Re:In 6 violent encounters, evidence contradicts immigration...
by lapcat on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @07:33PM
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This is assuming that they want to avoid the violence, whereas it appears that they very much want to engage in the violence.
They want to portray Democratic cities as violent and chaotic. The easiest way to do that is to create violence and chaos.
Did you know that at many peaceful protests, right-wing agitators come in and deliberately burn the American flag, to make it look like the protesters are burning the American flag? These are the tactics they employ.
These ICE operations are all for show, and also for revenge against Trump's enemies. If immigrants and crime were such a problem for these cities, then the residents would be begging ICE to come in rather than protesting. But the cities overwhelming voted against Trump. It's not for the benefit of the cities but rather for the people who don't live in the cities and have no real clue about them, people in rural areas for example who vote for Trump and have crazy beliefs about big cities based only on what they're told by Trump and the right-wing media.
In this case the operation backfired a little, because ICE happened to kill the "wrong" people, individuals who were difficult to smear, but generally the big show works to support the propaganda.
They want to portray Democratic cities as violent and chaotic. The easiest way to do that is to create violence and chaos.
Did you know that at many peaceful protests, right-wing agitators come in and deliberately burn the American flag, to make it look like the protesters are burning the American flag? These are the tactics they employ.
These ICE operations are all for show, and also for revenge against Trump's enemies. If immigrants and crime were such a problem for these cities, then the residents would be begging ICE to come in rather than protesting. But the cities overwhelming voted against Trump. It's not for the benefit of the cities but rather for the people who don't live in the cities and have no real clue about them, people in rural areas for example who vote for Trump and have crazy beliefs about big cities based only on what they're told by Trump and the right-wing media.
In this case the operation backfired a little, because ICE happened to kill the "wrong" people, individuals who were difficult to smear, but generally the big show works to support the propaganda.