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lnmnkatz Jan 25

Jonathan Kamens 86 47

White folks in the U.S.: I encourage you to sit with the fact that this feeling you're feeling, that you could be gunned down by a cop for no reason without them facing any repercussions, is a feeling that every Black person living in the U.S. for the past 400 years has justifiably felt for their entire lives.
Resolve now that if we make it through with democracy intact, you will actively work toward a world where everyone can be free of that fear.
Don't forget.
#BlackLivesMatter

Jonathan Kamens 86 47 Jan 29

I don't know what to make of someone who posts a reply like this as if it is some brilliant, insightful "gotcha" and then blocks me immediately.
As if the relevant factor for Black people's experience on this continent is when the Declaration of Independence was signed (and as if we don't know what year that was!) vs. when the first enslaved Blacks arrived on our shores.
smdh
I can't educate this fool since he blocked me, so perhaps one of you can explain it to him.
Ref: https://friendica.rogueproject.org/display/b71a4a1e-2069-7b90-c186-f12015570856

Taylor Silver Jan 25

@jik ice aren't cops

Jonathan Kamens 86 47 Jan 25

@taylors sure, jan

AccordionBruce Jan 25

@jik @taylors
ICE are cops

As long as the “good cops“ aren’t testifying against the “bad cops“ there are no good cops

@AccordionBruce @jik @taylors Pretty sure that's what "ACAB" means.

It's still true.

アイアンハンドガンダム Jan 25

@aaron @AccordionBruce @jik @taylors

Taylor Silver Jan 25

@mrt181 @aaron @AccordionBruce @jik personally I think ice are worse. At least the nazis had a clear agenda. Ice just kill for the fuck of it

Taylor Silver Jan 25

@AccordionBruce @jik they aren't cops though

Martin Vermeer FCD Jan 25

@taylors @AccordionBruce @jik No true Scotsman

Taylor Silver Jan 25

@martinvermeer @AccordionBruce @jik sorry my good human, I don't quite understand your response :) can you rephrase please?

Martin Vermeer FCD Jan 25

@taylors @AccordionBruce @jik You understand me perfectly well. Blocking offense.

Paul Brownjohn Jan 25

@AccordionBruce @jik @taylors

The "system" under which ICE agents operate was brilliantly devised; a system that Goebbels would be proud of!

If I understand the system correctly, an agent is paid a signing up bonus of $50,000 however that bonus is repayable if they resign or are fired before they have served in their role for 5 years. This being the USA; a country totally bereft of any meaningful employment protection laws, presumably they can be fired at any moment on the whim of their supervisor and thus be liable to repay the $50,000 or be bankrupted. Life being what it is, I imagine that the $50,000 bonuses have long since been spent. So there we have it - a system that constrains agents to kidnap random people off the street or miss their quota, be fired and then be bankrupted!

Taylor Silver Jan 25

@Paulos_the_fog @AccordionBruce @jik it's so fucked isn't it. I frequently call Stephen Miller Temu Goebbels.

Paul Brownjohn Jan 29

@AccordionBruce @jik @taylors

What's the betting that the day before they hit their 5 years service, agents are fired - now hand back your $50,000 bonus!

Taylor Silver Jan 25

@jik hey, I'm on your side :) very woke lefty right here 🖐️❤️

Jonathan Kamens 86 47 Jan 25

@taylors Again, sure, Jan.
I can recognize a troll when I see one, dude.
*plonk*

Dopes The Frogman Jan 25

@taylors @jik ice are not law enforcement.

Ice is immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. They are not cops.

Their ranks consist of J6ers, Blackwater mercs, 3%, and general racist scum.

They can be prosecuted for their crimes committed at the state level.

Jonathan Kamens 86 47 Jan 25

@macacator @taylors Boy howdy, there sure are some reply guys in the fediverse

Justin Bailey Jan 25

@macacator Blackwater hasn't existed since 2009. Perhaps you're referring to Constellis.

Dopes The Frogman Jan 26

@Justin_Bailey different name, same mercs

Justin Bailey Jan 26

@macacator yep, just wanted to let them know blackwater was has been gone since long after I was in Iraq. They were jerks to us as troops back then. They're a cocky bunch and WAY overpaid

Taylor Silver Jan 25

@macacator @jik sorry I'm on your side here - I'm right with ya :) anyone working for ice deserves the Nuremberg treatment.

Francis Mangion (M)Jan 28

Frank Bennett 🇯🇵Jan 25

@jik ...absolutely true....

ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES Jan 25

and

FUCKING

VOTE

James Wells Jan 25

@[email protected]
One million percent yes. I don't care who you vote for, just fucking vote.

@[email protected]

Dopes The Frogman Jan 25

@jik 600 years*

Jonathan Kamens 86 47 Jan 25

@macacator Perhaps you can tell me why the 1619 Project is so named

Dopes The Frogman Jan 25

@jik never heard of it, but it definitely feels like we're still slaves, just under more subtle mechanisms.

jincy quones Jan 25

@macacator @jik Namely, consumerism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pG-8XLLaE0

Consumerism is the Perfection of Slavery - Prof Jiang Xueqin

YouTube

viNomadic Jan 25

@jik (If I may amend...) Naw, democracy was never intact, & we never HAVE quite made it through...YET.

PeachMcD Jan 25

@vinomadic @jik
Came here to say this

@jik I don't usually engage on these online topics, but...

May 13, 1985. Philly. Move.

I was 9. They dropped a bomb from a helicopter on a house and destroyed a whole city block. They also controlled the narrative. No cavalry came. No justice served. Just lives and property destroyed under the guise of a manufactured threat.

We're not new to this. That's why some of us are just detached from it all.

This is well said.

Articulated Intelligence Jan 25

@jik Amen

Peter Brown Jan 25

@jik disarming society, including the police and prohibiting the carrying of arms, as as the case in virtually every other country would be a good start.
The right to bear arms is from the days of the Wild West, 200 years ago.

Incidentally, most other countries also have a de facto right to bear their arms but only with a licence and only in certain circumstances. It’s not rocket science.

Compromise_bi_flag

@jik I'm old enough to remember Philando Castile, a Black man murdered for legally carrying a gun, despite doing everything by the book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Philando_Castile

Killing of Philando Castile - Wikipedia

@jik Trump's goal is the goal of his financial backers. That is to bring in the digital surveillance state, the Technocracy, by #techbros

#ICE is there to get Americans used to ppl being disappeared off the street or shot = to instill fear. Fear is necessary to either make Americans rally around the flag or fight as so called "domestic terrorists" - BOTH sides benefit Trump - civil war is the blueprint to get ppl begging for the #technocracy, which is the real purpose behind what ICE is doing!

@jik And also all the people who suffer under US military occupation. People in Iraq experienced the same treatment, only much worst plus bombings.

tuban_muzuru Jan 29

Black lives will always matter. Must always matter.

Coach Pāṇini ®Jan 29

@jik We seniors are well aware.
https://www.hornwright.com/civil-rights-law/excessive-force/excessive-force-against-elderly-individuals/

Excessive Force Against Elderly Individuals | Horn Wright, LLP

Aging bodies don’t heal quickly. Seniors face higher risks of broken bones and injuries from police force. Horn Wright, LLP, fights for justice with compassion.

Horn Wright, LLP

Unus Nemo Jan 29

fun fact: No one has been living in the US for 400 years, the United States is only 250 years old (this year).