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[-] Eldritch@lemmy.world 104 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately 1,300 still "so far". People are ready to give him another crack at it.🤮

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 42 points 1 week ago

It's actually still happening under Biden.

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[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 92 points 1 week ago

If something happened to my kid, and I was never reunited with them? Never given contact with them, never provided communication with their care takers?

You can bet violence would be the inevitable outcome.

1300 children havent been reunited because of incomplete documentation - that was by design - and now the government has the responsibility to protect the children from nefarious parties and verify identities of non-us citizens and their parents?

That's the parents of 1300 children who are slowly losing their wits because they sought safe refuge from a country where if they didn't escape, death was already inevitable.

Now, what do we all know about Facists? They need and enemy. Their entire existence is based around having an enemy. It's easy to point to powerless minority groups and stoke nationalism through that, but invasions don't occur to save lives or conquer land. They occur to give purpose to iron fist policies.

Especially useful is when the Enemies attack you. Unfortunately for the Facists the iron fisted policies enacted after 9/11 had the consequence of restricting the effectiveness of already radicalized groups, reducing their numbers and the usefulness of the Enemy. So what did Trump do? Instead of working on producing false flag attacks which is a hard sell to even his most devoted followers, why not create home grown enemies!

The absolute sick fucks they are. The people I see with a Trump sign on their lawn show me how many of these people there are. The way they dehuminize others really starts to make me think that there is an actual physiological difference between them and the rest of humanity.

They are fine with physical and psychological torture of humans. I wouldnt be surprised if it turns out they have reduced, damaged, or lack entirely the part of their brains that should house empathy.

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[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago

Elián González is now an anti-USA politian in Cuba. And quite frankly, I don't blame him. It's pretty easy to see what will happen when you force a child to go through tramatic events resulting in the loss of family.

And the trump administration is 16-20 years after the Elián González situation happened. They could already see the results happen in real time by that point.

Long after this post is forgotten about by everybody, including me, we're going to see some of these 1300 children today become anti-usa voices when they become adults.

And they'll have fully justified reasons for thinking that way.

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Pretty much every politician is anti US in Cuba. It’s a one party system and loyalty is the price for a paycheck.

[-] Sop 27 points 1 week ago

Why would any Cuban politician be pro USA when said country is blocking every possibility of trade with other countries which results in food scarcity because Cuba is too small to do all production domestically and is therefore lacking in large scale farming equipment and fuel?

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago

Because the ones here grew up hating those there and live in a state of fuck them.

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[-] match@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago

@RemindMe@programming.dev 16 years

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[-] Sop 36 points 1 week ago

Til Biden didn’t do anything to reunite the families and in fact continued separating families: https://immigrantjustice.org/staff/blog/biden-administration-routinely-separates-immigrant-families

[-] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

Standard Democrat fare - they'll perpetuate the worst of the GOP nonsense, fix some of it, and generally be less terrible. Also see: Gitmo.

...but as long as the alternative is the GOP, who will make everything far worse far faster (to the point that they're likely to end the moribund US democracy next term), you need to get out and vote for them up and down the ballot.

[-] Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The democrats are following the law set up by the republicans underneath gwb.

Unless you want biden to act like a dictator, there isnt much he can do considering the state of the senate/house.

[-] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

Yes - the Republicans instituted the bad thing, the Democrats perpetuated it. Obama had the White House , House , and Senate and didn't close Gitmo as promised.

I'm in favour of Biden acting like a dictator if it's to do things like restore the rule of law, stop torture, and right wrongs like separating kids from their families for their entire childhood. The kinds of consequences that make dictatorships bad. What's the value of proceduralism if it not just fails to correct, but actively delivers those outcomes?

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[-] VoterFrog@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

This is not the same thing at all. Trump instituted a zero tolerance policy, separating any family caught crossing illegally with the stated intent to dissuade families from making the trip.

Normally (including under Biden) the government separates children from suspected human traffickers or members of gangs that engage in trafficking. This is not to deter families. It's to protect children - sending a child back to Mexico with a human trafficker is an abhorrent thing to do.

Stop carrying water for Trump.

[-] SattaRIP 9 points 1 week ago

Vote blue no matter who! Even when they're basically holding your queer loved ones hostage.

[-] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

When the alternative is having those loved ones denied medical care, locked up, or shuffled off to the camps, yes.

You don't have to be happy about it, but you do have to keep the unabashed fascists out of power. There's 1,458 other days in the election cycle to convince, cajole and bully the Democrats into being less bad.

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[-] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Ladies and gentlemen: the pro life party,.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

They will never find them again barring getting lucky with both the parents and the kids picking the right DNA testing company. At which point that company will sell its data to the U.S. government.

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