r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/RidetheSchlange • 27d ago
Miami -Dade County, 70% Hispanic Population Voted Overwhelmingly for Trump, Now Ice Will Make it "Ground Zero" for Deportations Trump
https://eu.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2024/11/20/trump-deportation-numbers-florida/76405073007/2.8k
u/WellNowWhat6245 27d ago
Wait, no...I voted for other people to get fucked over.
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u/turdburgalr 27d ago
You nailed it, that is the motivation behind voting for trump. I'm not American, but I have never purposely voted to fuck over my fellow countrymen and women. How can you say you care about your country if you do that? I felt bad for the American people when they voted for him the first time, I don't this time.
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u/ImaginaryAnimal7169 26d ago
it's because it's all a zero-sum game to them. if someone else is getting something, they must be getting less. nevermind that they have no ambition, no education, and no desire to better myself - their life sucks because immigrants are picking crops at an amount per week that would not get them to do that job per HOUR.
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u/llDS2ll 26d ago
if someone else is getting something, they must be getting less
Billionaires excluded
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u/UnitSmall2200 26d ago
Billionaires are role models to them. Well only the Trump type of billionaire.
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u/Blaike325 26d ago
We basically live in a country that thinks equality and equity means oppression for those who already had
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u/Fandango_Jones 26d ago
Trump government / business is just a big game theory of stupid, in my opinion. Take away as much as possible to heart other people. If it hurts some of my minions, that's a sacrifice I'm willing to take.
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u/pescabrarian 26d ago
But a lot of us didn't vote for him and hate him and everything he stands for! Do you feel bad for us?
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u/TransBrandi 26d ago
Apparently loads of older Cuban-Americans in Florida are definite ladder-pullers that hate new refugees from Cuba despite being the same themselves. It boggles the mind.
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u/East_Reading_3164 26d ago
Young ones, too. They are here for five minutes and think they can kick others out of the country.
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u/i_drink_wd40 26d ago
"But they did it the RiGhT WaY". Back when all they had to do was make it to dry land, but still think that years of submitting paperwork is remotely the same thing.
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u/Oberon_Swanson 26d ago
Well, how were THEY supposed to know Trump didn't want Hispanic people in America? Or that he'd start in the same state he lives in?
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u/SquirrelGirlVA 26d ago
They have short memories. Last time around, people voted because they thought he would only get rid of the "bad hombres", only for him to also go after everyone and everyone.
Now they voted thinking that he would only get rid of people who came over illegally and those "bad hombres" in specific, so they don't think that it applies to them, as they think it will happen to someone else. Not realizing that they and their families could end up as one of the targets. After all, the last time around, the people imprisoned were only a small percentage, so it couldn't possibly happen to them.
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u/Puglady25 26d ago
It's sad. Obviously, he starts in the state he lives in. He doesn't LIKE those people, and he doesn't want them anywhere near him.
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u/PassThePeachSchnapps 27d ago
“First they came for the—“ They didn’t come for shit, these mfers sent up a goddamn flare.
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u/BisquickNinja 27d ago
The proverbial "Kick Me"....
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u/davybert 27d ago
except they are putting the sign on their own backs and laughing about it
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u/NorCalFrances 26d ago
That's because they know they are the "good ones".
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u/JCButtBuddy 26d ago
They think that they are the good ones.
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u/WrongEinstein 26d ago
It reminds me of the phrase," the good Germans", used to refer to people that turned on their own family, friends, and neighbors.
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u/Affectionate-Act3099 26d ago edited 26d ago
I love the ones that literally think they are white and will be treated like real white ppl. Literally had an argument with my friends brother a redneck from bum fuck CA rural somewhere visiting LA and wondering why so many ppl “took him as a Mexican”despite him having a full blooded illegal Mexican mom and a white dad! 😂 I am biracial, but look fully white and I just started laughing at him and finally said, “Dude, you look wholly Mexican. Your skin is darker than my dad’s and he is Black! How can you possibly tell me I should stop telling ppl I’m mixed bc I look white but fail to see you should stop pretending to be white bc you look Mexican? Here in CA, that means the racists will be cheering for you and your mom to be detained and deported.” He was incredulous that I said he didn’t look white. I’m like, “WTF do you see when you look in the mirror dude bc you look like a brown skinned George Lopez? Your dad’s German genes went to your sister.”
