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Border Patrol Agent Aiming 40mm Launcher At My Head - ICE Protest 1/31

Picture from Saturday's protest at the Portland ICE facility. An agent fixed his 40mm launcher at my head twice, despite me very obviously being a photographer.

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Well said. Everyone wants to shit on the USA but no one wants to help.

[-] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

The US needs to fix its own shit.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Good thing that wasn't the attitude towards Germany in WWII.

[-] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago

It WAS the attitude until it started invading its neighbours.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

And what has the US, the country with the most powerful military in the world, been threatening to do lately?

[-] MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Keep going they’re almost there.

[-] Soulphite@reddthat.com 5 points 1 week ago

People don't realize most of the world turned a blind eye to hitlers atrocities and viewpoints (some even embraced them) it's only when Hitler became aggressively expansive on their territories when the world decided to step in...

[-] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Some countries waited years after that to join in.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

And they didn't gaf when Spain was going through a civil war over the same shit. Hitler and Stalin both sent support for the side they were closer to, but just crickets from the rest of the western world, less than even the stern words Italy got for invading Ethiopia until the league of nations just dissolved because it was shown to be useless.

[-] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The US didn’t join WW2 until 2.5 YEARS after it began, and Germany had to declare war on the US first. The US only declared war on Japan.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Yes, but the US wasn't the only country fighting against them.

[-] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

We will burn the whitehouse down again when it’s required.

Sure you will. You're just as impotent as you say we are.

[-] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Doesn’t matter, I’m not the one living in a fascist state.

I'm certain your indigenous people would love to say something on that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_genocide_of_Indigenous_peoples

Seems you Canadians aren't much better than us when it gets down to it. Hrm...

Oh also before you try to claim that was before your time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatoon_freezing_killings Thank you for playing.

I'm certain this won't become a global issue at all.

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