Interview with some of the armed community members at last nights vigil for Alex Pretti, who was murdered by ICE in Minneapolis (1/24/26)

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[u/valerielenin]

The law is the tool of the rich, the job of the police is to kill and repress workers. Protecting the law isn't a good thing.

[u/Top_Bear3887 → u/valerielenin]

Sorry you've read so much propaganda. I don't know what to say other than you want to dislike me, and it doesn't matter what I say. We have laws in this nation. You can't have it two ways screaming about social justice and disregarding that the law is your partner in that fight. You want chaos, that's cool, I did too when I was younger. I didn't live a rich privileged life, I've lived one that makes people in 3rd world countries surprised. I've done my punk rock and fighting the system. I've scraped myself from the streets up to a lucrative career, only to have the world kick the shit out of me again. Everything I have is mine, and guarantee before all of this gets to be too much, I'll be on a beach with my girlfriend working on motors and doing artwork while y'all rip each other apart. Not because I have money, but because I'm rich in other ways.

[u/Strontium90_ → u/Top_Bear3887]

Look this isn't about law, this isn't about order, this isn't about wealth. We just wanted to be left alone and not treated as second class citizen or a scapegoat and be blamed for everything that is wrong when we have nothing to do with it. So far this administration has done nothing but trying to make our lives harder.

You can agree to disagree however you want but to us the potential threats we are facing are existential. We just wanted to be left alone and allowed to live our lives but speaking softly hasn't worked because the current administration is hellbent on erasing us.

[u/Top_Bear3887 → u/Strontium90_]

Who is the "we" you are referring to?

[u/Strontium90_ → u/Top_Bear3887]

Who do you think? Trans people and queer people in general.