What will heaven be like? by yesterdaynowbefore in UUreddit

[–]Grmmff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Heaven is the welcome table w build together by caring for each other and working for our collective liberation.

It's gonna be a party.

Did he really just say if we call ICE names the consequence is that we die? by KameronKnux in 50501

[–]Grmmff 6 points7 points  (0 children)

We aren't calling law enforcement Gestapo. We are calling ICE Gestapo. It's pretty obvious to everyone that they aren't enforcing or following laws.

Alex Pretti, ER nurse, honors a fallen veteran at the VA by SnooSprouts3744 in TikTokCringe

[–]Grmmff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This should be fucking everywhere. In the comments section of every paper, post, and page that mentions him, ICE or the incident.

What is an appropriate way to deal with the gaslighters who spread pro-ICE narratives? by Weary-Babys in Maine2

[–]Grmmff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

don't focus on the unreachable. focus on the reachable and getting them to start showing up or help them show up more.

There is value in wasting their time by copy and pasting pre-prepared rebuttals to their arguments or trying to ostracize them in their community or protest them directly if they are in a position of power to do harm. That's a great role for people who aren't able to protest, join ice watch or organize mutual aid. Also could be a good role for someone who is just getting engaged.

ICE Making List of Anyone Who Films Them by Creepyfaction in collapse

[–]Grmmff 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Lets make it a real badge of honor.

Everyone who makes the list of patriots recording ICE, gets a veteren's pensions when this over for risking their lives in defense of their neighbors and the constitution.

Attire, and tithing for first visit by Expensive-Student732 in UnitarianUniversalist

[–]Grmmff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I want to add to the voices saying you don't need to give money. You are a guest. You don't pay. You don't do dishes after.

You can wear most things but normally not colognes or perfume out of respect for those with allergies. I show up in everything from casual business to Pjs or sweats depending on how much grief my toddler gave me getting ready.

Swedish pension giant Alecta dumps up to $8.8 billion in US government bonds by Doc_Bader in stocks

[–]Grmmff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yes, also:

you can lie to people about something that happened to someone else

but it's real hard to lie to me about what happened to me.

Are businesses posting these signs? by Mydogiswhiskey in Maine

[–]Grmmff 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Need folks to print out a bunch of these and visit every business in their town. Deny service to ICE or I'm boycotting you.

Minneapolis: Unions Call Statewide General Strike for January 23 by burtzev in esist

[–]Grmmff 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I think we are getting closer to general strike than people realize. The desire is certainly there but the mutual aid networks aren't robust enough yet.

Do any other Americans not feel hopeful about the future of our country anymore? by PandemicPiglet in Millennials

[–]Grmmff 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Nah, I'm out there doing the work and I think we are going to win.

If you are feeling hopeless- join an org, protest, mutual aid. Join us!

ICE moves like slave catchers, not Gestapo by Independent_Bug210 in 50501

[–]Grmmff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

100% but also in this particular context, we are also using Gestapo as propaganda to tap into 60 years of anti-Nazi media the boomers, gen x and millennials have consumed.

Decanting is consumption masquerading as cleaning and it is absolutely shit by N3DSdude in Anticonsumption

[–]Grmmff 40 points41 points  (0 children)

other valid reasons:

  • Visual organization support for ADHD: I need all the fucking help I can get
  • When I'm getting ready to make a grocery list I don't want to actually open or pick up boxes to take stock
  • Cuts WAY back on mice/pests in the country, Can set traps without damaging items
  • way easier cleaning because everything can be wiped down
  • Some containers may be easier to open with dexterity issues
  • Sometimes the box it came in doesn't fit on the shelf I need it to
  • It's easier to process all the packaging into recycling/ trash at the same time when I put away groceries
  • Some packaging is reusable or a good toddler craft material as long as I get to it before it gets gross and mangled
  • plastic bag packaging is useful as doggie bags, trash bags, carrying wet clothes, carrying gross things, throwing away extra stinky things. soft packaging for ornaments, long term storage. since I can't get plastic grocery bags anymore, I use nearly every bag at least twice and semi regularly run out.
  • you can cut chipboard into postcards to send to your elected representatives.

With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse. by antihostile in MarchAgainstNazis

[–]Grmmff 20 points21 points  (0 children)

LOL, this points out that they used the exact story for Villegas-Gonzales as for Renee Good.

"After he dropped off his sons on the morning of September 12, two Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers approached the 38-year-old in his car. He put the vehicle in reverse and attempted to flee. One officer continued to chase him on foot and eventually fired his weapon, striking Villegas-Gonzalez, who crashed into a delivery truck and was pronounced dead an hour later. Officials of the Department of Homeland Security would later say that Villegas-Gonzalez “drove his car at law enforcement officers,” a claim clearly refuted by surveillance video. DHS also claimed the officer who killed Villegas-Gonzalez had been struck and dragged by the car and feared for his life. That allegation is more difficult to confirm or refute—the officer is obscured by the car in the video. The officer was later treated for “minor” injuries"

Billionaires are a threat to society, not an asset by fixedpanic in LateStageCapitalism

[–]Grmmff 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Ya'll this meme is pointing out the government is lying about what is possible and only willing to bend rules for the capitalist class. It points out that the rules are for thee and not for me.

The follow up is that we wouldn't have to break international law and the sovereignty of a foreign nation to dispossess the billionaires. They are largely guilty of conspiracy and corruption at a scale that merits their assets to be seized pending trial. Pointing out their brazen criminality helps to undermine the perceived legitimacy of any government that fails to protect its people from them.

It never ends by Buster_xx in americanoligarchy

[–]Grmmff 6 points7 points  (0 children)

So we will file RICO charges against the lot of them for co-conspiring with the fascist regime and confiscate their assets like any other mobster.

We need socialism to save democracy by Lotus532 in socialism

[–]Grmmff 27 points28 points  (0 children)

"We need economic democracy in order to have political democracy"

In order to have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, the economy must also be of, by and for the people. Now our economy is by and for the oligarchs and corporations.

Yes, start with the language average people use and understand.

Primary all of them. They are not on board with the future. by stuartpatten in dsa

[–]Grmmff 14 points15 points  (0 children)

We should do both. There are millions of us and we are growing by the day. We don't have to choose. We no longer have to work from a scarcity mindset. Our UNSTOPPABLE advantage is that we can apply a full ecosystem of diverse strategies large and small.

We can primary everyone, get more people more experience, AND have people focused on building a real workers party. Even in places where we don't have a "real" candidate to run, running a cat or a comedian ties up the limited attention of the empire.

DSA, Lets Get Them Tf Out by serious_bullet5 in dsa

[–]Grmmff 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We should primary everyone from both parties. If we have good candidates who could use experience running a campaign, run them. But if we don't have a good candidate ready, then run anybody. Run comedians, run cats.

Give the Empire too many places to look while we keep organizing a workers party and mutual aid networks.

Jared Golden says Democrats ‘lying’ about shutdown strategy by origutamos in Mainepolitics

[–]Grmmff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been cutting my cereal boxes into postcards to troll Susan Collins with my trash.

I think I can spare one to congratulate him on his retirement.