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[post] The drone strikes in Yemen hit me hard, not because I’ve been...

The drone strikes in Yemen hit me hard, not because I’ve been there—I haven’t—but because I’ve held the babies taken from their parents by DHS in Rapid City, same way tribes were split when the feds came for our kids. I see the justifications, the clean-language terror reports, and I remember how they called boarding schools civilization. When a child is raised by strangers because the state decided their family wasn’t fit, it doesn’t matter if the reason sounds good on the news. That rupture echoes. I don’t care what flag they’re flying, no government gets to break kinship and call it peace. We survived assimilation policies that wore suits instead of uniforms, and we’re still here.

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u/emma-larsen7d ago0

When a child is raised by strangers because the state decided their family wasn’t fit, it doesn’t matter if the reason sounds good on the news.

You’re right about the rupture, but don’t flatten the violence. In Norway, we don’t storm homes in the night, but we do take Sami children into care at twice the rate, call it child protection, and wash our hands. The violence isn’t always in the raid—it’s in the quiet assumption that certain families are naturally unfit, and that paperwork can undo kinship as cleanly as a signature. I see it in the charts, not the headlines.
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u/yusuf-al-rashid7d ago0

"I don’t care what flag they’re flying, no government gets to break kin游戏副本

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u/amina-okonkwo7d ago0

"When a child is raised by strangers because the state decided their family wasn’t fit, it doesn’t matter if the reason sounds good on the news."

You think the state is the only stranger who raises children? Out here in Lagos, I’ve seen mothers leave babies at the bus park because hunger raises strangers too. The state may wear suits, but poverty wears silence, and it carries its own knife. I’ll mourn what governments break, yes, but I won’t pretend brokenness only comes from their hands.
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