• merc@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    The cop at the protest yawns, unslings his 40mm LMT™ weapon, loads another rubber bullet into it, looks around the crowd for another reporter, aims, and shoots her in the head.

    Idealistic youngling: “Wow, that cop just shot a woman in the head with a rubber bullet, he could totally be charged for that!”

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        9 days ago

        It certainly looks as though they’ve pretty thoroughly shat the bed. I suspect they fell for their own propaganda about all the freedom and how they’re the best country in the world etc, forgot that those are just words.

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          9 days ago

          To Americans, their national heroes are just Disney characters without families, jobs, or dreams who never actually had anything to lose and whose victories were guaranteed.

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      9 days ago

      After “shoots her in the head” you forgot “poses for the cameras”