People are starting to punch ICE lol

@swirlie It's only a matter of time until one of those vigilantes is shot. Many Americans are armed and licensing/training are seen as optional. They think Dirty Harry movies are real.

@swirlie We still have a lot of people that associate undocumented immigrants with being hard core criminals out to hurt them. I've seen the same sentiment in black communities, white nationalists managed to convince many that immigrants are to blame for poverty. I know this cos I see black people on Facebook talking white Nazi politics on there and they don't even know what they're saying.

A lot of minority groups bought the white Nazi lies and routinely parrot. Black people blaming other black people for high crime (you know the white talking point of high crime being in black areas despite other reasons why it's high crime and nothing to do with race.)

I've even seen black men going on about single mothers etc red pilled stuff.

We have a right wing government and they're doing their best to maintain it instead of lose it.

The people are starting to wake up but we have many who don't until it affects them directly. Like how the puerto Rican community was screwed by Trump despite being Trump voters or that marine veteran getting stomped out by ice while gardening.

So in other words, propaganda.

That's why it moves slow, ice has to get so bad that people just start being like wtf cos telling them the truth has no power.

But yeah we have lots and lots of propaganda it's how far the right has gone around here and social media influencers like Jordan Peterson and the likes.

@swirlie People are not that educated too so if you have a charismatic influencer and let's say they use a lot of pretty words complete with smart sounding words together people tend to think there's a point. Then they develop views around air and things that sound important but mean little.

That's how the far right grew in power. Fancy words like post modernist, woke and other things are being used as a boogeyman when in reality the things make no sense logically at least how the far right took academia out of context. People aren't like that though in context of critical thinking

In essence, Americans are like "this person use big words, must smart" and yup that's basically how we have a far right population now

@SatanBurger
Thanks for those last two posts you made here... they were incredibly informative and exceptionally well-stated. I totally 'get' everything you've said because I've actually witnessed this all my younger life when I lived very close to the Canada/US border crossing at Detroit, but on the Canadian side.

My parents had a market gardening retail business and we had more American customers stop in everyday on day trips across the border, than there were Canadians populating that entire region of southern Ontario.

How you describe the situation now, is exactly what I would witness as a teenager when interacting with Americans which was more of a socializing opportunity than anything from my perspective at the time.

What I eventually learned to do was 'listen' and keep my mouth shut because they usually did all the talking and what they'd suddenly start talking about right out of the blue was of no interest whatsoever to any teenaged girl, believe me!

@swirlie Sorry you had to hear that type of stuff. I mean I dunno why people don't dig to find the origin of what they parrot but they clearly are morally bankrupt at this point.

@SatanBurger
But I really don't know why they thought I'd be interested in the first place!

@swirlie Yeah we have an issue in this country where we have lack of social awareness lol 😆