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Seems like it would be more effective to just tell your local stations to stop carrying NPR programming if that's how you feel. If this goes through NPR will be fine and just keep on reporting the same as they have been because they've got tons of big foundations and corporations that donate to them directly and they've got a bunch of the most popular podcasts in the country they're running advertisements on besides. It's the little regional TV and radio stations that carry NPR shows alongside local reporting are going to have a lot harder time making their budgets.

Yeah, also even though it's "almost half" there's more people saying disapprove than approve, so there's a large number in the "unsure" category right now, and the more we find out about who's being deported and how and what the cops will do to suppress these protests the more that disapprove number will go up

So, per your own comment, protests in that area are being suppressed by California law enforcement who are claiming "looting" as an excuse

Also, per that recent incident where an LAPD officer said from a helicopter that they were taking pictures and would arrest protesters at their homes, it doesn't seem like they're going to limit their suppression activities to that one area

a) that number was provided by an LAPD spokesperson and the LAPD lies all the time

b)

The number of arrests was likely to rise as law enforcement worked to remove the remaining protesters from the area, the newspaper said.

e; Forgot a >

Also, all the Republicans who don't work for this administration. Not like they just became fascist scum overnight, they've been headed this direction since the 60s maybe even since the 30s.

I think it's a way bigger problem how some adults refuse to ever consider that the system is at fault and think every single problem in the world must be reduced down to an individual failing instead of a badly designed system that makes it easy for individuals to fail for stupid reasons

I don't think there's anything special about Americans that makes them worse or better than anyone else. I think our problem is that we've got a heavily corrupted political system with a right wing propaganda machine that distorts a lot of people's worldview and lawmakers who almost always find a way to just ignore their voters whenever they do manage to push for something progressive.

I'm a little wary of electing judges, but on the other hand I don't think voters can do any worse than our unelected bar associations and law enforcement lobbying has done in creating a judiciary that actually cares about justice, so I'd be open to electing more of our judges.

Weird coincidence how this memo was written shortly before the national guard was deployed to these protests, don't know if they've done any kidnappings since getting there tho

The fact that this person is a state senator is ridiculous, she's clearly way way way too stupid to be having opinions anyone else listens to if any of what's happening now is a surprise to her

She's determined to get puppy killing off her top 10 worst moments list, I'll give her that

Yeah, I guess I was thinking of this from the top down constitutional perspective of it (and even then I probably should have said taking ICE's side or the federal government's side), but meanwhile on the ground the LAPD is doing the LAPD thing and the National Guard is doing the National Guard thing

Beautiful song, but unfortunately I think the appropriate listen today is something from There's a Riot Goin' On

Please do, I bet a lot more people saw that absolute garbage article than will see either of these because NBC has a way bigger reach than Mediate or the Empty Wheel blog so, so it deserves to be called out a ton

I asked that question recently and got some helpful responses,

https://lemmy.world/post/30977919

tl;dr PieFed has different people behind it, a few more features, and is written in Python instead of Rust (I'm not a coder or an instance host, so don't ask me what that distinction means, but I've anecdotally seen more people saying python is easier to work with than rust than the other way around),

PieFed communities federate with Lemmy communities, tho, so no matter which kind of instance you're going through as a user you should be able to interact with all the communities (assuming your instance admins haven't decided to defederate with the other instance for some reason)

Okay, first I think it needs to be said that this is a complex and difficult situation that really doesn't leave us with any good options either way, and I think both sides of this debate have people with good intentions behind them.

Second, this

Cops beat the shit out of compliant protesters all the time.

is true and something people need to be aware of.

However, third, it needs to be said that

Fight back

will absolutely get the shit beaten out of you unless you got an army in your back pocket I somehow haven't heard about yet.

Fourth,

Fight back or run away. If you're not capable of either then you've already missed your chance at contributing to the movement.

Bullshit. Every news story picture and video that shows protesters getting attacked and arrested is an incredibly powerful piece of evidence showing the consequences of rising fascism in America that's going to be harder and harder for the people who are trying to ignore all this stuff to tune out. Even the selfish asshole centrist dipshits who don't care about immigrant rights and just want everything to settle down are going to see that this unrest can't be beaten into submission and efforts to do so just make the protests bigger, and that's when those people are going to turn on the fascists and say "Look, I was willing to give up civil liberties for law and order, but you can't even give us that." (we're already seeing talk like that out of Gavin Newsom).

Personally, I say if you're in a protest and cops start attacking, run away if you can or sit down if you can't, because I don't feel comfortable asking people to just turn themselves over to the mercy of law enforcement who may very well do permanent injury to them, but I have nothing but respect for the people who do make that sacrifice for this movement, and the notion that people being arrested aren't contributing is absolute bullshit.

Also, it's fun, and doing fun things to reinforce your own mental health for all the not-fun things a life lived virtuously will throw at you is a good thing

Good to know anything we can about fascist infiltration into the resistance and agent provocateurs, but the implication that protesters can do anything to stop these plans seems incorrect to me. If a proud boy or whoever dresses up as a protester and torches a cop car or whatever, there's nothing protesters can really do to stop it. The people who will need to be vigilant are the media and lawmakers who will be pressured into condemning the protests as a whole because of the actions of these infiltrator assholes.

Images captured by CBS News Los Angeles showed members of the National Guard using what appeared to be tear gas and firing non-lethal rounds toward some groups of demonstrators.

Australian journalist Lauren Tomasi got shot from behind with a rubber bullet while she was just standing there doing her job

I can understand people being pissed at him since every Californian cop has been taking the national guard's side against the protesters so far

Also, it should be really obvious that this is all manufactured bullshit after the fact. Like, if nothing else they have to explain when they discovered this stuff that they're claiming and why they never brought it up during one of his immigration hearings before they abducted him away to El Salvador, but way too many media organizations just take what the government says at face value no matter who the president is.

e; fucks sake, this is excruciatingly bad media

the allegations against Abrego Garcia are damning.

Huh, normally proof of something gets called "damning," but here unproven allegations can do the same for some reason. Neat!

A federal grand jury found that the 29-year-old was an MS-13 member

The prosecutor just kept repeating that this was true until the jury accepted it

who transported thousands of undocumented immigrants, including children, from Texas to states across the country for profit for nine years.

So how wasn't he apprehended at the border if he was doing this? Oh, he was just giving rides to people who were already in the United States?

Well, where's the charge for kidnapping? Sex trafficking? Was anyone transported against their will?

Or are we just talking about a guy who got paid under the table working for an unlicensed taxi service who didn't ask his passengers too many questions? Because that barely feels like a crime at all, but just reading this article on a surface level you'd think Garcia was like Boris in season 2 of the Wire or something

He allegedly also transported firearms and drugs,

Where's the charge for drug possession? Firearms trafficking? There isn't one because this is just a prosecutor saying "y'know, if he gave rides to that many Mexicans there had to be some drugs and guns in there somewhere" without any evidence, isn't it?

abused female migrants

Where charge etc.

and was linked to an incident

What does this even mean

in Mexico where a tractor-trailer overturned and killed 50 migrants.

"He knew someone who was in a car crash, will this reign of terror never cease."

e; further reading on this says a) they have basically no direct evidence of anything, just two co-conspirator witnesses they're getting testimony out of in exchange for favorable plea deals to their own troubles, b) the prosecutor who had been in charge resigned shortly before these charges were announced

https://lemmy.world/post/31075797

This case stinks and it isn't even a little hard to see