Btw to the clown who reported this, Badiucao is a dissident that is regularly harassed by Chinese authorities for his criticism of Xi and the CCP. Shame on you.
Imagine thinking that report even makes sense too.
"I bet XI would do the same thing!" Yea, dummy, that's what we're afraid of. We don't want to live in an autocratic state where shit like this is acceptable.
Even at face value it makes no sense to believe the artist is pro-Xi/CCP. Why would they swap the driver for Lady Liberty if they didn't believe in liberty?
I'm sure there's an ironic interpretation where the artist is smugly observing that America is killing its major cultural differentiator via its own federal government.
Sort of a 'haha look where your lofty moral high ground went'.
It never ceases to amuse and infuriate me when people try to “So are they!” their way down the comparison race to the bottom, the “they” being just about the worst people imaginable.
Pushing that angle is only acceptable when in the context of an ultimatum between both theys, which isn't the case here at all lol.
If the art was captioned "this is what happens to Americans, and the only way to fight it is to embrace the loving arms of the CCP", then that would be an argument to be had over that statement specifically
Just adding a little bit of nuance, "so are they" doesn't make sense here when the artist is vocally anti-CCP
If it was an actual piece of CCP sponsored propaganda alleging that the above doesn't happen in China and positing China as a better place to live, then it would make sense to point out things like Tiananmen Square
Many people, mostly those Sinophobes themselves, don’t like it when you point out that some “anti-C.C.P.”, “politically anti-China” people really are just racists and they don’t even do a good job at pretending otherwise.
Cuts both ways, I got called and reported as a Sinophobe for pointing out the long and extremely effective history the CCP has had with protectionism, dangling the juiciest carrots on a stick possible in front of all the world's corporations with the end goal of making the west dependent on the CCP. Before pulling the rug out and using stolen patents for manufacturing processes to replace the western industries with CCP controlled industries.
It's all a commentary on the protectionist strategy of the CCP and why you cannot trust Xi's geopolitical economics in the slightest. But apparently that means that I am phobic of the people of China, which couldn't be farther from the truth.
Don't get me wrong, the guy who reported this post is a moron, and probably a Sinophobe. However, we shouldn't overcorrect either, the weaponization of therapy centric terms by bad actors is an intentional practice these days.
Yep, things definitely cut both ways. I just find that for those who are just racist, the easiest tell is that their standards are doubled and they don’t even care that they are. There are other factors, of course, but genuine anti-C.C.P. arguments are those that are consistent and intellectually honest.
I love that guy. Saw him at a book talk in Berlin last year and got a copy of "You Must Take Part In Revolution" signed by him and Melissa Chan. Highly recommend it.
I really wanted to avoid jumping to conclusions about this incident but the video footage shows just how indefensible this was, even if you believe the driver was acting in the wrong. The ICE Agent placed himself in front of the car when the driver was trying to move out, creating a dangerous and unnecessary situation with a predictably tragic outcome.
Regardless, it is clear the Trump administration enjoys gratuitously lying to pour the fuel on the fire. I was disgusted about how Trump and Noem/DHS were calling the shooting victim a "domestic terrorist" before the investigation even began.
The ICE Agent placed himself in front of the car when the driver was trying to move out, creating a dangerous and unnecessary situation with a predictably tragic outcome.
Yep. Straight from the DHS guidelines for LEOs
"C. Use of Safe Tactics
DHS LEOs should seek to employ tactics and techniques that effectively bring an incident under control while promoting the safety of LEOs and the public, and that minimize the risk of unintended injury or serious property damage. DHS LEOs should also avoid intentionally and unreasonably placing themselves in positions in which they have no alternative to using deadly force."
The broad problem, IMO, is that Americans have just become way too accepting of the idea that the government is allowed to murder people. I'm not sure how we roll that back, but it likely involves civilian oversight boards and consent decrees. The fact that LEO involved shootings are handled by Internal Affairs and prosecuted (if applicable) by the DA who is also a part of the law enforcement is just inherently problematic and full of conflicts of interest.
Demanding state licensure and malpractice insurance would also probably go a long way.
I gotta shift some of the blame off him to Kristi Noem because its clear this was set up to fail. They took Texas' most student debt ridden meat heads, gave them a gun and little oversight, plopped them in northern cities they've probably never been to, and then gave them an absurdly high detention quota to hit of a group of people living on the margins of society. Even a bad local cop would know not to stand in front of a car they want to move but somehow ICE training doesn't manage to teach them enough to avoid ALLEGED vehicular homicide from a parked car.
