politics

If you want to get real about it, the short answer: it's too early.

If you look at every successful ousting of a corrupting party in modern history, it never starts with pitchforks or guns this early. Start too early, and they have a reason to suspend the laws in effect that are slowing them down. In essence, if one of them gets killed, thousands of US citizens are killed, or worse, just to prove a point.

Second, you have to allow them time to erode any popular support they may have. As noted above, going too hard too early gives them a chance to pull a Hitler and do a "SEEEE??? WE NEED TO STOP THEM ALL!!! I WAS RIGHT!". Not the best place to start when something like 30% of the population may be diehard (literally) supporters. Shit will go south for everyone super fast.

Lastly, every element in this group is already doing the hard part for the rest of us: proving they are absolutely incapable of running a country. The more that people see this and come to understand and detach from that alignment is a good thing.

The bad part of all it: it takes time. Just making a dramatic point isn't going to change minds. Allowing these woefully incapable and idiotic pieces of shit to ruin an entire country's lives may unfortunately be what it's going to take before the military folks step away from them, their supporters, businesses, and as much as I fucking hate to say it, his billionaire buddies who all belong in prison right now. They all need to detach from that teat first before any meaningful and drastic movements can be made.

As a US person, all I've wanted to do is kill myself or do something drastic while doing it.

Why haven't I? I don't want my life to be a giant politcal statement. I don't want to be responsible for the millions of people in the US, and the billions around the globe. I don't want to make a mistake and inadvertly ruin my family's life. I'm a 20 year old college student who was naively interested in electronics, only to see the tech industry is just as vile as real life.

I'm scared, I'm anxious, and I'll admit that I'm a massive bitch. I guess I leave this comment behind because I don't know what to do with these feelings, but I know that if I keep playing ignorant and stay silent that things will only get worst.

If this were to happen in England, I'd hope you would all hang them too. But I would understand if you don't, because we're all human, and I'd still like to be empathetic in these very hard times.

we would have hung them all by now.

/c/iamverybadass@lemmy.ca

At this point, if you're not actively fighting fascism, you are part of the problem. No one in America is allowed to sit this one out. It's too late.

Interesting idea but considering that they're not wearing uniforms or badges most of the time how do you know who's ICE?

"I'm sorry, Mr. ICE person, but I don't agree with your lifestyle choices and cannot serve you."

When the time of reckoning comes they'll say "We were just following orders. We're so sorry!"

But right now they say "We're following Trump's orders! America, fuck yeah!"

And they don't think, they don't empathize. They only feel their side of the story.

Well, that kid's mom had tattoos, which makes her part of a criminal gang. If the kid didn't want to be deported, they should have represented themselves in court.

Is a thing that I've legitimately heard reich-wing proto-nazis say.

I feel like doxing ICE agents will become a thing at some point.

Republicans are ghouls.

It gets a bit more complicated when that four year old is a member of tren de agagua.

And that’s the same people who define themselves as pro-life…

They do what the average conservative everywhere does: Convince themselves that most people secretly agree with what they are doing. They truly and honestly believe over two thirds of the country want them to do that.

That's why they keep talking about conspiracies involving someone controlling elections, the government etc. because reality doesn't match up with their views. And they don't think they can be wrong, so they conclude that it has to be some shadow organization that is going against the people.

It's also why they keep talking about themselves as if they are revolutionary fighters going against a great evil.

Deporting the kid contributed to a statistic that they are publicly presenting as positive action, which is allowing them to cling to power. That's it. That is the banality of evil.