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It's a terrible timeline to be in at the moment, at least white people are experiencing the policing non-whites suffer from in this country (infosec.pub)
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[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some of this country is very white. Do you think the cops police them differently? That they treat poor white people with respect?

No, and they never have. They prey on the poor and most vulnerable. If there's a wealthy non-white community, they will always "get a pass".

A perfect example of this in action is the homeless. How do the cops treat the homeless? Are they kind and merciful to the white ones?

Are they racist? Many of them are, of course (and sexist, etc).

But they ALL prey on the impoverished by design.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Respect? No. But they certainly treat poor black people a hell of a lot worse than poor white people.

[–] Soulg@ani.social 1 points 1 day ago

Oh, so you're not poor.

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Nah, they slash up their slum town tent and beat them just like everybody else in the camp

[–] mech@feddit.org 74 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Guy on the left failed the class.
He completely missed the baby.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago

The IDF drill instructor slowly places his hands on the shooter’s shoulders.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

He will be sent to Gaza to kill children execution style for training

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago

He should've hit the baby. Their bones are soft. Bullets would go right through. 2 for 1.

/s

[–] jaselle@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

what are you talking about "this country", this is lemmy.ca

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

ICE is an American institution, so the pronouns are used appropriately.

Otherwise, they'd have to replace the pronoun "their" with "Immigration and Customs Enforcement", or ICE again in the same sentence, and so on.

Pronouns are used as a substitute for the subject so that you don't have to use the same exact term repeatedly in conversation.

The pronouns following the subject all pertain to the subject until the subject is changed.

This is ENGLISH!

[–] jaselle@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

should be "that country," no?

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

People make mistakes with pronouns constantly, as pronouns are not "exact" and are themselves placeholders, an approximation for the subject to avoid nearly constant repetition.

Once you start correcting the pronouns of others, you make conversations about anything else virtually impossible. It's the destroyer of many threads, done purposefully or not.

As they say in linguistics, just go with it; only then will you get to THE SUBJECT itself

[–] ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The picture is missing a bullet hole where the baby is.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

It’s being sent to Mara lago to be raped and then it will be thrown into Lake Michigan

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

And random holes all over the wall, floor, ceiling...

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago

ah I see the agents of fight among yourselves and let the facist olgiarchs get away with it are still strong and active.

[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Lol, what makes you think they wouldn't shoot the baby?

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

I'm surprised they aren't spraying bullets randomly all over the room.

[–] mangaskahn@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

No flash bangs nearby

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

One mag dump for Mom.

Reload.

One mag dump hitting nothing.

Reload.

One mag dump for baby!

[–] EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

> Didn't shoot the kid

ICE 1 - 0 IDF

(Yeah I'll see myself out)

[–] recursive_recursion@piefed.ca 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

No shade against the artist but I feel that this caricature would've best met their desired messaging had they chose to depict people of color next to white people also being targeted.

Cause at the end of the day, all Americans are suffering at the hands of Trump and the republican cronies.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 10 points 2 days ago

I think the point is they're actually killing white people. That's how far down the hole we are.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

Are they going to give the surviving baby to the orangest Paedo Of The United States?

Everyone -decent- knows he likes them young...

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 points 1 day ago

4/10, they missed the child.

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

[...] white people are experiencing the policing non-whites suffer from in this country

What ICE is doing has nothing to do with policing.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The origin of policing in the US is runaway slave catching. It'd say its pretty damn in line with policing, historically speaking.

[–] Janx@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

Modern policing maintains at least the veneer of enforcing the law (unless you're powerful and/or rich).

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 3 points 2 days ago

What American police in general tend to do has nothing to do with policing. It's just that up until now white folk, outside of the absolute poorest classes, tended not to be on the receiving end of it.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

image

[–] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think the issue is that they were executed in a situation where they posed no danger to the officer. This would be frightening for any legal citizen. Please stop picking apart peoples reasons for being against this, we need unity now more than ever and all this logic does is force a useless purity test that gets us no where.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Please stop picking apart peoples reasons for being against this, we need unity now more than ever

Thank you.

It's depressing that this is so far down the thread, and has so few up votes.

If Americans don't pull together and work in a coordinated way they'll never defeat the faccist takeover of their country.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Many POC are executed in situations where they pose no danger. Please don’t downplay the systemic racism present in the policing industry, we need to stand against this behaviour now more than ever.

And at this point anyone using the term “purity test” should be ignored. It’s a term purely used to downplay systemic abuses of marginalised groups.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's kind of derailing. Nobody is downplaying that (except the racists who are are perpetuating the problem, but they're okay with this too). Most people here have probably also been speaking out against all the violence against POC.

If someone commented on a post about a POC being murdered by cops/ICE, and said "but what about the white people they killed," you would call that derailing. And that's exactly what you're doing here.

You're downplaying the tragedy that is the implicit topic of this current post, which is the woman who was recently murdered by ICE in Minneapolis. You apparently don't care about this event, because the victim was white, and you're arguing that we should ignore it simply because she wasn't a POC.

we need to stand against this behavior now more than ever.

Yes, exactly, so why are you taking issue with people doing just that?

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There needs to be a word beyond shortsighted that defines individuals who let perfect be the enemy of good.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The above commenter was simply trying to say that anyone who uses the term "purity test" has failed their purity test...

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I understood your joke, I'm sorry you got downvoted

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

It's alright, it happens. At least you picked up on it...

[–] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Yes they are and I yelled about that too and you have no way of knowing who here did and didn't. Yes the system is corrupt but the people you speak with here aren't the system, we are individuals.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

The bastards on the right: "Aim lower, Ross!"

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Kill a bunch of colored people, no one bats an eye. Shoot one white person and everyone loses their minds.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

The murderer of Daniel Shaver got away, sadly.

[–] jaselle@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

Why is that a good thing? Isn't it better for fewer people to experience that kind of policing? Or is the idea that now that more people are at risk, it increases the odds the people will rise up and change the system

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago

worst for poc and lgbtq+

[–] Juice@midwest.social 3 points 2 days ago

The guy on the bottom missed 50% of his shots, not star agent material