Yossarian's Roost Resuscitated

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keepaustinnasty
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Jan 25
San Diego police shot and killed a Black man kneeling with his hands up two days ago. This was also recorded.

It’s not just ICE. It’s not just Trump. Our entire system is built on white supremacy.

A white person standing up for Black/immigrant neighbors also becomes disposable.

We keep lists of those innocents shot by our government. To the list of murders we cannot omit strangulation deaths and other forms, particularly in detention centers.

Andy Ternay
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I am not saying this to start controversy or an argument but It feels like it always takes the death of white people for Americans to really wake up. Like how many immigrants and BIPOC have vanished off the streets of the United States in the past year and we don't know their names, why they came to our country or what happened to them.
There is no question that the videos of the murders of Renée Good and Alex Pretti, having been captured clearly and from multiple angles, played major part in why those two killings have resulted in so much attention. But equally, there is no denying that having two white, middle class people publicly executed amplified this well beyond what would have happened if the same thing happened to a Somali immigrant.
It bothers me and it felt important to acknowledge this.

ICE Agents are Deliberately Crushing the Testicles of Boys and Men They've Detained in a Texas Torture Facility
Sworn declarations describe officers crushing detainees’ testicles, slamming heads into walls, and laughing while teens lose consciousness.

And two separate men described federal agents doing something so depraved it has a name in any honest world:

They say officers grabbed their testicles and crushed them.

Not in war.
Not in a “battle.”
Not in some chaotic emergency.

In U.S. custody. In a detention facility. Under the American flag.
Shaun King

Lakota Made LLC

United States government has been slaughtering people since its beginninng.
Not as accidents.
Not as “mistakes.”
But as policy
From the massacre of Indigenous nations, to the lynch mobs protected by law, to the bombing of Black communities, to the killing of labor organizers, to the forced sterilization and experimentation on people deemed disposablethis country was built on violence and has never stopped using it. Lets stop pretending this is new.
They tell us it’s history.
They tell us it’s safety.
They tell us it’s necessary.
But the pattern has always been control and profit.
Slowly, quietly, our human rights are stripped away in the name of protection. We’re given the illusion of choicetwo parties, one system while the same machinery continues forward. We’re taught to believe participation equals consent, that voting alone absolves the harm done in our name.,
We’ve been beaten.
We’ve been murdered.
We’ve been experimented on.
We’ve been hidden, erased, and dismissed ,so long that many of us have learned to accept it just to survive.
We pay the fees.
We pay the taxes.
We fund the wars.
We fund the policing.
We fund the violence carried out at home and abroad.
And then we’re told to be shocked when it comes back around.
I questioned this from the beginning, because deep down we know the truth: participation isn’t always a choice when the alternative is losing everything. your job, your home, your safety, your children. Compliance is demanded through paperwork, signatures, silence, and fear.
That doesn’t make us evil.
But it does make us complicit if we refuse to see it.
If this makes you uncomfortable, good.
If you think this is “too political,” then you’ve had the privilege of not having your existence debated.
If you’re surprised by any of this, you haven’t been paying attention.
Naming the truth is not extrremism.
Remembering history is not hate.
Refusing to stay silent is not violence.
Silence has never saved us.......
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No one is illegal on stolen land built by stolen hands......👈
Indigenous people did not “immigrate” here. We were already herelong before imaginary borders, long before the Bering Strait theory was used to justify removal, long before a government decided it could rename genocide as “settlement.” whitewashed stories disguised as "history"
In 1924, Indigenous people were finally declared “citizens” of the United States. Not because we asked to join. Not because we were welcomed. But because a nation built on our land decided it needed legal authority over usaf ter centuries of massacres, forced removals, broken treaties, boarding schools, sterilizations, and murder.
Citizenship did not erase what was done to us.
It did not return land.
It did not return our children.
It did not restore sovereignty.
Borders are imaginary lines enforced by violence. Laws written to protect theft are still theft. Paperwork does not absolve hundreds of years of abuseit only attempts to legitimize it.
You cannot criminalize existence.
You cannot erase ancestry with statutes.
You cannot launder genocide through legislation and call it order.
If you believe people are “illegal” for crossing borders drawn on stolen land, then you’ve confused paperwork with morality. And if that truth makes you uncomfortable, it’s because comfort was never meant to survive honesty.
We are still here.
And we are done pretending otherwise