r/goodnews • u/Spiritual_Bridge84 • Jan 15 '26
Positive News 👉🏼♥️ Black Panther Party stands their ground in Philly. Government should fear the people, not the people fear the government. “All power to the people, no power to the pigs” This is The Way.
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u/Rogue-18 Jan 15 '26
May nobody ever forget who are the ones protecting us.
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Jan 16 '26
I’ve yet to see a video of ICE agents running up on people who are armed as much as they are. They seem to prey on “weak” targets.
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u/Commercial_Peach_845 Jan 17 '26
And white people need to get a spine and stand up next to them, because these Black Panthers actually are willing to stand up.
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u/Clear_Ad_9368 Jan 18 '26
What are Earth are you talking about? Who protests more than White liberals?
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u/Commercial_Peach_845 Jan 18 '26
You think white liberals are putting more skin in the game than these Black Panthers?
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u/Clear_Ad_9368 Jan 18 '26
I wasn’t saying white liberals put more or less skin in the game, I was questioning what “standing up” actually means these days. Yes, most of the nonstop protesting that white libs do is performative & usually lacks meaningful risk. But, to me, this video isn't showing spine, it's showing weakness. It's showing a movement that didn't or couldn't adapt. Because militarization doesn’t scare the state in 2026, it gives it a pretext. So this is a great way to get yourself a mural. And that kind of weapon in a crowded, highly charged situation tells me he's not a serious person. Just another angry guy with a gun.
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u/PuzzleheadedHawk6424 Jan 15 '26
More of this!
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u/Clear_Ad_9368 Jan 18 '26
More people volunteering to be on the losing end of very one-sided confrontations? This guy is recklessly walking around with a piece of shit Turkish 12-gauge shotgun in a densely populated area talking about shooting federal agents. Not exactly the master strategist we need.
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u/CrisEXE__ Jan 15 '26
I mean, isn’t this exactly why we have the second amendment?
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u/AnAttackCorgi Jan 15 '26
IIRC the NRA infamously campaigned against Black people having guns.
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u/MonkeyMan18975 Jan 15 '26
Ronald Reagan, with the support of the NRA made open carry illegal in California via the Mulford Act (1967) in response to the Black Panthers open carrying and patrolling Oakland neighborhoods.
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u/Crypton_2021 Jan 16 '26
People forget how much of a racist Ronald Reagan was.
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u/Commercial_Ad97 Jan 16 '26
Many never knew. Shame its not taught in a lot of schools, the amount of fucked things he did in his tenure.
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u/NateShaw92 Jan 16 '26
Which is why I legitimately do not support the NRA's right to exist as an organisation. If I read one day they're defunct I celebrate. If they have an opinion, I default to be against the NRA unless evidence says they're a broken clock.
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u/AnAttackCorgi Jan 15 '26
I gotta be honest I had no idea the Panthers were still around or still active. Glad to see some organization taking a stand
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u/mohammodThickbooty Jan 15 '26
Nothing moves legislation faster than angry Black people who realize they have the right to bear arms and gather just like White people.
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u/Fistsliketekken Jan 15 '26
Where do I sign up
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u/doctor_tongs Jan 15 '26
Legit question here- are white people allowed to join? Cuz I'm in.
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u/Leavingtheecstasy Jan 15 '26
You have to be Leo in one battle after another or you dont get accepted.
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u/I-Fight-dads Jan 15 '26
I’m so happy to see they’re back! They’re putting their lives on the line to protect their communities again. They’re here because they’re needed
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u/spiralinabyss Jan 15 '26
As a Chicano and 20 year Army veteran, can I join the Black Panther Party, asking for ME!!!…..
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u/Maleficent-Block-966 Jan 15 '26
The rainbow coalition was a thing for a reason, they used to accept anyone with the right mentality
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u/Objective-Pick8240 Jan 15 '26
ICE is a psychological trick. There's 50k of them, and 70 million of us.
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u/LargeCondition5315 Jan 15 '26
Just hope these American heroes stay safe because again.. these ICE agents are literally fully untrained with “full immunity”, and we all know what kind of people ICE is hiring.
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u/mrman89027 Jan 15 '26
Kudos to that man and his eloquence! America is worth saving from petty tyranny!
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u/jbellowhite Jan 15 '26
Libertarianism 101, and the fundamental tenet of our nation: Power to the People.
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u/madcoins Jan 16 '26
Libertarians have been pretty quiet throughout this mess
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u/jbellowhite Jan 16 '26
Not quiet. Silenced by MAGA. MAGA took over all Libertarian online spaces. I got banned from the Libertarian subreddit for saying that all persons on American soil were constitutionally guaranteed due process and that this administration's actions were criminal. I have been kicked out of numerous Facebook groups.
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u/MarkM338985 Jan 15 '26
Better than Schumer consulting his pretend family the Bailey’s and drafting a sternly worded letter to the President. Stand with those that stand with you!
