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My fellow Americans, do you "touch grass" these days? (outside of essentials like work or buying food) I mean, ICE Raids are everywhere, do you even feel safe to go anywhere? (sh.itjust.works)
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I mean, it used to be "go outside" to feel better, to treat depression, etc...

Bruh how the fuck am I supposed relax going outside? It would actually make me feel more anxious. I'd have to constantly scan for possible ICE agents like do a full 360 visual scan of the area every 30 seconds.

So is this just life for the next 4 years (at the minimum)? Do I just stay home unless for essential stuff? Just spend all the freetime on the internet because I'm too scared to go outside?

I'm a naturalized citizen, but with the denaturalization talks, this is so anxiety inducing. Citizens born outside of the country have the burden of proof apparantly. I kinda didn't renew passport, I have a picture of my citizenship document on my phone, not sure that's any good or fascists are just gonna fascist and try to throw me in cecot.

My neighbors are still going about lime this is norma, playing music and having parties. (They are hispanic btw)

How do people just be so chill about all this? Am I overreacting? Are they underreacting? What even is the healthy about of fear to have?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I try to, but I am really confused with my place. I live in a small town that is one of the more remote places of the US that is on an interstate (maybe a confliction), my neighbors on one side are Latino, and on the other Sikh, and neither one has had an observable change since January. I think that most of these folks believe they are safe here, and maybe that is true, but nobody wants to talk about it. The independence day stuff was muted, but it's really dry here so that is normal. Everyone respected that. Still plenty of music and gatherings and what not. But most folks here are conservative, even those who are vocal about their dislike of Trump.

So, to answer your question, I touch grass daily. I mean, this is bad. I can't get other people onboard, hey still seem to feel that it is affecting "others." I work for the federal government, and they say things like "they don't mean you" and I think, they mean us.