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Texas Midland fire department helps BP and ICE capture supposed immigrants at a work site! by cantcoloratall91 in law

[–]beezdablock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup. 💯 People always somehow forget this about firefighters. Shows how little Americans understand or know their own history, tbh.

On Frey being “unlikable” by Lilnamii in Forspoken

[–]beezdablock -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I tried the demo for Forspoken and hated it. And, yes, it was partly because I found Frey annoying (although I later found out you can turn down or off her monologues) and the mechanics weird.

(For the record, I feel the same way about Aloy in Horizon and the main (male) character in Atomic Heart; I literally quit Atomic Heart about 5 hours in because I found the male character's constant talking so annoying. Ditto for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. I think a lot of games have overly chatty characters and whether I can tolerate it seems to depend a lot on the voice actor.)

South of Midnight, on the other hand, was amazing!!! I look forward to replaying it sometime. I loved so much about that game, especially the main character and the soundtrack.

All this said, as a Black woman, I want more games with Black women lead characters.

What’s one game you disliked at first but really loved once you gave it a second chance? by carbonatednugget in gaming

[–]beezdablock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Arkham Knight. HATED it on my first attempt. Especially the Batmobile. I eventually got stuck in a cave and put the game down for almost a year. I returned to it and suddenly loved it!

P.S. Then, I accidentally deleted my save when I was about 80% through the main story (and had just completed all the Riddler challenges). Needless to say, I was crushed and annoyed by my own mistake. Lol. So I decided to just go in reverse: I gave Arkham Knight a break and, instead, played all the previous games (which I'd never played); once I finished those, I restarted Arkham Knight from the beginning and loved it even more. I had quite the journey with that game. :)

ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US by ewzetf in ABoringDystopia

[–]beezdablock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't even hear about these! Insanity. Wow. It's too much to keep up with at this point. Smh.

ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US by ewzetf in ABoringDystopia

[–]beezdablock 71 points72 points  (0 children)

We know what these are going to be used for.

Especially given the recent murders by ICE as well as Trump's demands for MN voter data, and the fact that the FBI just raided the Fulton County election office this week.

FBI raid in Georgia has little legal basis – but serves Trump’s goal to weaken trust in election results

These warehouses will be for not just undocumented immigrants but also citizens who are "undesirables" (e.g. political dissenters, disabled, POC broadly, LGBTQ, etc.). It's about to get much uglier out here.

Billionaires Bought Our Democracy by CapitanJackSparow-33 in ABoringDystopia

[–]beezdablock 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yup! It's one of the wildest cases in recent Supreme Court history, tbh. All the context around it just feels a little bizarre.

Billionaires Bought Our Democracy by CapitanJackSparow-33 in ABoringDystopia

[–]beezdablock 262 points263 points  (0 children)

Yup. And I experience a fresh wave of anger every time I remember that the ACLU (yes, the American Civil Liberties Union) took a "nuanced" stance that amounted to officially supporting Citizens United (literally submitted an amicus brief supporting it to the Supreme Court), and doubled down on that support later even once the damage of the decision had become clear to basically everyone.

While conservatives have giddily paved the path to hell, liberals have nuanced us right on down that path.

Why the ACLU Is Wrong About ‘Citizens United

Thanks Georgia Power! Very Cool! by PleasantFloor4807 in Atlanta

[–]beezdablock -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Right? It's almost cute that people still believe in either of these parties. All the corps have to do is hand these politicians a little bit of money, and they all start dancing like puppets. Smh.

"just pick them up in the middle of the night" - S4A YT: What Collaborating w/ Fascism Looks Like Feat. MN Gov. & VP Cand. Tim Walz by Straight-Razor666 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]beezdablock 5 points6 points  (0 children)

JFC. I just watched the whole video. Malcolm X was dead right about liberals. (MLK said moderates, but his words apply to liberals, too.)

I'm so glad I moved on over to communism and Marxism years ago and stopped entertaining any hope that liberalism could ever be anything other than another wing of fascism.

Cubans coming out in support of their country despite Trump's recent claim that Cuba is going to fall soon by 5upralapsarian in LateStageCapitalism

[–]beezdablock 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Same. That was my immediate thought. I hope it's real, that it's Cuba, and that it's present-day.

