PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]

Richest country on the fucking planet yet we can’t won’t pay ATC 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦

And people wonder why I don’t go outside

Well I don’t literally agree, but that’s a more relatable perspective 😆

Depends on what’s outside. Is it a five-hundred foot drop? Would I rather burn to death or die on the pavement?

I’m saying it’s just not bad enough yet.

Yeah it’s not bad enough yet for me. I’m openly saying it. And that doesn’t make me morally inferior or worthy of your scorn.

I think you would have a better chance getting on a plane

Stowaways using die after takeoff. Only since literally yesterday have I ever had enough spare money to buy a plane ticket. At this point, I’m probably gonna try and do a semester abroad (or ideally forever), but no guarantees 🤞.

or swimming across the ocean

Absolutely zero chance I would make it to the other side of the Atlantic. A more realistic option is swimming across one of the rivers or sneaking through the Canadian border. Which…

in order to establish a life as an illegal alien in another country…

Yeah almost every other country treats undocumented migrants like shit because every country has xenophobic bigots and every government serves its local capitalists, so not much of an improvement.

What it really breaks down to is that people who live in Tennessee do not feel the risk of spending 30 days in jail for posting something disagreeable on the Internet is enough reason to leave Tennessee.

Yes exactly! Emphasis on risk, i.e. we assume a probability distribution and roll the dice. IMO the alternatives you proposed have less favorable distributions for me than remaining here, but I recognize that (1) everyone has their own situation and (2) humans are trash at assigning probabilities so I could be wrong. But you’re not morally superior (or inferior) for choosing not to roll that specific dice.

Like I’ve been looking to leave this country for over 15 years. I absolutely HATE Amerikkka and everything it stands for, and I have hated Amerikkka since long before Trump. If I could have left, I would have left. So I beg you to understand that just because I remain here doesn’t mean I approve of even the tiniest sliver of what this country does to us and the rest of the world.

We no longer live in a country where we can justify staying in a location because we don’t have money to move or we have family and friends we don’t want to lose.

Read: We no longer live in a country where we can appeal to material reality to determine whether or not it makes sense to stay here.

I’d be on a flight out this shithole right fucking now if I thought I had a serious chance of surviving in literally any other country, but I simply don’t have the money, connections, social skills, or practical skills to do it. I barely even have them here!

Yeah I basically agree with you here about your comrades based on the information you have given me, but the thing is you’re implicitly conditioning your judgement of your comrades on their behavior after their K tours, I was implicitly (and now explicitly) conditioning my judgement about Platner on his four tours and Blackwater employment plus his behavior after that. Like I know people can change, IMO that is the thesis of my worldview, but Platner has not provided sufficient evidence that he has changed for the better. Furthermore, someone doing K > 1 tours is not just an ordinary evil thing, it’s an incredibly evil thing, so forgive me if it takes a lot lot lot of good to be done before I start to consider their debt to humanity paid off.

The four tours and Blackwater employment made him a Nazi before his tattoos did 😮‍💨

Yeah I’m not saying that as a cheeky comparison, I’m saying antifascists should literally actually do that

I don’t blame Presidents acting in their own best interests

Wtf of course I blame Presidents for acting in their own best interests when those interests are fascist!

Yeah they kinda all do. Amerikkka never was a democracy.

Yes exactly. Is the decline of Amerikkkan Empire supposed to be a bad thing?

Antifa should be sent to hunt GOP candidates 😆

But they do suck. Two things can be true at once!

More concretely: every president since forever has supported the creep of executive power, in particular Genocide Joe and Drone-bama. They allowed this shit to happen.

I’m with you, but you know you can let those fucking swears fly, right? 🙂

Edit: okay almost missed it, one nitpick:

killing people without adequate process

Nah I actually don’t think the US government should be killing people even with due process. Literally the last people in all of history so far that I want to be given power over life and death.

I mean that would actually be cool

I don’t approve of it, but I don’t really care if he tears it down. Actually, I think the whole White House should be torn down, preferably with Trump and all his friends inside it.

What I oppose is him using tax dollars for this ballroom that none of his subjects will ever be allowed to use or get utility from. Plus the literally everything else he’s ever done 😆

Protest is the first step towards doing stuff. Obviously I’d love to see more…radical…stuff, but protesting in front of ICE is better than nothing on such short notice.

I don’t know a single person that “advocates for illegal aliens to resist”.

Well now you know one. Fuck ICE and fuck anyone who works with them.

I don’t even know anyone on any side that is against deporting illegal immigrants.

Anarcho-communist here. I’m against deporting undocumented migrants. Any actual leftist worth a damn will agree with me here.