Yes. This is literally fascist soldiers invading bordering states and capturing people. This isn’t enforcement, these are barbarian raids, and we need to start responding to them as such.
What we have learned from this is that ALL of the state, county, and municipal police and military assets are entirely useless at actually protecting the people of the state. The are nothing more than public money cash grabs intended to offset the cost of corporate security to the tax payers. They don’t work for us, so lets stop paying for it and replace this shit with something that does.
Thing is, when you “stop paying for it”, you’ll learn quickly what the actual function of those institutions is.
We need to reach a critical mass to where opting out, collectively, does more harm than they’re able or willing to tolerate. I thought for a long time we couldn’t reach it without improving the education system… which requires working within the system… which requires selling your soul, endorsing genocide, etc. But now I’m starting to question that - maybe we can grassroots it after all.
My concern is that the momentum in that direction will be squashed when Democrats inevitably get elected over Republicans (because I don’t think they have the political capital to pull of a coup at this point), as liberals will think they “won” because now the deportations are less in-your-face and the genocide is presented less in terms of “FUCK YEAH GLASS THE DESERT” and instead presented as “well it’s terrible, so terrible, very sad, but Israel is our ally…”
Yeah, I think you are likely right about the outcome here. The sad thing is that the ENTIRE ICE/BP bullshit is literally just Trump trying to beat Biden and Obama’s deportation numbers but being too stupid to do it in a way that doesn’t make it look as horrible as it is, and most of the tools he is using to DO that horrible shit are tools that were put into place by Democratic administrations. The Democrats are no friends to the immigrant and simply shifting to their authority won’t do anything but make it easier for white people to ignore what is happening.
Yes. This is literally fascist soldiers invading bordering states and capturing people. This isn’t enforcement, these are barbarian raids, and we need to start responding to them as such.
What we have learned from this is that ALL of the state, county, and municipal police and military assets are entirely useless at actually protecting the people of the state. The are nothing more than public money cash grabs intended to offset the cost of corporate security to the tax payers. They don’t work for us, so lets stop paying for it and replace this shit with something that does.
ITS like how the nazis were kidnapping “aryan” looking children.
Thing is, when you “stop paying for it”, you’ll learn quickly what the actual function of those institutions is.
We need to reach a critical mass to where opting out, collectively, does more harm than they’re able or willing to tolerate. I thought for a long time we couldn’t reach it without improving the education system… which requires working within the system… which requires selling your soul, endorsing genocide, etc. But now I’m starting to question that - maybe we can grassroots it after all.
My concern is that the momentum in that direction will be squashed when Democrats inevitably get elected over Republicans (because I don’t think they have the political capital to pull of a coup at this point), as liberals will think they “won” because now the deportations are less in-your-face and the genocide is presented less in terms of “FUCK YEAH GLASS THE DESERT” and instead presented as “well it’s terrible, so terrible, very sad, but Israel is our ally…”
Yeah, I think you are likely right about the outcome here. The sad thing is that the ENTIRE ICE/BP bullshit is literally just Trump trying to beat Biden and Obama’s deportation numbers but being too stupid to do it in a way that doesn’t make it look as horrible as it is, and most of the tools he is using to DO that horrible shit are tools that were put into place by Democratic administrations. The Democrats are no friends to the immigrant and simply shifting to their authority won’t do anything but make it easier for white people to ignore what is happening.
I don’t dare fight back because they’d kill me, and then my family would have no income