• ooterness@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Weapon is visible at 0:06, appears to be a paintball gun. Unclear if it’s pepper balls or something else.

    Still illegal use of force, but thank goodness it’s not bullets.

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        5 months ago

        If some masked asshole is pointing a weapon at you while standing in front of your SUV, floor it.

        This isn’t going to stop until ICE actually gets the response Puppy Killer keeps saying they’re getting.

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          They would have killed here if she did this.m, possibly killing her kids in the process.

          I hope a lawyer gets ahold of her to sue ICE hard for harassment, assault, endangering her family, and whatever else they can.

          Start taking millions in settlements, it’s better that dying during an escalation.

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            5 months ago

            As long as it’s taking everything the agents involved and their leadership own instead of just stacks of cash from taxpayers.

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        5 months ago

        depending on where you are, using a paintball gun as a weapon gets it treated as a firearm

        and if somebody’s shooting at you with a firearm, you goddamn well have the right to shoot back. or at least that’s what I’ve been told about the US by the people who voted for this kind of shit to happen

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      5 months ago

      Eventually, someone will panic and shoot back, then they’ll put away the non-lethal and start killing people, for safety reasons. For examples see any interaction with local police.

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      Almost certainly pepper balls. I don’t know what else it could be. It’s something powdered at least, and that’s the only thing I know of that acts like that fired out of that weapon.

      But yeah, I read the title and assumed gunpowder bullets. It sucks that we’re thankful for “only” this level of violence.

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    5 months ago

    I remember being told the second amendment was necessary for Americans to defend themselves from a tyrannical government.

    “That could never happen here” they said about government brutality in other countries.

    Now kids have to fear mass shooters in school and fascist shooters in parking lots.

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      5 months ago

      You were lied to by the gun lobby. The second amendment people are clearly on the side of ICE. Guns work as an oppressive force to prevent people from stopping ICE, not the other way around.

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      5 months ago

      Who would have thought all the “don’t tread on me” posturing, was actually “come on my back, daddy” sensibility.

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    5 months ago

    The world will be a better place when the people eager to work for ICE are dead or in prison.

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      5 months ago

      Hopefully, I will get to refer some to Mr. Satan. He has the best facilities for holding the irredeemable, I hear.

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      It came. It’s been there for months already. This won’t lead to some final epic showdown for democracy. Democracy lost the battle this time.

      This fascism won’t be voted away and the millions of assholes it emboldened now know how to do it again and face no consequences.

      If this is fixable it’ll take decades to fix.

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          If you still think protest voters impacted the 2024 election, you are deepthroating propaganda pushed to make you hate young people

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          At least you didn’t have to live in a world where people had the option to vote for an anti-genocide candidate.

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          Shut the fuck up already. No one is happy about this but I hope they come for your ilk first.

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              We DON’T know what you’re talking about. Because you just said the most vague nonexplaintory “It’s coming”, with zero context or followup. I could say “It’s coming”, and in MY head I’m talking about game 6 of the world series. I would know what I mean, but if I said it in a post about fascism, people would assume I’m saying fascism is coming. Which it’s not, because it’s already here.

              That’s where everybody else’s confusion stems from about your comments.

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      bro they’ve been winning all year, this is winning to them, they don’t care who the person really is so long as they can imagine it’s somebody they don’t like

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    5 months ago

    Im really nostalgic for the time when I did not have specific examples of why the fourth and fifth amendments are so important.