• BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        The resistance and pressure as well as non-compliance Minneapolis has been doing is very good. The only addition is I’d add that they need to regularly guard their neighborhoods, armed. That they have contact with others in multiple ways to warn of ICE in the area. Maybe not armed but when a task force of ICE is found, they have a task force of citizens there to document, resist, and just be general interference. Far too many people talk about resisting and violence against ICE to mean lone wolf shooting. That’s not what we’re calling for.

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      Those “Third world dumps” often are the way they are because the US did violent military interventions in those countries.

      This is the Imperial Boomerang coming back around. ICE is doing to Americans what their fathers, brothers, and sons were shipped off to do in Vietnam, Iraq, and countless other places.

      This fact doesn’t make the deaths of Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and others, any less tragic. But It doesn’t make the deaths of the people in those “Third world dumps” any less tragic either. I think these people deserve more respect than to have their homes called dumps.

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      I’m from a so-called “3rd world dump” and not even, because our death squads aren’t as well-armed to kill civilians.

      Then again, there may be a lot wrong with my country, but we definitely do not share America’s problems in the first place.

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      Sees America doing American things in the American way they always have: “this looks like something those inferior foreigners would do!”

      American exceptionalism is a religion

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      Libs looking at American pigs doing the thing they’ve done for a century: What are we? A bunch of filthy foreigners?

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    'Murica sure does love it some war. War over here, war over there. War all over and everywhere. War on brown people. War on drugs. War on civility. War on guns. War is hell? Nah, not for 'murica, War is opportunity for 'murica prosperity.

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      As a brown I fully agree, but also look back at history and think… don’t all dominant empires pull the same shit?

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        Yes they do, but people are just mad at America specifically right now so they just pretend we’re the only country that has ever done anything evil

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          Somehow it hits differently after our society decided that human rights were a thing.

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            You’re right, but America is funding the genocide so we’re still getting the shit for it. And don’t get me wrong, we deserve it when we deserve it, but there’s accounts out there unironically asserting that America is the root of all evil in the world and that it’s only America that is bad

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          Nah, don’t worry dude. America is just on the same level as China, Russia, North Korea and others now: not an enemy, not an ally. A potential threat, with a dictator at its head.

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          I can’t do much about the Roman Empire, crusades, Conquistadors, Putin or Winnie Pooh. I can criticise them, just as well as Israel’s crimes and the US’. The US is what I have the most contact with and what you’ll hear me complaining about most, but not the only thing.

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          No one pretends that the US is the only country doing anything bad… Arguably China and Russia for instance are still a lot worse when it comes to human right violations.

          But it is a lot more pressing that USA is turning to fascism/authoritarianism since it will then be two global anti-democratic Superpowers not only one.

          And before any .ml users jump the gun. Idgaf about how you think China is so great, keep it to yourselves.

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          This is hardly true. What bullshit, loser, victim mentality.

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        I will never forget the day Biden cancelled Christmas. People forget all the horrible things the other side has done. Like wear tan suits and eat fancy mustard, damn them!

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    You can watch the anime: Jin-Rou.

    There, armored squads of soldiers with red lenses shoot at people with machine guns in the sewers.

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    Beautiful shot.

    There is SO much good potential for solid propaganda messaging here. Look how scary and threatening these gasmasked brown-suited goons are. They even got the polarized lenses in Villainous Henchmen red?!?! What a GIFT!

    They’re like the Combine or XCOM 2’s Advent. Heck they even got a Killzone Helghast thing going on!

    C’mon artists! Let’s take this inspiration and put up elaborate guerilla murals and wheatpaste posters all over town.

    Imagery and art that can’t be ignored:

    “Look at these filthy storm troopers, dragging away children, pointing their big lethal guns at expectant mothers and nuns and doctors and puppies!”

    Get the message across to the ignorant uninvolved masses: These aren’t the friggin Paw Patrol. They do nothing for “safety.” They don’t target criminals. (A bunch of muppet-brains actually try to say this with a straight face. It’s mind-blowing.)

    Show them unmistakably as they are: They’re pitiless and alien, they’re evil, they’re scary, and they’re a Bad Thing.

    If you and your community don’t help stop them TODAY, they’ll laugh as they throw you and your neighbors into a van after shooting your dog.

    The best artists use references, and the photo is right here. Let’s get to work!

    (PSA: If you do this digitally, don’t forget to upload your “fan art” with TOR! 😉)

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    someone in arkansas or oklahoma is reading this thinking “this will never happen in my state because we’re white and racist”

    and they would be right.