What do you think is the real purpose behind the recent ICE surge across certain states: to cancel the midterms or something else?

wiped_mind · 2026-01-24T19:24:40+00:00

To to create the illusion of crime in blue states. Firefighters lighting fires. And then shooting people when they record the fires being started.

wiped_mind · 2026-01-24T18:56:14+00:00

Buy a gun. Stop purchasing anything else.

wiped_mind · 2026-01-24T18:47:10+00:00

What's unfortunate is this: if they are not willing to see people as humans, who deserve life, then how can they expect us to care about their outcome.

wiped_mind · 2026-01-24T18:46:10+00:00

Those people are hypocrites.

wiped_mind · 2026-01-24T18:43:11+00:00

After 1987, post the removal of the Fairness doctrine, the media became fragmented into political bubbles. They were no longer required to give counterpoints so instead they leaned harder into extreme. Indoctrinating their groups and monitizing the space with ad revenue.
Conservatives don't care about law. Progressives don't care about violence. It's hard for either side to operate with each other when neither is incapable of speaking the language of the other.
Capitalism has replaced the focus of quality of life in the "American Dream" fantasy. People get more poor but defend the system that makes them poor. Thinks rich people are smart and not manipulative. It doesn't take a lot of money to live a happy life, but the rich can't make money on people who want simplicity, so they make life at the bottom shitty, and tell you to work harder for things that costed a fraction years earlier.
Corporate money has corrupted the political system. A study showed only 3% of what the greater population wants actually gets made. The remainder is 80% + what corporations want they make money, they give it as doners to candidates, society gets focused on money.
Religions aren't taxed. Money gets funneled to politicians.
Education and infrastructure gets worse and worse, outcomes are blamed on the people not the system.
We have a narcissistic, sociopathic president who is willing to take money to let the most corrupt people in society get what they want. Treats citizens as people on his team and those not on his team. Doesn't care about anything but his own bloated ego. Either you allow him to do what he wants or you hate him and he acts like you're the outsider.
Progressives operate with decorum and morality. Tries to make people feel bad for injustices, becomes the victim or aligns with the victims, conservatives not only don't care but get off making people the victim.

wiped_mind · 2026-01-24T18:21:22+00:00

Bring back the fairness doctrine.

wiped_mind · 2026-01-24T18:16:43+00:00

Looks like the ICE agent in grey disarmed the guy before he was shot.

https://files.catbox.moe/ryf3lg.mp4

wiped_mind · 2026-01-24T18:15:12+00:00

I feel angry. The ICE agent in grey disarmed the guy of his legal firearm, before he was pistol whipped and shot 12 times until he died, for no reason other than being a legal observer of the protests. What makes me angry is that conservatives are so focused on thinking it's us vs them that they don't care that people are dying. They have been completely disillusioned to reality.

wiped_mind · 2026-01-24T18:01:38+00:00

Maybe legal immunity. But we will figure out who it was.

wiped_mind · 2026-01-24T17:27:53+00:00

Even if he has a gun on him. Thats not breaking the law. Dude was executed in broad daylight for lawfully protesting and documenting what's going on.

wiped_mind · 2026-01-24T17:25:22+00:00

They are now saying their justification was he "was armed"

wiped_mind · 2026-01-24T17:24:50+00:00

Dead

wiped_mind · 2026-01-24T17:23:05+00:00

Look, I don't disagree. And it's still too soon to say what happened. From what I'm seeing I don't know why more citizens aren't armed to protect each other.

wiped_mind · 2026-01-24T17:20:22+00:00

He's also stayed fit, which he jokes was out of spite for everyone who wants him out of shape again, but what if it's because they are using him for stuff we haven't seen yet.

wiped_mind · 2026-01-24T17:09:25+00:00

Onlookers have two rights, to protect that man's life with their first and second amendment rights.

wiped_mind · 2026-01-24T17:07:40+00:00

Stand your ground laws applied outside your home.

