• OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works
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    19 hours ago

    Maybe I’m just mostly in lefty circles, but who the fuck wasn’t mad until Renee Goode and Alex Pretti? I’ve been seeing constant rage against ice for a couple of years now atleast.

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      43 minutes ago

      white middle class people, and then other middle class people. Do you not know anyone in their 40s or older with a family?

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      8 hours ago

      Completely agree, but I think with Goode and Pretti it gave our team a good hand to play. Like, “hey, all you All Lives Matter people. Where ya at?” and with Pretti specifically, it’s like “Hey, all you 2A folk. Where the fuck ya at?”

      I’ve been outraged and outspoken since the beginning, but these two incidents are really heavy hitting cards to play in order to expose hypocritical fascists. Not that it actually matters because these people are brainwashed mental gymists. But I like to think it at least puts cracks in their foundation. It’s caused some amount of infighting, so that’s a step in the right direction.

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      18 hours ago

      No, you’re right, plenty were mad before too. There seems to be a new push lately on trying to make this a race issue to divide the left. I’ve seen a major uptick in this framing lately.

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        7 hours ago

        If someone favors ICE because it’s a “race issue” they were never on our side to begin with.

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          5 hours ago

          You’re right about that! But that’s not what I meant.

          What I mean is there’s a seemingly organized effort to create infighting between those against ICE by attempting to create issues and sow discord. It distracts from the real conversation at hand. It’s a common technique to fracture unity on an issue.