• AmbitiousProcess (they/them)@piefed.social
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    22 hours ago

    This is what I don’t think they realize. There’s only a certain point to which you can escalate violence before retaliatory violence becomes the norm.

    For example, if you’re in a warzone, and you know the other side has been instructed to “kill and leave no survivors,” you’re never going to just lie down and take it, you’re going to fight them back, because it’s die if you do, die if you don’t.

    If this keeps up, there will be a point where ICE killings are so expected, that anyone in their path will take any means necessary to kill those ICE officers first.

    • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
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      22 hours ago

      They fucking realize. It’s the goal, that’s the only explanation. They want an excuse to roll out their tanks and APCs and start mass executions.

      • Komodo Rodeo@lemmy.world
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        I’ve seen people saying this a lot, but the subtext seems to have been overlooked. They’re going to do it anyway, they don’t need an excuse, they’re cops, and they’ll simply manufacture a reason to escalate if people don’t give them one.

        • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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          I think the important thing here is to allow them to manufacture that reason so everyone on the world stage (and the rest of the country) can clearly see it’s bullshit. Then it’s game on.

          Bullies push and push and push because they want you to take the first swing, then claim you started it.

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            19 hours ago

            So while we wait for them to manufacture that, we let them keep murdering us? Fuck outta here.

            Most bullies are cowards who will retreat when their victim fights back. You see most of those ICE shitstains scatter like roaches when the shots rang out? They’re cowards, 95% of them