I need to vent. Fatal shootings in Minnesota

Can't you just mute the thread or remove your comment if you're getting notifications? There's plenty of threads I don't read.

Milei is starting his own version of ICE, and half of us are 'in process' of immigration, it's not irrelevant. All the people making border runs as 'fake tourists' or overstaying visas, get ready to taste concrete as you're taking your toddlers to daycare or working in a cafe. Even people with the equivalent of precarias are getting their car windows smashed, getting hauled off and locked away. It's the method that people object to; deportations were always done, but in a less 'showy' way, and with less errors. Milei often tries a version of what Trump does:


Would the Argentines protest on our behalf, if things got ugly?
So, I hate ICE and Milei and the entire Twitter Axis of right wing grifters and politicians who want to Make Fascism Great Again, but let's be realistic; look at who Milei and Co. have targeted in Argentina to date: it's poor and working class brown people who live in villas (and have the legal right to residency in Argentina via Mercosur), not the rich, white, non-Mercosur remote workers and retirees committing immigration fraud and tax evasion from their luxury apartments and condos in Palermo and Puerto Madero.

Is it possible this will change? Maybe, but I doubt it, the second the US Embassy hears about "expats" being "mistreated" (i.e. actually treated the way working class and poor people are, or expected to pay taxes/follow the law) Milei will get on all fours like a good boy for Uncle Sam and say in his terrible English: "Sorry señor, si señor, my mistake señor."

There's also a level of corruption that exists in Argentina that, while exists in the US too, is much more pervasive. Do we think for a minute that the villa they raided was chosen at random? I'm willing to bet it wasn't, the gang that controls it probably forgot to kick up/pay their "tax", so when the Ministry of Insecurity decided to film a raid for that little blonde shithead cringe video maker they chose one that had been caught slipping.

Again, completely agree that what's happening in the US is terrible, and it's one of the reasons I naturalized as an Argentine citizen myself, but Milei is a prostrating cuck for Trump, so the people that need to be worried are other latinos, not gringos when it comes to Milei's ICE, in my humble opinion.
 
These videos (if accurate) may shed some light on what is happening in Minneapolis:


these sources are completely erroneous, and unreliable -a better
You have to be a special kind of stupid to show up to a protest to interfere with any kind of law enforcement with a concealed weapon attached to your body. What on earth did this man expect? One of the first things you should declare when approached by an officer seeking to detain you is that you have a concealed firearm so you can surrender it safely. The legality of the detainment is something you have the right to discuss with an attorney in a legal setting. The last thing you want is to be resisting arrest and having your gun stumbled on halfway through trying to cuff you.
where is the don't like button? -dude you are clueless seriously
These videos (if accurate) may shed some light on what is happening in Minneapolis:


unreliable sources!
 
Hard to believe that people get their "news" from YouTube, where every crackpot is guaranteed a free soapbox...!
Yeah getting your news from mainstream media is a much better option lol....Have you been living under a rock since 2020?

Clueless!
 


Good. We could quibble about the placement of some of the sources (NPR only slightly squews left?, the BBC almost top dead center?) but can we all at least agree that in order to make up our minds about what's going on, we can't really just read only The Guardian or the Daily Mail (or the NYT or the WSJ, or watch CNN or Fox) but consume both, always, in order to draw make our own educated conclusions, (and probably find in most cases that, as Frinkiac8 says above: "the truth about what is going on or "how bad it is," is probably somewhere in the middle").
 
Yeah getting your news from mainstream media is a much better option lol....Have you been living under a rock since 2020?

Clueless!
Quite comfortable under the rock, getting my news from several mainstream media sources spread all over the bias spectrum. Won't you consider joining me?

Of course, it's a bit more work than getting "news" from social media, and it does require a certain IQ level.
 
Agreed. But what agenda-free 'news' sources would you recommend?
A combination of several right and left-leaning reputable newspapers. They all have agendas, which cancel each other out.

For instance, consider the Wall Street Journal and the New York times. It is amazing how different they make the same news sound.
 
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