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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 08-Dec-2025 23:52:04 JST Paul Cantrell

   My city is being invaded by outsiders.

   They weren’t invited, and they’re not wanted. They don’t share our culture, and they don’t share our values. They took billions of dollars from us. They are violent criminals. They are ruining our community.

   I’m talking about ICE.

   They should go back where they came from.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 08-Dec-2025 23:56:08 JST Paul Cantrell

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     I mean, seriously: how many of the hateful, inflammatory lies that the racists hurl at immigrants accurately apply to this group that’s roving around all day abducting people? (“Are we the baddies?”)

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 08-Dec-2025 23:56:57 JST Paul Cantrell

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     I am not, however, going to call these people “garbage,” not even ICE, because we don’t do that here.

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     okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin (okanogen@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 00:08:16 JST okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin

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     @inthehands
     One of them, wearing an American flag bandana over his face, pointed an assault rifle at the face of a friend of mine, a well-known Mac alum. From 3 feet away, at a widely reported St. Paul protest.

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     Yeshaya Lazarevich (alter_kaker@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 03:02:45 JST Yeshaya Lazarevich

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     @inthehands yeah and it's all right I'm my old neighborhood man. What a mess

     I wonder if they'll get confused and start taking Natives, that won't end well

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 03:09:13 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Yeshaya Lazarevich

     @alter_kaker
     Yeah…“confused” in very quote-y quotes there.

     And no, none of this ends well. Even if — when! I say when! — we manage to push it all back, a lot of people are getting hurt.

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     Yeshaya Lazarevich (alter_kaker@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 03:12:34 JST Yeshaya Lazarevich

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     @inthehands yes. One of my biggest critiques of the common accelerationist leftists is that they are so focused of what comes "after we win," that the humanity and suffering on the road to that allegedly assured victory. Plenty of people are happy that this is happening because they think that it'll cause "the class" to rise up. But I guess we all have to do the work that's in front of us. It sucks that I've gotten old and tired.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 07:46:04 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Yeshaya Lazarevich
     • Chris Johnson

     @cxj @alter_kaker
     All that. Accelerationism is different clothing for the same morally bankrupt nonsense as “effective altruism.”

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     Chris Johnson (cxj@phpc.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 07:46:06 JST Chris Johnson

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     • Yeshaya Lazarevich

     @alter_kaker @inthehands 100%. I'm too old and weak for this shit. Both accelerationists and others looking down the road to "after we win" have no idea about how brutal and unfair that road is in between.

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     Chris Johnson (cxj@phpc.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 11:41:13 JST Chris Johnson

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     • okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin

     @Okanogen @inthehands This might be a video of that incident. There's definitely a ICE officer pointing a firearm into the crowd in it.

     https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRm544iCqyV/