• @CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
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    791 day ago

    Pure leopard material yes, but this also highlights where the goalposts have shifted. The business owner fell for “were getting the criminals and rapists” lie, while the admin is rounding up everyone.

    According to his lawyer, these employees had their papers in order and no criminal records domestically or in home country. So why were these employees collected? and why are so many republicans okay with this behaviour?

    • @solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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      521 day ago

      So why were these employees collected? and why are so many republicans okay with this behaviour?

      it’s racism. always has been. cult leaders give their followers an easy target to blame their shitty lives on, and it works. legal, illegal–doesn’t matter. they’re brown. that’s literally the reason

      how can we get to the point where the “why are they doing this?” no longer needs to be asked?

      • @okmko@lemmy.world
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        20 hours ago

        The sad part is that even if the lives of these MAGAs get worse - worse than the lives of the immigrants they look down upon in their home country, they would likely still be racist.

        There are pockets in rural America, an obscenely rich country, that are borderline third world country conditions, and they still vote Republican with a sense of superiority and extreme ignorance of their relative standard of living compared to rest of the world.

        It wouldn’t surprise me at all if some of them were okay with trading electricity and sewage systems (return to 1700s) for racial and religious homogeny.

    • @Soulg@ani.social
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      151 day ago

      I might be naive, but many Republicans are okay with it just because it hasn’t affected them yet.

      Oh, this guy knew these workers, thought of them as friends? Clearly they were just hiding their criminal lifestyle from him. Not like MY friends. Hey, why are there a bunch of white vans outside their house?

    • CMLVI
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      81 day ago

      They’re OK with it because on the surface level, it’s what they want. Any single little bit of inspection and it falls apart, but they get to call them illegals, criminals, etc and talk about how good a job Trump is doing. They get to claim a win over the Libs, and that is the height of what they want from this presidency.