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At this time, it is unknown who is sending the text messages or why they are doing it.
Racists. Racists are sending the text message.
They are doing it to instill fear because they believe that the nation is now a white supremacist fascist nation.
Gotta love "journalism."
they believe that the nation is now a white supremacist fascist nation.
Apparently it is.
Yeah, 2015/16 was full of me being told to go back to China, really looking forward how this shit show is going to be.
I was born in Spokane, WA. Am white but with a Celtic name. People have also told me to go back where I come from. This goes beyond pure racism but it’s obvious that the story here and yours are caused by racism.
At what point does that start to sound like the better option? Is that even an option available to you?
Good lord, China would never be an option.
The US is rapidly moving toward it too.
Maybe but there's still no way in hell I would ever move there. I'd be disappeared given I enjoy freedom of speech.
🙄 sigh. Good luck man, maybe get outta that area if that's possible. West coast seems to be ok (just don't go inland).
I still see a ton of trucks waving trump flags out here. The filth is everywhere, there's no escaping it.
Stick to Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, San Diego and you won’t see it unless you enter the suburbs. LA is a bit more mixed but probably still decent
Just drove around the bay (Concord to Atherton, Santa Cruz to San Jose, and then back to SF before going back home). There was a lot of trump flags and supporters on bridges and vehicles driving around. There’s a lot of Trump supporters even in Progressive Bay Area regions. Lots of tech bros now are big Trump supporters. That said, the west coast has far, far less than other regions.
Just the beginning. If you thought 2016 empowered the racists, buckle up.
You see they say violence isnt a solution but i wouldnt use it as a solution, i just wanna commit it against whoever is doing this.
Violence is never the answer.
It's a question, and the answer is "yes."
Maxim 6: If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.
Yup. We're going to have this going on for 4 years.
Racists are going to target Blacks, Hispanics, Asians with racial slurs and more.
Xenophobes will antagonize immigrants and other people of ethnic backgrounds.
Bigots will target LGBTQ as usual.
Yeah, wonderful...
Arm yourselves.
Let them be the first to draw blood but do not go down without a fight.
They want a war, they've spent decades screaming about it, and stockpiling weapons.
They will be emboldened to violence.
Arm yourselves.
Yeah but latinos and black men were uncomfortable with voting a woman
Young white men were BIGLY for Trump. If I were young and single I'd be joining the 4B movement after having them sell my rights down the river
Russia wants a civil war. They want people scared and angry. They want people taking to the streets armed. Don't fall into this trap - the propaganda machine is going strong, even here on Lemmy.
Trump openly said he will be a dictator and will not follow the rule of law. The damage is done man, Putin got what he wanted. I'm not really sure any ways out. We either fall into an authoritarian dictatorship, or we will probably eventually have a civil war. I'm not really sure what else can be done about that. You can't vote yourself out of a dictatorship... So what else is there for people to do?
Especially here on Lemmy.
Part of me can't help but think that a lot of these "that guy" tankies are really just MAGA honeypots trying to incite the communist Boogeyman they want to use to justify their radical agenda.
Russia doesn't have to lift a finger. We elected the king of the racist bigots, and now for four years (and more) we're going to have to constantly push back against them, because they will will think they can do whatever they want.
Russia wants you fighting for your life, so to get that smug satisfaction of not giving your enemy what they want, you should instead not fight for your life even when all sense says you should.
I get tempering your emotions, being patient, and trying to see the bigger picture. But there may come a point where it simply does not matter what our geopolitical enemies want or do not want. We've been avoiding this fight since we bungled Reconstruction, honestly.
We fucking deserve it.
Yeah, don’t stand up against the fascists! Let them rule over you!
The obvious racism of this aside this is a direct consequence of data brokers and surveillance capitalism making it trivial and cheap to send out texts to minority women in Detroit. That’s an insane thing. Someone probably paid a pittance for these targeted texts.
It seems like soon enough, we will all just be blocking everything except contacts from messages and calls. It is absolutely ridiculous how much spam and fraud is sent, and how easily our data is mined and sold.
My question is where can we buy lists of Trump supporters so we can find easy ways to ~~leach money from them~~ market products
I already block all non-contact calls and messages, well, I filter them out and check them every few days to make sure nothing important has happened. Just like my spam folder in my email. If I let spam calls actually ring-through on my phone it would drive me insane because I get at least a dozen bullshit calls a day.
A black friend of mine got it as well.
Well much to my dismay I actually read the article and surprise surprise Fox 2 is just regurgitating Reddit post without doing any actual fucking journalism. Great job team.
No. They are regurgitating info from people who personally contacted them which is in the lede. They also are reporting about it in other parts of the country and from kids attending universities.
The Reddit part was regarding speculating about who is sending them.