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And while some of it is fun, the darker truth is still there. We created a world in which our children are play acting running from ICE agents and police and trying not to die or be thrown in forever prisons far away. It seems dystopian until you recall children in WWII Germany did the same thing.
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basically if you do not have an extremely resilient sense of self/theory of mind and a strong willingness to repeatedly impose behavioral rules on the agent, extended interaction with the free tier of chatgpt is designed to make you psychotic. its psycho-affectively akin to licking a car battery
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“liberals made me racist” - OP
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www.motherjones.com/politics/202... The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI – Mother Jones
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most assuredly. when the need to know has passed you will recall every detail
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You can really tell who thinks posting = activism when you see the “keep it peaceful” unsolicited comments and the “just sit down” horseshit. I’ve started blocking them all.
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But Karen Bass says standing on the freeway is violence.
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If I never see another paper bag again, it will be too soon.
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I feel like a zombie. I'm numb, when I can feel anything it is almost always anger. Yes, I got therapy. I have come to understand why and how individual people came to make the choices they did. But I still have such contempt for the "experts" who led people to harm with their minimizing and lies.
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I gave everything to my work, now work is pretty much all I have left. We risked our lives every day and night to save people who were out at bars and restaurants as soon as they could walk again. People who went on to deny that covid even existed, & discouraged other people from getting vaccinated.
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Absolutely. I watched hundreds of people die. For a year I only worked & slept. Then the whole community turned on us, we became villains for recommending vaccination & precautions. I lost practically every relationship that I had. I moved across the country alone. to escape my red state hometown.
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I can't stop thinking about how our entire group agreed in 2020 to take a 20% pay cut for 18 months, to avoid layoffs & have more providers available. Meanwhile these amoral grifters and ghouls were inventing new ways every day to prolong and profit off the suffering we were trying to alleviate.
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I didn’t see my parents for over a year. I saw my adult children once a month, out on the front lawn. I worked 16-hour shifts 5-6 days/week without eating or drinking to preserve PPE.
A year later they had to bring in the National Guard to protect us from visitors who didn’t want to wear a mask.
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Remember how we were working 100+ hours a week in trash bags & homemade face shields, avoiding our own families because we were constantly exposed, and they all kept telling us — “just hold on until we get a vaccine?”
I don’t think I’ll ever get to have another day in my life without feeling anger.
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important detail here: the Guard usually partially fills logistical gaps when deploying on short notice by receiving support from the community—because they’re usually sent to communities that want them there.
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Success! ICE was forced to leave their hotel in the middle of the night after activists located where ICE was staying and surrounded the hotel with a noise demonstration. Hundreds of drivers joined in by blasting their horns as they drove by. Hotel management asked ICE to leave. #NoSleepForICE
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I am crying reading this. I've heard people from all over the metro area and all walks of life talking about the protests this week, and not one of them has said anything even remotely negative. Solidarity and community runs so deep, I feel profoundly blessed to live among the people of Los Angeles.
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love to see it