Screaming Into The Void

Bruce, who was only half listening while looking at his work emails, reading the days newspaper, and drinking coffee: "Technically I got him from juvie."

Dick, who just walked into the room and has no clue what they're talking about: "Technically you got me from the police precinct after I escaped juvie."

Jason: "..."

Duke: "..."

Damian: "..."

Duke: "You can't just not elaborate. Why were you in juvie?"

Dick, shrugging and stealing a muffin from Jason's plate: "Attempted murder."

Marta: Don't worry, I can pay for this *slams down a ridiculous amount of money, shocking the others because this whole time she's been driving a shitbox car and using the world's most busted up phone*

Helen: DAMN! *Suddenly remembers there's a Priest here* Sorry Father Jud, but have you ever seen that much money?

Niina Petrõkina (EST)

Please spread this around. Don't let ANYONE lie and say my community is anything but ASTONISHINGLY UNITED in rejection of ICE's behavior. This crosses generations, race lines, party lines, class lines. THAT is how bad ICE is. THAT is how bad we want them gone.

THAT is how loudly we are DEMANDING they leave!

Do you understand what a crowd like this means in a small city like Minneapolis??? In weather that hurts to breathe???

Yes they do. It's just that their morals are rooted in "protect the people and things closest to me at all costs". Their values are extreme tribalism. They also believe those outside the group are constantly threatening the safety and prosperity of the in-group.

This is why so much of what they do seems contradictory and hypocritical. Yes, they want prosperity for those they consider "like them", but they are also willing to do things that harm themselves if it harms the "enemy" more. And, they blame the enemy for that harm, not themselves.

It's literally "this is why we can't have nice things". It's your fault.

A conservative may think, "welfare might be nice, and it's true all my neighbors depend on it, but those welfare queens are stealing it, so we can't have it. Public pools might be nice, and they provide a safe place for my children to play, but people I consider unclean might use them, so we can't have them."

This is how a conservative woman can justify an abortion for herself, but not for others, even though anti-abortion laws make it harder for her to get that abortion in the first place.

I (being a teenager) was confused by this because this issue is so much larger than just her daughter. So I tried again to explain how many people are harmed by sex work criminalization and how decriminalization would decrease sex trafficking and she repeated again, with a smile on her face: "I don't want my daughter to do that and decriminalization would signal that that is an acceptable thing for her to do".