Wearing helmets, gas masks and camouflage fatigues, the federal agents took aim and prepared to open fire. “It’s like Call of Duty,” one could be heard saying via a TV mic, referring to a first-person shooter military video game. “So cool, huh?”

This was the scene on the streets of Minneapolis on Saturday after armed agents, wearing masks and tactical vests, wrestled 37-year-old Alex Pretti to the ground and shot him dead. The killing took place just over a mile from where Renee Good was fatally shot on 7 January, a scene that itself was less than a mile from where police murdered George Floyd in May 2020.

“How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end?” the Minneapolis mayor, Jacob Frey, demanded at a press conference on Saturday, referring to the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration crackdown in Minneapolis. An angry crowd gathered and swore profanities at federal officers, calling them “cowards” and telling them to go home.

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[–] 49 points 9 months ago* (7 children)

The cruelty and anger and violence is the point.

If Trump has an ounce of power he will weird it over you. The 2025 people want to declare an insurrection and take away all your rights

as long as Trump has power and the US government abdicates their checks and balances, this will continue.

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  • [–] 24 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    want to declare an insurrection and take away all your rights

    No reaction or peaceful response will have this happen too. Clearly they have no problem with lying despite abundant evidence to the contrary.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    They have a narrative to maintain. Tyranny requires constant effort. That wasn't just made up in Andor for a good speech.

    They have to make the opposition look dangerous and weak. They have to make themselves look strong and at risk. Right now what's happening in Minnesota doesn't fit the fascist narrative, so they are desperately hoping to trigger more.

    Unfortunately, I'm pretty confident at this point there is a US version of the Moscow Apartment Bombings being prepared.

    Will it be in Minnesota? Maybe. Could ICE be in Minnesota to distract from where they are really planning it? Also a possibility.

    Think of how much focus is on Minneapolis right now. We know they pulled a lot of ICE from the entire nation to go there. If the false flag were to go off in Chicago, New York City, LA, New Orleans, etc. They can spin the narrative that "Minnesota, in its recklessness pulled too many ICE resources away from [location] and [terrible event] occurred. We have no other option than to deploy troops to every major city. "

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    If they can murder anyone in the street on camera and kidnap anyone to a hidden torture/death camp that no one is allowed to inspect, and no judge or politician or cop is able to stop them or bring them to justice, then they effectively already took away your rights.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    The 2025 people want to declare an insurrection and take away all your rights

    No, they don't. You can be detained and deported, even if you are an American citizen, because they have abandoned the concept of due process. Your rights have already been taken away! They've already declared that this is the way it is going to be unless the American people fight them, literally. The Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts has publicly said:

    “And so I come full circle on this response and just want to encourage you with some substance that we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

    Trump and the entire GOP that are enabling him are following the Project 2025 agenda. They will continue to violate our rights. They will continue to brutalize and kill innocent immigrants and citizens until we take to the streets and, by some means, either economic, violent, or some other means I can't imagine, stop them.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    The Insurrection Act would fast track and legitimize (in their eyes) the process. They do want that. The key for the rest of us is to be as peaceful as possible until it becomes socially untenable to let it continue - allow it to achieve critical mass. After that, something will happen and the situation will change, through whatever means it takes.

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  • [–] 25 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    It already is a civil war. Only one side is fighting it though, while the other keeps saying "wait until the mid-terms"

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    It's more like the GOP hires bloodthirsty, racist thugs who are beating the shit out of anyone they can with total immunity. Then the GOP is shrieking from the rooftops that they are fighting a brutal, dangerous civil war and that it most definitely qualifies as insurrection so the other side keeps encouraging peaceful resistance. Then the completely disconnected, useless fuckwits pretending to represent the rest of America pass a funding bill to fund the hiring and paying of the bloodthirsty, racist thugs while politely wagging their finger and saying, for the umpteenth time, "if they don't calm down, we'll actually do something next time!"

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    Hands up, don't shoot! I can't breathe! MOVE bombings...

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago
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    [+] -13 points 9 months ago (12 children)

    That main picture looks really dramatic, which I know it also is. But Is it real? Because IMO it looks off.
    Anyways if the "police" is actually acting like that, and dressed like that, they are dressed for war, not for policing.

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  • [–] 28 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    They give a photographer credit. There’s a non zero chance that’s fake, but they have an Instagram with several other real photos related to protest shots.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    I suppose that with the credit to a photographer, it's supposed to be real. Goddam USA is a scary place!

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    They also don't look official in any capacity. They look like larpers at an airsoft event... Except that they're coming to kill us at behest of the federal government.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Apparently it could be legal to kill them in self defense. True American style.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

    I mean it should be when the police are acting like a violent gang terrorizing entire cities, kidnapping people in broad daylight, and murdering dissenters in the streets.

    I wonder why I never hear about the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Q-anon, Patriot Front, or other openly fascist groups these days? Hmmm... Strange.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    It's because they aren't marked as police, but you are right IMO, it should also be legal when police is acting out of control.

    Proud boys etc are probably working for ICE now. But I guess that's what you were hinting at.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Proud boys etc are probably working for ICE now. But I guess that's what you were hinting at.

    Yeah this is what I was going for. It sure feels right. Fascists love strong central control, I can't imagine Proud Boys leadership didn't jump on being an official part of the US government's internal secret police. And if leadership jumped on board I can't imagine anyone being like, "I can get paid to hang out with my bros and assault minorities and lefties? I'm out!" Like they were already doing that but now it's all official and represents the stance and will of our federal government. Neat.

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Briefly watch a live stream last night and gas canisters were being lobbed back and forth in close proximity. So seeing this image isn’t “overblown” to me.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Republicans have now become the end of USA as we knew it!

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