"Solidifying Your Fears in Minneapolis" by VANDAL

Stop fucking crying. Put the candles away. Your grief is boring, and your shock is an insult to your own goddamn intelligence.

I am watching Minneapolis burn, and the truth is, I can’t help but laugh. Not because violence is funny, but because violence is the simplest and only honest language in nature, and you people are just too dumb to understand it. You are all acting like the death of Renee Nicole Good was a malfunction. You are screaming that the system is broken. You are begging the City Council and the Federal suits to "fix" the glitch that allowed a squad of armored thugs to turn a human being into a past-tense noun.

Now, just hold still while I spit the truth onto your stupid faces: The system isn't broken. The system is functioning at 100% efficiency.

Renee Nicole Good was not a martyr; she was a statistic. And to the State, statistics are nothing but fuel. I mean, fuck, do you look at a wood chipper and scream every time it shreds a branch? No, that is what it was built to do. You don't look at a predator drone and act surprised when it vaporizes a wedding party. That is its intended purpose. So, why do you look at the State with its federal paramilitary force created specifically to hunt, cage, and purge, then act shocked when they kill someone?

You want to talk about reform? You want to hold hands and sing songs at the governor’s mansion? Can you teach a shark to be a vegan?

What you have to realize is that Minneapolis… scratch that, the entire country is nothing but a lab experiment. We live in a controlled environment and the State is testing one very specific hypothesis: How much terror can we inject into the population before the host body rejects the parasite? The ICE raids sweeping through our neighborhoods serve a purpose beyond “law enforcement.” They exist to calibrate your fears. They need you to remember, at all times, that you are vulnerable, and the reason these fuckers exist is to maintain their system built on intimidation.

They shot that woman in the face as part of a ritual. Her alleged criminality was irrelevant to the act itself. The State requires blood to fuel its fire. It requires a permanent underclass of terrified people who are too afraid to demand better wages, too afraid to report abuse, and too afraid to look a cop in the goddamn eyes. That fear is the product. Renee Nicole Good was just the raw resource used to manufacture it.

Look at the politicians wringing their hands on the evening news. Look at them acting devastated. Fucking scum. Bad actors on a blood-soaked stage. They are the ones who signed the budgets that bought the ammunition. They are the ones who approved the zoning for the detention centers. They shook the hands of the union reps, and they protect the killers. Their sadness is a performance, and their policies are their weapons.

I understand why you are angry. You are angry because you think this was an error. You think, “well, if only we vote harder,” or, “if we just write better legislation, the machine will stop sacrificing our loved ones.” But what you have yet to understand is that the machine runs on bodies. It always has. From the Indian Removal Act to the Fugitive Slave Laws to the drug war to the ICE raids. The face of the enforcer changes, but the function remains the same: Control these peons through authorized violence.

Renee Nicole Good is dead because the State needs you to know that you could be next. Not explicitly you, maybe. But someone you know. Someone you rely on. The unpredictability is the point. The cruelty is the fucking point!

So stop asking for an apology. Stop asking for an investigation. An investigation into what? Whether the bullet followed proper protocol? Who fucking cares? The law is only the instruction manual for the slaughterhouse, and you’re going to keep voting for it.

If you want to mourn Renee, fine. Mourn her. But do not dishonor her memory by pretending her death was an accident. It was a cold, calculated transaction. The State traded her life for a 3% increase in compliance and a 5% boost in nationalist fervor for the base.

The wood chipper is working perfectly. The only question left is: How long are you going to keep feeding it?

Stop asking the machine to be kind.

Unplug it.

Smash it.

Or shut the fuck up and get back in line.