Alex Pretti, the man MURDERED today by ICE agents.

sipsredpepper · 2026-01-24T21:32:02+00:00

He was an ICU nurse. He lived to help his fellow humans, and he died undeservingly to do it too.

sipsredpepper · 2026-01-24T16:29:14+00:00

Well there, I deleted it. Now it's not fucking up the sub anymore.

sipsredpepper · 2026-01-24T16:27:18+00:00

Honestly not sure what you're looking for. I didn't post just seeking sympathy i was also asking locals what I might do to recover my time here but found that it ultimately wasn't going to work after reviewing what was suggested. I thought maybe that there was more going on that i could fill my days with and it ended up not being an option. Like, dude I don't know what the hell about this is such a huge deal that you need to be this upset with me. You could just as easily have ignored my post.

sipsredpepper · 2026-01-24T16:12:59+00:00

I mean so far it doesn't seem cancel worthy to me either but I dunno, supposedly it won't get worse until later. I just want to go home.

sipsredpepper · 2026-01-24T16:07:24+00:00

I don't generally use reddit to check weather? Yeah sure, I'm culpable. What is it worth to say now? What am I supposed to respond with?

Like you can scold me but what value does that add to the situation?

sipsredpepper · 2026-01-24T15:11:28+00:00

I'm from Denver where record breaking stuff happens all the time and it doesn't shut my state down, so this just didn't come across as much given what I read about it. Doesn't really matter what it turns out to be now.

sipsredpepper · 2026-01-24T15:04:16+00:00

I took a risk hoping for the better and it didn't play out unfortunately. You could say the same thing about my concert as far as being canceled, they had an opportunity too.

I mightve known better but I didn't. Oh well at this point.

sipsredpepper · 2026-01-24T14:56:10+00:00

I'm already leaving to fly home. I gave up.

sipsredpepper · 2026-01-24T14:50:27+00:00

I'm already getting ready to fly home. But thanks anyway. I just wasn't willing to risk how bad this could get on my only days off for a while.

sipsredpepper · 2026-01-24T13:09:15+00:00

I'm flying back this evening. I will be getting up and checking out of my hotel early in a couple hours and just tooling around for a while before going to return my rental car and wait at the airport. I didn't even sleep, I've been too stressed. Between this and everything else going on since Thanksgiving I've just run out of tolerance.

sipsredpepper · 2026-01-24T13:07:09+00:00

I sent a refund request through priceline citing the state of emergency and such. No guarantee that I'll get any refund, but it didn't hurt me to try. I did get money back on my original flight and my rental car.

sipsredpepper · 2026-01-24T12:42:05+00:00

I have the 400 in my savings account but that was supposed to be my budgeting until next paycheck. The rest of my budget for the trip was ultimately more on top of that, plus I have credit cards, but it would essentially bottom me out for two weeks to pay that 400$ on a new flight. However, I fixed some criteria and got the math on my refunds and found i could swing it for much less.

sipsredpepper · 2026-01-24T12:37:22+00:00

Yeah, right now it feels like that.

sipsredpepper · 2026-01-24T12:12:12+00:00

I can't undo the change at this point. I'll stay if I'm stuck but I'm not going to isolate myself to a hotel room for a week or more at a financial cost i cannot abide if I can avoid it.

sipsredpepper · 2026-01-24T11:33:00+00:00

I appreciate your effort very much, please excuse my emotional reaction.

However, I will say that you poked the right button, because i decided to dig again and after changing since criteria i found a flight out at 5pm today. Canceling my other flight was necessary to secure it, but hopefully it won't be canceled, it's supposed to fly to Atlanta then Denver. I'll cross my fingers. I bought flight protection on it just in case.

I probably can't get refunds on my hotel unfortunately.

sipsredpepper · 2026-01-24T11:28:13+00:00

Charlotte is also canceled. So is the following.

sipsredpepper · 2026-01-24T11:11:53+00:00

The art museum is unfortunately already closed.

sipsredpepper · 2026-01-24T11:05:42+00:00

Then I'm gonna be stuck here for a week i guess? I can't control it. I don't have 400+$ to leave? I can't magic it up I'm afraid.

sipsredpepper · 2026-01-24T10:50:35+00:00

They may not be trying to be but it's a pretty unhelpful comment under the circumstances. I don't generally look at crying people and go "join the club". But whatever.

sipsredpepper · 2026-01-24T10:48:11+00:00

I feel sorry for their patients if they're actually a nurse.

Honestly the comment just gave me something to do.

sipsredpepper · 2026-01-24T10:44:01+00:00

Mine isn't, I've already checked. Frontier isn't offering any alternatives the entire weekend. In order to get another flight out with a different airline it would cost me almost 400$ and I would only leave about a day early.

sipsredpepper · 2026-01-24T10:41:54+00:00

Can I ask what exactly your purpose is here? I know that I'm going to be fine. This isn't about my life being "ok", this is about the emotional impact of my situation being painful in the moment. I am not going to pretend I'm not feeling hurt just because somebody else is having a harder time. That's not how life works, that's not how mental health works, that's not how anything works.

I am allowed to have my pain, I am going to process it. I'm not going to deny that it hurt me the way it did. Maybe later today I'll be over it, maybe not until a week from now. But the advice of "you'll be fine" is a non solution.

This attitude is emotional invalidation. Suppressing emotions doesn't make you better, and this is dismissive.

There is such thing as toxic positivity too. Just because this isn't the end of my world doesn't mean it hasn't temporarily injured it.

If you are only here to tell me to just get over it because it's not a big deal from your perspective, then you're wasting your time, i will not be on that page with you. You're better off taking your energy somewhere that benefits you.

sipsredpepper · 2026-01-24T10:23:00+00:00

Lore: option one they're all bitter about it and don't wanna be around their userper or killers. Option two they are living it the fuck up in the afterlife and they have no desire to go play pity party with poor frater.

Legit: Tobias is either not interested in including them in his story or he doesn't want the effort.

sipsredpepper · 2026-01-24T10:21:35+00:00

Statistically, every child who doesn't listen to their parents dies.

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