• Muad'dib@sopuli.xyz
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    6 days ago

    This guy voted to deport immigrants and is upset an immigrant is being deported.

    “He’s hurting the wrong people”

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      This guy voted to deport immigrants

      Not immigrants, illegal immigrants. Stop being disingenuous, his words are right there.

      I know it’s easier to win an argument against a straw man, but have the integrity to engage with what was actually said.

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          So if someone voted to throw away red apples, and is now complaining that he can’t buy a green apple, you’d actually retort to that guy ‘well, you voted to throw away apples, red apples are apples’?

          Do you really not understand how ridiculous that response is?

          I voted to put criminals in jail, now my law-abiding spouse is being put in jail!
          Hey, you voted to put people in jail, criminals are people and your spouse is a person, that’s on you

          lol

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            lol you must be a special breed of stupid if you still think Trump literally and only meant “illegal in the traditional sense”…

            They’re rewriting immigration laws SO THEY CAN FREELY TARGET MORE PEOPLE WITHOUT ANY LEGAL RECOURSE AGAINST THEM. This isn’t rocket science, yet it seems to befuddle you… Sad.

            Pathetically sad.

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            Here’s a puzzler.

            Did he start with illegals as the first stage in a general campaign to eliminate the poor and undersirable by force, or, now that he has moved to all immigrants, is he going to stop?

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            “Red apples start off green so we got rid of the green ones in case they were actually red”

            “But I only voted to get rid of RED apples!!”

            This post explained using your own analogy

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        You are either a right winger trying to justify the current events by using the terms “immigrants” and “illegal immigrants” by their exact dictionary meaning instead of for the racist dog whistle content they are used in by the current American administration and their voters, or you are on purpose ignorant of the concept of this community. Both of which don’t really necessitate a proper discussion since it just looks like you’re arguing in bad faith.