• It'sbetterwithbutter@lemmus.org
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    11 hours ago

    America is such a fucking joke it’s no longer funny. I wish we could isolate the rest of the world from your madness but unfortunately we can’t.

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      As a Native American this attitude would be a lot more understandable and palatable if America wasn’t colonized…

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        These immigration raids and terror tactics are terrible on their own, but it’s especially absurd when Native Americans get caught up in it, and it just fully exposes how disingenuous and transparently racist the whole effort is. So I’m sorry that your peoples have to suffer even more because of this racist mindset.

        From a January article:

        ”If you can’t say, ‘we’ve been here for time immemorial,’ then you’re an immigrant. You’re not from here, so who are you to classify our Indigenous people? These lands have been a melting pot for many ethnicities,” Hatathlie [a Native Arizona state Senator] said.

        I heard another more recent example of a car full of Native Americans being pulled over, aggressively questioned, and asked for their papers, but I can’t seem to find it. It’s utterly shameful how we treat people.

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      11 hours ago

      Yeah, keeping our shit to ourselves has never really been our strong suit.

      Sorry :(

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        11 hours ago

        As a Middle Easterner, I genuinely feel sorry for the non maga Americans, but unfortunately that’s your fight to fight.

        Good luck.

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          That’s 5% max.
          The Blue MAGA are just as bad for the world, they only cry now bcs they’re getting a taste of their own shit domestically.

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            Depending on where you live in the world America has been pretty bad for a pretty long time. But I agree under this new technofascist oligarchy it will become a nightmare

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          And fight we do. I’ve considered myself an activist for almost 30 years now. I thought fighting for marriage equality was gonna be hard. I’m really not looking forward to this.

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            The comments are ridiculous.

            People: if ThE cOuNTry sUcks, wHy doN’T aMeRiCAns dO anYthiNG aBOut iT?

            Also people: LoL siLLy aMeRiCAn, AcTiviSm doESn’T wOrk

            We’re damned if we do, damned if we don’t. Keep fighting the good fight. You’ve got a good decade on me, but I see you and I’m right there with you. ✊

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            “And fight we do” LOL

            Unleash the devastating power of the Kumbaya warchant on your little stroll to the streets!
            The regime will crumble before your eyes.

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            Last 30 years of dismantling of civil liberties and it will continue

            But at least gays got to marry ✊