Mastodawn

@_thegeoff Try it over here on our side in America.

We were literally the "melting pot" country. We literally called ourselves that for a time.

But somehow through a long campaign of hate and ignorance people were taught that the things that once made us strong somehow are really bad and should be stopped at all costs.

@nazokiyoubinbou @_thegeoff "Melting Pot" always really meant "comply with our ways." America (and Canada too, just to make sure I'm being honest about my country as well) has always been a white supremacist nation, it only really flirted with pluralism for a hand full of decades.

@minentromaxinfo @_thegeoff Well, "melting pot" never meant that, but it also wasn't said or taught for long I guess.

And I'll concede that America has had this same issue multiple times before. We're very good at hate definitely. I'm just saying that it's a country that was formed by people coming over in the first place and has always consisted of that until pretty darned recently, so that's the lack of self-awareness that we are at at this point.

@nazokiyoubinbou @_thegeoff Oh absolutely, as a white man who is the son of an immigrant, it's never been lost on me the hypocrisy of the children of immigrants complaining about immigration.

@minentromaxinfo @_thegeoff I bet quite a lot of Native Americans would agree. 😆

The amazing thing is, they treat Native Americans (who were here first!) the same way they treat immigrants. Or worse...

@nazokiyoubinbou @_thegeoff Sadly very true. ICE has actually abducted several first nations people and held them as "illegal immigrants." These are insane times.

@minentromaxinfo @_thegeoff ICE has kidnapped even white citizens. I really wish people as a whole could be made to understand how horrible and dangerous they are and why even far right gun nuts should want them shut down yesterday.

@nazokiyoubinbou @_thegeoff 2nd Amendment "enthusiasts" literally had one job.

@minentromaxinfo @_thegeoff The irony on that one is so thick you'll need a steak knife to cut through it and even then it's going to dull the blade before you're through.

I mean it was always a complete crock of it of course, but people were falling for that whole claim that they needed guns supposedly to fight off tyranny. And then here tyranny is and they want to fight *FOR* it instead.

My neighbors are among them. I hear them practicing, knowing they want to shoot people like me...