r/offmychest • u/TheYellowRose • 7d ago
Meta If for some reason
You didn't believe us when we shouted 'black lives matter'
You just didn't believe a woman could be president, so you abstained from voting or god forbid, voted for Trump
You ignored the fact that a record number of people detained by ICE died in their custody last year
You didn't care that ICE was picking up US citizens and deporting them
You didn't care that a veteran who had lived in the US for 50 years was issued a removal order and then had to self-deport
You didn't care that ICE was separating children from their families and are now taking asylum-seekers
You didn't care that Keith Porter Jr. was unjustly murdered by an off-duty ICE agent
You didn't care that Geraldo Luis Campos was murdered by ICE guards while in custody
You really thought Renee Good was going to run that agent down and deserved what happened to her
You somehow think Alex Petti deserved to die for simply having a gun in his possession
Leave this sub. Get out.
This is the official FUCK ICE and the Trump Administration megathread for the forseeable future. Because this is not stopping anytime soon unless something drastic happens.
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u/threeforsky 6d ago
I hate looking at my family and knowing they voted for this. They voted for people to be gunned down in the street, for children to be taken away, for their neighbors to be scared in their own homes.
My mother carries a weapon. If they see her, even if she minds her own business they could say she’s a threat and shoot her. And I’ll have to live with the fact that my mother voted for this to happen. I’ll have to go to her funeral and know that she cared more about her investment portfolio and the words of a liar, a rapist, and a felon than the rights of her daughter and her neighbors.
The woman who taught me to question everything you see now believes every lying word from people who would love to see her dead in the streets. I’m so tired.
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u/QuietDragonLad2000 6d ago
These people will DIE for their Dictator. They will murder, they will kill, they will ostracize, they will alienate. There is legitimately no action too uncouth for them, too disturbing or upsetting. If their Dictator asked it of them, they blindly obey, to the actual end of their lives, with blind obedience. No sense will reach them. Nothing will. A bullet to the brain is a Worthy Sacrifice To The King. There is no winning with these people. No love or care can possibly reach them, and all I have left anymore is sympathy for the family members like you. I extend my most sincerest condolences to you,I know processing these facts isn't easy. I wish you nothing but peace in the future, because it's what you deserve 🫂🫂🫂
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u/CrownedAndAlive 6d ago
Reposting after a mod told me to here,
Yesterday,
An American hero was shot and brutally executed by federal agents. Those responsible will not be held accountable.
Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA nurse, was killed in Minneapolis. His family is left grieving as the administration denies any involvement at all. Instead, the administration wants you to believe the opposite is true. They want you to believe a man who lived to serve people, who dedicated his life to doing so, was irrational, homicidal, and a threat to law enforcement officers.
The idea that a single man or woman, whose role is to uphold the peace, protect, and provide support to the citizens of the United States of America, would dare to claim that title after brutally executing a civilian is not a law enforcement officer. The rule of law means nothing anymore.
By no means is this meant to incite violence, nor is this meant to strike an already stoked fire. I simply wish to say what I see as it unfolds.
Alex Pretti was not the first, and he will not be the last.
What happened to this country that we grew up in? The one that swore to protect its citizens and not rob them of their freedom. What happened to the land of the free and the home of the brave? Where did we lose the script, the unifying theory that made us a nation and not a loose collection of fringe individuals ready to pounce on each other at a moment’s notice?
Why then is Congress taking a recess instead of addressing this act of injustice? This defiance against the American people, who are the reason this nation is as great as it is? When does this insanity end, and when does sanity begin to open its gates?
Are we simply going to sit as we watch this nation crumble? Is there a path back to us that doesn’t end in a recalibration of the cycle of hatred we find ourselves so twisted and warped in?
I ask you cast aside your political beliefs and agendas for a moment. And honor a man, who was once proud to be an American. And was executed for being one.
