I don't get angry very often but this week has done it.

[Avalux]

Fuck George Zimmerman and his defense team, and fuck the jury of women who decided the man with the gun who stalked and confronted a teenager minding his own business is not guilty.

Fuck them all.

The verdict says it's ok for fearful white men to get a gun, intimidate and kill those who they perceive look like criminals.


While I'm at it...

Fuck Rick Perry and the Texas Legislature for taking away a woman's control of her own body. What a power rush it must be for white men (and a few women) to legalize oppression.

Fuck them all.


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[alsame]

1. This country seems to be

devolving at an alarming rate.

[Avalux]

2. It's overwhelming.

I believe we are witnessing the decline of our country and I feel powerless to stop it.

[alsame]

3. It is. Some states have already

turned back the clock to before I was born.

[rurallib]

4. Zimmerman, Texas, North Carolina, Indiana, Voting Rights Act

and the strange case in Iowa.
been some tough sledding lately.

[Laurian]

5. I hear you. What a disheartening week.

What next? When will Democrats in power positions start to fight back?

Last night, I was ready to say, just fuck it.....I will stay in my safe little bubble and ignore the ugliness outside, but I can't. I just don't know what to do.

[Avalux]

7. I feel the exact same way.

Part of me wants to just retreat and ignore what's going on around me. But then part of me wants to DO something, but I'm not sure what to do either.

[Greywing]

8. I totally feel the same

and I think that's the way the "silent majority" feel. Just a feeling of quiet despair and not knowing what to do.

[roamer65]

6. Welcome to the new American fascism.

It's here folks.

[Cleita]

9. Yep, I wonder what they are going to find Bradley Manning guilty of.

The kid didn't kill anyone. Instead he tried to show the killers working for our military and they probably are going to throw the book at him. This is what fascist regimes do. They imprison and execute any one who dares expose the crimes of the regime.

[Egalitarian Thug]

12. No, no, no! Until there are armored personel carriers full of thugs wearing Hugo Boss uniforms

and carting Jewish people off in cattle cars, IT ISN'T FASCISM!!1!

[Cleita]

13. Thank you. But it seems we are doing that already to Hispanic undocumented immigrants, but

they don't count. They are disposable brown people.

[Egalitarian Thug]

17. And the border patrol doesn't have the right uniform. Oh and I forgot tanks, there has to be tanks.

[Horse with no Name]

10. As a resident of Texas

we've sat around this morning contemplating where one would move to escape the madness.

[Cleita]

14. All the places I would move to don't want us. n/t

[Avalux]

16. Better thought - stay here and fight.

I've got three daughters picking up and moving isn't the answer. It's high time we stop allowing the 6% crazies dictate our laws and how we live.

[Egalitarian Thug]

18. Well you've had well over a century, so I think trying to stop sane people from leaving

the heart of crazy is just a little bit selfish. When voting a ballot is useless, money and feet are all we have left to vote with.

[Avalux]

19. ????

You make no sense.

[Egalitarian Thug]

20. Of course not, you've been there too long and whatever it is about that place,

it's obviously contagious.

[Avalux]

21. You still don't make any sense.

How does questioning your nonsensical post warrant an insult?

[Egalitarian Thug]

22. You're the one that chose to take it as an insult.

You're also the one that chooses to stay there.

[Avalux]

24. Sigh.

This is pointless, we obviously have fundamentally different approaches to dealing with adversity. I choose to stay and fight, unlike you, who would rather run away. I wouldn't want to be in a foxhole with you.

[Egalitarian Thug]

25. As I said in the first reply, you've had over a century to fix that state, and failed.

If anything, it is crazier today than it was 30 years ago. So, by all means stay and do whatever you think you can, but don't ask other people that are thinking of escape to stay and suffer with you. There are much better places all over this nation.

[socialist_n_TN]

11. Well one thing to always remember is that the political class....

the ones making these draconian laws and their toadies in the "legal" community ARE NOT THE MAJORITY! The majority, as shown in poll after poll, are against all of these issues being ramrodded through.

At some point this "non representation" for the majority WILL break through into action.

[Cleita]

15. I hope so and I hope it's not bloody, but there will have to be movements like the

Civil Rights movements of the sixties. This time we have to make sure they can't take us back to the Middle Ages again once we send this political class packing.

[In_The_Wind]

23. Kicked & Recommended

[hfojvt]

26. when you get angry

do you usually say "fuck white men" "fuck them all"?

About 165.000 homicides in the last decade. According to the FBI, in 2011, there were 2,695 homicide victims who were black. Of that number, 2,447 were killed by other black people. That's almost 91%. http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-6

But by all means, let's fear and hate the white men. Fuck them all. Especially Reginald Denny.

But I cannot think of that incident without remembering the hero Bobby Green http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/la_riot/article/0,28804,1614117_1614084_1614518,00.html

[Avalux]

27. I say a lot of things when I get angry.

If the shoe fits wear it, and in this particular case, it fits.