This is literally my parents. They told me to stop criticizing the people in power, even going as far as saying I shouldn’t criticize the government of my former country. I don’t even have citizenship in my former country anymore, not sure how I could even get in trouble for criticizing is effecively a foreign country to me. (I’m talking about PRC btw).

My mom told me to “just focus on improving your own life and stop worrying about things like you can’t control like politics” (as in, both the politics of my former country and the politics of my current country)

Am I in the wrong here? Should I just keep quiet and not say anything so that I don’t “get in trouble”?

  • IEatDaGoat@lemm.ee
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    10 days ago

    You don’t realize how much you have to lose until you do. You could become homeless or deported if you get caught under this administration.

    We’re reaching a point where the government is deporting green card users for protesting against Israel’s genocide. It won’t be long until US Citizens get the same treatment. And don’t think for a second that you’d be the only one punished. You could be dragging your entire family down with you.

    So unless you’re willing to become jailed, homeless, or deported, id listen to your parents.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 days ago

      Im ASD and diagnosed with major depression and on SSD.

      That means I’m high up on the purge list anyway.

      We’re all on that list. Even those of you who keep their head down. That’s the point of the Niemöller poem, especially since Trump’s shadowy masters are not trying to become dictator for life rather to bleed the federal general fund for a while before skedaddling to Switzerland or Liechtenstein.

      You can’t lie low on this one as if it’s a protracted storm. At least I can’t.

        • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          9 days ago

          Social Security Disability.

          One of the things Musk is trying to kill because I am allegedly useless.

          Musk is about to learn there are practical reasons to assure the wellbeing of non-workers, including NEETs.

          We often sre useful, just in ways not recognized by pure transactionalists and capitalists. And those uses can and do turn renegade.

      • IEatDaGoat@lemm.ee
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        9 days ago

        Let me put it this way. If I was Tank Man I would have regretted that decision for the rest of my life while I was being tortured to death. Why would I do something that I would regret?