Billie Eilish joined Bad Bunny in speaking out against ICE during her acceptance speech at the Grammy Awards, slamming the organization after winning song of the year for “Wildflower.”

The singer was bleeped as she said “fuck ICE,” giving strong commentary during the speech. “Thank you so much. I can’t believe this. Everyone else in this category is so amazing. I love you so much,” she said, standing next to her brother Finneas. “I feel so honored every time I get to be in this room. As grateful as I feel, I honestly don’t feel like I need to say anything but that no one is illegal on stolen land. And, yeah, it’s just really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, and I feel really hopeful in this room, and I feel like we just need to keep fighting and speaking up and protesting, and our voices really do matter, and the people matter, and fuck ICE. That’s all I’m going to say. Sorry. Thank you so much.”

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[–] 220 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It's nice to see the media allowing people to criticize the government again. Sure fuck ice was bleeped but it's still getting out. The more outspoken the people are the more the media can't ignore it and must show it. Especially famous people speaking out since they always have an outlet to the masses.

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  • [–] 72 points 9 months ago*

    Sure fuck ice was bleeped but it's still getting out.

    The Grammys are broadcast on CBS. Broadcast TV has to follow FCC rules about profanity. Not bleeping fuck would mean pretty hefty fines, and IIRC those increase based on viewership. Cable and streaming services don't have to follow those same rules.

    There are clips that are not bleeped, including the clip on the official Grammy Youtube channel, because that was only done for the broadcast version.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Honestly, in an award ceremony, they would probably get more attention if they bleeped out all the comments and not just the cuss words. It’s probably the reason CBS is no longer going to host the Grammys after such a long time.

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  • [–] 109 points 9 months ago

    She seems like a decent person.

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  • [–] 24 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    More specifically, FUCK YOU KRISTI.

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  • [–] 23 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Kurt Cobain making a come back?

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  • [–] 71 points 9 months ago

    She is correct and very cool of her to say so.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    That's a really great, quotable line. She's got a way with words, almost like she's an award-winning lyricist.

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  • [–] 48 points 9 months ago

    f-f-f-f-f-ucking BASED, Every word she said was like it came out of my own mouth, I love the little bastard

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    Good. Fuck ICE indeed!

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  • [–] 43 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (21 children)

    Popular music was the anti-Fox News back in the day, but it dead now.

    Nice to see the echoes tho.

    Edit: not sure what people are taking away from this but just to clarify, I liked the popular music that was anti-Fox news and appreciate the current popular musicians doing what they do. It’s just that the music industry - suspect in the best of times - finally succeeded in killing itself and what we have now is some American Idol game show / hype influencer Frankenstein that’s both worse and not popular.

    The effect of which is that “Fox News” stands alone.

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  • [–] -4 points 9 months ago (19 children)

    You're right. I honestly rather see celebrities in the streets in solidarity with the people, freezing and standing up to ICE. They are condemning ICE in their fancy clothes. It's just them sucking their own dicks. Everyone hates ICE. It's not bringing attention to anything. The shootings are doing that.

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  • [–] 27 points 9 months ago

    People with influence should use that influence for the betterment of everyone.

    Positive outcomes as a result self aggrandizing really shouldn't be a problem. Quit with the "it's not perfect so they should do nothing" rhetoric, it self destructive.

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  • [–] 51 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

    Don’t downplay the importance of influence. That was a large audience and using the platform to at least say something encourages others to start being comfortable saying the same thing. Most people aren’t the protestors in Minneapolis, including most of us here. By opening the door to outward criticism, people that follow these artists and listen to them are being given further permission, internally, to voice the same opposition.

    No, it’s not as brave as standing face to face with tyranny in the streets, but both fronts are worth fighting on.

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  • [+] -13 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    While I do agree, they should've been screaming the message earlier. With more passion. Not "um, ICE sucks. Fuck em. They bad." They can do both. It's just most of them are too comfortable in their mansions to go the next step and practice what they preach.

    I'm a nobody, but earlier last year I became a community leader and helped organize protests in my red city. Imagine what they can do if they are shoulder to shoulder with the people.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    "They didn't do it on my schedule, so fuck them."

