This is America
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.
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Be careful. Cameras are apparently guns now according to dhs
Oooo shots fired! No, for real... murderous agents fired shots.
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.
'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?
Yes they do, but people are just mad at America specifically right now so they just pretend we're the only country that has ever done anything evil
Don't worry. Israel is being a real piece of shit too, in collaboration with the ole pedophile.
You're right, but America is funding the genocide so we're still getting the shit for it. And don't get me wrong, we deserve it when we deserve it, but there's accounts out there unironically asserting that America is the root of all evil in the world and that it's only America that is bad
Nah, don't worry dude. America is just on the same level as China, Russia, North Korea and others now: not an enemy, not an ally. A potential threat, with a dictator at its head.
I can't do much about the Roman Empire, crusades, Conquistadors, Putin or Winnie Pooh. I can criticise them, just as well as Israel's crimes and the US'. The US is what I have the most contact with and what you'll hear me complaining about most, but not the only thing.
No one pretends that the US is the only country doing anything bad... Arguably China and Russia for instance are still a lot worse when it comes to human right violations.
But it is a lot more pressing that USA is turning to fascism/authoritarianism since it will then be two global anti-democratic Superpowers not only one.
And before any .ml users jump the gun. Idgaf about how you think China is so great, keep it to yourselves.
Naw, people are mad because we without a doubt know better now.
Somehow it hits differently after our society decided that human rights were a thing.
Well said. Everyone wants to shit on the USA but no one wants to help.
The US needs to fix its own shit.
Good thing that wasn't the attitude towards Germany in WWII.
It WAS the attitude until it started invading its neighbours.
And what has the US, the country with the most powerful military in the world, been threatening to do lately?
People don't realize most of the world turned a blind eye to hitlers atrocities and viewpoints (some even embraced them) it's only when Hitler became aggressively expansive on their territories when the world decided to step in...
The US didn’t join WW2 until 2.5 YEARS after it began, and Germany had to declare war on the US first. The US only declared war on Japan.
Yes, but the US wasn't the only country fighting against them.
I'm certain this won't become a global issue at all.
This is hardly true. What bullshit, loser, victim mentality.
This sounds like one of those raps that absolutely anyone from a channel 5 video spits unprompted
its a useful distraction for internal problems of any country,
Don't forget the war on Christmas.
I will never forget the day Biden cancelled Christmas. People forget all the horrible things the other side has done. Like wear tan suits and eat fancy mustard, damn them!
Don't catch you slippin' now
Look what I'm whippin' now
This is America (woo)
Childish Gambino was pulling his punches.
Pick Up That Can
pokes holes on one side and smokes weed and can paint
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
looks straight out of call of duty 33
Oh it will turn into one if they don't turn back soon.
For now
How about ohio?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
An interaction I had on a documentary about the massacre yesterday:
So if the person you were interacting with gets pulled over for speeding, for instance, I'm sure they'll totally understand the cop immediately shooting them in the face. They were breaking the law after all and we can't tolerate that.
Rural Nevada says the same thing too.
also some "im one of the good ones" poc that joined ice. alex's murderers were both hispanic people.
im not surprised though, since alot of them are christian conservatives
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! 😉)
Thanks for what wheatpaste into my lexicon and toolbox.
https://wheatpasteposters.com/
Haha neat! :D
Apparently it's turned into a specific brand name for a few companies, but here's where the term and technique came from, if you or anybody else is interested. :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheatpaste
Modern equipment, same old brownshirts.
Silver shirts might be more accurate
https://www.historyisnowmagazine.com/blog/2020/11/22/fascism-in-1930s-america-the-silver-shirts
Like fucking Russia or any 3rd World dump. Piss off MAGA!
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
Libs looking at American pigs doing the thing they've done for a century: What are we? A bunch of filthy foreigners?
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.
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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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.
And the Canadian government STILL hasn't put out a travel warning to the US.
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"
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.
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.
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.
Nah, laugh at the Seppos, they voted for this.
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.
Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.
Don't catch you slippin now
This should definitely make it into a history book, if we still have them.
America isn't the only source of history books.
I remember when they deemed Paris a war zone. Well well well. How the turntables...
We’re going to have to brand the text of the 1st, 2nd, and 4th amendments on them
3rd, 5th, 8th, 10th, 14th, likely the 22nd..
Don’t forget the 6th
Just put the entire human rights charter on there
You can watch the anime: Jin-Rou.
There, armored squads of soldiers with red lenses shoot at people with machine guns in the sewers.
I think the news is better these days..
They always censor the action parts tho
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.
So we need to increase funding, to send them all to basic firearm safety training? Maybe the Scouts can run it for a merit badge - my kids knew better than that while still in elementary school school (slingshot safety training covered firearms years before they were allowed to touch them)
Don't let the so called Land of the Free turn into this:
The tanks stopped for tankman, who proceeded to climb on the tank to yell at the commander. The guy got down and was ushered away by random civilians.
We went past that in 2020, when individuals or crowds tried to block police vehicles, they often drove into them. They went further in 2025, with multiple people being murdered for doing the equivalent of what Tank Man did.
"The Land Of The Free" is one step above 2020 Nigeria or 2022 Myanmar levels right now.
President Trump was a huge supporter of Tianamen square killings. He praised the Chinese government for showing "strength".
The US is wayy past that picture.
Your camera could have been an assault rifle. /s
the only good ICE agent is a
No, this is P
atrickortlandThe government have been stifling people's liberties under this administration. Let's get the government outta here. Seriously!
A nation obsessed with guns and the military so it makes sense.
The psyop has done a number on us hasn't it folks