This is America

Oooo shots fired! No, for real... murderous agents fired shots.

As a brown I fully agree, but also look back at history and think... don't all dominant empires pull the same shit?

This sounds like one of those raps that absolutely anyone from a channel 5 video spits unprompted

its a useful distraction for internal problems of any country,

Don't forget the war on Christmas.

Look what I'm whippin' now

pokes holes on one side and smokes weed and can paint

Not my photo, original photo came from the linked reddit post

looks straight out of call of duty 33

also some "im one of the good ones" poc that joined ice. alex's murderers were both hispanic people.

For now

How about ohio?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

Rural Nevada says the same thing too.

Thanks for what wheatpaste into my lexicon and toolbox.

https://wheatpasteposters.com/

Silver shirts might be more accurate

https://www.historyisnowmagazine.com/blog/2020/11/22/fascism-in-1930s-america-the-silver-shirts

Sees America doing American things in the American way they always have: "this looks like something those inferior foreigners would do!"

American exceptionalism is a religion

Libs looking at American pigs doing the thing they've done for a century: What are we? A bunch of filthy foreigners?

I'm from a so-called "3rd world dump" and not even, because our death squads aren't as well-armed to kill civilians.

Then again, there may be a lot wrong with my country, but we definitely do not share America's problems in the first place.

Those "Third world dumps" often are the way they are because the US did violent military interventions in those countries.

This is the Imperial Boomerang coming back around. ICE is doing to Americans what their fathers, brothers, and sons were shipped off to do in Vietnam, Iraq, and countless other places.

This fact doesn't make the deaths of Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and others, any less tragic. But It doesn't make the deaths of the people in those "Third world dumps" any less tragic either. I think these people deserve more respect than to have their homes called dumps.

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And the Canadian government STILL hasn't put out a travel warning to the US.

I mean, both are true. That's why some people are saying not to worry about the water on this sinking ship. They think that only if everything is terrible for every single part of the country for everyone will it count, and then say "well it's not that bad"

To be fair, most cities are still like the ad. Yeah, there's an undercurrent of tension that wasn't there two years ago, but the majority of areas are not seeing ICE activity. People are going to work and school and not talking about this stuff. It's crazy how people can compartmentalize.

I don't think they'll ever have enough gravy seals to deploy everywhere at once. Think about how many people they would need just to cover all fifty capitol cities (which typically aren't even the biggest cities in the state). They can only patrol one or two large cities at a time, it seems, and look how much pushback they get.

It's all over the media, and it should be, but don't look at photos like that and think it's on every street corner or even every city in the US.

Yeah, the Kremlin is having a great time being continually entertained by the slow death of a country. Yeah, they love to show the dissonance, the hypocrisy, and to say the end of the West is coming according to Aleksandr Dugin.

We laugh at them ( the ads, not the murcans)

Nah, laugh at the Seppos, they voted for this.

australians should be well aware behind the smokescreen, im betitng its mostly red states advertising tourism, its thier sole economy. ALso the fact that the tourism industry hurting isnt be reporting is a sign.

America isn't the only source of history books.

3rd, 5th, 8th, 10th, 14th, likely the 22nd..

It's the bag for his gas mask.

I think the news is better these days..

The tanks stopped for tankman, who proceeded to climb on the tank to yell at the commander. The guy got down and was ushered away by random civilians.

We went past that in 2020, when individuals or crowds tried to block police vehicles, they often drove into them. They went further in 2025, with multiple people being murdered for doing the equivalent of what Tank Man did.

"The Land Of The Free" is one step above 2020 Nigeria or 2022 Myanmar levels right now.

President Trump was a huge supporter of Tianamen square killings. He praised the Chinese government for showing "strength".

The US is wayy past that picture.