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Minnesota resident Will Stancil is a lawyer, policy researcher, and onetime candidate for the state’s house of representatives who has long been a voluble progressive presence on X and Bluesky. Over the past week, Stancil has become a mainstay of citizen patrols, tracking ICE agents around the city in his Honda Fit and sharing his experiences with his 100,000-plus followers. On Friday, I spoke with Stancil about what he has witnessed over the past few days.

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Do the videos we’ve seen — of violent arrests, of agents deploying flash-bangs and tear gas on bystanders — capture the full extent of what’s happening?

No. In the private rapid-response channels, people will share many, many videos, and they don’t want to bring them public because they don’t want to be identified. People are worried. So there’s lots and lots more private stuff that is never circulating. The other thing is I think it’s really difficult to capture. The last few days have been calmer. But for the first week or so, it was really hard to convey the unrelenting pace of this stuff. I had a journalist come ride along — he just published an article about it. I had been talking about how crazy it was, and I could tell he was a little bit skeptical. He thought, Okay, maybe we’ll see an ICE car. In a two-hour ride, we chased four ICE convoys onto the highway, saw someone violently abducted alive in front of us, then saw a separate ICE convoy tear-gas a major commercial intersection for no reason at all. In two hours.

We have these rapid-response channels. I mean, I got to the point where — and this is very difficult to do — but I got to the point where I mute them or turn them off or leave them when I come home in the evening because getting the constant updates — as much as I want to be informed of my community, if I’m not out there and can’t do anything about it, I am a raw nerve all day and night. I come home and I just have to lie on the couch and just shut everything off and shut my brain off because you’ll go insane hearing about what all they’re doing.

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[–] eddanja@lemmy.world 148 points 3 days ago (4 children)

And the child that caused all of this thinks he deserves a prize for bringing peace.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 43 points 3 days ago (2 children)

He deserves a fucken rope and a dirt nap. Fucken loathe young shitstain magas, at least the boomers have the material excuse of lead poisoning and several decades of constant propaganda.

[–] Soulg@ani.social 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you give boomers the excuse of propaganda then young magas get the same excuse, is even worse now when algorithms dictate what information you receive

It's the propaganda and the lead poisoning that gives them an excuse, strip either or and they'd damned near functional. With a few exceptions damned near every boomer I've met has had a critical lack of stop and think, be it my grandmother jumping to sawzaw at the drop of a hat or watching a lefty boomer verge on reactionary it's a common trend.

While younger magas may have a similar excuse in the future due to pollution or even just long term usage of short form content there is still not enough data in my opinion. Propaganda is a powerful force sure but I'm a lot less forgiving towards someone who falls for it by itself versus folks with actual proven brain damage via lead exposure.

[–] superkong47@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Period. Tired of playing nice, these muthafuckas only understand one language and they couldn’t even spell peace so it’s time to “speak” in terms even a smooth brained sister fucking magat understands

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago
[–] DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 3 points 3 days ago

He brought a belevolent 89% peace.

Better give this saint the peace prize and someone's country.