I’m sorry, I must be living in a schziophrenic delusion and the U.S. federal govt hasn’t been slip and sliding into the deep end of the fascism pool and definitely hasn’t been dumping resources and manpower (MAGA, let’s be honest with each other - ICE is MAGA) into ICE. Thank God, that would be horrifying!
I think we may be talking about two different things. My neighbor, with the Trump flag and all his guns, he’s not gonna do goddamn shit. That’s who I’m talking about.
Yeah it’s bizarre, I’m not sure if that’s the correct verbage for it but the situation is effectively leasing. He does not own the store despite being the name and face on the sign saying ‘store owner’.
He’s got connections, cops love him. My friend has video of him kicking the ever loving shit out of a homeless guy a few years ago. He also helped him delete it. I’ve told him to turn him in but he’s afraid that something will go wrong and it’ll turn back around on him.
I have considered it, and I’ve asked my friend for a copy of the recording. He refuses to send it to me, for the reasons I’ve listed. I’m also concerned that some of other things I’m aware of would destroy other members of our family (Not MAGA, he ends up being the only MAGAt in the family. Oddly as well - his mother ended up living with an immigrant from Mexico.).
I would be suspicious that the video ever existed, if it weren’t for my cousin bragging about defending his house by firing off rounds at a moving car he deemed ‘filled with gang bangers’. Fortunately he didn’t harm anyone, he just put a few holes in his neighbors car and broke their window. No punishment, as you can probably guess.
My family is also entirely convinced that he’s a great man. None of them seem to recognize what he actually is, and this seems pretty consistent across all the people I’ve met who know him (yes he had me convinced as well).
Genuinely - simply talking about it makes me sick. I am conflicted, at my core. I understand that guns simply make the world a more dangerous place, especially assault weapons. I am under no illusion that ‘good guy with gun stop bad guy with gun’. If that were the true, either I or someone else would have shot my cousin by now.
I’m sorry if I was hostile towards you, or really anyone else in this thread. I understand that their responses are filtered through the immediate assumption that I must be a fascist ‘dunking on the libs’, because I’ve chosen a topic that MAGA have ingrained into their ideology. I don’t hate them, or you, for it — believe it or not, I am genuinely afraid for each and every one of you.
Nice talk, they have armored vehicles and hate in their hearts.
They have hate, yeah. But they don’t have armored vehicles—unless you mean the police—they have ford trucks with thin metal walls and diabetes.
I’m sorry, I must be living in a schziophrenic delusion and the U.S. federal govt hasn’t been slip and sliding into the deep end of the fascism pool and definitely hasn’t been dumping resources and manpower (MAGA, let’s be honest with each other - ICE is MAGA) into ICE. Thank God, that would be horrifying!
I think we may be talking about two different things. My neighbor, with the Trump flag and all his guns, he’s not gonna do goddamn shit. That’s who I’m talking about.
I’m talking about my cousin. He runs a grocery store (he claims he owns it, but really he leases it through Grocery Outlet).
I know some of the things he’s done. I know many of the things he’s said. They are terrifying.
I had no idea leasing a grocery store was a thing. They won’t let us own anything lol.
If you know some of the things he has done, I assume he has been punished for those things—assuming they are crimes?
Yeah it’s bizarre, I’m not sure if that’s the correct verbage for it but the situation is effectively leasing. He does not own the store despite being the name and face on the sign saying ‘store owner’.
He’s got connections, cops love him. My friend has video of him kicking the ever loving shit out of a homeless guy a few years ago. He also helped him delete it. I’ve told him to turn him in but he’s afraid that something will go wrong and it’ll turn back around on him.
You could always turn him in.
I have considered it, and I’ve asked my friend for a copy of the recording. He refuses to send it to me, for the reasons I’ve listed. I’m also concerned that some of other things I’m aware of would destroy other members of our family (Not MAGA, he ends up being the only MAGAt in the family. Oddly as well - his mother ended up living with an immigrant from Mexico.).
I would be suspicious that the video ever existed, if it weren’t for my cousin bragging about defending his house by firing off rounds at a moving car he deemed ‘filled with gang bangers’. Fortunately he didn’t harm anyone, he just put a few holes in his neighbors car and broke their window. No punishment, as you can probably guess.
My family is also entirely convinced that he’s a great man. None of them seem to recognize what he actually is, and this seems pretty consistent across all the people I’ve met who know him (yes he had me convinced as well).
Genuinely - simply talking about it makes me sick. I am conflicted, at my core. I understand that guns simply make the world a more dangerous place, especially assault weapons. I am under no illusion that ‘good guy with gun stop bad guy with gun’. If that were the true, either I or someone else would have shot my cousin by now.
I’m sorry if I was hostile towards you, or really anyone else in this thread. I understand that their responses are filtered through the immediate assumption that I must be a fascist ‘dunking on the libs’, because I’ve chosen a topic that MAGA have ingrained into their ideology. I don’t hate them, or you, for it — believe it or not, I am genuinely afraid for each and every one of you.