I am surprised that the “thank ya fer ya service” crowd isn’t throwing a fit.

Thank you for your service mostly means, “look at me being a real good boy! Are you happy I’m a real good boy?! I thought about joining! Did you know that I thought about it? Mama said I have flat feet. Did I say thank you for your service?”

Well, this dude did fire a random shot into a crowd and hit a pregnant teenager. He got out of prison early and was picked up by ICE from there.

Dude has a serious brain injury and PTSD. He should have received the best treatment he could get. He should have received citizenship immediately upon earning his Purple Heart (or fighting for the US in the first place). He should have been afforded a path to a decent life.

He wasn’t. He committed a senseless crime, probably directly as a result of his brain injury and ptsd that he got defending a country he had lived in since he was a toddler.

Even considering his violent act, he spent over a decade in prison and “paid his debt to society”. Of course it isn’t about that. It isn’t about rehabilitation. It’s about punishment, and because he happened to be born a few years before his family brought him here, before he could ever even think about where he wanted to be, he gets to live the rest of his life in misery.

A recipient of a Purple Heart, a war hero. And oh boy, he’s gonna spend the rest of his life paying for that.

Breaks my heart and I wish I could help him in some way.

I get where you’re coming from. I’m an isolated nobody from nowhere with no interest in anything but riding out my time on this rock haha.

If I had as much to think about, I’d be more conscious of those things as well. You have to be.

Thank goodness I don’t. Sometimes I get depressed when I think about who I am and how nihilism and lack of opportunity has made it impossible for me to participate in humanity (hillbilly from the middle of nowhere, 2nd poorest place in America). I’m glad I don’t have that kind of anxiety though. I’m not built for it.

Or maybe I was. I’ll never know.

We should always talk first and roll our eyes later, huh?

If I like a song by the Spice Girls I’m telling everyone.

I do. It’s 2 Become 1. It’s cheesy as hell and I’ve been listening to it since I was 10 years old. Check it out. You’ll probably hate it. I don’t.

Most of the US doesn’t care what the pope has to say.

Reread dude’s comment man. He laid it all out.

Derrrrr

I always give to Wikipedia. I’m poor as shit, but anytime I see that banner they gonna get some money.

NOTHING has been as useful for me in the last 20 years. I have learned so much I’ve forgotten over half of it.

I’m a hillbilly who has no education past around the 5th grade. It has been invaluable to me. I wouldn’t be who I am without it. Honestly without the internet as a whole, but especially Wikipedia.

Ain’t you about to be da fiddy first state doe?

Xitter. Its poppin’!

I would vote for the ghost of Bernie Sanders. I’m not talking about a hypothetical ghost either because Bernie isn’t a fucking liar and wouldn’t want folks to have faith that he exists. He’d fly right up to the microphone with that badass accent of his and let the assholes have it just like he does now, only with supernatural powers that come with being a ghost.

I hope that someday we live in a world where that can happen.

Maybe if she gets a few felonies.

The man they mention in this article (Eli Yoder) regularly brings it up and confronts it.

He interviewed a woman one time who was raped by her brothers and she got in trouble right along with them for being “tempting” and not modest enough.

The abuse started when she was a small child.

They don’t go to the police when they catch people, they take them to the elders and punish them within the group. They usually just get shunned for a bit.

Wives regularly get blamed when their daughters are abused by their husbands. “You should do your wifely duties so he isn’t tempted.”

I’ve heard some wild stories watching this guy.

He really works hard to bring education and information to people who are trapped in that reality. He also provides resources and support when people want to escape.