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  1. Buy a single color van without any text on it
  2. Find 2 people to help you
  3. Cover your faces
  4. Drive to your victim, jump out, shout "ICE, you are under arrest" and throw the victim into the van

All people around you will think that nothing unusual is happening.

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[-] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 142 points 5 days ago

People need to start kidnapping and disappearing:

  1. Conservative white Republicans.

  2. Evangelical preachers.

  3. ICE agents.

  4. Police officers.

  5. Republican politicians.

Just dress up as ICE, bust down their doors, and haul them off. If they try to show a birth certificate or passport, grab it from them, tear it in half, and call it a fake.

White Christian conservatives need to learn that they will not come out of this unscathed. They need to know that they are just as vulnerable as anyone else, and that they themselves are a minority group in this country. We need to put the fear of God in these bastards. That's the only way this will ever end.

[-] erin 4 points 3 days ago

Next page in this playbook is fixing disproportionate domestic violence against women by beating men, and fixing disproportionate institutional racism by arresting more white men on bullshit charges. I think the underlying problems will just find a new outlet.

[-] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 days ago

This would require the bullshit “opposition” to stop cowering. Non-starter.

[-] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

You're in there too bud. Go on. Get kidnapping.

[-] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 125 points 5 days ago

Disclaimer: victim must be vaguely brown

[-] Gowron_Howard@lemmy.world 84 points 5 days ago

Or verifiably democrat or left leaning

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 59 points 5 days ago

or hold political memes in their phone

[-] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 62 points 5 days ago
[-] redfox@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 days ago

Ever sense I heard this meme can apparently get you denied entry to the US. I will not stop spreading it and sharing it.

[-] SoleInvictus 5 points 5 days ago

Now they're on to me!

I mean the evangelical security guard last known registered as a Republican, best friend said was Republican, and spoke out openly against pro choice democrats to the extent of making a list and murdering families and injuring others was actively voiced as being left leaning by the media simply because it helps their narrative. I don't think they are looking to verify anything.

"Our intelligence reports say they are not making nuclear weapons" -i dont care, we are bombing them. "Our intelligence reports say the facilities weren't completely obliterated" -i dont care, your intelligence is fake news because it doesn't fit our narrative.

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

But he had paper he printed out!

[-] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 32 points 5 days ago

Nah, it could be a white AF looking person from Germany that shared a meme of the vice president...

[-] hungryphrog 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

He was Norwegian, and only denied entry, not kidnapped.

[-] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 days ago

Or Canadian.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 days ago

Do you mean the one from Norway? He wasn't picked up by a van, he was denied entry at the airport.

[-] SoleInvictus 11 points 5 days ago

And your helpers and you must be white.

[-] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

Eh I don't know, a ton of these kidnappers have been Hispanic and black.

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

I wouldn’t say a ton, but plenty, and any is too many (of any kind).

[-] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 63 points 5 days ago
[-] Freefall@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

Yeah, that is my concern.nifnyounget jumped by guys shouting ICE with no proof, you have a second amendment right to defend yourself.

[-] Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip 45 points 5 days ago

I'm fairly certain this is happening in multiple places of the country at this very moment.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 67 points 5 days ago
[-] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 17 points 5 days ago

They're going after the wrong people. They should be disappearing Republican politicians, accusing them of secretly being illegal aliens.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago

Maybe if that happened ICE would actually start identifying themselves.

[-] SteveCC@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago
[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 days ago

There are a lot more, I just grabbed the first few.

[-] Xande@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago

They are eating the ducks... they are eating the ducks and geese... they are eating the food of the people that live there!

[-] 30p87@feddit.org 27 points 5 days ago

I hope that works at the white house too

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 23 points 5 days ago

You need to threaten people with guns and machine guns

The crazy part is at this point in American history, you'd have a high chance of getting away with it all.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 18 points 5 days ago

There are lots of stories about this.

But, those are the ones we know about. Are there others we don't? I'd say it's certain.

For a serial killer, this has to be a gift from the gods. Get some gear from an army surplus store, cover your face, kidnap and kill someone, hide the body, and everyone will just assume that they were deported and lost in the system.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago
[-] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 3 points 4 days ago
  1. Call the family of the victim with the ransom deman........ I mean..... with the "bail money demand"
[-] capuccino@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

Never easier to ~~kidnap~~ deport people in the USA

  1. Buy a single color van without any text on it
  2. Find 2 people to help you
  3. Cover your faces
  4. Drive to your victim, jump out, shout “ICE, you are ~~under arrest~~ being deported” and throw the victim into the van

All people around you will think that nothing unusual is happening, they do not even need to get a disguese or something, and nobody would care if ICE are the ones who do the deports.

[-] rottenmummy@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 days ago

I wrote something very similar a few days ago. It can't be the us government hasn't realised how dangerous it is till now.

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