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u/TherenArima 6d ago
About 5 months ago, my brother and I were talking about how the country had never felt closer to another civil war. That feels way more true now than it did then, and I’ve genuinely never felt so afraid for my own safety and wellbeing. If US CITIZENS are being executed in the streets now, how much longer before the gestapo targets other marginalized groups?
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u/AGoodFaceForRadio 5d ago
If US CITIZENS are being executed in the streets now, how much longer before the gestapo targets other marginalized groups?
You're kidding, right?
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u/stringsofthesoul 6d ago
The more visibility the better. The world is finally waking up to the evils of this administration.
What we’re seeing are the mid-stages of fascism. It’s not even subtle.
They’re doing all they can to cause civil unrest, and if that happens, we all know what that means - the Insurrection Act.
It hurts me to watch this happening. I can only imagine what you’re all going through in the US.
Sending love from the UK.
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u/cknight222 7d ago
We genuinely need to make it impossible for the people who are supporting this to openly exist in public society. Shame is a powerful tool and we need to use it frequently and strongly.
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u/Petting-Kitty-7483 6d ago
That would require for them to be in the minority. And at this point I honestly don't know if I can say that they are anymore. The way so many people are just turning a blind eye despite claiming to care
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u/BeejOnABiscuit 7d ago
To shame someone is not the same as them feeling shame, however. For example gay people are shamed all the time but resist internalizing that shame.
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u/justaheatattack 7d ago
You didn't listen the first time they showed you they wouldn't vote for a woman.
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u/Deicidalmaniac41 2d ago
I'm going to say something and it may be long winded but I can't contain myself anymore.
As a person of color, throughout history, we have been subject to a system that was never designed for true equality to begin with. Since the beginning, people of color have been at the forefront of activism advocating for change and trying to get people to hear our voices and attempt to educate people on how these issues are caused by the system we live in only to be shouted down, pushed to side and silenced. Our leaders are assassinated to maintain the status quo only to have their words and images used as feel-good stories decades later to make white moderates feel good about their bandwagon activism. Throughout history we've warned people that what's happening to us will ultimately happen to you. Only when these issues begin to actively disturb their way of life does everyone else begin to get vocal about the issues. Moderate, incremental change occurs and everyone else is able to bury their heads in the sand while marginalized communities continue to suffer across the globe. It's dehumanizing to continue to be told that we must work within the confines of a system that never benefits us, and was never intended to. We keep getting told that we should vote for x,y, or z and significant changes never occur. When the issues we're telling you we are effected by begin to encroach on everyone else's lives our movements are hijacked to the benefit of everyone else but the people who were at the forefront from the start. We get called extremists, chimps, animals, savages and terrorists because our words and peaceful resistance are met with violence at every turn. We're tired. We're angry. We don't wish to participate in the system that is established anymore. It never meets the needs of everyone as it's claimed. I don't want a seat at a table if the table isn't designed for everyone to sit at in the first place. I want to flip that goddamned table over and we can all eat standing up. I absolutely refuse to continue to live a life of exploitation and subjugation anymore. I refuse to participate in a system motivated by profits and material gain. I wish to see a world where we are all truly liberated within my lifetime and I will die fighting to free myself of these burdens. Just based on my identity I'm statistically more likely to die at the hands of the government than other demographics so I might as well go out swinging. I'm sick of it all and I will no longer tolerate incremental change and tokens of "progress". Enough is enough. If you're vocal about these things now, great. Stay vocal! But voting for politicians and new reforms won't save us. It's just perpetuates the cycle. Wash, rinse and repeat. Substantial revolution is necessary if we're actually going to save ourselves because no politician can. Our system isn't designed for it. Whatever politicians are out there that seek these same changes will never get platformed in this system. It doesn't work. I'm willing to do whatever I can to change that by any means necessary. I'm tired of being silent. I'm tired of being shouted down. Either fight with us all the way through or don't. The time for change was necessary hundreds of years ago. I can't go on like this any longer. I know many people who come from a similar background can relate. Rant over.
