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[Radwin Bodnic]

We also say this in America. Maybe it's exaggerated, but Paris started burning when there was a proposal to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. In America, the retirement age is 65 and we sit back like cattle as the government muses cutting Social Security all together.

They used "non lethal weapons" en masse and without following the guidelines during these protests. A lot of people have lost their hand or their eyes or a kidney because of these non lethal weapons. No one is going to protest anymore because of the fear of being mutilated. And they did put the retirement age at 64 after that.

 

[bellona0544]

Reminder that an annual membership to the Socialist Rifle Association is $36, there are tons of chapters all over the country, and they do all kinds of emergency preparedness training for things like de-escalation and stemming bleeding and first aid, plus my chapter does monthly food distributions. And they will help you keep yourself armed.

Note to the FBI agents trawling this thread: I would never advocate violence against any institution, and simply enjoy exercising my constitutional rights to firearms.

 

[florduh]

Socialist Rifle Association

I like the idea behind the SRA. I especially like the protest training you're referring to. But I am very worried about having my name on the registry of a group with "Socialist" and "Rifle" in the name. I'm already wondering if my past political activities will get me deported.

Advocates warn Trump’s threat to deport pro-Palestine students harms all

Critics say Trump’s attempt to combat anti-Semitism on campus \ promotes fear and repression among immigrants.

www.aljazeera.com

Not that I'd mind a free plane ticket out of here at this point. But I'm a fourth generation American. My great grandparents came from 6 different European countries. So... would I go to Guantanamo?

President Trump sends first US migrant detainees to Guantanamo Bay

The US president last week announced plans to expand the detention of migrants at the base in Cuba.

www.bbc.com

Reminder that the government has only shown evidence of a criminal record for a tiny percentage of detained immigrants. For that Colombia deportation flight Trump was crying about, Colombian officials said NONE of the deportees had a criminal record.

For the dipshits who say "Staying in the country as an ILLEGAL is a CRIME" no it isn't. Being undocumented is a civil infraction. Why don't we throw your dumb ass in a cage for having a taillight out on your F150.

 

[MHL]

@MHL no offense but the UK isn't in the top 100 countries I'd want to move to

No offence taken! That's why we're skipping the joint in 6 weeks to go somewhere sunnier and more sensible

That raising of the pension age... I couldn't think of the example in the prev post... but that's the one exactly. Our jolly hockey sticks overlords are now considering 67 I believe.

 

[anome]

Sanctions against the ICC, there oughta to be a law.

 

[florduh]

Sanctions against the ICC, there oughta to be a law.

America is the premiere perpetrator of war crimes on this planet so I can see why we hate the ICC. I'm honestly not sure why the rest of the world doesn't treat us like we're Russia, given that we're objectively worse.

Trump signs order sanctioning International Criminal Court

The order accuses the Hague-based body of creating a "shameful moral equivalency" between Hamas and Israel, the White House says.

www.bbc.com

The White House accuses the Hague-based ICC of creating a "shameful moral equivalency" between Hamas and Israel by issuing the warrants for the Israeli leaders and a Hamas commander at the same time, according to a fact sheet circulated by the White House earlier.

I agree with the White House. There is no equivalence between Hamas and the IDF. Hamas is clearly less evil by an order of magnitude. If, like me, you believe October 7th was a terrible war crime, I'm not sure how you can excuse the terrorist organization that did somewhere between 60 and 500 "October 7ths" over the past 15 months. Unless you failed 1st grade math.

Of course, the reason we don't view the IDF as worse than Hamas is we don't view Arab Muslims and Christians as humans. After 9/11 we turned around and did 300-500 "9/11's" to multiple totally unrelated countries.