• 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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    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.

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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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      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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      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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    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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    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.

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    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

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    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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      And the Canadian government STILL hasn’t put out a travel warning to the US.

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      To be fair, most cities are still like the ad. Yeah, there’s an undercurrent of tension that wasn’t there two years ago, but the majority of areas are not seeing ICE activity. People are going to work and school and not talking about this stuff. It’s crazy how people can compartmentalize.

      I don’t think they’ll ever have enough gravy seals to deploy everywhere at once. Think about how many people they would need just to cover all fifty capitol cities (which typically aren’t even the biggest cities in the state). They can only patrol one or two large cities at a time, it seems, and look how much pushback they get.

      It’s all over the media, and it should be, but don’t look at photos like that and think it’s on every street corner or even every city in the US.

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      australians should be well aware behind the smokescreen, im betitng its mostly red states advertising tourism, its thier sole economy. ALso the fact that the tourism industry hurting isnt be reporting is a sign.

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      Yeah, the Kremlin is having a great time being continually entertained by the slow death of a country. Yeah, they love to show the dissonance, the hypocrisy, and to say the end of the West is coming according to Aleksandr Dugin.

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        It’s crazy how much, even now, American liberals still can’t admit fault without resorting to Judeo-Bolshevick style conspiracy theories.

        And just so you know, most of the world is happy to see the evil empire collapsing, not just those dang ruskies.

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      We laugh at them ( the ads, not the murcans)

      Nah, laugh at the Seppos, they voted for this.

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      I mean, both are true. That’s why some people are saying not to worry about the water on this sinking ship. They think that only if everything is terrible for every single part of the country for everyone will it count, and then say “well it’s not that bad”