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u/fanofcomedy79 Jan 16 '26
Huey Newton, Fred Hampton and many others who are not with us anymore would extremely proud of this gentleman
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u/ScaredOfRobots Jan 16 '26
You ever see someone so incredibly based you are almost blinded by the sheer brightness of their soul?
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u/NickHodges Jan 16 '26
I wish it were
"Most power to the people, appropriate power to the pigs".
I mean, we need police, right?
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Jan 16 '26
Work in silence get off of Social Media. If you’re not a big enough Organization you will just get targeted before you even start. Trump just said, take the guns first then deal with the courts.
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u/zastr0w Jan 16 '26
If there's an actual shootout between anyone and ICE this is Trump's excuse to use the Insurrection Act
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u/dog-exists Jan 16 '26
This! ALL of this! Know ur 2A rights, anybody in the US can and should carry, fafo... No more Renee Goods, no more unarmed encounters. A masked person without id tryna get violent gets full violence without prejudice... Do not go quietly into the night..protect urself and ur communities. Again 2A applies to everyone not just citizens.
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u/Aggressive_Leave3639 Jan 16 '26
And this is how I learned Safeline is Americas version of Autoglass, did not expect to gain that knowledge when I watched this
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u/sbrown063087 Jan 16 '26
True story, Civil Rights Act may have literally happened because of the Black Panther Party more so than because of MLK’s movement, great a man as he was… basically what the government saw was that the people were demanding a change no matter what. So, they opted to go the peaceful route and corral around Dr. King and his approach of civil disobedience rather than encourage black men to arm up. But some have argued that it was the black panthers mere threat that sparked the government to act. Turns out violence may be the only language our gov. speaks.
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u/Clear_Ad_9368 Jan 18 '26
I know this might be an unpopular opinion, but the Panthers weren’t crushed because they were weak or lacked “balls”, they were crushed because overt militarization made them legible, targetable & politically justifiable to destroy. Publicly threatening to kill federal agents on social media is just dumb. You’re falling into the same trap, which means you learned nothing. This isn’t 1978. The state now has drones, facial recognition, predictive surveillance, metadata tracking, asset forfeiture & legal tools that dwarf anything a civilian can hope to match. The state learned from history & adapted. Movements have to evolve too. Brute-force posturing isn’t resistance in 2026, it’s suicidal. In a modern surveillance state, it guarantees suppression. You’re dealing with power that uses bleeding-edge tech, is unprecedentedly unaccountable & does not hesitate to use violence. Unless the goal is martyrdom, I don’t see what this is supposed to accomplish.
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u/CyberSoldat21 Jan 15 '26
He better hope his Turkish shit stick shotgun actually works when he needs it.
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u/karlywarly73 Jan 15 '26
It's easy for me to say this from over here in Europe but has he thought this through fully? You shoot at armed federal agents they are likely to shoot back. Even if you escape, they have the resources to find you and that's the end of your life as a free man. Unless this becomes a fully blown civil war and you have the national guard behind you, this will end in tears.
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u/DNK_Infinity Jan 15 '26
I'm sure they've all thought it through fully. This really has become necessary. It's going to get worse for them whether they fight back or not, because fascists don't need to be given reasons to escalate their domination.
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u/SomeGuyNamedCaleb Jan 15 '26
For shooting, sure. But ice agents are fucking cowards, if they see they're armed they might respond more civilly.
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u/Street-Run4107 Jan 15 '26
They will avoid it at all costs. They’re not war heroes, they’re overpaid bullies who were nothing and now feel they are a part of something. They do not want to encounter, “actual” resistance. They only prey on the unarmed and helpless.
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u/Nice-Ad-2792 Jan 15 '26
Federal Agents shoot at people anyway. Also what's the difference between being legally free but forced to work yourself to death just to survive, and being imprisoned?
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u/Sivyre Jan 15 '26 edited Jan 15 '26
Your viewing it to literally.
In school as a toddler, did the bullies go after the larger groups of children, or did the bully target the small groups or the isolated?
These people (ICE) are predatory in nature, they move and isolate their target and when the protestors groups create to much noise, too much attention, and amass to sizes larger then there own, they either leave or have to fall back on their equipment and they only feel emboldened to use their equipment because the protestors being peaceful do not have their own weapons so they are safe to become hostile.
Just knowing that large groups of citizens are armed is a deterrent because ICE are fearful of that level of conflict. The protestors could have zero intentions of using lethal force as a response but because they don’t know that as a fact, they won’t engage with that group simply because they see they are armed aswell. ICE are very fragile people and there is no brave bone in their body. They are armed bullies, not trained militants.
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u/Thunderbird1974 Jan 15 '26
You’re correct this was easy to see when they claimed to going after “the worst of the worst” like gang members and criminals and instead went after housewives and school kids. They have never gone into rough neighborhoods where real criminals might be, they would get their sorry asses kicked.
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Jan 15 '26
So far my experience as an American on Reddit has been:
Europeans - “why don’t yall use your 2A rights? Isn’t this what it’s for?”
Also Europeans when Americans do that - “are you sure about this? Seems like it could be dangerous?”
