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A couple of points...

  1. "Underground nightclub". Those are still a thing?

  2. "Attorney General Pam Bondi said that the club was 'frequented by Tda and MS-13 terrorists.'"

and 3) "Pullen added that there were over a dozen active duty service members in the club either as patrons or working as armed security guards."

Wow, what are the chances there were THREE groups of terrorists there...

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 49 minutes ago

Anybody else seen "Sinners"?

Here it is in real life.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

How many of those illegal immigrants are toddlers with stage-4 cancer this time?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Sorry for being pedantic but the toddler with stage-4 cancer that got deported was a US citizen, not an illegal immigrant.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

I'm sorry for the mistake, I tend not to make a difference between US and immigrant toddlers with stage-4 cancer when they're deported without due process.

As in, they're first and foremost human children whom the Trump regime inflicts pain and misery upon for no discernable reason.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Manufacturing consent depends on presenting "worthy victims". The distinction between American citizen or not is used to argue that citizens have nothing to worry about.

"You didn't break any laws, you didn't come here illegally, don't worry this will never happen to you, as long as you stay in line and don't make any sudden moves, we'll do our job and get rid of the criminals"

So while it's important to not pay into that, it's important to highlight that it's just as cruel to deport an a child undergoing cancer treatment because they are here illegally, it's also super important to remind our fellow citizens who still haven't fully opened their eyes: they're doing it to citizens too, and this can in fact happen to you.

They won't join us for the moral reason, but if they help us fight to save their own skin that's better than being blind.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

There's a reason. Last time around, the Republicans caught flak for hurting the wrong (white) people. This time they're making a spectacle of hurting the brown people to distract from the quieter hurt they're inflicting on their base.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

You’re good.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I'd argue that any toddler with stage 4 cancer should be fully allowed at any underground nightclub.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

With a guardian, of course.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

it's wacky how there's apparently hundreds of thousands of tren de aragua members in the us yet somehow i can barely find a single case of confirmed tda gang activity in the us

[–] [email protected] 33 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

And they've turned an LA street gang, MS-13 into an international terrorist organization..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Wayment, international?????? I'm more scared than I was!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 14 hours ago

Tda is the new Juden

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

"Underground nightclub". Those are still a thing?

Pretty much on how you define what's "underground". Like literally underground? Yes sure. Small nightclubs with let's say maximum 50 people, still exists. Non regulated unlicensed nightclubs, harder to know from a client point of view but there should be a lot of them.

Im an avid raver and go to the first type sometimes and regularly to the second type too. To the third type a couple if times in favelas on Rio, but here in São Paulo I haven't seen any of those.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

It was probably just located in a basement but underground makes it sound like that's where all the seedy criminals gather

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Or it's just an unlicensed venue. You just fit out an abandoned warehouse in an industrial estate and throw a party, I'm sure that's still a thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

It could have been just about anything with the way language gets treated like putty these days.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 hours ago

It was a warehouse, and they basically just found a place where Venezuelans partied. From what I remember they basically got no charges out of this raid and it blew up a DEA investigation that had been running for awhile.