Wouldn't it be like... Really funny, if that bathroom door was suddenly engulfed in fire while they were going? Wouldn't that be like, super hilarious?
Have you ever had to preemptively prepare and plan to avoid being shot in the streets by immigrants or is it only for immigration enforcement that you have to be careful? If your plan for ICE is to comply with every order to avoid death, does that feel safer?
I'm unsure which view OP holds. To be honest I'm unsure myself.
It doesn't seem right for it to be so black and white, but God damn if I don't have to ignore every piece of experiential evidence I have to hold that view.
That is simply not true. It undersells by a wide margin how much very real danger we are in even if every were to go PERFECTLY from here on out. If capitalism collapsed completely tomorrow and we all were suddenly gay space communists, we would still be in the fight of our (humanity's) lives. A mass extinction has already begun and to stop it requires an insane amount of either energy and unproven tech or massive upscaling of natural regeneration.
We are so far from the edge of the woods we can't see the light between the trunks.
I think you misunderstand. I don't want violent PROTESTS. I want people to get these ghouls in their homes, as should anyone who truly values morality and not just pays lip service to it. But yes we all must choose our own moments of actions.
These people are doing real damage to real peoples lives. Destroying them and preventing that damage is an obvious good. These people will not be reformed. They will not be swayed by moral arguments and logic. They want you to suffer and they want to be the one to cause it.
So you're saying we only need to wait one year until the midterms and if that doesn't work, then all gloves off? Or are you going to tell us to wait then too?
How many passwords, accounts, bills, charges, emails, letters, apps did they receive or use every day? How many minutes of their day were hijacked by advertisements expressly designed to make you feel strong emotions?
Every single person is so intensely overstimulated compared to our ancestors. Even on our days off, we rarely spend time just sitting and relaxing because our capitalistic world demands our labor. When we do relax, usually we are overstimulating with media.
It's not the parents failing to teach their children. It's that this society is SO VASTLY DIFFERENT from what you grew up with or what your parents did and certainly so far removed from what we have experienced for 100,000 years, that our brains are melting trying to make sense of it.
We as a society have failed to implement those consequences. When the government refused, we should have taken up the mantle ourselves. It should be a mark of great virtue to have the head of a CEO mounted over your fireplace.
The only answer is that there is no action you can take that will assure you of that. If you do nothing, it is certain to happen should they succeed. If you do something it is possible that will happen and we succeed in stopping them. Or that we all die in the fires together.
Or we could stop them and you will all live. That's is the best case, but not guaranteed. What do you want to work for? Your family is in danger now. Currently.
Organizing is the only way to protect them. If you do nothing, and it continues on this path, you will not be safe, regardless of your actions. If we can all join together and stop this NOW we can prevent that.
My wife is here on a green card. My employers are as well. Because they are fellow humans, I will die to defend them. I will fight tooth and nail. I will not be cowed by a fat orange blob who diddle kids. I will not be frightened by a mob of egomaniacal imbeciles. Their attempts to emulate fascists of the past is sloppy and will fail if put to any sort of test.
Wouldn't it be like... Really funny, if that bathroom door was suddenly engulfed in fire while they were going? Wouldn't that be like, super hilarious?