Live updates: Frey, Walz dispute that ICE killed woman in self-defense
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ICE officials say the woman was shot and killed Wednesday morning in south Minneapolis after attempting to run over agents with her car. Mayor Jacob Frey called ICE’s version of what happened “garbage.” Gov. Tim Walz also challenged that narrative. He’s expected to speak shortly.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/36713215

I don’t even know what else to add to this headline. This is so fucked up and tragic scary and infuriating and it will in no way slow the resistance.

  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Are you forgetting that it goes “a well-ordered militia…”

    A bunch of scattered people with their own firearms is not the same thing as a well-ordered militia. Winning wars requires organization as much as it requires logistics and personnel.

    The left is so rife with infighting that they’ll never unite enough to organize militarily behind a common cause. Can you imagine a bunch of wannabe anarchists trying to form a chain of command? It almost seems worthy of a comic.

    And the armed right actively support this fascist regime, so they won’t be much help either.

    Yeah, some militia. Really instills confidence and makes one want to go fight and die beside one’s comrades /s

    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Are you forgetting that it goes “a well-ordered militia…”

      “Regulated”, not “ordered”, but I understand your point.

      The Left and the Right both celebrate Luigi. Our differences are not nearly as significant as our commonalities.

      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Eh, close enough but thanks for the correction.

        Luigi was a lone wolf. How many lone wolves would it take to dismantle the military-industrial complex and the police state?

        Cause that’s what it would take to topple the current structures of power. And then the real work begins of building something new. How would right and left agree on what kind of system replaces this one?

        Not replacing it with anything isn’t an option, unless you want the world to be run by crime syndicates. Someone needs to keep the underbelly controlled, or else the underbelly will keep you controlled.

        Contrary to what most americans would like to believe the problem isn’t so simple that throwing guns at it will solve everything. It’s never that simple.

        • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Luigi was a lone wolf.

          He’s not celebrated because he’s a lone wolf. He’s celebrated (by both the left and the right) because he struck the oligarchy. Strip out that cancer, and the underlying system is fairly manageable and responsive.

              • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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                4 months ago

                How the nazis lost WWII:

                They were flanked by the two biggest global superpowers who had formed an ad hoc alliance specifically to combat the nazi threat.

                Nazi Germany started from a position of weakness, and its imperial ambitions outpaced its ability to maintain a frontline. It’s a bad analogy from a military strategy standpoint.

                The US is already firmly established from coast to coast, and has the largest nuclear arsenal in the world. It’s not even comparable. Better to ask how the roman empire eventually crumbled.

                  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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                    4 months ago

                    That’s not what I said, but if you think it’s as simple as a few keyboard warriors with light weaponry actually deciding to leave their desks and do something about it, then you’re sadly mistaken.