Yeah, no. Noem absolutely deserves the blame here. It was under her that ICE started rapidly expanding, and in order to meet recruitment quotas, the amount of training required was significantly reduced. This, combined with the Trump administration conducting large ICE raids for the sake of a perverse public spectacle, undoubtedly contributed to this kind of incident becoming inevitable.
In a universe where the guy is found guilty... Can the president just make it so they don't have to go to jail? Like a presidential pardon type of thing
I'm not a lawyer or a political scientist. I'm sure I am getting some stuff wrong. I also want to be clear I'm not trying to defend the Trump administration's actions here. An ICE agent killing an unarmed civilian is wrong. I just want to help explain some of the legal background of what is going on.
The federal government is senior to state government. Giving the Fed this seniority was a important part of reforming the weak articles of confederation. The part where this articulated is Article VI Clause 2 of the Constitution which reads
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
I won't pretend to understand all the laws that connect the FBI stopping local police from investigating to the Supremacy Clause. A much more positive example of the Federal Executive being supreme to a State Executive is Eisenhower and the Little Rock Nine. Eisenhower nationalizing the National Guard in Executive Order 10730 didn't cite the Supremacy Clause. Instead it cited
Chapter 15 of Title 10, particularly sections 332, 333 and 334 thereof, and section 301 of Title 3 of the United States Code.
So there is a clear constitutional basis for the FBI being "supreme" to the local police and not letting them get involved. This doesn't mean what the FBI is doing is right or good. It just means it has precedence. What it doesn't mean is the state police can't bring Jonathon Ross to trial for breaking state laws. It will be much harder to convict without access to crime scene evidence. If the state was able to convict Ross without access to the crime scene evidence, a pardon from Trump would not be sufficient to have Ross walk free. There may be some way for the Supreme Court to decide that Ross should not be convicted but Trump wouldn't be able to just pardon him using presidential powers.
So many in this country are glad shes dead. "Enemies of the people" and all that.
You know, the comparison to Nazi Germany is actually too weak. Only like a third of German citizens were fully on board with the whole thing at the outset. Around here its at least 40%
I get the 40% from Trumps favorability ratings. The Nazi thing I just remember the 1/3 statistic but honestly dont remember the exact details
And I firmly believe Trump is MAGA, hes the representative for all they believe in and MAGAs singular biggest draw-in is the stuff ice was openly promised to be doing, so I dont wanna hear anything about how all of those 40% arent on board with this fascist shit. They absolutely are.
Probably thinking of the Nazis winning 33% of the vote in 1932. They won 44% the next year, but only after Papen had appointed Hitler chancellor and the Nazis had already begun censoring, arresting and violently repressing opposition.
But actually, its not a good comparison cause the Nazis hadnt already been in full power for 4 years by that point. Then add 4 years after that of being the same exacty awful person, getting reelected and spending a year being drastically worse than your first term...and you still get 40% of the people saying nice things about you? Absolute insanity.
Oh and actual vote counts are always higher than the ratings, in Trumps case. Lots of people so brainrotted they dont like him or even hate his guts but will vote R because....yeah
This should feel poignant but I can't take seriously any political cartoon that features the statue of liberty after having read too much of Kelly's The Onion stuff. I'm going to hell.
It should be noted that in the real world there's no bullet hole in the front windshield. That's from an AI fake going around being used to imply a shot came from the front not the side.
Badiucao remains among the most based Chinese dissidents.
I agree
Btw to the clown who reported this, Badiucao is a dissident that is regularly harassed by Chinese authorities for his criticism of Xi and the CCP. Shame on you.
https://preview.redd.it/1utql0ehi6cg1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e9d3b0b75642c76b32eb43fd6f2a7b5b81d9ca1
Imagine thinking that report even makes sense too.
"I bet XI would do the same thing!" Yea, dummy, that's what we're afraid of. We don't want to live in an autocratic state where shit like this is acceptable.
Even at face value it makes no sense to believe the artist is pro-Xi/CCP. Why would they swap the driver for Lady Liberty if they didn't believe in liberty?
I'll bite. Propaganda can often be true and the makers of it are under no obligation eschew blatant hypocrisy in their message.
I'm sure there's an ironic interpretation where the artist is smugly observing that America is killing its major cultural differentiator via its own federal government.
Sort of a 'haha look where your lofty moral high ground went'.
It never ceases to amuse and infuriate me when people try to “So are they!” their way down the comparison race to the bottom, the “they” being just about the worst people imaginable.
Pushing that angle is only acceptable when in the context of an ultimatum between both theys, which isn't the case here at all lol.
