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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • Agreed that there is no non-violent way to stop this admin from making concentration camps in Guantanamo, but there are plenty of things you can do to keep people from ending up in those camps without using violence.

    Most undocumented people get snatched up outside of their homes. Keeping an eye out for ICE, and breaking their cover is a huge help (Just walk up to them and say ‘Hi’, ask what they are doing and in general occupy their time with innocuous conversation), you can also provide food and financial assistance to your affected neighbors, as they may be unable to work without getting snatched. Make an emergency plan with them for who to contact, and if they have an immigration lawyer in the case that they get grabbed. If anyone with a badge actually asks about them, you don’t know shit, you’ve never seen shit.








  • It was a fuck you to the US government.

    Fucking wrong. It was a “fuck you” to my niece, born with a lifelong medical condition. It was a “fuck you” to my non-cis partner. It was a “fuck you” to my trans cousin. It was a fuck you to my gay neighbor. It was a fuck you to all the little girls who are going to be forced to give birth before their 13th birthday. It was a “fuck you” to kids just trying to go to public school and get some semblance of an education. The only people it wasn’t a “fuck you” for, were the goddamn knuckle dragging hooting bigots who wanted trump in office. Someday, hopefully, we’ll get another election, and I hope, if you’re still alive, that you remember that voting isn’t just a right, it’s a fucking responsibility, and when you squander your vote on a useless protest when the fate of the entire country is on the line, and you know that it is, you won’t fucking waste it, like you did last year.









  • I’m gonna bring up a slightly different take on the situation.

    2001, during the walk between my 1st period and 2nd period class, my country changed forever. My math teacher had a shocked look on his face, he put the radio on, and told us that it was very important to listen, as we will never forget this moment. An airplane had hit the world trade center. I remember the bell going off, going to my history class, and shortly afterwards, being told that the busses were coming back to take my classmates home. They were terrified, that their school busses would be attacked and that they wouldn’t make it home. I found my brother and we walked home early that day. I got home in time to see my mom staring at the TV, which was surreal on its own because she hates TV. By the time I go home, the towers were falling.

    That moment was a catalyst for irrational hate and fear taking over the US. Anti-musilm hate (if you can even call it that sophisticated and targeted, really just anyone the right shade of brown) really took off. I remember hearing about men being assaulted and having their beards shaved. Women had their head covering confiscated, and mosques became a primary target for yahoos and bigots to deface and burn. A few years later I remember and popular jingle about bombing Afghanistan, not specifically the Taliban or Al-Qaeda, but just Afghanistan in general. Hate became more mainstream and visible to me than ever. Sure, the US wasn’t perfect before, but for my generation, 9/11 was the moment that “Othering” people who didn’t look like you, talk like you, and pray like you, became not just a coping mechanism, but a core identity for a significant portion of the USA. If you spoke out about the irrational hate, you were Un-American, or a traitor. My father took me to see Fahrenheit 911, and I remember hearing about protestors attacking theaters that were playing the movie, and people that were buying tickets for it.

    Anyway, that’s my two cents on where millennials (at least) got their hate enemas from.