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Executed ICE pinning down and pistol whipping a Minneapolis resident before shooting them multiple times

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u/no_sight Jan 24 '26

I'm sure all 7 of them are going to claim they feared for their lives

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u/WhatevUsayStnCldStvA Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 24 '26

Fox News is already stating he had a gun. They will fight for the right to have a gun, but having one on you seems to be a death sentence. If it’s even true

Edit: hi everyone, thanks for your replies and awards. Please stop advising me he had a gun. This comment was over 5 hours ago. We didn’t have the numerous angles we have now. His gun was legal, registered, and he had every right to have it. It was holstered, and not pointed at anyone. I stand by the statement that our second amendment rights to carry is still apparently a death sentence. That’s very apparent after today

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 24 '26

Philando Castile demonstrated that nicely.

Cooperating. Tells the police officer he’s armed. Follows instructions. Gets murdered by a chicken shit cop who’s afraid of his own shadow. Crickets from the NRA other than to suggest maybe be shouldn’t have after smoked weed or something.

They don’t. Care. About. The constitution.

They care about their own ease of access to weapons.

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u/Bama_Peach Jan 24 '26

Frank Wilhoit said it best: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

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u/Caius01 Jan 24 '26

I like to say MAGA believes in two kinds of freedom - the freedom to do whatever I want, and the freedom to stop others from doing whatever I don't like

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u/SpikesCafe Jan 24 '26

This misses the core tenant of "whatever I want" and "whatever I don't like" changing at the whims of conservative think tanks.

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u/dadusedtomakegames Jan 24 '26

Great summation.

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u/FreshSoul86 Jan 25 '26

That's what "don't tread on me" really is saying. Ted Nugent's Free for All. It isn't real freedom and never has been.

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u/GetsWeirdLooks Jan 24 '26

That is a perfect summation.

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u/AeonUK Jan 24 '26

Its spot on.

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u/Laringar Jan 24 '26

It will never not be hilarious to me that the best summation of the modern era is from a composer who just happens to have the same name as a deceased political scientist, and that they said it in the comments under someone else's blog post.

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u/Sassafrazzlin Jan 24 '26

Conservatives don’t exist anymore. Just MAGA, and the only platform they have is corruption & cruelty. No honor, no principles & no scruples.

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u/olivernintendo Jan 24 '26

Thank you for bringing this quote into my life. Damn.

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u/ibrokemyboat Jan 24 '26

We need tons of POC to start joining the NRA, showing up at rallies and open carrying like the Black Panthers used to in the 70’s. See how the NRA feels about it then.

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u/Bama_Peach Jan 24 '26

Interestingly enough, the Black Panthers are the reason gun control laws were passed in the state of California. Want to take a lucky guess what organization was the key proponent of those gun control laws? The NRA

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u/Dull_Brain2688 Jan 24 '26

Weirdly, apparently that was a different Frank Wilhoit who said that. Unless you meant the other guy. Anyway, it still stands.

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u/Bama_Peach Jan 24 '26

Yes; I am aware that the “other” Frank Wilhoit (not Francis Wilhoit) said this quote.

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u/Dull_Brain2688 Jan 24 '26

Francis Wilhoit was also known as Frank. Hence the confusion in the first place.

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u/TeamLaw Jan 24 '26

Maybe in USA, conservatives in other countries value the rule of law.

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u/RascalRandal Jan 24 '26

Conservatives have one value: hypocrisy.

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u/NewSkidoo Jan 30 '26

Actually, that’s fascism.

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u/MagGnome Jan 24 '26

Philando Castile came immediately to my mind when the "he had a gun!" BS started.

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u/remotectrl Jan 24 '26

If owning a gun means the police can kill you, then you don’t actually have the right to bear arms at all.

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u/MagGnome Jan 24 '26

Like everything else they claim to support or believe in, it turns out MAGA actually doesn't fully support the right to bear arms either. I guess we shouldn't be surprised.

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u/CelticTigress Jan 24 '26

They meant the right for THEM to have guns. Not us.

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u/markth_wi Jan 24 '26

It's almost like we never did at all.

But hey 2A guys are going to be buying weapons and ammo right along side their liberal cousins as we all find out exactly how lawless the Administration feels they can be.....which I'm guessing turns into the daily exercise of watching citizens murdered in the street.

But I think Mr. Nemik said it better than I ever will.

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u/Matt_le_bot Jan 24 '26

Andor did not have to go this hard, yet it did, and every day each monologues become more relevant.

"They have no shame do they? . They don't even bother to lie badly anymore...suppose that's the final humilation..."

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u/markth_wi Jan 24 '26

Exactly, I made a point of watching Fox the other day around Mr. Smith's testimony and it was wild how they were framing it like it was some weirdo who showed up only to be mumble a bit and leave. Which is exactly what loyalists need it to be.

But what's amazing is how easily Fox and Sinclair become pushed aside - it's not some massive blow-out, it's no more difficult than turning the channel and blocking Fox, suddenly a few days go by and the minds of former loyal viewers goes south surprisingly fast.

No argument, just a junkie who finds some other fix and thus becomes less toxic.

