• Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    They told you they were going to do this. I had to dig up an older comment of mine and am just sitting back in terror watching it all occur in real time

    Women: he told you he’s taking your rights away and is already letting you die in hospital waiting rooms

    Tradesman: he told you overtime and unions are gone

    Veterans: he told you he hates you, pissed all over the sanctity of Arlington and is gutting the VA

    Hispanics: he told you you and yours are getting deported and doesn’t care if you’re legal or not

    Those on social security, Medicare, Medicaid or ACA: he told you he’s cutting/gutting these

    Anyone with ties to Palestine: he told you he’s going to help Israel finish the job

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      Palestinians: he told you he was gonna build condos on your graves

  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
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    “If I get a chance to talk to you, man — please, man — let’s work something out. Let me keep my wife here in the United States. She deserves to be here.”

    How do these people see the state exactly? The president can just do whatever? Equal application of the law doesn’t matter?

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      Probably because everyone saw him bail out the criminals involved in the Jan 6th insurrection- it’s not too large a leap for them to assume they are exempt from this as well.

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      They are white and conservative and have likely never known poverty, every interaction they’ve had with the law has been the most reasonable and generous interpretation of it. They assumed that’s what Trump meant. That Trump wanted to deport the criminal element that everyone else was specifically protecting and refusing to acknowledge. They’d never seen firsthand the law applied cruelly against people they consider to be good people. They really still believed law enforcement was there to “do good” and protect “good” people, because that’s most of how they’ve dealt with them personally.

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        I agree with the great majority of what you’re saying except:

        have likely never known poverty

        I grew up in poverty along with almost everyone else in my hometown. The whole area is super red. That’s exactly the kind of thing they believe.

        Not to say there aren’t those kinds of people who haven’t known poverty, it just doesn’t seem to factor in.

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          I mean specifically this type of guy on how they are confused about how laws are enforced.

          A lot of Trump supporters I think just don’t really think things through critically and are mad about the economy and crime and homelessness and the drug epidemic and are swept up by the idea that someone is actually acknowledging those issues properly. Because the establishment has sure refused to actually tackle them for a long time. And Democrats can’t help themselves but make themselves look even worse by constantly trying to introduce little nanny bullshit as well and they get a pretty deserved reputation as being a mixture of bought and paid for and nanny state trying to ban things and raise taxes. Republicans aren’t all that popular either anymore, people want serious anti-establishment candidates and failing a real one they’ll get excited about a fake one.

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          I also know a Trump supporting American Hispanic who have been mistaken as an immigrate by other immigrates. He has completely confidence that he’ll never have issues with LEOs, but that may be the agent orange in his nervous system.

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        Knowing poverty doesn’t prevent magatism, and can actually be a risk factor for it, depending on the attitude the person takes. The idea that the “other” is responsible for all your problems specifically targets people with problems such as poverty.

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      They didn’t believe he would. They thought he would hurt the people who they wanted to hurt, but leave them alone as a silent exception, like so many other things did.

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      Him quoted begging Trump to let his wife stay. Perfect poster boy of all these fucks. The rules are for everyone but them, and him suddenly being affected by the rules he has been voting for and yelling about for years and he doesn’t even have a flash of reflection.

      It’s not “oh wait. Maybe these rules are terrible, like half the population has been screaming, and maybe we should be looking for better solutions that don’t fuck people over.”

      It’s “but not me right bro? Fuck everyone else but obviously not me.” - worthless no-name schmuck who has never considered he isn’t the hero even his own story, and is hardly an NPC to the likes of Trump.

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    The man’s wife, who’s Venezuelan and has lived in the U.S. for a few years, had a court date set up and “everything was good” until that moment.

    “They just came and they snatched her,” the man said.

    That’s what you voted for dummy.

  • Sundray@lemmy.sdf.org
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    No sympathy for the husband. I feel bad for the wife for being deported AND for being married to a MAGA idiot that stabbed her in the back.

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        It would be if they were just sending her back home, but they’re going to put her into a detainment camp and bad things happen there.

        Yes, technically there is government oversight, but the oversight is handled by the kind of people that volunteer to run detainment camps.

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      It’s amazing how quickly non-fascists become fascists when the opportunity for schadenfreude presents itself.

      Sucks that an innocent is paying the price for being married to a collaborator.

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    The man told CBS News Miami his message to the president: “If I get a chance to talk to you, man — please, man — let’s work something out. Let me keep my wife here in the United States. She deserves to be here.”

    And he still thinks trump gives a shit about him and would even entertain having a conversation with him.

    And fuck this guy… why does his wife deserve to be in the US and not all of the other people who were grabbed?

    • x00z@lemmy.world
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      There were some riots and fights between Kurds and Turks where I live. Both sides were aggressive, but the Turks started it days earlier. Some Kurds then beat up some teenage Turks. Erdogan, the Turkish president, called the boys personally to support them after the media reported on it.

      Long story short, these asshole politicians will use whatever fuel they can use.