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Can they just stop?

"Sometimes, someone posts an angry response to some terrible opinion I've never heard before, and it's a weird indirect way to learn how awful their other friends must be."

Reminds me of when I was called The Real Fascist™ by the CEO of centrist liberalism themself @lemmy.world

What made them mad:

"Man I'm not happy with Biden winning the nomination. I wish I was Bernie."

"Well we can get Trump out of office and then you can push him to the left."

"Fair enough, a moldy ham sandwich is better than Trump. Biden can string words together so that's possible."

[One presidential election and mid-term later.]

"So Biden hasn't pushed Congress on most of his campaign promises, and he's enabled racist policies Trump wanted to try and win moderates. No abortion, no DREAMers, no minimum wage increases, no queer protection, but they can find time to ban hoodies in Congress. Not to mention ignoring voters who care about Ukraine and Palestine. It feels like Biden isn't great for Americans, he's just slightly better than Trump."

"Why are you so anti-Biden? Are you some kind of fake leftist or a Russian agent pretending to be American?"

"No? I'm trying to push him left. I'm saying he's not doing things for most of the people who voted for him to be better. His biggest actions are done by appointments, by him to the FTC and FCC. Not a lot of bills passed."

"I think you just hate what Democracy is, he's not a king."

"Right. But Republicans can pass without issue, and Democrats want to work with them instead of getting progressive voters."

"You're biased and nitpicking, so I win."

I'm from the USA. I'm looking for a poster/infographic about how to assist undocumented migrants from deportation, including harboring them in your home and how to address immigration officials if they show up at your home or workplace.

I saw this a few years ago, and I'm pretty sure it was shared several times in the comment threads on r/LateStageCapitalism (but I'm not 100% positive if that's the correct subreddit). Regardless, I feel sure I saved the link a reddit account that no longer exists. Why I wouldn't have also bookmarked it? I don't know.

I've tried searching reddit, using search engines to search reddit, searching tumblr tags via findtags.tumblr.com, and even paging through related zines I have bookmarked. Nothing.

I'd much appreciate having this so I can share it with people in my community. If one doesn't exist, I supposed that I could make one, but my graphical skills are basically nonexistent, so it would probably be text only.

If I could find the original resource, I'd much appreciate it. If you don't feel like commenting in the thread, feel free to DM me.

Many thanks!

Even if you disagree with them, Trotskyists are not tankies, simple Marxists aren't tankies, leftists curious and exploring different theories aren't tankies, and ffs anarchists like myself are not tankies.

I feel like "tankie" indicated a very specific worldview at one time, but it's been used lately a lot to mean things like "doesn't agree with nations supporting oppression and inequity up to and including genocide" -- which is drastically at odds with how I've seen the term used in the past, no?

Worth noting I encountered these liberal apologists within MONTHS of Biden taking office. The very day it came to light that he was opening even more concentration camps, there were liberal Democrats crawling all over reddit, tumblr, and twitter to explain why this was good ackshually.

Side note: Never listen when they say "now's not the time to talk about this in an election year." That's a red flag that alerts you that you can safely discard anything else they say after that. They were saying that already in 2021.

CODEPINK Inland Empire member Rachael O'Neill explained, "We reject business as usual as the Israeli government carries out a genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, all with the unconditional support of the Biden/Harris administration. We took this action today to put pressure on the administration to back up their words with actions: stop arming Israel and support a permanent ceasefire resolution at the UN."

It kinda sucks that Trump got convicted of 34 felonies because now I'm seeing so many people thinking felon = bad, when in fact convicted felons are disproportionately people of color who were convicted for things that shouldn't be crimes at all such as drugs, or based on the thinnest of evidence by strongly biased juries.

Look up Fontae Buelow for one obvious example -- all white jury, the corrupt judge dismissed a dissenting juror, the same corrupt judge was appointed to the retrial, and the more you look into this case, the more obvious it is this man is not guilty.

That's just one example. This happens all across the US, over and over again -- people stripped of their rights, denied justice. I was in jail in a community that was 75% white, but nearly every person in my cell besides me was Native, Hispanic, or Black. This is typical of any jail or prison in nearly any location in the US, because our institutions were deliberately created to do this.

And yes, I'm glad Trump got at least a taste of our "justice" system, and I'm not trying to rain on anyone's parade here -- but the main takeaway here should NOT be that felons are bad people who are undeserving of equity. Trump is a bad person whether he's a felon or not, and many felons are good people -- and even if they're NOT good people, they're still people worthy of regard and basic respect, worthy to be treated as fellow humans who are equals.

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"It's so hard not to kill brown kids, you just don't understand"

Just awful and dehumanizing to the people being murdered by Biden and Israel

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The really bad news for USAmericans is that our current president supports this.