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Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case has me fucked up. (hexbear.net)
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I don't even know what to really say about it. Truth be told I was kind of numb when the first migrants where shipped off to CECOT and GITMO, which is bad on my part, maybe it was a coping mechanism idk. But this guy's harrowing case, the case of all these migrants that did nothing wrong outside of crossing a stupid line in the sand for the hopes of finding a better life, has me despairing even harder than usual. I just keep thinking about this all day and I feel guilty that my stupid first world white ass is free and allowed to partake in the empire's treats while these people are sent off to concentration camps, probably to die.

I know this should radicalize me even further and strengthen my resolve to be a better leftist but I just catch myself like slipping into nihilism that it's all futile and the bad guys have won.

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[–] SmunchBucket@hexbear.net 19 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Same. Watching from my shitty apartment as the country collapses and turns to fascism, drinking too much every day, it must be a similar feeling to how russians felt watching their country get the shock doctrine treatment after the collapse of the USSR.

I think putin has been trying to engineer payback to America for that since then. And its working. Good for him, america deserves to feel at least some of the pain it has inflicted abroad. And putin and china being able to manipulate america because their education included marxist perspectives while american elites just fucking made up ideologies to justify their decadence is very satisfying. Marxism wins again.

[–] someone@hexbear.net 41 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think putin has been trying to engineer payback to America for that since then.

It's not really "engineering" when all he had to do is sit back and let America destroy itself by being so very, very American.

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 22 points 5 days ago

If only the russiagaters actually grappled with the fall of the USSR and Yeltsin then they'd have a far more coherent perspective.