How can they be criminals if they have no trial?
this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2025
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Because criminals don't deserve due process! My government told me so! I am very smart! Checkmate, libs!
VERY big /s
Because some people think that the police using their power against you makes you automatically wrong and evil. We call those people bootlickers.
Because habeas corpus applies only to those with sufficient privilege.
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There should be a second sticker being covered under white that reads "rich".
Not for the trumpster bubble. He would be the marionette controlled by Rupert Murdoch
Then why Trump fears going to court to prove his accusations? He declared them terrorists, so he can pursue deportations under INA, which entitles the deportees to a court hearing, yet he invoked a wartime 1798 law specifically to avoid having to prove his hypothesis.
This is just Trump and the Central Park 5 all over again. They're guilty because Trump feels they're guilty. The fact they're not actually guilty doesn't matter.
If you're against authoritarianism, you should demand a trial and not just some schmuck politician labeling you a criminal being enough to send you to your death in some foreign prison.
The fact that there's not a uproar from the don't tread on me crowds just reinforces the idea that they don't see these people as like them. If this was some redneck that was randomly pointed at and said he's a criminal and then deported to a foreign prison they would be upset. The fact that there aren't just shows you that they see these guys as "the other". And why do they see him as the other? That's the question this cartoon is trying to answer....
Honestly, it's even worse than racism. It's just full on indiscriminate cruelty. I've seen people not caring even if they're white, just zero empathy and full-throated cheerleading. They just tell themselves "they're criminals" and don't want to accept the reality that's staring them in the face — probably because of the implication (that they've been downplaying MAGA's words and actions for so long while "alarmist leftists" were trying to warn them, making them complicit in the horrors of today).
It's cruelty for racism's sake, they're white but poor and uneducated, so it must be the fault of the browns and the libs, anyone but themselves.
That's certainly a part of it, especially the performative cruelty to own the libs. Though I think it goes beyond one group targeting another. It feels like a broad generic metastasized bigotry: a low-trust society full of people so high on their own grievances that they love nothing more than taking revenge on strangers. Sure, racism makes it more likely they target minorities, but that doesn't mean everyone else is safe. When people are this paranoid, they're just looking for reasons to blame anybody who gives them a bad "vibe" (which is most people). And they revel in it.
I know it's not everyone behaving like this, and yes some do it more than others (e.g. uneducated white men), but it sure feels like so many people of all races/genders/etc. are fine just outsourcing their cruelty to the regime. It doesn't matter if the targets are one race or the other, they hate them all the same (they'll make up reasons on the spot) because they've learned either to take sadistic pleasure in the cruelty itself (i.e. the cruelty is the point and the target is just the "object" the cruelty is applied to, feeling just as good to them when it's a brown Venezuelan man or a white Canadian woman) or simply to ignore it, excuse it and just not care.
It's like Orwell's two minutes of hate, all the time and for no reason.
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Correction
they’re being sent to this mound
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