• Aljernon@lemmy.today
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    There was a Mexican immigrant at work from a more financially secure family who travelled back to Mexico for a visit right when the ICE problems were exploding; he couldn’t understand our surprise that we would risk it. “I’m not illegal, I have all my papers”. Bro, none of your white citizen coworkers think this has anything to do with immigration status, the crackdown is just about racism.

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    Some day they’ll get it. It’s not about following the law or doing it the “right” way. It’s about the color of your skin.

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    That last paragraph about ~“we voted maga … we want the illegals gone … never thought the leopards would victimize myyyyy immigrant” sounds so on-the-nose and oblivious that it makes it sound like a badly written fake.

    But as a white USian from a conservative family, and especially during this wonderful holiday time of year, I know in my heart that I am not-too-distantly related to people who are every bit that ignorant about the world.

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      Illegals and immigrants are different things. Its not fake its a person being honest about their situation and feelings.

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        It feels pretty disingenuous to ignore that the “legal” pathway to immigration is a matter of years and thousands of dollars; which pretty much always blocks asylum seekers. Now it’s also a matter of the luck to not be born into the “wrong” countries.

        OOP’s wife will be illegal the moment she steps foot in this country, and OOP and I can agree that’s ridiculous. I just extend the same to lots and lots of other people.

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      I 100% believe that a big reason they’re so adamant about the masks is because they pulled from a bunch of those white supremacist militias to pad out their numbers. Illegal to them is absolutely just “not white enough” or “not speaking enough English” for them.

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    Have the life you voted for Kesilisms. MAGA beta importing a foreign wife because American women aren’t interested in raising a man child.

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      What do you want to bet that “legal” pathway they were using is one of the ones like TPS or Asylum etc that Trump has explicitly said was “illegal actually, trust me bro”

      No way it’s only taken 2 years on the “normal” legal track.

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        I bet they could have a much easier time migrating to his wife’s country or any third country too. Its kinda shocking when I see people who are full citizens of countries going “oh yeah I just immigrated a couple of years ago” and it’s like…you can do that?

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          Oh absolutely, but even discounting the bits of wording that scream “I’m doing my part to make this a WHITE CHRISTIAN NATION” in his post I guarantee you he’d instinctively see moving to any non-US county as a significant downgrade.

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    You voted for a man with 34 felony convictions, found to be civilly liable for rape, whose best friends were human trafficking pedofiles and called for an insurrection live on TV because you thought he would follow the law?

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      I might go so far as to say Trump was also probably a trafficker. I think that’s the reason he’s still scrambling to scrub everything from the Epstein files, because he knows he’s dead meat on the world stage otherwise. I’m willing to chalk up the whole “restarting child separation” thing in 2016 up to racism, but then for ICE/CBP to just brazenly state “we have no idea where they went” reeks of “we just have this black van and some of the kids go in there, and some of the kids go to foster homes.”

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        I just mentioned what was crystal clear before the election for even the most mouth breathing faux addict

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      Edit: Sorry y’all, I’ve been informed I have apparently committed the gave sin of engaging in the Wrong Kind of Fun for this Community. Apparently my shitpost comment is a “selfawarewolves” and not a “leopardsatemyface” and as such is a grave transgression. I can only hope my execution is swift and merciful lmao. o7 Godspeed comrades.

      What do you mean 99.9999% of the “illegals” aren’t actually viscous criminals and it’s all just… random dudes like my neighbor Josue from Church? But he’s One of the Good Ones™ dagnabbit! I had wanted all them damned “Trendy R Agua” guys Joe Brandon flooded the country with to steal the election for the Demon Rats and bankrupt my SNAP and Medicare gone.

      – That guy, probably

      They can never explain to me how they actually steal the election when these people can’t vote and nobody has ever proven they do or have. Never mind the fact that these people pay into these programs without being able to actually receive them statutorily most everywhere. Or that Trump is actively gutting them.

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        Edit: Sorry y’all, I’ve been informed I have apparently committed the gave sin of engaging in the Wrong Kind of Fun for this Community.

        Yeah, you should ignore that dude. Seems to have made a hobby of telling people “That’s not LAMF” and collecting downvotes.

        I, for one, thought “Trendy R aqua” was great. The Mexican branch of Hydro Homies.

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          Yeah it took me a few replies deep before I finally clicked their profile and wow. I have multiple autistic children, my partner is autistic, all 4 of them are incredibly literal in their interpretations of language, and even they aren’t anywhere near this particular about the meanings of words.

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        viscous criminals

        That’d probably make them easy to catch.

        Also your comment makes no sense, because his wife isn’t ‘one of the good ones’, she’s not an illegal immigrant at all.

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          Methinks you might be reading too deeply into a shitpost about the politically incoherent tendencies of Trump voters. I wasn’t trying to accurately represent that guy’s arguments. I was making fun of him for missing an entirely predictable consequence is his actions.

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            I’m not ‘reading too deeply’, I’m just actually reading, and know what LAMF means.

            a shitpost about the politically incoherent tendencies of Trump voters

            Which didn’t fit the situation in the OP at all, so it’s less of a ‘shitpost’ and more of a handful of Stereotype Spaghetti thrown at a wall.

            making fun of him for missing an entirely predictable consequence is his actions.

            That’s called ‘selfawarewolves’, different thing.

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              Yeesh I didn’t realize every reply to every comment had to perfectly adhere to the topic and none were allowed to stray in any way into the realm of general mockery.

              I’ll be sure to remember that in the future the next time I think about adding something I think might be remotely humorous to a discussion, and just not! Thanks for clearing that up! Didn’t know you were the arbiter of what was allowed to be commented. Won’t happen again boss.👍

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                Yeesh I didn’t realize I had to say things that made sense for people to not point out that they don’t

                If you can’t handle being told you’re not making sense, don’t post nonsense? Just a suggestion.

                Also, ‘sassy sarcasm’ makes you sound like a bratty middle-school ‘mean girl’, so if you don’t want to come across that way, I’d suggest avoiding that as well.

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      Idk, but maybe some of those people yelling “don’t trust them, they’re all racist pieces of shit” had some kind of point.