• Trump targets Rep. Ilhan Omar with video of the Twin Towers burning
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Nobody is trashing people who understand that the world has problems or is shit. We're telling people that sitting on their ass and doing nothing, while going "Everything fucking sucks and nothing matters" is just being fucking lazy and ignorant.
Her statement isn't controversial. Literally the only reason anyone would care is because she's one of those ScArY MoOsLiMs you hear right wing news worrying about and how they teach our youth to jihad or some shit.
It's worse than that. I have a personal insight into neo-con politics that some people don't, given that I used to read the National Review religiously back in the day. One issue had an article that not only defended the Iraq war, but claimed the only thing wrong with our strategy was that we stayed to clean up our mess. Yep, they were arguing that we should have gone in, fucked up Sadaam and his whole damn country, and then pack up and leave. This was apparently justifiable retribution for 9/11. And you know what else? I'm not 100 percent certain of this, but I think the article might have been written by John fucking Bolton. Yeah, he was an occasional contributor to the Review back then. And, I mean, it's not the least bit shocking that he would advocate for something as appalling as that. Neo-cons at their worst are wannabe genociders that, if given their way, would glass the whole middle east (other than Israel, of course). I have heard people advocate for this in real life. They are all are xenophobic monsters. That's why they love Trump so much. He's cut from the same cloth as them.
Huh so we're at that stage of fascism now... The president is openly vilifying a minority representative within the US government, with the aim to bring violence towards her, and that is essentially normalised within the American psyche now.
Even worse is the extremely weak defense from Democratic leadership. Pelosi was more upset with Trump for bringing up 9/11 than she was with him directly attacking a member of her party with racist smearing.
So you really believe it's laziness instead of the fact that some people just get beaten down by the world? sounds like you're trashing people and ignorantly making claims about their background
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I'm terrified of all this, honestly. Terrified and disgusted. This is my home state. I'm emotionally very close to Minneapolis and I may be living under the 5th district soon. Ilhan Omar has been a sign of hope and peace and has been nothing but a joy to have representing some of us. We have a large (well, statistically anyways, whites are still the majority) Somalian population here and from what I understand Minnesota has only been kind to a point with them, but it's a farce a lot of the time, and we're generally very cruel to the Somalian population here. Hell, I think a lot about Riverside Plaza which, even though it's a bright and growing community, still carries the name "The Crack Stacks" because of the supposed crime rates that have been dwindling ever since the 90s. Yet the name still remains as a common way to refer to it, even though people call it "Little Mogadishu" or "Mogadishu, Minnesota". Can't help but feel like that's just an easy way of dividing people into groups. In any case, the election of Ilhan Omar gave me hope that maybe we're going to see a change in that ideology and help us be less farcical. But after New Zealand, I just can't help but fear for these communities and when politicians put out half-assed calls for violence like this, I get sick to my stomach thinking how it all could go wrong in an instant. This is all just a big diversion to say that, when I see shit like this, I take it as a threat against the people here, and all I can do is scream into the void and hope this isn't that one thing that sets someone off. Stop threatening Minnesota, Don. Please. Don't hurt our brothers and sisters here. They've already had enough.
If you don't care, don't post. There's no reason for you to broadcast your apathetic mindset in a political subforum. It helps absolutely nobody - if anything, it's damaging.
I don't want an uplifting speech, I want an answer of actual action. What to do. How I think is irrelevant if the only choices available to me are either fruitless wastes of time(IE voting better politicians in, you can't do that if the only politicians on the ballot are corrupt fuckstains), or total suicide(Armed rebellion). I've been caring for two years now. It's done fuck all except raise my stress level. I'm just as powerless to stop Trump now as I was in 2017 and 2018. I'm just as powerless to fix the Senate now as I aws then. I can't un-stack the supreme court. I can't give Bitch McConnel his walkin' papers. I've been following this global train wreck since it first derailed and nothing has come of it except my mood being perpetually more and more sour. Caring about the problem doesn't solve the problem. If you want to combat political apathy, offer up actual action that can be taken towards remedying the problem, instead of merely saying 'you should care'. I do care. You, along with everyone else that's replied to me so far, seems to think otherwise. But I do care. I'm just explaining why it's pointless to go around saying 'you need to care' every time someone who doesn't is encountered.
I was saying that trump has poor people skills and there's a lot about people he doesn't get but I worded it poorly, sorry guys.
I thought it was clear in my previous post, but I can see how some of my points could be overshadowed by some others, so I'll take the time to spell it out. There's a little more than 300 million people in the united states and only a handful will ever get the opportunity to wield the fiery sword of justice like you described. If you want to be one of those people, you can be. You can go study law, or foster a strong reputation in your community and run for political office, or network with powers that be without losing sight of your inevitable goal. But even with that you'll be going to bat against the Trumps or McConnells or DeVoses of 40 years from now. It will be a long road of planting trees for the next generation, the fruits of which you will never see. It would require a level of commitment above that of self-interest or self-preservation. If you've got it then great, but many of us don't and that's okay also. That doesn't mean there's nothing you can do in the mean time. I can't speak for what you can do because I don't know your situation or the opportunities that you have. But I can talk about what I've done and why I've done it and hopefully it helps illustrate my point. I've been working at animal shelters putting animals into homes so that more families can experience the rewards of pet ownership without feeling like pets are just a commodity to be purchased. I've volunteered at the zoo to teach people about the importance of environmental stewardship as well as the the importance of responsible husbandry and food production through the zoo's domestic animal exhibits. I haven't been afraid to reach out, make friends, and talk to people from different backgrounds as me, to the point my closer friends began to call me "the white-people whisperer". I left my job to go back to school because I felt I wasn't making enough of an impact in my local community. And I have taken 5 minutes out of my day to engage in good-faith discussion with people online when I should be studying for my parasitology exam, because I believe public discussion leaves a positive impact on not just the posters but all the people possibly reading the discussion from the side. The point is I'm not in a position to topple regimes, and while I wish I had that power, I'm not going to be disappointed by expectations that were unrealistic to begin with. Everyone is in a position to leave some positive impact, and I think by leading a positive example and being involved with others outside of my comfortable circle, that positivity will manage to spread outside of my original reach and limited sight, and the positivity of others will reach me as well without knowing who the originator was. And I think there's evidence of that because things HAVE been happening. I've been able to meet like minded people with different skills, and our combined efforts have caused noticeable change locally. The increase in public discourse on policy, ethics, and our social system has led to an enormous of positive action across the world and a societal level of introspection in the US that was a long time coming. It's no coincidence that this session of congress sees the first TWO muslim congresswomen the US. If you consider WW2, a particular taxing time for the whole world that has received a lot of comparisons lately, how many US servicemen got movies made of them, or had books written about them, or made the news at the national scale? A few hundred maybe, or even a few thousand? Does that mean we didn't need the other 16 million? Of course not. The situation we find ourselves in isn't a videogame, where coming onto a difficult segment, you can just throw your hands up in the air, declare the system rigged, the designers unfair, and move on with your life.I need to go and practice physical exam skills so if you want to continue this discussion, I'm more than happy to at a later time, but hopefully this has been illuminating without being too patronizing.
Who should I be more afraid of? Some Minnesota rep, or an administration that sold $110 billion dollars in weapons to the government that had helped aid the 9/11 terrorists, and then sucked said country's dick after the khashoggi incident? There's a whole paragraph ranting about the arms deal in that statement for some reason.
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