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Republican calls for investigation into Alex Pretti shooting in Minneapolis increase
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this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2026
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…and all the others murdered by ice, right?
Nah. Border patrol has literally murdered like a hundred people in the last decade and not one of them matters until they decided to shoot a white guy.
There's more to it than that, but let's take it at face value
What does complaining about it do? The majority now cares that ICE is killing people. Do you want people to treat Pretti's killing like all the others?
I don't see how any good can come from complaining that action wasn't taken now that we have a chance for change
No. I want people to treat the hundred brown people they killed like they mattered as much as the one white guy they killed. Weird that is such a foreign concept that its hard for you to grasp that.
The point is that isn't how the world works. You can complain about that all you like but it won't change anything. Accept that reality is what it is and respond accordingly. In this case that means using whatever opening you have to press for change. Telling racists they should care about brown people is obviously not going to work, even if it is true. Pointing out that their policies are killing white people might. This is the basic concept of politics.
I'm not talking to racists, I am talking to people like you that should have cared about it.
You're assuming that I don't. Failing to distinguish between an argument that will land with some people vs one that will land with most people is exactly the problem people are pointing out to you and you're still doing it here.
Hundred? Man you've only been paying attention in the last 24 hours or something.
No, I actually looked it up because I didn't want to say something stupid by just assuming the right number.
What about all the murders by this regime that we probably don't know about? People have been disappeared from the concentration camps
Truth! I want justice for everyone, how many are suffering and dying in the concentration camps? ‘Deported’ to who knows where, and just murdered in the streets. Ice needs to go