This is a horror movie but it’s actually happening. I am ashamed of my country and what it’s become.
this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2025
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THE POLICE PROBLEM
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The police problem is that police are policed by the police. Cops are accountable only to other cops, which is no accountability at all.
99.9999% of police brutality, corruption, and misconduct is never investigated, never punished, never makes the news, so it's not on this page.
When cops are caught breaking the law, they're investigated by other cops. Details are kept quiet, the officers' names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release — often nothing at all.
When police are fired — which is all too rare — they leave with 'law enforcement experience' and can easily find work in another police department nearby. It's called "Wandering Cops."
When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: "testilying." Yet it's almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.
Cops can and do get away with lawlessness, because cops protect other cops. If they don't, they aren't cops for long.
The legal doctrine of "qualified immunity" renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. In practice, getting past 'qualified immunity' is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens.
All this is a path to a police state.
In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted.
Police who break the law must be prosecuted like anyone else, promptly fired if guilty, and barred from ever working in law-enforcement again.
That's the solution.
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But…but MTG is starting to say some things that I agree with now /s
honestly this is prob a good tactic for us. Citizen? See ICE? Get attention. Feign concern. Book it. Distract them. exhaust them. sue them. (outcomes vary based on skin tone, caveat emptor.)
Get your throat stepped on, get shot in the back, get run over by their cars…it’s so easy!
This cannot stand
Yeah, so you guys have been saying that for a long time now...
Haven't seen any ICE action on the streets. I am prepared to fight. With lead.
No running from the dudes who show up and spread tear gas and rubber bullets? We gotta stand there politely while they harass people?
I’m sure the business owner is real fucking happy about that, too.
"Attention shoppers, there are masked gunmen in the store, please evacuate in an orderly fashion"
It was so hard to prevent him from getting the votes he needed to win. Now everyone else has to pay the price and deal with the consequences of your decision while you sit at home and can say: aT leAst i dIdn'T VotE FOr faCisT dEmoCrats! Good job...
This is my plan. If come upon ICE fucking with ppl, I intend to speak Spanish, act suspicious, and get detained. If they are wasting resources on me, perhaps someone else gets away.
Plus I have the means for the fun lawsuit I get to file...
I know that it would end poorly for whoever did it and would probably escalate the overall invasion, but I wanted so hard to watch a MFer drop kick that NAZI in the face that had that kid on the ground. A drop kick would have been a good start, but stomping this dude's face into the pavement and taking him out if the equation is what's needed. Fuck ICE.
Yeah, gotta be careful since many parking lots have cameras. But if somebody were to do such a thing in Minecraft, they should immediately bolt and not look back. Don't hang around, just do your thing then bounce.
In mine craft the police are known for being kinda crappy at catching people. It’s less than a coin flip.
The best advice for any Minecraft crime is just do the thing and leave quickly.
“Lots of things are legal if you can run fast”
Hr sure did take the time to mask back up when he saw her filming
ICE Agent: "Back up, you don't know what's going on."
Apparently, neither do you?
That's one of their standard lines now. Gas lighting Americans.
Running away from a white supremisist terrorist gang
Nah. You attack my family, I’m not complying with any directions to back up. I’d escalate, consequences be damned.
Fuck the Gestapo
Nah, don't want their STDs.
But I could think of alternatives to fucking them, which were quite pleasant - for me, that is.
I would read their obituary with grim satisfaction.
Nazis
Real disappointed that Walgreens allows this shit.
I mean, I’m pretty disappointed with the entire country allowing this, but I’m still calling out businesses that have a lot more power to stop this shit than the rest of us inmates do.
What should they do that could prevent this? I don't think these gestapo asked before entering.
They’re a large corporation. They could protest a hell of a lot louder than the guy that got chased out of their store.
The large corporations don’t care until it hurts their bottom line significantly. Unless it’s the tariffs and they’ve kowtowed to Trump after threats to make it worse.
Gestapo vibes
"Vibes" is putting it rather lightly. It's just "gestapo," full stop.
This is not that strange if you accept and begin acting like the New American Civil War has already begun.
He will keep us fighting each other so the entire Epstein cabal can keep sipping pina coladas and pay for political campaigns.
It’s okay, many of us would be happy to see the US role in the world significantly reduced, but the problem is, once the US is liberated by Russia or China, the we have a new problem.
Liberated.. By Russia? Who do you think is causing all of this shit?
hey, america is doing evil shit on its own, don't give Russia all the credit
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This is FREEDOM! And if Republicans thought it WASNT Freedom they could EASILY Stop it With their Majorities!
🖕FUCK YOU ICE🖕 fucking pricks
Muricans: "wE aRE noT THerE yeT!"
Losing all respect for America every day more and more
I thought you guys were kind of dumb before ... but every day you just keep coming up with more ways for everyone else in the world to think that you guys have completely lost it.
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This got me thinking again about a fleeting thought I had the other day.
Would it be racist to put on 'blackface' in the high nazi areas to distract them?
If you’re in the store start tipping shelves and causing chaos. Make the store owners fell the pain of the ICE thugs.
Wrong attitude. You should start tipping shelves because the sight of armed gunmen in tactical gear caused you to panic causing you to "run into things in your haste to get away from the situation." That is a reasonable reaction in a court of law. I highly doubt the store owners had anything to do with ICE showing up, but fuck them in principle for price spiking during inflation.
Oh right plausible deniability. Just in case there is video footage.
When will the NS cosplay be over?
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