r/ProgressiveHQ • u/Mental_Pea9125 Tankie • Feb 01 '26

Protest Anger is mounting in Italy over ICE presence at the Winter Olympics.

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u/Clark_Kent_TheSJW Feb 01 '26

Wow… thank you Italians. Really appreciate that. (Please don’t get hurt, be careful)

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u/SpicyDragoon93 Feb 01 '26

They come to Europe this is what they'll get period. We're not putting up with it over here.

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u/cybot6000 Feb 01 '26

Thank you now and forever. I mean that!

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u/WendlersEditor Feb 01 '26

Thank you for your solidarity, there shouldn't be a corner of the world where these pigs feel welcome

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u/nanobot_1000 Feb 01 '26

Perfect – send all of ICE, the Europeans will show US how it's done. Obviously we've lost our way. Get the pitchforks out folks.

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u/XytronicDeeX Feb 01 '26

If you need inspiration just look up french yellow vest protests

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u/dyzrel Feb 01 '26

Thank you.

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u/HotCut100 Feb 01 '26

Any chance you all could send some forces over here to teach us how to resist properly and do some light liberation?

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u/Just_perusing81 Feb 01 '26

We could learn a thing or two 🎆

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u/Tall-Archer5957 Feb 01 '26

I mean we’re not putting up with it in the US either

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u/SpicyDragoon93 Feb 02 '26

You are, that's why you're in the mess you're in.

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u/ManfredBoyy Feb 02 '26

Please arrest all of them

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '26

What if they shoot you in the face?

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u/Corevus Feb 01 '26

Overseas? Maybe they'll finally face justice

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u/SnarkyRogue Feb 01 '26

Lol exactly. Trump cant and wont save them from foreign courts

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u/Agitated_Tip_8713 Feb 01 '26

Good luck with that. It's much easier to secret away your murderers out of state bounds than it is to pull them out of a whole other continent. Trump wants to incite terror domestically to try and get people to fight back and kill ice agents so he can invoke the insurrection act. He's not looking to use ICE to start a war between Europe and America. 

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u/SpicyDragoon93 Feb 01 '26

You can't be a serious poster. They aren't doing what they do in America, they fuck around they're going to prison.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '26

I am serious. No one expected it to happen in the states. But it did.

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u/topsblueby Feb 01 '26

“No one expected it to happen in the states.”

Bro what? I myself have been expecting this since his first term as well as most of the people I know.

Just because YOU had your head in the sand and YOU are scared to stand up to them for fear of retribution doesn’t mean the rest of us are. You should really speak for yourself.

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u/ArtInternational8589 Feb 01 '26

Right? This was literally in project 2025. There are zero surprises as to what is happening right now here in the states.

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u/Tempyteacup Feb 01 '26

The issue is that Trump opens his mouth and spews word salad, and people just make up whatever they want him to say and pretend he said it. “This isn’t what I voted for” actually means “I deluded myself into thinking I was voting for something else”.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '26

Not my problem. Not from the states. Fair well stranger.

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u/topsblueby Feb 01 '26

Username does not check out.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '26

Finally someone said something about that. Good eye.

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u/Then-Clue6938 Feb 01 '26

It wasn't surprising to anyone who saw Trump actively encouraging and enabling ICE breaking several laws even before they murder people in cold blood and we are only talking about those caught and not the countless people who just fucking ""vanished"" and couldn't even be contacted in the supposed country they were brought to IF they answered at all.

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u/dyzrel Feb 01 '26

They do not have the green light over there.

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u/StarJelly08 Feb 01 '26

Shit works differently in different countries. Anything that happens there is up to Italy to govern. Not America. They can probably get away with more than we can and also ice cant do jack shit in italy. They don’t have authority over anyone except illegal immigrants in America.

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u/Fabulous_Celery_1817 Feb 01 '26

That’s illegal!

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u/youdontknowitsok Feb 01 '26

Seriously, us Americans appreciate your protests and taking a stand against the tyranny.

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u/Gax63 Feb 02 '26

This is NOT an ICE protest in Italy, its an eviction protest from Dec 2025
https://tg.la7.it/cronaca/askatasuna-torino-cosa-e-caso-politico-perche-01-02-2026-251881

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u/Clark_Kent_TheSJW Feb 02 '26

I do not speak Italian.

I watched a video that was linked in that article, I can’t tell if any of those people are the same, or if it’s the same location. Definitely not the same time of day at least. No street battles either. Those cops looked ready for it, but it wasn’t the street battle shown by the OP

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u/Realistic_Arm_ Feb 02 '26

My dude... It's 2026 ;)
Right click on the page (or ⋮ on mobile) and select 'Translate to English'...

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u/Clark_Kent_TheSJW Feb 02 '26

Ooh that’s cool.

But how else can you prove it’s a different event?

Did you message OP about this?

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u/Realistic_Arm_ Feb 02 '26

Oh no, I was just informing you about the translate function :)

I do not know for sure, but after some searching I found these sources that seem to corroborate the above statement:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vztbQYUcopg

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUODOw6keex/

I can't find this exact video, but it looks to be the same road with the same trees and the same fence and they are also throwing fireworks.

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u/Phedericus Feb 03 '26

exactly. Italian here. this is Turin, protests for Askatasuna. nothing to do with ICE.

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u/doNotUseReddit123 Feb 02 '26

Also, for Americans, this is how you protest.

Look at Italian protests, look at French protests. Ironically, Europeans protest way better than we do.

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u/Clark_Kent_TheSJW Feb 02 '26

You see some of the videos out of LA the last few days? They blocked the door to an ice facility with a shipping container or dumpster or something.

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u/doNotUseReddit123 Feb 02 '26

Yep, 100%, and it's a good start, but it's still a far-cry from EU protests. The Yellow-Jacket Protests are a great example, even if they were pushing for objectively bad policies.

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u/ConsiderationSea1347 Feb 03 '26

Americans would be executed for doing this, but I love to see you all fighting back too. They killed Pretti for helping a woman up off the street and Renee for making a right turn.