The shootings don't just normalize shootings, they normalize everything up to and including shootings.
If they can get away with shootings, they don't think twice about smashing someone's head in.
this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2026
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This is my concern of American apathy. It gets relied on; it's that culturally ingrained. Protests are encouraging to see, but we always see momentum gone quickly and suddenly the things that once caused protests is just part of the regular news cycle.
As a non-American, it's bonkers to continue seeing how far the bar will sink before enough people finally say enough is enough.
Too many times has the apathy impacted the globe.
Shit had to get bad enough for the average American for the average voter to realize shits broken.
It took the Great Depression to get FDR elected, and the government was killing protesters in the streets then too.
Hell, a giant group of armed veterans were living at the Washington monument during the election.
Shit could have always gotten better, but it usually has to get real bad before people accept it. It's bad enough now we can actually fix shit
I don't think there's going to be any strong movement until the food shortages start.
No, they know they need "Bread & Circuses" to keep us placated and compliant, so they'll keep us barely fed and entertained with propaganda.
They are past that stage now, now they are doing everything to provoke revolt so they can justify killing with tanks and stopping any elections.
"He only kicked him the head with steel-toed boots. It's not like he SHOT him..."
That's basically what they said:
officers told hospital staff that he was “laying down in handcuffs when he attempted to flee, and then, for unknown reasons, purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
Edit: my bad, I read your comment as saying he kicked himself in the head.
The cause of his injuries is still unknown. According to the lawsuit, officers told hospital staff that he was “laying down in handcuffs when he attempted to flee, and then, for unknown reasons, purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
And I'll bet those officers had a hard time keeping a straight face while they spouted that bullshit too. Considering what has been happening on the streets in plain view of God and everyone, I shudder to think of what is happening to these people when ICE gets them behind closed doors.
I'm willing to bet this is either a lie or the unknown reason is an ice agent shoving him into the brick wall
Or a bunch of ICE Apes picked him up and used his head like a battering ram against the wall.
Ah, bullshit, someone just beat him in the head with a club. Or kicked him with steel-toed boots.
If there is hope, wrote Winston, it lies in the proles.
If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there in those swarming disregarded masses, 85 per cent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated. The Party could not be overthrown from within. Its enemies, if it had any enemies, had no way of coming together or even of identifying one another. Even if the legendary Brotherhood existed, as just possibly it might, it was inconceivable that its members could ever assemble in larger numbers than twos and threes. Rebellion meant a look in the eyes, an inflexion of the voice, at the most, an occasional whispered word. But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it? And yet-!
I sure hope no ICE agents get their "shit rocked" in ways nobody can explain...sure would be a real shame.
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