• @[email protected]
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    91 month ago

    Agreed. Undercover DEA agent busting up a drug ring (regardless of debate about what drugs should be legalized) is a bit different from a task force suppressing political opposition through imprisonment and "accidents ". Though I’m wondering if the gap with decrease over the next four years…

    • @[email protected]
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      91 month ago

      Count on it. I recall seeing videos of protestors around Trump’s last year in office getting yanked into unmarked vans. I think it was around the same time he was using customs and border protection to do peacekeeping operations.

    • @Alwaysnownevernotme
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      61 month ago

      How about agent provocateurs infiltrating protests and instigating crime as a pretense for police to crack down?

      Would that qualify?

    • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed
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      41 month ago

      Well…

      Portland protesters bering dragged into unindentified vans… under trump

      remember that

      I disagree with the meme but like with project 2025, it could very well be a thing.

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      -11 month ago

      Therein lies the issue with Crying Wolf.

      When the real US Secret Police is established next year, the alarm will already have been sounded and will therefore be less effective.

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          -11 month ago

          There’s a big difference between the Stasi and the FBI. Granted, the FBI has been known to occasionally do Stasi-esque illegal shit (most notably assassinating MLK), but that’s not their mission statement and what they do the vast majority of the time.

          Again, you will probably be right in a little while when Project 2025 kicks in, but at present you’re pulling the fire alarm because someone is unwrapping a toaster strudel.