Sarah Valentine (she/her)

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I appreciate your sentiment, but Ilhan Omar’s “sudden wealth” is entirely attributable to her marrying a wealthy guy. That’s it, that explains it all. She married well. The right is only making a stink out of it because their camp is full of people too stupid and hateful for the truth to matter.

Oh the people are doing just fine. It’s the people they elected who are doing fuck-all and I’m tired of them letting the federal government tread on their constituents.

Both parties pretend that law enforcement is under democratic control. It is not.

There are options.

Which, if anything, is evidence the police should have been fired and the whole system retooled a long time ago.

I’ll stop beating around the bush and just say it: I know why dems won’t stand up to MAGA no matter what ICE does to their constituents. It’s because they’re as greedy and authoritarian as the rest, just wearing a mask of civility and wielding softer power. They’re letting it happen because they will find a way to enrich themselves regardless.

ICE didn’t teleport into the state. They’re not all standing in the same place at the same time. There are options. I mean, other than flopping on the floor and going “NOOOOO” like Stewart on Mad TV.

I got news for ya: the martial law and brutal oppression of all American people is inevitable if MAGA isn’t stopped. It’s not a matter of them only doing it if we get out of hand. Every day is another step they take toward the goal of total subjugation.

When is one of these state governors going to just straight up say “what ICE is doing is illegal and unconstitutional. we won’t let you do this. leave now or be shot on sight by real law enforcement”? Just going “nooo, please don’t do thiiiiis” while armed masked thugs kill people in your streets isn’t doing shit to people who don’t care about the law and think they’ll always be in power.

Interesting! I wonder what history has to say about appeasing tyrants, and how it worked out in the past.

Your friends are still here, but they’re not in charge. Violent, armed bullies have taken over and are driving this country - with the rest of us in it - off a cliff. They aren’t just invading Greenland, they’re invading us. Our homes, our schools, our workplaces, our courts, all invaded. The authorities we armed and entrusted to uphold the law have seen their opportunity to go mask-off and support fascism. Your friends here are outclassed, outgunned, and oppressed.

Remember that America isn’t a monolith. If you were to put a bullet in the head of every US soldier to set foot on Greenland, we will celebrate your victory. Because we care about humanity, and our armed forces have given theirs up to fulfill a hateful dream. They’ve made their decision and deserve whatever’s coming to them.

I hope you understand that this take puts you in the company of tyrants and fascists, including the Nazis. Your hate is no better than their hate.

Right here: “USA as a country is our enemy now, not just the GOP. So in that way it is actually all Americans.”

Backpedaling later in your comment doesn’t fix this awful take.

Right. And it’s not like I’m doing nothing about it. I’m not a fighter, I’m a healer. I’m staying in school, enduring a shitty situation in a shitty country so that when the survivors turn up traumatized, I will be there to help them recover. Meanwhile I do what I can to arm my fellow Americans with knowledge of psychological theory - the biases and weaknesses of the human mind, how corporations and governments exploit this knowledge to empower themselves against us, and how we can strengthen our minds to resist them. That’s what I’m about, and I’m not going to let a diaper-shitting pedophile and his plans for world domination turn me into something I’m not.

I think it’s really awful that you’re telling Americans to either get themselves killed by the tyrant or be treated as supporters of the tyrant. Just awful.

You know who else was into collective punishment?

Occasional problems? The entirety of human history up to the 16th century, just had occasional problems? Come on, now. All the popsci essays in the world aren’t going to make me buy that take.

Cooperation isn’t a good thing in and of itself. People can have all sorts of reasons for cooperating, such as in the case of kapos in Nazi Germany. I wish human beings were mutually beneficial in nature because I was raised on Star Trek and dreamed of mankind advancing toward a utopian society. However, reality tells a different story. We have a long way to go yet.