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GOOD.
I’m pretty sure their SUVs have bulletproof windshields. I mean they only have a multi-billion dollar budget and access to all the military equipment they could possibly want.
I’m not aware of anyone testing this hypothesis, though…
Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions
Unfortunately this is satire, and not consequences of their actions. I wish it was real though.
Noo, people would need to have the balls to actually do it…
So, ICE is scared that aggressive untrained people will use deadly force against them, and that afterwards the government will do nothing about it?
That’s pretty much how everybody else has felt about ICE for a long time.
(The Halfway Post is a satire website)
What’s the fucking point in doing satire these days?
We all cope in our own ways. This post is an amazing example of how we are not immune to propaganda, so… at least there’s that?
This post is an amazing example of how we are not immune to propaganda
This post isn’t propaganda, though, so it’s not that amazing of an example.
Yeah and if this openly and unabashedly satirical post was still being treated like legit reporting, imagine how people must react to actual propaganda.
Actual propaganda isn’t true, though, or at least it requires an element of misleading in it. If ICE officials aren’t actually concerned about people shooting them and claiming self-defense, then I’ll eat my hat, as the old saying goes.
It’s also not “openly and unabashedly satirical.” You only think that because you recognize the source as satirical. To everybody else, it reads as clickbait.
Clickbait + true statements does not equal an amazing example of how we are not immune to propaganda.
Actual propaganda frequently is true, this is misleading in that it is not actually reporting news, just guessing something is true doesn’t make it true, I didn’t recognize the poster I went and looked it up trying to find a source and discovered it was posted by a very open satire site, and this seems like a really stupid thing for you to be trying to start a fight over.
Can be true, can be as simple as „make you think about that (so you don’t think about this)“
This post has five words
I wasn’t criticising the satirist, more the world that is making satire impossible to differentiate from fact.
Nah totally, I read it as a similar sentiment to "What’s the point in doing anything". If that was off the mark I apologize. I just meant that we all cope in our own ways, even if some of them are somewhat windmill-tilting-y
Not in this case.
Give it a month, max, before somebody with either the cojones or the ovaries required to do this, does it.
… This … this is literally how the American Revolution started, at least from one sort of way of looking at it.
You have oppressive government forces killing and maiming enough randos long enough, eventually the randos start shooting back.
See also: Anywhere else the US has invaded and occupied in the last, I dunno, 75 years, more than that.
With that said, if you were to end in the same situation, would the idea to actually run over an ICE agent so that he doesn’t shoot you cross your mind?
I really fail to see how that’s relevant to the source being a satire news site.
That pig was was recording while reaching for his gun, it looks like that video was meant as a trophy.
Remember, if this happens then Orange McFuckface will declare there’s a civil war going on and declare martial law, canceling elections.
He’ll do that regardless you blumpkin
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Turns out abusing power and oppression law abiding citizens claiming they have no rights has consequences. Who would have thought.
They’re really stupid, aren’t they?
And that’s how you start a civil war
Aren’t they already in a civil war? Didn’t trump already deploy the army against some cities and states before, or did i fall for some sensationalist headlines there?
Guys, The Halfway Post is a satire website. “America’s #1 source for Dada news”. Lotta people eating the onion in this comment section.
Yeah. The rest of them will make sure you won’t be able to attend a trial.
What?
It reveals itself as satire when it assumed US citizens would actively fight the fascists. They are way too lethargic and complacent to ever do anything of the sort.
Especially when, sadly, we all know DHS will 100% get a Federal judge or SCOTUS to make this LEO-only OK and let them shoot anyone they want driving, walking, or looking towards them.
Jury nullification is still a thing.
lol, as if they’d ever let this go to a jury.
Yeah but unfortunately you can’t nullify a bullet out of your head.
Satire is dead. It couldn’t keep up with reality.
“Ceci n’est pas un onion”
Mate, have you read the news in the last months, with special attention to the first days of this year? I understand it’s satire and it’s not real, but right now, people are having a really hard time to distinguish satire from real news.
One of the biggest reasons why everything sucks right now is the prevelance of misinformation online. This isn’t even trying to be misinformation, it took me literally five seconds to confirm that this is from a satire website, and yet when I posted it every other comment was engaging with this as though it were factual reporting.
I know everything sucks right now, but we can’t start freely accepting lies as truth just because we’re tired. If we do that, we lose completely.
My comment was more on the funny side tho. We live in a timeline so ludicrous that satire is having a hard time because the rapist always find a way to one-up them.
Breaking: ICE is afraid that Americans will start exercising their second amendment rights to protect their first and fourth amendment rights from a tyrannical pedofile protecting uncontrolled secret police
That’s why civilization exists you dumb fucks. You start tearing it down and violence is all that’s left.
Eh, can’t say I agree with Thomas Hobbes on this. ICE is acting in the exact opposite of the state of nature, they’re the violent arm of the sovereign
That’s a blatant misunderstanding of what a Hobbesian sovereign is. According to Hobbes, a sovereign is a form of body politic derived from the consent of the governed. People form civilizations, understanding that by abiding by common agreements they can mutually improve the conditions and circumstances of their lives. Everyone is safer when we agree not to kill each other, and anyone who violates that norm loses the protection of the social contract. Hence, capital punishment as a penalty for murder.
What ICE is doing is violating the social contract and acting without the consent of the governed (bypassing congressional approval/oversight, ignoring established laws and constitutional rights, etc.). In effect, they’re regressing us back to the conditions of the state of nature in which “might makes right” and “survival of the fittest,” conditions which the social contract originated in order to overcome.
That Goebbels-looking-ass dude literally said “might makes right” on a live TV interview.
Which is why I won’t feel any sympathy for him when someone finally gives him his comeuppance
Time to show them just how fit they really are.
And why thr Geneva conventions exist.
MAGA: We broke society, so now we can point at a broken society as an excuse for violence.
We live in a society
Was your comment intended to suggest a better term than “civilization” was “society”? That is probably a valid correction and I need to brush up on my vocabulary before I have angry anti fascism outbursts on the interwebs.
I’m not sure that’s true anymore.
We should call it the Good Initiative
Ah yes, the totally unpredictable consequences of one’s incredibly stupid actions.
