MicroWaveJun 8, 2025

Trump border czar says National Guard will head to LA to fight anti-ICE protests

https://lemmy.world/post/31003812

Trump border czar says National Guard will head to LA to fight anti-ICE protests - Lemmy.World

Tense confrontations between police and demonstrators in L.A. continued for a second day on Saturday, in response to operations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, said he plans to send the National Guard to Los Angeles to combat protests against ICE that began this weekend following immigration raids in the city. “We are making Los Angeles safer. Mayor Bass should be thanking us. She says they are going to mobilize—guess what? We are already mobilizing. We are going to bring the National Guard in tonight,” Homan told Fox News. His comments come after Senior White House adviser Stephen Miller railed against the protests, calling them an “insurrection” against the United States.

Show threadDrusasJun 8, 2025

"rioters and looters"

These are just protests and there have been no reports of looting.

Show threaddisguy_ovaheaJun 8, 2025

I watched most of it on TikTok live since Friday. It began with a hit and run of a protestor by ICE.

I definitely didn’t see looters, but protestors were throwing rocks, cinder blocks, and M80s, and lighting cars on fire. That prompted ICE to don riot gear and deploy tear gas.

This is a bad idea. We don’t have the numbers to get baited into escalation. This will only embolden fascism.

Edit: Please share this.

Show threadMontySaurusJun 8, 2025
Bro is already licking the fascist boots as it’s just getting started.
Show threaddisguy_ovaheaJun 8, 2025

How about you read a book about Nazi Germany and then we can talk? Fighting fascism with less than 2% of the population is how you get your resistance incarcerated.

We need more people. We lose people with violence.

Show threadMontySaurusJun 8, 2025
It’s okay lil bro, just give up. You clearly aren’t cut out for anything.
Show threaddisguy_ovaheaJun 8, 2025
I’m clearly more educated than you. It’s emotional reactionaries such as yourself that give the fascists justification to legally suspend our rights. Maybe spend less time at the gym and go find a library.
Show thread𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍Jun 8, 2025
No you’re right, the best way to deal with fascists is clearly to bend over backwards and give them what they want. Just give Poland to Hitler, it’ll make him happy /s
Show threaddisguy_ovaheaJun 8, 2025
I’m saying violent resistance is the reason we’re about to lose rights and people to incarceration. Protestors will be too afraid to protest for their safety. I’m saying violence is not productive. Why is that hard to comprehend?
Show thread𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍Jun 8, 2025
Because you’re losing those rights regardless of whether or not you fight. You can’t placate fascists. If you give them an inch they will take the whole mile, so may as well fight for the whole mile.
Show threaddisguy_ovaheaJun 8, 2025
So why not just give in by losing our resistance? Your logic is horribly flawed.
Show threadEnsign_Crab
So it’s better to have no resistance than to let the fascists know we don’t love them.
Jun 8, 2025 at 11:23pmWeb
Show threaddisguy_ovaheaJun 8, 2025
Who said that? I’m advocating for peaceful resistance. We need more numbers. Violence only reduces them.
Show threadEnsign_CrabJun 8, 2025

Who said that? I’m advocating for peaceful resistance.

So nonresistance.

We need more numbers.

And this will be the excuse for doing nothing until we’re all in camps.

Show threaddisguy_ovaheaJun 8, 2025

You need to stop using German history as a reference if you aren’t actually familiar with it.

The communists set the Reichstag fire in 1933. That emboldened Hitler to attack them as a class and deport them to Poland. There was a larger percentage of communists in Germany than our largest peaceful protest. You’re literally suggesting walking head first into repeating history.