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6 months ago
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A lot of stories keep coming out about ICE accidentally deporting people that are not criminals. They get sent to El Salvador prisons, even if a judge orders them to be sent back. This is more collateral damage that’s presented as a necessary evil, not dissimilar to what’s happened in Gaza. So far, ICE hasn’t deported any native born citizens, at least not publicly. They really are a sort of modern fascist regime, minus the trains that run to gas chambers. I guess these black hole sites that some immigrants are getting dropped into are like gas chambers, or it’s our version.
What’s particularly spooky to me is some old white people in this country are fine with it. They aren’t afraid of ICE, or unmarked vans or ignoring due process. What’s funny is there’s some brown people that are ok with it too, probably because they’re native born. They really want to live like this, in a country where fascism is normalized. Where a demented obese creep can incite a coup and still get re-elected.
Haven’t heard about any mass shootings lately. They probably found jobs working for ICE. They aren’t as marginalized now, it seems. It’s not “problematic” to be unvaccinated and a bigot.
I have to be honest and say that it’s become harder than ever to hold onto my nonpartisan values. But really I’m thinking I’ve tried to retain them because I don’t have anywhere to land but right in the middle of the fence.
The left wants to mandate vaccines and chip away at gun rights and the right stripped women of their rights and can’t handle a black mermaid. And both of them see things in a reductive, generalizing way, speak ignorantly and lazily and I have been helplessly assimilated. Immigrants are “bad”, cops are “bad”, sex is a “sin”, you’re an “ally” or you’re not.
I have conservative friends, but… I feel like I’m pushing a boulder up a hill, with my opinion of their characters/beliefs getting smothered in waves of awful shit that is happening that they’re either accepting or even happy about. It’s the same internal gut churning struggle I was having with the left during the pandemic, with their draconian mandates with language and identities.
Damn, but why do I care still… is it really just because my body is producing more estrogen or this is just how it is when you’re old and more sensitive… other people suffer, and it goes around and around in my head until I have to write something like this, but that doesn’t make the realization go away. At this point I feel like I might actually vote for the first time, for one of two candidates that nurse from the same tit. I think I’d settle for literally anyone aside from Trump, though. I don’t even care. Bring Putin in. Elect a lawn chair. Anyone that doesn’t look like a melted Halloween candle with a troupe and a protracted anus for a mouth.
What’s particularly spooky to me is some old white people in this country are fine with it. They aren’t afraid of ICE, or unmarked vans or ignoring due process. What’s funny is there’s some brown people that are ok with it too, probably because they’re native born. They really want to live like this, in a country where fascism is normalized. Where a demented obese creep can incite a coup and still get re-elected.
Haven’t heard about any mass shootings lately. They probably found jobs working for ICE. They aren’t as marginalized now, it seems. It’s not “problematic” to be unvaccinated and a bigot.
I have to be honest and say that it’s become harder than ever to hold onto my nonpartisan values. But really I’m thinking I’ve tried to retain them because I don’t have anywhere to land but right in the middle of the fence.
The left wants to mandate vaccines and chip away at gun rights and the right stripped women of their rights and can’t handle a black mermaid. And both of them see things in a reductive, generalizing way, speak ignorantly and lazily and I have been helplessly assimilated. Immigrants are “bad”, cops are “bad”, sex is a “sin”, you’re an “ally” or you’re not.
I have conservative friends, but… I feel like I’m pushing a boulder up a hill, with my opinion of their characters/beliefs getting smothered in waves of awful shit that is happening that they’re either accepting or even happy about. It’s the same internal gut churning struggle I was having with the left during the pandemic, with their draconian mandates with language and identities.
Damn, but why do I care still… is it really just because my body is producing more estrogen or this is just how it is when you’re old and more sensitive… other people suffer, and it goes around and around in my head until I have to write something like this, but that doesn’t make the realization go away. At this point I feel like I might actually vote for the first time, for one of two candidates that nurse from the same tit. I think I’d settle for literally anyone aside from Trump, though. I don’t even care. Bring Putin in. Elect a lawn chair. Anyone that doesn’t look like a melted Halloween candle with a troupe and a protracted anus for a mouth.
Putin definitely isn't better. But Galen, authoritarianism is like that, it trying to suck out all your empathy, made you amorphous. You just felling normal emotions, empathy, care. That's tell me that you are a normal person. Be against, not always meaning to fully join a side. It's normal to get ally with side you didn't appreciate but for the short period. Trump needs to be brought down by impeachment. He will of course grab the podium with his blue hands with the help of Vice President mr. tampon, but usually people don't return to politics from impeachment, unless they're riding a tank and have half the army and police behind them. And no one will lay their head on the ground for a decrepit talking anus.
galenpepys
~galenpepys
OP
That is how I’m feeling, like I’m tired of his antics and I would settle for any alternative. Every Republican leader in my adult life infuriates citizens with the policy choices they make.
FuzNuff
~fuznuff
The problem is a complete and utter lack of due process. I've already seen a case where a natural born citizen, who was born of immigrant parents, had his birth certificate but was ignored, detained, and slated to be deported by ICE. These are just the ones we know about; the tip of the iceberg often hides the mass underneath. If you don't look white and you disagree with something, they can just whisk you away without a trial, and you'll never be heard from again.
galenpepys
~galenpepys
OP
That’s bonkers. A native born citizen? Haven’t heard of that until now.
