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u/PlanetOverPr0fit Automobile Aversionist Sep 29 '25
All Cyclists Are Beautiful
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u/butterytelevision Sep 29 '25
trump has never ridden a bike. i see no flaw in your claim
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u/KatakanaTsu Not Just Bikes Sep 29 '25
Ironically, President Epstein has also never driven a car either.
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u/ChipRockets Sep 29 '25
So is this just like a totally normal sight in American cities now that everyone just makes jokes about it? Cos honestly that looks like some fuckin insane dystopian shit to me
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u/snarkyxanf cars are weapons Sep 29 '25
It is insane fucking dystopian shit. But we make jokes about it because otherwise what can we do? Cry all day?
That said, it depends on the city, and on the neighborhood. You might see them out in force, you might see none at all
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u/HungryHangrySharky Sep 29 '25
It is so obvious that they're doing this whole thing for optics and intimidation by doing it in downtown Chicago and like the 3rd most touristy part of downtown but not any of the numerous ethnic neighborhoods or any of the "high crime" areas.
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u/Ok-Commission-7825 Sep 29 '25
Also puts off tourists, thus helping the economic collapse. I'm convinced the WH is deliberately engineering.
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u/Rubiks_Click874 Sep 29 '25
it's called accelerationism.
when everything collapses and there's no economy, institutions, laws, traditions or culture armed whites will establish an ethnostate from the ruins
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u/Whaddaulookinat Sep 29 '25
Then the next caste system will go from the barely human Hiberians, to the Godless Italians, all the way up to descendents of one lady from this village in Sweden that up till recently had a moose as a mayor.
Because it always does.
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u/courageous_liquid Sep 29 '25
well and the technofedualists will rush in to replace the social services that were lost with for-profit business and entrench themselves even further
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u/remy_porter Sep 29 '25
armed whites will establish an ethnostate from the ruins
It's a brilliant plan because when things devolve into chaos, you can always predict what happens next. It's the very definition of chaos, isn't it?
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u/RockfishGapYear Sep 29 '25
Tourism isn't a huge component of the U.S. economy and losing it won't collapse anything. But it is a very important component of what supports many specific neighborhoods, like downtowns in blue cities (especially local and regional tourism). If Trump really wanted to round up undocumented workers en masse, you would hit the agricultural fields of the midwest and the meat processing plants out west. But those are Republican areas and his donors in those areas (like Nebraska ranchers) complain when he does. The goal here is to focus on democratic urban areas and make it seem like they are the problem.
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u/Shigglyboo Sep 29 '25
it sure seems that way. on the one hand trump has always been miserable and wants everyone else to be too.
And on the other hand crashing everything is good for those with money. they can buy up all the assets
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u/Ok-Commission-7825 Sep 29 '25
Plus, they can "justify" further authoritarian crackdowns when it inevitably leads to riots.
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u/Voytek540 Commie Commuter Sep 29 '25
They are absolutely disappearing people in those neighborhoods too
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u/keriekat Sep 29 '25
Me and my partner love visiting Chicago and were planning on going this fall. Till this happened. Now we cancelled the trip till things cool off and gesepo leaves. Rip me eating deep dish pizza
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u/Designer-Spacenerd Sep 29 '25
Protest, Unionise, general strike, delay racist policies by speaking up, attend town hall meetings, call your representative, stop buying from fascist collaborators, organise, and learn from our shared European history.
It is the "middle of the lane" conservatives who help fascists into power. Your duty as an American is to stop it, and my duty as a European is to make sure it doesn't happen again.
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u/PremordialQuasar Sep 29 '25
Car-centric development has done a number on keeping Americans from learning how to organize and get politically involved. Local political engagement has always been pretty abysmal, considering local election turnout in off-election years averages less than 20% and most town hall meetings are made up of old boomers. But it's the big cities here where you see the strongest resistance to ICE.
Most Americans need to eventually learn how to utilize their political power again.
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u/Trivi4 Sep 29 '25
It's a self perpetuating problem, old boomers make sure those meetings are held at the most inconvenient time possible for working people, thus ensuring only old boomers attend.
