Gestapo/Stasi vibes all over.
this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2026
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During Gestapo and Stasi times most informants did their best to remain anonymous because no one likes snitches. Openly following someone and bragging about it is sociopathic even by nazi and Stalinist standards.
Oh, they just didn’t realize that they are easy targets themselves. Early days are always like this.
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This comment of the lady taking the picture really reminds me of the early Nazi era regime where people were hunting for undocumented Jews. This makes me incredibly sad to see history is repeating itself yet again.
There are still WWII veterans alive that fought the Nazis in Germany just to watch it repeat itself in their own fucking country.
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I can't even begin to imagine the violence I would be inspired to visit on someone who pulled that on me or someone I know. Like if smug bitch thinks she just "Got me", and I now have nothing to lose, and she's not the armed Gestapo, and that's a brick lying on the ground....
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I've actually started keeping screenshots of people I know who are supportive of ICE, in part so I have my own little database of people who I know can't be trusted, and so that I can hopefully publish them later when these same people try to pretend they didn't support this.
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I much prefer the classic image of a woman smacking a Nazi over the head with her purse.
So important to document all these tactics and counter-tactics. It will also come to parts of Europe soon. Sweden has under the current government implemented prisons for children and forced government employees to report suspected undocumented children and families. And the far-right has not even officially been included in the government yet. We probably have to prepare here too.
Sweden. I didn’t have that on my 2025 bingo card.
Fascism is running rampant through most Western styled democracies all over the globe. It's a byproduct of late stage capitalism, instead of addressing the root problem that is causing wealth inequality, fascist and their wealthy backers are blaming everything on scapegoats.
The US is just the bellwether, but we've seen a very prominent rise in far right parties surging in even socdem countries.
Well put. We are just as immune as the USA thought they were
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I'd say we're far from close in Sweden. The uptick in SD voters is very concerning, and the rest of the right is pretty trash as well. But it's at least pretty likely the left gets the win this year, so let's hope they do and start cleaning up the mess the right has created...
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I think I might've seen this somewhere. Hope you got this over there. Greetings from Germany.
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I fucking loathe conservatives. They are proud Nazis but scoff at the use of the term. But it's the only term that really describes them. Fucking Nazis.
Time to bring back the proud American tradition of shooting Nazis.
I would prefer the bat method. They should feel it.
Why not both. Mess them up, then mess up the floor with their brain matter. It'll be small mess, we all know there's nothing between their ears
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Weak little fucking cowards hiding behind the state to feel empowered for their gold stars. Little rat class traitors like that deserve open hostility every second of their lives.
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How are we supposed to live side by side with these people?
Unless those on the attacking side (MAGA) decide they don't want to murder more of us, I'm not sure we can. The first civil war was incredibly bloody and tensions between the sides never settled down fully. We are in this situation partly because there is no way to have a compromise with people that believe some of our society's members aren't human. The white supremacist view of slave owners and supporters of slavery never went away, it needs to be cut out from the root.
The question that should have been asked and answered when your first Civil War ended: you can’t. They have forfeit their right to live in America by being traitors to its constitution. Maybe after this second one, if the Left somehow wins, they’ll learn from that mistake and get rid of the remaining Right by whatever means are convenient.
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Paper is the new privacy measure
Always has been.
Protip: for anyone seeking to use typewriters to further circumvent surveillance, please know that the ribbon is a complete log of every keystroke. Also, the pressure your pen makes on paper can be recovered from soft-ish surfaces and sheets underneath it. Act accordingly.
And your printer puts microscopic marks that can be traced back to the specific one.
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We have messaging apps that are secure and can timed autodelete by text “for everyone”.
And yet people keep on using Facebook Messenger.
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This is so sad. But the upside is there are apparently enough people that don't want others kidnapped they are delivering groceries and are willing to eat paper if (illegally) stopped by ICE. Y'all should be celebrated forever...
Start delivering grocceries to people ICE isn't targeting. Flood the streets with deliveries so its impossible for them to track everyone doing it.
I like it. Walk groceries down the street to your 30yo kid. Grandmas house. Or just shop each others lists. Make it so busy they can’t keep up.
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Walking some home with their consent (or consent of their guardian) is not a crime.
Following someone home is stalking.
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There are credible reports from ICE observers in cars being lead to their own houses. To be more clear, ICE is cars being observed as is one's constitutionally protected right, are driving to the homes of the cars observing them. This is intended to let the observers know that ICE knows who they are.
It does seem like a bad idea to let the general public determine a location for ICE to drive to in a way that will highlight which car is full of ICE agents, but that is just me.
Now I'm fairly sleep deprived at the moment so it could just be me, but I can't parse your first paragraph at all, especially the second sentence.
A couple key typos i think
I think hes saying ice notices a civilain tailing them, pulls their info, then drives to the tail's adress, with the civilian observer still following, letting them know that the agents know who they are and can get to them any time, as a threat.
Paragraph 2 is pointing out this is a bad strategy for ice, as it allows opposition to lead ice into an ambush/ further identify cars:
Drive around and start tailing suspect cars- when they start going towards your home, mark them as confirmed undercover ICE vehicles,
OR have people waiting at the vehicles' registered address to ambush them- could be pretty effective once people start shifting to violent resistance mode- either steal a car from someone out of town and use their car and property to set the trap, or your own old home if youre already marked and had to go underground.
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I will break it down differently.
ICE agents are in cars, and the cars are traveling.
First Amendment Observers are following the cars with ICE agents.
The ICE agents are looking up the owner of the car that is following them.
The cars with ICE agents are driving to the homes of the observers, and pausing outside.
ICE agents are attempting to intimidate the observers by demonstrating that they know where the observers live.
Well normally when you have a car full of dangerous felons following you then the best place to drive to was the police station but it's 2026 and well, here we are..
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Little tip, put the duress pin as your birth date. Because that's the first thing that a law enforcement officer might try. Then the phone deletes itself and they can't claim that you did it because they were the ones to enter it, unprompted.
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Gestapo at work.
That last Nazi collaborator . . . I am not an angry or violent person, but oh boy I cannot be held responsible for how I might react.
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Partially related: Grocery store apps "tailoring" the price of groceries to the individual? Oh fuck you motherfuckers, cash for me from now on.
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Germany 1930s. We all know the playbook.
This is very true. Minneapolis suburb here. They are following even old ladies back to their homes 30 min away.
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