Text: ICE agents are complaining that every time they go out wearing masks in unmasked cars with no uniforms or identification, protesters keep dumping pounds of glitter on them so that everyone can tell they’re ICE for days afterwards.

Image below the text: a man in white shirt and black tie and glasses, with a raised hand, as if trying to get someone’s attention.

Text on that image: who had “Glitter bombing the Gestapo” on their bingo card?

  • iheartneopets@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    Do you know that the KKK would disperse & never come back when would-be victims armed themselves and shot at them? A big element in the civil rights movement was vets coming back from the world wars with combat experience and firing back on their oppressors. Those are stories that get lost in the pEaCefUL pRoTeST propaganda, but arming up and defending their communities was a huge piece of the black civil liberties movement.

    Anyway, point is, turns out people who hide behind masks to commit terroristic acts are truly, deeply chickenshit. I’m willing to bet ICE would do the exact same thing as the KKK if fired back upon.

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        15 hours ago

        Counterpoint: Oskar Schindler. Granted he’s dead now but he was p good when he was alive, especially by Nazi standards.

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        Not important cuz it’s obvious what your saying but I feel like the second half of the statement is necessary. This kinda implies there was one good Nazi

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          18 hours ago

          This kinda implies there was one good Nazi

          There was that one Nazi doctor in China saving civilians from Japanese horrors. They even built a statue for him after the war.

    • cynar@lemmy.world
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      The 2 go hand in hand. The peaceful element provides cover and public cause support for the more militant elements. They also make it harder to concentrate forces to deal with them.

      In turn, the militant add teeth to the peaceful element.

      An intelligent government acts early, before the militant elements can come to bear. But for best results both (technically all 3, including political) are required.

      Another good example are the Irish troubles. The IRA, while prominent, couldn’t “win”. The marches, and Sinn Fein did.