I am American and I have never seen photos like this. I had no idea there are borders like this. Even though I LOVE the idea of open borders, I am staring at these pictures like “wait…people can just…walk across some stones or grass and BE IN ANOTHER COUNTRY??? and nobody stops them?? how does that WORK?!” So you can tell that my country’s propaganda has gotten to me by convincing me that this CAN’T work even though…it…obviously can.
These pics just seem unreal to me. I’ve been taught my whole life that this can’t exist. In 27 years no one has ever sat me down and gone, look, here’s how it is elsewhere. It isn’t impossible at all.
“We don’t have job protections and guarantees like they do in France. We have to schedule stuff on the weekends or our days off. If we called a general strike we’d all get fired. We have no guaranteed healthcare, so if we get fired we get no health insurance. You can see why the powers that be here in the US want to break unions, make healthcare rare, keep wages low, keep time off limited…”
One of the reasons it’s important to know that the US has done things like this before (for almost any value of this, not just the current border situation) is because people have fought things like this before. Knowing what tactics they used tells us what worked and what didn’t.
And some of those policies stopped because of activism. It’s possible to win.
All I’m seeing in most “This is America” posts is incitement of despair and hopelessness. Don’t encourage people to give up.
Yes, this! I’ve been trying to be careful myself to avoid reblogging posts with too much despairing commentary, but I see an unfortunate amount of them.
I’ve seen some commentary positing that at least some of those posts are psyops specifically designed to impose a sense of inevitability and helplessness, but whether they are or not (although I’m inclined to believe that at least some are), that is certainly the effect they have.
kids are not supposed to die at school. parents are not supposed to drop their children off at school and then get texts like, “mom if i dont make it out of this, know that i love you and appreciate everything youve done for me”. being in high school is not supposed to be a death sentence. yes, america, you fought for your independance. yes, you won. you’re a free country. but you’re not a safe country. power is not supposed to be more valuable than a human life.
“Koreans are all brainwashed so you can’t compare them to Americans.”
Half of America is so patriotic they believe all school shootings are false flags. There was a ridiculous piece of misinfo that was floated around by mainstream news outlets that the DPRK was forcing people to style their hair after Kim Jong-Un. This was a complete lie, tons of Americans believed it and still do and won’t even do the two seconds of research needed to figure out it’s a complete lie.
Americans are one of the most brainwashed peoples on Earth. They have had their consent engineered since their birth. Ya wanna test this?
1 – Refuse to say the pledge of allegiance.
2 – Say anything negative about the military.
3 – Question Capitalism in any way.
4 – Say that America isn’t the best country in the world.
5 – Make a critique of mainstream American culture.
Do any of these things amoung others and an army of jingoistic super-patriots will descend upon you like an angry avalanche of stupidity with the exact same copy paste arguements they’ve been taught to rehearse.
6. Question the prison industrial complex and it’s inherent racism and blatent unequal treatment of crimes and those accused.
7. Talk about the colonialist history of America and how it was founded on genocide and slavery.
8. Talk about the fact Americans don’t need to buy guns so fucking easily
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