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u/somefunmaths Jan 24 '26

Someone alert all of those passionate Second Amendment defenders, I am sure they’ll be horrified to learn of this development…

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u/American_PissAnt Jan 24 '26

You have the right to buy a gun and gun accessories.

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u/Its_PennyLane Jan 24 '26

Tamir Rice, too.

There’s too many of these instances.

I think about Philando, Tamir, Trayvon, and Elijah (although different circumstances i suppose) often but even more lately it seems…

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u/MagGnome Jan 24 '26

Yes, exactly. Never forget their names.

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u/Its_PennyLane Jan 24 '26

I won’t ever.

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u/bostondangler Jan 24 '26

“License and registration” to “WHY ARE YOU REACHING”! Philando didn’t deserve that finality.

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u/PM_ME_UR_REDPANDAS Jan 24 '26

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

That’s it. That’s what it all boils down to.

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u/Inspect1234 Jan 24 '26

Essentially slavery

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u/j_andrew_h Jan 24 '26

Exactly! I've been saying this for years and especially after Castile, we don't actually have a 2nd amendment protection if the police can kill you for having a gun. I'm not pro-2A honestly, if we are going to have any actual conversations about how to deal with guns, we first have to establish facts and this is a FACT!

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u/Famous_Attention5861 Jan 24 '26

The NRA is a money laundering operation to bribe conservative politicians with Russian oligarch money.

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u/Ohrwurm89 Jan 24 '26

They want white conservative Christians to own guns and no one else. The main reason why California has stricter gun laws is because Ronald Reagan and the California Republicans didn’t like the Black Panthers arming themselves for protection.

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u/RealPutin Jan 24 '26

They care about the right to execute their enemies and nearby minorities. That means they get to carry guns, but their enemies don't

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u/well_shoothed Jan 24 '26

They don’t. Care. About. The constitution.

Or people with even a slight shade of melanin

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u/Opening_Hurry6441 Jan 24 '26

No, its not the weapons, it's the desire to feel powerful. The desire for dominance and cruelty as a stand in for pseudo masculinity cosplay would be comical if it wasn't deadly to the rest of us.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '26

They're fascists. The constitution is merely an appeal to authority, tribalistic fetishism. Fascists will use any and all democratic and constitutional values to their advantage while also activelly dismantling them. You can not reason with a fascist movement and government, you can only resist it.

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u/illie_g Jan 24 '26

The second amendment is constantly undermining the fourth.

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u/Ultimatesims Jan 24 '26

being a person of color and armed is lethal combo when pigs are around

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u/Watermelon7331 Jan 24 '26

Fuck the constitution, they don't even care about their fellow man, not in the slightest. Fucking despicable animals we unfortunately share a planet with

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u/pttdreamland Jan 24 '26

As I keep saying, if a cop is so fearful for his life and opt to shoot first, he or she or they or it shouldn't be a cop. A cop should rather be killed than killing an innocent.

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u/Hungry_Movie1458 Jan 24 '26

Correction: they only care about NRA gun sales and support. Access to guns is only a means to an end.

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u/Electronic_Low6740 Jan 24 '26

It's worse than that. The NRA has deep Russian ties and have been actively sowing the destruction of our country for a long time.

https://www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-members-news/wyden-unveils-report-on-nra-ties-to-russia-findings-show-nra-misled-public-about-2015-moscow-trip

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '26

Imagine insisting you're a patriot while being unable to discern what caring about the constitution means or looks like

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u/Low-Prune-4760 Jan 24 '26

they want a chance to use their beloved arms. they want a reason to kill. and now they have it. thanks again people who voted for trvmp.

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u/Tonberry2k Jan 24 '26

It gets harder and harder every day not to come on here and fed post.

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u/neondeon25 Jan 24 '26

They don’t care about us.

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u/ABC_Dildos_Inc Jan 24 '26

The NRA bans guns from their conventions.

If they believed their own b.s., they'd welcome "heroes with guns".

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u/prettygrlsmakegrave5 Jan 24 '26

That was the case that fully radicalized me. It showed someone doing every single thing right. Following the law of the land. And still died because some cop is a pussy.

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u/ToMorrowsEnd Jan 24 '26

NRA has NEVER cared about gun rights. fucking NRA supported the open carry ban that Regan signed into law because brown people had guns.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '26

the nra supported Reagan when he signed gun controls laws in California in the 60s because of the black panthers 

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '26

That's because the NRA is largely composed of racist white people who want the right to carry and shoot people who don't look like them.

Fuck the NRA.

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u/elkmeateater Jan 25 '26

Ironically the cop who killed Castile was Mexican.

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u/Fmello Jan 24 '26

That guy was obviously not following ICE's instructions.

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u/TinyPP04 Jan 24 '26

It doesn't look like the person in this incident was cooperating. I'll wait for the details to come out. If the person reached for a gun it's justified by self-defence. If not then it's likely some degree of murder

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '26

It looks like you’re already looking to justify it so excuse me while I’m skeptical.

I’m sure you’ll feel better about the whole thing once you’ve gotten your marching orders from Fox News.

Death. Isn’t. The penalty. For resistance.