I grew up next door to an orchard and berry farm that employed migrant farm workers. There were never any problems. These people are just trying to exist, like everyone else.
And the are super clean, kind, and giving. I have a friend who remembers waking up in a basket as a little boy, helping his mama pick peaches after his nap.
Because many people believe in a Christofascist world order where someone has to be at the bottom. They’d rather pick on another community than have that scorn heaped on their own.
Their parents are going to have to agree.. or are we talking about the kids women will be forced to have against their will and will be raised for labor?
with piles and piles of money being hoarded from the economy. and with republican help the filthy poor will not have access to that money for themselves, but way to own the libs right
Billionaires and their political mouthpieces have played a major part. But people at lower end of the income scale have always despised those poorer than them, because the poorest represent what they have escaped. Think of the Irish immigrants in 19th century.
Fairness Doctrine Dies. Talk Radio. 24hr Cable news. The internet and social media. Consolidation of 150 some odd owners of news rooms to about, I dunno, 5-8 people/corporations. It's Rollerball, oh Lord of Hosts.
They're able to do that because of the misconception that they are smarter than the average. Granted a few are more intelligent about certain select business ideas, but oblivious to every day life things.
Take ten people, have the two most sociopathic and power-hungry pick two other random folks to be the designated scapegoats, and then spin lies to convince the other six that these poor souls are the root of all their problems.
It's all about starting with "cattle, sheep, and livestock" for Nazis. They want to see how easy it is to kill for their brainwashed followers. Then they go with an easily blamed scapegoat, in 1939 it was Jews. Today, "illegal criminal immigrants."
Not hard to leap from that to gays, POCs, children,
If you haven't seen AND HEARD the videos from Uvalde, 300+ cops stood by, armed to the teeth with weapons and bulletproof armor and shields, and LISTENED AS CHILDREN WERE SHOT TO DEATH AND MUTILATED.
but don't worry, the cops saved their own kids and let the others die, as they could've stopped it.
Only one got fired, some woman who intentionally saved her own child, and left ALL the others. all the rest of those spineless cowards kept their jobs. That's okay, right? Eventually, it'll happen again, but this time with ALL the cops and military, who will stand and watch as innocents are killed.
They do that by unrelenting repetition of propaganda on right wing networks purporting to be journalism. Eventually enough non-inquisitive people accept it as truth. You know, like Fox Propaganda Network.
It's not the first time a nation has directed it's enmity towards a group of people undeserving of it. The way things have gone, it won't be the last anytime soon either.
Fox news had their lead story for almost 4 years about a migrant killing a young woman. Every day was the same message. "Immigrants are evil and working for drug cartels."
There was nothing about this on CNN or MSMBC, so most of us had no idea how it was playing in the trumplican world
Anyone who is scared of their kids being gay needs to recognize that their bloodline isn't worth preserving and they'd be better off with some adopted grandkids
You literally told them in Leviticus, "The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born."
Maybe you should have mentioned something about the strawberries.
THIS! We need to turn anger away from immigrants and refugees to the billionaires and corporations screwing them. How do we do it when the MSM is already shitty and getting worse by the day. It's what they listen to. Not sure how to flip the script. Hope someone smarter than me figures it out.
Because liberals and progressives have long felt they never needed to persuade or educate people. Applies to pretty much all anyi-liberal backsliding over the last decade. We no longer have shared values of democracy, equality, dignity and civil rights.
Or it just rots in the field. That happened in WA during the Gregoire admin when the apple farmers wouldn’t pay better than the $50 per day they got hanging drywall or other odd jobs
They’ve all taken Tony Robbin’s course on subliminal messaging while speaking and have become very successful at it. Now we just have to figure out how to break the hold they’ve gotten over everyone. Hmmm - you’re God. Got any thoughts?? 🧐
If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.
Racism. The ultimate weapon. It’s in the blood and soil. America always teaches its citizens to punch down first, before up. Especially on POC. Hell even some POC foreigners are learning from this, and screwing their own people over, just out of survival under white supremacy. It’s sad.
Because too many people equate being rich with being good or smart. And they all seem to have missed that whole camel/eye of a needle thing in your book
They're completely unscrupulous and very good at playing on people's rage and fears. They also know how to appeal to people's greed ... scratch our back and we'll make sure you share in our largesse (and if you don't get your share it's THEIR fault, the OTHERS working against you too destroy you).
Narcissism. We have the same problem with elections. A significant amount of Americans are only concerned with their own circumstances and can’t be bothered to consider other people.
@godpod.bsky.social because they want AMERICAN CHILDREN from low-income America to take their place.
