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13 days agoI never forget the pink triangles. Nor have I forgotten about the stars. Fuck Nazis.
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31·29 days agoGod damn, good catch! Wishing you the best of luck in your recovery and your remission.
I feel you friend, sounds like you’re a couple rungs lower than me on the “they came for them” scale but the vitriol towards trans people let’s me know I’m not too far behind. Last time this ideology crept up people like me got a state sponsored shower.
I’m searching for a way out while building community within my community. I only preach on lemmy when I’m taking care of loved ones, otherwise I’m out doing what I can.
These things are pretty simple, two people talking. It takes a small amount of community interest not a big legal challenge or tons of petitioning. From my experience big cities are different but in small municipalities it is basically sharing a comment but you’ll have to look up your specifics.
Someone standing up and saying, “Hey, it’d be really cool if we were able to plow the sidewalks and paths so we can walk around the city when it snows.” can plant ideas. Nothing ever gets done in a day and it probably won’t be within the next 2 years but getting the ball moving now is the best way to see change in a decade.
And on the not getting deported thing, get outside and talk to people like… It’s cliche as fuck but get to know your neighbors. Walk your pet rock if it’s awkward to hang out without something to do. Say hi to people, compliment their work and expression, ask them about themselves. Then like go your separate ways, maybe you’ll see them again maybe not. But doing that over and over helps you meet people. That’s the start of your network and eventually your resistance. It’s how you build community and community is how we keep us safe, not letting our fear rule us and telling strangers on the Internet to die. It’s having trust in the goodness of others and that means showing goodness to others.
But like you do you mate, the Internet is here for you to share your anger, pretty sure that what it was designed for, I could be wrong.
Sounds like your city has different, in my opinion unfortunate, priorities. You could change that. It’s pretty cool having a city council that matches priorities with you. I’ve also lived in a number of small towns (~6000 pop.) that plow sidewalks and rec paths along with the roads. Being able to walk around town makes it super easy to go out and do winter activities or just pop down to a restaurant and pick up some food, or get to work without sliding everywhere.
Quick edit: My anecdote isn’t about riding around a single town or city, it’s riding the 7-14 miles between multiple cities at my pleasure or more often to commute to work at a grocery store.
Cold is not an issue if you wear this cool new things I’ve invented. It’s called a jacket! 🧥
But seriously I used to ride my bike to work in a ski town in Colorado throughout the winter. The county plows the bike paths and sidewalks along with the roads. Walking and riding all winter long is no problem on skinny road bike tires. If winter makes it impossible to ride around town that is not a winter problem it’s a priorities problem.
It’s not illegal for everyone because not everyone holds a public office… It is however already completely illegal for anyone holding a government job.
Proud boys etc are probably working for ICE now. But I guess that’s what you were hinting at.
Yeah this is what I was going for. It sure feels right. Fascists love strong central control, I can’t imagine Proud Boys leadership didn’t jump on being an official part of the US government’s internal secret police. And if leadership jumped on board I can’t imagine anyone being like, “I can get paid to hang out with my bros and assault minorities and lefties? I’m out!” Like they were already doing that but now it’s all official and represents the stance and will of our federal government. Neat.
I mean it should be when the police are acting like a violent gang terrorizing entire cities, kidnapping people in broad daylight, and murdering dissenters in the streets.
I wonder why I never hear about the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Q-anon, Patriot Front, or other openly fascist groups these days? Hmmm… Strange.
They also don’t look official in any capacity. They look like larpers at an airsoft event… Except that they’re coming to kill us at behest of the federal government.
They’ll make up any excuse. This one is bullshit like the rest but this excuse is one that has been the law since 1791. People seem to really care about it and previous SCOTUSs have made very clear that no laws can infringe on that even when it’s to prevent harm.
I feel so funny on this because I want to defend a right under attack by the rump admin but also it’s a right I want limited in many ways… Just not right now.
Haha, you joke! This is CBS we’re talking about! They’ll do exactly as the regime desires because that’s what they’ve been doing for at least the past two months.
The rump admin is full of people who studied the Nazis. They took notes on how to use a radical minority to take over the country.
My friend, when I was 22 I didn’t make enough to pay taxes. You’re getting downvoted because you’re defensive, aggro, and misunderstanding the premise.
Very few people on Lemmy believe you’re actually stupid because you’re young. Often times just uninformed and, per your example, impulsive. “Young=naive” tends to be a regressive position. I think you’ll find Lemmy is typically a progressive website. Most of us left reddit over ideological/enshitification differences not because we were too radically right. .ml is among the exceptions.
