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'Surreal Moment for America': ICE Agents in Chicago Drag Children Out of Their Homes, Ransack Building
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this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2025
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Sure, I'll just go ahead and lose my job now and deprive my family of food and shelter before the Nazis get a chance to do so.
I'm all for calling out Nazi bullshit, but blanket statements like this help absolutely nobody.
You really think business are going to mass fire people if we have a general strike? Do you even know what that is?
Chickenshit response
"I don't have people depending on me" ass response.
The vast majority of people involved in the entire history of organized labor had families. You're not helping the people who depend on you by being a coward.
I help my wife by paying for her insanely expensive scleral lenses that she needs in order to fucking SEE.
I help my kids by providing a stable grocery budget, reliable transportation to school and back, clothes, and shelter.
I help my nonverbal preschooler by taking him to weekly speech therapy while my wife handles the rest of the family.
You cannot help others when you can't even help your own family. And calling the people who are literally unable to do anything outside of that, "cowards", doesn't help anybody and makes YOU a gigantic piece of shit for refusing to even try putting yourself in someone else's shoes.
I am doing everything I possibly can in my power, and more, just to keep my family afloat, then you fucking shitheels come in with nobody directly depending on you, point at people like me while puffing your chest out, proclaiming for all to hear: "LOOK, HE IS NOT WILLING TO DO SUCH A SIMPLE TASK, HE IS A COWARD AND A BAD MAN".
Unempathetic people like you are the entire reason for humanity's pitfalls.
Do yourself a favor: go fuck a cactus.
That's a whole lot of words to say "no fuck you I like being a coward and I resent being told to stop or take any responsibility whatsoever for the state of the world my children will inherit"
You don't have a clue whether I or any of the other people who've clearly told you this before have got dependents or not, and you don't actually care. You're just looking for any excuse you can find to ignore valid criticism, and in the absence of a coherent argument to support your spinelessness you're more than happy to make shit up to discredit your critics. Trump would be proud.
Yes, I'm totally chickenshit for choosing to keep my family fed and sheltered over a call to revolution made by some pissant on the Internet larping as a leftist guerilla.
It takes a real man to know when to let those more capable lead the revolution.
Nah, bro. Fuck your vanguards. I'm just not interested in ruining my wife's life because I fell in with some first semester anarchists who think good praxis is scolding working people just trying to survive for not storming a federal building.
Nobody is saying you have to lead anything, just find someone worth following and start following
The vast majority of people involved in the entire history of organized labor had families. You’re not helping the people who depend on you by being a coward.
Cool. Let me know when you find a modern labor movement that isn't sucking neoliberal cock or still living in 1918.
Excuses
Blow it out your ass, kid. The only thing you've ever organized is your striped sock collection.
I'm sure believing that helps you feel better about being a fucking coward, it definitely doesn't help anything else
I've watched documentaries and studied the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, I don't think Trump will get that powerful. Germany was in bad shape post WW2, and Hitler was quite young, energetic and commanding with a clear vision for his future. Trump is old, tired, and has broken too many promises to his base.
As long as the press mostly stays free, and journalists don't face punitive measures for their reporting, Trump will come and go.
Oof...you guys wanna tell 'em or should I? :(
Trump is just a puppet at this point. If he croaks in office, Vance will take his place. Despite the memes, Vance is incredibly smart and will be much worse, since he doesn't ramble like Trump does.
The problem is that Trump is speed running the country into shithole status (economically, I know we were already there on the healthcare, housing and wealth inequality fronts).
And the smart assholes with ambition are running the show, Miller, Vance and Johnson.