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u/WeeDramm 26d ago edited 25d ago
The advice I have read is that if you can pass as white then now would be a super-good time to start making the effort to pass because it's looking like it's going to be awful out there 🫂🫂🫂
EDIT TO ADD: this isn't about fooling a focused attempt by the US government. This is about avoiding the un-directed harrasment by redhats and cops that is certain to increase. It came from a grandmother in a mixed family who was advising her grandkids to consider bleaching their hair blonde, dressing differently and using sunscreen to ensure they don't get too tan. It isn't about fooling a deep check. This is just to avoid kneejerk rascim on the street by racists who are emboldened to be all of the racist that they can possibly be.
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u/Affectionate-Act3099 26d ago
Anyone still fooling themselves into thinking this country is not filled to the brim with racists is about to have a rude awakening. I am not one of those ppl having been treated like shit by both blacks and whites throughout my life. Plenty of assholes on both sides but the white ppl in this country are t fucking around and most either can’t or won’t admit they chose Trump bc he makes them feel normal for believing POC are less than them and don’t deserve the same treatment. Until more non whites in this country fully understand that the way Black Americans understand that, it’s gonna be rough for them. I for one am HERE FOR IT! I’m an educated high earner in an affluent part of CA and can’t wait for the reality checks Americans voted for.
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u/drworm555 26d ago
Haha lol they think they won’t be hassled everywhere they go because they have a special number on a card from the government. Lolol, bet Juan, they don’t care.
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u/whiterac00n 27d ago
The question I have is whether or not with the denaturalization threat will they then go after Cubans? If that were to occur we’d have so many leopards eating faces given how much the Cuban community has voted GOP for years. It really seems up this administration’s alley to go after them but we’ll see
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u/kermitthebeast 27d ago
They don't see a difference between Cubans and Mexicans. Shit, I'd be surprised if they actually wind up in Cuba after deportation
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u/whiterac00n 26d ago
That’s the beauty of the leopards. Many cubans absolutely see themselves as being wanted in America. I’d put them right next to the Muslims for Trump as the most glorious LAMF, if they follow through with their threats
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u/saltyoursalad 26d ago
I guess they enjoyed Trump’s Muslim ban the first time around and want more of the same.
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u/bluetechrun 26d ago
Even the ones that weren't for Trump still helped him. One of the 'uncommitted' Muslims was running after Rubio trying to get him to help the Palestinians. Guess what his response was.
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u/Illiander 26d ago
I’d put them right next to the Muslims for Trump as the most glorious LAMF
This time around, sure.
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u/whiterac00n 26d ago
It does bring up a debatable question of whether or not does the occurrence you linked make these current people worse since they should have hindsight to see terrible consequences from the past? Obviously it shows that it’s just human nature for some in society to do the “pick me” dance but the alarm bells have been chiming out for a decade and they haven’t learned yet.
Like what I’m saying is does precedence make the repeat of historical mistakes make it worse or is that group you linked the titleholders for “worst choice ever”?
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u/SidepocketNeo 26d ago
I had to explain to many people that back when slavery existed, Southern Companies use to send bounty hunters to go to Free States and captured either escaped slaves or their freeborn descendants and bring them back to Slave States to put them back into slavery.
Authories have no concept nor do they care about nuance. It's how like in the early 2000's that there were no Saudis, Afghans, Pakistanis, Indians, ect. They were just "towelheads". Same how my fellow Americans sadly call anyone speaking Spanish "Mexicans".
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u/VoidOmatic 26d ago
If they are brown they are on the menu. Racists can't tell the difference.
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u/Maorine 26d ago
The majority of Cubans are on either end of the spectrum. Either white (think Jose Diaz Belard) or black. They are as middle ground as PuertoRicans. This is because Cubans didn’t intermarry as much. Also, the Cubans that came here in the 50s were the well to do whites that had Castro take their property which is why they hate Communism. I’m sure they believe that only those “other” Cubans will be deported. They probably want it. Leopards will have lots of white meat eating there.
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u/I_Frothingslosh 27d ago
With how virulently anti-refugee Miller and company are, I expect Cubans to be right up there with Mexicans. Especially since it's really about non-whites, not Hispanics.
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u/mortgagepants 27d ago edited 26d ago
yeah they're going to open a tip hotline [edit: to report] hatians and it will say "press 1 for spanish" and if you do they just track your phone automatically.
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u/nixiedust 27d ago
Even if the administration doesn't, there are local groups and individuals who could. All the administration has to do is provoke hate and look the other way.
