- cross-posted to:
- news@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- news@lemmy.world
I don’t even know what else to add to this headline. This is so fucked up and tragic scary and infuriating and it will in no way slow the resistance.
I don’t even know what else to add to this headline. This is so fucked up and tragic scary and infuriating and it will in no way slow the resistance.
Ahhhh yes it’s actually our fault! How silly of us! I live in rural Arkansas without enough money to buy gas to get to Minnesota, so please do tell what you expect me to do.
Inform people what happened, explain to the ones that you know will listen and understand how as welly why it’s wrong. How ICE is serving as an internal terror organization within this country. Not everyone can go out shooting but make a meal for those who do kinda thing.
What makes you think I don’t do all of those things? I’m just not out killing people and then dying myself so what’s the fucking point right? Blood for the blood god!
All of this is happening in the most armed country in the world and there has yet been a single major incident where people have been shot by activists, as far as I’m aware. No Kyle Rittenhouse style incident, no crazed lone gun man shooting ICE officers, no tense standoffs between police and armed demonstrators gone awry.
Being on the receiving end of the opposition to Trump is safer than attending an American school.
It’s not that you should be going in to the streets killing people at random. Violence should be avoided if possible. But it’s odd that things are so peaceful in such a violent country. There is no smoke, thus it’s hard to believe there’s a fire.
If Trump feared the opposition, there would be mass arrests on bogus domestic terrorism charges – violence or not.
I read Judge Karen Immergut’s final ruling in early November that blocked the National Guard from remaining in Portland. Its main point was that the violence they were sent to Portland to quell did not exist in reality.
In other words, Portland avoiding violent resistance allowed the judge to kick out the National Guard. The courts are holding, and so is the military. It’s taking time, but they are not all going along with this, and both the judiciary and the military are required for a successful coup. In reality he’s losing power faster than he can consolidate it.
Don’t be blinded by single events. That’s what they want. If you do not want a fucking occupation of your city based on the lie that they are there to quell violence, then violence is not the correct response at this point.
Given that avoiding midterms altogether is the entire point of all this escalation – Venezuela, ICE murdering citizens, all of it – I will not judge anyone sane enough to avoid it for now.
I suggest you do the same. By which I mean “Violence should be avoided, but . . .” is not actually an anti-violence statement.
Aw yes. The only things that can be done are only in Minnesota.
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anything you can, with anyone else who will. you want to know what doesn’t help? doing nothing.
So many people act like it’s no big deal to start a violent revolution against the most militarized government in history and it’s fucking absurd.
not at all. but what it is, is necessary.
i know it’s fucking crazy, but here we are. America has been taken over by fascists. They are not just going to leave. The suffering, for not just America but the world, will only get worse until the American public, the State governments, the military, do what needs to be done.
I’m sorry that America is at the point of Civil War, but it is. That fact isn’t just going to go away. No one is coming to save America.
I honestly think, deep down, most Americans know this. But the reality of it, the shock of it, is just too great. The cognitive dissonance is too overwhelming.
WRONG. Becoming violent at this point is the single most idiotic, stupid thing we could do right now.
That’s what this escalation is designed to provoke.
Do you really think the US government does not know how to deal with violent protests? It’s what they want.
sure bud. good luck hugging your way to freedom while ppl die.
we all recall how historically fascism was defeated through hugs and jokes.
Nice try, tell that to Gandhi. There is a time and place for violence. This is not yet it. And Europeans were not the only ones who bled to free the world of fascism; you say that like you have a monopoly on it while I lost multiple members of my family to WWII. I don’t have to push others into battle to satisfy my insecurity.
But what’s really interesting is that you clearly have no understanding of this city, or what Minneapolis went through almost six years ago: this is not new territory.
Yet if you’re convinced that violence truly is the answer, tell me what time your plane lands in Minneapolis and I’ll meet you. I won’t hold my breath: it’s not like you have any real interest in being anything but a keyboard larper.
EDITED TO ADD: I took a look at your post history. Here’s your recent post in /c/FuckTheUSA@lemmy.ca: “Everything about America is a lie. all of it. a lawless nation of slaves, cowards and fascists.” If that’s all we are, then why are you even here, other than to jack off over what’s going on here?
Americans need to save America, not me, so don’t pass the buck.
i would take you doing fucking ANYTHING useful, like a mass strike to shut down the economy. you don’t do shit except wear chicken outfits while they kill you.
your country is a joke. a nation of slaves, cowards and fascists.
It’s not your fight. Didn’t you just say that? It’s not yours to take or not take. It’s nothing to do with you at all.
But it’s such a joke you can’t tear yourself away from any mention of it. It’s such a joke that we’re all you post about. You even post in “Fuck the USA” communities.
Yeah, we suck so bad and we’re such a joke, but WE OWN YOUR HEAD, lol. Rent free!