Bytes, my man, you need an archived link. https://nitter.net/PabloReports/status/1919822694477947003#m
Edit: A reminder to go after the argument, not the users. No troll baiting.
People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.
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Bytes, my man, you need an archived link. https://nitter.net/PabloReports/status/1919822694477947003#m
Edit: A reminder to go after the argument, not the users. No troll baiting.
Cops will take as much freedom as you give them and often they will attempt more than they have been granted. Never give cops an inch they are not legally entitled to. In democracies, laws exist to grant people freedom from the power of the state, not to grant the state freedom from the power of the people. Any laws that grant cops protection from the people are laws of a tyranny. We get only the protections of the state that our rights make possible and no more. Trading freedom for security gets us neither.
The only disappointing part of the article is that the 2 brown shirts continued to live.
🎶 Stack em high. Stack em high. While they gurgle bleed and die! 🎶
"ICE" Agents
I still think about this scene a lot because I've been there sheen relatively normal people casually talked about going to cities and shooting "democrats“ while also talking about the guns they were currently buying. I should have turned them in.
I should have turned them in.
And put yourself on the list to be visited by "ICE."
I have too many family members who are Leo, plus other reasons why they shouldn't do that. Plus it would be homeland security or FBI for various other reasons. But it could be ICE because I know a lot of immigrants. It would be a clusterfuck.
I wonder if the director told that actor "have, just, the worst trigger discipline. Make it look like you have no business handling a firearm."
In the movie this is right after he executes 2 Chinese journalist, so lack of trigger discipline kinda makes sense. Oh and he’s about to try to execute a bunch more people in the up coming moments
Agreed. Dude was unhinged and didn’t give a fuck about any of that in this scene. Which obviously made it more tense
I’m not sure how well received this movie is but I really enjoyed it. The movie did a good job at not really identifying this characters “military affiliation” as well as the first group of militia they ran into. To my knowledge, nothing really identified these two groups as being affiliated with the government or resistance, so the tendency to just kill everyone you don’t know is probably how most things would get handled in the fallout/duration of a civil war.
They could be ICE, they could also be the KKK.
America's Gestapo
Indeed, my thoughts exactly.
¿Por que no las dos?
So how long until real criminals start following suit and impersonating undercover ICE agents? Not like there's much distinction between either "career" now, is there?
And then how long until ICE agents start showing up with holes on the ground because property owners "thought" they were real street thugs trying to rob them? Is there even a way to tell the difference? ~wink wink~
How long? Negative three months, apparently: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/04/us/ice-impersonators-on-the-rise-arrests-made-as-authorities-issue-national-warning/index.html
And then how long until ICE agents start showing up with holes on the ground because property owners “thought” they were real street thugs trying to rob them? Is there even a way to tell the difference? ~wink wink~
Should happen more often, this aversion to civil violence is a bit like a game of "I drop my weapon, you drop yours" between governments and people, except governments never fulfill their part.
Like Russian opposition trying to do "everything by the law" until realizing the other side never was, it was just silent enough in killing and randomly vanishing people and pretending its just dumb thieves. The same is happening in the EU right now, they just don't know it yet.
"Batches? We doan need no stinking batches!"
Stand your ground
"When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty." Thomas Jefferson
He didn't ever say that, actually. It was likely first said by an activist in New Zealand https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jefferson-injustice-resistance-quote/