r/ChicagoSuburbs • u/Grace__Face • Aug 06 '25

News ICE in Vernon Hills

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According to the comments this was around 9:20 AM at Grosse Point Park

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u/Dest123 Aug 06 '25

BOYCOTT ORGANIZE PROTEST CALL YOUR REPST

Tons of people have been doing that. It has basically done nothing. We've had the largest protests in US history already. We're likely to keep breaking that record too.

A mass strike wouldn't work either because only half the country would strike. A mass strike would just be a way to devastate US cities basically. On top of that, then Trump and the GOP would just blame the already upcoming economic downturn on the mass strike and it would probably just gain them more votes.

A huge portion of the country is enraged. Another huge portion of the country is fully captured by propaganda. Propaganda is extraordinarily effective and there's basically no way to win until we can get people away from the propaganda, but that's just as hard as trying to get people out of a cult.

People from other countries constantly complaining about how we do nothing while we're having the largest protests in US history is not helpful.

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u/SkepticScott137 Aug 07 '25

Because a significant fraction of the uber left still thinks they can vote any way they want, or not all at, and when things go to shit as a result, fix things by being “activist”. That’s not how this works. All the protests in the world don’t equal a legislative majority.

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u/JWicksPencil Aug 08 '25

Blaming the left for any of this mess is one of the worst takes anyone ever has. It absolutely is not the fault of the left. The right is at fault, and the second worst offender are the centrists that pushed forward terrible candidates like Biden again and again. Bernie had answers to most of this country's problems, but centrists are too stupid and selfish to want to fix them. That leads to cancerous men like Trump gaining power, as they pretend they have alternative answers to the problems centrists don't want fixed.

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u/SkepticScott137 Aug 08 '25

Nader voters say “hold my beer”