| ▲ | newfriend 5 hours ago |
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| ▲ | Herring 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Fascism always needs an enemy/excuse/scapegoat, and if it can’t find one it makes one out of thin air. It can’t actually solve societal problems, that requires progressives. |
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| ▲ | nostrebored 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I don’t think this has ever actually been a critique. It solves societal problems in a way that many people don’t like while introducing others. | |
| ▲ | SV_BubbleTime 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The previous administration literally forced ICE to pull fences and barriers down to let illegal immigrants cross the border. Perhaps, actions like that could have opposite reactions like… IDK… A majority of voters overwhelmingly selecting The Mass Deportations Guy? | | |
| ▲ | gusgus01 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Are you talking about the razor wire that the supreme court allowed the administration to remove from the Texas border? If so, a little disingenuous to say fences and barriors when talking about razor wire. If not, please cite your sources so we can all be informed. | | |
| ▲ | JuniperMesos 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Razor wire is a type of fence and barrier. But more importantly, why did the Biden administration fight in court for their right to remove razor wire from the Texas border? What does that action suggest about the attitude of the Biden administration towards people crossing the border illegally? | | |
| ▲ | gusgus01 19 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Sure, but I would consider mines laid in a strait a barrier or fence, and I would consider the radiation at Chernobyl a barrier to entry, and I would consider a hedgerow a barrier or fence as well. I think it's important to specify the type of barrier or fence when discussing the removal of it, it's a long gray spectrum and not black and white. It it generally legal in the USA to put a fence around my property, but it is not generally legal to put razor wire around my property, so even the US govt thinks there's a difference. It's important to consider the words and the portrayal of events when discussing politically charged topics. |
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| ▲ | Tostino 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| You mean like both Obama and Biden did, much to the dislike of people on the left of the Democratic party? |
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| ▲ | Sl1mb0 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I always wonder what people who say these things think about the fact that we have someone in the white house who was mentioned in the Epstein files more than Jesus was mentioned in the bible. Whatever it takes to get rid of those pesky aliens right? |
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| ▲ | nostrebored 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | These are completely orthogonal. That’s cool if you want to appeal to an in group, but I think you’ll find that a huge portion of the country thinks that we should have rules around immigration. So do most other countries. You should probably argue your actual position instead of “your guy bad my guy good”. This comment is more Reddit than HN. | |
| ▲ | JuniperMesos 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Lots of people's names appear in the Epstein files, because Epstein was a socialite who made efforts to connect socially with large numbers of people. I do not assume that someone's name appearing in the Epstein files in and of itself implies they are guilty of sexual assault or of any other crime. I also note that this is not the first time Trump or one of his associates has been accused of sexual assault on flimsy evidence - I still remember the media circus around Brett Kavanaugh's supreme court nomination and the extremely flimsy rape accusations that huge numbers of people took seriously because they thought it might derail his nomination. I frankly think this line of reasoning is backwards - some people want to prevent aliens from being deported so much, they're eager to let themselves be convinced that anyone actually doing deportations is a rapist or other equivalent evildoer. |
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