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Park moved to the U.S. from Seoul when he was 7 years old and had legal permanent residency under a green card.
he suffered from severe PTSD. He turned to marijuana to cope with nightmares and sensitivity to loud noises and moved to Hawaii in 1995 for a better lifestyle. But he became addicted to crack cocaine and struggled for years to get clean.
Crack led to prison led to revoked green card.
More proof that the War on "Drugs" is largely an authoritarian criminalization of untreated mental health issues.
We shouldn't lock people up for addiction any more than we should lock people up over depression.
“You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,” Ehrlichman said. “We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
I hate the euphemism of "self-deport."
Let's call it what it really is: ICE threatened to lock him up and send him to an undisclosed location if he didn't flee the country.
What's really heartbreaking is that when these veterans, who took bullets for us, get told by our country that they need to leave, they just say "Yup, I guess I gotta leave", and don't make a huge deal about it. Donald Trump whines, in an extremely public matter, whenever he doesn't get his way, and these people just continue to do what their country asks them to, even when the country tells them to leave.
Life just isn't fair.
No offense to Americans, I understand some of you are great people, but I wouldn't need much of a reason to leave America at this point. If not for my safety, then for my sanity. If not for my sanity, then for eggs.
Reason, sure. Ability? That's something else. Most of us don't have enough money to make the journey. I don't know of many places that would even accept us as immigrants without a substantial monetary value/donation or work skill, plus the language skills we don't have because schools don't teach foreign languages well or at all.
Who would even have us all?
I assume they don't charge you to get deported so there's a free ticket there and I'm no geographist but there's a couple countries that also use english as their official language
We have to shout for him, there's nothing he can do. You know, "First they came for..." and all that.
We have to shout for him
We can't.
The people who need to hear it are in another bubble and never will.
TBH I dunno how to fix it anymore. Even 'revolution' like many on Lemmy fantasize about will not penetrate, and most people don't want to understand what propaganda and algos are doing to them.
Protest has been working. Slowly, but it's working. Trump's approval rating is in the dumpster and I see no way for him to pull it out. His base is dumping him. I'm not sure of what's next, but take the small wins when we can.
53% unfavorable is not 'in the dumpster,' unfortunately:
https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabReport_haeOEK5.pdf
https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker
It's better than his first term, and we re-elected him... If COVID couldn't penetrate the bubble, I honestly don't know what will.
Yeah, I just don't know how we come back from this. It's not like the sane among us are suddenly going to decide to go along with fascism, nor is that 30+% that somehow control the narrative going to stop being the literal worst all of a sudden (see: post-Reconstruction).
So we… Balkanize? Hold US Nuremberg trials and actually do something about the priblem, assuming we can get to that point?
It's not like the sane among us are suddenly going to decide to go along with fascism
If that's your definition of sane I think you are in for a surprise about how low the number of sane people is. Just like common sense isn't actually that common.
It’s not like the sane among us are suddenly going to decide to go along with fascism
Oh you underestimate people's self interest. If Big Tech continues on it's trajectory to a kind of Theil-ish cyberpunk dystopia, most people are going to go along. Like, even I have super techy naturalized family that keeps using Google or Facebook stuff. It's (seemingly) too essential.