Is this because CNN thinks there is some hint that the video might be misleading? That they are all edited or faked or easily misinterpreted?
The answer to that is no. We all know that. They use that passive language because they are not interested in the truth, they are, as always, simply terrified of being called biased by the fascists.
I've been watching all these videos and reading posts from rightfully angry white folks. They are shocked. They are outraged over yet another killing by ICE.
What we are witnessing is a moment when a people who were raised to believe the state ultimately exists to protect them, now realize the state can also erase them and then lie about it with a straight fucking face.
But for these rightfully angry white folks, this realization is landing as “authoritarianism,” “police state,” "Nazism," “this is what dictatorships do." They keep saying this because liberal whiteness has long located tyranny somewhere else. In other countries, other regimes, other histories, other people’s bodies. Not ours. Not to US citizens. Not white mothers and ICU nurses.
But for Black folks, state violence has never needed a new name. We didn’t have to wait for the language of fascism or authoritarianism to understand what it means when armed agents can kill you and then script your death into criminality and blame you for your own death.
WE have been living inside that grammar for centuries. What’s new ain't the state violence. What’s new is WHO is being forced to recognize its structure.
Do y’all believe us now?
Now that the camera shows what our bodies have always known. Now that the lie is so naked even citizenship and white bodies can’t cover it. Now that you’ve felt, for one searing second, what it means to be disposable to the state."
So do MAGAheads have an internal bias where they think the only reason for a liberal to have a gun is because they plan to do assassinations and murders?
Count me among the not okay. A lot of recent events--political, national, and personal--are just destroying my mental health. Hell, I only dragged myself out of bed about half an hour ago. I'm just not quite sure what to do besides breathe.
I'm not okay, either. I'm in much the same situation, except I only made it out of bed for long enough to eat breakfast (corn tortillas, bologna slices, BBQ sauce, milk) before getting back in again. Lots of thoughts bouncing around in my head. Lots of "what if" and "what then" and whatnot.
I need to get back to work. I need to get back on my meds, find a shrink again, put my unfinished emotional business behind me, get my affairs in order. I don't need to be rotting in bed wondering what songs I want people to play at my funeral, which is what I'm doing right now. (I'm preparing myself for the possibility than an ICE agent will kill me at a protest.) I need to eat lunch and take a shower and at least get out of the house again today. I need to change the channel in my head to something other than this. And yet...here I am.
I pray you're able to get back on your meds. I know full well that without my own meds, I'd be 100X worse than I am. At least on my meds I'm able to care enough to worry instead of just doing the bed-rotting thing.
I'm in the same boat. It's making it hard to function and everytime I feel like I've gotten things back together, some new national crisis or personal emergency comes crashing in. Things are happening so often and so close to home that it just wears me down.
I don't think we're in this alone though. So many are dealing with the same things. We just have to push through it. We're not okay, but we can be there together to face it, and hopefully come out of this intact on the other side.
I don't know you or exactly what you're going through, but your noncommenting on wonkette, so you're obviously good people. We can get through this.
I try to be good people. I get overwhelmed and severely depressed, but I try to help others where I can. Lately, though, things are just...bad. And laughing sometimes helps, but it's sadly only temporary.
I struggle with feeling like I'm doing enough. I'm in a place (medical, geographically, mentally) where I'm not able to be out there in the street witnessing or taking action. Life l piles up, I try to get laughs when I can, I feel like I'm not getting enough social interaction anymore. Someone above said breathing is good and be mindful of it, and it's actually good advice. Sometimes just focusing on existing in the moment and getting into an empty headspace where you can just "be" is helpful.
I’m not okay. I feel quite sick, in fact. Although I don’t know this man, it brought me right back to the Pulse shooting in Orlando, to which I also had no personal connection. But the feeling that they’re gunning *us* down. I’m angry, sad, impotent. Where once there was a life, there’s now a corpse. May his assassins rot in the hell of their belief system.
I actually want his assassins to rot in hell after they are taken out of this temporal realm by capital punishment. Yes, I'm not supposed to think this way, but these thugs take great joy out of killing, maiming, beating, torturing, and denigrating their fellow citizens. The Nuremberg trials put these kinds of people to death. I wouldn't mind if we did the same in this country, but make their executions public.
I’m spitting mad. About to attend a vigil. Won’t say which rights I’ll be using there
"appears to show" vs. "shows"
Is this because CNN thinks there is some hint that the video might be misleading? That they are all edited or faked or easily misinterpreted?
The answer to that is no. We all know that. They use that passive language because they are not interested in the truth, they are, as always, simply terrified of being called biased by the fascists.
No, we are not okay.
I follow this writer, Dr. Stacey Patton, and these words of hers are important.
FB link because I can't find it on her Substack: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1T9uTRjgQp/
"Umph.
I've been watching all these videos and reading posts from rightfully angry white folks. They are shocked. They are outraged over yet another killing by ICE.
What we are witnessing is a moment when a people who were raised to believe the state ultimately exists to protect them, now realize the state can also erase them and then lie about it with a straight fucking face.
But for these rightfully angry white folks, this realization is landing as “authoritarianism,” “police state,” "Nazism," “this is what dictatorships do." They keep saying this because liberal whiteness has long located tyranny somewhere else. In other countries, other regimes, other histories, other people’s bodies. Not ours. Not to US citizens. Not white mothers and ICU nurses.