If the art was captioned "this is what happens to Americans, and the only way to fight it is to embrace the loving arms of the CCP", then that would be an argument to be had over that statement specifically
Not trying to be antagonistic, I genuinely don’t know what you’re saying.
Just adding a little bit of nuance, "so are they" doesn't make sense here when the artist is vocally anti-CCP
If it was an actual piece of CCP sponsored propaganda alleging that the above doesn't happen in China and positing China as a better place to live, then it would make sense to point out things like Tiananmen Square
Got it, that makes sense. We’re aligned, then.
So many dumbasses see a Chinese name and start frothing at the mouth.
They hate chinese people even if the theyre not chinese communists
Sinophobia
Many people, mostly those Sinophobes themselves, don’t like it when you point out that some “anti-C.C.P.”, “politically anti-China” people really are just racists and they don’t even do a good job at pretending otherwise.
Cuts both ways, I got called and reported as a Sinophobe for pointing out the long and extremely effective history the CCP has had with protectionism, dangling the juiciest carrots on a stick possible in front of all the world's corporations with the end goal of making the west dependent on the CCP. Before pulling the rug out and using stolen patents for manufacturing processes to replace the western industries with CCP controlled industries.
It's all a commentary on the protectionist strategy of the CCP and why you cannot trust Xi's geopolitical economics in the slightest. But apparently that means that I am phobic of the people of China, which couldn't be farther from the truth.
Don't get me wrong, the guy who reported this post is a moron, and probably a Sinophobe. However, we shouldn't overcorrect either, the weaponization of therapy centric terms by bad actors is an intentional practice these days.
Yep, things definitely cut both ways. I just find that for those who are just racist, the easiest tell is that their standards are doubled and they don’t even care that they are. There are other factors, of course, but genuine anti-C.C.P. arguments are those that are consistent and intellectually honest.
As a mod on an entirely different sub, I am often frustrated that the Reddit mod tools include no "slap whoever reported this" button.
Always remember the struggle for liberty is universal
I thought we should hold US to higher standards than a country that drove tanks over people or drove thousands of people out of Hong Kong.
Report the report to the gigajannies. Bro deserves to be banned
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这个子版块中存在的强烈反华情绪问题需要得到解决。
很少看到反華， 只有看到反中共。
He's also Australian as of now, and while Aussies have issue as the most 'America Bad' Anglosphere country, Badiucao is still damn good.
On the other hand, he made an NFT collection. Sure it's to protest China, but still.
巴丟草 is anti-CCP……Asian MAGA is really weird
Asian? nah, it's probably a racist sinophobe guy that saw a chinese name and assumed lol
Its White MAGA thinks all east asians are CCP
I love that guy. Saw him at a book talk in Berlin last year and got a copy of "You Must Take Part In Revolution" signed by him and Melissa Chan. Highly recommend it.
I really wanted to avoid jumping to conclusions about this incident but the video footage shows just how indefensible this was, even if you believe the driver was acting in the wrong. The ICE Agent placed himself in front of the car when the driver was trying to move out, creating a dangerous and unnecessary situation with a predictably tragic outcome.
Regardless, it is clear the Trump administration enjoys gratuitously lying to pour the fuel on the fire. I was disgusted about how Trump and Noem/DHS were calling the shooting victim a "domestic terrorist" before the investigation even began.
Yep. Straight from the DHS guidelines for LEOs
"C. Use of Safe Tactics
DHS LEOs should seek to employ tactics and techniques that effectively bring an incident under control while promoting the safety of LEOs and the public, and that minimize the risk of unintended injury or serious property damage. DHS LEOs should also avoid intentionally and unreasonably placing themselves in positions in which they have no alternative to using deadly force."
https://preview.redd.it/qoo5my2yj8cg1.jpeg?width=2340&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e2b48e7dae4535bf7907d5fc3bdc41740cdab5cd
He could have taken the shorter path around the back of the vehicle but that would not have led to the outcome he intended.
The broad problem, IMO, is that Americans have just become way too accepting of the idea that the government is allowed to murder people. I'm not sure how we roll that back, but it likely involves civilian oversight boards and consent decrees. The fact that LEO involved shootings are handled by Internal Affairs and prosecuted (if applicable) by the DA who is also a part of the law enforcement is just inherently problematic and full of conflicts of interest.
Demanding state licensure and malpractice insurance would also probably go a long way.
