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I hope the staff spat in their food

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[–] toeknee@piefed.social 4 points 6 days ago

I hope all their future meals taste like piss and flies

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

WE need the Charmed Ones to curse those ICE Agents. Luckily, there's an Instant Karma Spell in the show (s04e03):

"Let Cruelty, pain and evil ways Follow this villain through all his days Reverse the torment, he creates To turn on him a crueler fate' (Just change 'villain' to 'ICE Agent')"

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 294 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

That's some Tarantino villain level bullshit.

[–] hayvan@piefed.world 82 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tarantino wishes he could come up ridiculously evil shits like those.

[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago

This is similar to the beginning of Inglorious Basterds. The milk scene.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 week ago

Nice Guy Eddie: C'mon, throw in a buck!

Mr. Pink: Uh-uh, I don't tip.

Nice Guy Eddie: You don't tip?

Mr. Pink: No, I just kidnap them afterwards.

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 week ago

Or Rodriguez: You really must try this because it's “puerco pibil”. It's a slow-roasted pork, nothing fancy. It just happens to be my favorite, and I order it with a tequila and lime in every dive I go to in this country. And honestly, that is the best it's ever been anywhere. In fact, it's too good. It's so good that when I'm finished, I'll pay my check, walk straight into the kitchen and shoot the cook.

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 week ago

I was thinking Johnny Depp's character in Once Upon a Time in Mexico

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[–] Rhoeri@piefed.world 133 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why those nazi terrorists aren’t being denied service everywhere they go is beyond me.

[–] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 60 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Probably because they're often not clearly identifiable as law enforcement, let alone ICE. ~~Can't~~ It's not good business to deny service just because they look the type that might be ICE.

Edit: People seem to be misunderstanding my intentions here. Businesses should totally refuse service to anyone clearly showing to be ICE or acting in a racist way. Fuck them.

I'm saying that it's not in their best interest to deny service to middle aged white guys / rednecks because they look like they might be in ICE. They'd go out of business.

[–] mangaskahn@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They certainly can, law enforcement isn't a protected class. It might be bad for business, but nothing is stopping anyone from denying service to LEOs

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 22 points 1 week ago

@BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works is saying they_don't_ clearly identify as cops when showing up to eat

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 15 points 1 week ago (6 children)

If they're going to stereotype people to detain them there's nothing wrong with stereotyping them back. It won't kill them to pack their own lunch.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Define the type? Middle aged white dude? Maybe fat, maybe not. Maybe bald. Maybe not?

Most don’t have visible Nazis tats.

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[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Republicans have literally fought tooth and nail to be able to refuse service to anyone (in their case, LGBTQ people, disabled people, and black people) which absolutely can and should be used to the fullest extent against them.

[–] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My stance is fuck ICE, but not people who are possibly ICE. Judge people based on how they act and the message they send, not based on which race and age group they belong to

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 85 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They're butthurt that they couldn't eat at a Mexican restaurant in last few days (sound on for best effect)

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 64 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe instead of heckling them out of restaurants, we should use those moments to record them removing their masks so we can connect them to their crimes?

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

There's more than one opportunity, and the heckling was pretty good.

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[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 65 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So these dangerous criminal aliens were perfectly safe while preparing and serving them food and running the restaurant, but became dangerous as soon as they closed up for the day?

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Snowflakes probably couldn’t handle the pico. And that’s just embarrassing.

[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 61 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I hope the staff put extra "special sauce" in their food at least. Disgraceful nazi fucks.

[–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

Like the chumbawamba song

When ~~fine society~~ ICE agents sits down to dine
Remember that someone is pissing in the wine

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I’d cancel the clam chowder.

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[–] crimes_of_ICE@lemmy.4d2.org 35 points 1 week ago

If anyone wants to help document their crimes, check out https://crimesofice.org/ :)

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

Hope someone doxxes these bastards. Presumably they had to take the masks off to eat.

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Simple response: Don't feed the animals.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Oh you feed them you feed them the off menu special.

That actually reminds me of a story.

So in 2002 I worked at a place where the old owner still owned the property and he would come by to collect his rent cheques. German fellow, old guy.

He told a story once about growing up in Nazi Germany, he was very young at the time but old enough to remember it things.

In the town he grew up in, it was a small town, turns out one day the local butcher and his wife had the SS show up and take them off to be executed.

What they found it was Gestapo officers kept going missing in the area and everyone thought that they were taken to be questioned. No no it turned out that the old couple, who's children had long left the town and had lived elsewhere, were snatching Gestapo officers and then butchering them and selling them by turning them into sausages.

He said the sausages tasted completely normal and everyone was quite surprised how good the sausages were given the fact they they were all eating human sausage

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[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

Ah, so that explains a few things. A place I went to get some food yesterday, had the front doors locked. Someone had to let me in. Every time I've ever been there, it's usually busy Being vague just in case ICE were to read this.

[–] Cruel@programming.dev 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It is unclear who the individuals arrested are or what the reason was for their arrests

Wow great reporting. Didn't contact the restaurant or anything. Just writing about videos people post on social media.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

That is unfortunately SO much media these days. We should demand better, the media is the fourth pillar and its corruption and failure is to blame as much as anything else.

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[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Hypothetically, how would the police determine who on the staff accidentally added rat poison to their dish if there were no witnesses?

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 6 points 1 week ago

Head chef, venue manager, and operator are all likely to face criminal charges for something like that. Regulators do not fuck around, least here in aus

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

So they got booed out of one Mexican Restaurant and arrested a bunch of people at another in a fit of petty revenge?

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[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers reportedly arrested three staff members from a Mexican restaurant outside of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Thursday evening, hours after the officers ate lunch at the establishment.

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Evil. Gimme a better term and I'll use it. But for now: evil.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

evil implies the only way to beat them is to be "good'. it demonizes them into being monsters, which is no different than what they do.

a better term is reprobate.

an unprincipled or depraved person

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[–] elbiter@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

At least I hope the staff spit on their food.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I hope the staff spat in their food

They probably didn't, hoping to prevent exactly what happened.

[–] el_twitto@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I'd prefer arsenic

And they also arrested the people who hired these Illegal staff members right? Right?

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

anybody know how to read the independent without an overlay telling you to swipe to read the next article covering up the current article you're trying to read?

makes me want to just add them to my network blocklist

[–] Valo85@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

On mobile I use Firefox (I know I know just but hang on a minute) and there's the option to turn to page reader friendly with a tap of an icon in the address bar, near the right side.

That usually gets rid of intrusive overlays, formats the text into a more readable face type and also uses dark mode.

On topic - I'm so sorry America is infested with ICE

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[–] Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago

I have midwest crisis fatigue and so Does most of america.

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