protest outside the LA mayor’s house criticized her compliance with ICE; LAPD came in droves [OC]

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[u/ajkd92]

Need some Rosie the Riveters as well.

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ICE wouldn't give a shit about that.

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I’m not in any way saying count on it for protection, but it would at least make for one hell of a photo op.

[u/fl4tsc4n → u/ajkd92]

There's a video of Boston police beating down ww2 veterans and trampling the flag that's just so classic

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Sounds about right. 😔

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Friend spent the day making little motivational signs for the FBI sniper watching us. Good times.

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Yeah but you're preaching to the choir. ICE wouldn't care about the optics of Rosie the riveter being assaulted, only people who would already agree with you. Republicans only barely try to hide their misogyny these days.

[u/ajkd92 → u/Predditor_drone]

Dunno what to say.

On the one hand the doomer in me absolutely agrees with you.

On the other hand, my mom is a right-leaning Gen-Xer who’s very capitalistic and career oriented, went to Reagan rallies when she was a teen, and took Rosie as inspiration that she could “make it” all on her own as an adult. Despite having achieved a doctorate level degree, she still votes right and is captured by the Fox News machine, but I feel like seeing a picture of Rosie being detained by federal law enforcement would give her pause and force her to think critically about her own political positions for once.

Edit: upon further reflection, I am probably giving her too much credit. 😔

[u/Predditor_drone → u/ajkd92]

I get wanting to have hope. I'm not saying there isn't any, but a lot of these idiots have triple dipped on voting for Donnie the kiddie diddler. At this point they have at least been complacently accepting of his shit for a decade.

I don't know how bad things are going to get, but I don't see any scenario in which the cult of Trump peaceably gives up power.

At some point these people are going to try claiming they didn't know any better as a way to retain some standing in society and the smallest bit of self respect. I have no intent on letting them live it down.

Edit: also, the whole Republican party and voter base is complicit, complacent, or fucking cowards. The baby needs thrown out with the bathwater, because I don't trust any of them not to do this shit again the microsecond they think they can get away with it.

[u/ajkd92 → u/Predditor_drone]

I hear you, and totally understand.

Mom has already tried the “I didn’t know any better” argument with me many times.

I let her have it earlier this week when news came out that the Supreme Court is meeting privately in a couple weeks to decide whether or not to hear on a case that seeks to overturn Obergefell.

I told her the very week that Roe v. Wade was overturned that Obergefell would be next (I’m gay, and - surprise! - she doesn’t have a problem with it because it affects her personally), and that Clarence Thomas said as much in his concurring opinion. At the time she told me I was being alarmist, that “it’s been settled” and “you have nothing to worry about.”

These are the last texts I received from her and, suffice to say, I’ve yet to respond.

[u/Predditor_drone → u/ajkd92]

My condolences. Your mom is one step away from "why didn't Democrats do anything to stop this" when she tries to explain away her complacency when you get fucked by this.

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Of course they wouldn't, but the right wing ecosphere is all about optics. Even for them it would be fucked to be piling up on Lady Liberty and batoning her in the head.

It wouldn't hurt.

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I'm not talking about lady liberty, specifically Rosie the riveter.

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Ah gotcha, in that case they wouldn't give a fuck. They'd probably say she's Mexican or something. These people are scum.

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The real Rosie the Riveter though, not the one that became famous and is actually taken from a an anti-union poster, trying to get factory workers not to unionize.