Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers raided Glasshouse Farms, a large marijuana cultivation site in Carpinteria, California, Thursday morning, leading to a tense standoff with protesters and a deployment of the National Guard. The raid occurred around 10:20 a.m. at the farm’s location on Casitas Pass Road. An undisclosed number of employees were detained. A … Continue reading
  • SupraMario@lemmy.world
    1813·
    11 days ago

    Wow, I don’t know why they keep saying “we’re unarmed”… people start open carrying at these protests. You want them to back off and leave? You want to not get shot with rubber bullets? These SS members are doing that shit because they know there won’t be any force returned to them. If this crowd showed up armed, they would have left a long time ago.

    • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      162·
      11 days ago

      For that to work, you need enough firepower to actually win. Anything short, and it will be a bloodbath, on your side.

      By approaching while very obviously not being a threat, it jamms their training, and forces them to think. Once they are thinking, they likely REALLY don’t want to be the ones to start shooting at American protesters.

      • KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works
        92·
        11 days ago

        Americans don’t think lmfao especially the police. Did you know that it is legal to discriminate against applicants to the police if they are too smart? There’s whole court cases about this. Apparently, the argument is that people who are smarter will be less obedient when given an order because they might just employ some critical thinking skills instead of blindly following directions.

        Police don’t want thinkers. They might be “bored” or “dissatisfied” when they figure out they’re nothing but bullies to keep the citizens in line.

        So no, if you see a cop in riot gear at a protest, do not expect a thinking, feeling, or compassionate human being. A cop in riot gear is a goon through and through, and a trusted goon at that. Goons only understand force, and if you show them more force than they’re prepared to handle, their core programming as self serving cowards will come to the surface. Self serving cowards are people who can be salvaged. Goons are not.

        • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
          15·
          11 days ago

          They are goons, but programmed goons. If you play to the programming then you will get their desired response. By forcing them outside their programming, they have to improvise.

          The smarter ones realise shooting first is a bad idea, politically. The stupider ones just want out, and notice the smarter ones seem similarly inclined.

          Staying within the programming is a lose-lose situation for the protestors. You need to get outside the patterns to get new results.

          It’s also worth noting that this is a very American thing, not a universal one. Your police are very broken, and in desperate need of an overhaul.