• Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
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    If Latinos and others Democratic voters who wanted to sit on their fucking hands or vote for Trump, they can go cry to someone else when Homeland Security knocks on their door looking for their undocumented relatives (or any of the legal citizens that get swept up by mistake).

    When Trump and Netanyahu turn Gaza into glass, the Michigan voters who thought they wanted to punish Democrats can go to someone else to worry about getting the broom to sweep it up.

    Elections have consequences.

    We warned you of the consequences. REPEATEDLY! And now you get to live with them until next time

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      And if only Republicans weren’t so fucking gung ho about destroying the country and everyone else in it. But elections have consequences, and the voting population, turns out, the majority are straight up evil. They were also warned of the consequences repeatedly, and decided “that’s perfect for me!”

      You can be mad at groups that wouldn’t have made a difference in the outcome as much as you want. I’m going to be mad at the stupid filth that are busily trying to make life worse for everyone. Every single monster that voted for him deserves to lose everything.

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    Hopefully this “mass deportation” will be as feeble as Trump’s 2 mile long joke of a wall…

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    These immigrant haters are so dumb it’s hard to get my head around. Illegals are the modern answer to slavery. They work their ass off for shit wages, pay taxes and get zero government benefits. And these rubes want to crash that system?!

    Do they think Americans are going to the fields to pick watermelons?

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      This will be the main test of whether Trumpism rules or capital rules. The rich people love Republican tax cuts and deregulation, which was the main product of his first term (coincidentally everything the rich didn’t like failed), but going after cheap immigrant labor or taxing their foreign sweat shops is going to stir up some behind the scenes conflict. Voters are stupid (e.g., “did Biden drop out” searches), they’ll be surprised when the leopards eat their face, the rich people are well aware that the leopards are dangerous and hope that their leopard control devices can get them through unscathed with an even greater piece of the pie.

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      The part that absolutely baffles me is that latinos shifted heavily to vote for Trump, for potentially the deportation of their own family members.

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        was speaking with a colleague who lives near Padre - he said he had family members that felt, ‘we’re legal, we’ll be fine, they’ll just get rid of the newcomers’

        they don’t understand this is not a new thing and is racially driven, not truly an immigration issue.

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        We told them the leopard was right fucking there and that it loves eating faces. They didn’t believe us.

        Oh well. 🤷

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        I worked with a Mexican Trump supporter. He hated illegal immigrants because he immigrated legally and he was pissed they got away with it the “easy way”.

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      “Before you say anything, just hear me out. There’s like tons of prisons everywhere, so what if we march the prisoners at gunpoint to work the fields, for free?” ~ Trump administration, probably

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        100% I think a lot of people don’t realize that prisons are modern slavery. Need more slave labor? Send protesters to the gulag.

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      They think the poorest Americans won’t have a choice. They dont realize theres actually not enough people to fill out all these freshly vacated “opportunities”.

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        Everyone will find out again what Georgia and Arizona learned and then forgot that it isn’t that there isn’t enough people, it’s that White folks are snowflakes that can’t handle the hard ass work.

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        And if they succeed in cementing the Christian theocracy they can control them through religion. They only want freedom for themselves to subjugate everyone else.

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      I think it’s about terrorizing their workforces. Construction, ag, meat packing, so many conservative heavy segments of the economy both import enormous amounts of labor, AND, want to legislate the threats to this population.

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      Had this conversation with my stepmom. She is complaining that peaches cost $1 each. She thinks this is too expensive and that the cost will go down now. I’m quietly kind of amazed that she thinks that she’ll even find a peach that didn’t rot on the ground for less than $10 or whatever they will cost once the labor goes up. I didn’t say anything to her about it because it just doesn’t matter anymore. It is pointless even to converse about any topic. We experience separate realities. She believes happy days are finally here, and I just don’t care if she sees another peach ever again in her lifetime. Whatever happens to the peaches is her fault.

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      Do they think Americans are going to the fields to pick watermelons?

      Yes, yes they do. They’ll cheer the new federal child labor laws that allow for it and the increased prison population that will be forced to work the fields

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      This defense of not deporting people just highlights our issues with labor. This acknowledges that underpaid labor is a necessary part of our economic system.

      I am against the deportation of these people but I would not justify it by justifying the system that is trying to under value all of our labor.

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    Hahaha… hahaha… ha… ha…

    You fucking morons. Welcome to massive cost inflation v2.

    Better hope you’re going to be changing jobs in the near future, because your current boss ain’t going to be paying more despite raising all the prices because new labour costs will go up.

    Also, you better not consume anything produced outside the US (even if it’s also produced in the US) because the new tariffs are going to drive up prices there too.

    The only people that benefit from these policies is corporate shareholders.

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      Well, they will buy the same people back from the government for a penny on the dollar, and then they will own them.

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    On the one hand, this would be awful.

    On the other hand, this is the same group of folks who couldn’t come up with an infrastructure bill or a health care plan, which are both far smaller in scale than deporting millions of people. Trump complained about the cost of burying a soldier, just wait until he sees what it’ll cost to hire, train, equip, and manage all those stormtroopers.

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      There will be plenty of volunteers willing to do it for free, I’m sure. Plus if you’re not bothered about any kind of process, legal structure or anything other than “let’s racistly victimise some people with the tacit approval of the state”, and if many of them die in the process that’s actually a bonus in your view, then you can really cut down on costs.

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        If the deportation doesn’t have to be documented, they could just burn the people like trash, or, Jews… but apparently that never happened, and Schindler’s List is fiction.

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      Right, which means putting them in… let’s call them “camps,” and holding them there is cheaper than arranging transportation. This could also provide free labor… or “slaves” if you will, which has been at the top of the GOP’s… I mean, Confederate’s list of desires for centuries.