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[–] 37 points 9 months ago (2 children)

We are currently at the arresting journalists stage of fascism.

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    This is actually insane. Don lemon is as "safe" as they get when it comes to independent journalist. They a recovering liberal, at best. HARDLY a voice of extreme anything. Really just a consulate journalist.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    "The arrest of journalist Don Lemon in connection with his reporting on a protest in Minnesota should alarm all Americans," Katherine Jacobsen, who works on the organization's U.S. efforts, said in a statement. "Instead of prioritizing accountability in the killings of two American citizens, the Trump administration is devoting its resources to arresting journalists."

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  • What the actual fuck?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    "Details of the charges against the four were not immediately available. However, the Justice Department promised to pursue charges against Lemon after the independent journalist covered the protest at the church in St. Paul on Jan. 18."

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    [–] 56 points 9 months ago

    I'm amazed it took this long before they started round up journalists and censoring social media.

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  • [–] 50 points 9 months ago

    Its almost like ICE wants to scare off media organizations from reporting on Minneapolis (1) to keep the wider public in the dark and (2) to protect its officers.

    More reporters in Minneapolis keeping this front and center for the public would be good imo.

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  • [+] 15 points 9 months ago (7 children)
  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I just posted this in another thread on the same story. Here's what I wrote:

    Don Lemon was there as an independent reporter interviewing the protestors and church people as the protest was going on. I just watched Legal Eagle's video about the protest yesterday (definitely watch it if you're interested in this stuff).

    Basically, it boils down to the federal government pushing to get a perp walk (photos of the alleged criminal in handcuffs being walked by "authorities") to plaster photos of them all over social media to make the accused look bad. As Legal Eagle says, it's the federal government making content and doing it for the memes.

    Once they're arrested, federal lawyers TRY to get them in front of a judge to get them (protestors and Don't Lemon now) convicted of something, but in this case a whole bunch of judges have said, "What you're doing doesn't make sense and hasn't been done before, but if you want to try this case in front a grand jury - go ahead." The judge knows they won't because they'll lose so the case eventually gets dropped - but hey, they got some good photos of people they don't like!

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Flip the script. Big smiles for the mugshot, hold your handcruffed wrists high.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    They could dissappear him and it wouldn't matter anymore. We're deep in the endgame now

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  • Bruh they're just warming up.

    A couple street executions here, a detainment and (separate) FBI search of journalists there to gauge public response. They'll adjust their approach, improve their propaganda and continue dismantling communities.

    They're deep into abducting and concentrating innocent people including children They will continuously escalate their brutal and violent responses to resistance.

    They demanded voting records. They aren't stopping with immigrants and they're taking the first steps toward cataloging the opposition.

    Trump is not in charge. He is the distraction, the orange herring providing cover for the likes of Stephen Miller, Russell Vought and other focused, effective organizations operating in the background. The true consequences of the dozens of executive orders Trump auto-penned in his first months have hardly kicked in yet.

    We're just reaching the second quarter.

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  • [–] 30 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    What the fuck.

    Hasan you better be in a safe house.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    "Democracy Manifest" (also known as "Succulent Chinese Meal", amongst other names) is a viral video and internet meme. It was recorded in 1991 for a news segment by the reporter Chris Reason and uploaded to the internet in 2009. YouTube has several postings of the video with more than a million views each.[1] In 2019, The Guardian called it "perhaps the pre-eminent Australian meme of the past 10 years".

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Manifest

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