The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by elphenor

could anarchists just as easily have this fight over the wall instead of over people's lives

It’s not either or unless we let them make it that way.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by The Batlord

I say let LA become an urban, house-to-house warzone with immigration officials being hung from lamp posts. The right needs to see what happens when you go into neighborhoods and start kicking down doors.

Seriously. I am so ****ing ready. I will ****ing be there!

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

I was going to say that exact same thing.

This is how you become Chula.

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Seriously. I am so ****ing ready. I will ****ing be there!

I mean I won't, but I'd be willing to burn an American flag on TV like a true weekend revolutionary. Give me a ride and I might tag along though.

[WWWP]

There's so much fear in the air here, so many of my daca friends have just retreated from the world, most of them have never even been out of state, let alone Mexico. We declared ourselves a sanctuary city this time last year and tbh we're ready to fight.

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by elphenor

DACA expires in March, that has already been lost

if even one person gets shipped to a foreign country based on their race that is a far greater loss than the wall

The ground the wall stands on can't fight back, take its case to court, get in front of a camera and tell its story, or shame America into hanging its head in shame with all the world watching a crime against architecture while chewing on lemons. A wall is an embarrassment. A mass deportation is a narrative.

[Trollheart]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

It’s a puss ass law by Poland but they’re an autonomous state. Israel neneds to mind its own business.

As for your other question, if Auschwitz was in Ireland wouldn’t you feel like you guys pussed out a bit?

Yes of course. There were Catholic interment camps in Northern Ireland in the seventies you know. But I would personally never refer to Auschwitz as a "Polish concentration camp". It was a Nazi concentration camp that happened to be IN Poland. Are all those "black torture sites" that were uncovered a while back seen as run by those states, or by the CIA?

Originally Posted by rubber soul

Yeah, it's an unnecessary law. As far as Polish complicity goes, you may want to read the graphic novel, Maus, by Art Speigelman. It is about how his family dealt with the holocaust in Poland and you can see how some Poles were complicit, not out of evil (though there was some anti-Semitism as well), but basically for their own survival. It had to have been a living nightmare then.

I'm sure there was SOME complicity, for various reasons (scores get settled in wars, sadly) but the point is that making it about whether it was a Nazi (German) camp or a Polish one surely trivialises the existence of same? What: it's not a Polish camp it's a German one. Phew! That was close! We can forget about it now?

I'd be interested to hear Yac's take on this, of course.

[Trollheart]

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by elphenor

DACA expires in March, that has already been lost

if even one person gets shipped to a foreign country based on their race that is a far greater loss than the wall

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by elphenor

it'd take several years to get anywhere in it's construction

And? You don't think that there will be lobbyists and congresspeople too tied to the wall's completion/budget allotment to let it die once it's put into effect?

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Frownland

And? You don't think that there will be lobbyists and congresspeople too tied to the wall's completion/budget allotment to let it die once it's put into effect?

Plus, you can’t waste a billions of dollars without letting people die.