• kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    No, don’t ask them. They get no chance to challenge your assertion at all. That’s the point. That’s what no due process gives you. That is what they are claiming is right and just and the law. The government says “trust us bro, this guy is an illegal alien terrorist and deserves this” and then they disappear you forever, no questions allowed to be asked. You go from arrested for absolutely anything at all to the gulag with nothing in between those two steps.

    This idiot thinks that that couldn’t apply to himself, to other citizens, to his parents, his spouse, his kids… he is wrong. If they do not give you even a second in court, there is absolutely nothing you or anyone else can do to stop it. It can happen to citizens. It will. Hell, it probably already has. The only thing that may be stopping it at the moment is the willingness by the administration to do so. The one that has openly, publically and repeatedly expressed that they absolutely want to and are willing to deport citizens to foreign forever prisons, as well. He thinks these are the guys that can be trusted to not target citizens. He is a fool.

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      10 hours ago

      That’s partly my point; just getting them to realize how easy it is to make the assertion. Ideally, you’d make the claim to someone that’s white/MAGA, just to get them to scoff at the statement and say “Sure, I’m a citizen! It says so right…hold on…”

      If someone’s psychotically self-protective and carries their passport in their back pocket, they can deflect the argument. If they can’t produce it on the spot, start mockingly shouting for ICE. See how quickly they fall back on white privilege.