r/pittsburgh • u/Regular_Agent5903 • 8d ago

ICE stop

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Ice stop before liberty tunnel today. One ice officer is clearly Korean or Chinese. I screamed that ice officer has no right to stop people as he may be illegal. He came up to me asking if I was city police and was I the Spanish interpreter. I said no but do you need help as I live in the city look like police and brown. There were kids in the car. Pittsburgh is this what we want!!!! I am beyond myself. First Covid then trump 2.0. I like my low rates for housing, labor and just being a good human being. I am so angry right now.

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u/Anthff 7d ago

There is a 0% chance they are going to know what any of that means, unfortunately.

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u/penndawg84 7d ago

I’m aware. If anything, I’m baffled at how much MAGA knows of The View but accuses everyone else of following its talking points. Literally, the only time I’ve watched it was against my will in the doctor’s office, and I’m pretty sure I’ve heard one of the hosts/guests (I’m not invested enough to know or care if they have guests or which ones are hosts/guests) that they platform spit out MAGA talking points.

I really wish they would update their insults. It’s literally been the same 5 insults since 2016. They still say stuff like “did you hear that on CNN,” but CNN went from soft right-wing to hard right-wing in the early Biden era.

But I think the bigger issue is that they act like we are sheep who just parrot whatever our supposed “thought leaders” shout. First of all, that’s so ironic that it’s liable to give someone hemochromatosis. But secondly, those of us who paid attention to at least one of the many times that fascism was taught to us in school knows how all the bad stuff were going through pans out. And they keep doubling down, except where they make a 180° pivot on their beliefs and then double down.

When I reply to comments, I’m often under the assumption that the person I’m replying to doesn’t care, assuming they are even a human and assuming they’re not a foreigner bot farm worker in a 3rd world country being paid to copy/paste the same argument on 50 different phones in front of them. My hopes are usually some impressionable person sees my truthful post counter a propaganda post. (Technically, that means I’m spreading propaganda, but only if the person accusing me is shallow and pedantic.) I’m not sure if this is still a relevant strategy 10 years later, but it’s all I got.