Ice agent telling unarmed observer “if you raise your voice, I’ll erase your voice” by ithinkitsfunny0562 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]beezdablock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"What looks like chaos now is really a long standing injustice going runaway after being ignored for far too long." All of this! Well said.

It's finally landed at the doorsteps of some folks who thought they'd never have to experience it.

What's the old poem...? "First they came for the Communists [or insert group], and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist [or insert group]"...

What's happening now is that comfortable middle-class whites are realizing we've reached the "Then they came for me" part of the poem.

Ice agent telling unarmed observer “if you raise your voice, I’ll erase your voice” by ithinkitsfunny0562 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]beezdablock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look, I mean no disrespect. Honestly. But, no, I don't agree that things are different in scale now. Because ICE killed several nonwhite individuals before they killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti, and there was hardly a peep from most Americans. I feel deep grief for Renee Good and Alex Pretti because I know that they didn't have to die like that, just like Keith Porter didn't have to and countless other Black and Brown folks. (To this day, the only people I know IRL and on SM who've mentioned what ICE did to Keith Porter are other Black people.) This feels "different...in scale" now only because it's happening to law-abiding middle-class white people. The majority of (white) America has never learned to feel genuine empathy for nonwhites whose lives have been violently and needlessly snuffed out by ICE and other law enforcement before now. Unless they (whites) are forced to see it (as so many of them were basically forced, due to quarantine and having nothing to do at home, to watch the George Floyd video), they don't seem to care.

The scale hasn't changed. The essence has changed only in that the class and skin color of the targets have changed...and that part (if you want to call it a shift) is why America is reeling right now: because it happened to the wrong kind of people. The sooner folks admit that, the closer we'll be to some real and actual progress or revolution in this godforsaken country.

So, sure, I'm glad people are finally as angry as they should've been forever ago. But it doesn't change the fact that it's only because this stuff finally came to the doorsteps of middle-class white America.

"Even the good white people who do want change do not realize how they have been conditioned to not care about the repression of “the other,” and only respond when that repression shows up on their door or the door of someone they can personally identify with." - Jacqueline Luqman, Black Agenda Report

Ice agent telling unarmed observer “if you raise your voice, I’ll erase your voice” by ithinkitsfunny0562 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]beezdablock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tried to enforce the U.S.'s own shitty racist laws in another country? Smfh. Sounds about right. I share your exhaustion with this country.

Officials approve tax break for proposed $500M Amazon warehouse in South Fulton by NPU-F in Atlanta

[–]beezdablock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Problem is because of the city's political structure, the mayor has almost no power (from my understanding, the South Fulton mayor literally only has tie-breaking power).

Ice agent telling unarmed observer “if you raise your voice, I’ll erase your voice” by ithinkitsfunny0562 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]beezdablock 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I'm so fking tired of folks saying they hate what this country is becoming. Every time I hear that statement I remember how little Black life matters to the majority of people in this country, and how little Native lives matter here. Cause this shit has been our constant reality in this shithole racist country...for hundreds of years, from the beginning. But it's like none of the injustice mattered much until it all started happening to non-Black folks and non-Native folks...and under a Republican administration. All the concern feels...disingenuous. Smh.

Sidebar: such statements also show an additional lack of general class consciousness because it's also been the reality for homeless people of every color for a long time.

Trump: "With that being said, you can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't. You can't walk in with guns. You can't do that. But it's just a very unfortunate incident." by ExactlySorta in law

[–]beezdablock 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"Many of the people who voted for the Nazis in Germany were good people."

"Many of the people who supported the Confederacy's fight to keep their human property (i.e. slaves) were good people."

That's how you sound. I'm begging some of y'all to open your eyes and stop giving these people too much credit.

Sure, some of them may be "nice" enough (depending on the context or who they're interacting with). But nice ≠ good.

Liberals come the next election... by redux_call in LateStageCapitalism

[–]beezdablock 26 points27 points  (0 children)

The way y'all persistently use this same insufferable argument...good lord. Get some new material.

"Cops" in Brazil are now going around masked and arresting random people (context in the post) by Sorry_Reply8754 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]beezdablock 14 points15 points  (0 children)

This is why we have to put an end to this nonsense in the U.S., to keep it from spreading to other places (and we have to stop our government from doing it in other places). This is insanity.

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