That looks like a gang, operates like a gang, and should be kicked off of the turf of any self-respecting gang, imho.
Honestly where the fuck are the gangbangers in all this? All that talk about fuck the police and how hard they are and all and there hasnt been one incidence of ICE being rolled up on by the westside crips.
That's because ICE are cowards. Wouldn't be surprised if they're purposefully leaving areas under direct gang control alone.
They're goal is fear and intimidation. They are going to every area and doing one or two workplace arrrests so that nobody feels safe. They're not actually ready for a coordinated resistance. No cops are actually trained for anything like that.
I used to think I liked monopoly busting
Until they busted up the state's monopoly on violence
It's probably proud boys and their affiliates. Remember, they had meetings before the last Insurrection.
So, a gang of white supremacists.
There's like no difference between them and these guys.
Yes there is, I can see these guys’ eyes.
ICEis doesn't look like they would be as agile on the monkey bars. So, checkmate.
Where's the well regulated militia you Americans scream about so loudly when someone suggests not letting a mentally ill child own an assault rifle?
Isn't this exactly the government tyranny that argument is used to defend against?
I think they’re the same people that are locking up random immigrants
Where's the well regulated militia you Americans scream about
So, one could argue that the well regulated militia in question is constituted by the National Guard, as they nominally are the armed forces of individual States, and can be nationalized under certain circumstances.
Except for the fact that Trump just nationalized the California National Guard when he's nominally not supposed to....
The way the legal system in the US works is just incredible. There are things that are very much illegal, but if the president does them apparently everyone is just fine with it.
The majority of citizens are not "fine" with it, we are watching the results of the capture of every branch of government.
The template for this actually played out in Texas. Texas has a very weak governors office in terms of formal powers. Under George W Bush the Republican party systematically took control of each state office and coordinated their efforts to effect the agenda of Bush, Perry, and now Abbott.
They are doing the same thing at the federal level with project 2025 under Trump, they took the supreme court, and now they have removed the career civil servants that would refuse illegal orders from Trump.
If history of other dictatorships is any guide the powers of ICE will be expanded steadily and the other law enforcement agencies and military will be continually overshadowed by ICE and eventually subordinated to them, like the Republican guard of Iran or the SS in Nazi Germany.
They're too busy gargling republican boot to bother rising up against the tyranny they've cried about for decades.
To a unnerving amount of people's surprise, they only cared about the power of the state when they thought it was being used improperly (having a tolerant democracy), and are more than happy to see it used the way they want (hurting brown people)
Yes. Nobody wants to be first because they and the next xx% will be the sacrifice.
if it's not the home of the brave, it won't be the land of the free
Oh so they can breathe through those masks. Isn't it strange how it was difficult for them 4 years ago but now they're totally fine with it.
Why aren't masked and armed individuals with weapons and no badges, that make attempts to abduct people, being shot?
Because the whole second amendment thing was about carrying a gun in the hope that you get to shoot a black person, a school kid or a teacher.
This is very similar to what the nazi and the soviets did. Removing people under pretext of law with no regard to process or people. It doesn't seem as extreme but the course is definitely clear.
To the troll that keeps regurgitating "illegal aliens" rhetoric. Dressing up with masks and shit doesn't grant one an authority to pick people of the streets. Any "leader" that enables this just wants chaos and doesn't give a fuck about the nation. It's just tyranny under the guise of patriotism. It happened many times before.
Eh… homie needs to watch Mad Max again —any of them. But I’ll still give him 2 points for trying to be clever.
Yeah, a reference to Steven Seagal movies would have been more poignant.
I can't wait for the trial about it gunning them down is self defense,
if it is a trump appointed judge, then it will clearly be considered illegal, which mean the whole point of 2nd amendment (defend against a tryranic government is BS)
or reasonable judge, which will determine it is self defence, then let the fun begin.
We should respond to these people as what they are, domestic terrorists.
Yeah, what's happening definitely requires exercising second amendment rights. And yet Americans are still mostly mum. Dumbing down Americans by the oligarchs paid off I guess.
I feel safe in my house, but I didn't reacquire my concealed carry permit when I moved states, mostly because I almost never carried in all the years I had it.
I really need to get off my ass and complete the requirements in this new state and get that permit.
My Army training would kick in, and I would shoot the terrorists.
Nazis doing Nazi stuff. There is only one known cure for fascism.
assassination of the president and vice president
I think it’d be better to get rid of the entire Heritage Foundation. There’s no chance Trump is calling any of the shots anymore
Isn't it the job of the opposition party at this point to propose legislation that outlaws this practice? To run candidates on a platform of reigning in these abuses? To run ads with scary music saying how the government is infringing on liberties etc?
Rural Republicans already fear three letter federal agencies: BLM, ATF, etc. Play to their fears, this very low hanging fruit, Democrats.
California "No Secret Police Act" introduced, would ban police from covering their faces - CBS San Francisco https://share.google/yBJZoO8cseW6R5mc9
If this was germany, people showing up like this would spark an instant large-scale police operation. just saying. Germany. you know?
I'm looking forward to a hot summer of making these traitors get heat stroke under all their gear.
I don't have any horse in this race but... how ugly, dirty and bloody can this get in a state where gun owning and carrying is very common?
And I'm not even considering bystanders caught in crossfire.
How ugly can it get if someone decides to shoot on sight a gang like this? And other people join as they start hearing exchanged fire?
They want an excuse to implement martial law.
If this happens then they have all the reason to bypass all due process and just oppress everyone.
They want it to go this way. They wanted the National guard to get involved in California's "riots". They are looking for the excuse to throw out the courts, the house, the Senate, the supreme Court... Literally everyone from any say in what happens or any ability to overturn, stop or otherwise impede their ability to control everyone and everything.
The fucking boot licker repubtards are making sure that it happens, and they'll act like so many others, shocked, when they end up under the boot of the people they voted for.
As an outsider looking in, this reality is extremely obvious to me. Is it somehow not clear to Americans?
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