Residents are sending a clear message about the violent deportations taking place across the US this midterm cycle
Minnesota voters left “I Voted” stickers on memorial sites for Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good, the two US citizens killed by federal immigration officials earlier this year.
Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse at the Veterans Affairs medical center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Good, a writer and mother of three, were killed during a large-scale immigration enforcement operation in the Minneapolis region in January.
Donald Trump’s aggressive and violent mass deportation campaign has been a key issue for voters across the country during this midterm cycle, and has played a large part in Minnesota’s election.
Respecting the dead is taking action to honour them, all the shit you’re yapping about is downstream from the act of voting whether your idealism likes it or not, this is the system we have. Your self-rightious bloviating in the name of the dead is vanity plain and simple, so shut the fuck up and stop grandstanding to people who are doing their best.
People like you, voting blue no matter who and then bragging that it has fixed everything are the reason democrats and republicans can continue to win on genocide platforms
Minnesota has been a blue state forever and Alex and Renee got shot under Dem leadership, something you’d know if you lived here, We did not vote out Trump yet.
Sorry I care about these people and don’t just want to use them to feel better about helping. These people died from state violence and you’re basically mocking them with those stickers
“I voted” for the people that let ICE run around pulling people out of their homes.
You think this battle is over but you’re dead wrong. Liberals acting like flipping a few senators ended genocide, war, and police violence. Worse than Reddit rn
“People like me”
Point to where I ever said any of that shit you just slopped at me… Then when you realize that I didn’t, and you’re just projecting at me to create a pallatable strawman to coddle your little insecurities, point that fucking finger up your ass.
Relax. I’m trying to have a serious conversation. If your “action” you meant in your original comment means only Voting for democrats, I only mean to warn you they aren’t much better on ICE/police policy.
Don’t condescend to me like I’m not watching what’s fucking going on after coming at these comments like some self-righteous arbiter of truth and morality. I will relax when I don’t have some asshole on lemmy griping about people who are actually out there using what power they have to try to influence future outcomes for the better in this increasingly despotic fascist regime. I fucking hope you’re out there phonebanking for progressive canditates and engaging with officials about how desperately we cannot allow status quo fuckery to block the action you claim to want now that there’s some power to affect it, cause if not you can continue to fuck all the way off, and frankly, even if you are you can goddamn well check yourself up in here.
I said relax dude. There’s no use being so angry. I’m way past phone banking lmfao. I mean organization in unions or at food banks. Yes we have to force the state to give us funding but again that goes beyond phone banking.
Instead of wasting time on harassing staffers with phone calls spend that time joining your local rent strike. Some asshole removed at you on Lemmy about the blue wave isn’t the problem you think it is, go out and actually hold them to it, not just a phone call.
You seem to be confused, I do not give a fuck what you said I should do, and I never asked for your wanrings or judgements or advice, so keep that shit to yourself, and let’s agree to go our separate ways.
I know it hurts to be told you aren’t doing enough, but you can handle it. It’s time to be an adult and fight before the situation for poor, disenfranchised people gets worse. Working within the establishment has gotten me nowhere, if you don’t care then you’re just another one of the millions who don’t. But I do.
Don’t kid yourself, you are not changing anyone’s life on here by condescending and asserting some kind of moral superiority, and your charade of self-aggrandizement is vile. I’m truly uninterested in your ‘insights’ or judegements and projections on my charcter. As far as I have seen you’re a naracissist who wants to police and gatekeep the community using civility as a shield, which is the playbook of conservatism, we have nothing else to talk about.
You didn’t have to respond if you’re just gonna be angry. If you tell others what to do then you expect a bit of pushback, that’s how a conversation works.
I can’t believe you actually suggested phone banking to me and then said “I don’t give a fuck about what you do.” I know you don’t. I can tell. I know you don’t care about labor unions or striking because if you did you’d realize I spent years phone banking and door knocking to no avail.
What got funding for my local food shelf wasn’t the dems or the state themselves, it was forcing bipartisan leaders thru a strike. If all we did was call them they would have continued to ignore us.