Border Patrol Agent Aiming 40mm Launcher At My Head - ICE Protest 1/31
Picture from Saturday’s protest at the Portland ICE facility. An agent fixed his 40mm launcher at my head twice, despite me very obviously being a photographer.
Beautiful shot.
There is SO much good potential for solid propaganda messaging here. Look how scary and threatening these gasmasked brown-suited goons are. They even got the polarized lenses in Villainous Henchmen red?!?! What a GIFT!
They’re like the Combine or XCOM 2’s Advent. Heck they even got a Killzone Helghast thing going on!
C’mon artists! Let’s take this inspiration and put up elaborate guerilla murals and wheatpaste posters all over town.
Imagery and art that can’t be ignored:
“Look at these filthy storm troopers, dragging away children, pointing their big lethal guns at expectant mothers and nuns and doctors and puppies!”
Get the message across to the ignorant uninvolved masses: These aren’t the friggin Paw Patrol. They do nothing for “safety.” They don’t target criminals. (A bunch of muppet-brains actually try to say this with a straight face. It’s mind-blowing.)
Show them unmistakably as they are: They’re pitiless and alien, they’re evil, they’re scary, and they’re a Bad Thing.
If you and your community don’t help stop them TODAY, they’ll laugh as they throw you and your neighbors into a van after shooting your dog.
The best artists use references, and the photo is right here. Let’s get to work!
(PSA: If you do this digitally, don’t forget to upload your “fan art” with TOR! 😉)
Thanks for what wheatpaste into my lexicon and toolbox.
Haha neat! :D
Apparently it’s turned into a specific brand name for a few companies, but here’s where the term and technique came from, if you or anybody else is interested. :)
the only good ICE agent is a
this is actually so sad how the world is now :(
What’s the duffel bag on the leg for? It looks like it could hold an entire lunch.
It’s the bag for his gas mask.
The psyop has done a number on us hasn’t it folks
The government have been stifling people’s liberties under this administration. Let’s get the government outta here. Seriously!
A nation obsessed with guns and the military so it makes sense.
Your camera could have been an assault rifle. /s
Don’t let the so called Land of the Free turn into this:
The US is wayy past that picture.
The tanks stopped for tankman, who proceeded to climb on the tank to yell at the commander. The guy got down and was ushered away by random civilians.
We went past that in 2020, when individuals or crowds tried to block police vehicles, they often drove into them. They went further in 2025, with multiple people being murdered for doing the equivalent of what Tank Man did.
“The Land Of The Free” is one step above 2020 Nigeria or 2022 Myanmar levels right now.
You can watch the anime: Jin-Rou.
There, armored squads of soldiers with red lenses shoot at people with machine guns in the sewers.
Like fucking Russia or any 3rd World dump. Piss off MAGA!
Those “Third world dumps” often are the way they are because the US did violent military interventions in those countries.
This is the Imperial Boomerang coming back around. ICE is doing to Americans what their fathers, brothers, and sons were shipped off to do in Vietnam, Iraq, and countless other places.
This fact doesn’t make the deaths of Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and others, any less tragic. But It doesn’t make the deaths of the people in those “Third world dumps” any less tragic either. I think these people deserve more respect than to have their homes called dumps.
I’m from a so-called “3rd world dump” and not even, because our death squads aren’t as well-armed to kill civilians.
Then again, there may be a lot wrong with my country, but we definitely do not share America’s problems in the first place.
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Sees America doing American things in the American way they always have: “this looks like something those inferior foreigners would do!”
American exceptionalism is a religion
Libs looking at American pigs doing the thing they’ve done for a century: What are we? A bunch of filthy foreigners?
So we need to increase funding, to send them all to basic firearm safety training? Maybe the Scouts can run it for a merit badge - my kids knew better than that while still in elementary school school (slingshot safety training covered firearms years before they were allowed to touch them)
