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Free Arturo
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Ok but if he was armed and this ICE guy took shots at him why didn't he fire back? That's the whole point of him having a gun in the first place, right?
It's really hard to act predictably when there's people pointing guns at each other.
Like really really difficult. You don't have any context for decisions, and everything feels kind of surreal. Anyone who says they know how they would act for sure is probably lying. Anyone who says they know for sure how someone else would act is probably talking shit.
Edit: and this isn't even factoring in panic. Which some people do. It's a whole thing. It's maybe why some people get weird and romantic and addicted about it; the kind of ambient possibility that opens up when things are on the knife's edge of violence. Like it cuts through all the scripts and bullshit.
It has its own scripts of course, if anyone competent is involved. But for someone who has never even considered going off script before, i can see how an unhealthy fascination could arise.
Maybe also why all the innovations in fighting come from queers.
Well that perfectly sums up my idle thoughts for the ~20 months I spent on pumps between Iraq and Afghanistan.
I don’t understand what you’re trying to say here.
Oh. Most new doctrine that doesnt suck is from queer people. Sometimes, like the way the doctrine of 'special forces' was invented, it is itself a gay thing.