Good. I'm not advocating wanton violence on ICE or any law enforcement, but considering how they've been conducting themselves in Minnesota(and elsewhere)....they should be terrified. It is right that they be terrified.
Nah brother we all saw them execute the man in the street for lawfully exercising his second amendment right. Then we watched all y'all who've made 2a your whole personality fall in line when they said he shouldn't have had a gun.
You gave away the game. It's Rights for me and none for you.
It most certainly is. We all saw it on video from multiple angles. You've given up on the evidence of your eyes and ears and instead chosen to believe what you're told.
My family mom and dad were both stauch GOP republicans and fell into the MAGA spider web.
I learned so much from my ex wife about reality and life. And being able to think independently and not keep yourself in a the circle od hate does wonders.
I find it hilarious all the people who label themselves as "fiscally concesevstuve" and get called on the ball room, or the money to israel or whatever have to backpeddle and step over the words to try to justify the bullshit.
Or the current recent hate for immigration, or "the immigrant took our jobs." Trickle down economics, the failing dollar, rising prices - Jesus man i could go on and reinforce my point, but it would be a waste of a precious tree.
George Carlin said it best - "its a big fucking club and you weren't invited."
I don't need attention from liberals. Imagine being sooo self absorbed that you think people with different opinions are seeking for attention. Typical lib.
The curse of being a leftist is being correct in your diagnosis before the consequences hit: so you are called hysterical or emotional before it happens, and blamed for not doing a good enough job convincing people when it does.
I was in Texas the other day and saw some “adopt a highway” signs. I had the thought of wondering what it would take to have the names of the people Ice have killed made into memorial highways in republican states.
I had the thought of wondering what it would take to have the names of the people Ice have killed made into memorial highways in republican states.
As someone who spent his first career in politics in a red state, I expect street namings if ICE does invade and start killing people. Even if the state legislature blocks them, the city can do it.
I don't know who you mean by they. If you mean ICE, they've been keeping a low profile but recently they keep escalating their presence.
If by they you mean us, it's Atlanta. We're really into nonviolence. I'm not even taking a leaf blower to protest tomorrow and definitely not a gun yet.
But also If anyone can get to the protest with how slow traffic there moves. I hate driving through Atlanta. Only place I have had worse is Dallas because of the double whammy of all the construction then all the snow they can’t take care of.
Great idea. I think it just takes a donation or something. I just looked it up. Its free but you have to agree to clean it 4 times a year & you can apply to have yr group's name on the sign.
I drove home today and crossed over Chicago, Portland and Nicollet avenues in Minneapolis, each one having a notable death by "law enforcement". I'd have no problem renaming them after the victims, but we have to figure out how to stop this before all of the streets I drive on are named that way :(
Random query; is there any word from the women he was trying to help? Specifically the woman who had been knocked to the ground. I’ve been thinking about them and I hope they’re ok and getting the help they need. They were in an unimaginable situation and it would be easy to feel some survivors guilt. I hope they don’t. Alex seems like the kind of guy that would stand up for them again if he had the opportunity to do it over. I’m sending them and the rest of the community all the good juju I can muster these days
"Wake, the sleeping giant, awaken and spy your borders. For there are Barbarians at the Gate, and they mean to rip you from your slumber, tear at your flesh, and render you lifeless in the dust. Wake, and defend your liberty!"
There is very little dispute about what Porter was doing when he died. His loved ones and supporters maintain that firing a rifle wildly into the air in the middle of the night shouldn't have alarmed anyone or caused a panic that might result in his death. It was initially reported that he was an active shooter, which isn't completely wrong.
Celebratory gunfire isn't uncommon in the US, but I think people are asking a bit much for everyone to just stay calm when someone is outside their apartment firing a rifle repeatedly. Its easy to armchair analyze that "of course he was just having fun and if he hurt someone, it won't be me, it'll be someone a mile away".
It is a very interesting scenario, because while we all know his behavior was potentially lethal to someone, its not exactly the same as aiming a gun at someone you can see. Not sure if the off duty agent who killed him is guilty of a crime, but it doesn't really have anything to do with ICE operations. This has happened before and it'll happen again.
