At least the Nazis had the courage to show their faces.
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I'm not going to say you're wrong, but I'm conflicted by your comment. Was it really courage? I counter that they truly thought that they were right and had no reason to cover their faces. The Geneva conventions, nor the Internet, were things at the time. There wasn't any meaningful, if any, backlash to being a racist at the time. There was no risk to facists having your face uncovered back then, but there definitely is now.
Honestly not sure which is worse. To think you're right and do evil, or to know you're in the wrong and do it anyway...
If it makes you all feel any better, the nazi with the gun didn't survive the war. Also, his hometown covered his name on a war memorial with a QR code so people would know what he'd done and he'd get proper credit for his monstrous acts.
That's why they wear masks now, so they can just walk around like normal people when they aren't murdering us in the street.
was a German schoolteacher and a member of the Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS) who served in a mobile killing unit
"I wonder what I should do with my life... I already tried to mentor and help people find their way through life. Guess I could try genocide next."
What the fuck.
That photograph is unbearable because it traps a man in the exact second before his murder. He is alive, kneeling, terrified, and fully aware that the next sound he hears will be the gunshot that ends him. The camera steals even that last mercy, forcing him to die forever, over and over, every time someone looks. He is not a symbol or a lesson, he is a human being caught at the instant the world decides he no longergets to exist.
Ice are nazis. Abolish ice.
If I was the one murdered and could be aware of this, I would be massively thankful that at least this moment was caught so clearly, that I didn't die alone, that maybe it won't be for nothing and people will see this and have a fire ignited within them to continue the fight.
So many people have been killed just like this before that we never saw and will never know about. The murderer has worked for Border Patrol for 8 years. I would be completely unsurprised to learn he had already murdered others.
He is not a symbol or a lesson, he is a human being caught at the instant the world decides he no longergets to exist.
The irony of it is that, because of this, he will exist far longer than any of us will, but he shouldn't have had to.
Did they shoot him from behind? Like back of the head?
I don't think the first shot was aimed at the head, but at the upper body area, while multiple people were wrestling him down. There was no need for usage of lethal force in any of this.
There was no need for usage of lethal force in any of this.
They don't learn when you need lethal force or when you don't. They learn how you aim a gun and that you have immunity while you are doing your job.
The executioner was apparently an 8 year veteran.
8 year Border Patrol veteran. They've always been trash.
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These two photos (to me) point to something even more monstrous in modern times.
For all of its barbarism, the guy on the left still at least had the courage of his convictions to show his face while commiting his crime. He believed enough to not hide his face like a coward.
ICE is just effectively keyboard warriors with guns in the real world. They have the balls to pull their shit only so long as they can stay hidden and safe behind masks while doing so. A bunch of fucking cowards who would immediately piss themselves if they were one on one and unmasked.
I'm not going to defend any nazi, especially the guy on the left. But at least nazi's used to have the courage of their convictions. Nowadays it's just barely literate dude-bros looking for a mask so they can execute people.
Strong sobchak vibes here
"I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos"
Before, theirs was the only voice being platformed, so they knew they needn't fear. Nowadays, they're a minority voice in most public spaces and know it.
Those ICE Apes aren't wearing helmets. Bullets work on their heads the same as ours.
Those helmets barely stop 9mm. Any high-velocity rifle round would go through them. They really only wear them to stop shrapnel.
Also, as I know from experience, they do very little against blunt force from behind.
Everyone please remove your hats, and rise to be shot in the back as our national anthem is sung by kid rock.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Daily reminder that all major American media companies are fully complicit with this fascist takeover. And at least one group I can think of is enthusiastically supporting it (skydance)
"Let's point out the hypocrisy of the fascists for the thousandth time. Then, we'll use logic to explain reality to those who have rejected logic for a decade. Then, we'll appeal to the virtues, morality, and ethics of those who have never once displayed any of those traits.
That'll surely stop the fascist coup in its final hour."
— American "liberals"
I swear, at this point it's hard to tell who is more brainwashed and mentally ill. The fascists who reject reality, or the antifascists who reject reality; refusing to accept that the fascists are too mentally ill to be reasoned with.
And you are doing, what, exactly? Other than giving lessons in smug superiority?
Come on. Inspire us.
I 100% agree with what you said, but please don't equate fascism to a mental illness, it's offensive to people suffering from actual illnesses.
Fascists aren't like that because of an illness they can't control, they are simply cowardly bullies that chose to behave like that.
I think it should be clear to most people by now that you can't reason with fascists because they don't listen to arguments but just cling to their evil ideology against all logic. It should also be clear to most US citizens by now that isolated protests in some cities will do as little to stop the criminal regime as the hollowed-out legal system or any of the corrupt established politicians.
The regime is clearly not impressed by this, especially since its propaganda machine continuously obscures the fact that millions of people are taking to the streets to express their contempt for the crimes of their fascist leaders. This is already evident in the fact that its secret police force barely waited a few hours before committing the next murder in open public and for all to see.
However, the question remains, and it will be interesting to see whether US citizens will oppose their oppression with organized and nationwide coordinated resistance. I think the US is at a turning point in its history: Will the American people rise up against the tyranny of the powerful few, or will the masses bow down to it?
Only US citizens can answer this question - through decisive civil resistance, through a nationwide general strike that continues for as long as it takes, even at the expense of their own standard of living, until the criminal regime is removed.
If that does not happen, I believe it is inevitable that the US will soon become an autocratic kleptocracy like Russia, since the orange child molester, his billionaire allies and their henchmen are obviously in the process of replacing even the semblance of democracy with the harsh repressive measures that are characteristic of a true dictatorship.
So the question is: Will the US population allow this to happen, or will they rise up en masse to oppose it?
Have we identified the shooter? And the ones with him?