    What an immature take.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    If you have influence, you also have the responsibility to make sure your voice reaches as many people as possible. Screaming this message earlier is a good way of lowering your chances of getting access to a mic at the Grammy at a moment where most people are listening.

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    No, not everyone hates ICE, unfortunately. Here on lemmy sure. But this was an opportunity to get a message out to the Fox listeners, the trumptards, the people who have not heard, or don't believe what's actually going on.

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    At this point, nothing will change their mind until ICE is knocking down their front door or shooting someone they care about.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    As pessimistic as I naturally am, I actually don't believe that. The trump administrative lies all the time, Fox News lies and spins an incredible amount, there are constant lies on Xitter. I think they do this because they have to. They know that if the truth was more unavoidable, they'd face much more backlash from the typical trump backers. I'm sure plenty of Trumpers wouldn't care, but I think there's a significant group of trump supporters who are only so because they're stuck in the right wing echo chambers.

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago* (7 children)

    celebrities aren't normal people. they don't want to be around you. they just want your money. and they will say what they think will get them money.

    the only solidarity they have with is other wealthy people who have the same struggles as they do about wanting to use their private jets.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    I don't think that's true across the board.

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  • [–] -4 points 9 months ago* (5 children)

    sorry, do the majority of celebs fly commercial and show up to protests?

    or do they just say crap at award shows to score points with little zero inconvenience or consequence to themselves?

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    or do they just say crap [...] score points with little zero inconvenience or consequence to themselves?

    You just described the vast majority of people.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

    i'm not disputing that. most people are armchair activists at best.

    and frankly, being an activist requires a certain mentality that most people don't possess. it requires shutting off rational parts of your brain and giving yourself over to a belief. I gave up on activism myself because many activists are violent psychos and I want nothing to do with people like that. Everything is 'peace and love' until you mildly disagree with them, then you their enemy they must destroy. They are often the opposite of what they claim to be, and while some are cool, many are only in it for the feeling of moral superiority and 'community' they get from shitting one 'bad people' and lauding themselves as 'good people'.

    Like I had people threaten me for not being pro bike lane enough, because apparently if I go to a bike lane rally, but I don't think cars are evil and car drivers are evil, I'm evil. I can't just be generally supportive of bike lanes, i have to be part of some crazy extremist agenda where own a car makes you hate gay people or something.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (2 children)

    OK, but I think the point a lot of commenters were making is Billie Eilish's anti-ICE statement was likely genuine. She might be a slackivist, but it seemed like you attributed her statement to just a grift trying to get kudos and this attitude is applied to every progressive celebrity. I always find this perspective unnecessarily pessimistic.

    I know being a celebrity basically gives you a mental illness, but I'm pretty sure celebrities authentically believe things. If they were in it purely for a grift, they'd start appealing to rightwingers given how much more money they'd be making that way.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    what makes it genuine? i have no doubt she feels that way. i can feel lots of things and make statements about them.

    that is very different than taking actions regarding those feelings. and that is true of celebrities as is of everyone else. Lots of people I know complain about stuff, but few of them actively make choices to improve the things they complaint about. And the people who tend to actively do such things... don't complain or make grandiose political statements.

    One of my friends and I donate to immigrant families. I take old computers from work, fix them up, and together we give them to immigrant families, because they need computers. I take direct action to support and make their lives better. I don't complain about how hard they have it and how awful their lives are and how evil ICE is. I simply help them.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago*

    If I must judge people's virtue while remaining rational, I don't judge people as bad for not taking action. No one chooses to be born, we are not obligated to do anything. In fact, my perspective is that if virtue is of any concern then collective society intrinsically owes the individual for having fostered itself as natalist (which it has to to continue to exist). If any blame can actually be placed at all, of course.

    I don't actually even believe in free will. I don't deal with virtue outside of catharsis and interpersonal relationships, being a consequentialist.

    For instance, I feel hatred towards those that could have but did not vote in 2024, largely out of catharsis. I know its pointless outside of emotional satisfaction.

