in_the_United_St...

[ceejayoz]

They're working on that.

Challenging the rules: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/supreme-court-revives-...

Changing the rules at USPS: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/how-this-new-mail-rule-c...

And I'd fully expect some fuckery via executive orders closer to the election, and SCOTUS to use the emergency docket to let them "temporarily" be enforced.

[buellerbueller]

It is being restricted. My red state has gone from allowing mail-in ballots that were allowed if they were postmarked by election day, to requiring them to be in by election day. When the postmaster general is a Trump appointee, and the mail has slowed down over the last few years, it makes me wonder if this is deliberate.

[JayNitram]

Correct, which the administration is also trying to remove.

[lokar]

For now. The tyrant controls the post office.

[kgwxd]

They're targeting that too. e.g. recent change to postmark dates.

[RHSeeger]

I would start with this, because it's a flat out lie

> Everyone is ok targeting te immigrant populations because they are "illegal" or live in a gray area of legality.

People have been complaining about the attack on immigrants for a good, long while. And the complaining has been getting louder, more frequent, and from more people with every day. When they kidnapped workers and suddenly the price of everything went up, there was a lot of "see?!? this is what we're talking about"

So no, "everyone" isn't ok with the targeting of immigrants.

[sjsdaiuasgdia]

They should have said "enough are ok" instead of "everyone is ok".

Unfortunately, there are still enough people who are fine with the Trump / Miller / Noem / Bovino approach to immigration enforcement, or they're not impacted personally enough to make them speak or act.

I hope the cartoon villain responses coming from the administration when they're challenged on any of this will get more people to stand up against it all.

[Ray20]

> I hope the cartoon villain responses coming from the administration when they're challenged on any of this will get more people to stand up against it all.

I don't think we should expect people to stand up against all of this. Even if most of them don't like it, let's be honest, it's not a dealbreaker for them. Especially if the next election other party puts forward some deliberately hypocritical, racist, out-of-touch elitist like Kamala Harris.

[sjsdaiuasgdia]

> hypocritical, racist, out-of-touch elitist like Kamala Harris.

Gee I wonder what side of the political spectrum you align to...

I like rule of law and due process. I like the Constitution and its balance of powers. I think that a good chunk of Americans also like these things. I believe the current administration is acting in extremely contrary ways to those things. So yes, I expect more Americans to stand up and speak out.

[Ray20]

> I like rule of law and due process.

Many people like this. It's just that the choice, as far as I understand, is not between rule of law and authoritarian dictatorship.

> I like the Constitution and its balance of powers.

And here, frankly speaking, I'm unfamiliar with the American Constitution in these aspects. How does it work? Does it only protect citizens? Or residents too? Does it protect illegal aliens too? Does it protect everyone in the world? Or does it operate on territorial principles, and begin to protect any person who sets foot on American soil, but does not protect everyone else?

[sjsdaiuasgdia]

There's extensive case law on most of those points, just do a bit of research.

[nutjob2]

This is standard right wing hate-filled drivel, like that peppered throughout your comment history.

Your ilk really are hoping that Trump's authoritarian takeover of the US succeeds, through provocation, apathy or by whatever means, because you're driven only by the pursuit of power to turn your hate into violence against your perceived enemies.