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Killer ICE Agent Made Bonkers Lie to Neighbors About His Job (www.thedailybeast.com)

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[-] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 172 points 7 months ago

“It really creeps me out that those are my neighbors — that that’s the kind of people I live next to. It’s really upsetting," the neighbor told the outlet. “I just assumed all the ICE agents were like, from Texas and Arizona and Florida.”

See? That's your fucking problem. You still don't (want to) realize that you have a fascism problem in the core of your society.

The US are a fascist country because there is a huge portion of its society that are fascists. Not just a few, not just some rotten apples.

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago

In their defense Minneapolis is a really liberal area. 90% of the rest of Minnesota counties go red, but in the twin cities it's generally not that way. I could understand how someone could think they live next to like minded people given that situation.

There is absolutely a fascist problem here in the states, but I'll empathize with people that are trying to stay sane and avoid politics in their social lives which in turns can mean they're ignorant to things around them.

[-] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago

It's, like, twenty percent tops. But that's a LOT of people

[-] Exeous@lemmy.world 68 points 7 months ago

Jonathan Ross, 43, revealed at a 2020 neighborhood garage party during the COVID pandemic that he was a botanist

[-] Kirp123@lemmy.world 39 points 7 months ago

So they are ashamed of what they are doing. Probably because even they know it's wrong.

[-] TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 1 points 7 months ago

Not ashamed, just fearful of repercussions.

[-] rosefiend@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Oh HELL no

Source: I am a horticulturist

[-] Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 42 points 7 months ago

Lol, how can you be from the Midwest and not see how many folks are right-wing nutters here? I'm north of the 45th parallel and my town is 70% Republicans that still support Trump after all of this.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Minnesota, it’s the hicks in the out state. Duluth is a bit mixed, but more progressive than the rural areas surrounding it, and you get up towards Roger’s and suddenly it’s trump country. Same going south, too.

The twin cities and Duluth pretty much makes me blue. (And we’re not as reliably blue as many would care to pretend.)

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

SE Minnesota is weird. There's pockets of conservatives then REALLY blue areas. But the further west you go, it's all MAGAt territory. Thankfully not nearly as populated but fucked up none the less.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Yep. Even the most one sided places in the US, they’re only about 70% one side or the other.

This is why I’m deathly afraid of a “civil” war. It’ll be neighbor on neighbor; at least for the first few days.

[-] boolean_sledgehammer@lemmy.world 37 points 7 months ago

When every single Trump voter/enabler lies to their grandkids about where they stood, get in their diseased faces and call them out. Do this until they are in the fucking ground.

[-] daannii@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Also the guy is from Peoria Illinois. Maybe that's where he is hiding out.

Maybe family still there.

Peoria isn't that big. If he is there. And you are there. Won't be too hard to locate him.

People will talk.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago

He may be a fascist murderer, but anytime someone tells me they are an "amateur botanist" I just assume they grow their own weed.

And if so, the irony is that it wouldn't have been too long ago that the jackbooted thugs would have been coming for him instead.

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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