Comment by biophysboy
10 days ago
Per the WSJ, as of January 10th this year, ICE has identified 13 instances of agents firing at or into civilian vehicles, leaving eight people shot with two confirmed dead. Five of those shot were citizens. According to court records, only one of these civilians was armed and never drew his weapon.
There is a sickness curdling in the dark corners of Silicon Valley. These people need to be humiliated for being the sniveling, authoritarian toads that they are.
There are reports that ICE threw a flash bang into a vehicle last night that contained a father trying to leave with his children to get them to safety.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbMO7u44LGM
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43675045 (showdead on)
> This is really over for anyone who opposes us. The Lord saved Donald Trump from assassination and is using him as His instrument. The cognitive dissonance to continue to resist the Will of God and will of the people which are united, is just pure bitterness of loss and defeat.
Let's be honest, you aren't gonna believe video, either. It's a matter of literal religious faith for you.
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Evil X thing happened; therefore, do evil Y thing - go fuck yourself.
[this is a reply to fourseventy] Looking up the violent crime rates by migrants in places like MN, it's effectively zero. As a rule, migrants and immigrants don't commit crimes at anything close to the rate of native US citizens.
Meanwhile in Minneapolis, the overwhelming majority of violent crimes (including aggravated assaults, theft, murders and sexual assaults) are being committed by ICE agents.
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"humiliating" folks might not be the proportional response when innocent people are dying
How else are we supposed to deter tech people from working for Palantir? What is a good polite method?
I am pretty sure the implication was not a polite method. GP is suggesting extrajudicial violence
The govt contract with them should be voided. That's the way.
But in the US no one believes they can meaningfully influence govt for real issues. And they are right.
Sure you can get them to paint a rainbow zebra crossing. /s
But not stop/prevent a (civil) war. Democracy dies and lobbyism (what we call corruption in "modern western democracies" -- because we dont do corruption, that's for poor countries!) takes over when the power is consolidated at a high enough level.
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people cannot yet be held accountable; this is an important first step, however.
Ah ok, we'll hold people accountable. Sweet!
Hopefully the number of people who die stays low until that happens, which always happens, at least.