• Orbituary@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I keep hearing this “if you’re a straight, white male, you’ll be fine.” I’m a straight “white passing” male (half Cuban, with no Latin origin names).

    When people say this, I ask, “what about my friends? What about my family? What about the people I love?” Does that not affect me? Are we supposed to ignore their plight?

    I don’t see what we can do to combat Trump short of organizing and fighting back. We all know how good the left are at that.

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      4 days ago

      If you can get out do so and I hate the idea of more guns on the streets but if at this point everyone that’s at risk or has loved ones at risk needs to be armed as much as possible and have a go bag ready to go. If goon squads are coming for ya don’t go quietly with them.

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      I don’t see what we can do to combat Trump short of organizing and fighting back. We all know how good the left are at that.

      How do you think we got anything good at all, ever?

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        The left lost its way. BLM and Floyd protests were the closest we’ve gotten to the anger the left displayed for the Vietnam war.