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Adding on to that: Filled with a bunch of fearful America hating traitors. Afraid of slavery being abolished and hating America for even considering not expanding slavery to the territories in process of becoming states.
Here's some fun history: In Maryland and Virginia, reparations were paid by the federal government... to former slave owner for loss of their "property." "Property" being freed slaves. Those recently freed people got exactly what you think they got. Nothing.
I don't use popular social media, but seeing the second comment have a slur is more than a little shocking. I haven't seen much stuff like that from 2010 to 2020. I saw it a whole lot on forums before 2010, but not after. Is it normal again?
If only. That comes out to nearly all Republicans and around a third of Democrats. I could totally see 30% of Democrats being in favor of mass deportations.
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Most U.S. adults (9 in 10 Republicans and close to half of Democrats) say they support mass deportations of immigrants living in the country illegally
You gotta remember that the "They're taking our jobs" and "They're getting our tax money" propaganda has been pervasive in America for decades. And they don't, actively or passively, want to know about the realities of the lives of undocumented immigrants in the US. They don't want to read the studies or know the data. Feelings don't care about the facts.
That's exactly what I'm expecting. They'll just make a whole lotta new things illegal and jailable then apply the laws in a specific way such that only "particular peoples" are incarcerated and used as prison slaves. We saw this in post-Reconstruction South, during Jim Crow, and over the course of the War on Drugs. My favorite was suddenly people just standing on sidewalks being arrested, charged, and convicted as vagrants then being forced to do legally allowed slave labor for the state under threat of punishment (beatings, torture, solitary confinement). America said "We're banning slavery (except for this one case)" then immediately said "Let's increase the number of people who can be exceptions." This is a re-run. Or better yet, a remake of an old movie or show.
I'm fleeing Texas in the next couple of months because of this and possibly getting caught up in mass deportations even though I'm a citizen. I'm Hispanic, my wife is white. I'm leaving my wife behind because she doesn't want to go. All I can think is 'Thank goodness we don't have kids.' I'm so lucky I've got friends and family in freedom loving states and I feel for those who don't.
Just you wait, they'll follow a playbook that has been used for a long time. First they're gonna say that the official death toll, around 46,000 identified people, is incorrect. 'Many of them were Hamas' or 'Hamas is inflating the death count.'
Once they realize the evidence overwhelmingly shows that the official death toll is an undercount, they're going to say it's not more than the official death toll, it can't be more than the identified deaths. 'It can't be more than 46,000, there's no evidence that it's more than those already counted' or 'I won't believe a higher number without a name and a body.'
Then, once they can't away from the higher estimate, they'll switch to exclusively justifying it. 'It doesn't matter, they all deserved it for supporting Hamas.'
I completely agree about the Bioshock 1. A little off topic, Bioshock was probably my first exposure libertarian beliefs/Ayn Rand. I got curious about Atlas Shrugged in my 20s after replaying the game and my goodness that was a massive waste of my time. All I could think when I finished it was 'Did I just read the capitalist version of the Turner Diaries? Is that the reason they like the book so much?'
Ugh, pretty soon they're gonna say Mr Rogers, Bob Ross, and Reading Rainbow are woke and bad.
Soccer diehards team up with Argentine retirees to protest pension reform (2025)
I guess we'll have this to look forward to when they eventually gut the whole thing.