But for Black folks, state violence has never needed a new name. We didn’t have to wait for the language of fascism or authoritarianism to understand what it means when armed agents can kill you and then script your death into criminality and blame you for your own death.
WE have been living inside that grammar for centuries. What’s new ain't the state violence. What’s new is WHO is being forced to recognize its structure.
Do y’all believe us now?
Now that the camera shows what our bodies have always known. Now that the lie is so naked even citizenship and white bodies can’t cover it. Now that you’ve felt, for one searing second, what it means to be disposable to the state."
I may have found one of the Democrat pollsters:
"Minneapolis shootings put Trump’s immigration surge at center of election-year fight"
>otherwise, we'd still be talking about the price of groceries, I guess.
So do MAGAheads have an internal bias where they think the only reason for a liberal to have a gun is because they plan to do assassinations and murders?
Cause it sure is looking that way right now.
Weird.
This is Kent State in slow motion. The boiling frog. Then - 4 in a few seconds. Now - 1 on 1/7, next on 1/24. And more to come?
Always, the ones with guns "fear for their lives" from the ones ("domestic terrorists") without guns.
Nixon promises to end Vietnam war, then invades Cambodia. Students ("these bums") respond.
And the Right spins -
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/reviews/the-truth-about-the-kent-state-shootings/
May the 4th be with you.
Charlie Kirk is right
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:t6ubj2wlhc34awzcymh3qpur/bafkreieexyubhhinhnnjcb7n7h7phsu75vkwneadsz473didw6klnjsy3a@jpeg
"But not for commie woke libs."
Funny thing about Kirk, betcha he'd have marched in lockstep with these ICEholes.
Another funny thing? He's still dead.
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1qmk7ev/pam_bondi_offers_to_pull_ice_out_of_minneapolis/
"Give us a list of names and we'll leave."
Right
Where the Epstein collab names?
don't negotiate with terrorists
Your day of reckoning is coming, Pam.
Count me among the not okay. A lot of recent events--political, national, and personal--are just destroying my mental health. Hell, I only dragged myself out of bed about half an hour ago. I'm just not quite sure what to do besides breathe.
Breathing is a pretty worthwhile pursuit. Seriously, focus on it, be mindful of it.
I'm not okay, either. I'm in much the same situation, except I only made it out of bed for long enough to eat breakfast (corn tortillas, bologna slices, BBQ sauce, milk) before getting back in again. Lots of thoughts bouncing around in my head. Lots of "what if" and "what then" and whatnot.
I need to get back to work. I need to get back on my meds, find a shrink again, put my unfinished emotional business behind me, get my affairs in order. I don't need to be rotting in bed wondering what songs I want people to play at my funeral, which is what I'm doing right now. (I'm preparing myself for the possibility than an ICE agent will kill me at a protest.) I need to eat lunch and take a shower and at least get out of the house again today. I need to change the channel in my head to something other than this. And yet...here I am.
I pray you're able to get back on your meds. I know full well that without my own meds, I'd be 100X worse than I am. At least on my meds I'm able to care enough to worry instead of just doing the bed-rotting thing.
I'm in the same boat. It's making it hard to function and everytime I feel like I've gotten things back together, some new national crisis or personal emergency comes crashing in. Things are happening so often and so close to home that it just wears me down.
I don't think we're in this alone though. So many are dealing with the same things. We just have to push through it. We're not okay, but we can be there together to face it, and hopefully come out of this intact on the other side.
I don't know you or exactly what you're going through, but your noncommenting on wonkette, so you're obviously good people. We can get through this.
I try to be good people. I get overwhelmed and severely depressed, but I try to help others where I can. Lately, though, things are just...bad. And laughing sometimes helps, but it's sadly only temporary.
I struggle with feeling like I'm doing enough. I'm in a place (medical, geographically, mentally) where I'm not able to be out there in the street witnessing or taking action. Life l piles up, I try to get laughs when I can, I feel like I'm not getting enough social interaction anymore. Someone above said breathing is good and be mindful of it, and it's actually good advice. Sometimes just focusing on existing in the moment and getting into an empty headspace where you can just "be" is helpful.
I hate all of this so much
Could'a had Kamala and Tim…
I’m not okay. I feel quite sick, in fact. Although I don’t know this man, it brought me right back to the Pulse shooting in Orlando, to which I also had no personal connection. But the feeling that they’re gunning *us* down. I’m angry, sad, impotent. Where once there was a life, there’s now a corpse. May his assassins rot in the hell of their belief system.
I actually want his assassins to rot in hell after they are taken out of this temporal realm by capital punishment. Yes, I'm not supposed to think this way, but these thugs take great joy out of killing, maiming, beating, torturing, and denigrating their fellow citizens. The Nuremberg trials put these kinds of people to death. I wouldn't mind if we did the same in this country, but make their executions public.
The top photos of the week by AP photojournalists:
https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/pictures-of-week-global-photo-gallery-c820d5f4364a952a6227ef5cf0a86fa7?
Just to point out that this violence is a tacit admission by the Shambles Administration that "The Wall" didn't / doesn't work.
"The Wall" was another grift perpetrated by the Manchurian Cantaloupe, his friends, and associates.
First law of opposition: "If you push something hard enough it will fall over".
Ann Telnaes' cartoon:
https://open.substack.com/pub/anntelnaes/p/another-murder?
KARE interviewed the woman, who was dragged out of her car by ICE agents on her way to the traumatic brain care center:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlCpUFggUxY
Jesus. All these ICEholes need to be locked up.
I prefer fucked up.