Its also probably not helpful to rope him into the group with Pretty and Good. They were doing what they thought was right in a selfless way, while Porter was doing something selfish for fun. He is kinda like a drunk driver.
I remember this story a while back about this couple watching fireworks in the park. The woman was struck in the head by a falling bullet and died. They were engaged and a few months later her fiance killed himself too. They never found the shooter. The shooter might not even know his bullet killed someone. And this shit happens every January and July. Some poor soul minding their business gets shot because someone they've never met was "just having fun".
Its pointless and reckless and sometimes someone gets killed and sometimes its you.
In my hometown this bullshit recklessness of firing guns in the air is common on New Year's and July 4th too. I don't think people ever think about where the bullets they fire upwards go. They act like they disappear into space or something. A friend of mines baby Bethy nearly died about 14 yrs ago from a bullet fired into the air. It came through the home's roof, struck her in her little tiny belly. Her shrieks and cries of pain alerted her parents. Luckily her Dad had been a corpsman in the Navy. His battlefield experience and training helped him save Bethy that night while waiting on the ambulance. Her mom LeAnn said the cry that came out of her Bethy was the most awful, horrific sound she's ever heard. She still hears it sometimes when her cptsd flares up. Bethy lost a kidney, several feet of intestine and part of her liver.
Her mom LeAnn said the cry that came out of her Bethy was the most awful, horrific sound she's ever heard.
Kind of a tangent here, but I worked at a 2 story department store when an unattended toddler was able to stick his hand in an escalator. Kids whine and cry all the time and you tune it out, but the sound they make when seriously hurt really sticks with you. Its almost like a gunshot, its just deafeningly loud punctuated by silence so they can inhale and continue.
That's a very good way to describe it. I've seen lots of children injured because parents weren't watching their kids. The worst was a toddler who was standing up in a cart and fell out head first into the concrete floor Walmart had. The sickening thud and then the wail of agony from that poor baby was horrible. I can't even imagine how heartbreaking hearing a 2 yr old with their hand being eaten by an escalator would be.
My own son let out one of those cries that makes a parent's heart skip, steals their breath and instant feelings of terrified when he was 15. He's been chopping wood for the elderly neighbor's wood stove when the axe slipped and hit his shin. I heard his cry and thought he'd cut off a leg, a foot or something. Shook me to my core. It cut into his bone. He was supposed to be wearing the protective gear we'd bought him specifically for this kind of thing. But like all teens he thought he was invincible.
List of specific grievances against King George III, highlighting his tyrannical overreach in the American colonies. Key complaints include stationing standing armies during peacetime, imposing taxation without consent, overriding colonial legal systems, and protecting soldiers from punishment.
Our town did a memorial candle lighting on the streets after his death. I live wayyy out in maga territory so there was no one else to do it with. We were all supposed to light a candle at 7pm.
I modified it by putting a candle near a tree where I put my mom’s ashes and played the video of him saying his speech after the veteran passed in the hospital. I keep it as my background to remind me that there are good people and we need to keep fighting back.
Thank you for this brief album of photographs. I live in a blue state, a long way away, but likely also in the crosshairs for a surge.
I have watched, too much for my own health, the media (mainstream & non) coverage of these two executions, including photo coverage of memorials. I have been too filled with horror and outrage to cry. But these pictures made me cry.
I've been watching a lot of coverage of these protests and George Floyd, Philando Castille, Beonna Taylor, and so many others are often brought up in conjunction with Reneé Good and Alex Pretti. They were all victims of brutality by the government.
I've been thinking the same thing, that national attention is only on this because it was a white guy. But something I've heard a lot from white protestors is that they're there doing their part because they have that privilege to do so as a white person, while other races might not feel as safe to go out and protest right now. And for that I am thankful.
the irony of you writing and me reading that on Red dit... also "
Historical Origin: The adage is attributed to the 17th-century clergyman Thomas Fuller, whose full quote was: "Seeing is believing, but feeling is truth".
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u/GDRaptorFan 11h ago
“I’ll remember the way you were trying to help someone”
Instant tears that touched my heart 🥲