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Don’t ever forget the fragility of human life. No matter your physical capabilities, or your influence with those around you, everything can end in a matter of an instant by those you consider beneath you. Certain people need to be reminded of their place.
When I read that, I thought about the types of people joining ICE, and, maybe even more disturbingly, it came off as a meme.
To think that these people are so flippant, callous and apathetic is terrifying.
You’d think there’d be a “are we the baddies, moment?”
But I’ve known this since I was a kid. They would say “Yes we are, and that’s what makes us awesome!”
You'd think the grunts would be aware of this fact on the basis of their superiors treating them as disposable but I guess a little body armor and a riot shield is all that's needed for the illusion of invincibility.
Honestly it's less about the armor, and more about the utter spinelessness of the population they're terrorizing. They're bold because Americans have, for a long time, been utterly pathetic. One of these days they're gonna push too far, and shit's really gonna hit the fan. A lot of these chuds are cowards at heart too, and they'll die or rout. Then it'll just be war between a population of terrified cornered animals and a small, well-equipped minority of bloodthirsty monsters.
Nobody wins. But from the rubble, there will be opportunity for significant change. Maybe it'll be positive. Maybe those of us left will be enslaved by feudal warlords. Considering the state of the left in America (essentially nonexistent) I call it a coinflip.
I'm slightly bolstered by the knowledge the Bolsheviks were small and barely existent and then their membership ballooned all of a sudden from a few key decisions. Hell, they were still basically the minority when they took control during the October Revolution. It's just nobody liked the alternatives, so they just needed people not to get in their way or fight for the other side.
I've been teetering between this comforting knowledge of positive history and black-pilled knowledge of times it's gone terribly (all the fascism, the failed revolutions, etc).
There are very few things that could get me to go into a flash of pure rage but being present for this might have done it.
The stick snapping from Weapons
"Fuck dem kids" to a bunch of children tied to each other with zip ties would've prompted me to ask whether they know what it feels like to have someone rummage through their eye sockets with their thumbs. You can do an awful lot to a person bare handed if you really really really want to and being present for something like this could really cause that snap for me, I do not think I would keep my composure in that situation with the kids involved, that particular officer deserves to pay. Most of the time when people fight they're not trying to do that kind of damage, you can fight in a whole different way entirely if you're actually trying to destroy someone.
Well or use your teeth, most human appanages (of the smaller variant like fingers) are actually quite easy to bite off.