I must say, as much contempt I have for the feckless American public who, while living in a free society and benefiting from it throughout their lives, just cannot be arsed to clearly recognise, condemn, and fight the wave of fascist political violence and insanity that stems from the alt-right MAGA movement (and now government).. There are some honestly righteous protestors in the streets who are actively challenging ICE. Despite the cold and the threats of violence.
Good and Pretti were good people, who’s deaths was cheered on by the US executive before their blood went cold. Yet somehow we have people who are “on the fence”. I just do not understand humans.
Here’s the Fox News spin machine in action. Key quote:
Over the following hours, a national network of socialist, communist and Marxist-Leninist cells in the United States leveraged the tragic fatality into a nationwide protest operation.
There are Marxist-Leninist cells operating in the United States? In 2026?? Since they had already mentioned communist cells, how would a Marxist-Leninist cell differ from a plain old ordinary communist cell?
Because there are millions of people who live in information bubbles completely (and deliberately) disconnected from reality. To them, Seattle and Portland were razed to the ground in 2020, George Soros is paying literally millions of professional leftist agitators, Tren de Aragua have taken over several American cities and Haitian immigrants are eating our pets. And these bubbles are impenetrable.
Don’t forget the areas in every major (read: blue) US city (that hasn’t been burned to the ground) where Sharia law prevails and the police fear to go.
I’ve been saying for awhile now (and I’m not sure I’m not the only one) that we are living in a post-reality reality. Don’t like reality? No problem, just substitute your preferred reality and go with it. And as much as I think generative AI can be a positive force, it just makes things worse and easier to blur the lines.
Eh, I can sort of see it as “If you have any questions or concerns about your interaction, here’s the contact information for where to address your inquiries”.
Putting it on an ace of spades seems questionable, though.
That’s what real business cards are for. Something like this.
That’s what I’m referring to. It makes it look like they’re treating it as a game (which is probably the truth and the reason why they use these cards).
It’s unprofessional. That’s one thing rampant with ICE is the aggressive unprofessionalism. No uniform, no particular standards, no rules of engagement. Everybody is wearing some unique collection of camo or non-camo with a patch sewn on somewhere.
The lead up to the Pretti shooting had these guys just two handed shoving women around, like they’re having a fight outside a bar at 2am. It’s disgraceful, and is part of why this whole thing is a shit show.
During the Vietnam War, the ace of spades was used as a tool of psychological warfare as it was common practice by US soldiers to leave the ace card on the bodies of killed Vietnamese. Ace of spades - Wikipedia
