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Women across Detroit and other U.S. locations, including Virginia and universities in Alabama and South Carolina, have reported receiving racist text messages instructing them to “pick cotton at the nearest plantation.”

The messages, which include threats and references to white supremacist groups, have raised concerns among recipients.

FOX 2 Detroit received multiple reports from affected women, with similar cases reported by news outlets in Atlanta and Virginia.

The source and motive behind these messages remain unclear, with some online speculation suggesting possible foreign interference aimed at sowing division in the U.S.

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[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 3 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

There is always a path towards peace. I admit it may be unclear to me in the present moment but I’ll be searching for it in the coming years.

We certainly don’t need to do anything to accelerate civil conflict, inevitable or not.

[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 35 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

There is always a path towards peace.

I'll try to be polite and simply say this is incredibly naive and ignorant of human history.

admit it may be unclear to me in the present moment but I’ll be searching for it in the coming years.

You do that, while the Kansas National Guard is busy doorkicking for Latinos in New York.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

while the Kansas National Guard is busy doorkicking for Latinos in New York.

... dafuq?

[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 22 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Project 2025 specifically mentions deputizing national guard units from red states to enforce their immigration law nationwide, specifically in blue states where the local LEOs and leadership there are likely to be less cooperative.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Couldn't the blue states then activate their respective National Guard units to prevent this?

[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

National Guard against National Guard isn't a solution, it's an escalation into Civil War II.

Voting trends among cops and military enlisted pretty heavily skew Trump last I checked, regardless of the state's general affiliation. Nightmare scenario is that basically every org structure either defects to red entirely or is sabotaged into operational ineffectiveness by a minority of traitors.

I would not trust anyone in uniform to be on my side as things start to slide.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago

Ahh. I initially read that as if it had already happened. That being in P25 tracks.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I don’t know why you think this is naive. We might not be able to know or actualize the path the peace but that does not mean it isn’t there.

The present danger doesn’t say anything about what is the most effective way to resist or diffuse this danger. Do you think you have the strength of arms to defeat the US military? Now that I would call naive.

[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I think its naive to think that every single armed conflict in history could have been avoided if only certain people had the vision to "take the path of peace," whatever that means in the circumstance. Since peace requires at least two opposing parties, you can also derive it to mean "we would have peace if bad, violent people weren't bad and violent" which is simply a waste of breath and keystrokes to say.

Bad people are bad. Very rarely can we persuade them to be otherwise. Sometimes they have to be fought, because the alternative is to let them abuse and kill you.

I'll give you this, I think the only path to avoiding widespread violence in the near future is a mutual, peaceful secession of blue states. I think that is extremely unlikely given that the GOP has nearly all the cards and I believe is in no spirits to negotiate. And it basically says "fuck you, you're on your own" to vulnerable people in red states.

Do you think you have the strength of arms to defeat the US military? Now that I would call naive.

The most I'm willing to say on a public forum right now is that circumstances will be more complex than you're laying them out as.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I don't fucking care about peace; I care about justice. If the path to justice requires going through conflict, then anybody who says that bullshit you wrote is an enemy of it.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Then you are extremely naive about the horrors and harms a civil war would entail. We should all care.

I don’t agree that justice requires going through war, nor that war is even likely to lead to justice.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works -2 points 3 hours ago

The war already started.