The silence from the Democratic leadership is deafening. Yes there are a few non-progressives that have gone rogue, but for the most part it has been all’s quiet in the chickenshit front.
They’re not chickenshit. They want this. The wealthy need the military in the streets to stop populist uprisings.
Both parties are literally owned by Israel and the Zionist oligarchs. Our country is literally occupied by Israel. https://www.trackaipac.com/shame
Once Americans realize that both Democrats and Republicans are controlled by the same puppet master, then we can see change.
The “puppet master” is greed.
Controlled opposition. FUCK THEM ALL.
Americans will whine “but what about the democrats?!?” all the way down the road to fascism.
Y’all didn’t vote for them, there’s nothing they can do. How about blame the fascism on on the fascists doing it?
Its frustrating that they only throw the blame at Trump and “MAGA world” when every single Republican voted for this ridiculous ICE budget.
Edit.
Republican is “maga” and “maga” is Republican. No difference.
They quote is “MAGA world” so that doesn’t seem like the authors intent.
Democrats love ice too!
Sure but most of them didn’t vote to increase the budget 400% leading to all the nonsense we see today.
til people actually think Democrats will save them
Yep, congress could end all of this tomorrow. I think the R congressmen and senators need much more pressure. Trump acts like a lightling rod and draws everyone’s attention. Congress should be feeling much more heat to do the right thing.
It’s frustrating to me that they only throw the blame at “Republicans” when the Democrats openly work with them. “We’re the labor party tee-hee we’re just really bad at labor stuff it’s hard lol”
And it’s frustrating to me that they only blame political parties, and not the wealthy institutions and people that use them for their own agenda with massive infusions of cash.
See the Heritage Foundation, the Council on Foreign Relations, and their financiers just to start. Thank you.
Just a reminder that the defense attorney, for the soldiers that gunned down the people during the Boston massacre, was none other than future president John Adams.
He successfully argued they were in fear for their lives.
American leaders have NEVER cared about the masses of people. It has always and will always defend and justify the actions of state violence as long as it benefits them to do so. The American revolution was very much just a transfer of power from the Royal British to the rich ruling class in the American colonies. And it has remained that way to this day.
What is happening now is nothing more than the ruling class resorting to fascist acts, once again, on its own population to maintain that power.
Just a reminder that the defense attorney, for the soldiers that gunned down the people during the Boston massacre, was none other than future president John Adams.
At the time, they were not advocating for independence, just more autonomy. Giving a fair trial and good representation in that trial was a way to demonstrate that the colonies could provide fair justice without England’s intervention. This is why they were so pissed off when the “Impartial Administration of Justice” Act passed.
He successfully argued they were in fear for their lives.
Which was probably fair in this case. The protesters at the “massacre” were throwing rocks at the soldiers. There was reasonable confusion in the moment.
Holy shit. You actually did “the Boston massacre was justified”. Licking the boot of King George all the way in 2026.
Sorry, I studied American history beyond high school “King George was literally Hitler” propaganda.
Don’t forget that a major factor motivating the “Patriots” was the fact that England was going to create an Indian reserve (land speculators doing shit like “buying” all of Kentucky for a handful of beads was pretty problematic for peace), and that they were letting the Canadians be Catholic. But sure, we can pretend that expecting the colonists to contribute to the costs of defending them against the Indians they were genociding was horrific oppression.
Notice how nothing you said had anything to do with your prior justification of state violence? I never compared anyone to Hitler. That was you. What a weird reply. It sounds like you’re having a conversation with yourself.
Gonna guess your the same person today that defends the murder of Renee Good.
Notice how you couldn’t be arsed to provide a historical argument or evidence that you know anything about the time period?
Fuck you. No, the murder of Renee Good is not comparable to soldiers getting confused about an order to fire when they were literally getting pelted with rocks.
Christ. Obviously Adam’s should haven’t of defended them, they should have just been executed on sight. Makes perfect sense.
