This looks like the way a civil war begins.
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It’s scary to me, how fast USA turned from ”the land of freedom/opportunity” to an openly fascist state.
Was it fast though? Isn't this what lots of people were talking about how fucked up the US was already but people choose to ignore because *murica first? It was pretty obvious to a lot of people it was a crap country already
It is if you are a conservative, an unactive independent voter or a low information liberal voter. Those groups have a huge crossover of the media ecosystems they use with a lot of it being legacy TV media and FB.
They were never free
Haha you believed it was the land of freedom and opportunity. Ah well, we all gotta learn at some point, so welcome aboard.
50 years? That is the time it turned from, 1971 business roundtable made the first long term game plan project 2025 is the baby of.
It has been fucked our entire lives getting worse.
Just to be clear, this was for white folks, for BIPOC it's never been freedom and opportunity, broadly speaking.
Sounds about right because that’s when wages stopped keeping up with inflation and wealth inequality began to rise dramatically.
The land of the greed
Time to watch Mr Freedom again
It looked like an execution to me, I believe the world will see it that way within a couple days as well.
Nazi style, check side by side pics with nazi summary execution of an undesirable.
Come to NYC fuckers, we're big fans of terrorists. Bring all of you. 8 million of us want to say hi.
The nypd is on their side and there are how many again? 40k street goons and another 30k paper pushers? I forget i is huge.
Murdered is the technical term for what happened.
Cold-blooded murder is the writer's term for it.
Drew Evans, superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, said during a news conference that federal officers blocked his agency from the shooting scene, and when they returned with a signed judicial warrant, they were still blocked.
And then, despite having the police and national guard available to secure a crime scene from the murderers themselves, they threw up their hands and tutted disapprovingly.
Right?! Why the fuck weren't the agents blocking the investigation arrested for obstruction of justice?! What the hell is going on?
How little attention do you pay to things?
This is a new world order. They stole the election and killed the western world order from ww2. Replaced it with a bunch of con rapist rapist pedophile fascist traitors on task to destroy America.
Like come on. We are being occupied. They declared war on us in July 2024.
See this is why I fucking hate democrats. How they don’t get the message that they literally fucking declared war on everyone they say isn’t them is proof dems are a failure.
Rule of law has eroded in the USA. Death by a thousand cuts.
Signed warrants. Jurisdiction. This means nothing to this administration.
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We all may feel some impulse to act, even violently, but have a great feeling of uncertainty because there are no leaders. We need direction based off of game theory, or something. We need strategies that are surgical, because be real — we are outgunned. Yes, there are gun owners on the left, but come on, you know who has the lion’s share. Not only that, but we are different in that we hesitate to harm, because it’s the last thing we want. My dad kills animals for pleasure, but I do not. Also, if you aren’t armed now, you better do so immediately, because the gun nuts are not going to blink an eye when we are inevitably denied access.
We need real strategy. Daggers in a select few hearts may be enough to shift things.
Are there organizations or groups that do this? They would have to do it in secret, so how could we know? So it seems we’d have to assume we couldn’t know and form our own? Honestly, please clue me in!
Time for a well formed militia.
Daggers in a select few hearts may be enough to shift things.
If you're proposing what I think you are, it's sounds like something we tried in the late 1800s/early 1900s. Our lesson was that this tactic won't solve a systemic problem, at least in isolation. Action without a surrounding social movement is lost. Just ask Luigi - despite the widespread bipartisan approval of their action, there weren't many copycats nor long-term changes in our conditions. And, if you saw much of other Lemmy instances at the time of that event, you may have seen various people denouncing it as 'adventurism', despite how cathartic it was.
So, many of the socialist organizations aim to develop the surrounding movement needed to cause systemic change.
Luigi's story is just beginning. Don't write off his influence just yet. The impacts of his fate will be debated for years.
I don't even think Luigi did it
If ICE thugs won't get punished for the 2nd time, I'd expect a 3rd one
Im guessing that this is going to escalate until either martial law or ICE leave MN.
Yeah, ICE ain’t leaving. TACO has no force compelling him to do so.
I’d bet a fiver on a 3rd killing in the next couple weeks. As soon as the first person fights back it’ll be martial law.
I really home the general strikes take off, but the movement needs leadership and direction. Fuck.
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Here's a multi angle link that's being updated regularly as new video comes in.
https://eyesupapp.com/video/89d854e9-424c-47ea-a585-f3c72351e6e7
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