How ICE knows who Minneapolis protesters are

Surveillance, ICE, and Legality

• Several commenters react to the article by asserting that this kind of surveillance and data fusion by ICE “should not be legal,” but there’s little detailed legal argument—mostly moral outrage.
• An “icemap.app” link is shared as an anonymous tool for tracking ICE activity, implying grassroots responses to state surveillance.

Tech Companies and Moral Responsibility

• A strong condemnatory view labels employees of surveillance, data-broker, and policing vendors (e.g., facial recognition, forensics, analytics firms) as complicit in fascism.
• Others show interest in maintaining personal “do-not-work-for / do-not-invest-in” lists of such companies, reflecting a boycott/divestment mindset; no explicit pushback appears in the provided excerpt.

Roots of the Far Right: Inequality, Welfare, and Immigration

• One thread argues that the real way to blunt far-right authoritarianism is robust safety nets, reduced inequality, strong unions, and better education; also a “cordon sanitaire” against extremist parties and tighter intelligence monitoring of the far right.
• A counterview says generous welfare plus permissive illegal immigration fuels resentment and helps the right; conflicts over birthright citizenship and access to benefits are emphasized.
• There is disagreement over whether technocratic claims that “immigration is good for the economy” should override public preference. Some say a democracy must follow voters even if technocrats think they’re wrong; others favor reducing immigration in high-salience areas while improving economic literacy.

Democracy, Rule of Law, and Trump

• One camp claims “just enforce existing laws” and much of the Trump-era horror disappears, citing insufficient accountability for the Capitol attack and for Trump himself.
• Others argue law enforcement and federal institutions are already compromised, and that Congress has abdicated its constitutional duty to check a rogue executive.

Capitalism, Parties, and Systemic Decay

• Left and libertarian voices converge that extreme inequality and unchecked corporate power undermine democracy and real individual freedom.
• Some blame decades of tax cuts, offshoring, weak antitrust, and safety-net dismantling—largely associated with Republicans—for fueling economic grievance and anti-government sentiment, though Democratic shortcomings are also acknowledged.