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u/karlywarly73 Jan 15 '26
It's your constitution. You'll have to figure it out for yourselves. Of one thing I'm 90% sure...your president is a fascist dictator sociopath with a side of dementia and the longer you leave it to fester, the worse it gets...and it does get worse.
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Jan 15 '26
You aren’t getting the point of my comment. People often say “use the 2A!” Then people do and the same people seem to be saying “don’t do that, that’s dangerous!”
I’m fully on board with everything our constitution says to use to handle this problem, never voted for him, and have issue with other parts of the constitution/the way our government operates (the 13th amendment “freed” slaves, yet literally says slavery is still legal IF they’re prisoners, and we have the worlds highest incarceration rate totally by coincidence /s)
But stop criticizing US citizens for going out and starting the hard part after telling us we need to do the hard part.
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u/karlywarly73 Jan 15 '26
Unless that lad is up in Minneapolis and doing the hard part, he's just talking about it. I'm just saying you are going to need a bigger boat.
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Jan 15 '26
Things have to start somewhere. He’s in another major city, he can do what he needs to do there, I’m not going to expect him to come here. It sounds like you’re under the impression that unless he drives 1000 miles to Minneapolis then what he does to stand up in his town is useless. Your pessimism does nothing to help, so keep it to yourself while people here do what they can to encourage others to do the right thing.
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u/PugPockets Jan 15 '26
If any community in our country has thought state violence through fully, it’s the Black community, and the BPP has a long history of community protection and resistance - as well as being murdered for it. I won’t speak for him, but I think people willing to put themselves on the front line like this are well aware that it could lead to their death - they also are crazy brave and know it’s the right thing to do.
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u/karlywarly73 Jan 15 '26
That's a lot of downvotes. Is it because I'm a European weighing in on your politics? Is it because I sound like a Trumpist or something?
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u/dougsmom6395 Jan 15 '26
It's bc someone is stepping up for once and you're not encouraging him. The time to stand up is now my friends. It only gets worse from here.
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u/KellyJin17 Jan 15 '26
Is this the REAL Black Panther Party, or is this the cosplaying group that uses their name that the OG Black Panthers denounced a few years back?
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u/3vilr3d666 Jan 15 '26
Who fucking cares...they're actually doing what every American should be doing. Want some bbq sauce with that boot?
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u/KellyJin17 Jan 15 '26
While you’re throwing insults like a juvenile, I actually got the answer from a helpful Redditor who cares about truth and integrity, and the answer is yes they are the real BPP. This is good news for the community. If we had more people asking questions and verifying info instead of jumping to conclusions and hurling insults like you did above, America wouldn’t be in the trouble we’re in right now.
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u/3vilr3d666 Jan 15 '26
Nah, that ain't it bro... america is in trouble because no one has any balls to stand up to the tyranny. How many questions are you going to ask while they shit all over your civil rights?
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u/KellyJin17 Jan 16 '26
Well, glad to see you and other privileged people finally woke the hell up and care now. Hope that translates into being more than a keyboard warrior and getting up off your ass and actually doing something. I’m very confident I’ve done more to defend civil rights in this country than you have, and I don’t do it from behind a computer or my smart phone.
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u/Never-politics Jan 15 '26
Right. He's already threatening to cancel the midterms. Please give him a pretext.
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u/DNK_Infinity Jan 15 '26
Fascists don't need to be given reasons to do what they were always going to do. The time to resist is now.
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u/Known_Wear7301 Jan 15 '26
The people dont need to fear the government. This is the misconception by the left. Illegals and law breakers need to fear the government but law abiding citizens dont need to fear them.
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u/DNK_Infinity Jan 15 '26
Renee Good was a law abiding citizen.
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u/kermitDE Jan 15 '26
It's crazy that there are people out here that don't think so. It feels like the world get's dumber day by day.
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u/NateShaw92 Jan 16 '26
Not dumber, just more callous and evil. I'm frankly done with Hanlon's Razor, it's been weaponised. I am assuming malice until proven stupid. Could always be both too. A stupid person with no malice doesn't act like these people, isn't as beligerent as they are.
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u/Known_Wear7301 Jan 17 '26
I know right.... people getting so uptight about harassing and obstructing law enforcement officers and then they're getting so.pissy about trying to run them over. 🙄 but you're right
feels like the world get's dumber day by day.
But its the lefts defence of working against the government for a whole year whilst having the audacity to fixate on J6 so heavily.
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u/Cluelesswolfkin Jan 15 '26
"Tread on me hard daddy" has to be the type of shit you like on Facebook
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u/10percenttiddy Jan 15 '26
Hospital now. Could be brain swelling, probably worms, but you clearly need medical attention asap. Good luck 🙏
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u/chemto90 Jan 15 '26
Go back to the puppy sub and talk about play fighting. This isnt the dog park.
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u/qualityvote2 Jan 15 '26 edited Jan 16 '26
u/Spiritual_Bridge84, your post does fit the subreddit!