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If you work for the government you are a coward
Does that include teachers and maintenance crew guys?
and a traitor
Every gov. employee who hasn't resigned and every republican is complicit
Howcome nobody shoots back? Y'all have plenty of guns I hear.
If you're wanting a good faith explanation:
The folks who own guns are almost all conservative and live in red states where there is positive sentiment towards ice. The people who are protesting are all left wing and very likely don't own a gun, and bringing a gun to a protest is easily how you make what could be a day of bruises and cuts into a day of bloodshed. I've been to several protests, and the big message is "don't give them any reason to mow down the crowd".
Let's also consider why we don't organize like they do in Paris. You get arrested? Fired from your job. You get fired from your job? There goes your healthcare. There goes your housing. Our resistance is slow, not because we aren't passionate or are too complacent and dumb, it's because the sad fact that sick, starving, and homeless people make for poor resistance, and I doubt anyone wants that fate.
The system we have is against us in ways far more sophisticated than what you deal with in other countries. We are surveilled by are government, controlled by our cops, and sold by our corporations. But we aren't dumb. We aren't weak. We see the hellfire and somehow still go out to do what we can, it's just we are up against the most powerful domestic military force in the world.
Anyway, I gotta go teach children who didn't ask for any of this. I don't know how to keep it together, but somehow they do. If you're in Chicago, I'll see you in the streets. ✊
You've put into words what ive been thinking. I'd love to try and stop our government from fucking over other countries but I don't want to be imprisoned or worse, killed and have nothing change. I and many others never wanted this. We didn't vote for this, and I hate what our country has become.
Live to fight another day. Keep voting for what you believe in. Help your local communities. We can't just throw good people at the problem to die or be in jail. We need those people to help be the solution.
They also have nothing to lose, but i see your point.
Don't worry, fascists around the world are taking notes.
Having been homeless for a hot second, I did have a life I valued to lose.
Thanks, I don't hear any of these arguments in the local news. Seems like 'Land of the Free' is a bit of an overstatement.
Almost like it's propaganda.
I ve been in plenty too. They do not need many reasons to shoot all protesters with AK47. They will shoot everyone and Trump will write smth like foreign agitators started this (this was done many times by rich fuks)
The people with guns support ICE and Trump