• Frenchfryenjoyer (she/her)@lemmings.world
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    1/4 is like 85 million people. some people are saying they aren’t concerned since they’re citizens but given what Trump has done, that can be stripped away at literally any moment

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    I have a some very close friends who are Venezuelan. They all claim they aren’t worried because they are citizens, but I’m not so sure. The MAGA Nazis don’t respect Birthright Citizenship, they certainly aren’t going to respect naturalization.

    Bottom line: If you were born somewhere else, they want you gone.

  • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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    I left because I knew they’d be coming for me sooner rather than later. I’m a trans immigrant. I honestly kinda regret my citizenship because it’s keeping me chained to the reich even from abroad.

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    Every time I hear sirens, I feel scare af, thinking its the gestapo.

    I’m a naturalized citizen btw, but I still don’t feel safe (I’m not white).

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      I’m white AF, and my family has been here since the 1650s on one side, and 1720s on the other side. We literally funded a decent portion of the revolution. I’m still scared. They are coming for everyone that isn’t them.

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      Don’t worry, they won’t arrive in uniforms with sirens. They’ll arrive silently in masks.

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      Hell, even birthright citizens aren’t safe if they are perceived as non-white.

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    10 hours ago

    I have a friend from the Philippines who is in school to be a nurse. When this started, she was scared this was going to affect students which did end up being true later.

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        “Blitzkrieg” is literally “lightning war”, and just refers to the style of offense the Germans used against other European countries in WWII, which was largely responsible for their early military success.

        Armies at that time relied on stationary positions and slow logistics, horse-drawn carriages for a large portion. The Germans just blitzed into France, through the Maginot line.

        Which makes me wonder whether the current idea of MAD holding off war isn’t as deluded as relying on the Maginot line. I sure hope it isn’t.

        Anyway this is more just fascism in general. A fast rise in authoritarianism. Not “war” in the classical sense, although it certainly is basically war.

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    Anyone who thinks that protesting will stop this is an idiot. Hypothetically, if you wanted to stop this, either you put on a FULL ON general strike, not 200,000 people, but 20 million. Or you go and get your guns, and start driving the fuck over to your state capitol, or better yet, the WH.

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    Since there are no rules and no due process 4 of 4 should be worried. If you think this isnt gonna escalate you are nuts.

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      Unless something happened it was always going to escalate. The question was ever only the cause and whether any side would meet that escalation with their own. I started asking something similar during Covid and was told people didn’t want to risk someone spitting on them. I said it again after January 6th and people replied that they didn’t want to be targets by some psycho. A year ago when this started to become clear I asked why we weren’t out on the streets reminding the DNC what we need and I got the same answer then I’ve gotten in the past: I can’t take off of work/I need to pay my bills.

      So, my friends, is this enough yet?

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    Most of them are in denial. Every time I bring it up to my friends they’re all like “yeah, but they won’t come after me.”

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      You will need to keep that hand iced. Maybe splint at night. If the skin breaks, get an ACE wrap.

      Sorry, that sounds like a possibly risky amount of slapping you’ve been up to lately, especially if you’ve been (like most of us) in a low or no-slap lifestyle up until now.

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    The videos all over the internet expose everything. I can’t imagine what it looks like from a normal country on the outside.

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      Horrifying and you are all apparently just complaining about on social media ( yes there have been a few protests, big whoop)

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        I protest once a month on a sunny Saturday that I don’t have errands or TV to catch up on.

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    Have a coworker with family in Iran. She just got her citizenship, but I have no idea how much that is even worth in the modern moment.

    She’s a close friend and it was be a personal nightmare to lose her to some ICE thugs.

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      They shipped out Kilmar Abrego Garcia for something a cop said in 2019 based on an unidentified informant and they make up new lies about him all the time. They’re absolutely not above lying that someone falsified information on their naturalization papers.

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      Ogle and Mace sent an email asking to denaturalize primary winner of NYC. They’ll try and if they succeed they’ll do it to other people.