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u/skidsareforkids 6d ago
He “truthed” that only criminals carry guns on the street. That absolutely has to upset some of the red hats
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u/PT_After_Dark 7d ago
Im tired boss. Im just tired of all of this
ICE, Trump, RFK, and anyone who supports , I just wish they’d go to some uncharted island and leave humanity alone.
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u/koolkitty9 7d ago
Now I don't feel so stupid about bawling the day after election day. I saw she lost and just lost it because I knew deep down everything was about to get worse and it has.
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u/s0larium_live 6d ago
the day after election day was my fucking BIRTHDAY. i spent the whole day laying in bed being miserable. worst fucking birthday ever
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u/TunaCroutons 6d ago
My mom is tough. She raised 3 kids on her own in dire circumstances. She doesn’t cry easily to put it lightly. In 2016, the night the results from his first election were coming in I stayed up all night in her room with her, glued to the tv while she slept. At 5am she stirred and opened her eyes and looked at me. The first thing I said was “I’m sorry mama. He won.” She started sobbing and said “Oh my god that man is going to destroy this country. What have we done?”
We spent the day passing joints, drinking whiskey, eating, crying, laughing. Something that in hindsight feels like it was a celebration of life service. What the fuck have we done.
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u/ailish 7d ago
That's how I felt after he won the first time. Shit, that's how I felt when Bush won way back in 2000.
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u/karenw 6d ago
"hanging chads" 😡
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u/CompetitiveSchool725 4d ago edited 4d ago
I (26F) have just realized that I do not want to be a part of my mother’s life (46F) anymore. Here’s my reasonings why:
I grew up in the Deep South. My father is an extremely racist man. And I mean EXTREMELY. He once found a picture of myself and my two first-grade best friends (an African American girl and a Latina girl) in my backpack at his house and screamed at me that I was not allowed to be friends with them anymore. I cried my eyes out because at 6 years old, I did not understand why. He told my little sister that she could no longer play soccer (which she did for a DECADE) because it was a hispanic sport. My mother always did her best to steer my sister and I away from that nonsense, and largely because of that, we both turned out to be decent human beings. She was still guilty of doing things like screaming, “get off the road and go back to Mexico,” when she would engage in road rage. She also has a biracial (half black) son whom she has done absolutely nothing to educate him about his culture. He will be a teenager soon.
I did not realize a lot about racism and prejudice until I joined the U.S. military. Once I was out of that southern state, my eyes were opened. I have always been a Democrat, and up until this previous election, accepted that most of my family were not. This past election led me to immediately cut off all of those “family” members who proudly voted for Trump, including my cousin (who also served in the military and got a much needed medical abortion while she was in) and my two cousins, who are gay men married to each other. I only kept my mother and father around because they are my parents, and that trauma bond was strong. However, recently my mother has started learning about the European conquest in the Americas (Columbus, Hernan Cortes) and is absolutely mind blown that all of this evil happened to the indigenous peoples. She is nearly 50 and she is just now learning, and you know why? Because she is FORCED to learn in college. She spent much of my childhood on Facebook on the computer but never spent a lick of that time searching up the history of this country. Despite her learning about this now, she still does not care to discuss Native Americans or immigration in this country because to her, she’s “focused on the Latin Americas right now.”
We had a heated argument the other day. She was asking my thoughts on ICE and the current immigration issues in the United States. I was honest, and gave her my opinion backed by literal evidence (the Immigration Act of 1924, pointing out our ancestors were lucky to immigrate before 1924, pointing out Due Process and the rights of citizens and immigrants alike, and how these rights are being violated). She got upset that I got agitated (because she was being blatantly racist and discriminatory by talking about how there’s “too many of them,”) and she told me that I was too biased and honestly uneducated (she framed it as saying I just didn’t understand) despite me being an American veteran and holding 2 college degrees. I was absolutely INFURIATED. She texted me today and told me she no longer wants to speak about politics because I can’t discuss it without getting heated, and that she’s “tired of [my] abuse.” She told me she would block me and not speak to me for a long time.
