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by KerrAvon 138 days ago
Arbitrary cruelty is the point. There isn't a coherent rationale. You're going to the gulags if the subhuman pig in the mask says you are. You'll be lucky (?) if they don't just decide to execute you in the street. This is the reality on the ground right now. In a blue state in America.
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> ... if the subhuman pig in the mask...

You're using exactly the kind of dehumanizing rhetoric that the administration is using in order to justify their violence and inhumane treatment of immigrants. You might need to think about that.

Other than the quoted snippet, everything you said may be true. Still, don't dehumanize your opponents.

Dehumanizing ICE will help the administration. They WANT war in the streets. That's how you solidify your power without proper democratic processes.
Would it be okay to dehumanize Nazi Gestapo officers going door–to–door searching for Jews? If not, don't dehumanize ICE.
They're dehumanizing people. How like them do you want to be?

In fighting them, don't become them.

Is there really any difference between the Nazis and the people who fought the Nazis?
First off, people have been calling police pigs since time immemorial.

Second, anybody who is abducting 5 year olds is subhuman.