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Summary

Texas Republican Valentina Gomez sparked outrage after releasing a video proposing public executions of undocumented immigrants who commit violent crimes, claiming it would act as a deterrent.

The video, shared on X, simulated Gomez shooting a hooded dummy representing an undocumented migrant.

Her comments followed the arrest of a Guatemalan immigrant for a subway murder in New York.

Known for far-right provocations, Gomez’s remarks drew sharp criticism from political figures and activists, with some praising her stance while others condemned it as hateful and extreme.

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[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 213 points 2 months ago

I have used this image under a Republican headline [ 4 ] times.

[-] Count042@lemmy.ml 79 points 2 months ago

The TV needs to have the swastika, not Marty mcfly.

[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 months ago
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[-] Gerudo@lemm.ee 120 points 2 months ago

She not only thinks this, but took the time to plan this out. At no point while thinking about shooting immigrants, or building a dummy to represent an immigrant, or taping its arms and legs, or putting it in a chair, or loading the gun, or setting up a tripod to film it, or pulling the trigger, or loading it to a computer to edit it, or uploading it, did she think maybe this is a bit much.

Disgusting human trash.

[-] Ketchup@reddthat.com 15 points 2 months ago

What are the chances that one of the motivations for these people is profit. ? I mean, seriously. Is there profit potential here for these creators whose content goes viral, or does it only satisfy their sadistic blood lust ? Misanthropy of the highest, or direct connection to the cult?

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[-] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 87 points 2 months ago

You want to watch people die... like the watching part is important to you?

If you want people dead, I'm already not on board. The watching part makes it clear there's not hope of reasoning with them.

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 44 points 2 months ago

I think they want to be the shooter. Blood lust. The kind of thing you'd hope a good background check before a gun purchase would catch.

[-] leadore@lemmy.world 79 points 2 months ago

I wonder what would happen to someone who did a video like that except with a dummy of a CEO? I suspect the reaction would be huge amounts of screaming, condemnation, and an arrest for promoting terrorism. But this video? it's juuuust fine. Nothing will happen to her, probably not even having her video taken down.

[-] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Maybe a Texas Republican...you know, as a deterrent.

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[-] ben_dover@lemmy.ml 59 points 2 months ago

i'm proposing public executions of Nazi scum, cool?

[-] FiremanEdsRevenge@lemmy.world 58 points 2 months ago

Wtf is up with these Hispanic nazis?

[-] kava@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

two major things to keep in mind

a) majority of hispanics in the US have been there multiple generations. while they may hold some varying level of ties to their family's home country, they've more or less been mostly americanized and are effectively just a different flavor of "american"

add in the fact that these are a more socially conservative people who more likely to be religious and it makes sense why they have been moving to the right. GOP could have taken advantage of this a long time ago. I think it's strange that Trump is the one to finally harness this group of people, but I guess reality is stranger than fiction

b) the US isn't stupid and it imports right-wing anti-left people. For example from Cuba or Venezuela. Miami has a massive Cuban population and they're all descendants from people fleeing the communist Castro regime. The Cubans are bred from birth to believe the Castro regime was evil and they're told all about the horrors (conveniently nobody remembers the just as brutal Batista regime, coincidentally supported by the US).

So all it takes is for there to be a connection between "democrats -> left wing -> communist" and all the Cubans turn against the DNC.

what I find fascinating is that you talk to a young Cuban who is one or two generations separated from Cuba, they have all sorts of horror stories and hatred for the Castro regime.

But you talk to an old-timer, someone in their 60s or 70s and they have nostalgia and nuanced views. Sort of like how people view the Soviet Union.

If we're gonna summarize all of this I'd just say this- assimilation. We're watching the process of how Irish went from "ethnic minority" to "white" and hispanics are going through a similar process

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[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 57 points 2 months ago

Sounds like terrorism to me

[-] Dupree878@lemmy.world 51 points 2 months ago

She’s one of the people Trump would deport just because of her name anyway

[-] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 44 points 2 months ago

We didn’t kill enough slavers or Nazis

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 29 points 2 months ago

There's still time.

[-] 2pt_perversion@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago

Luckily she's never been elected to anything so far.

She's a Colombian immigrant herself apparently and still has the accent so I'm not sure the racist crowd she's appealing to with this message is going to rally behind her as opposed to whatever other Republican is running.

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[-] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago

If I do this but it’s the CEO of a health insurance company, then I’ll get sued out the wazoo.

[-] Jericho_One@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago

Shouldn't the headline be "Republican said something terrible to get the media talking about her, and we've done exactly what she wanted"?

[-] Sciaphobia@lemm.ee 33 points 2 months ago

Y'all Qaeda at it again.

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

Texas? Everything I could find says Missouri. Is there more than one crazy Republican politician named Valentina Gomez, or did she move to Texas after losing in Missouri?

https://ballotpedia.org/Valentina_Gomez

[-] baronvonj@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago

I believe I had read that after losing in Missouri she decided to try in Texas.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

a quick search confirms this.

huff post for example.

I'm sure there's plenty of other republicans saying this, just not quite so... publicly...

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

I wonder how Democrats will triangulate a compromise with this.

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[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 22 points 2 months ago

NGL, that's a good looking meme setup.

Would be a shame if someone happen to put words like Luigi or healthcare CEO. Not saying what order though.

[-] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

JFC. What a horrible person.

[-] EmpireInDecay@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 months ago

How long until we find out that she or her family members are here illegally?

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 months ago
[-] chaogomu@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Yes and no. The monsters are using migrants as a scapegoat to distract from the outright theft that's about to ramp up.

But the thing about a scapegoat, they're still killed.

When a monster tells you what they want to do, believe them.

[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Need to see a Venn diagram of the commonalities between ISIS and republicans.

[-] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago

It's one solid circle.

[-] vikingr@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

She hopes by showing her ass that the whites won't spend her as a token.

But they will.

Dumb fascist cunt.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 months ago

Regressing .... America is just simply regressing at this point.

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[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 18 points 2 months ago

Yeah when they said the "camps" thing, I knew it wouldn't be too long before we actually heard this.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago
[-] Carvex@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

So if someone replicated the video but had "CEO" written on the hood it would be terrorism?

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[-] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 2 months ago

When even the Department Of Justice publishes reports that more severe punishments, explicitly including death sentences, don't work for deterrence (see points 4 and 5 of their summary), people really should start thinking about better ways to prevent crime.

(Personally, I'd propose tackling the conditions that force crimes, particularly those of desperation, as well as reevaluating the catalogue of what really counts as crimes, particularly if there's no victim, but on here, I'd be preaching to the choir.)

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[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

What does a loser who desperately needs attention look like?

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[-] Fandangalo@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Exodus 20:13. I know they don’t care about their own book, but it’s terrible how far so many people have drifted from our sacred connections between humans, whatever that means to you. Killing one another cannot solve our problems.

[-] roserose56@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Are we talking about her? Who got 6th in the elections ? who even has this photo?

Image I just can't stop laughing.

[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 12 points 2 months ago

this is from the same types who would have political ads shooting their opponents yeah?

[-] ATDA@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Psychotic cunt.

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Death cult.

[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Y'all queda indeed.

[-] owiseedoubleyou@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago

So they're going to execute Elon Musk. Right guys?

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