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Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions
Noo, people would need to have the balls to actually do it…
Unfortunately this is satire, and not consequences of their actions. I wish it was real though.
That sounds like a solid strategy to me.
Remember, if this happens then Orange McFuckface will declare there’s a civil war going on and declare martial law, canceling elections.
And that’s how you start a civil war
Well, yes. Both to the headline - the ICE is no better than the GeStaPo or the SchutzStaffel of Adolf H. - and the text itself.
So, ICE is scared that aggressive untrained people will use deadly force against them, and that afterwards the government will do nothing about it?
That’s pretty much how everybody else has felt about ICE for a long time.
(The Halfway Post is a satire website)
What’s the fucking point in doing satire these days?
We all cope in our own ways. This post is an amazing example of how we are not immune to propaganda, so… at least there’s that?
This post is an amazing example of how we are not immune to propaganda
This post isn’t propaganda, though, so it’s not that amazing of an example.
This post has five words
Yeah and if this openly and unabashedly satirical post was still being treated like legit reporting, imagine how people must react to actual propaganda.
Actual propaganda isn’t true, though, or at least it requires an element of misleading in it. If ICE officials aren’t actually concerned about people shooting them and claiming self-defense, then I’ll eat my hat, as the old saying goes.
It’s also not “openly and unabashedly satirical.” You only think that because you recognize the source as satirical. To everybody else, it reads as clickbait.
Clickbait + true statements does not equal an amazing example of how we are not immune to propaganda.
Can be true, can be as simple as „make you think about that (so you don’t think about this)“
Actual propaganda frequently is true, this is misleading in that it is not actually reporting news, just guessing something is true doesn’t make it true, I didn’t recognize the poster I went and looked it up trying to find a source and discovered it was posted by a very open satire site, and this seems like a really stupid thing for you to be trying to start a fight over.
I wasn’t criticising the satirist, more the world that is making satire impossible to differentiate from fact.
Nah totally, I read it as a similar sentiment to "What’s the point in doing anything". If that was off the mark I apologize. I just meant that we all cope in our own ways, even if some of them are somewhat windmill-tilting-y
In this case, perhaps to put the idea of shooting at ICE cars out into the universe without getting in trouble lol
Because there’s still plenty of wiggle room. You actually thought ICE officials were afraid of citizens?
With that said, if you were to end in the same situation, would the idea to actually run over an ICE agent so that he doesn’t shoot you cross your mind?
I really fail to see how that’s relevant to the source being a satire news site.
What I mean is satire or not: they SHOULD be worried. Now people may genuinely assume that running over them is the higher survival rate option.
Seems more like just hypothetical unsubstantiated news… 😅
Not in this case.
Give it a month, max, before somebody with either the cojones or the ovaries required to do this, does it.
… This … this is literally how the American Revolution started, at least from one sort of way of looking at it.
You have oppressive government forces killing and maiming enough randos long enough, eventually the randos start shooting back.
See also: Anywhere else the US has invaded and occupied in the last, I dunno, 75 years, more than that.
That pig was was recording while reaching for his gun, it looks like that video was meant as a trophy.
ICE officials worried citizens may treat them the same way they treat people. Welcome to bizarro land.
They’re really stupid, aren’t they?
Turns out abusing power and oppression law abiding citizens claiming they have no rights has consequences. Who would have thought.
That would be a wonderful jury
#nottheonion ?
If you want to live, I’d recommend it. Arm yourselves before you can’t.
I’m pretty sure their SUVs have bulletproof windshields. I mean they only have a multi-billion dollar budget and access to all the military equipment they could possibly want.
I’m not aware of anyone testing this hypothesis, though…
Afaik, armored suv’s still burn with enough accelerant…
The USA is still the Wild West, where cowboys protect their rights with a six shooter. Meanwhile here in Europe we eat our popcorn whilst enjoying the drama unfolding on the Telly.
Here in Europe we are surrounded by once-dependable allies who now fall prey to Russian hybrid warfare. Let us tend to that rather than jeer at those who should have stayed our allies.
Don’t you worry: trumps erratic behavior is actually GOOD for Europe: the EU is gaining in popularity, NATO will be more united without this troublemaker and the populists like orban are (according to reports) confused and frustrated by Trumps.
That’s to the good, but you can’t reliably conduct geopolitics with mind games.
Does the Queen know which side of the bed you sleep on?
Meanwhile, America sold you the popcorn and the telly and has a military base right next to your house.
Not much longer ;-)
Good luck
