Local climate activists are on edge after people claiming to be FBI agents visited at least six at their homes on the same day in Greater Boston in March. Weeks later, the motivations behind these visits remain a mystery.
    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      10·
      3 hours ago

      Becoming? Do you not know about the civil rights era? J. Edgar Hoover?

    • thegr8goldfish@startrek.website
      19·
      6 hours ago

      Marco Rubio wrote that Mohsen Mahdawi, a green-card holder who was detained at a citizenship appointment in Vermont, should be deported because his activism threatens foreign policy goals.

      This guy must be an MLK tier orator if giving some speeches, with practically no reporting by the press, is enough to threaten the foreign policy goals of the (arguably) most powerful nation on the planet.

      • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
        10·
        5 hours ago

        Either he is a great speaker with a powerful message … or it is such a weak kneed nation that it can’t possibly handle even the slightest criticism because it is so fragile and weak

        • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          4 hours ago

          It’s the second namely because the US isnt a nation, it’s a bunch of nations who fucking hate each other pretending to be a single nation. This frankly stupid way of having an imperial identity means that the fucking second it starts to crack on a large scale it will probably fall apart rather quickly.

          • Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            3 hours ago

            I’ve always been so confused as to… If they are so strongly divided on which way to take their country, why not just split the empire in two? The oppressive, devolved and harmful all move to and take the States closest to Russia and the progressive, benevolent and intelligent take the States closest to Europe, split down the middle and become East and West America. Living with an abusive brother is just stupid

            • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
              2·
              2 hours ago

              Besides the fact that just a fucking stupid idea all around? Because you’d be giving one of the most resource rich regions of the US to a bunch of fascists, destroying whatever cultures may exist in the regions both settler and native, and generally speaking probably kill a shitload of people due to famine since the most rural areas are also the most regressive. The only reason it worked for the Soviets post WW2 was because the war basically made eastern and central European a cultural liquid.

              Regardless the better option long term is just to dissolve the US in its entirety and if anyone tries to revive it kill them. Breaking up the US would force most of the nations within it to both recognize themselves and evolve, worst case scenario we turn Utah into a salt pile.