There is a reason why they:
- Are destroying the department of education
- Gutting child protection labor laws
- Impose tariffs to isolate the USA
- Select loyalists to all important jobs
I would say your creation failed you. I think it would be better if we did without the inbreeding part next go around, there is massive evidence of the damage that has been caused when an area only has a few blood lines.
This is what comes of selling the American Dream BS. When people really think that they themselves could be billionaires, it's really easy to point to a group and say they're the reason your American dream isn't happening.
They havent wanted us to have anything from the start. Anyone not white is basically a target for blame and hate. Unfortunately, some of our own have not realized this themselves, thus empowering that negative outlook and outreach.
I hear you. Like a bunch of children with toyboxes full of things they haven't touched in YEARS. But god forbid someone else come along and want their unwanted... oh, the SHRIEKING.
They have the MONEY to advertise their LIES and to keep advertising their LIES
especially
with all those Republican Traitor Party TAX CUTS they keep getting
that
KILLS OFF PROGRAMS MOST Americans need.
Then
Republicans say, "We can't afford to help Americans anymore."
Strawberry pickers generally don't own media outlets.
Not to be too critical, but 24,000 lightning deaths a year and not one billionaire, your aim could be improved.
They are essential workers who don’t receive the most fundamental government benefits. Folks who are scapegoated as driving crime when that’s not what we are seeing at all.
Because so many Americans are too stupid to realize that billionaires can import or pay the high prices for anything that they want. Billionaires pay millionaires to get regular people to hate each other. In other words, the MSM.
Cause weak people like targets they can beat, bullies you know it’s way easier to kick a farm worker than a billionaire they fight back hard and we view them as demigods so there that.
Start the #resistance in your city, gather friends and family. Organize a march or a protest.
Remember to remain NON-VIOLENT.
Use your voice and your pen.
Teach the girls how to fight dirty. (YBMC)
Teach boys to respect/protect women.
There is no time! Start NOW!!
Powerful figures blaming immigrants for whatever problems *exist* goes as far back as recorded history. Same playbook, same patterns, and history tells us that every scapegoat that actually gets removed from the game board gets replaced by another scapegoat that was formerly "safe".
I don't think that's it. So many Americans are looking for villains that they feel are "beatable", so billionaires point at most vulnerable people they can to provide a viable target.
Confederate Infantry syndrome: sure, all the colonels and generals on horseback had plantations and enslaved people to fight for, but how did they convince the hard-scrabble farmer or laborer to fight and die for the cause of slavery?
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That goes for other Latinos. Light-skinned Latinos identify with white non-Latinos more than with, say, Afro-Latinos.
Think North Korea tried that...
"There can be only one"
Authoritarianism 101
Not hard to leap from that to gays, POCs, children,
but don't worry, the cops saved their own kids and let the others die, as they could've stopped it.
The average American is unfortunately below average on a worldwide basis.
There was nothing about this on CNN or MSMBC, so most of us had no idea how it was playing in the trumplican world
😔
Economy in the shitter? Blame the (insert minority here).
Can’t find housing? Blame the (insert minority here).
You’re scared your kids might turn out gay? Blame the (insert minority here)
Humanity is devolving.
Welcome to your doom.
Because nobody has got the balls to stop it.
Maybe you should have mentioned something about the strawberries.
IJS
and awesome handle by the way
That's just how fascism works, regardless of how its hidden or displayed.
LBJ
All they needed was an excuse, which billionaires were happy to sell, because everybody is buying at the end of the day.
You should have figured that out by now.
There is a reason why they:
- Are destroying the department of education
- Gutting child protection labor laws
- Impose tariffs to isolate the USA
- Select loyalists to all important jobs
Yeah...
Poor white people believe they're better than poor nonwhite people, in their eyes.
These people will do anything Trump says.
BEWARE: L I T E R A L L Y A N Y T H I N G. ☠️☠️☠️☠️
They aren’t very bright
especially
with all those Republican Traitor Party TAX CUTS they keep getting
that
KILLS OFF PROGRAMS MOST Americans need.
Then
Republicans say, "We can't afford to help Americans anymore."
Not to be too critical, but 24,000 lightning deaths a year and not one billionaire, your aim could be improved.
But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own..
Always wanted to do that
https://youtu.be/VEzo9BvStZk
The proverbial "US vs Them"
It's literally 16th century Machiavellian philosophy.
"This immigrant is the reason you are broke. Dont worry about my profit margins over the past 20 years."
Remember to remain NON-VIOLENT.
Use your voice and your pen.
Teach the girls how to fight dirty. (YBMC)
Teach boys to respect/protect women.
There is no time! Start NOW!!
James 2:2-4
FOX News is the GOPs propaganda arm, and been doing it for decades.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/fox-news-study-comparing-fox-cnn-highlights-cable-tvs-harm-rcna23620
Brexit & Trump