If you’re White, you can walk around with assault rifles in full combat gear looking like you‘re on active duty. And police will just shrug while the media deem you a protester rather than a terrorist.
This is why White Supremacists and sympathizers are so afraid of 2050 when White people will be in the minority for the first time in US history. It’s good to be in the majority.
#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFedi #media
Joseph Scheller / Columbus Dispatch via USA TODAY
Dec. 3, 2022
@Deglassco Why does the USA protect the *freedom to* be an aggressive ass, but not the *freedom from* their aggression?
Is the answer the same as the reason why reconciliation was more important than reparation?
Here in Canada the process takes all of 40 seconds. On the other hand, we have an actual democracy.
@Deglassco Soooo that’s what crushing insecurity looks like. Camo gear, rifles, no sense of purpose and fear of change.
And you have to ask, why didn’t they join the real army?
@Deglassco ahhhh
And these soldiers get to strut around with a police protection detail*. Sweet gig.
*and a get out of jail free card.
These guys look like the definition of a masculinity crisis.
@Deglassco I'm in no way defending these people, but let's be fair about the propaganda they have consumed over the last 10 years, starting with the NRA and its attacks on Obama using the same tired narrative that there is a war coming that they must be prepared for, or food shortages so extreme they will need to defend their homes from marauding masses of starving Americans, or the constant imagery of black crime in inner cities, or the insane mass shooting conspiracies, and the narrators and talk show hosts.
The air itself is thick with extremist propaganda and ideologies of violence and guns mixed with Patriotism and the demonization of any opposition in politics.
Let's not ignore what created this, and why.
The devil is always in the details and these men have ignore those details for social acceptance and literally for purchasing all the gear you see in these pictures, for whatever social clout and adherence to the rightist narrative that keeps them happily glued into a brotherhood of false revelations and solutions for a future imaginary problem they will need to solve with their weaponry.
Fear not these men, as much as the green light they will be given through the same rightist media outlets that have sculpted this outcome of men armed to defend the unknown. Fear the propaganda, at the same level you and I fear these men.
You're 100% on target with the true history of this nation. Let's be frank about it and start at the very beginning, if we are to be honest about America and the soul that founded this nation.
Sure in the history books the painting of reality is far softer than the actual. If we are to be truful, then we must admit to the first atrocities of this nation's truest roots. Theft and murder.
The theft of indigenous lands and the murdering of its people.
The colonization of this nation through conquest, slavery, death, rape and torture of those deemed lesser by the scope of industry. If we had arrived in America to meet a further industrialized nation of people, we would have likely been forced to return home then become settlers.
Make no mistake, that measurement is made in how America treats the world today and its own people.
As a people, there is a consciousness that rises above those antiquated measurements, that unfortunately rings hollow against the normalcy in today's society. The reason we can not take the reins of control, is that we are all measured by our own wealth, our own dare I say, state of industrialization.
The wealthiest, the most powerful, those who can afford the battle, the lawyers, the time, the rolls of red tape, fear nothing but time. Never judgement and time, just time itself and how much they can buy and waste.
I do believe all men are created equal, equally valuable as fellow human beings. Is it possible that every race has its greater offering to society as a whole, and in time through love, genetics, intelligence, innovation, arts, physical characteristics, skills, knowledge, and culture, religion, and creeds? Is it possible that perhaps humanity will become one race in another 100,000 years?
If God did create us in his image, perhaps we have yet to obtain that image, and perhaps race or skin color will one day matter not. Does that make me cray cray?
@PeggyJoan @Deglassco We've got our share of MAGAs here, people who admire Trump and Putin. There has been a case of violence here in the past days.
A trio of "cookers" (Australian slang for MAGAs, arising from their brains being cooked on lies) lured police into an ambush.
See: https://aus.social/@MelissaSweetDr/109505256207694911
This was awful! We don't see much gun violence in Australia, but the recent conspiracy theorists, sovereign citizens and MAGA enthusiasts ("cookers") are looking like a real danger to civil society, everywhere in the world.
How 'ruthless, murderous trio' lured Queensland police into deadly rural ambush https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-13/wieambilla-shooting-explainer-six-people-shot-dead/101764286
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