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ICE agents try to detain US citizen in St Peter, Minnesota. Her 'crime' was filming them.
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this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2026
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Escalate to where? They are already executing US citizens in the street who haven't done anything remotely illegal?
And not even receiving fake punishments to try and reassure the public that's not what is actually happening.
Tiananmen Square style massacre. Oligarchs saw that in 89 and thought, gee I'd like to do that in America and put the little people in their place.
I get the sentiment, but there's always a way to escalate. Right now these cop school rejects are driving rented civilian vehicles, using ordinary cop weapons. Start actually posing a threat and you'll see the bozos drive APCs. Start using molotovs on their APCs, and ICE will get armed drones and even more twitchy trigger fingers on larger weapons.
I'm not arguing that you shouldn't fight back, but governments rely on having a violence monopoly. If you threaten that monopoly, then the government will use more force.
So just roll over
I'm not saying roll over. Just be prepared for your opponent escalating and to keep fighting. Because if you take a couple of potshots at ICE, and then give up when the going gets tough, then you'd might as well have rolled over to begin with.
There's always marching people to mass graves and shooting them by the thousands or millions. Not quite there yet, but it's the same monsters
Friendly reminder that thousands of detainees from this past year are missing with no records. There were tens of thousands of missing people his last term too.