Maybe somewhere between Nuremberg and what happened to Gaddafi.

Honestly, just change Iran to USA and Islam to Christianity and it still works, if not better.

If Trump was chosen by God, it's because God hates the United States and the world as a whole.

Former liberal here. I always felt I had a more wonkish bent, that pragmatism needs to be more front and center in politics.

But if I'm now in the leftist camp, it's not like Dems are going to go anywhere but the way of the whigs if they don't take some actual stances. They've lost all imagination. You can't win on damage control.

Also remember the journalists that need support the most are local papers and news stations. The big ones have plenty of donors, and while it's worth the support, they are less likely to completely collapse than the news that is run in your city.

Go look for that independent source. They will report more news that actually affects you as well.

Small story time because I realize the Neo-Futurists don't seem to record their show and this should be in writing somewhere.

Context: The Neo-Futurists are an experimental theater company based in Chicago but have spread internationally. They have a show where they do 30 scripts in an hour, so each "play" is like... 2 or 3 minutes.

When I went they had one play called "How to Kill a King"

The lights went dark. Then the projector turned on and said "put your phone and wallet into the bucket". The cast came out holding buckets, and everyone did just that, including me. Then the cast left the theater with the buckets.

Then the projector said:

"Your possessions will be waiting for you in the lobby after the show"

"Trust that you will have your wallet and phone back at the end of the show"

"Trust that the people around you won't steal your wallet and phone"

"Trust that the people around you have your best interest in mind, and don't wish you any harm"

"That is how you Kill a King"

And sure enough when we left, everyones stuff was splayed out on some tables and everyone got their stuff back.

Frankly, yea you're right. Our military is absolutely brutally evil. And the reason they were there was to make the rich richer. Frankly when Americans sign up for the military, they should choose a branch and an oil company to serve as well.

I can't really convince you of anything else, other than know that most everyone I talk to knows we have more in common with you halfway around the world than either of us do with the people who send the military to kill. We don't hate you, and I'm so sorry what they did to you.

On this side of the world, keeping our class divided will only perpetuate this cycle. War is as profitable an industry as healthcare, so why expect peace or cures if the people in charge are only in it for their own gain?

I'm so sorry for what this horrible country did. No one deserves that fate. But one day hatchets between comrades need to be buried and replaced with guillotines for kings.

Focus that rage upward.

I have such distain for our military industrial complex and ICE, but I recognize so much of the problem is desperate people taking desperate measures. They decided it's better to risk your life in a foreign war than it is to be home watching you and your family whither away with no healthcare, education, or money. I don't agree but I can understand- debt will put anyone in a pressure cooker. Two things can be true at once- being a stoog for American imperialism makes you horrible, but people who are stooges can still be people to show sympathy for when you consider the factors at play.

When the revolution comes, as all revolutions do, it is only when the military allows the people to storm the gates. In my head we don't need to thank service members as much as say I'm so sorry what this country did to them.

Just as a post script- I know I won't convince you to hate ice, but maybe I can convince you that I don't hate you. That the left doesn't hate you. I need to remember the right doesn't hate lil' ol queer me. We hate what we've been told about each other.

Renee Good's last words were "I'm not mad at you"

If that's your bar, then we need to deport every Catholic priest and cop. They are much more likely to hurt someone I, or you, love.

We've been brainwashed into thinking some brown kid from across the border who's parents went through hell and back is the problem. Frankly, we've also been brainwashed into thinking the angry MAGA capped West Virginian is the problem. It's not.

You know the problem. It's your health insurance premiums. It's your cost of food. It's your cost of living. It's your pain. It's the same pain that made the brown folks come here and the West Virginian vote for a rapist convict.

That pain doesn't come from a made up immigrant eating a dog. It comes from a group of men that could fit in a school bus who have ensured we stay disconnected and dumb so they can rob us blind. ICE is here to enforce this belief, not keep us safe.

The only way out is to kill a king. The only way to kill a king is to trust your neighbors. 14% or 5%

The same agents who are raping, murdering, and molesting children in the ICE concentration camps? The same ones who brutalized, terrorized, and murdered people in communities so they could deport immigrants, 5% of whom have criminal records?

Yea okay I'll keep protesting.