I’m calling it: they’re going to have Palantir set them up with a database of likely Democrat voters paired with facial recognition and detain everyone who is a positive match on their way to the polls until the polling station closes.
And then they’ll have the mail-in votes thrown out.
I doubt facial recognition technology works well enough for that to be feasible, I think facial recognition technology using just cameras, esp. without high quality photos, is a bit like the polygraph/lie detector, it can give you some bullshit grounds to subject people to additional scrutiny basically on a whim, but has little practical application
Isn’t this exactly what ICE is doing today, all the time though? https://www.404media.co/ice-is-using-a-new-facial-recognition-app-to-identify-people-leaked-emails-show/ Maybe it’s not accurate but does it matter if they succeed in delaying or intimidating votes?
They’re trying to use it but I don’t think the technology itself is reliable. It could be reliable with LIDAR but I think photos alone are not enough, especially from blurry/low res images.
I think it’s mostly a scare tactic to dissuade dissent.
That’s the problem. They’ll round up whomever.
They’ll round up whoever they like and use facial recognition as justification. My point is I don’t think they can use facial recognition in a way that wouldn’t also get false positives (i.e. without preventing MAGA votes). I think it’s way more likely that ICE will just be used as voter intimidation in blue states.
Might have to bring out my rosebud
When Hitler was choosing his cabinet, he made Göhring Minister of the interior, which was head of the police. Then they put their SS inside of the Reichstag, when they cast the vote if Hitler should have absolute power (for a limited time, to solve a fake issue). The police, now under Göhring, didn’t stop them. The SS stood everywhere, shouting Nazi paroles and threatening the Reichstag-members to apply violence if the vote does not come out their way. Back then in the Reichstag, voting wasn’t anonymous. The deed was done. Some brave leftists still openly said they cannot vote yes, many were later captured and killed. Hitler obviously just cancelled the limited time part and kept the absolute power.
Many Germans later regretted, not having fought more, when they saw it all coming.
Guys, everything was alarming so far. Announcing to have ICE at the polls is even more alarming. You cannot have the Shitler get that far, where it is too late. You must act now!
Good luck over there, regards from Germany.
When a Republican tells you what they’re going to do, believe them. There will never be another fair election in the United States.
King of Wishful Thinking
I suppose but you can imagine how awesome it would be
We’re gonna need a bigger basket (for all the heads)
We can set up this as a reminder of where greed leads
Marchons, marchons…
There are far more polling locations than ice agents. Even if they selectively pick the purple ones and deploy every agent they’re unlikely to end up with more than a couple agents at each.
I guess that also means those agents either don’t get to vote or have to do early voting.
Imagine they lose the midterms by preventing ICE goons from voting by making them work all day
Simple.
Everyone shows up to the polls heavily armed and stays until everyone has voted.
Actually, not even everyone has to be armed. Just enough to form a group. Do not try this on your own. Totally safe if you’re in a group that’s packing though. They’re cowards. They’re only going to mess with people who can’t defend themselves.
Well at least they’re very open and clear about their intentions, and why
So maybe armed black Panthers should show up to defend the voting stations?
Yup.
Saw a video a week or two ago. Cops roll up. Group of Black Panthers are heavily armed on a public sidewalk. The cops tell them to leave. They say “no”. The cops leave.
It’s a whole hell of a lot harder to oppress people who are heavily armed and in groups.
Panthers tend to known their rights too. Education and confidence are a powerful combination
Armed EVERYONE, panthers, housewives, mechanics, trans teens, latino families, truckers, the entire Village People stereotypical grouping, should be there armed and handing out cookies and coffee and making sure our communities are safe and that everyone, no matter their politics or identity or race or background has their say at the polls.
There are presently about 22,000 ICE agents. There will be somewhere around 100,000 polling stations in the US. Their math for “surrounding all polling stations” just isn’t working out.
They don’t need to surround every polling station. Just the ones in blue states
Every state should be blue after the midterms.
Good, we can focus efforts easier that way.
Time to plan to have 50 or 100 people at every polling station in every blue & red state. There should be enough retirees, unemployed, house-parents, teens to make it happen. 1 Million average Americans of every political affiliation to defend their democracy for a day.
I will be there.
Supported by White Panthers. Re-found the WPP!
I rather see the Rainbow Coalition ride again, let’s take specific colors off the agenda.
Surely the FBI won’t sabotage them again this time around.
Surely.
Eggs and water balloons. We should start with that now. What are they going to do?
Shoot you?
Shoot back. We outnumber them.
The problem is finding enough people who don’t mind probably getting killed. That’s generally why revolutions don’t happen until the people are starving and have nothing left to lose.
America likely still has a while to go before that point.
Not as long as you think. We’re really close to a recession the likes of which multiple generations have never seen. Most people can just barely get by on what they’re making, the promise of put the work in and life will reward you has been disproven time and time again.
And if he fucks up tax returns bad enough, it could be as close as a month or two away. We’re honestly at the point where we should be taking bets on whether a blood clot or an angry mob takes this fucker out first.
If fear repels you, they win. There is no glory in death but if you fuck em up first. What are they going to do, die again?
So you out there shooting ice? How many you killed so far?
I live in a nation that doesn’t have ICE. And I am not going to solve it for the americans. Plenty of guns per person, have at it.
I do like the Black Panters. They got the gist.
“You didn’t shoot someone yet? How can I possibly take you seriously.”
This is the argument you are making and it’s preposterous.
If you’re criticizing people for not doing something you’re ostensibly unwilling to do, that’s the preposterous argument.
Be the change you want to see in the world. Otherwise fuck off criticizing people who don’t want to die.
That’s with a royal ‘you’ since I know you’re not the person they responded to.
The problem with that argument is that people who have done that aren’t here to argue with you. You are stuck with those of us who haven’t been imprisoned shot and killed yet.
Your gatekeeping basically means nobody can be taken seriously until they are no longer capable of making their argument.
That exactly the kind of shit Nazis push.
I don’t think you know what gatekeeping is.
Saying it’s wrong to shit on people for not doing something you’re unwilling to do yourself isn’t gatekeeping. It’s calling out hypocrisy.
Drone dropped water balloons and eggs it is.
Great. Send half of them to the North Pole, half of them to the South. Problem solved.
GET YOUR FUCKING GUNS, Y’ALL
If you can’t vote by ballot, vote by bullet.
A bunch of glorious revolutionaries with their squirrel shooters, against the United States military.
That’s going to end well.
Steve Bannon, the Epstein PR guy?
Yep. Does anyone know if he’s in the tRUMP-Epstein files?
It’s in the ICE agents best interest too, otherwise they’d have to pay back their signing bonus.
Then we’ll surround ICE. Fuck em
Right. Show up and do the needful.
I’ve seen armed “guards” and my polling station before and it’s unsettling to say the least.
Say no words. Just vote.
