Every time I hear sirens, I feel scare af, thinking its the gestapo.
I’m a naturalized citizen btw, but I still don’t feel safe (I’m not white).
Hell, even birthright citizens aren’t safe if they are perceived as non-white.
I have a friend from the Philippines who is in school to be a nurse. When this started, she was scared this was going to affect students which did end up being true later.
Anyone who thinks that protesting will stop this is an idiot. Hypothetically, if you wanted to stop this, either you put on a FULL ON general strike, not 200,000 people, but 20 million. Or you go and get your guns, and start driving the fuck over to your state capitol, or better yet, the WH.
That is a sharp fucking rise for three months.
Nearly everyone close to me voted for Trump. I fucking hope they get deported.
TIL 3 out of 4 Americans need to get out more.
I mean 2 out of 4 believe the other 2 should be deported. 1 of those 2 don’t know that someone is trying to deport them. That’s the current state of America and how Trump got elected.
yeah but all 3 just don’t realize someone they know will get deported. first they came for the socialists, and all that.
Since there are no rules and no due process 4 of 4 should be worried. If you think this isnt gonna escalate you are nuts.
@[email protected] 3 out of 4 US adults are nuts
5 out of 4 are nuts
Unless something happened it was always going to escalate. The question was ever only the cause and whether any side would meet that escalation with their own. I started asking something similar during Covid and was told people didn’t want to risk someone spitting on them. I said it again after January 6th and people replied that they didn’t want to be targets by some psycho. A year ago when this started to become clear I asked why we weren’t out on the streets reminding the DNC what we need and I got the same answer then I’ve gotten in the past: I can’t take off of work/I need to pay my bills.
So, my friends, is this enough yet?
The videos all over the internet expose everything. I can’t imagine what it looks like from a normal country on the outside.
Horrifying and you are all apparently just complaining about on social media ( yes there have been a few protests, big whoop)
I protest once a month on a sunny Saturday that I don’t have errands or TV to catch up on.
Most of them are in denial. Every time I bring it up to my friends they’re all like “yeah, but they won’t come after me.”
You will need to keep that hand iced. Maybe splint at night. If the skin breaks, get an ACE wrap.
Sorry, that sounds like a possibly risky amount of slapping you’ve been up to lately, especially if you’ve been (like most of us) in a low or no-slap lifestyle up until now.
Have a coworker with family in Iran. She just got her citizenship, but I have no idea how much that is even worth in the modern moment.
She’s a close friend and it was be a personal nightmare to lose her to some ICE thugs.
They shipped out Kilmar Abrego Garcia for something a cop said in 2019 based on an unidentified informant and they make up new lies about him all the time. They’re absolutely not above lying that someone falsified information on their naturalization papers.
Ogle and Mace sent an email asking to denaturalize primary winner of NYC. They’ll try and if they succeed they’ll do it to other people.
Imagine what it’s doing to their children. Republicans and religious people who have a hand in this or turn a blind eye are filth. There’s no redemption for this.
But fuck all if they could be bothered to vote…
Pew’s latest study suggests that Trump would have won even if they all voted.
Mostly because the majority of Americans seem to be OK with face eating leopards.
I mean he says that, but surely he doesn’t mean me…?
America is NOT a progressive country.
In general, the people ARE actually pretty progressive (as evidenced byprogressive policies tending to be favored by overwhelming majorities when not attached to the name of someone the establishment has spent millions if not billions vilifying).
The main problem is that the political system has fallen so deep into corruption that it’s a representative democracy in name only.
It’s way past time for rebellion against not just the fascists, but also the system itself and the Democrats who consider it more important than the general welfare of the people.
“the people are progressive”
Said about a country that voted for trump, twice. And every corporate democrat in every primary.
National elections are won by the over representation of land versus people and the winner-take-all electoral college.
It’s a very broken system but it’s the one we have. So yes, the people are progressive but land and the electoral college wins elections.
Trump won the electoral college twice, but the second one also the popular vote.
Both of those times were through an antiquated and unrepresentative system and with less than 50% the vote with low voter participation.
Less than a third of the eligible to vote population ≠ the country.
Well-meaning people pretending/being fooled into honestly believing that the presidential elections accurately reflect the will of the people without any trickery and downright fraud is how the corrupt demagoguery is allowed to persist.
Even less wanted something different, so that won.
No. Once again your blind trust in institutions leads you astray.
There are tens of millions of Americans for whom voting is made extremely difficult and time-consuming if not downright impossible to do by deliberate voter suppression tactics from (mostly but not exclusively) Republicans.
If there had been free, open, and fair elections, the GOP would never be able to win a nationwide election.
You don’t fix the system by assuming that it works as officially intended and blaming the powerless for the outcomes created by the powerful and corrupt.
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Exactly
Harris won more votes than Obama. Didn’t save her or the rest of the country.
Also, and this cannot fail to bare mentioning, Harris and Biden both campaigned on a policy of mass deportation. Dems are still bragging that they deported more people than Trump. Mass deportation is a bipartisan policy.
Oh fuck right off.
I have never seen a dem advertisement based on deportation.
To say “both sides” campaigned on a policy of mass deportation is a straight up lie. Mass deportation isn’t bi-partisan as you say… with zero proof no links and nothing to back up your bs… you offer no proof and are therefor a liar.
Biden holds the record as vice president for deportations during an administration
I didn’t realize that the Vice President was in charge of deportations… Oh wait.
VP doesn’t do shit.
I have never seen a dem advertisement based on deportation.
Colin Allred made it the center of his Senate campaign against Ted Cruz.
To say “both sides” campaigned on a policy of mass deportation is a straight up lie.
Bragged about “the toughest border bill in decades” and promised to hire “thousands of new border guards”.
How is more border guards equal to “more deportations”?
The legacy of anglosaxons and protestants
But picking up pitchforks- uhm, guns- and fighting back is somehow hard, as I read in another thread. Niice
Especially when it’s not on a sunny Saturday. Seriously inconvenient and someone might get killed you know.
FO.
