Donald Trump Sued by Quakers Over ICE Raids

[quill7513@slrpnk.net]

definitively yes. where would they have gone?

[cygnus@lemmy.ca]

Of course. Did you think all those oats grow on trees?

[fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Just because you don’t see them doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

[asafum@feddit.nl]

"Can you believe this!? Oatmeal. I'm being sued by oatmeal. The left has lost their minds! They have nothing so they have oatmeal sue me. I'm signing an executive order that outlaws oatmeal now."

[misterneon@lemmy.world]

Same place the Calvinists went.

[nabdad@lemmy.world]

Yep. I attended a Quaker wedding a while back. There is no officiant. For the wedding everyone just sits there staring at the bride and groom, and you're supposed to just stand up and talk if the spirit moves you. It felt very odd for us non-quakers in attendance. I don't remember how they decided it was over. I know there was a long period of total quiet that had me starting to think I should stand up and say something, but thankfully someone broke the silence.

My grandfather was a Quaker. He wouldn't beat my father, which is a shame because my father really needed some good beatings. My grandmother wasn't a Quaker, and she would break yardsticks over his ass often enough that she bought boxes of them. However, it clearly didn't have enough impact.

I also live near a Friend's Meeting House, and there are a bunch of well-established Quaker Schools in the area. If you can afford to pay for a private education for your children, they are supposed to be excellent.

[gigliorananomicom@sh.itjust.works]

This "immigrants with criminal records" bullshit has got me fuming.

Straight-up glazing over how many criminals were born here and live here and the multitudes of criminals here that haven't been caught. Commiting crimes doesn't disqualify a person from being human. Come on.

[chlopczyca@sh.itjust.works]

Not really, there are some Reformed Christians in Pennsylvania but they're not particularly concentrated there the way Quakers are.

[gladaed@feddit.org]

Excuse me, they are called "the religious society of friends" which is awesome.

[floofloof@lemmy.ca]

It's not like they're only going after people with criminal records. They just make sure always to mention that some have criminal records in order to associate immigrants with criminality in people's minds. They will do the same with every other group they target. See also their scare tactics about trans people and bathrooms. There are no actual problems around trans people's use of bathrooms, but the Republicans certainly want you to imagine there is, so they do everything they can to get people to imagine trans people do something odd in bathrooms.

[floofloof@lemmy.ca]

The more noise a religious group makes, the more dodgy it tends to be. The USA is full of loud, hateful Christian groups. Quakers are quiet.

[nokturne213@sopuli.xyz]

My grandfather was a Quaker too, and my grandmother was not as well. She was Amish but grew up kind of outside the Amish community, she spoke only Pennsylvania German into her teens when she learned English.

Much like your dad, mine could use some beatings.

[tdawg@lemmy.world]

The Trump administration is seeking to crack down on illegal immigration. The president made immigration a central theme of his successful campaign for office, and Americans largely support his mass deportation plans.

Could you suck his dick any harder?

[flyingsquid@lemmy.world]

The vast, vast majority of violent criminals in the U.S. are citizens.

[flyingsquid@lemmy.world]

You might be thinking of Shakers. I used to confuse them too. The Shakers all died out because they all took a vow of celibacy. Morons.

[flyingsquid@lemmy.world]

Have you never seen a porridge tree?

[bertramditore@lemm.ee]

Here’s a link to the actual story on Newsweek.

[grue@lemmy.world]

They’re the same ones the Nazis used against Jews in the 1930s-40s.

And the same ones the Nazis used against trans people and immigrants in the 1930s-40s, too, for that matter.

Like, what they're doing isn't even just 'reminiscent' of Nazis; it's literally identical. There is no wiggle room or superficial difference to seize upon to try to deny it, although I'm sure the fascist apologist concern trolls will still try.

[misterneon@lemmy.world]

Oh you're completely right! I mixed up the two.

[x00z@lemmy.world]

Time to build bookcases in our homes and workplaces to hide parts of the house so our fellow humans have a safe place away from the hands of the fascists.

Here's an example: