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It feels like you're just carrying water for the Trump admin's foolishness. "The outgroup is going to behave bad, so we need to behave just as bad!"
Or the admin could, you know, just not do inflammatory things when stuff like this happens? Do the politician-speak of "this was a terrible tragedy", imply it was an "accident" from split-second judgement, then leave the sectarian shitposting to people like Catturd who were going to do it anyways. Biden mostly did this with a few exceptions that I can think of.
Then again, the even smarter thing would be for them to call off this whole punitive ICE expedition. Minnesota has a problem with Somali fraud, and the US as a whole has a problem with illegal immigrants, but this expedition is not an effective way to address either. It exists mostly to goose up R's on social media, and because Trump personally dislikes people like Walz and Ilhan Omar. In terms of actual effects, its end effect will be to incinerate the anti-immigration political capital built up from Biden's open borders years with remarkable efficiency.
In for a penny in for a pound, you can’t back down now or leftists internalize that they have a veto over Trump policies. They can make anything “not an effective way” by protesting loudly enough.
I remember when learning Russian military ideology was the popular thing. A key Russian doctrine was escalate to deescalate. Which is basically where the Trump admin is right now.
You can choose to deescalate though you’ve earned legitimacy for the actions. Thus giving up a monopoly on violence and making the price to stop anything you want to do being the mild sum of 2 leftist. Or you can not sacrifice your political power and double or triple down. I don’t think we are anywhere close to a point where the could back down.
I think at this point it’s obvious these encounters are being engineered by leftist groups. Probably with some local government support. For whatever reasons both sides have decided this is where they will battle. The left hoping to since Trump with a version of his Vietnam. If wins here then he will gain a lot of power and have a demoralized opponent.
The last killing I believe is obviously a suicide by ICE. He doesn’t look like a guy who’s too dumb to not understand what happens when you’re armed and start fighting cops. Perhaps not quite a suicide but if his chosen encounter escalated he was a willing martyr.
People's stupidity is one of the few things we don't know the limits of. You might have internalized the knowledge that bringing a gun to a protest makes sense only if you are willing and ready to use it, and if you want this to be a peaceful protest, then you open carry and never escalate.
This guy didn't. Maybe he really wanted to take one for the team. But my take is that he simply was this clueless.
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That would just be endorsing nullification so long as the left decides it can sac a few pawns.
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