• theprogressivist
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    3017 days ago

    Man, I sure hope that this doesn’t blow up in their faces and they eventually get kidnapped, I mean deported to sunny El Salvador.

    • @clonedhuman@lemmy.world
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      417 days ago

      Yes, I also hope it doesn’t blow up in their faces and a crazy Minecraft player doesn’t decapitate the justices who voted in favor of this.

  • @Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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    3017 days ago

    So, sending them to an El Salvador prison, without a conviction or even any formal charges? That’s the Party of Law and Order, everybody!

  • fakero
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    2517 days ago

    Nice to see checks and balances are well and truly dead.

    • @Rekhyt@lemmy.world
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      The most straightforward one is from Leviticus (one of the books that has a bunch of laws for the Israelites, including stuff like “don’t wear mixed fabrics” and rules that evolved into kosher rules, along with stuff that’s cited for “don’t be gay” (though a lot of that comes from Paul’s letters too)):

      Lev 19:33-34 “When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.”

    • Optional
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      717 days ago

      On how to treat people? Mmmnnnnno, no i don’t think so. Maybe there’s some obscure fictional work from the 1700s we could reference.

      • @hddsx@lemmy.ca
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        717 days ago

        I asked because I’ve never been Christian and I’ve recently seen some quotes completely opposite of what the right wing would quote

          • @Bonifratz@sh.itjust.works
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            216 days ago

            While there’s some truth to that, and MAGA Christians probably have some convoluted line of scriptural reasoning to support their anti-immigration stance, I would still hold that immigration/dealing with strangers is one topic where the entire Christian Bible (Old and New Testament) speaks with one very loud voice. Hospitality, welcoming strangers etc. are core virtues of a God-fearing life according to the Bible.

            • @Almacca@aussie.zone
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              The trick is taking things out of context, picking and choosing tenets, using deliberately disingenuous interpretations, and historically, disregarding entire scriptures as not ‘canon’. It’s a very malleable document in devious hands. It can be fun to quote it back into their stupid faces though, so, even as an atheist, a working knowledge of the thing can come in handy.

              I was watching some YouTube video the other night, and they made the point that ancient scripture isn’t special just because it’s ancient. It’s basically civilization’s cringey teenage diary. We’ve grown up a bit since then, you’d hope.