• speckofrust@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 days ago

    Still waiting for US citizens to organize a nationwide strike that doesn’t end until ICE terror ends. What’s it gonna take?

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          6 days ago

          A huge percentage of unions in Minnesota are reporting not being able to pay rent next week.

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        7 days ago

        So fight off the ones that would kick people out and replace the ones that would turn the lights off.

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            6 days ago

            That is the argument everytime they try to tell people not to vote. Which is not only contradictory it’s just delusional.

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            6 days ago

            Yes, exactly, now you get it.

            It’s either that or waiting for the fascists to murder you. So get to it.

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                6 days ago

                I’m not American so I can’t help directly.

                Still, while I obviously can’t write here what I’m doing, I’m confident it qualifies as “me going first”. If we were with more people, we could do more than make the news a couple times per year.

                So… you next?

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      The problem is that most of us that would protest are not in a financial position to do so. If I participate in a work strike, I won’t make the money I need to pay my bills, I’ll be evicted, I’ll go hungry, I won’t be able to feed the family or the pets I will go destitute long before actual change happens. I’m not just making sacrifices, I am making that decision for my whole family. And that’s just the surface level changes. I cannot afford to leave where I am currently. I believe that is all by design and I am not even close to the minority situation.

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        Yeah, its not a viable option for everyone. Clandestine methods are an option.

        In France, they light things on fire.

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        6 days ago

        I guess US citizens are then in a financial situation similar to what US foreign policy has encouraged in several regions of the world.

        Anyone can downvote all they want, but US interventionism has had terrible consequences that most US citizens are not even aware of, yet people push back, they resist, despite much greater poverty than most people in the US have to suffer.

        I’m confident that US citizens can eventually do something concrete against their most recent criminal regime, of which there have been many. We haven’t even yet seen the level of pushback that was mounted during the war on Vietnam, and armed thugs are out there killing your citizens and kidnapping people off the streets.

        I just hope that pushback comes sooner than later because history shows us that people outside the US tend to suffer much more due to US policy than people inside the US.

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    “In the United States of America”.

    The birthplace of freedom and democracy. The beacon of light and justice in the world. So strange that it is happening over there. Who could have seen this coming?

    One could expect this to happen anywhere, but in the United States of America? No way.

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      Even the American left has had their national exceptionalism so deeply ingrained that they cant stop screaming “We’re number 1!” while they are drowning.

      Thats why they were the perfect mark. The idea that it could happen to them was so preposterous.

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        5 days ago

        i have yet to attend a graduation ceremony where someone wasn’t crying because they were getting deported the next day

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      5 days ago

      I really prefer when people write “/s” for sarcasm. With Poe’s Law and all it is virtually impossible to distinguish sarcasm on the written internet.

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        5 days ago

        I know, I usually do.

        But with this I thought it was laid on thick enough so the people who read it as sarcasm read it as sarcasm and the people who don’t deserve to live in confusion.

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    write it on a paper? who doesn’t remember single address without writing it down?

    it is not really the point of the message, but it kinda is…

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      6 days ago

      My wife. She’s hopeless at remembering an address. She can remember every time I forgot to refill the toilet paper though.

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      6 days ago

      They don’t care, they’ll just say whomever they deported were MS13 members engaging in “violent pedophilia”.

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      I was listening to an interview of a progressive in my country. And based from his observation, he mentioned many politicians just don’t care. Like, really don’t care.

      There is a reason as to why politics is said to be where psychopaths coverge, because they want positions of power for power’s sake. So that explains why many politicians really don’t care.

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        5 days ago

        When you have majority of funding through corporations, why will the politicians care about people? If people start lobbying and competing for money, the politicians will start caring

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          Legal bribery aka lobbying needs to be taken out of politics. Money shouldn’t be involved but it is unfortunately. Even the most ‘sacred’ position is now head by a literal businessman

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      They’re not, they’re delivering groceries to their neighbors??? Are we reading the same thing???

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          Well yeah. Who else could you possibly be talking about? Nobody is ruining their own country, that screenshot is about people in a warzone being invaded, not people who are intentionally harming themselves.

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              You blame victims of genocide for their own oppression, and now you’re accusing me of being a bot. This is projection, as you have no humanity yourself.

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                5 days ago

                They were talking about ICE destroying their own country you bumbling fool.

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                  5 days ago

                  ICE doesn’t have a city, they are not people but a legal entity. The individual people who joined ICE are traitors and are thus not American. ICE cannot destroy “their own city.” That doesn’t make any sense.

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    7 days ago

    It’s unbelievable that Minnesota Dems are trying to push though some of the worst gun grabbing legislature of the century. At the time nazis are literally at the front steps.

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    5 days ago

    You could search and replace a few words in Anne Frank’s Diary and make it happen in Minneapolis today.