@Remittancegirl
Whoever needs to know this: Please do NOT travel to the US. It isn't safe.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is being run by an aggressive, paranoid, power hungry administration that has no respect for civil rights, law, or human life. The system has monetary incentives to arrest and incarcerate as many people as they can in the many concentration camps they're building. They don't care where or how they find the bodies.
RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116107692279897463
One of the most deeply disturbing things about this was the absolute uselessness of the UK foreign office.
What the fuck are people paying their taxes for, the wages of a giant institution for, if they can be ZERO HELP when a foreign country kidnaps them for 45 days?
@Remittancegirl
Whoever needs to know this: Please do NOT travel to the US. It isn't safe.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is being run by an aggressive, paranoid, power hungry administration that has no respect for civil rights, law, or human life. The system has monetary incentives to arrest and incarcerate as many people as they can in the many concentration camps they're building. They don't care where or how they find the bodies.
"Let me get this straight:
Trump🚨greenlit a #Palantir “master database”
8 new🚨"mega #detention centers" are being built
#CBP🚨just bought access to Clearview’s 60B‑image facial ID system
#DHS🚨is now demanding names of social media users critical of ICE
#ICE agents🚨on our streets threatening to put people in a "domestic terrorist" database
And no one sees where this is going?
-J Bassler
#BigTech #Surveillance #PoliceState #Protest #NoKings #Fascism #Nazis #USPol
https://apnews.com/article/ice-detention-facilities-expansion-warehouses-c61c3e23c4246e94a760b4d979cb9c48
"Let me get this straight:
Trump🚨greenlit a #Palantir “master database”
8 new🚨"mega #detention centers" are being built
#CBP🚨just bought access to Clearview’s 60B‑image facial ID system
#DHS🚨is now demanding names of social media users critical of ICE
#ICE agents🚨on our streets threatening to put people in a "domestic terrorist" database
And no one sees where this is going?
-J Bassler
#BigTech #Surveillance #PoliceState #Protest #NoKings #Fascism #Nazis #USPol
https://apnews.com/article/ice-detention-facilities-expansion-warehouses-c61c3e23c4246e94a760b4d979cb9c48
Un articolo sul Guardian online: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/europeans-are-dangerously-reliant-on-us-tech-now-is-a-good-time-to-build-our-own
Gli europei dipendono pericolosamente dalla tecnologia statunitense.È il momento giusto per costruirne una nostra
Fidandoci degli Stati Uniti, abbiamo consegnato a Trump un dispositivo di spegnimento. Eppure la sovranità digitale dell'Europa è un obiettivo raggiungibile
Nell'immagine, un estratto che documenta qualche passo incoraggiante verso una sovranità digitale
#SovranitàDigitale #SoftwareLibero #GAFAM #BigTech #Europa #NoKings
@informapirata
@scuola
@opensource
@nemobis
@quinta
@lealternative
@filippodb
@Khrys
@dado
@RFancio
Un articolo sul Guardian online: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/europeans-are-dangerously-reliant-on-us-tech-now-is-a-good-time-to-build-our-own
Gli europei dipendono pericolosamente dalla tecnologia statunitense.È il momento giusto per costruirne una nostra
Fidandoci degli Stati Uniti, abbiamo consegnato a Trump un dispositivo di spegnimento. Eppure la sovranità digitale dell'Europa è un obiettivo raggiungibile
Nell'immagine, un estratto che documenta qualche passo incoraggiante verso una sovranità digitale
#SovranitàDigitale #SoftwareLibero #GAFAM #BigTech #Europa #NoKings
@informapirata
@scuola
@opensource
@nemobis
@quinta
@lealternative
@filippodb
@Khrys
@dado
@RFancio
Today in Labor History February 15, 2003: 25 million people demonstrated against President George W. Bush’s plan to go to war in Iraq, making it the largest coordinated protest in history. Demonstrations took place in over 100 countries. 3 million people took to the streets of Rome, making it the largest demonstration ever in a single city. Yet the protests achieved nothing. The war proceeded, with massive casualties, particularly for Iraqi civilians. Estimates suggest that over 4.5 million people died due to Bush’s “War on Terror,” making him one of the top ten most murderous world leaders in history.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #georgebush #antiwar #iraq #demonstration #protest #civilians
RE: https://kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor/116075600878841215
Do the largest protest in history. Achieve nothing.
The elites don't give a shit about protests.
#Germany has seen it. In January 2024, we had the largest protests in German history after we found out about a secret meeting where the nazis and conservatives conspired to deport legal immigrants. We achieved … nothing. The conservatives only made the nazis stronger since then. And deportations are now openly happening in full gears rather than just being planned in secret.
The USA has seen it. Again! The #NoKings protests are massive … and achieved nothing.
The elites don't care. They don't care about protests. They just ignore them.
Do something else.
Join a union. Speak with people who are in a union. Go on strike.
You can start with quitting Amazon. Buy your stuff elsewhere. Yes, it's a bit more expensive. But it also doesn't finance a company that funds fascism.
Fast noch schlimmer als Menschen, die offen faschistische Parteien oder Personen wählen, sind für mich jene, die zwar gegen Faschismus sind, aber anfangen, seine Wähler*innen zu entschuldigen, zu relativieren oder ihre Entscheidung als irgendwie nachvollziehbar darzustellen.
Ja, ich verstehe Wut.
Ja, ich verstehe Enttäuschung.
Ja, ich verstehe das Gefühl, von Politik und Systemen im Stich gelassen worden zu sein.
Aber: Nichts davon ist eine Rechtfertigung für Faschismus.
Keine persönliche Tragödie.
Keine Benachteiligung.
Keine strukturelle Vernachlässigung.
Wer Faschismus wählt, nimmt bewusst das wachsende Leid anderer in Kauf. Das ist keine Protestwahl. Das ist eine Entscheidung gegen Menschenwürde.
Gerade deshalb müssen wir laut bleiben.
Solidarisch bleiben.
Widersprechen, wenn relativiert wird.
Haltung zeigen, auch wenn es unbequem ist.
Damit Menschlichkeit nicht zur Randnotiz wird, sondern Massstab bleibt. 
Fast noch schlimmer als Menschen, die offen faschistische Parteien oder Personen wählen, sind für mich jene, die zwar gegen Faschismus sind, aber anfangen, seine Wähler*innen zu entschuldigen, zu relativieren oder ihre Entscheidung als irgendwie nachvollziehbar darzustellen.
Ja, ich verstehe Wut.
Ja, ich verstehe Enttäuschung.
Ja, ich verstehe das Gefühl, von Politik und Systemen im Stich gelassen worden zu sein.
Aber: Nichts davon ist eine Rechtfertigung für Faschismus.
Keine persönliche Tragödie.
Keine Benachteiligung.
Keine strukturelle Vernachlässigung.
Wer Faschismus wählt, nimmt bewusst das wachsende Leid anderer in Kauf. Das ist keine Protestwahl. Das ist eine Entscheidung gegen Menschenwürde.
Gerade deshalb müssen wir laut bleiben.
Solidarisch bleiben.
Widersprechen, wenn relativiert wird.
Haltung zeigen, auch wenn es unbequem ist.
Damit Menschlichkeit nicht zur Randnotiz wird, sondern Massstab bleibt. 