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'Her screams…': Horror as innocent Chilean tourist in New York snatched by NYPD, 12-year-old daughter left alone on streets (wegotthiscovered.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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They grabbed a tourist off the street and detained her for eight hours while her daughter was left to fend for herself on the streets. NYC y'all better be starting some shit

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[–] 221 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tourists should avoid the USA (not to blame the tourists in this story, of course)

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  • [–] 112 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    American citizens should be avoiding the USA at this point as well. No-one is safe.

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  • [–] 51 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'm an American citizen and I got out. Absolutely zero regrets. Apparently it's rapidly becoming increasingly common

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    We can take a few american refugees, but we should limit it to the same measly numbers that the US has been accepting. That would be 50 000 per year.

    Over a few millenia we could probably provide refuge for the vulnerable populations in the USA.

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  • [+] -33 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    No, we don't want American citizens anywhere else in the world, leave them in their containment nation.

    They chose, overwhelmingly, the circumstances that they're in.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They did not choose overwhelmingly. ~30% chose. And even then, trump did not win the majority of the vote.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    I'd say 30% are all for what's happening and 10% are convinced the dems will put babies into to blenders and will always vote red. The remaining 10% switch their vote back and forth depending on how they feel about the economy. If they think it's good the will vote for the incumbent, if they think it's bad they vote for the other canidate. Then there are 2-3% of people that pick a random issue as their focus every year

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    Many of us are looking on in horror of what is happening. There is nothing we can do, lest we too be jailed, or worse, killed by the gestapo. Just waiting for them to come for me next. I really need to get a passport.

    Just giving a bit of perspective. Fuck the United States.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Upvoted bc "containment nation" made me lol. I get the downvotes though, liberalism has been eroding our rights and our will to rebel for a couple of generations now.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I blame the parent. Nobody with the resources necessary for an international vacation has any excuse for being ignorant of the current political state of the US, our government is actively targeting visibly hispanic people regardless of legality and has not been quiet about it. Even if their trip had gone smoothly every dollar they spent here would be indirectly supporting the shit our government is doing. The child had no choice in the matter, the parent was a fucking moron who volunteered their child for a completely avoidable traumatic experience and helped fund Trump's crimes in the deal.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's hard for people to believe this kind of crazy though.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It shouldn't be, the evidence has been plentiful and easily available. It's not particularly crazy either, evil for sure but entirely in line with the interests of our ruling class and extremely historically precedented. Some folks just have to learn the hard way I guess.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I get it, but if you pitched this to a movie studio they'd say it was far fetched, so the average person can be forgiven, I think.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Movie studios are frequently run by morons, anyone who isn't completely politically & historically illiterate could tell you it's not far-fetched at all, and this person had the money for an international vacation so they're definitely not representative of the average anyway

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Do we know it was a pure tourist visit and they could choose the location? Many state departments are already flagging the US with a state instability warning if not no-go, so I'd assume she (or the husband) was here on business, or because there were circumstances that pushed them.

    To be fair, NYC is pretty blue, it's just the NYPD that has been for decades a threat to the people, especially nonwhites, with Bloomberg's mayorship taking much of the blame.

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