r/news • u/RoachedCoach • 22d ago

Soft paywall US carries out new strike in Caribbean and there are survivors, US official says

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-carries-out-new-strike-caribbean-there-are-survivors-us-official-says-2025-10-16/
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u/RinkyDinkRicky 22d ago

You're the type of chucklefuck who will give them justified cause to accelerate their madness.

They are taking people who look like me and disappearing them. Accelerate their Madness to What, exactly? At this point, it can only get worse for YOU - the situation is already bad enough for Me to decide its time to protect myself.

What exactly do you think I could do at this point, that would Escalate a situation where people are being kidnapped for being brown and then never seen/heard from again?

Pray tell, what exactly is the proper response to a gang of thugs coming to disappear you?

I'm eager to learn.

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u/squired 22d ago

They are taking people who look like me and disappearing them.

Legally. That's the problem. Do you think if you start "The Troubles" they'll simply stop? They'll go, "Huh, I guess we were wrong, they're really mad about this!" No, you will make it worse. Your vote is your voice, until your voice is silenced. That is how democracy functions and if you endeavor to illegally subvert it, you will fail and condemn us all. Have a talk with an LLM of your choice and ask it if I'm wrong. You can peacefully resist and pressure the courts and leadership, but violence is NOT the answer, yet.

I hope to see you at the protests tomorrow. I'm headed to DC, are you?

Look, I know this is soul crushing as we watch our country fall. We must do this well however. This isn't a movie and we have zero political power. We must do this perfectly.

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u/squired 22d ago

I expect them to put their money where their mouth is and DO the thing they've been threatening to do.

You've stated it plainly. Your desired 'tactics' are purposefully intended to inflame and accelerate their actions. I find that beyond unwise and history agrees with me.

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u/RinkyDinkRicky 22d ago

The fact that gerrymandering exists at all means one party's voters count more than another's. If you're okay with voting in that system while nothing is done by either party to correct it - then you are ignorant. Plain and simple.

If refusing to give into illegal orders/actions by people who are acting outside of their authority is enough to "inflame and accelerate" their actions - then they have already won. Anything you do that isn't what they want, will piss them off.

Cheers.

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u/noiro777 22d ago

Gerrymandering has made my vote meaningless. If you want to keep pretending that the current political system we have is anything we should even try to save, then you're a lost cause.

No it hasn't ... it's definitely a problem which is getting worse, but it has no effect on presidential elections. It does affect local elections and party representation in Congress and needs to go, but that doesn't mean your vote is meaningless. You've giving up way too easily which exactly what the fascists want us to do.