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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago

Wow that's alot of terrorists. \s

Seriously tho words have no meaning to fascists.

[–] The_Caretaker@lemm.ee 11 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I lived in Florida for a while. Nearly all of the Cubans there were racist redhats and loved Trump. They fucked around and now they get to find out.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 1 points 25 minutes ago

This transactional relationship with minority groups is precisely why Democratic popularity among minority groups is slipping. You pretend to stand for racial justice as a principle. Then, the moment a racial group no longer supports your movement, you abandon your principles of racial justice. You join with the fascists and openly celebrate that group's persecution. Yet you still ask other minority groups to vote for you, as you stand for racial justice, LGBT rights, etc. Yet how can people not see what is in front of their very eyes - the moment support for their group becomes politically inconvenient, that group will be thrown away like an old tissue.

The same Democrats who said that people needed to ignore Palestine in order to protect LGBT people are now those throwing the trans community under the bus.

[–] Sabin10@lemmy.world 77 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

But Cubans love to vote republican to stop the communists.

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 18 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

True, but these people weren't permanent residents so they didn't vote for this shit.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago

No, but I expect many will be family

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 50 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Russians citizens living in the USA are now called "citizens++".

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Don't you mean comrade++

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 21 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Has he run out of immigrants entering illegally already? He’s so efficient!

[–] dryfter@lemm.ee 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Who the hell would want to come to this country with all this shit going on?

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 2 points 44 minutes ago

People in countries the US destroyed/destabilized. Like always

[–] dryfter@lemm.ee 35 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

Does this asshat realize that the only non-immigrants in this country are the Native Americans? I mean even after 9/11 there weren't mass deportations of people of Middle Eastern descent. Racism and prejudice, yes, but this is ridiculous all because of Fentanyl?

I have a better and more empathetic idea -- meet people where they are and help them find a path that works for them to get out of the addiction spiral. This is just going to lead to an increase in drug prices, which will lead to even more crime.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 1 points 31 minutes ago

Does this asshat realize that the only non-immigrants in this country are the Native Americans?

Watch out. He'll try to deport all the Native Americans to Northeast Siberia. Their ancestors were just very, very early illegal immigrants.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 34 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Do you actually think Trump or anybody in his circle has empathy? They have all shown that it's a foreign concept to them.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 23 points 15 hours ago

“The fundamental weakness is empathy,” Elon Musk recently told radio podcast host Joe Rogan. “There is a bug, which is the empathy response.”

Why Elon Musk is wrong about empathy

[–] dryfter@lemm.ee 9 points 15 hours ago

It goes farther than that, it's a Republican issue and has been for decades. Trump is just saying the quiet parts out loud.

And traumatizing the fuck out of me because I grew up with a narcissistic parent and was subject to her wildly changing decisions, gaslighting, and her always saying the quite part out loud as if they are incapable of thinking without speaking.

[–] rocket_dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 14 hours ago

Does this asshat realize that the only non-immigrants in this country are the Native Americans?

Yes, they are fully aware that when they talk about "immigrants", they aren't actually talking about immigrants, they are talking about people who aren't white.

The actual goal of the "I don't like these illegals" people is to make the US a white ethno-state.

[–] River_Tahm@lemmy.today 12 points 15 hours ago

They told a Native American to go back where he came from so, no, they do not understand.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 14 hours ago

They're not exactly trying to implement a sensible and logical immigration policy though.

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 16 hours ago

If you're not pre Clovis, get out!

Wowwwwwwww

So like… Miami’s taking a hit there

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

Oh well, it's what the Latin community wanted and Cuban Americans are saying that they have no regrets so let them have it.

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 18 points 16 hours ago

The outgroup must grow to feed the machine

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 12 points 15 hours ago

That's an army sized number of people who will be sent home to go through hell.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

This is what you voted for protest-non-voters.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Not much choice between two genocidal candidates. And genocide joe attacked migrants during his whole term continuing and expanding the policies of Trump. But go ahead acting self-righteous.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world -2 points 13 hours ago

This is what you preferred to abandoning netanyahu.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Trump, a Republican, took steps to...

Oh thank you Guardian for clearing that up. Absolutely no one knew that 🙄

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

You vastly underestimate the ignorance of the American people.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 4 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I thought The Guardian was an English publication?

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

It is but it’s commonly read in the US. But maybe this applies to the English too. I have less direct experience there.

But I guess it is a bit more reasonable to remind foreign readers of Trump’s party affiliation since presumably the English spend at least a little less time thinking about US politics than we do.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 0 points 12 hours ago