Using words like "arrests" instead of the reality of it being extra-judicial kidnappings is you manufacturing consent for it, even if that is not your intention. Choose your works deliberatley, don't just parrot headline.
this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2025
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Fair I will change the title.
That’s not an arrest. That’s an abduction.
Arm yourselves. You have a legal right to defend yourself from this.
This is great advice if you do not value your own life.
‘It’s safer to let the brown shirts kidnap you, and take you to an undisclosed gulag.’
It's great advice if you value life outside a concentration camp
Step 1: Yell "God Is Great" in Arabic
Step 2: Racist cops become the cowards they are, assumes the worst, runs away to hide from the "bomb".
Step 3: GTFO of this nazi regime
"Arrests" more like straight kidnap in an atempt to silence dissonance
If you're in the US and ever wondered what you'd have done in Nazi Germany as shit devolved, you're finding out now.
May she be released and live life fully.
Pretty sure I wouldn't have done a single thing about the situation there if I'd lived in Nazi Germany. At most I would have been personally opposed to it, maybe, but I certainly wouldn't have taken any action and probably wouldn't have even mentioned my thoughts to anyone if I was. Those are dangerous things to try and difficult conversations to have. Much easier to just keep on living my comfortable little life. I don't live in the USA either so can't do anything there but still probably wouldn't if I did.
Am I proud of that? No, but that's how it is and would be for the majority of people I imagine.
I mean what are we supposed to do?
I'm working class. I live paycheck to paycheck. I don't have much charisma. I do my best to raise awareness among my peers, with little success. I voted. I support organizing, but unless the strike happens on a weekend I'll be looking at homelessness.
I'm thinking of just going blackout on media, because the constant barrage of the encroaching fascism has wreaked my mental health. I know where this is all heading, and I feel powerless to stop it. I'm a victim of the whims of history. Does that play into the fascist hands? Absolutely. What the fuck else am I supposed to do? Throw my life away in a suicidal attempt at positive change that has a incredibly small chance of success? I need to have a few less things to lose before I'm at that point.
I see people all over social media asking, why aren't you doing anything? Where's our next Luigi? Acting like their provocative online discourse makes them into some revolutionary badass. Well... what the fuck are you doing?
It's sad yet vindicating how Germans have been rehabilitated retrospectively these last 2 months if not earlier.
Even watching the video after reading the title my brain automatically thought she was getting lynched. It doesnt follow any of the rules a legal arrest has to follow. The ice is a lynch mob basically.
Not surprising since the US is a fascist state at this point
Comments like this irritate the fuck out of me. WHAT 'rules a legal arrest has to follow' are you referring to?
The part where you use reasonable force and tactics against reasonable people. This was a student, not fuckin Al Capone.
I was trying to water it down a bit and look at it from a somewhat centrist view but if i was gonna be completely honest then if i saw something similar to this on the street where i live id get a baseball bat and crack the skulls open of those fuckers. Tbf if you see something like this here in europe you basically have the right to defend that woman because shes getting assaulted. But this is a bit too radical for most people and my first comment gets the message across anyways.
For those wishing to learn more about this specific incident, here is some media coverage:
- Federal authorities detain Tufts student in Somerville - The Tufts Daily
- Watch: Masked ICE officials detain Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk | AP News
And here's the original Tufts Daily article that Ozturk co-authored in March 2024: Op-ed: Try again, President Kumar: Renewing calls for Tufts to adopt March 4 TCU Senate resolutions - The Tufts Daily (Archive.org | Archive.ph)
We have more guns than ICE agents in the US. Let’s start acting like it, please.
The 2A crowd are the biggest fucking bootlickers you could possibly imagine. Those assholes don’t give a shit about anything except for themselves.
Most of the people with those guns support ICE.
fair point.
Never thought I’d see SA-Troops in real life, but here we are.
Fire works pretty good against ice.