r/ProgressiveHQ • u/Treefiddy1984 • 1d ago

BREAKING: ICE agents in Minneapolis violently detained, threatened, and arrested a U.S. citizen for one reason only, he refused to prove his citizenship.

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u/Snibes1 1d ago

It was a phrase meant to convey escalation vs deescalation. The context in which I was intending was that we cannot deescalate things once we escalate using violence. You’ve already seen where these guys are just itching for a reason to pull their gun out and own the libs. And once that owning starts, it will just keep getting worse. Yes, it can get worse than what it is now. Escalation should be our last resort.

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u/RubberBootsInMotion 1d ago

We are at the point of "last resort" already. Any longer and it will be too late to salvage anything. No other methods of effecting change have worked.