I mean, it used to be “go outside” to feel better, to treat depression, etc…
Bruh how the fuck am I supposed relax going outside? It would actually make me feel more anxious. I’d have to constantly scan for possible ICE agents like do a full 360 visual scan of the area every 30 seconds.
So is this just life for the next 4 years (at the minimum)? Do I just stay home unless for essential stuff? Just spend all the freetime on the internet because I’m too scared to go outside?
I’m a naturalized citizen, but with the denaturalization talks, this is so anxiety inducing. Citizens born outside of the country have the burden of proof apparantly. I kinda didn’t renew passport, I have a picture of my citizenship document on my phone, not sure that’s any good or fascists are just gonna fascist and try to throw me in cecot.
My neighbors are still going about lime this is norma, playing music and having parties. (They are hispanic btw)
How do people just be so chill about all this? Am I overreacting? Are they underreacting? What even is the healthy about of fear to have?
It’s frankly uncanny. This phase of things…
Touch grass? Yes easily, have my morning garden routine, play with the cats, take a photo here and there…
Myself, I’m armed, I expect this civil war to eventually go ‘hot’. I also think the left will (initially) get decimated because nobody is taking this seriously as a war.
However,
Here in the rural sticks, the realities don’t align. The fourth felt like a typical day in Mayberry. You see no evidence of the strife, ICE, any of it. -And you DEFINITELY don’t want to be some idiot lone-wolf starting something…
I’m a little reluctant to talk about our hispanic populace. Just in that you can really see the rift between those families that voted trump (and for some ungodly reason think they are safe) versus those that have gotten real quiet. It’s a brooding tension, that hasn’t erupted. But largely they act like nothing is happening
As things are going, the facade will break eventually. But hell yes, I take in these peaceful moments unlike ever before.
I’m fairly confident that’s intentional. I live in a rural CA mountain area, but we are close enough that we hear what’s going on. There have been small isolated instances here in our town, but no major raids that iI know of. My wife is 4th gen Mexican American, and her family back in LA is quite on edge. You don’t have to go far to find someone who is missing a friend/family/neighbor/etc. Some of whom are Americans. Yet I talk to one of my best friends that’s in the sticks of northern Colorado, nothing is happening up there.
My point here is that these raids are targeting blue cities/areas, and by leaving the mostly red strongholds alone, Fox et al can perpetuate that myth that everything is above board, and resistance is coming from the radical left. I’m fairly certain the administration would invite the incitation of civil unrest if only invoke martial law and the insurrection act, begin the “cleansing,” and suspend elections indefinitely. The only people I’ve met who would like to begin shooting are the gravy seal types. No one else wants this shit.
More likely because they’re ill-equipped for war. The people that are equipped are celebrating the change.
Depending on if the democratic governors grow a spine and depending on who’s authority does the national guard people recognize.