I hope this as well, however I also know that this is an American institution that has made a lot of people very rich and very powerful.

100%. A Fascist’s true power lies in being taken absolutely seriously. Take that away and you can see just how hollow the ground they stand on is.

It’s all been a power flex. ‘I don’t need to do what you tell me and there’s nothing you can do about it.’

I mean…so far we’ve proven them right.

I believe they do care, because they:

A. Don’t want trouble in their own backyards B. Are aware of the lax gun laws in Texas and other red states C. Are all in to ‘punish’ blue states, as well as recon said states for upcoming election intimidation and interference

Based on your comment alone, I urge you to look deeper into history before you make statements like that.

If you need a place to start, read or listen to the book called: The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer

This book tells exactly how this land was stolen from the Native population.

To your point, many lands have indeed been stolen. Just because it has happened many times throughout history doesn’t erase its meaning.

This is so real. Dude lives perpetually in 2010 when most people thought he was Tony Stark, which he makes obvious today with his tantrums when anyone calls him out for what he truly is.

The thing that truly makes me sick about him is how much his buffoonery aids as a cloak to all the other billionaires we don’t know of and don’t talk about.

Ew, why is grandma wearing a vest with the word ‘police’ on it? She’s not a police officer.

And at the very least intimidate them out of voting.

LET THEM OUT!!!

My mind went there too, then I remembered the video from the pink scarf lady and feel like there’s no way they figured out/confirmed who he was before tackling him.

I figure it’s much more likely that it was a matter of odds: by all accounts, Alex was a staunch anti-ICE protester and was out protesting frequently, and with each instance of attendance the odds increased towards a successive altercation with agents. This does not mean he deserved to be harmed and eventually killed.

Edit: sounds like it’s likely the agents actually did know who Alex was, due to video evidence showing another altercation with him minutes before they tackled and killed him.

No no no it’s the Democrats that run child trafficking rings! /s

I’d like to laugh this off but given the timeline we’re in all bets are off and this may be one of the least worst possibilities.

Those that tell you to just ‘get over it/move on’ clearly don’t understand that if it were that easy, you would have done that already. Who wants to live with this kind of pain? Especially when it comes from someone who raised you and was an integral and fundamental part of who you are regardless of whether or not the experience was positive? Idk if you are still in contact with your dad; I cut off contact with my mother ~6 years ago and it was a years long process that included multiple attempts at lowering contact and would always result in me being pulled back into her abusive cycle just to repeat the whole thing over again. It was an incredibly slow burn and it took my partner telling me that I’d never be free of her abuse until I cut the cord permanently. My life has continued to improve ever since.

Your example of everything being ‘perfect’ until it isn’t…absolutely resonates. While my mother never used that word exactly, she too cycled between being excessively complimentary (esp when she was in front of someone she wanted to impress, bc a compliment to me was actually her congratulations to herself) and downright insulting and hateful of whatever I said/did to tap her ire. Anytime I did something that made her look good (in her eyes), of course it was a trait we shared. If it was something she disliked or disagreed with, she would say ‘how are you even my child’ at best and call me nasty names at worst. Because of the whiplash I felt due to this dichotomy, I too felt that her compliments and praise rang hollow and felt completely insincere. In fact, she would actually use praise and compliments against me when she was angry or disappointed in me, because obviously it was an offense to her that I fell short of her expectations of me and demonstrated potential to make her ‘look bad’.

With narcissistic personalities, it is all about perception and control. How they perceive themselves and how they want to be perceived drives most of their control tactics, and it is a game that is set up for them to win always at the expense of anyone else that doesn’t fall in line and ‘get with the program’ to borrow a phrase from my wonderful mother. It is a terminal diagnosis; a narcissist can never be wrong.

Wow, reading your response felt like reading my exact experience growing up and now, except for me the abuser was my mother. I am sorry that you too went through a childhood that left you with so much mistrust, so much pain, and so much resistance and now feel yourself under the thumb again of an all too familiar oppressor (except on a much larger scale). I feel it too, internet stranger. You didn’t deserve that and still don’t, and that also goes for myself and anyone else.

Your comment gave words to feelings I’ve attempted to express but in a much more articulate manner, and I appreciate you for that.

The gaslighting and manipulation we experienced growing up, while horrible and unfair, are the very things that gave us the capacity to recognize the mass psychosis that is a direct result of the oppression and systematic violence that we and our fellow countrymen are experiencing. Under this type of abuse it is hard to understand what is real, what is true, and even what we see and hear. This is by design. We must always hold our truth, and trust it above all else.

I wish you the very best, wonderingwanderer. Thank you for sharing your story.

Yes, he’s the $50k in a bag guy you heard about last summer.

He’s also vocally and ideologically committed to tracking protesters and ICE watch groups, he fully believes that anything they do is obstruction of the law and is all in to come down hard and ‘make famous’ those that get in his way.

Deescalation canceled, Trump started making inflammatory comments to the mayor of Minneapolis this morning. As many others have said, we need to keep the pressure consistent and ever growing until this stops.

What about the 2024 election? Oh wait, it seems that the ‘fraud’ that existed in an election he lost disappeared completely in the next election he barely won.

I think this whole fraud fever dream also exists to serve their campaign to gain complete access to voter rolls under the guise of ‘election security’. I’m sure that sounds obvious, but it’s important to remember.

‘And my billionaire donors!’

‘But not before I throw everyone who works for me in the line of fire!’

“The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.” - Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)

It’s self defense at this point.