I gotta shift some of the blame off him to Kristi Noem because its clear this was set up to fail. They took Texas' most student debt ridden meat heads, gave them a gun and little oversight, plopped them in northern cities they've probably never been to, and then gave them an absurdly high detention quota to hit of a group of people living on the margins of society. Even a bad local cop would know not to stand in front of a car they want to move but somehow ICE training doesn't manage to teach them enough to avoid ALLEGED vehicular homicide from a parked car.
Yeah, no. Noem absolutely deserves the blame here. It was under her that ICE started rapidly expanding, and in order to meet recruitment quotas, the amount of training required was significantly reduced. This, combined with the Trump administration conducting large ICE raids for the sake of a perverse public spectacle, undoubtedly contributed to this kind of incident becoming inevitable.
Lady Liberty ain’t dead yet. Fuck these thugs.
Sure looks like she is, as long as the killer walks free.
In a universe where the guy is found guilty... Can the president just make it so they don't have to go to jail? Like a presidential pardon type of thing
Presidential Pardons do not apply to state crimes.
The issue comes from the fact due to the supremacy clause it is easy for the federal government to stall state investigations.
From what I saw the FBI isn't letting local state police investigate the scene?
I'm not a lawyer or a political scientist. I'm sure I am getting some stuff wrong. I also want to be clear I'm not trying to defend the Trump administration's actions here. An ICE agent killing an unarmed civilian is wrong. I just want to help explain some of the legal background of what is going on.
The federal government is senior to state government. Giving the Fed this seniority was a important part of reforming the weak articles of confederation. The part where this articulated is Article VI Clause 2 of the Constitution which reads
I won't pretend to understand all the laws that connect the FBI stopping local police from investigating to the Supremacy Clause. A much more positive example of the Federal Executive being supreme to a State Executive is Eisenhower and the Little Rock Nine. Eisenhower nationalizing the National Guard in Executive Order 10730 didn't cite the Supremacy Clause. Instead it cited
So there is a clear constitutional basis for the FBI being "supreme" to the local police and not letting them get involved. This doesn't mean what the FBI is doing is right or good. It just means it has precedence. What it doesn't mean is the state police can't bring Jonathon Ross to trial for breaking state laws. It will be much harder to convict without access to crime scene evidence. If the state was able to convict Ross without access to the crime scene evidence, a pardon from Trump would not be sufficient to have Ross walk free. There may be some way for the Supreme Court to decide that Ross should not be convicted but Trump wouldn't be able to just pardon him using presidential powers.
good to know
Not if they're state charges. President can only pardon federal crimes
If there’s not even an attempt at accountability, then Lady Liberty is definitely dead.
I’d argue she’s been dead since the election, when Americans voted Trump back into office based on nothing but vibes.
So many in this country are glad shes dead. "Enemies of the people" and all that.
You know, the comparison to Nazi Germany is actually too weak. Only like a third of German citizens were fully on board with the whole thing at the outset. Around here its at least 40%
How can you tell the 7% gap dude lol
I get the 40% from Trumps favorability ratings. The Nazi thing I just remember the 1/3 statistic but honestly dont remember the exact details
And I firmly believe Trump is MAGA, hes the representative for all they believe in and MAGAs singular biggest draw-in is the stuff ice was openly promised to be doing, so I dont wanna hear anything about how all of those 40% arent on board with this fascist shit. They absolutely are.
Probably thinking of the Nazis winning 33% of the vote in 1932. They won 44% the next year, but only after Papen had appointed Hitler chancellor and the Nazis had already begun censoring, arresting and violently repressing opposition.
Yeah thats the one.
But actually, its not a good comparison cause the Nazis hadnt already been in full power for 4 years by that point. Then add 4 years after that of being the same exacty awful person, getting reelected and spending a year being drastically worse than your first term...and you still get 40% of the people saying nice things about you? Absolute insanity.
Oh and actual vote counts are always higher than the ratings, in Trumps case. Lots of people so brainrotted they dont like him or even hate his guts but will vote R because....yeah
此外，魏玛共和国并非两党制国家。德国国家人民党在意识形态上与纳粹党截然不同，但它本身也是一种独具特色的右翼威权主义。
This should feel poignant but I can't take seriously any political cartoon that features the statue of liberty after having read too much of Kelly's The Onion stuff. I'm going to hell.
Lady liberty is old news atp, someone needs to send us a new monument to use for symbolic purposes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lgGJRWUIvM
Not sure if this is allowed, but here is the artists Instagram page
Seems like a good thing to drop a follow
It should be noted that in the real world there's no bullet hole in the front windshield. That's from an AI fake going around being used to imply a shot came from the front not the side.Nevermind that was incorrect. I hate the future.
No, there is one in the front (at the corner), the other two were from the side.
Good fucking content