And yet my cousins want to move to the US. In my home country, US is put on pedestal for generations especially by local media. As in, people are brainwashed by American media.
Most inefficient “crime reduction” operation in the history of this country.
At some point they will run out of immigrants.
The good news is that fascists eventually undermine themselves with poor policies. The bad news is that it will become worse before it gets better.
The hammers will keep looking for nails.
Shoulda turned left
At Albuquerque or the political alignment compass?
I was talking about the temp from Chiswick
They’ve already moved from “illegal” immigrants to legal ones. There’s discussion of removing birthright citizenship so they can deport them too.
There’s no way they need that huge budget for ICE if they plan on stopping at immigrants.
Which minority group is next? They’ve already attacked DEI, so should we expect other people of colour? LGBT? Democrats? People with autism? Disabilities? Mental illness? What group will they brand “undesirables” next?
In a year, two years, five years, what will you be able to say you were doing to stop the genocide? Waving a sign on the weekend isn’t going to help.
Which minority group is next? They’ve already attacked DEI, so should we expect other people of colour? LGBT? Democrats? People with autism? Disabilities? Mental illness? What group will they brand “undesirables” next?
Surprise: all of those at the same time! They never stopped attacking us queer folk and are now trying to ban adult HRT and make “gender identity fraud” a felony. They’ve also been attacking neurodivergent folk, and RFK has openly admitted he wants to send anyone with ADHD or autism to a labor camp.
Republicans straight up get a half chub at the thought of inflicting pain and misery. They are the world’s greatest sadists.
I personally fled the US because I check off all the boxes
Where did you go?
I keep waiting for Americans to wake up to the threat and actually do something, but I don’t think it’ll happen before it’s too late. I’m glad you got out and are somewhere safe.
and actually do something,
I think the big problem here is how stupidly huge and deeply rooted into everyday long-term-life the problem is, and brittle, tenuous social ties (lonliness epidemic still a thing!) means wrangling together enough people to agree on what can be done about it becomes a herculean task.
Neighborhood tree on fire? Do something! Cool, we bring water and extinguishers and call the FD, whatever. There’s generally an idea of what needs to be done.
There’s also been no massive campaigns pushing to ban non-firefighter use of fire extinguishers and make people afraid of them, so chances are you and your neighbors might have the tools at hand to deal with the problem.
If you run out to put out a fire by yourself, you’re hoping to be joined by others, and if you don’t have an army of committed hardcore anti-fire people behind you, you’re not gonna get singled out, dragged away, and shipped to a death camp for trying to solve a fire.
It’s a problem that doesn’t require the same kind of strategy. There’s procedures in place. Putting out a fire also doesn’t carry the fear that your anti-fire activities will get you noticed, ratted out, and abused when you discover your neighborhood actually consists of more fire-worshiping pyromaniacs than you thought.
It’s so easy for oustiders to imagine us rootin’ tootin’ ‘Muricans just grabbin’ our Winchester repeatin’ rifles an’ M1 Garands an’ stormin’ the obvious fascist regime that marches the streets in their snappy black leather uniforms, but this is another thing entirely.
This is a systemic infection of hearts and minds. We’re already struggling to make a living so our basics are covered, to know who and where our allies are, and to trust they aren’t just keyboard warriors and will actually have our backs so we don’t just throw our lives away in some random isolated act of virtue signaling.
At the end of the day, we have to live here. And we’re up against people who make it their specialty career to surveil, intimidate, coerce, arrest, subdue, manipulate, and kill. You wanna make the first move?
People are doing a lot, and we always need more! The cards are VERY stacked against us, so it doesn’t look like much is happening. It’s a massive disaster and it’s hard to identify the helpers right now. But we’re not just sleeping on it.
Thanks for this, and for what you’re doing.
Next are journalists, activists (especially leaders/organizers), political opponents and critics. That’s the classics.
I know lately it’s just a constant stream of man-made horrors overwhelming our comprehension, but holy crap this is…beyond disgusting.
I don’t even know what words to use because these monsters keep pushing their ever more extreme depravity on the world.
Thanks for raising the alarm on this particular point.
Would anyone be surprised to find out that the inverse were true?
… agents with criminal convictions represent sharpest growth in ICE population
ICE is literally Trump’s jobs program for his loyal nazis, fascists, etc.
They should probably have a more identifiable look. Brown shirts and black shirts - maybe too on the nose. Most people know about those, but silver shirts - that’s a deep cut and American.
“Hey Pooty how do you keep replenishing your ranks with vicious, cold, snarling beasts to send at Ukrainian civilians? Oh? What fantastic idea! Yeah? Hehe maybe…what are you wearing? Yeah I’m still sore from last time…”
–Overheard in the Oval Office, probably
I spoke to a Trump supporter who was convinced they would only go after criminals. They were wrong.
But can they recognize that they were wrong?
To a Trump supporter, being Hispanic is a crime in and of itself
There are some who truly didn’t believe. Nieve is the word. They can realize now, but they won’t say anything. They are more worried about being embarrassed than accepting their error.
Naive is the word lol XD Nieves is a Hispanic family name
Don’t be Nieves.
Maybe they’ll start believing when they’re on a flight to a prison in a country they’ve never been in
ETHNIC CLEANSING
The genocidal libs at NPR are a huge part of the problem. Ofc they support the gestapo attacking people with “criminal” records. Also gotta love how their only “humanizing” story is about a priest ffs. That’s how we got here and how we stay here.
NPR has libs? My parents’ generation has called them Nice Polite Republicans ever since I can remember…
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