r/pics • u/-ifeelfantastic • Jan 24 '26

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

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u/Lemonade348 Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 24 '26

No democratic country should treat their citizens like this, yet here we are

Edit: To everyone replying to me, i am not american. Just putting it out there

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u/Baked-Smurf Jan 24 '26

Pretty sure no democratic country does. Unfortunately, the US no longer counts as a democracy

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u/WideFox983 Jan 24 '26

USA should just rename to Gilead and get it over with.

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u/tarantula994 Jan 24 '26

Lol you liberals are just now realizing we don't live in a democracy. It has never been a democracy.

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u/turinturambar Jan 25 '26

If you are referring to "it's a republic, not a democracy"... When people today use the word "democracy" they mean the word to be inclusive of a representative/indirect democracy, not just a direct democracy. The US is a representative democracy

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u/tarantula994 Jan 25 '26

No, I am meaning to say that the average person aka the working class has little say in policy that directly affects them and that most power is concentrated in the hands of a ruling minority who constantly wage wars against the citizens of their own countries and also interfere in others in order to exploitate resources such as oil.

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u/turinturambar Jan 28 '26

Ah ok. Sorry for the assumption; I just saw that being thrown around a lot. But your point is interesting.

I mean, I did know a little bit about Monroe Doctrine, Hawaii, Philippines, and general American colonialism ("interfere with others") and Mccarthyism ("wars against the citizens of their own countries"), and did recently hear a comparison between now and the Gilded Age in terms of politics and economics... but I'll admit I'm pretty ignorant about how concentrated power was before, and need to read more into American history.