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  • Alaknár@sopuli.xyztoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.English
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    1 day ago

    They weren’t created out of the blue. They’re the connection of two other federal agencies - naturalisation and customs service.

    As you noticed, they were created at the time of Patriot Act, meaning they’ve been around for 25 years now. There weren’t any issues with them during Bush or Obama, were there? Or rather: there weren’t any more issues with them than there were with Border Patrol or ex-Customs Services, etc.

    Basically, issues pop up whenever Trump’s in power. Because he has stupid policies. Like when Border Patrol was supposed to hire 60,000 agents within a couple of months to “strengthen border protection and stop smuggling from Mexico”. Lo and behold, they ended up hiring active cartel members and smuggling stats went through the roof. Which anybody with a semblance of a functioning brain expected to happen.

    Now it’s the same exact situation - ICE received the order to kick out 1,000,000 “illegal immigrants” in 2025. For context on how ridiculous this number is: deportations increased steadily during Biden admin, reaching 72,000 in FY 2022 and 143,000 in FY 2023. FY 2024 saw the highest single-year total with 271,484 deportations.

    And now Trump wanted 1 million. Which meant, just as before with Border Patrol, that they had to basically hire anyone who wasn’t running away from their recruiters fast enough. And exactly the same thing as before happened, only this time it’s US not Mexican criminals being hired. All the Proud Boys and what not.

    The existence of the formation is fine, every country on the planet has an equivalent agency, it’s Trump’s policy that’s fucking everything up - as is tradition.

  • Alaknár@sopuli.xyztoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Yale Posting It's LsEnglish
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    1 day ago

    There are far too many cases of the law being selective in who it protects and who it punishes

    No. *There are too many cases where the interpretation of law is selective", and/or “there are too many cases where the enforcement of law is being selective”. There are no laws (that I know of, correct me if I’m wrong) that say “if you’re rich, this doesn’t apply to you”, or something like that.

    I think it’s functioning exactly as its corrupt creators intended.

    And this is where we disagree. Because, to me, thinking that every single lawmaker in the history of humanity (we have laws that date back thousands of years and are just copy-pasted between countries) was writing laws with malicious intent is some form of paranoidal insanity on par with “lizard people are controlling the government”.

  • Alaknár@sopuli.xyztoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Yale Posting It's LsEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Enforcement of laws is a separate issue to the existence of laws.

    Remember how Trump was talking about starting for a third term? Which is illegal in the US? Well, they intended to introduce legislation that would allow him to start legally. Problem is that if they did that, Obama could also start. Their solution? Add a clause that it had to be a third term within one term of the previous term, or something like that. Making it illegal for Obama to start but legal for Trump to start.

    That’s a law that “exists for no other purpose except to protect/benefit the dominant socioeconomic group”.

    A law saying “if you kill a dude for no reason, you’re going to jail” is not, even if oh so often certain class of mostly white guys are exempt from it.

  • Alaknár@sopuli.xyztoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Yale Posting It's LsEnglish
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    2 days ago

    All of those laws are unequally enforced

    There’s a massive gulf between “the purpose of a law existing” and “a law being enforced”.

    Anti money laundering laws are applied only to the subjugated socioeconomic group (drug dealers belonging to the working class, etc.)

    I know you don’t work in the field because you have no idea how absolutely, ridiculously hilarious this statement is. :D

    Also, calling drug dealers “working class” is certainly a vibe…

    The dominant socioeconomic group gets their children protected, their rape victims to receive justice, their human rights defended

    Are you from the US?

    The people making such laws can sometimes intend for them to be universal

    The laws ARE universal. But because humans are humans (therefore: shitty), they’re not being universally or equally enforced.

    And none of this changes the fact that laws do not, in fact, “exist for [no] other purpose except to protect the dominant socioeconomic group”.

  • Alaknár@sopuli.xyztoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Yale Posting It's Ls
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    2 days ago

    The law does not exist for any other purpose except to protect the dominant socioeconomic group in a given country

    “In any given fundamentally broken country”, you mean?