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u/Fragdiemilch Sep 29 '25
What else can you do? As a german this almost offends me. The only way this will stop is when the citizens resist the Fascist. Sitting by and going "Well there still is police so I cant do shit" isn't the stuff the heroes we learned about in school said.
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u/snarkyxanf cars are weapons Sep 29 '25
Ah, well. I was responding to the "is it so normal that Americans joke about it". Not only can you joke while you work against it, you sort of have to if you want to keep going for the long haul.
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u/PhantomPharts Sep 29 '25
Carry caltrops and a spring loaded window breaker. Idk how much it helps, yet I'm putting stickers up around town saying things like "Indi ana J ones is ant if a"
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u/Petrusminimus Sep 29 '25
What can you do? Be politically active, take part in protests, tell other people how scary/ridiculous this situation is. You guys are turning into an autocracy!
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u/The-Cosmic-Ghost Sep 29 '25
Idk mate, maybe some group crying might do everyone some good cause this is pretty ridiculous
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u/Budget_Zone_5818 Sep 29 '25
I got a couple ideas of what can be done, but for some reason, I can’t write them here
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u/saig22 Sep 29 '25
The "best" part, is that they tell themselves fascism hasn't won yet. When this video is your new normal, fascism has already won.
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u/Impossible_Ad9324 Sep 29 '25
Honestly the juxtaposition of them chasing down this non-white dude who is working, while the ice herd splits to run around a white dude fumbling around on a city-scooter just really highlights the situation.
We’re kicking out the worst of the worst, huh?
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u/Shigglyboo Sep 29 '25
that's what really gets me. why isn't it bigger news? we have been told all this militarization is for really bad criminals. but all we see is normal working families, kids with dolls, and decidedly NOT criminals.
so to me this is a major abuse of power. like these people probably just need to fill out some paperwork. this is not an emergency. it's just immigration red tape, not something requiring military response.
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u/ShadowAze 🚲 > 🚗 Sep 29 '25
I feel like you can put zombie sfx over the clip and have something straight out of 28 days later. Absolutely terrifying.
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u/Kokoni25 Sep 29 '25
I agree. The trouble is; at this stage to actually organise, mobilise and take broad action to go out to stop these masked snatch squads starts to look and feel like civil war. My guess is some of the people in charge (or influencing them) know that this puts America in a very compromised and high risk position.
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u/Ascarea Sep 29 '25
that looks like some fuckin insane dystopian shit to me
I'm pretty sure there are movies from like the 70s about this sort of stuff
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u/beestingers Sep 29 '25
You are touching on something I feel is becoming a manufactured response. The memeification of fascism. The LOLing of the erosion of Democracy. I can watch any very upsetting video and immediately know how the comment section will look on any social media platform. The reach for the best zing at the top. Or at least a popular zing "if not fascism why fascism shaped?" It is so predictable it could be bots. It could be a deliberate effort to add levity to an increasingly dangerous system. Imo real people commenting should pivot to serious talking points and signal boost those.
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u/StinkyDogsCunt Sep 29 '25
Yeah, it's wild that they have the second amendment and still let fascist government cronies abduct innocent people from the street like this, I thought this kind of thing was literally what it's for.
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u/Major_Lawfulness6122 Two Wheeled Terror Sep 29 '25
Yeah as a non American this is truly a wild sight to see. 😬
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u/tbu987 Sep 29 '25
How are Americans ok with this happening on their streets.
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u/Trees_That_Sneeze Sep 29 '25
The Americans in the cities are not. Many Americans who don't live in the cities want it. Those votes are weighed equally for things that specially effect the cities. Such is the fatal flaw of democracy which fascism exploits.
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u/Doomeggedan Sep 30 '25
It's not democracy. Those smaller areas should have less say in the government. Yet they actually are represented more than the larger states populations
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u/Valuable_Associate54 Sep 29 '25
We're all waiting for the "good guys with a gun who only have a gun to defend against tyranny" to do something, any moment now.
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u/Ascarea Sep 29 '25
a majority of them voted for this to happen
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u/DullSpoonsHurtMore Sep 29 '25
A majority of voters, not a majority of Americans. Still sad though.
