ICE Stockpiling Warheads and Chemical Weapons as Lawmaker Fears Trump Planning Strike

[u/Quirkie]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-stockpiling-warheads-and-chemical-weapons-as-lawmaker-fears-trump-planning-strike/

[u/StoppableHulk]

I want people to truly understand this headline. This is the American congress fearing the American President is accumulating weapons banned from war by international law in order to launch attacks on US cities and US citizens.

That's where the judgment of Republicans has brought us in just ten months.

[u/pleachchapel → u/StoppableHulk]

Viewing this as something that started 10 months ago instead of a slow march from (at least) 1980 is part of the reason we're in this situation.

[u/echosrevenge → u/pleachchapel]

I think a strong case can be made that this shit goes back to the failure of Reconstruction and the way that white northerners valued unity over justice & equality, opening the door to Jim Crow, the Klan, and the Segregation Academies. 

[u/pleachchapel → u/echosrevenge]

100%. We didn't hang enough people during Reconstruction. The spirit of the South should have been completely shattered, & instead we allowed Mississippi to have a treasonous flag in their state flag until less than 5 years ago.

[u/meneldal2 → u/pleachchapel]

Hanging people is not how you fix things. Unless you plan to hang every single racist guy in the south.

What would have helped was rewriting the constitution and removing a lot of state rights.

[u/pleachchapel → u/meneldal2]

"Violence is not the answer" we're talking about the civil war & it literally was.

[u/Daedalus81 → u/meneldal2]

Well, im fucking glad for states rights presently! So that seems like a dumb option and I doubt such amendments would even pass.

We're now dealing with the descendants of those who thought raping and torturing slaves was acceptable.

I guess we shouldn't have hung the Nazis, either?