Thanks for correctly understanding the plight of orangites.

Good catch, I do draw in MSPaint :)

Lemmy users thinking they’re better than redditors but upvoting this

Thanks !

Well if it’s strictly about guns, then the american left has a point to prove about the second amendment.

Is it only there to help school shooters, or is it about well regulated militias opposing tyranny?

Waiting and watching.

I have breathing issues due to being tear gassed too often, my left shoulder suffers from very painful tendinitis that will probably never go away due to being tossed on the ground / beat up, got an acquaintance who lost an eye to a rubber bullet, that’s the life of a regular french demonstrator.

You are severely underestimating the violence of french anti-riot policing methods. Those weapons might sound chill due to being labeled “non-lethal”, but they’re actually quite lethal (people die regularly) and violate the Geneva protocol (tear gas usage is theoretically banned on civilians).

If you believe it’s that relaxed, come demonstrate in France, see what it’s like to be charged at by 100 dudes in full body armor swinging at you trying to do maximum damage while you’re caught in a cloud of toxic gas with nowhere to run. You thought the press could cover your ass by filming the police violence, or that the government would do something about police brutality? Guess what, they target journalists too, and our govt encourages police brutality.

If you’re looking for excuses, don’t drag us into it. Protesting in France isn’t an easy affair, we genuinely put our lives on the line every time we go out there. It’s the police that decides how violent protests are, the reason you hear so much about french “riots” is because our police keeps escalating the violence. We have a peaceful nature.

Americans need to shut the fuck up about the rest of the world I swear. You’re not that special.

Rubber bullets banned in many countries, people lose eyes to them in France

Tear gas long term health effects

Casualties from the yellow vest protests

Police violence on journalists

This documentary’s trailer should tell you enough about our riot police situation

Information doesn’t reach people equally. The media is complicit for underrepresenting this issue, makes sense some people haven’t heard about it yet. And the USA’s racist culture of treating migrants like worthless cattle is guilty of making these stories sell less when the media actually tries to talk about them.

This is about people who were aware of the situation and dismissed, minimized, ignored it. Which is a lot of people. People I’ve been having interactions with for the past decade. It isn’t about you. But there’s still a lesson to be learned here: how come it hasn’t reached you, and what can we change on a structural level to make sure this reaches people widely when it inevitably happens again. There’s an actual conversation to be had, and the topic isn’t guilt, it’s stopping the death machine.

Being dismissive, feeling personally guilty, etc. is how you make sure nothing changes, and guarantees people will keep dying in those camps for decades to come because you and most of the other people in this thread were too busy making this all about yourselves instead of discussing the actual racial bias issues at hand.

Condolences regarding your cat. I know how it feels. Can be as bad as losing a close human. Been there multiple times throughout my life and it never gets better. Got three cats right now and I regularly wake up from nightmares in which I dream they died, you have my full empathy on this topic. I hope you’re handling the grief well, if not therapy genuinely helps. Now that this is out of the way, stop throwing yourself as a shield in the way of people who are refusing to confront their racial bias. They don’t need any protection, and you don’t need to be offering them more excuses.

Sorry (not sorry) about lashing out but I’m getting genuinely pissed at this never ending influx of replies three days in. So many egotistical comments from losers jerking each other off all over the place. Done being polite, the fediverse has a gigantic fragility issue regarding race and masculinity, and I won’t stop posting content that addresses both, won’t stop replying to people trying to minimize those issues, and won’t stop shutting up people who derail conversations by making them about themselves.

To be fair, media underreporting the suffering of minorities is part of the equation.

The abolish ICE movement is not new, it already existed throughout the first Trump presidency. It mostly stopped during the Biden presidency since he showed good will by reversing the most abusive of Trump’s policies right away (proving he wasn’t a mere figurehead and had the power to provide change), but the core rot of border patrol prison camps and treating migrants like cattle never stopped.

I honestly don’t think of a President as more than a figurehead.

Yet his primaries were the best opportunity to send a clear signal that progressives were fed up with his inwards dehumanizing policies and his outwards genocidal policies. Not many seemed to care as he had no real opposition. At some point people have to take responsibility for being complacent, and instead of feeling fragile about it or personally attacked by it (this whole thread), understanding that this is about learning from the past, and figuring out what to do in order for this to never happen again in the future.

People knew extremely well what ICE was and did, since after Trump won a common “joke” on social media was threats to call ICE on the latinos or arabs that voted for Trump. I remember seeing many of those, and being disgusted at how some progressives will only support minorities as long as they support them, and treated ICE as a joke despite the murders still going on.

It’s never been covered up.

This has always been very public knowledge, with which the US population was complacent.

Biden was not primary’d out despite having a role in this, proving that even progressives were fine with it.

Trump was reelected despite knowledge that he would make the situation worse, proving a lot of the US population loves this.

Liberals only started caring about the death camp police once they started shooting people in public, and are now feeling rightfully afraid since ICE is ok killing whites too now. I fear that the ongoing movement is going to be a defensive one, do a bit of defund ICE roleplay, stop when ICE says ok we’re not shooting people on the streets anymore you win, and be fine with that conclusion. A complete dismantling and prosecution of ICE, including a liberation of all the migrants in the camps (especially the thousands “lost” by the system) is the only way forward otherwise the death toll will keep getting worse - 2026 is already the worst year on record in that regard and we’re still in january.

Insert the MLK quote on white liberals being worse enemies to minorities than the KKK. Don’t care much about this thread’s feelings by now since they’ve demonstrated they only care how the situation affects their own feelings, instead of seeing that there is a bigger picture of a social justice fight for migrants being potentially derailed by liberals who are only looking for justice for themselves. I would hate to be the “told you so” person in a while after this whole thing fizzles out and nothing changes, praying time proves me wrong.

Gourmet comment.

It’s good to feel heard in the sea of fragile whiteness on display in this comment section.

Have a beautiful day.

I’m not sure you’re allowed to discuss the concept of self-awareness.

Damn you mad.

Done putting absurd words in my mouth anytime soon or do you have a few more comments like that left in you?

Am I pretending that?

Good and Pretti themselves were both white frontline protesters, among many others who have been at it for a long time. They’re role models.

Whatever reading comprehension disaster is going on in this comment section is something else

Reading comprehender.

From the Oxford dictionary

the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

I doubt anything can be more satirical than making a comic that portrays in an exaggerated way some people’s blind spot for racial issues until they affect them personally in the context of contemporary politics.

Guessing your definition is “things I agree with are satire and things that upset me aren’t” :)