Boycott US

If that's what it takes then I'll take it.

His policies have killed millions. Stories of white women being brutalized have always pulled at Americans heart strings. We better learn to use it to our advantage, for the sake of everyone.

this is like the fourth or fifth time ICE has murdered See, I didn't even know about this and I like to think I follow US news quite closely. I must have missed it or my brain shorted out because of the constant flood of awful news coming out of that country.

More that 30 people have died in concentration camps as well.

Camel, straw, back. If this becomes the tipping point so be it

I'm copying and pasting from another thread I posted in just a few hours ago on basically the same thing.

If you're wanting a good faith explanation:

The folks who own guns are almost all conservative and live in red states where there is positive sentiment towards ice. The people who are protesting are all left wing and very likely don't own a gun, and bringing a gun to a protest is easily how you make what could be a day of bruises and cuts into a day of bloodshed. I've been to several protests, and the big message is "don't give them any reason to mow down the crowd".

Let's also consider why we don't organize like they do in Paris. You get arrested? Fired from your job. You get fired from your job? There goes your healthcare. There goes your housing. Our resistance is slow, not because we aren't passionate or are too complacent and dumb, it's because the sad fact that sick, starving, and homeless people make for poor resistance, and I doubt anyone wants that fate.

The system we have is against us in ways far more sophisticated than what you deal with in other countries. We are surveilled by are government, controlled by our cops, and sold by our corporations. But we aren't dumb. We aren't weak. We see the hellfire and somehow still go out to do what we can, it's just we are up against the most powerful domestic military force in the world.

Anyway, I gotta go teach children who didn't ask for any of this. I don't know how to keep it together, but somehow they do. If you're in Chicago, I'll see you in the streets next protest.✊

PS: the kids are alright

Talked to a US coworker today, they are to apathetic to gun violence or any violence that it hasn't registered that the country is sliding into full facism

You already let it. It's already here.

Hard to have a Night of the Long Knives without them and the administration does enjoy that playbook.

eyup. I understood having to control a border but if the payment to do it is this. Then let it go be whatever it will be.

All this bullshit is irrelevant. They shot one of us. In cold blood. Just for being there when they were carrying out their illegal operations. We are all next.

Probably not a lot of “queer devout Christians” out there.

Many, many more than you'd think. Plenty of denominations have no problem with queer people. Even the Catholic church has walked back a lot of their anti-queer messaging in the last decade.

Are you kidding? If an African American person gets murdered by cops on video, we get nationwide protests and a months-long focus on racial reckoning.

But a white queer person gets murdered by cops on video, and suddenly her queerness doesn't matter and is irrelevant? Murder is murder?

In other words, you're saying "all lives matter" as opposed to "queer lives matter"?

Probably the multiple reports describing her wife's reaction to the shooting?

I don't understand why people are getting upset over this particular detail, but it's concerning.