I don't want to start thread after thread of ICE horrors so I'm making this ~1 minute vid a comment in here. It's ICE cosplaying as SWAT. One of them even uses a shield.

ICE goons abducted a Minneapolis family at gunpoint today in a lawless, early-morning raid.

https://bsky.app/profile/iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social/post/3mcxdljkjis2c

I wish I hadn't watched it. I'm going to walk around in my backyard now for a few minutes to try to relax. I have autoplay disabled all over the net. But I have a habit of saying to myself "I need to see this" even for ICE kidnapping videos so I click on vids anyway. ~~I'm going to have to break that habit.~~ I'm breaking that habit as of right now.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

1973: So we make Special Weapons And Tactics to deal with terrorists and the most heinous criminals.

2026: [SWAT arrests children without a warrant]

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In some alternate universe - somebody (a "radical" relative or something?) educates the very young me on copaganda avant la lettre. This happens before the SWAT tv series is broadcast in 1975 and I bet by high school I realize leftism is the answer. In our universe though - I thought SWAT was a very cool show. And many decades had to pass before I reached leftism.

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Ninja edit

Google actually worked. I wondered how old the term copaganda is. This site claims the first known usage is from 2003.

Copaganda

The origins of the term “copaganda” (a portmanteau of “cop” and “propaganda”) are unclear. At present, the word appears to have been first used by Greg Beato, who wrote in 2003 that “mostly Hollywood has simply churned out malignant copaganda that glamorizes police brutality and normalizes the idea that the only good cop is a bad cop.”

https://csalateral.org/issue/11-2/watchmen-copaganda-abolition-futurities-us-television-hatrick-gonzalez/#%3A%7E%3Atext=The+origins+of+the+term

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 16 points 2 months ago

I'm very sorry for all of us who have been/are/will be traumatized, because of these events; I hope seeing it on home soil raises some awareness of how we've been treating citizens of other states, that we don't see.