Border Patrol Agent Aiming 40mm Launcher At My Head - ICE Protest 1/31
Picture from Saturday's protest at the Portland ICE facility. An agent fixed his 40mm launcher at my head twice, despite me very obviously being a photographer.
this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2026
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this is actually so sad how the world is now :(
What's the duffel bag on the leg for? It looks like it could hold an entire lunch.
It's the bag for his gas mask.
Be careful. Cameras are apparently guns now according to dhs
Like fucking Russia or any 3rd World dump. Piss off MAGA!
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.
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.
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?
A nation obsessed with guns and the military so it makes sense.
Childish Gambino was pulling his punches.
'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.
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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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.
For now
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The psyop has done a number on us hasn't it folks
Let's get the government outta here. Seriously!
fat, pickup truck drivers have been dying to cosplay without going to the middle east. getting some domestic play time in just makes sense, no harm, no foul, boys will be boys etc
also some "im one of the good ones" poc that joined ice. alex's murderers were both hispanic people.
This is a cool photo. Did you submit it to anything? I don't mean cool as in "oh look a military man, go USA". I mean it's cool as in look at warzone trump turned it into.
Not my photo, original photo came from the linked reddit post
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Your camera could have been an assault rifle. /s
The dissonance is amazing. There are ads for murcan tourism playing on tv here ( Australia ). The ads depict national parks, playing children, scenes of beauty. Then you see the real murca in these photos. The scenes from ‘Fallout’ are closer to reality than the tv ads. Makes you wonder who they think they’re fooling with the ads. We laugh at them ( the ads, not the murcans) the same way you laugh at old popeye cartoons.
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