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  • Multiple studies have shown that illegal immigrants commit crime at a lower rate than citizens, and have a positive economic benefit to the country. Shouldn't the question be why you don't want them here? Shouldn't you just want reform to get them documented and then move on with your life instead of supporting these hateful policies?

  • Interesting how you skipped over the BLM protests, which were literally 100 times larger than the Women’s March, and resulted in significant changes to the exact thing they were protesting

    ^ that was what I was responding to. Context matters.

  • That's a long way to say not much has changed. BLM may have improved things, or maybe just the reporting changed. Or maybe something else. I don't know. There are so many foundational level problems in this country, and I hear nobody talking about them. Social sicknesses that lead to so many symptoms, including, but certainly not limited to, both police violence and magat voters. I've been voting for progressives in primaries, walking precincts, engaging with conservatives (back when they existed) for several decades now, and I've just watched shit get worse and worse. My time is over, I'm leaving my gloves in the ring, and turning into a full-time spectator now. Good luck.

  • The Women's March on January 21, 2017 was one of the biggest protests in US History. It did jack all. The US gov't has been taken over by anti-Consititutional, anti-American, anti-law Republicans at all 3 branches. Going to a protest has about the same impact as typing outrage on Lemmy. It's not pessimism, it's reality. Until masses are seriously prepared to get violent, we are fucked. Personally I'm just getting the fuck out and watch it implode into Gilead.

  • I just plugged in my state capital into my driving app. It says it will take 6 hours and 51 minutes one-way. Yeah, I can't even afford the gas for that. So I checked public transportation and it said 12 hours one-way and one of the three tickets I'd have to buy was $100. Your tldr is spot on.

  • I just can't engage because for some reason in righty's mind, liberal == progressive. Like, for them also, fascism == communist. It's just a complete failure to agree on basic, high school level definitions.