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Originally Posted By u/1Rab At 2025-06-10 09:23:37 AM | Source


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[-] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 85 points 11 months ago

All these Republican Commentators posting the EXACT SAME THING is PROOF that DEMOCRATS are the Deep State!

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You don't have to go deep into the back ranks of the Democratic Party to find candidates running on the "Stop them at the Border!" platform. FFS, this goes back to the Clinton campaign of '92, when he ran to the right of Bush Sr on immigration and won California out from under the Reagan coalition by pandering to SoCal racists and white replacement freaks.

The difference between Democrats and Republicans largely boils down to the mechanisms at play. Do we look down at our shoes and sob while muttering, "Sorry the rules say we have to shove your kids into a cage because the law says so"? Or do we give you a shit-eating grin and howl "Yeah, we're deporting you and we're going to have fun doing it!"

Do we focus our deportation efforts on anyone poor and unprotected enough to have already run afoul of our police state? Or do we actively do street sweeps with newly deputized ICE posses?

Do we tell our voters to stop saying "Defund ICE!" at campaign events because it might scare away the middle class white voter? Or do we tell our voters to start chanting "Defund California!" at campaign events because it whips the red-meat loving middle class white voter into a racist frenzy?

Do we put a silk glove over our iron fist before we punch you? Or is the silk glove Woke?

[-] Grimtuck@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

I thought the difference was that only one party is kidnapping kids from school. But I see now that they're all just the same. Both sides. Got it. I guess you're still glad you didn't vote huh? I'm sure those kids are glad.

[-] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 51 points 11 months ago

So um, do they realize "net zero" would mean that they can't deport people anymore? Because that would be net negative

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 34 points 11 months ago

Many people use words not because of their commonly accepted meaning, but because of how it makes them feel. "Net zero" sounds fancy and zero is what they want.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 18 points 11 months ago

I would like Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh and his ilk to leave, in order to make room for more hard-working immigrants. Net-zero.

[-] WiredBrain@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They definitely mean "net zero" as in "get rid of them all" and not "input=output"...

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

But thats net negative, not net zero :p

[-] frank@sopuli.xyz 4 points 11 months ago

And what about Americans who choose to leave? Replaced 1:1 with immigration?

They have absolutely no idea what they mean with "net zero"

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Also, I’m an American who left, so net zero also means I freed up a spot.

[-] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 38 points 11 months ago

Well fuck that plaque at the statue of liberty, huh?

[-] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 15 points 11 months ago

We all know that the statue's meaning has never been truly followed. Just had better moments than others.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Well that is usually how ideals work

[-] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 1 points 11 months ago

I know. It doesn't seem that it was ever truly strove for though. It's also not the most difficult thing to do. Doesn't mean that we can't work to help make it happen.

[-] anon6789@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

They already addressed that pesky little thing the first go 'round.

Mr Cuccinelli was pressed later on CNN about his comments, and pushed back on claims he was trying to re-write the poem. He insisted he was answering a question and accused people on the left of "twisting" his comments.

[-] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 2 points 11 months ago

Oh yes, that's only for Europeans. Actually, at the time they revised the standards further. Only Protestants from Northern and Western Europe. Obviously.The US was pretending to care then, as it pretends to care now.

[-] anon6789@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

They can evolve and refine their racism all they want, it's still peak ignorance. I don't get it. I've met so many great people from all over.

[-] fastandspurious@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago

Serious question: where do you think these assholes are getting their talking points? Stephen Miller would be my guess but it could just as well be Russia I guess.

[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Stephen Miller, puppeted by Peter Thiel. Idk if Putin really gives a fuck if we have immigrants from third world nations. He would probably support more immigration if only to stir up more anger he can manipulate on the right, honestly.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 4 points 11 months ago

He would probably support more immigration if only to stir up more anger he can manipulate on the right, honestly.

Probably, but on the other hand cutting immigration is basically economic suicide for a first world country, so it would fit with his goal of weakening the United States. The ensuing recession would also provide ample opportunity to manipulate the right (and the center, which as is customary will "reluctantly" do whatever the right says).

[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Sure, but that also requires Putin to know, acknowledge and buy into the fact that immigration is in itself an economic boon, and a lack of it is stagnating. I don't know a ton about his personal politics, but it seems like he is as much a right wing ideologue as he is a manipulator of others on the right (takes one to know one?). I'm not sure he would take that viewpoint, so I dont know that he would ever take such an approach intentionally.

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 20 points 11 months ago

That’ll leave only people immigrating from places like Europe, Japan and Australia, presumably because they’re sick of having functional health care, paid vacation, high-speed trains and/or a shortage of assault rifles.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Yeah, why the fuck would I want to immigrate to a third world country.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 points 11 months ago

I bet you they don't want immigrants from Japan either.

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

But also, we need to force the births of unwanted children to maintain our population.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago
[-] Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

All of these assholes are descendants of immigrants

[-] zephorah@lemm.ee 19 points 11 months ago

This is how you know your relative has drunk the koolaid. They sound like this, a parrot, repeating what someone else told them to say.

[-] MelodiousFunk@startrek.website 8 points 11 months ago

I see you've met my entire family.

[-] lividweasel@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

“This is extremely dangerous to our democracy” vibes

[-] missingno@fedia.io 17 points 11 months ago

They said the quiet part out loud, and they said it in three part harmony.

[-] LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 7 points 11 months ago
[-] itslilith 3 points 11 months ago

Alternatively, it was used (most prominently by Maoists) to mean non-aligned countries in the cold war.

But when these dickheads say it, they mean "brown people"

[-] VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com 6 points 11 months ago

Nazis without the stylish uniforms

[-] don@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago

Or we could just deport republicans.

[-] blandfordforever@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

Build houses and fund education. I feel like I just came up with a miraculous solution to a majority of their complaints.

[-] Kwakigra@beehaw.org 5 points 11 months ago

There is no longer a third world since the fall of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. The term is now officially meaningless. I wonder what they mean by "third world." Hmmmmmmmmm.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

mattwalsh the trans obssesed transphobe, he speculated to be into trans porn. and jack posebic is a russian backed troll.

[-] swemg@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Do they know that they could easily be define as a "third world" country? ^^

[-] undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Vile, I guess the thinking is "what's the point in turning people's countries into, effectively, debtors prisons if they can just leave?"

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