    The law absolutely does exist for other purposes. Otherwise we wouldn’t have as robust anti money laundering laws, child protection laws, rape laws, human rights laws, etc., etc.

  • Alaknár@sopuli.xyztoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Yale Posting It's LsEnglish
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    2 days ago

    What he said has nothing to do with law. He just said stuff knowing that nobody will do anything to stop him. Or to stop them.

    The law is extremely clear in this regard - the ICE dude murdered a person for no reason. The rules on the use of deadly force literally use a moving car as an example of when not to use deadly force - as long as there are “other defence options, such as moving out of the way”.

  • Alaknár@sopuli.xyztoCrazy Fucking Videos@lemmy.world•ICE shoots paintball gun at face of protester point blank to surpress protests against killing of female protesterEnglish
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    3 days ago

    No, I am not confused.

    Wait, hold on… Are you saying that Hamas is a “righteous Palestinian resistance”? Are you fucking insane?

    I can break that sentence down for you further (…)

    Ah… OK, you are fucking insane.

    All police are civilians lmao

    By definition, they are not. They are members of the executive branch of law enforcement.

    She’s the head of the brutal gang

    She’s not. She’s the civilian oversight over the brutal gang. The head of the brutal gang is the Chief of Department. She is not allowed to partake in any actual police operations. CoD is.

    More info here.

    Did you read the whole thing?

    The two EOs he mentions are pointlessly stating the obvious. It’s not the EO that defines responsibilities, it’s the New York City Charter, Section 431, which states:

    § 431. Department; commissioner. a. There shall be a police department the head of which shall be the police commissioner who shall be appointed by the mayor and shall, unless sooner removed, hold office for a term of five years.

    b. Whenever in the judgment of the mayor or the governor the public interests shall so require, the commissioner may be removed from office by either, and shall be ineligible for reappointment thereto.

    c. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in the office of police commissioner, a police commissioner shall be appointed by the mayor within ten days thereafter.

    Which means that Adams and de Blasio were just trying to pad their first EOs to make them look smarter, I guess? Like, they are literally repeating the law.

    Mamdani, instead, stated that his deputy will “supervise and coordinate” the work of the Police Commissioner, which is - seemingly - what you wanted him to do, no?

    So where exactly is the problem, mate?

    Mamdani stated previously that she would be reporting to the Deputy Mayor

    He didn’t, in your own link it says that the deputy will “supervise and coordinate” the Police Department, among a billion other things. Supervision and coordination does not mean that the police “report directly” to the deputy.

    I’m not blind, I’m unimpressed. It’s not a socialist platform, it’s Democratic Socialism. We had actual socialists running multiple cities in America in the past. Wake me up when we get there or to federal influence - until then, I maintain that it’s all theater.

    You fucking people are the worst enemy of pro-human progress. It’s always “all or nothing”, you cannot be happy with small steps towards the betterment of people’s lives, you’ll just bitch and moan unless Marx is elected.

  • Alaknár@sopuli.xyztoCrazy Fucking Videos@lemmy.world•ICE shoots paintball gun at face of protester point blank to surpress protests against killing of female protesterEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Zohran has already condemned the righteous Palestinian resistance

    You’re confused, I think? He condemned and revoked some pro-Israeli decrees.

    caved to pressure from the national security state in having the NYPD Commissioner report to him directly instead of a subordinate

    Are you a bot? This sentence makes no sense. Even ignoring the fact that the NYPD Commissioner is a civilian who is appointed by and reports to the mayor (and that’s been the case since the 19th century), your sentence seems to suggest that the Commissioner should be reporting to their subordinate? Which is impossible? Unless you mean “Mamdani’s subordinate”, which - again - makes no sense, because the Commissioner is supposed to report to the mayor, and you’d think it’s good that a new, socialist mayor wants to keep close tabs on the famously racist and brutal police force?

    Am I wrong that they have no meaningful influence over federal politics?

    You’re completely blind to the fact that Americans have - for the first time in recent history - voted for a socialist platform. That’s the change.