Support your fellow humans. Cultivate your empathy. Stand up for the people who are in a truly vulnerable position. Those are the things our Constitution is built around and that our country is supposed to stand for.

And if you're not doing that now, ask yourself why not.
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speech, please stop for a second.

It has *never* been the people in power who were banning speech, imprisoning those who say things they disagree with, or removing those others in power who don't toe the line no matter what who were the "good guys". History tells us a lot about this.
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government's treatment of certain groups or for protesting other countries' continued killings of thousands of people in a neighboring country, or for just asking questions about why our government would ignore or twist it's own laws to prevent our citizens from exercising their right to free
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None of the above should solely belong to or be associated with a particular political party in the USA, but for whatever reason they seem to be in the year 2025 in the USA.

If you are angry at someone for asking questions about why our government wants to punish people for protesting our
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insurrectionists and rapists and racists - are still human.

Protesting inhuman treatment of humans is not a bad thing, it's a good thing. Protesting genocide is not a bad thing, it's a good thing. Empathy and compassion are not bad things, they are good things.
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Americans in WWII, etc).

Those "illegal" immigrants (and those that are here lawfully...there are a lot of those) from spanish-speaking countries are still human. Their children - born here or abroad - are still human. Prisoners and criminals from here or abroad - even murderers and
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those in power want) that those people are BAD and EVIL and will HURT YOU.

"Othering" a group is how they become less than human, and people who are seen as less than human are...not exactly treated well anywhere. Definitely not in the USA (Native Americans, African Americans, Japanese
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All that's needed is for some charismatic person in power with no scruples to tell people that anyone who couldn't get their visa renewed, or snuck in because they were going to be murdered in the place they were from (or came here, got their citizenship, and spoke out against something that
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in a matter of hours.

Those policies and laws and the resulting incredible unfairness and inefficiency that they create are infuriating, and they set up a ready-made conflict that can distract us from all of the other things going on in government.
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maintain that control.

Our immigration laws and quotas are, to put it mildly, complete shit.

People from all over the world wait years and *decades* for approval to immigrate to the USA. There's no reason for that. We can do a pretty thorough automated background check on someone these days
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because the wealthy can afford it...

Those are all our *own* problems. Ones we have because of actions that everyday people and wealthy individuals and lobbyists and folks that only care about having the most and being in control know that those problems are needed in order for them to
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to always keep the rights of humans front and center.

We do have problems here. Poverty in the wealthiest nation on earth...possible (again) because of massive concentration of wealth at the top (again). Homelessness, food insecurity, and poor health because of the poverty. Abuses of power
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the least harm.

I still believe - despite recent actions that make me so pissed off that I have difficulty even processing that rage - that the USA is a place where our most basic laws are intended to protect people from abuse by their government, to keep power in the hands of the people, and
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behavior. Our flaws are part of what *make* us human.

When faced with a situation where I have a choice to take or support action that will harm other humans, I try really hard to think about what the result of that action will be for *all* of the humans involved, and do the thing that causes
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determine your worth as a human, some have a "yeah, but..." to apply to certain groups, some completely agree with that statement.

Acknowledging that doesn't mean that you have to ignore things that other people have done, hurts they have caused, flaws in their logic, character, integrity, or
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You should probably read up on Malcolm X and revisit this post. Respectfully.