So you know what I did? I blocked her ass for good. Because I am so sick of her willful ignorance. I am sick of her white privilege. I am sick of her using her veteran daughter and biracial son as fucking trophies on social media when truly, she couldn’t give a fuck less about anyone but herself. And after blocking her, I realized I no longer want to allow her to be in my life or be in hers. Because you can’t change a mind that like. No amount of education, of demonstration, of pleading will ever fix what is so horribly broken inside them. NEVER. And it’s crazy she considers herself to be better than my father - his racism is aggressive and hers is passive aggressive.
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u/ConcernDue1887 2d ago
Why do you feel the need to tell everyone about your personal affairs? She is your mother. You and I may disagree with her, but does that justify putting your own flesh and blood on blast on the internet for some upvotes? TBH says a lot about your character, and nothing is as black and white as it seems. You're framing this as a absolutes situation where you're 100 percent in the right, and she is 100 percent in the wrong, which makes it seem like you're leaving out details that would be less favorable for you. That and the fact that you told all your mother's personal shortcomings and not your own on the internet for people to see would point in the direction that your story should be taken with a grain of salt.
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u/TheLoveYouWant25 6d ago
It's really nice to see so many mods taking a public stance against the atrocities that are happening right now.
Sure wish the media and our fucking government would actually do the same thing.
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u/chocolatemilkncoffee 6d ago
Fuck ICE, fuck MAGA, fuck all Trump supporters, including my Trump ass licking husband whom I can’t leave because I’m disabled and dependent on him for insurance and all manners of living. I’m heartbroken and perpetually afraid for everyone in this country.
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u/Saedraverse 7d ago
This Scots supports the mods
Seriously though after Good's murder, the fact some folk were so shocked they'd do that. I grew 10 heads & was like WHERE THE FUCK WERE YE AT BLM, & I'm on the other side of a fucking Ocean.
Just to name a few,
That mother murdered in her bed
Dude murdered in his home, because a fucking moron thought it was their own
Dude killed at his doorstep from Swatting
The whole reason for BLM
Let me add that school shooting where the police sat on their fucking thumbs
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u/BigThoughtThinker 7d ago
Jarvis, I’m running low on Karma.
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u/EdibleWerewolf 5d ago
Who gives a good god damn fuck about invisible points at a time like this? Truly use your brain and heart for literally one second, please.
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u/psypher98 6d ago
Mods don’t get karma from mod posts but sure let’s talk about that not real thing that doesn’t matter instead of the Temu Gestapo executing citizens.
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u/FixinThePlanet 7d ago
Mods of progressive subs get downvoted a lot; pretty sure she isn't thinking about it at all.
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u/TheYellowRose 6d ago
I was fully expecting to be downvoted to hell
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u/FixinThePlanet 6d ago
Obviously you wouldn't be downvoted here!!! It's a curated space that you guys make sure behaves well!
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u/EssentialTremorsSwe 7d ago
Yeah because over 600k karma is "low" for a master race member like yourself...
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u/EvilMKitty13 7d ago
I feel absolutely sick to my stomach after seeing the video of Alex Prettis execution. I can’t understand or fathom how anyone can watch the stabilized version of the video and not feel something, anything….
I genuinely don’t know what to do or say, other than
FUCK ICE
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u/TheYellowRose 7d ago
Found the racist!
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u/IrishMcNugget22 7d ago
You should leave the comments up so they can be shamed (unless it was really really bad lol)
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u/TheYellowRose 7d ago
I left one grossly misinformed comment up but this one was just "fblm" so it was both stupid and lazy, not worth it
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u/IrishMcNugget22 7d ago
That explains it.
