“I’m saying it right now,” Homan said. “There’s still going to be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted.”

DHS has acknowledged that neither of the men who have been shot in recent weeks was the target of the ICE operations that led to their deaths.

A witness reported that Guerrero shouted, “I tried to stop” after being shot by an agent while his vehicle moved forward slowly.

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[–] 82 points 3 months ago (68 children)

Here in Chile, when one President declared war on their people, we trashed the country until his governance was all but surrendered, and we even got the chance of making a new Constitution out of it (the idiots blew it, but that's for Season 2 of the series). He got lucky to make it out of the Presidential building in one piece (we historically don't like it when armed conflict touches the place).

What are the so-called American citizens doing?

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  • [–] 59 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    America definitely needs to get a sense of urgency in change, but USA is a much larger, and spread out country than Chile; and it also has the largest & most well funded intelligence agencies helping the oligarchs maintain power.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    More spread out than Chile

    Is the US even that long?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago*

    They do say spread out: the USA actually has a better population distribution than Chile and it's big in two dimensions, whereas Chile is incredibly tall but also incredibly narrow (think: that goth guy).

    That said, Chile is long tall: we get from above our hemisphere's tropic line to the friggin' South pole.

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  • [–] 47 points 3 months ago (19 children)

    The difference is, our police are armed more heavily than some nations military. And our military is more heavily armed than nearly every other nation combined..... And that's forgetting that we've allowed technocrats to install nationwide government surveillance, tracking and recording. Both online and in public places.

    It's not so easy as just "revolt".

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    B-but ... when MAGAts occasionally threaten 'Antifa Communist Marxist Fascists' on Twitter that they 'won't take their bullshit' much longer, they inevitably pull 'we have 220 milllion guns' out of their arse.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Apart from those without healthcare eh?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Nothing. And I get poo-pooed when I suggest this sort of thing. Fucking tired of this place, so much so that I've been looking to leave. It's difficult. I just don't think it's worth fighting for anymore.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    The fun ("fun") thing is evaluating where to leave to. Other places that used to be cool, aren't anymore.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    My biggest concern is getting close to my aging parents without actually living in my home state of Florida. Fuck. I hate the idea of moving back.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago*

    For a much more people oriented answer: I'm trying to survive. I'm trying to make sure my dad takes his medication right so he doesn't die. I'm trying to figure out how to pay bills when the local government I work for gave everyone a 2% cost of living raise, then raised taxes 3% and gave the city manager a $26,000 raise even though he was already being paid close to $200k. The only other person I know that doesn't think trump and all his cronies are the bees knees is elderly, has no retirement and is desperately trying to keep working despite health issues because her husband has cancer and she needs to keep working to pay his bills. Even if I made a ton of money and had help with my dad, I still wouldn't be able to do anything because of my health, either (I am 100% that friend who would get eaten by the zombies first) I'm not young anymore, either.

    I think the internet makes it seem like a lot more people hate what's going on than there actually is. In my experience, i see a small number of crazy Trump fanatics, a small number of concerned and scared people, and then the vast majority just don't care. At least for now. That'll change when they started being affected. By then it'll be too late.

    To sum up: more people don't give a shit than do. We haven't reached the part of the poem where "Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me. "

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    salió de la moneda, pero igual no salió del helicóptero... que en pez descanse...

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    "que en pez descanse " qué lata que nunca se me ocurrió en su momento. ¡Felicidades! :p

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Qué raro ver a un chileno acá... ándate pa la casa, wn! 😁. Saludos!

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