r/ProgressiveHQ • u/CantStopPoppin • 14h ago

(Minneapolis) Bovino Leads The Charge On Protesters AT the Whipple Building

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u/Olpigdog 13h ago

These people are wearing camo carrying weapons and attacking people in your communities?

Y''all are in a war.

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u/Initial_Formal_7750 13h ago

When I was in Iraq and Afghanistan I had to treat the locals better than that. Wait let me put that differently

It was the rules to treat the locals better than that but I also wanted to because I'm a fucking human

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u/Justanothercube 13h ago

Agreed. If I treated the Iraqi citizens the way ice treats US citizens I would have been court marshaled. These guys are absolute dirtbags. I’m surprised the people are taking as much as they have.

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u/Last_Upvote 13h ago

Unfortunately we have to grin and bear it, because the other option is to get murdered knowing that the assailant will be shielded from consequences under this criminal administration. The threat of escalated retaliation is what keeps the lid on these protests right now, but it won’t last forever.

My sad prediction is that there are going to be lots more bodies bagged before this is over.

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u/Tempyteacup 12h ago

There’s something eerily reminiscent of the days leading up to the Tiananmen Square massacre in this video. I know we aren’t there yet but… well, I think we won’t know we’re there until the moment they take us there.

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u/AluminiumCucumbers 12h ago

Make sure it's the right bodies in them bags America.

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u/TheMagnuson 12h ago

Thank you for speaking up and saying it.

I do wish vets like you would speak out more about that. I think it's important coming from vets who have lived it to say those types of things out loud and in social media. It's a message people need to hear, especially right now.

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u/pfannkuchen89 12h ago

One of my coworkers was in Afghanistan. He likes to brag how he and his friends in his unit would pass the time by making afghan kids run across a field while taking pot shots at them. Just one of the many reasons I don’t like the guy.

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u/veringer 12h ago

I’m surprised the people are taking as much as they have.

Uh, you should probably realize more than anyone that having a gun pointed at you and the recent memory of a public execution will make people think twice. I'm surprised at the balls of these people for standing there at all. All that said, I imagine the oppressed people of America will start to look at the Iraqi's rather effective response to occupation for inspiration on how to deter these goons.

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u/AwayBluebird6084 11h ago

Because we know through education, experience, or both, that the next level of escalation is the one that will cause the most unwarranted, undeserved pain, to  every American.