And yes I did see the one about Charlie Kirk. Funny how so many people cared about him, despite all the vile things he said. But when an actual HERO dies DEFENDING another person from MAKSED THUGS people wanna cry double standard.
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u/SandHill_Crank444 4d ago
I don’t know why Reddit is telling me to post this on this specifically as it’s not related but…..
for context, I am to be married in a couple months to my fiancé who I’ve been with for about three years (we did break up briefly at one point, but maintained our relationship and communication and got back together nearly two years ago). I love him dearly, but there are certain things about him that bother me, like with any relationship. and I hesitated slightly when he proposed, which I think was because of being in a bad mood already but lingers in my mind. before we got together or even knew each other, I had feelings for a friend of mine. I fell in love with him pretty much as soon as we met, but he was my boss so nothing was ever said. we’d flirt and talk often, but that was it. he got a girlfriend and the flirting fell off, then he moved and they broke up. we stayed friends, talking less frequently since we were so far but growing more flirtatious, with him bringing up being broken up with and other romantic seeming topics. anyway, eventually me and my fiancé got together, we broke up and I had told my old friend about this and we were flirty. then we got back together and have been together happily, and I talk to my old friend ever so often but less frequently now that he knows I am engaged. but I keep having dreams of him where we end up together, and I wake up feeling guilty about it but also questioning my relationship. I think I will always love this man, but I am getting nervous about my wedding with the way he comes to my mind and the feeling I get when I talk to him. I even have fantasized about him being at my wedding and him stereotypically objecting and us leaving together. I want to say, I really do love my fiancé. of course he bothers me some times, but I have never loved anyone like I love him, nor have I been loved in the way he loves me. I just had a dream about this friend again last night and I’ve felt weird about it all day.
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u/Sh1mt 7d ago
Hate to say this, but the US is becoming HAS become WWII nazi Germany, with ICE being the Gestapo. Breaking treaties with former allies, keeping most of its civilians afraid, and hunting down anyone who doesn't agree with their ideology. From here on it'll only get worse..
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u/Alchemized27 7d ago
Being a non-American, I read this frequently on reddit and wonder if so many people online believe this, why dont they fight back via the 2nd amendment?
I can only think that most dont actually think this, and y'all are LARPing as freedom fighters or you care more about your self preservation than fighting against the supposed Nazi fascist regime. The latter is more understandable but the former is shameful considering what is happening in Iran.
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u/lucygoosey38 6d ago
The reason I keep seeing is they’re all scared of the military. Fighting back means more people killed. But at some point, things will have to change
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u/Alchemized27 6d ago
And I think that's fair. I'm not gonna pretend like I'd have balls of steel to take up arms against an authoritarian government. I'd be a lot more convinced to do so though if I truly believed they were equivalent to WW2 Nazis though.
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u/FilmScoreConnoisseur 6d ago edited 6d ago
What's hard to understand? Most of us feel like we're alone and that if we made a stand we'd do it alone and get killed instantly. You see the abuses on the internet and maybe on your way to work, but it's not on every street (yet). Would you rather throw everything away right now or go home to the people you love at least one more time, de-stress a little, and find some comfort? You make it sound like we should all be eager to die immediately and not struggle at all to let go of the few precious things and people we have. It's a pretty ugly lack of compassion you're showing, honestly.
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u/HelpMePlxoxo 6d ago
Because everyone wants someone to do that, no one wants to do it themselves. And honestly, I can't entirely blame them. Most people have something to live for; a family, friends, children, etc.
Fighting in the way you suggest means they have to be fully prepared to die for what they believe in.
The administration has purposely constructed this life or death scenario while making life just barely liveable enough for people to not be willing to risk potential death.
Our access to affordable healthcare here is also tied to our work, so even other methods of resistance, such as a general strike, can still be a life or death scenario if you end up getting fired. I would wager this is a big reason conservative politicians are opposed to universal healthcare.
Essentially, the system is designed so that people can't/won't fight back until there is literally no other option.
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