ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance Ops in US History

Re:ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance ... by cyberjerkXX on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @11:51AM (#50275719)

They aren't going to support Leftists. There might be a temporary alliance at best but they know leftist aren't actually interested in smaller government, freedom of speech, and private property rights. They know Leftists are equally as authoritarian because of the social control policies implemented during COVID. For example The political hunts connected to the SPLC and FBI/DOJ burned those bridges. They remember how Leftists treat them when they work against them. Therefore your attempt to use their principles against them aren't going to work very well.

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Re:ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance ... by kijashdkujdfhas on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @12:55PM (#50276718)

> They know Leftists are equally as authoritarian because of the social control policies implemented during COVID.

The actual restrictions were quite reasonable in the vast majority of cases, weren't in place very long, and were only spottily enforced.

Sorry you missed a couple nights at Applebees.

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Re:ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance ... by brailsafe on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @04:22PM (#50280340)

> The actual restrictions were quite reasonable in the vast majority of cases, weren't in place very long, and were only spottily enforced.

It's ok to think they were reasonable or unreasonable, and which side you fall on seems like it'd largely be determined by personal circumstances and lifestyle.

> Sorry you missed a couple nights at Applebees.

This kind of rhetoric gives off a deplorable sort of pompous vibe. While it's probably untrue to say that both sides are equally authoritarian, it would also be untrue to suggest one side isn't at all. Both COVID and the response to it caused a tremendous of damage for some and created ridiculous amounts of wealth and almost no damage for others.

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Re:ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance ... by kijashdkujdfhas on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @05:39PM (#50281284)

99% of covid restriction whining on the internet is exactly that, whining. And tends to be very revisionist about what actually happened, what actually was restricted, and what actually was enforced.

I reject your slightly modified false equivalency.

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Re:ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance ... by vablings on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @02:13PM (#50278362)

> Leftists are equally as authoritarian because of the social control policies implemented during COVID

In the western world how many of these COVID controls remain in place as of today?

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Re:ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance ... by solid_fuel on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @06:58PM (#50282152)

Literally none of them, but it won't matter to the "both sides" types or the right wingers because it's about their feelings not about the facts of what actually happened during COVID or how many people the TEMPORARY restrictions saved.

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Re:ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance ... by techteach00 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @02:58PM (#50279081)

Yes! I lost my entire career because I wouldn't participate in the Covid production. Dems will cheer on surveillance tech embedded with law enforcement when they view the target as their political opponents.

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Re:ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance ... by rurp on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:03PM (#50279157)

Give me a break. Dems weren't throwing people in foreign torture prisons for not wearing a mask at the grocery store. Or throwing them in internment camps and stripping them of their citizenship for simply expressing an opinion.

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Re:ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance ... by mike_hearn on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @04:23PM (#50280359)

In one poll a majority of Democrats supported indefinite house arrest for anyone who didn't take the vaccine, and 45% supported confining the unvaccinated to "designated facilities" (prison camps). 47% supported the use of government tracking systems for the unvaccinated.

https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_bb2352aa-7d...

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