Did you? I saw an ICE hog execute a confused, scared woman just trying to get the fuck away from these masked, jackbooted nazis. I hope you saw it, too.
You may not have! Twitter has been taking the video down (apparently–I don’t go on child porn websites so I can’t be sure), BlueSky has been tagging it as graphic (making many BlueSky users incapable of seeing it), and I don’t even want to play pretend with mentioning Zuck’s IG. If you can find it, watch it. Take it in. Breathe it deep. Taste it. You paid for that!
Living in this godforsaken country since Oct. 2023 has been a constant, undending parade of the monstrous things being done abroad with my tax dollars–mostly the Gazan Genocide, but there are others, less specatcular examples. Today, however, the frontier truly came home. The weapons, tactics, and mentality of our Glorious Crusaders have returned.
I’ve paraphrased the point before, “fascism is the frontier coming to the imperial metropole,” but we’ve not had so stark an example as this. A rotund goon in a mask and fatigues murdered a woman in broad daylight in the middle of an iced-over Minneapolis street. In a perverse way, nothing could be more American, nothing is a better summation of America’s Empire. We looted the world, destroyed indigenous resistance, and overthrew governments (still are, lol), and for what? You pay for healthcare that sucks shit. You have a lower life expectancy than a Canadian. You are dumber and poorer than a Frenchman! The ENGLISH are laughing at us!
Today is the “for what.” You voted for shitty hawk Dems and didn’t say shit about Empire because it’s too complicated, or it implicates you, or WHATEVER. But you got your reward anyway! A domestic fascist goon squad, trained up with weapons originally appropriated to kill Osama bin Laden and tactics designed for Fallujah. Congrats! We’re all winners!
You know what the solution is. So do I. The only question is whether any of us will overcome our cowardice, our comfort, our complacence.
I’m not confident (no shit?).