Bluesky

I'm sure OP didn't mean it but comparing anything happening with dem politicians to the underground railway amounts to denialism of white supremacy and the enslavement of African people.

African people were forcibly removed from their homes. Their descendants were owned from birth. Both were forced to perform labor of various sorts and lived cradle to grave without any semblance of legal rights at all. This was heritable, passing from mother and/or father to all children. It was not only illegal for a white person to assist them to exist the situation, it was legally required to prevent them from doing so. Which is to say nothing of the penalties on any Black person caught escaping or assisting an escape.

The underground railway was a system of attempting to assist a class of people to gain freedom in defiance of every law and social convention, one person at a time. It was an act of racial, class and national treachery far beyond anything I've ever heard any democrat even contemplate.

Therefore, comparing any contemporary situation serves only to diminish the gravity of the underground railway. Which was not just about going somewhere else for political reasons.

Need a different analogy.

Texas GOP fleeing during a Weather emergency: (silence)

Texas Democrats fleeing to stop gerrymandering: Send in the goons

americas only option left now is riots. protests aren't working, the elites don't care unless their lives are threatened. it's sad but true. this isn't going to change or go away with hand holding. history has proven the only way to remove fascist regimes is violence. that's the truth. fascist don't care for your vote, they don't care about you, they will and are taking all your rights and voices away to maintain power and control. this is 1000% happening in the US right now. right this second. this isn't a warning of what could happen, it's literally happening. and there's only 1 way out now. and it's not pretty.

The Gross Old Pedophile party never seemed to have a problem with fleeing from votes in the past.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/oregon-republicans-flee-facing-fines-state-police-chasing-democrats-demand-n1020571

Wait until ICE has been fully converted to Brownshirts via extremest recruitment and equipped with their billions of dollars of military surplus gear. You’ll have legislators zip tied to chairs on the floor under armed guard to reach quorum.

When the state orders illegal arrest warrants, what to do?

"Captain! CAPTAIN! They're shooting at us!"

I know, easy enough to say, but we have to draw a fucking line in the sand and say, "My life is worth giving to fight fascism." America is not some foreign land, the goals here are not nebulous political objectives. The enemy is at the gates.

Loads of "funny" posts around here about how no one wants to live this life any longer. Not so fucking funny when faced with death, actual black, endless nothing. Been there done that, never been so scared. But facing death a couple of times does give one perspective. In any case, I will not live in fascist America. I. Fucking. Refuse.

Also, I'm middle-aged, easier for me than a young man with a full life ahead. But for me, in my place, I am a fucking pit viper vs. these animals. Do not stir me. Yeah, I said it, these fascists are subhuman to my mind. I'm not waiting on excuses, I am actively looking for excuses.

Gave my MAGA neighbor the Nazi salute I give every single time I pass his house. LOL, got the cops called on me for calling him a fascist and his wife a fat-ass Nazi cunt. When he came stomping down here to kick me ass, he had no idea how close I came to ending his life on this street. Florida is "stand your ground"! Isn't that what the conservatives wanted? My brown, legal, immigrant wife, "stop that". I refuse. "No, this fucker needs to know that despite his friends and family and FaceBook echo chamber, some of us will fight him, he is my enemy."

Looks like American heroes to me.