    So from that perspective: it makes sense you feel frustration at slackivists, but its just catharsis. Your anger and chastisement of them is unlikely to foster any actual positive outcome.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago*

    I cannot have more respect for a person than I have for Billie.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    this comment section is heavy on the "socially liberal, fiscally conservative" vibes

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  • [–] 28 points 9 months ago (14 children)

    True, but still some land is significantly more stolen than others.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Like what

    Name a culture which hasn't stolen land or had slaves

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    What? This is getting confusing.

    Yes probably all cultures had slaves or stole land at some point in time. (This is true, depending on whether you see cultures as fixed in time: are current day Egyptians of the same culture as ancient Egyptians? When does culture "restart"? Who decides this?)

    Let me ask you: is there no difference between let's say a Native American claiming his land was stolen (hundreds of years ago and his people massacred, and he's now a second rank citizen on his own land), and for instance a white European claiming his land was stolen (by the Romans? During WW2? I would not know what he means honestly, especially because he is now part of a nation state, a first class citizen).

    Yes all land was stolen. But this is not an absolute. You wouldn't agree the Native American had his land quite a bit more relatively stolen?

    My point is you can't invalidate the claim of native peoples just by going "meh, so what? All land was technically stolen at some point". Some people can make a more legitimate claim their land was stolen than others.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (9 children)

    and how do you rank the 'stolen-ness' of land?

    is squatting stealing land?

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    Can't really rank it, it's a subjective statement. My gut tells me there's a difference between for instance a Native American stating his land is stolen and a, just an example, white European stating his land is stolen.

    My gut thinks there IS a way to rank these statements, even though it's technically true all land was stolen at some point and the whole nation state fairy tale is completely arbitrary.

    That's just my gut though, it doesn't agree with genocide

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

    I can rank it, but it would depend on the context and the evidence involved.

    I used to work professional in land policy. Land ownership is ultimately about the legal system and who posses the 'deed' to the land. Governments are the ones who control this ultimately. They can create, take, and steal land via the law. And different government define land and the rights to land, differently. In China you can't own land, you only lease it. In America, you own the land and everything underneath it to the earth's core. Other countries have different laws and definitions.

    Proof of theft requires proof of previous ownership, as a starting point. To prove that land was stolen you'd have to prove original ownership, and the series of events that lead to it's loss of ownership and their illegality or illegitimacy. the further back you go the messier it gets. land records from the past 50 years are quite clear. land records from 200+ years ago, not so much. It's basically impossible to prove any of it if say, the town or municipality in dispute, had it's records destroyed in a fire or somesuch, perhaps even maliciously.

    Plenty of Europeans have land-conflicts that go back centuries and involve murder. There are also conflicts amongst indigenous people's over land right and land use and tribal recognition. It's vastly more complex than 'hey white people give us our land back because your ancestors stole it from our ancestors'. My ancestors arrived in America in the 1910/20s, personally, and never left the area of the original 16th century colonies, many of which were established with peaceful agreements of the natives and were not stolen at all.

    Oh and there are also all sorts of laws about default ownership. My sister owns a home where their neighbor build a fence about 2 feet into their property line. If my sister doesn't force the neighbor to move the fence 2 feet back, then in 10 years legally, their neighbor now owns the land. Is that theft? Legally, it isn't. She can ask the neighbor to move it, and he hasn't. She has to now threaten to sue them and have the courts legally force the neighbor to move the fence. If he can legally drag it on for 8 more years, he gets the land. The law involved in is a state law. It doesn't apply in my state. My state requires neighbors to co-own fences along property lines, which hers doesn't. Hence why their neighbor built this fence without properly surveying and realizing it wasn't on his property.

    The general term of this is 'adverse possession' and also applies to squatters and other things. In my state if you squat on someone else's land for 20 years, you own it. The owner also evict you other than via the legal system. If some bum moves into my cabin, I can't change the locks on it to keep him out either. I have to go get a court order to evict him.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    "No-one is illegal on stolen land" is a staunchly pro-immigration, anti-colonial, and anti-borders statement made by people in anarchist-adjacent circles. You're arguing about laws and legal processes that people with this sentiment hate and seek to abolish. Everything you've stated here is correct, but in this context it doesn't matter, isn't it pedantic?

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  • [–] -5 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    If you want to feel your deep profound anarchist liberation feelings, go right ahead.

