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Culture War Roundup for the week of November 24, 2025

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Two National Guardsman shot in DC.

Situation is still developing... conflicting reports about deaths. Trump has already requested 500 more guardsmen to be deployed in the capital. I'm afraid that any commentary on my part will be pure speculation: I'll edit this OP as more information comes to light. Apologies for the shortness of this initial post.

I would expect ICE to be shot at, especially during active operations: but the National Guard? They're literally doing nothing but stand around. They're dads and uncles pulling overtime shifts away from their real jobs, not stormtroopers. I'm highly suspecting some sort of mental illness or dumb radicalization, but I'll refrain on coming to conclusions for now.

Edit 1: Suspect has been identified as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a Afghan national evacuated back in 2021.

Edit 2: Speculatively, a linkedin profile of the same name seems to point him as being connected to a bunch of American NGOs. I'm always skeptical of these - the world is big enough for strangers to have the same names - but the face on the profile seems to match the suspect.

Or perhaps I don't have an eye for Afghans, and they all look the same to me.

Mission: You are undercover behind enemy lines. Eliminate as many uniformed enemy personnel as you can. Your life is expendable, your mission is not.

Starting equipment: One handgun and 15 rounds. Anything else you have to acquire on your own.

The good news is that perpetrator's level of human capital was, as usual, not very high. Not to overtly fed post (or @KulakRevolt post), but given such task, average mottizen even with no military training would be able to rack considerably higher score.

Of course, in current annals of ineffective terrorism/resistance nothing beats this episode.

Officials describe a coordinated plot in which about 12 individuals in black clothing and body armor allegedly used fireworks and vandalism to draw out officers and ambush them with rifles. One Alvarado police officer was shot in the neck and released from the hospital a short time later.

Local reporting and court documents identify ten individuals arrested shortly after; an alleged shooter was arrested on July 15 after a manhunt, and several alleged associates were also arrested.

I am near certain that feds inside this group provided them with blank ammo, the alternative is just too ghastly to contemplate.

They shot a guard in the neck.

Can't do with blanks. Maybe some got cold feet. Dregs. Getting on death row in Texas for mass murder isn't a joke.

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