Any and all of us can be disappeared by the regime. I hope that people really understand this. This is the time on the fascist clock we're currently on.
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I was speaking with a friend about this a few weeks ago. Guantanamo was a test run. El Salvador is cheaper and outside the bounds of any review at all.
I thought of this also. There was a profitable industry in abducting free Black people and enslaving them. This, too, while inspired by malice, will be driven by profit.
Indeed, they are vicious. Some cops, at least, police communities to which they have some connection. ICE/CBP do not police "their" people. Ever. They have zero incentive to self-regulate. Think about what sort of person is attracted to that job.
I've been thinking about this everyday The state can just declare any of us persona non grata and disappear us not necessarily in that order and do whatever they want with us and none of it would be good
And yet, many folks still are sitting at home doing nothing.
It gets easier every day to see how the Nazis rose to power. I will emerge from this a different person. I am already different now than I was even two months ago.
Unfortunate many won't care until it's their family taken.
I think about this a lot and I also have spent the past 10 years reading a lot about brain research and it's really helped me to understand human behavior. People are feeling really uncertain right now.
Imagine you are familiar with the Bystander Effect. We've got to work on short circuiting that by saying and doing something everytime we see something. That doesn't mean acting crazy and bringing even more danger into a space, but it does mean being fluent in tools and tactics to counter stasis.
I saw someone say that if someone speaks up during a town hall and they get escorted out, stand up. And if more people get escorted out, EVERYONE should stand up and leave.
Something I have a lot of experience with is usually having to be the first in my group to speak up. But I found others 1/2
Uncertainty can provoke fear and fear is an ingrained survival mechanism that takes priority over our brain’s other functions. When humans feel as though we cannot control a scary or painful situation, we often just give up and want to hide. Being afraid can have you turn inwards seeking protection
If I'm anyone on this spectrum, it's this. I donate, but I'm Black, brown, queer, and afraid. I post enough about Palestine that I would have been thrown in an Israeli military prison ages ago. I could be disappeared and my own senator Chuck Schumer would denounce my "antisemitism."
And I think we're seeing this play out at scale. I also think that some people don't think they will be impacted by what's happening and they may be right. I happen to think they are wrong. But here we are.
Many of us are having to come to terms with the fact that we're probably on lists, which we knew was a risk but took it. I'm looking for a job and never know how much signing my name to things has affected my (lack of) success. It's a lot of psychic menacing.
The one thing I think is good to reminnd ourselves is that people are the most important part here. Can't leave anyone behind, no one gets pushed under the bus. This applies on both sides too, don't get rung up on something stupid and take yourself out of the fight. We need everyone.
Two weeks ago, no more, I spoke to a Canadian who was visiting family here. She said people had asked her, "Don't you feel unsafe going there?" and ate said "Imagine what it's like for them, living there.". At that time, I thought, "Yeah, although most of us aren't at that much risk."
Any of Them can disappear at any time too, and Cops will not know for sure it is not another higher and holier Cop Shop that is doing it.
Cops finally get their Fascist Wish, and now live in Fear like they used to only inflict on others, in Greed and Treachery.
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It gets easier every day to see how the Nazis rose to power. I will emerge from this a different person. I am already different now than I was even two months ago.
Unfortunate many won't care until it's their family taken.
Something I have a lot of experience with is usually having to be the first in my group to speak up. But I found others 1/2
So I think the more of us make a conscious decision to start with things like that, it'll get easier.
The answer is none. And that's why I am doing what I can.
I just hope that everyone sits and has that conversation with themselves.
See Lincoln Heights
But I realize I’m just going to sit with the concept of what is or was normies. Who the eff if I know now
That's why I'm informing folks because that's what I can do without getting flagged immediately for "terrorism"
It's not quite that bad, yet.
It's funny how many think the inverse.
Even Comic Cons are giving travel advisories, and I haven't seen that since COVID
Two weeks.
My European and Canadian friends were fucking horrified by what was going on and they don't even have ties to this country
Cops finally get their Fascist Wish, and now live in Fear like they used to only inflict on others, in Greed and Treachery.