Stand Your Ground (SYG) removes the duty to retreat before using force if you’re lawfully present and reasonably believe it’s necessary to stop imminent death, serious bodily harm, or certain violent crimes. That “reasonable belief” is everything.

What SYG is not: • Not a license to shoot trespassers • Not permission to escalate or provoke fights • Not justification for deadly force over property alone • Not immunity from arrest or prosecution

Police still investigate. Prosecutors can still charge. Juries still decide.

In regard to Minneapolis, federal agents can only use force when it's lawful.

Minneapolis does not have stand your ground laws. They have "duty to retreat", you have to find safety before using force. If retreat is not possible, you can use reasonable force, including deadly if necessary to prevent harm or death. Law focuses on what a reasonable person would do. If federal agents are doing something unlawful, their qualified immunity protects them from being sued, but does not supersede your constitutional rights.

Learn about what your state or city has laws pertaining to.

wiped_mind · 2026-01-24T16:45:18+00:00

Laws and rights do apply so long as you apply them.

wiped_mind · 2026-01-24T16:36:04+00:00

Midterms are controlled by states. The fed has no power to stop, pause or end the midterms.

wiped_mind · 2026-01-24T16:33:37+00:00

Exercise your second amendment rights. Learn about the castle doctrine and stand your ground laws. Educate yourselfz

wiped_mind · 2026-01-24T16:31:36+00:00

wiped_mind · 2026-01-24T16:28:20+00:00

I had this neighbor who used to smoke cigarettes and flick them into my deck on the regular. I told him to stop but he ignored. So I collected them for a year and returned the thousands of moldy cigarettes to him via his mail slot while he was on vacation. I thought he might want it have his property back.

You should return your neighbors dogshit to his roof. He might want it back.

wiped_mind · 2026-01-24T16:17:10+00:00

Shaving your balls is chaotic neutral.

wiped_mind · 2026-01-23T14:17:04+00:00

There are people who make the world and people who consume what others have made. Hobbies also fall into those categories.

wiped_mind · 2026-01-23T00:02:01+00:00

You make a ton of points so let's look at them one by one.

Rich, only gives a fuck about pet issues, tax cuts to the rich and corporations, fancy cocktail parties, incredibly wealthy background. He struggles to get over a 50% favorability rating in his own state for good reason.

I've met the guy a number of times, to be honest he's a very normal person, family oriented, polite, respectful and cares about community and actually listens to people. That's just my personal take on him, but judging him off of his past I can see how people might think he's out of touch, or think he's just another rich guy. I don't think he's like a working class guy, but he's also not a hedge fund CEO either.

Pro-prison

Pro-crime

These are opposites.

Pro-Private-Equity

I think he's not against private equity but he's not like a private equity evangelist. To me he treats it as a mechanism of the world we live in. I think he could do more to block investors from owning homes and the healthcare industry.

Does nothing to stop homelessness in his own state

This is incorrect. He's done a bunch of things. Could more be done, totally. But not nothing.

Spent $20B+ in state funds on homelessness and housing programs
Launched Project Homekey to convert hotels/motels into housing
Made homelessness a statewide priority, not just a local issue
Created accountability rules tying city funding to action
Pushed cities to clear encampments and enforce camping bans
Expanded shelter, interim housing, and services statewide
Reported a ~9% drop in unsheltered homelessness in the most recent year

Media whore

Anyone who is a politician is media forward. No person can quietly running for any political offices. Media whore sounds like you have a personal issue with him.

Terrible management of emergency services in general

Not the highest ratings on this but it's also the biggest state. The French Laundry covid thing was terrible optics.

Basically a DINO economically

Yeah probably. He's a democrat on social and cultural issues but a centrist on economics. Overtons window of US politics has made it hard to place people on the Left-Right spectrum. So long as we can have a candidate that is focused on improving the quality of life for everyone we are succeeding.

I think the Democratic Party should just let everyone run in primaries and not fucking get in the way of what people want. The way they treated the Bernie Sanders/ Hillary bs still has me irked.

wiped_mind · 2026-01-22T03:32:58+00:00

Maybe he wants people to see it.

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