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I was a foreign student at UCSD during 9/11 and have witnessed the hysterical reaction of the Bush administration, the establishment of the DHS and the TSA and
by ciconia 10y ago
I was a foreign student at UCSD during 9/11 and have witnessed the hysterical reaction of the Bush administration, the establishment of the DHS and the TSA and their ridiculous security theatre.
At a time when the world is more interconnected than ever, and technology offers "the world at your fingertips", these bigots want to shut us in and make everybody hate each other.
Personally, it is heartbreaking to see the self-proclaimed "land of the free, home of the brave", the nation that once promised to be a sanctuary to the "huddled masses yearning to breathe free", in the grip of a paranoid meltdown.
- cmurf 10y agoThe entire country is not in a meltdown. There's a president and a handful of Angsthasen in a meltdown, pretty much successfully dragging their party with them, and trying to drag the country into one also. Give it time to process. We have been through much worse. Don't write off the whole lot who do not agree with the true intent of these policies. Now maybe some of us can stop being so naive about broken campaign promises? Obviously there are some that should not have been made, but they certainly should not have been kept. Notice the emphasis by the administration on keeping campaign promises. That is an explicit dig at all Trump voters: they are claiming you want this. You are being made complicit, even if you think you voted for other reasons.
- diyorgasms 10y agoTrump guys are, have been, and always will be complicit in the pain, suffering, and death we are visiting on people. I will never forgive them for this.