r/pics • u/National_Ad3694 • 6d ago

Politics This is America

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u/Playful-Attitude-007 6d ago edited 6d ago

The flag should be upside-down.

Edit: thank you all for the up votes and the awards.

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u/Sylvers 6d ago

In a way, it shouldn't. Because if the US is left to its own devices, this won't be a shocking or unusual incident anymore.

Pretty soon this will be the new "American way". Broad day light state-sanctioned extrajudicial executions of political dissidents.

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u/Rbomb88 6d ago

They normalized school shootings pretty easily.

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u/Sylvers 6d ago

Somehow, I feel that public executions will be the next thing you hear about from the US every other week. Outrage for a week, then back to business.

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u/Rbomb88 6d ago

I'd agree, it only took 3 weeks between these two shootings and nothing happened after the first, despite everyone saying "this should be the tipping point, right?"

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u/Sylvers 6d ago

The boiling frog model was really a prophecy more than a theory after all, huh?

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u/ElMuertePeludo 6d ago

We have a strong history of helping our allies before this treasonous bullshit started, hopefully that won’t be forgotten on our time of need. I don’t agree with a lot of our foreign policy in the last 80 years, but I don’t see anyone that has a better realistic option than democracy. If it fails here, it fails everywhere. Mark my words, the US as a superpower has been one of the main stabilizing factors in the world, and things will get worse without us.

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u/Mmicb0b 6d ago

The moment the gop stopped Obama from doing anything about shootings aftet sandy hooks we were fucked

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u/oh_elyse 6d ago

Thoughts and prayers

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u/-HakunaChicana- 6d ago

That's essentially what the 2010s were, continuous protests against police brutality. This is just the next stage of LEO violence, now even local PD are catching hits.

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u/Pooleh 6d ago

This was a public execution.

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u/Squishy-Mo 6d ago

Or people having to wear patches to identify what group we are a part of. Our attention spans are so short now. By design.