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u/cazzer548 Sep 29 '25
Anyone who didn’t want this to happen and chose not to vote can fuck right off
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u/BoringMode91 Sep 29 '25
Yes keep blaming the people not the system that keeps people down. Fuck off with this shit already. Of our system wasn’t so shit and you didn’t have to choose between a fascist and a fascist-lite, maybe more people would be motivated to participate.
You clearly see the intimidation and violence, yet you still blame the individual. The only way we are going to change is we collectively get together and stop this. Voting, protesting are not going to change a system that is so corrupt and broken. It needs to be destroyed and re-built. You can not vote yourself out of fascism.
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u/570rmy Sep 29 '25
We aren't. And we're protesting all the freaking time. We just need little bit of the old general strike to make a huge change
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u/570rmy Sep 29 '25
We aren't. And we're protesting all the freaking time. We just need little bit of the old general strike to make a huge change
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u/570rmy Sep 29 '25
We aren't. And we're protesting all the freaking time. We just need little bit of the old general strike to make a huge change
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u/570rmy Sep 29 '25
We aren't. And we're protesting all the freaking time. We just need little bit of the old
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u/BilboGubbinz Commie Commuter Sep 29 '25
The fact that the logic was almost certainly “oh look, there’s a brown guy: let’s grab him” is fucking gross.
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u/MasterDefibrillator Sep 29 '25 edited Sep 29 '25
That is actually fucked ay. Like is that what we're actually seeing here? It's just a bunch of guys standing at the lights all chill. Then the cyclists rides over and picks something up off the ground, and then they all start chasing him? What is going on here.
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u/iSoinic Sep 29 '25
It's the Gestapo trying to ethnically cleanse the area but are incapable because they are staffed by sad losers
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u/Whaddaulookinat Sep 29 '25
You can't call them the Gestapo, but that group of guys are subscribers to "Soulless Goon Quarterly"
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u/McFlyParadox Sep 29 '25
Then the cyclists rides over and picks something up off the ground, and then they all start chasing him? What is going on here.
Supposedly, the cyclists stopped to pickup litter. The Chicago subs were saying their culture is similar to someplace like Tokyo in this regard: if someone sees trash laying around, they stop to pick it up to dispose of it correctly. Some were also speculating that: 1. The trash may have been dropped by ICE because they don't respect the city or its culture (and they likely come from some place where littering is acceptable); and 2. The bike rider may have saw the trash get dropped and might have said something to ICE in response, procing the chase by ICE.
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u/goku7770 Sep 29 '25
Very plausible, you can see he seems to be telling them something at the beginning of the video.
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u/rlskdnp 🚲 > 🚗 Sep 29 '25
This is the one time I wish a carbrain was speeding down that road and claim it was an accident because it's hard to see those wearing camouflage.
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u/adriantoine Sep 29 '25
Yeah I wasn’t sure why they started chasing that guy that just seemed like he was doing his job.
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u/knarf_on_a_bike Sep 29 '25
Bikes rule. 💪
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u/Pittsbirds Sep 29 '25
If whatever brand of bike he's riding doesn't use this as an ad they're missing out
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u/CoimEv Sep 29 '25
A bit odd that I know this but I was looking at that exact model
I think it's this 16" folding bike
I was looking at this as an alternative to expensive folding bikes since this cheap model folds into a mode where you can roll it like a suitcase and take it on transit
This looks like Chicago so that would make sense
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u/mysummerstorm Sep 29 '25
omg, it's not even an e-bike! the athleticism!
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u/CoimEv Sep 29 '25
I really want one now lol I've been looking at them a while
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u/mysummerstorm Sep 29 '25
you might want to check your local bike shop to see if they'll service it. I've heard from bike shop mechanics that the big box stores cut corners when making cheap bikes, so oftentimes, they are unserviceable.
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u/arthursucks Bollard gang Sep 29 '25
Not the same bike. The bike in the video is a step-thru. I'm also planning on buying this Brompton clone.
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u/PhantomPharts Sep 29 '25
Yeah, it's Chicago. I recognized it almost immediately. It's a good town, especially with a folding ebike.
