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DJOldguy
What we are seeing is the backlash against all the social progress of the last 80 years. We should have expected it and prepared for it, but we never do. Those weak assholes who feel threatened by the very idea of equality need to be put back in their insecurity box.
Weblord
If you're not a fan of immigration policy, rant at a politician and present sound reasoning. The actual immigrant in front of us did not create that policy. They have been vetted and security checked. Chances are, you're conversing with a worthwhile person. Show them you are one too.
cuprohastes
Immigrants! Bringing their culture into my country! Opening food places with delicious treats! Expanding the gene pool and paying taxes with the jobs they work! Make England Great! Send immigrants!
CrownPrincessAzula
The past decade and a half has forced me to conclude humanity is doomed.
rmellis1112
Has anyone else noticed that in the last few months they've gone from using the label "illegals" to using the label "immigrants". Almost like they want to make it easier to go for the legal immigrants next.
MrSatisify
Strangedays2026
You people realize that urban MAGA and rural progressives exist? Hell even the handful of MAGAT farmers i still hear from made comment that immigrant migrant workers are necessary.
IamTOOOLDforThisShite
Investing in immigrants (by way of initial support where necessary) pays off in significant longterm benefits to the economy.
mrthewhitee
You haven't "progressed so little" you have REGRESSED. you had progressed, and now you have returned to a previous point.
Happens all the time unfortunately.
woozle
Faasel524
Always good woozle.
Targe0
Because @OP, no matter how much we progress technologically. We are still a very tribal species at our cores. So those kinds of manipulations will always be effective. We are just programmed to protect our own tribe from outsiders. And if they can manage to convince people that some group isn't part of the tribe that we have built a nation to represent. Then there will be people who try to force them out.
OnceBotheredTwiceShy
A lot of us are pissed too !
Marasic7901
Don't delete this post. It helps show other people with similar beliefs that they are not alone and gives evidence to the lies that 'deportations are the will of the people'
You are not alone. And we all need to be more vocal that this is not what we want.
EroticZombiePants
Note that everyone living in America is a "potential illegal immigrant" until we show proof otherwise if ever asked. And that's why due process is vital for Everyone.
TNSCLuotaMEa4fVN
May all who voted for Rump, or didn't vote, enjoy their winnings. I told you he was a Malignant Narcissist, and not to be trusted!
crackajackin
Don't conflate immigrants with illegal immigrants. Huge difference
DorkJedi
Why not? MAGA can't tell the difference.
IamTOOOLDforThisShite
Most so-called "illegal" immigrants are merely undocumented.
The vast majority are highly motivated to be law-abiding and productive members of society ... they provide net longterm benefits to the economy.
skapanda616
The difference is a handful of documents.
Roughly half of "illegal immigrants" simply overstayed a visa.
Knew a guy who worked here legally for his whole adult life, owned his own business here, married a US a citizen and raised children here, never in trouble with the law, by all measures a model citizen... but he couldn't get permanent residency, the immigration court process was just too expensive to retire here.
So he and his US citizen wife retired back in his birth country, Canada.
MaleProstateMilker88
Legimately: who cares? It's all people, one is not worse than the other.
MrSqaureCan
And what about the ones who are having their statuses baselessly revoked, like college students?
dontrike
And what does that mean for the legal immigrants being snatched up?
notblubber
Don't delete this post. You are among like-minded people here.
zombiejedediah
Immigrants are never the problem. Never.
Racism and xenophobia are. That's the root cause.
(Unless you dig an inch deeper for the systemic errors in capitalism, but that's for a different post.)
demoncatmara
yeah don't delete it. we gotta do something.... maybe something new, I'm not sure what
toolset
Progress is not linear. You are part of this society, which is trying to improve, trying to learn, and trying to overcome the lifetime diet of propaganda, which is the water of our aquarium. You have a voice. You have wisdom. You can seize the power to speak your perspective aloud to the people around you
toolset
When you care for someone, society cares for that person. When you speak in defense of someone, society defends that person. Perhaps you are only one voice, but a single voice, shaking, breaking the deafening silence of inaction, can unchain may voices who do have the strength to speak next
toolset
Build community in your physical location, and prepare others to join you
toolset
So there is a way for people to join, even if they are not ready today
cgt9803
Keep the immigrants, deport MAGAs.
