Canadian satire making cutting jokes about the American Hellhole? Sounds great to me!

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Ah, I see. That makes more sense for sure.

The same way you hear Springsteen howling “Born in the USA” or Young screaming “Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World” and think these are celebrations, not indictments.

You don’t listen to the words.

That’s my position. I let SO handle the household finances.

As much as I 100% believe that ICE executed this man in broad daylight in front of hundreds of witnesses, I don’t think that first picture is very persuasive. I don’t see a gun in that first picture, neither in the waistband nor in the hand of the agent. I see some blotchy, blocky dark chunks of vague outlines almost obliterated by JPEG artifacts. (Or is it MPEG? All these FLAWs confuse me.) The second photo is clearly showing that there is no gun at the waist, and that the agent is about to fire on a man that is clearly facing away from him and under control of other agents. But that first picture? Shows me nothing.

I agree with @i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca that it’s better to aim for selfish reasons than to use inflammatory (though accurate) terminology. Most people are not terminally online and do not read the various (justly) strident social media stuff; indeed will, as said, “roll their eyes and dismiss” when seeing it.

But everybody has heard of ICE disappearing people, including Canadians, and the points to hit are:

1. ICE and safety.
2. Fair play: they’re charging tariffs on us and now you reward them?

That kind of thing. Rare is the failure of campaigns based on selfish self-interest. Rare is the success of campaigns based on strong, divisive language. If you’re doing this to have genuine impact, you need to worry about effect, not how good it makes you feel to call ICE Nazis. No matter how accurate it is that ICE are Nazis.

Just remember that profanity is the final resort of inarticulate motherfuckers.

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I know, right? It turns out the Second Amenders only care about tyranny in that they want to be the tyrants.

Let’s start with the nicknames for the kinds of losers who’d use these so we can have them at the ready. Think “glasshole” (the one that stuck to Google’s surveillance product) but for this instead. I propose we use something like “pinhead”, only one that doesn’t suck like that, to just pre-emptively label its users before it even gets to market.

To the dismay of my mother, I picked up speech habits from my sergeant major father.

So … quite often.

Where are the 2nd Amender ammosexuals, Sparky? Suspiciously fucking quiet. Almost as if they were always spouting shit and cowering in their mothers’ basements.

And there goes the people who were naively counting on the courts to fix the USA.

Guillotines when?

And I realize sometimes when best friends or allies have a spat — yes, they have a spat, but it doesn’t mean everybody wants to fight.

I don’t want us to fight.

I want you to fuck off and stew in your own juices while you think about what you’ve done.

After that I just want you to plain fuck off.