Maybe read some primary sources from the time period, instead of trying to argue about a topic you haven’t looked into since high school.
It’s always so silly when people make arguments in random internet comments trying to appeal to their own authority on a topic. Like, you literally know nothing about my knowledge of the subject. You don’t know if I’m in high school now or literally have a history PHD. What is the point of this?
You know nothing about my knowledge outside of (1) I know that Adams defended the soldiers in the Boston Massacre. (2) I think you are not applying any class based historical perspective. It’s why I called you a bootlicker for King George.
Adams was a part of the rich white land owning class. It was beneficial for him at the time to defend his class position and it’s why he did so. He didn’t do it for some “moral” reason of justice. There was clearly no justice served for the people slaughtered in the massacre.
So maybe stop larping as a historian. If you can’t view history from the lense of class struggle then what is the point in knowing a lot of facts if you can’t apply them? You sound much more like a high school history teacher than a historian. But I won’t make assumptions about you like you are to me.
An analysis based on class struggle would recognize that the Revolution was driven by and primarily benefited land speculators, as I alluded to earlier with my reference to the Henderson purchase. Pure Marxist historians are more creatures of the 70’s than the modern day. Historiography continues on.
You sound much more like a high school history teacher than a historian.
I hold a Bachelors in American History and am in fact certified to teach high school history.
Do you have anything other than personal attacks? Going to provide any sources of your own?
Are we ready for Lexington and Concord? Because anyone who’s still clinging to the hope peaceful protesting will hold off martial law all the way to the election in November is about to get their fingers stomped on by ICE
Honestly I’m surprised it didn’t happen already during the No Kings protests
By the middle of 2026, it will be the norm.
And there will still be people saying not to resist or they’ll declare martial law.
ICE escalates
“Don’t respond with violence or they’ll escalate!”
ICE escalates regardless
rinse and repeat.
There’s an alternative…
It’s super easy, would require zero bloodshed.
Armed protest.
I’ve never seen a cop shoot a protester when other protestors were in eyeshot with rifles.
I’ve never even seen ICE where a protestor is visibly armed, because if they see that, they fucking leave.
The reason shit is so bad is because ICE knows they’ll never be held accountable in court. Literally the only way they believe they could ever face any consequences is if someone shoots them in the moment. And rather than behave when they see armed protestors, they just go to where no one is armed.
So fuck it, this Merica. Carry a big scary fuck off rifle.
I guarantee ICE won’t run up on you. And if everywhere they went people showed up with rifles, they’d stop going places all together.
I think the opposite - in normal times I wouldn’t think cops would fire on armed protesters, but let’s face it - that’s ICE’s endgame. They’d love nothing more to claim “fear” and unleash the beast.
If that was true, then why is it so hard to find a picture/video of ice with a single visibly armed protester in view?
Like, by your logic they’d be looking for it, yet I’ve been trying and failing to find an example of them just existing with 100 yards of an armed protestor…
And I can’t understand why people are shocked ICE agents shit and run when they see a gun.
Sooner than that, we’re already familiar with unchecked police brutality, anti-protest tactics, corruption of accountability systems. Normalizing happens pretty damn fast when people already expect the behavior.
They will escalate their violence in relationship to the nature of the resistance. Their only solution to opposition is some form of violence, so expect it. If they get swarmed by large groups, they will absolutely open fire on crowds. To reduce the damage of this predictable behavior, always leave them a means of escape, a golden bridge to retreat over. If you block them in, they are far more likely to panic and go apeshit on their perceived threats without any regard for anyone or anything but themselves, and will do so with whatever hardwear and equipment they have.
They will then learn from it, request more tools to address the risks, get it from this admin, and then the next altercation will be more violent from the start. It’s an arms race between ICE and the public and ICE will eventually win. Fighting them outside these altercations must be done to be effective. Fight them anywhere that violence as a solution is not possible, best where their use of violent solutions actually hurts them, that is where they are weakest, most vulnerable. Like people disowning them, ending their relationships, refusing every interpersonal encounter.
