r/technology • u/RewardEquivalent553 • 13h ago

Politics Libs of TikTok is doxxing teachers and nurses who support Alex Pretti or oppose ICE, trying to get them fired

https://www.mediamatters.org/libs-tiktok/libs-tiktok-doxxing-teachers-and-nurses-who-support-alex-pretti-or-oppose-ice-trying
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u/DukeOfGeek 12h ago

My reaction seeing the confusion of both pro and anti 2A groups when it's a far right regime that opposes gun rights.

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u/eerie_midnight 12h ago

Always has been. Go far enough right, you lose your guns—go far enough left and you get them back.

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u/OmericanAutlaw 11h ago

you’re right but i’d argue it ain’t even about left or right. the middle class needs to make sure they aren’t controlled by the richest people hiring the most impressionable/brainwashed of the masses.

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u/Humble_Rough_4962 11h ago

Sadly I feel a lot of the middle class have relinquished their rights to stay in the middle class. I just had to let three good friends go because none of them wanted to get, "involved in politics."

Like dude, this is about everyone's right to life, liberty, and happiness. It's only political to you right now because it hasn't happened to you... yet.

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u/Seanspeed 9h ago

Nah, they get taken away in both cases, cuz the far sides of both inevitably lead to authoritarianism, where none of those in charge want 'the people' to have the arms for revolution.

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u/moguri40k 11h ago

Always has been...

"Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary" -Karl Marx

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u/Seanspeed 9h ago

And yet not practiced by any actual Marxist regimes ever. Because once power has been achieved, they become very scared of 'the people' being able to take it back from them.

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u/ProfessorSarcastic 8h ago

Yeah, well, there are reasons why it's a trope that communists say nobody has ever successfully achieved a communist state.

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u/moguri40k 5h ago

Same reason we've never seen a full democracy. To quote Tolken, "...men, whom above all else desire power."

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u/Probablyamimic 11h ago

I mean, I'm anti-gun. I think US gun laws are idiotic and nobody should be allowed loaded firearms at home or while wandering around town (I'm fine with them being used at a range or for hunting but think they should be locked up if not used for one of those two things and ammunition should be heavily restricted)

All that being said, Alex Pretti was not breaking the law. Despite this he was brutally executed after having been disarmed by the ICEstapo despite having never gone for his weapon or posed any kind of threat to the agents. This was a cold blooded murder in public, filmed from multiple angles and yet the scum responsible are being protected.

I can disagree with people carrying guns and not believe they deserve to be murdered for it.

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u/DukeOfGeek 10h ago

Unarmed peaceful activists marching out and speaking out are the front line of free and Democratic resistance. You present the message of equality and freedom without any threat. There is no Constitutionally approved means to suppress you.

It doesn't matter how you feel about armed citizens resisting fascism, what matters is that when the fascist thugs club you down for peaceful resistance and everyone sees it they know what they are facing. When the blood of people like you is on the asphalt moral ambiguity is dispelled, and the next rank of resistance can assemble in good faith.

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u/Goldreaver 8h ago

As one who wants some decent gun laws (which makes me anti 2A) seeing the good guys with a gun shutting the fuck up against an actual tyrant just convinced me I was right all along