SARGE

Legit every time someone from the US says "indian" and it's not immediately obvious in context, I ask "do you mean people from India, or Native Americans?"

Sir/Ma'am/Enby, this is a shitpost.

Too Dumb to Be a Cop

That's unpossible.

Gotta shift those goalposts.

I'm sure if we ever manage to organize a national, indefinite strike, there will still be people like this saying it's not real action so it's irrelevant.

Some people won't be happy until they see bodies of dead Americans in a bloody civil war, but they just don't have the courage to come out and say it.

Now now, let's not pretend that you'll go straight to jail.

First they audit you for two years, combing through every single thing while causing constant stress, and then you go to jail.

Because you didn't keep that receipt from the Amish store where you got snacks on a road trip.

I mean, yeah, being required to do something or else you'll be starving and homeless is pretty fucked up and worthy of a day being ruined.

Many of us are resisting, but there's so much more in the way of organizing in the US that isn't a problem in other countries.

I'd love for us to band together like I see France doing. Shut down entire cities just by simply being in the street protesting.

However, it's a lot harder to get people together on something when half the people who want to help are one paycheck from being homeless and starving or dying from their untreated illness without Healthcare.

It's harder to organize when the people who want to organize are spread out over 300 million square miles.

It's harder to organize when historically any left-leaning group is constantly hounded by the Alphabet Squad (fbi/nsa/dhs/etc) and Republicans will abandon their guns before letting performative gasp a black man have one.

Many of us are resisting, but when 1/3 of the population is cheering this shit on, 1/3 can't be bothered to make up their minds, and the entire system stacked against the remaining 1/3 that will at least vote for a chance at change.

Personally I'm helping network immigrants and their families near me so they have a plan of action if something happens and they need to leave quickly, physically protesting when I can, training firearms with some of the LGBT people I know, and trying to get some of the "on the fence" crowd I know to see reason.

It's not much, but it's what I can do without becoming just some dead nut job in the street.

I'd argue that with the government, we are there at face value, but the next level down "behind the lie".

It's very much to me felt like they're saying these things knowing that nobody believes them, like when the stereotypical TV mob boss says something like "I'm broken up about the death of your brother" with a smirk. We all know they're lying, they know we know they're lying, and they're daring us to do something about it.

And also I'd argue that for the MAGAts, they're already a few pegs below the bottom. I've literally been called a terrorist this past week for pointing out Renee good was trying to turn away and leave, and Alex Pretti was unarmed and being beaten while not fighting back when he was executed.

Loudly spouting defeatist BS while voting for something is detrimental to getting the thing you voted for. If you want X but spend all day telling everyone it's all pointless, it doesn't matter if you voted for X when 15 other people decided there's no point in trying for Y since X can't happen.

Whether I agree with either of these people's views is irrelevant.

No need to be ableist.

FTFY:

I always deadpan people who say that, make my index/middle fingers to form a V shape, then force the corners of my mouth up.

You want a smile? Go find someone who's happy. You want service? Don't tell me what to do and I'm willing to try and help.

It usually got a chuckle, but sometimes the person would get uncomfortable and leave like they think I'm about to stab them or something.

Or I tell them my grandmother died.

Hey now we can both be uncomfortable and wishing you hadn't said anything!

her wreckless driving away

I saw nothing reckless about how she was driving in any of the videos I have seen, including the murderer's phone camera.

I saw a normal person driving away normally and then a thug jumped in her way.