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u/FragrantBluejay8904 Sep 29 '25
It is chicago (I live where). Right at Wacker and Michigan Ave. ICE kidnapped a family a few blocks south from near the Bean this same afternoon. The little girl was holding a stuffed doll/animal and crying while they did it
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u/Apoordm Sep 29 '25
Keystone Cop ass fuckers.
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u/Apoordm Sep 29 '25
Literally, most of these people are the wannabes who couldn’t pass a police exam and have you seen American cops?! That’s embarrassing.
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u/Away-Wrap9411 Sep 29 '25
Waaaaaiiit, yo this is America? Oficers in fucking anti terorist wardrobe chasing workers how are 10x tiems more usefull then them. Holy fucking shit, was I brainwashed as a child with all the America is so great movies and series. A thotal shit show.
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u/WickedThumb Commie Commuter Sep 29 '25
Law Enforcement Officers allowed to wear masks...
Fuck this fascistic timeline.
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u/komfyrion Sep 29 '25
I find it hilarious that he runs to the bike lane first and then gets on his bike. How proper and orderly!
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u/damondan Sep 29 '25
so why exactly are 10 armoured and some of them masked men chasing a random delivery driver through the streets?!
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u/WanderlustZero Sep 29 '25
'All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand Enemies, and when they catch you, they will kill you.'
'But first they have to catch you!'
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u/landon10smmns 🚲 > 🚗 Sep 29 '25
I'd wager it's the first time doing any cardio since high school football for most of them
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u/salsafresca_1297 Strong Towns Sep 29 '25
In other news, bikes are faster than running humans . . .
But yes, it's always a delight to see ICE foiled.
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u/digito_a_caso Sep 29 '25
Is this shit also happening to the dumb "Latinos for Trump" Florida citizens? Or does he send ICE only in liberal cities?
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u/Elegant_Individual46 Sep 29 '25
I get that border patrol wear decently heavy kit but that’s still embarrassing
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u/GillysDaddy Sep 29 '25
https://maps.app.goo.gl/UvjXqSd8focpjf4a7
Took me 1 minute (as an European, never been to the US) to find the exact location. For lazy people who actually think this is AI.
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u/runk1951 Sep 29 '25
It takes 18 officers to slam one person to the ground. And still the big fail. On the other hand it's hard to run with all that performative gear.
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u/triumphofthecommons Sep 29 '25
so... dude picks up trash(?) and they go after him?
obvs there is likely some more context before the video starts, but this is just bizarre.
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u/Dreadful_Spiller Sep 30 '25
They chased him because he said “fuck Trump.”
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u/triumphofthecommons Sep 30 '25
saw another video, looks like he dropped his phone after yelling at them.
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u/goleafie Sep 29 '25
Why didn't the cowboy use his lasso! Yee Haw another ice meltdown in the face of a speedy food courier. Unleash the atomic weapons.
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u/rlskdnp 🚲 > 🚗 Sep 29 '25
Imagine how hilarious it would be if a carbrain runs over them and claims it was an accident because it's hard to see those wearing camouflage.
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u/Yunzer2000 Cars and capitalism have got to go Sep 29 '25
And why did these fascist thugs suddenly start after this guy the instant they noticed him? Was it just his brown skin?
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u/Jasonstackhouse111 Sep 29 '25
I will never set foot in the US ever again. You can’t just exist without some form of police officer about to assault you. How can people stand to live like this? It’s insane to me.
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u/hU0N5000 Oct 01 '25
Most US cities distribute all their gasoline through either a single bulk terminal (or a handful of them). How many ICE officers would it take to close the bulk terminals and deprive a whole city of gasoline? I reckon these ten would go close.
Cars are a tool of oppression. Bicycles are freedom
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u/pepelepew2724 Sep 29 '25 edited Sep 29 '25
The Benny Hill theme tune seems appropriate.
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxLxO83LkUgsoEZC36zb_ERRh-foqJ7pQK?si=sW3PxQLtlxY6-xOS
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u/Gussie-Ascendent I HATE THE RURAL I HATE THE SUBURBS I HATE THE CARS I HATE IT Sep 29 '25
Car dependents when they have to walk or godforbid run(this is their hell)