Tricia McLaughlin, DHS assistant secretary with a voice like gravel, pins the blame squarely on ‘smears from Hollywood.’ Assaults on her ICE officers? Up 1,300 per cent nationwide. Vehicle attacks? A grotesque 3,200 per cent this year. Shattered glass.
It’s really frustrating reading Lemmy commenters like, “America do something!” Like God damn! The news doesn’t want to report on all the work the millions of Americans have been doing to protect our streets because they’re paid by billionaires.
People just want to make snarky comments about the second amendment because we’re not shooting ICE agents in the face. They don’t want to hear about the things our communities are actually doing.
My own community hasn’t been hit as hard as MN but we’ve got rapid response hotlines tracking ICE, getting people with cameras and signs on them at the blink of an eye, and resource support groups for the undocumented.
Apparently that counts as nothing to a bunch of people that probably haven’t lifted a finger against their own government despite the fact that fascism is almost certainly rising there too.
This is all true, however you should be preparing to start shooting ICE agents in the face too. Just make sure you do proper planning so that you have a good chance of getting away with it.
Absolutely no argument from me on that, but there is no getting away with it - once we start shooting back we’ve opened Pandora’s box. The government is dying for an excuse to get even worse.
I’m of the belief they’re going to get worse no matter what we do and they’re only getting a stronger foothold day by day.
Those Lemmy commenters are CCP, Israel, Russia, or someone swooped up in their propaganda games. Shit is rampant. Doomers as far as the eye can see.
It’s all intended to promote learned helplessness. The end state that they want is a nihilistic fatalism: nothing can change, all politicians are the same, you can’t believe anything. The last thing they want is an engaged public.
It helps to imagine them as the “I am very smart” guy from that webcomic/meme template.