"Well ICE broke his rib a week ago so that proves he's a trouble maker!"

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

"Well ICE broke his rib a week ago so that proves he's a trouble maker!"

...
...

. . .

Maybe. I don't know. This is going to sound crazy but maybe it shows that ICE has been trying to kill him for a whole week instead?

I mean, if he'd so much as given an ICE employee cause to stumble resulting a self-inflicted paper cut we'd KNOW. So it sounds like ICE broke his rib and he didn't shoot them then either.

Even though, you know, self defense and all that.

Anyways.

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

This is all obvious I hope?

But I just needed to say it for myself.

Because they are really trying "ICE broke his rib so he's violent"

No. no no no. Try that again. **Who** is violent based on that evidence?

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

This is "You can tell she's a mouthy wife from all them bruises" levels of BS.

[burnitdown@beige.party]

@futurebird bootlicking is a helluva drug.

[srrochardbunson@universeodon.com]

@futurebird Might as well be "that woman already had a black eye, so she asked for it."
🙄

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@burnitdown

I expect they use shoe polish like tooth paste.

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

... it's a pity really ...

But, he was not that kind of man.

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@burnitdown

Putting those little "fresh shoe" balls in their mouth at night because the boot is lodged so deep they can't get it out and it's the only way to freshen their breath.

[burnitdown@beige.party]

@futurebird these are the people buying AXE body spray to hide their bad habit of eating boot leather.

"you smell like you ate a boot and had indigestion"
"bro, i swear it's not me bro. it's the body spray, bro. i swear!"

[ben@mastodon.lubar.me]

@futurebird it proves he's a trouble recipient

[linuxandyarn@hachyderm.io]

@futurebird Yeah, when I read about the prior ICE assault, I figured one of the agents recognized him and decided to execute him this time, similar to when they sandwich and ram observers in cars trying to generate an excuse.

[flipper@mastodonapp.uk]

@futurebird Oh, I love me a bit of victim blaming. Solves every problem.

[corbden@defcon.social]

@futurebird Abuser and fash logic is that if someone is a victim, they did something to deserve it, and it's morally right and a social good to revictimize them. DARVO is an instinctive response. This factoid will be persuasive to this type of person.

#AbuseCulture

[apophis@kill-corporations.enterprises]

@futurebird when i first hear about it it was framed as "they've had beef with this guy and his ultimate murder may well have been wilfully targeted (implication: premeditated)" but yeah i can see the fash spinning it this way too

[samiamsam@mastodon.social]

@corbden @futurebird

FACT

also:

right out of the abuser's playbook

i didn't do it

if i did it was your fault

if you would just obey me this wouldn't happen

if you keep defying me this will continue to happen

[ricci@discuss.systems]

@futurebird it shows quite clearly who the brave one in this situation was

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@samiamsam @corbden

"if you keep defying me this will continue to happen"

But it will also keep happening if you don't so... not worth listening to anything said by anyone like this.

[paninid@mastodon.world]

@futurebird @samiamsam @corbden

[dervishpi@mastodon.social]

@SrRochardBunson @futurebird What's more enraging is that you just described the world they want.

[misterdave@tilde.zone]

@futurebird it's always the same tactics, just a sliding scale (Overton window?) of who they're willing to apply it to. you could almost draw a hierarchy (or at least a fair step graph with error bars) of who they're allowed to abuse under different circumstances.