Comrades, with the recent news coming from the concentration camps in Georgia and Texas, I have been feeling incredibly complicit about what I see as a lack of action from the average person on getting the detainees out.

I've often felt disgust towards the citizens of other fascistic regimes throughout history, and how they did nothing while people less privileged than they were slaughtered. Now, I am feeling that same disgust for myself, but I don't know what is to be done.

I don't want to make a call to violence, but I know that neither Biden nor Trump will actually change the conditions of these camps. And, at the same time, I don't want to wait for the inevitable years-long "investigation" into these abuses to end up saying "yep, it was genocide," or worse. Am I crazy for wanting to see actual physical resistance against these camps and the people running them? Am I crazy for wanting to be a part of that resistance?

I just know that I would have wanted to be brave enough to resist Nazis had I been alive in Eastern Europe during their regime. Unfortunately, it feels like that level of resistance to genocide and discrimination will never happen on a wide scale here. Idk just feeling helpless and complicit in my inaction

  • fusion513 [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Not very helpful, but I like to screw with conservative people by telling them that immigrant detention centers are socialism.

    "MY family isn't being impacted by illegal immigrants, why should my tax dollars be going towards funding these detention centers?"

    Then watch them stammer and try to justify it, it's pretty funny.

    Shit's fucked up, but helps me passive aggressively cope a little with comedy.