This is the answer. ICE is operating by the same rules the Ferguson police were during the 2014 riots, and the George Floyd protests in 2020. They can do whatever the my want up to and including break your door down in the middle of the night and shoot you while you sleep like they did to Breyonna Taylor.
Using guns to move people into the chambers was less traumatic than lining them against the wall and shooting them.
The genocide ended with the victory of the rebels led by Kagame. They were mostly Tutsis.
The armed Tutsis did indeed hit back.
The Nazis built the gas chambers because shooting crowds of women and children was giving their low end grunts PTSD, even the hardcore SS. They needed something where you didn’t have to watch them die.
The founders tried that and look where it got us.
I remind myself all the time that as mad as I may feel, as righteous and justified and endangered, that violence on the level that might change things will fuck up my life and the life of everyone I care about and a whole lot of people I don’t know but don’t deserve it. Are the Cubans better off after the cuban revolution? Maybe, hard to say. Were the Soviets better off after the Russian revolution? Again, hard to say. The French are better off today than they were before the French revolution, but they also got Napoleon right after that.
Things will get worse before they get better.
Getting 2 is generous sometimes.
Nebula has some cozy bedtime stories at I’m pretty sure are not AI.
See a doctor and ask for a sleep study. You might have sleep apnea, or some other condition.
I grew up here, being white doesn’t mean it’s not my culture. I don’t know jack about Mexican cuisine, but Tex Mex is my culture.
I will attempt to say a person’s name how they say it. If they say “call me [simple anglicized name]” then I will do that.
Most people seem to appreciate the effort. I’m sure my American vocals butcher some pronouciations, but I don’t make a big deal out of it and my work gives me a lot of chances to practice. I will always make a good faith attempt at last names.
I live in Texas and will pronounce food names of Mexican origin with a Mexican accent. Burrito, taco, chalupa.
I mean, we think the same of you.
So many people in the west have decided they don’t want security, mutual aid, or really anything that might mitigate suffering.
It seems like we are all gonna have to suffer the consequences of that until they realize how fucked up that is.
I am deeply saddened that we are gonna need a bunch nore Patrick Henries to make this true.
Seem fairly sound and self evident. Obviously there can be disagreements on judgement, but I can’t think of an scenario where the greater evil should not be opposed.
At this point I doubt Jackboots, swasticas, or gas chambers would make a difference.
Take care of your loved ones.
And if wishes were fishes there would be no room in the ocean for water.
You aren’t wrong, but “could” is doing some heavy lifting.
Back during Trump’s first term I would hear people saying “this country is going to fall into civil war” and I told my friends “we are nowhere near a civil war.” Because the conditions were not there. It takes a huge buildup to move people to organized violence. You have to have thousands and in the US case millions or at least 100s of thousands of people willing to kill and die for a cause and we didn’t have that, and still don’t.
But the pandemic came and we saw half the country couldn’t be bothered to wear a mask or get a vaccine to protect their neighbors and the other half saw that outpouring of collective psychopathy and realized that their neighbors were willing to risk their lives and the lives of their family and community to “own the libs” and we moved a step closer.
But you can’t have a civil war like the 1800’s today, there aren’t bright geographical lines of loyalty. I predicted in the Biden administration that we would see a period of rising violence scattered across the country, like bleeding Kansas, but spread all over.
And that is exactly what we are seeing.
We still aren’t at the point where we could fall into civil war, but we are closer every year. Trump is doing his damndest to create the conditions.
I pray we never get that far. Civil wars are the worst short of full on genocide, and they make the big G a whole lot more likely.
According to other headlines they already have IDF soldiers refusing to deploy to Gaza and going to prison instead. The Nazis invented the gas chambers because shooting crowds of civilians was leaving their SS troopers disabled with PTSD. they need to gamify it to provide some psychological cover for their grunts to finish the job.
Judge issues the most reasonable requirement in law enforcement “this act of extreme judicial activism will not stand!”
Hopeing the judge starts issuing arrest warrants. She won’t, but some time behind bars would finally be some consequences.