Anyway the premise isn’t 22 year olds are too dumb to worry about taxes.
Instead the premise is that you’re too poor to worry about taxes. That’s not to say you can’t or shouldn’t but you likely won’t have anything worth taxing at that age. If you do have things worth taxing that young you either have inherited well, I’m sorry for your loss, or you are offspring of the 1%-0.0001% and were born with a silver spoon. Otherwise you’re the lowest on the totem pole and it’s been proven throughout the millennials growing up that you’re not going to get ahead if the status quo remains as it is. In theory you should be looking for the most radical change because you’ll see the greatest benefit over your lifetime.
Anyway my friend, chill, touch grass and have a lovely day.
And when it comes time to worry about taxes worth less about how much you’re paying and instead what you’re getting out of it. Paying taxes is pretty sweet when you get stuff in return like healthcare, schools, parks, places to get out and do things that don’t cost money, transit investment, bridges that don’t fall down. Taxes only such when you can’t see the impact it has in your life…like this moment in history right now where the rich own the government and want more money from us to improve their lives.
Here you go mate, the video I promised. By the YouTuber CivDiv.
It’s an hour long and pretty damn good. It’s probably the best video I’ve seen discussing an individuals reasons for fighting.
I also found a number of other articles and videos and a study which I’ll link to as well.
https://www.rferl.org/a/former-us-green-beret-iraq-afghanistan-ukraine-/32469454.html
Ukraine has offered those volunteers citizenship. Maybe they won’t be able to return to the US but many won’t want to. There is fellowship to be found in war. You fight and die with those around you, you live with that fellowship. People, like me, who don’t go through that will NEVER understand.
When there is peace, as eventually there will be regardless of how long that takes, Ukraine or whatever country is there will have many veterans. They’ll have to reckon with the horrors of war, what they did and what was done to them. But they will be able to do it together.
Some will go off and fight in other wars.
Most will try to rebuild their country and themselves with it. Whether they were born in Ukraine or chose to fight for her. Many will stay because all their friendships, built over years of war, are there. They will have the respect of the general populace (look at how the US treated WWI & WWII vets) and will be glorified for their sacrifices.
But it’s not about glory, those who fight for glory give up, it’s a common theme throughout history. Ukraine isn’t fighting because they want to. It’s a fight for survival.
At first I thought you were a troll for the sake of being contrarian. But it seems like you’re coming from a place of genuine interest. So let me ask you a question: What would you fight for?
Family, friends, territory, honor, a lover? What would cause you to drop everything and go off to war? If the answer is nothing you might want to evaluate that. Maybe you’re a Ghandi devoted to nonviolence but I’d argue even Ghandi fought a war. He marched across his country and was tortured for his efforts.
While you think I’m going to find a video someone made on YouTube, a kid who went to Ukraine to fight. Kid is a bit of a funny term, he must be approaching or in his 30s now if he’s still alive. But he went off to Iraq with the US and was quickly disillusioned, then fought in Afghanistan as a volunteer for the Kurds. Now he’s in Ukraine. He has an interesting tale and an interesting perspective and his own reason for fighting. I’d try to sum it up but I’ll find the video and let him explain.
Always has been unless there are specific sanctions. The French have a whole foreign born legion. It’s pretty famous.
The usual offer is fight for us and become a citizen. The US even has allowances for foreign volunteers although it’s pretty strict from my understanding and we tend to renege on the deal and conveniently ICE them before having to reward them with anything.
Our news literally moved online to blogs and YouTube like 6 or more years ago. You want in depth well researched journalism? You have outfits like Unicorn Riot, War on the Rocks, and Propublica or you have a YouTuber who has a special interest for a particular subject.
If you want to know what is happening right now it’s social media.
If you want to feel emotions while trying to forget about your ever growing medical bills and just want a victim to blame, you go to cable entertainment news networks like The First (which, as a tangent, was last week, promoting the idea that Somalians were genetically incapable of living in a democracy), Newsmax, Fox, CNN or some other ragebait.
It’s fucked up. I don’t know how to save us. So many people live with blinders on because, “Well, it doesn’t affect me!” I’m just here having panic attacks watching them come for other minorities, waiting for them to come for me. I’ll fight harder once my family obligations are over but right now it’s just a giant shit burger.
Back in my day we used to call it “searching”