I was so confused for a moment.
Nougat
While that's not strictly a Guy Fawkes mask, holy shit does the non-blurred version get even stupider. It's like the people who picked the image for the story thought, "Even we can't put up something that stupid."
I haven't even gotten to the text of the story, because I was stopped in my tracks by the stupidest stock photo I have ever seen, wherein someone in full riot gear with an ultra-modern machine pistol is prepared to shoot someone at point blank range, when they're already in handcuffs, which are, inexplicably, in front and not behind. And how cold is it in that basement that you'd be working while wearing a hoodie (with the hood up, of course) and a jacket zipped up over it?
Not saying you're wrong, but -- it turns out that more people with indigenous North American heritage prefer to be called "Indians," followed by "Native Americans," and then "Other." I still think "Native Americans" is the best general term, but even that papers over the vast array of different indigenous nations on the continent.
Poland wasn't a member of the USSR. They were a vassal state.
We have different definitions of "not so long ago."
It was not so long ago that it would have been unfathomable for France and a united Germany to team up in support of a country which was once part of the Soviet Union.
There's room for you in Illinois.
How dare anyone ever question your assertions, indeed.
Don't wait until "that doesn't work." It's already not working well enough to turn the tide. My gut tells me that come November, no matter the outcome of the election, there are going to be a whole bunch of people who need protecting. I intend to be prepared for that eventuality.