    I'm not an anarchist and I'm don't care about idealistic sentimentality. I care about reality, and yes, if your world view is that 'reality is bad and must be abolished' then yeah, I suppose you'd be pretty annoyed at someone who was pointing out that reality to you.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

    I'm not an anarchist, something that was obvious from how I spoke about them like an outsider, but this is such a disingenuous comment I'm gonna ignore that bit.

    You do not care about reality – this is made obvious from your belief that property laws are some sort of sane and natural order, instead of being hackneyed together by generations of rich landowners with their own short-sighted, trite, and nonsensical goals. The violence committed by these freaks for more oil or sharecropping land or some other garbage is actually the opposite of normal humanity, unless you live somewhere where your neighbors shoot each other because they were bored and wanted a second house.

    You see, within civilization, humans generally share spaces. There are no borders in the household or passport stations in the farmers' market. Anarchism is the belief that this can be expanded all the way to the international level; the comparatively simpler idea expressed by this celebrity is that there shouldn't be a military dedicated to attacking random people who are just trying to live in society because they're "illegal", especially considering this society is already built on attacking random people and the attackers, by their own definitions, are actually already here illegally. The fact that this simple slogan pisses you off is a genuinely fascinating concept and makes me think you aren't too happy to abide by the social contract.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I'm sure there are folks who consider themselves anarchists but haven't actually considered the philosophy in a functioning form once state and property is abolished. I'm not trying to be rude, I just mostly see anarchism talked about in the context of attempting to exist within this society. I don't think it would be so simple, for anarchism to exist even though one generation there would have to be constant adjustments and decisions and established norms and practices that allow society to move forward. I don't mean to say that it isn't worth doing, I think it could eventually be a better world but it would be generations from now and even then there will still be the need to protect and keep society healthy, like an ecosystem there needs to be some oversight in place for the habitat and members of it to all exist in some equilibrium, not everyone is going to agree on things all the time.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah I fully agree with this, I just got heated because the other guy seemed to imply that anarchism was inherently doomed because humanity is naturally violent or whatever, it's a horribly nihilistic worldview.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    You believing in anarchism isn't doing anything to change the laws that govern your physical and legal body.

    But please lecture me about how nothing exists other than the ideal utopia inside your head and anyone who thinks your imaginary world instead your head is the 'real' one and the external one with property laws, borders, and real human beings is 'fake'.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    You can't meaningfully own something that existed before you and will continue to exist after you.

    The concept of private property, especially in regards to land ownership is spurious to ridiculous.

    Now your breath you own. Your spoken words you own. Thoughts, too. They will all die with you and can't exist without you. Though, ownership here isn't implying originality of any kind. You can own thoughts that you did not originate. That's how cults spread.

    Think of an apple trying to claim ownership of the apple tree from which it hangs.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    So philosophically, I agree with you, but how would the logistics of land use work without something similar to ownership?

    Like, how would you decide who gets to live where?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    everyone would magically self determine that and there wouldn't be any conflict because there would be endless abundance and we would all be endlessly happy forever.

    the earth being a finite resource over which there is inevitable conflict is a social construct of our minds, clearly.

    who gets to live where in reality, is a determination of systems of government and law. in some systems land is entirely own by the state and the state grants people temporary rights of use. essentially, a lease from the government.

    and private property purists will argue without unless government guarantees land ownership and rights in perpetuity, that government can't be legitimate and they also typically see taxation of land as a form of injustice.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago

    That's a good question with endless possible answers.

    I can't speak for everyone. But I like the idea of egalitarian intentional communities, as a demsoc. No representatives or charismatic leaders. Smaller communities with direct democracy I think would be ideal. A place where you know everyone's name and vice versa.

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  • [–] -3 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    In the 1800s in USA, people were simply traveling around freely by horse, discovering new places, and if they found a place they liked by a lake or river by a beautiful waterfall or a place with great agricultural potential, they would just plant themselves there and build a house without having to ask permission from anyone. Later in the 1800s the government swooped in and decided the government owned everything and made all those people pay the government for the rest of their life to live anywhere 😠

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Always loved how much she speaks about important topics.

    One of the best vegan artists I know!

