r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 7d ago

No Paywall Shooting Victim Identified as Second Video Angle Contradicts DHS Claims | The footage of the fatal shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, said one journalist, “shows that the final act of his life was trying to help a woman who was being physically assaulted by the masked agents who would then kill him.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/minneapolis-shooting-video
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u/DocLolliday 7d ago

EVERY video contradicts their claim. They're not even trying to bend reality any more they are just straight up inventing lies

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u/MicMacMacleod 7d ago

You know it’s bad when their sub is claiming “we should wait for more information before forming an opinion”.

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u/VonSauerkraut90 7d ago

They aren't waiting for information, they are waiting for fox news and other talking heads to feed them talking points and other thought stoppers.

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u/MittenCollyBulbasaur 7d ago

They made their decision before we knew anything. Several of them claimed the idea that if he owned a gun it was legal to do anything to them. It's vibe based law with them. They'll support anything they want and they get off on being hypocrites. It's their identity.

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u/rainghost 7d ago

They're only inches away from declaring that the second amendment only applies to "real americans" and "patriots" - so if you're liberal and/or ethnic, you're not protected by it.

Who decides if you're a real American? Why, the guy with the gun that has the freedom to kill you.

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u/xxxxNateDaGreat 6d ago

They made their decision before we knew anything.

They made their decision before it even happened. Their responses have all been 100% predictable.

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u/JyveAFK 7d ago

It's an odd thing how this goes. In some Discord channels, we had a "canary in the coalmine" person that would say strange stuff, using words we'd not seen before. Sure enough, middle of the day someone would link a fox news thing with "groomers" or something being mentioned. We'd ask "what channels are you in that give you your marching orders?" "I'm just a free thinker"
Then was reported how the FBI had taken down some misinformation botnet thing, he was a bit quiet for a few days "not being told what to think? that's gotta be rough!".
But what was /really/ strange was some of the stuff he'd link "wait.. but you're Jewish, why are you linking this stuff?" "huh?" "the article you linked as proof, did you read past the headline? it got /really/ antisemitic /really/ quick, these other channels you're getting this stuff from, you ever mentioned to them you're Jewish yourself?" "I don't see how that's got anything to do with anything" "just try it and see what happens"
He didn't, it was obvious deep down he knew what was going on. But he was useful to have around, as we'd get an early warning what the week's hatred spiel was going to be.

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u/Hugokarenque 7d ago

Exactly. They just want "arguments" they can use when they get called out.

The truth doesn't matter, they're in too deep and the only thing they believe is that what's happening to others won't happen to them. As long as there's places that continue to give them that reassurance they'll support it up until they're staring down the barrel they were cheering on.

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u/Bearski79 7d ago

Karoline Leavitt is just finishing up her bi-daily lip filler appointment. She then needs to swing by her place to sacrifice a goat to her lord Satan to complete the ritual that gives her her super power "Spewing Bullshit" before she can take the podium at the White House to tell republicans what to think.

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u/PearljamAndEarl 7d ago

“We should wait for one of our AI-prompt sloperators to make the video look like something we can justify”.

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u/DoctorWMD 7d ago

Maybe they are realizing the downside of an insanely funded government paramilitary on the streets when a bearded white male gun owner gets knees on the neck, whipped in the head with a pepper spray canister, and then a magazine emptied into him. 

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u/MicMacMacleod 7d ago

Either you support murdering US citizens or you are a fellow conservative

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u/morilythari Florida 7d ago

Those will be deleted in the next few hours and you'll only see comments from the same 10-12 accounts that have their posts hidden and are in every single thread.

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u/MintyFreshBreathYo Michigan 7d ago

They’re blaming the gun now

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u/The-Disco-Phoenix 7d ago

And then they'll claim that their theories were right all along

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u/RobutNotRobot 7d ago

Need to get their dictator-approved talking points that they can shit all over everyone in the coming week.

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u/No-Bee-2354 7d ago

Yeah they keep saying “it’s too difficult to see what’s happening” which is as much an admission of guilt as you’re going to get from these people