damnfool-of-a-took:

slashmarks:

One of the reasons it’s important to know that the US has done things like this before (for almost any value of this, not just the current border situation) is because people have fought things like this before. Knowing what tactics they used tells us what worked and what didn’t.

And some of those policies stopped because of activism. It’s possible to win.

All I’m seeing in most “This is America” posts is incitement of despair and hopelessness. Don’t encourage people to give up.

Yes, this! I’ve been trying to be careful myself to avoid reblogging posts with too much despairing commentary, but I see an unfortunate amount of them.

I’ve seen some commentary positing that at least some of those posts are psyops specifically designed to impose a sense of inevitability and helplessness, but whether they are or not (although I’m inclined to believe that at least some are), that is certainly the effect they have.