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Based as hell. Glad the youth is finally looking to people like this as role models instead of celebrities with Histrionic personality disorders like Miley Cyrus.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Well, I mean there's one group.

    You know . . . the colonials thieves?

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  • [+] -25 points 9 months ago (19 children)

    I'm pretty left leaning but the whole "stolen land" narrative will never land with the common person. It certainly doesn't with me.

    I cannot be asked to be held responsible about the actions of people well over 200 years ago. I was born here.

    Arguing that someone "stole the land" and thus it's yours is how you get places like Israel.

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  • [–] 44 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    That doesn't sound left-leaning. It's not about you. It's not about holding you responsible. That's a talking point straight out of the conservative victimhood playbook.

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    And yet that's what is always implied by these statements. "someone 200 years ago made a choice so you deal with it"

    No, fuck that.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Do you have an opinion on DEI?

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Sure: it's a good idea to improve diversity. Can't think of any reasons not to.

    I do think that corporations get it wrong, and it doesn't make sense to pick a less qualified candidate just to meet some arbitrary requirements.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    DEI tends to encourage the hiring of diverse people because they have been historically underrepresented due to past policies and systemic injustices. One could argue DEI is people making choices due to the behavior of people from previous generations. It seems at odds to support that and not acknowledge some concept of debt owed to people wronged by society in the past.

    Also, DEI is not about lowering standards. It's a pretty common dog whistle to suggest that corpos pick less qualified candidates because of DEI. I'm not suggesting you intended it that way, but going forward it's good to keep that in mind.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    No one's asking you to take responsibility, just to face reality.

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  • [+] -7 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Make a list of land that wasn't taken from someone else. I'll wait.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    That's not the point you think it is... It weakens your argument, essentially admitting that no one has the credibility to say the land of a nation is for any particular type of person from any specific place... The Earth belongs to no one, we simply divvy up and take ownership over the responsibility to govern maintain and preserve it, but this entitlement some cling to about god given rights to land is delusion, pure and simple.

    Also you're conflating things; saying "no one is illegal on stolen land" is not the same as saying "since it's stolen it's mine"... no one is saying that.

    You seem to be trying to argue that might equals right, when the rest of the left is fighting to maintain (or further establish) a rules based society, which is the opposite of might equals right and all that Stephen Miller bullshit.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    Amazon jungle tribals area
    Greenland (yet)

    That's what first comes to mind.

    Maybe you should rephrase your point?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Oh, sorry friend. You can't prove to me that the people living there didn't steal their current living space from another community member.

    It's just a stupid concept. You can't look at any piece of written human history that doesn't involve conquering land from others.

    What's the cutoff for something being stolen? The immediate area around where I live? A city? Does it matter if the people who came before had a concept of nations or borders?

    My point is: immigration policy in the USA is clearly broken for a plethora of ways that don't involve using some weird idea that a country's land is stolen. The average person is likely going to look at that part of the claim and latch on to it, contemplating how dumb the idea is. We should probably use arguments that make some sense when trying to convince undecided people to take a logical stance.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I agree. This kind of rhetoric doesn't really help. I guess I get what she's going for here, but....trying to get people, en masse, to reject the very notion of someone being here illegally is going to take a lot.

    I personally find the over-emphasis on the restriction of the movement of people, while money can slosh all around the world with hardly any friction rather absurd, but I also realize that's not a widely-held view.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I personally find the over-emphasis on the restriction of the movement of people, while money can slosh all around the world with hardly any friction rather absurd

    Um, it's not the movement of all people that's restricted; it's the movement of poor people. If you're rich enough, you can basically go wherever you want whenever you want.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Oh, of course, but that's the case with nearly all of the people that I think you are talking about (the billionaires and the centimillionaires) - the rules and grind everyone else has are not really problems for them. But their money can circle the globe even easier than they can...

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (2 children)

    Readsettlers.org

    Stealing land and arguing everyone does it is how you get places like piSSrael and seppoland.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Terminally online alert. The fuck is seppoland?

    "B-b-but the "holy land" was stolen from us first!" - Israel

    You do understand that same narrative is what they use to justify "taking it back", right? They're not there illegally bro, the land was stolen from them.

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