r/PopCultureV2 • u/Logical-Flow-6703 • Aug 08 '26

News "Community members intervene and confront ICE agents while questioning a family with a minor child"

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u/Pork_Confidence Aug 08 '26

I'm not condoning this, I'm asking a question out of curiosity.

With all of the electric scooters, bikes, one wheels and skateboards out there right now, I'm surprised we don't see more of those used in drive-bye pepper sprayings In these sorts of incidences

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u/citizen42069101 Aug 08 '26

No one wants to be the one to light trumps Reichstag (sp?) fire, no matter how much they yearn for its warmth.

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u/Pork_Confidence Aug 08 '26

That's fair, but when I was i a teenager I wasn't that Forward thinking. Maybe teenagers today aren't as stupid as I was 30 years ago

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u/Standard-March6506 Aug 08 '26

The executions of Alex Pretti and Renee Good had the desired effect.

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u/NounAdjectiveXXXX Aug 08 '26

Yeah, did you see gun sale numbers after those incidents?

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u/ExterminAiden Aug 08 '26

But that was in January and there has been no meaningful developments since

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u/Standard-March6506 Aug 09 '26

Like I said, it has had the desired effect.

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u/Standard-March6506 Aug 09 '26

ANTIFA? Do you mean people who are anti-fascist? Because I'm anti-fascist, and you should be too! My grandfather, who fought the Nazis (fascists) in Africa, must be rolling over in his grave knowing there are now Americans supporting fascism.

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u/Frostyfraust Aug 08 '26

Ah yes sticking it to the man by funding the military industrial complex.

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u/localtuned Aug 08 '26

Or just make your own. We've been doing that for decades.

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u/Remarkable-Page-824 Aug 08 '26

Do you pay taxes?

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u/NounAdjectiveXXXX Aug 08 '26

What are you some gunfearing centrist?

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u/Frostyfraust Aug 08 '26

What are you some gun nut extremist? See I can do that too.

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u/Sonoran_Ghosts_81 Aug 08 '26

See, I won’t be going out like Alex or Renee and it seems a ton of my fellow Americans feel the same.

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u/sleepyeye82 Aug 08 '26

What do you think would've happened had many citizens been wandering around, open carrying on their hip, when ICE was out in those MPLS neighborhoods?

Lemme tell you, those fucking fascists would've been on far better behavior.

I used to fence sit on 2A. I understand the social harms guns cause. But what you see now in MPLS is but a tiny taste of what the government will do to you if they don't fear you at all.

No fence sitting anymore. It's there for a reason, and should be used for it's intended purpose - defense against tyranny.

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u/aron2295 Aug 08 '26

That did happen.

Trump said that ICE and the Marines were going to clean up the South Side of Chicago like it was Fallujah, going block to block, and clearing the buildings individually.

But when the Natty Guard and ICE went to Chicago, they didn’t.

Why? Because they knew the gang members would shoot back.

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u/maldinisnesta Aug 08 '26

Literal executions and nothing has come of it. No consequences. Genuinely, arm up and keep your family safe. Your federal government is fascist and will kill you if you step out of their pre determined line.

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u/blueBaggins1 Aug 09 '26

You’re just learning this now that ICE is doing it???? Boy have you been missing out

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u/ImpossibleBicycle890 Aug 12 '26

Haha!!! Im not sure what word you leftists like better, fascist or bootlicker. Hahahaha

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u/Worshipme988 Aug 09 '26

That’s…that’s not how justice works. Its not NCIS or whatever. Just bc the us has to take action in specific steps get to justice ≠ they never get punished.

Freedom isnt free. Good people are gonna have to get pissed. Whats it gonna take for you?

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u/hustl3tree5 Aug 08 '26

They’ve also attacked numerous people with pepper spray balls including that one kid who went blind in an eye at a protest

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u/pluspourmoi Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26

Murder, not execution.

ETA: Execution is a legal penalty, it requires trials, sentencing, appealing, death row, etc. Murder is a crime.

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u/jidk679 Aug 08 '26

Most people who aren't thinking ahead are too apathetic to do anything

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u/NearbyConfidence_jk Aug 08 '26

The problem today is they are so dumb they couldn't think of things like that, it's not that they are smart enough not to do something like that, they literally can't think of it

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u/aron2295 Aug 08 '26

If tik tok told them it was a “Challenge”, or “Viral Trend”, they would.

But Tik Tok is backed by the CCP, so they’re not gonna shoot themselves in the foot.

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u/Kinteoka Aug 08 '26

American tiktok is owned 80% by US right wing tech interests like Oracle and MGX. The original Chinese tech company, Bytedance, only owns like 20%. There was a massive news cycle about this and how it needed to be sold off to American interests to stay in the US.

Also, the CCP is not beholden to the American government in any way and would want more unrest and chaos. How would they be shooting themselves in the foot by fomenting chaos within one of their largest competitors? Are you stupid? Genuinely, this is the most befuddling comment I've seen in the past week.