Would protestors be safer? Thousands of masked people with guns. Chaos?
I can’t help but think that the only solution to ICE is a “well regulated militia” in combination with political reform, with both being necessary.
Would protestors be safer? Thousands of masked people with guns. Chaos?
I can’t help but think that the only solution to ICE is a “well regulated militia” in combination with political reform, with both being necessary.
We saw ICE disarm and shoot a citizen who had a gun. A lesson from this is that a weapon is only threatening if we create an environment where it’s a credible threat, like outnumbering them with armed citizens.
Masks? I could go either way on this. Masks can be protective, and can also be seen as alienating from the community. That alienation is not some unchangeable truth, it’s just a result of how they’re perceived in our cultures (often associated with crime). For a counterexample, look at the Zapatistas who regularly wore masks to protect them from cartel and state violence:
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That’s a great point I hadn’t considered about masks. Face paint and drag makeup can help protect from facial recognition, and they’ll also let us speak clearly and emote on camera to make any footage more compelling. I wonder if that’s something that could catch on.
I know that juggalo and dazzle paint is an antiquated ai countermeasure. I would be surprised if drag makeup still works but with the extreme contouring it might. Lots of facial fc is run through IR now though, so it basically negates that.