• @solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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    562 days 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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      1 day 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.

      • @nickiwest@lemmy.world
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        17 hours ago

        President Lyndon B. Johnson was correct when he said:

        If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.

        That was 60 years ago. It hasn’t changed. The rich and the political elite like it this way.