• tomiant@piefed.social
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      The second we fire back Trump sends in the active duty military guys, wasn’t it 2000 of them on standby? It’s so obviously planned. They send in these J6 goons first, and when inevitably the first bullet is discharged in self defense, in comes the SS and with them martial law.

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        100%. I believe everyone here in Minneapolis understands that. I read comments (some are bots/trolls) saying the only way to stop this is to start shooting back, but we know deep down that 95% of the resulting casualties would be innocent bystanders. We’ve been able to mitigate harm to our most vulnerable neighbors by NOT escalating the violence.

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          We are on the edge of military involvement already. I dont want to be considered an escalationist but where is the line to be drawn?

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    don’t say “immigration crackdown”. Say “old baby man tries to prove his little defective wiener is not as small as his little hands, so he will send his stupid redneck cultists to try to terrorize the people”

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    They didn’t “shoot and kill”, they mag-dumped into him for show then taunted onlookers. Bitchass little Meal Team Six wannabe tough guys

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    Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement that federal officers fired “defensive shots” after a man with a handgun approached them and “violently resisted” when officers tried to disarm him. The police chief believed the man was a “lawful gun owner with a permit to carry.”

    I hope all you “bring guns to protests!!” people are satisfied. This is what you wanted, right? People kept telling you this is what would happen.

    E: because people are somehow reading this as an endorsement, some clarification:

    Do not go to a protest with a gun by yourself. Do not go to a protest with a gun with one or two other people. Don’t go to a protest with a gun unless you have a Black Panthers sized group of reliable people you know who also have guns. One person with a gun is a target. A dozen are something else.

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        Do you think the gun had nothing to do with it?? They just randomly picked a guy in the crowd to kill?

        Do not go to a protest with a gun by yourself. Do not go to a protest with a gun with one or two other people. Don’t go to a protest with a gun unless you have a Black Panthers sized group of reliable people you know who also have guns. One person with a gun is a target. A dozen are something else.

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      We didn’t mean do it by yourself.

      People kept telling you this is what would happen.

      No, libs keep telling themselves that peaceful protests while you’re literally getting murdered is the best solution.

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          I bet you blame rape victims for being raped too.

          If he was legally allowed to open carry a gun (appears to be the case), was not even holding it at the time of his first interactions with LE (per current videos, appears to be the case even if unconfirmed as of yet - it appears he was holding his phone), and was shot almost execution style (ditto), in what way is that expected? You are blaming an apparently law abiding citizen for his own death. That’s not only morally reprehensible but factually dishonest and undercutting your own alleged support at the knees.

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            I’m not sure how you read a comment pissed off at internet bystanders continually howling for people to bring guns to protests and decided that meant I was blaming him for being murdered.

            in what way is that expected?

            Because this is the gestapo, are you fucking serious? You think they aren’t being told to kill people that look at them funny? Do you think a single person taking a gun to an anti-Nazi protest in Germany in 1935 would have been perfectly safe? Did bringing a gun help this guy at ALL?

            If you feel you absolutely have to bring a gun to a protest, learn from the Black Panthers.

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              It was the expected outcome

              Right there. That’s you blaming him. Fuck all the way off.

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                That how you decided to interpret what I said, if you don’t want to actually read what I’m saying there’s nothing I can do about that.

                Getting hit by a car is the expected result of riding a bike in the street here, if you do it long enough, which is why I don’t do it even though it’s legal. That doesn’t mean it’s the cyclist’s fault if they get hit or that the driver is blameless.

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                  …if you are legally allowed to ride a bike in a road and you are hit by someone for doing that, then that person is still legally responsible for hitting you.

                  Like. Did you even watch the video? What part of what happened appeared inevitable to you?

                  You can keep denying what you’re saying. But it’s clear that only one of us actually understands the weight of what is actually being expressed.