• FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Even setting aside the possibility that she couldn’t protest Jim Crow for some reason, what about Iraq? The Patriot Act? Not a big deal/not serious enough to protest?

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      4 days ago

      Well, you see we were mad at the terrorists back then. There wasn’t time for nuanced discussion or fancy demonstrations. We had to go out and buy things or the terrorists would have won

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      We could even get more recent than that. What about Palestine? The US doesn’t need to send taxpayer money for the Zionist entity to keep committing atrocities there.

      Given the sign’s contents though, whichever war her “late veteran husband” was fighting in wasn’t enough to protest either?

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        To be fair she is old enough that her husband might have fought the one justifiable conflict the US was ever involved in. But that also means he probably did warcrimes in Korea like my grandfather so yeah…

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        The Palestine observation is the most egregious thing about the whole 50501 thing, eh? I guess it’s fine to go to these protests if there are no pro-Palestine ones in your area, but if there are pro-Palestine protests and you go to the 50501 ones then you’re a lost cause.

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    I am mostly unfoundedly guessing she has been to a ‘protest’, but was the reason the the 101st Airborne had to get involved.

    Mostly an unfounded guess.

    Not entirely.

    Reminds me a lot of my grandma, who watches Bill Maher regularly, and got furious with me when I told her in 2019 that the best possible thing that could happen would be Trump dying of Covid… because the alternative would be a one term, ineffective Democrat, who wouldn’t meaningfully address the growing fascist movement, nor the underlying conditions that fundamentally give rise to it.

    … She asked me to digitally archive a bunch of family photos and records… and I found a bunch of her old diary pages and letters… where she was quite rascist.

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      4 days ago

      please please please americans learn to spot russian propaganda accounts that try to stop you from protesting

      This is also funny given she’s the one engaging in foreign interference from a former Soviet republic… all the Americans complaining about foreign interference probably think you’re the propaganda account

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    Yeah its certainly not a flex, but I’m still glad she’s getting out and involved. I know the bar is in the ground, but it does show some kind of improvement.