nickwitha_k (he/him)

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Cake day: July 16th, 2023

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  • I would say that it is cowardice to demand that others risk their lives while enjoying relative safety. And anyone attempting to force another to risk their lives for any reason is attempting to rob others of their agency over the most fundamental thing that any human has right to: their life.

    Maybe it’s nice sentiment for a healthy teenager or 20-something that isn’t responsible for anyone else’s well-being. However, is that reality doesn’t fit neatly into black and white; bravery and cowardice (and glory is just a lie that the rich and old tell the young and poor to get them to fight and die for them). Sometimes the braver and more just thing is to fulfill one’s responsibilities to their spouse, children, or dependents and ensure that they are able to live to help others. And other’s have had so much taken from them by a place that asking for them to also give their life is pure sadism.

    Beyond that, not everyone is physically, mentally or socially equipped for warfare, which is a good thing because humanity also needs farmers, doctors, teachers, and other builders.













  • The judges who order and enforce the laws can’t just ignore the constitution. Birthright Citizenship is in the constitution.

    Again, I’m really sorry to burst you bubble but do think that understanding the reality of our situation and tearing down the illusions is important.

    1. The Judicial is charged with interpreting the law and arbitrarion. Not enforcement. That’s on the Executive branch.
    2. The US Constitution has been increasingly ignored in both the Judicial and Executive branches since about the 60s. For example, the USSC invented “qualified immunity” in 1967 to allow the Executive branch to effectively ignite constitutional rights. Their fuckery means that “it literally says it in the US Constitution” is insufficient to show evidence harm from being deprived of constitutional rights. Effectively, an identical case must have been tried, which makes it nearly impossible (because of the circular dependency).



  • They’re hiding their identities likely for several reasons:

    • Some are almost certainly not even government employees.
    • A fair number probably belong to known right-wing terrorist orgs.
    • Some of them are “closeted” neo-nazis who don’t want people in their communities to know that they are neo-nazis.
    • They fear retaliation for their blatantly illegal actions. Inaction by those with power to help is forcing the populace towards violence as the only means to justice. Also, underground resistance networks have historically conducted assassination of ranking members of occupation forces - they hope that this will protect them from the inevitable consequences of their actions if they succeed in holding onto power and unmaking the last vestiges of democracy.
    • Concealing identity provides similar deniability for their heinous actions to that of firing squads and other executioners. This makes it easier for them to excuse their actions as “just following orders” (you know, the perennial nazi defense to avoid accepting responsibility for their own actions).
    • Concealing their identity is part of the terrorism. If it’s not possible to know who these people are, they could be your neighbors, or schoolboard members, or even family. This uncertainty is intentional to try to keep the populace in fear of retaliation of exercising their Constitutional rights or resisting. (ie, if your neighbor is an ICE neo-nazi and you don’t know, they can inform on you to their superiors, if they see you leaving for/arriving from a protest).

  • “Disappearing someone” goes back a ways. It’s more than kidnapping or abduction because it is an action taken by authoritarian regimes to not just kidnap someone but, generally make it nearly impossible to locate them, often with torture and/or murder and ensuring that the body isn’t found. The goal is to terrorize the populace by making dissidents and others in targeted populations disappear without a trace, effectively erasing them from their communities. This is coupled with tacit refusal of anyone in government that is supposed to help to get involved.

    ICE is openly committing terrorist acts in the exact same way that the gestapo and stasi did.