• @Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
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    53 hours ago

    Vincent is another MAGA POS, zero sympathy. Hopefully this asswipe ends up on a roof with 30 C + temperatures.

  • @x00z@lemmy.world
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    33 hours ago

    They should ask these people the real question: “Will you now start listening to the people who have been warning others of Trump?”

  • @Jikiya@lemmy.world
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    3413 hours ago

    “It’s quite a shock. You get to know these guys, you become their friends—not just an employer but a friend,”

    This guy doesn’t understand how friendship works. You guys are my friends, and that’s why I’ve voted in someone to ruin your life, because I care about you! But this is mildly inconvenient for me too guys, c’mon think about me.

  • @barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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    2012 hours ago

    Guy is a fucking roofer, and he’s voting to kick out all foreigners. What a putz.

    I was in roofing for a few years, and believe me, you want a Mexican ( or some other south of the border) crew working on your roof. They are fast, quiet, efficient, and fast. They will get it done, and get it done right.

    Only a terrible businessman, and really stupid person would vote for the guy who is expressly saying that he intends to hurt your workers, and your business. “Yep, Im voting for the guy who is promising to ruin my business!”

    This guy deserves everything he gets.

  • @Toneswirly@lemmy.world
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    1912 hours ago

    yeah… ya’ll really dumb enough to ignore every sign this was going to happen. Thing is, you were always racist. You’re just upset that your wealth is at risk from voting in a psychopath that doesnt care about anybody but himself.

  • ivanafterall ☑️
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    1712 hours ago

    Won’t someone please think of the business owners!? These are actual businesses being impacted by this shit. :(

  • Lanske
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    2218 hours ago

    I hope all these maga trump supporting idiots go bankrupt

    • @Anomalocaris@lemm.ee
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      35 hours ago

      i could only hope.

      but it’s not even close to the amount of punishment they deserve.

      they ruined the lives and communities of so many people, and are upset that they hurt them so much they can no longer exploit them.

    • @leadore@lemmy.world
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      Adding to Scardina’s annoyance, the men had valid work permits and pending asylum applications, according to their attorney Regilucia Smith. “They are legally here,” she said. “Valid work permit, not even close to expired… again, no criminal records—not here, not in Nicaragua.”

      Remember, it’s not only the people who are here illegally that are being arrested/deported.

      • @barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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        It’s important to remember that it isn’t your citizenship or documentation that is the problem, it is your origin. If you were born somewhere else, they want you out, no matter what your legal situation is. Once they get done rounding up the undocumented, they will come for the rest. They don’t even respect birthright citizenship, which is baked into the Constitution, they certainly aren’t going to respect green cards or naturalized citizenship.

        If you were born someplace else, you are unwelcome by the MAGA Nazis, and they will send you back, citizen or not.

  • @BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
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    1031 day ago

    “It’s quite a shock. You get to know these guys, you become their friends—not just an employer but a friend,” he told NBC6

      • @JohnAnthony@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        210 hours ago

        Scardina says he voted for Trump and still supports many of the former president’s policies, but this isn’t what he signed up for. “Buyer’s remorse? I don’t know, a little bit,” he said.
        Maybe a little bit. I mean, that detention and deportation stuff might be just a touch heavy handed. One of these roofers had a little girl! I think. Oh well. Trump must have a plan or something.
        I am trying to make it satire, but I don’t think I am managing…

      • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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        1317 hours ago

        trumpers never admit buyers remorse, than they will have to reflect on thier decisions.

  • Catma
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    1331 day ago

    Starting to feel cheap getting so much use out of this

  • @MisterOwl@lemmy.world
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    Trump voter can go fuck himself. Then get back to fuckin work doing what his employees used to do before he voted for Trump.

    • @pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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      571 day ago

      Himself

      Vincent Scardina supported Donald Trump’s tough stance on immigration at the ballot box. But that decision came back to bite the roofing boss when ICE detained a third of his workforce.

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          401 day ago

          My Dad did construction for 40 years. Even before the companies started hiring a lot of immigrants, it’s hard to find roofers.

          It’s a hard to find people with the knowledge or ability to learn - that are also not afraid of heights and have the coordination to not fall off and the attention to detail to not make the conditions for other people to fall.

          • AFK BRB Chocolate
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            Plus it’s a horrible job. My dad was also a general contractor, and where we live is very hot and dry in the summer. I remember, as a kid, seeing roofers on top of a house in 100+ F heat, mopping hot tar; I thought that must be the worst job there was. When I got older and started working in aerospace, when my boss would say he needed someone to do some unfun task, I’d always volunteer because I’d be thinking, “this is so much better than mopping tar on a hot roof.”

        • @IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world
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          281 day ago

          But no Amuricans want to do back breaking labor for only $5 an hour, and without healthcare or three weeks vacation. Where am I supposed to find new labor to exploit so cheaply?

            • @adub@programming.dev
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              114 hours ago

              Yeah, those American workers get kind of pissed when they get handed a 1099 at the end of the year and owe Taxes, Social Security/Medicare, and fees. A US citizen gets injured & starts to seek benefits because of it the state or feds probably likely to review if they are not just classifying employees as contractors.

  • DominusOfMegadeus
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    631 day ago

    Scardina, who runs a small roofing business in Florida’s Lower Keys, cannot believe it. “It’s quite a shock. You get to know these guys, you become their friends—not just an employer but a friend,” he told NBC6, visibly emotional.

    He continued, “It’s almost like they’re actual people. I mean not actually, but almost, you know?!”

  • @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?

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        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.