ElbowDeepInAGoblin
'Arbitrarily deport people I don't like.' ...I mean, no. That's bad. What's wrong with you?
Gaelwyn
That is literally what the current administration is doing. I think the point of their comment was, instead of deporting immigrants (which the current administration hates for whatever reason - at least the immigrants who aren't white), let's deport the current administration.
ElbowDeepInAGoblin
"That is literally what the current administration is doing." ...And it's bad. Yes. Exactly.
Gaelwyn
Sounds like we're all in agreement. They don't literally think we should deport republicans, it's just a way to express that IF there was a binary choice, they'd prefer to get rid of republicans instead of the people the republicans are deporting. It's not a binary choice though.
AmZero85
I miss the days when cults moved to the jungle and drank Kool aid with their leader, while leaving the rest of us alone.
DukePhelan
No nation is dumb enough to want them. I'd rather have a literal plague ship wash up on my shores.
meowingintensifies
seriously! if they want christo-fascist nationalism, go to a religious country. there are plenty out there for them to choose from.
shivacat
I second that.
Umkontodon
That's unfair to the country that'll receive them
Curiositykissedthecat
Not if it's El Salvador
HowlingRollercoaster2
Libya sudan guantanamo
shivacat
But do we really care about Russia’s feelings?
mafiacarstarter
*"vocal minority"
thelegendofthetwistednavigator
Keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better
BananaForScaIe
They who shouteth loudest shall have thy power - founding fathers, apparently.
GrosseChung
Significantly more than half of voters in the US chose Donald trump. They are just as bad as trump is
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TheWombatStrikesAgain
The nonvoters didn't think Trump needed to be prevented. Making them part of the problem.
1lostleftsock
Of those that voted, though. There was, unfortunately, less turnout than we were hoping for.
TurnsOut42WasASlightMiscalculation
I thought that too. But we've apparently underestimated their numbers before, so I'm not so sure anymore
MichaelMars
Don't forget that they are propped up by a massive ruzzian propaganda/bot machine.
Valleyofwaves
They get free marketing from the very, very rich. Thyssen steel paid for the first 30K uniforms of the NSDAP in Germany.
haggerton
Stop whitewashing the US voterbase. Trump won the popular vote.
Lying about this makes you an accessary.
tzahtman
"Did not vote" actually won the election, with Trump trailing behind that and only getting 0.8% more votes than Kamala. He won with a plurality of votes not a majority.
haggerton
""Did not vote" when Trump is on the ballot is a vote for "I don't care about Fascism". Don't even try to whitewash it.
TorrentialUpPour
Indifference is still a willful choice. "Did not vote" did, in fact, vote through inaction.
tzahtman
I don't disagree, but I don't like crediting Trump with more votes than he actually got. Indifference helped him win but he has never got a majority of people to actively vote for him.
TorrentialUpPour
Those people liked him enough to not vote against him. I'm not saying he's loved but the majority of Americans are clearly willing to tolerate him, and that's bad enough.
Faasel524
Valid correction. But sometimes doesn't seem like it.
Isthe4thtimethecharm
You have to remember that humans have a problem with focusing on the negative. There is more good than bad in the world. We are just genetically programmed to focus and remember the negative. It doesn't help that bad news sells. If a news program played the positive, all the time ratings would be non-existent. People will watch the bad for hours. But be bored of the good stories.
FractalShoggoth
A primary symptom of infection by The Stupid is a sharp increase of babbling incoherency, and a primal need to convey said incoherency to as many potential new hosts as possible.
It's how the virus spreads. And just as Influenza batters against even strong immune systems, those humans with strength of mind do not succumb but feel the effects nonetheless.
OnyxTurret
They are still in the minority, though.
mafiacarstarter
They're VERY vocal.
w0rkh0lic1
Very vocal and very loud
The quiet majority is the problem, they let the vocal few OWN the conversation
goonzilla
A screaming baby is going to get your attention rather than all the other quiet ones. Yes, Im calling Trump a baby.
ontarioOT
That's not fair to babies. Babies learn and develop.
shivacat
And they tend to be cuter.