They need lifetimes in prison for treason and domestic terrorism.

With their mask-wearing they’re practically advertising their methods. We should take the clue. Everyone still has their COVID masks, right?

Eh, I'm fine with them wearing masks. I'm not fine with them breaking the law and not being accountable. If they wear masks (or even if they don't), they need to be ready to show ID and recite their badge number.

We should act on protecting our rights and then ask questions later.

Yeah you can, but you'll probably get killed. If you're willing to do that though, then at least make it worthwhile

It does not. The legal system has essentially lost the ability to be a check on the power of the executive branch. Partly because of the capture of the judiciary and regulatory bodies by right-wing extremists and partly because of the speed at which the executive branch is acting illegally - it takes time to build cases and the jsutice system can't keep up.

Does the US legal system still exist in any sense that it should in a democracy?

Hybrid Regime is how I describe the US. It's a weird limbo state between Democracy and Autocracy (because if this was a full autocracy, I wouldn't have access to Lemmy and most anti-trump media would've been raided and shut down). Afaik, they aren't doing exit controls yet.

The major difference between the US and PRC (where I came from), is that Americans seem more willing to resist the government compared to mainland Chinese, and these demonstrations in the US are actually being reported on, in China, its absolute silence, nobody even knows about the very little protests that do happen.

But, by the time EU starts accepting American Refugees, it'd probabably be too late and they would've imposed exit controls by then.

Idk what will happen, only time will tell.

The judiciary "interprets" the constitution. Trump filled the judiciary with loyalist or otherwise ideologically aligned judges during this term and his previous. The supreme court ruled last year that the president has immunity, and the president has the ability to pardon people, so it seems the administration is pretty much "above the law." Even when the courts do push back, they're acting like they're powerless, and the admin's tactics seems to be just ignoring, stalling, or taking the "ain't no rules says a dog can't play basketball" approach to working around the courts. Yes, the constitution has been severely weakened, and will probably continue to weaken.

No.

The people are so gaslit they will attack you if you say otherwise.

I wonder why our allies aren’t helping at this point. Surely they understand where this goes if they don’t stop it sooner rather than later. Europe is laughing at Americans ignoring the tiger that will eat them soon.

Nobody bothered to make federal agents wearing masks illegal, and eventually they decided to do it.

It does but we're in an act first ask questions later regime.

Land of the free (for white people)

I’m not going to excuse ICE and all the shit they are up to. I’m just going to point out that immigration status doesn’t require the same process to determine as the guilt or innocence of some other crime. In a murder trial, you have to prove motive, opportunity, etc beyond a reasonable doubt. With immigration status, it’s simpler: either you can document your legal right to be in the country or you can’t. When someone isn’t supposed to be in the country we don’t jail them for years to rehabilitate them and then release them into the population. We remove them. So everything about this feels and looks different from a standard criminal due process because it is different. Even without the aggressive tactics, masks, and all attendant bullshit, it would still be different.

Because it is an authoritarian regime now, and not a state of law and order anymore.

It's harder to racially profile a masked person or identify them in general.

In their world, resisting surveillance will be probable cause for arrest, because you must have something to hide and need to be investigated.

I don't think anything like that would help. Especially over the last several years with the huge rise of things like Snapchat filters where people can take photos of themselves in various situations with various costumes, various themes. I'm sure all of that was data mined for someone's purpose.

Is that why cyberpunk media always has people wearing face tats.

And flu and cold season. Consider wearing gloves to keep your hands safe from diseases as well. Consider tinted glasses as well to keep the sun out of your eyes, and a hat or hoodie to protect from rain or snow.

Just basic health things, completely unrelated to cameras or anything.

We can wear masks, too...for health reasons. I predict an increase in germaphobes.

Imagine if they actually try to ban medical face masks, not for some cockamamie pseudoscience reason, but because we don't have the right to evade their facial recognition scheme?

There's always been facial rec. In the old days, they recognized that "He looks black, that can't be his car."

Well, Halloween just happened, so there are probably convincing costumes available on discount. Just saying...

Most of us are well aware of that. I live in a neighborhood with a pretty high Hispanic population. ICE was reported just a few blocks from my house on Thursday, zero trick-or-treaters on Friday. There are still a discouraging about of people saying they support Trump and what he's doing on Nextdoor. I want to believe they're bots.

What is the point of comments like this? Yes, we realize this. Are you just hearing about it? Do we really have to face each new horror with admonishments that it is distracting us from the last horror?

It has been years(let us remember Obama), it is only just now that drumpf is in office they realize that people are getting literally disappeared.