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u/dirschau 26d ago
Well obviously, Cuba is communist, therefore all Cubans are communist. It would be against the god fearing american spirit not to get rid of communists
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u/SportySpiceLover 26d ago
When that report came out that Hispanics would outnumber Whites by 2030 came out in the early 2000s, it gave fuel to this anti-immigrant wave and fortunately, the Cubans believed they had the White pass instead of who they actually are. We are going to see a major invasion of face-eating leopards to deal with this crisis.
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u/throwawayacc407 26d ago
I lived in Miami, I'd love for Trump to de naturalize them and deport them all. I'm sick of their entitled attitude. They are some of the largest welfare recipients but actively vote to fuck themselves and everyone else. They can all fuck off back to Cuba.
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u/East_Reading_3164 26d ago
💯 I'm in Miami. They are the worst. The most racist, too.
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u/throwawayacc407 26d ago
Bruh, I'm Asian and they regularly called me "Chino", I'm not even Chinese...
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u/East_Reading_3164 26d ago
Yup. I am subjected to their nonsense daily; I'm in healthcare. They call me Gringa and spew the most horrible racist crap because it's just a couple of “white” people shooting the breeze. I take great pleasure in telling them the boat my family came over on was The Mayflower, my family has never spoken like that and is not racist, and lastly, that they are NOT WHITE.
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u/endmysuffering9912 26d ago
Goddamn bro i am sorry.that is beyond fucked.i guarantee if you said some racist shit back,theyd throw a bitch fit
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u/throwawayacc407 26d ago
Thanks man. And yeah, thats why I'm kinda happy to see this all unfold. I didn't vote for Trump but these racists sure did. Time to get the popcorn and kickback.
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u/bluetechrun 26d ago
From the report I saw there are 110K Cubans that are staying on parole. This is one of the programs that will be terminated as soon as they are able to.
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u/Karkava 27d ago
"I actually said something despite not being a hispanic, but they're too stubborn to listen and really can't pick up the hint through the overly hateful attitude towards Mexico without any attempt to even appear hopeful and welcoming to the immigrants that came here."
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u/Alastor999 26d ago
I said it somewhere else, being a “Jew for Hitler” doesn’t spare you, it just makes it easier for them to find & round you up first
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u/Ok_Aspect947 26d ago
They were called Kapos. Kapos were typically placed in positions of supervision of ghettos and concentration camps to help keep the peace and carry out varuous tasks. In return, their families would be spared. Some true believer and pick me kapos could be every bit as brutal as the nazis. They were an important component of the liquidation process and as a means of maintaining division amongst prisoners.
When the liquidation of a given area was complete, the kapos and their families were summarily rounded up and sent to the camps with the rest.
After the war, when camps were being liberated, kapos were captured by their victims and were destroyed.
No one is spared from fascist violence.
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u/Ihaveakillerboardnow 27d ago
Me, me, me, deport me first to make America great again.
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u/utnow 27d ago
If they can promise me citizenship somewhere else I’ll volunteer to go first. Wonderbread white guy btw. Honestly I’m worried they won’t let me leave at this point.
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u/PreciousTater311 26d ago
Someone's gotta help get the birth rate back up after us brown people are dealt with.
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u/Autotomatomato 27d ago
They really hate socialism tho so its fine. They get new opportunities to lift themselves up by their bootstraps too!
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u/dgj212 27d ago
i thought they learned from what happened last time when ron desantis literally shut down florida by making migrants run for it.
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u/drstd 27d ago
It’s what they wanted. Lol. Good luck with that.
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u/Stoomba 27d ago
No, they are suppose to go after the other illegals!
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u/coolcoolcool485 27d ago edited 27d ago
non-citizens weren't the ones voting. the ones voting are naturalized and believe because they have done it the "right way", that they're fine with the ones who haven't being deported. most of the people who voted for it are probably fine with this.
it'll be interesting to see what happens if Miller follows through on his denaturalization promise tho
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u/Wheat_Grinder 27d ago
Even if they don't do denaturalization, so many of that population is family with someone who's here illegally
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u/20_mile 26d ago edited 26d ago
They are all going back to keep families together.
That might start out as the goal, but no way will it end up like that. This deportation plan is a preventable humanitarian disaster. People aren't just going to put on a plane and deported in 2 hours. They are going to be held in camps while the "appeals" process gets underway.
The camps will:
Employ poorly trained people to be guards / clerks / supervisors
Detain people who are citizens, but have the same name as undocumented people. The Trump crowd is not good at nuance, and nuance is needed to differentiate between Miguel Diaz the citizen and Miguel Diaz the undocumented immigrant. "You're all brown; get in the truck" will be a common phrase for JimBob Trump Supporter with a Badge
Not be large enough for the number of people going there, resulting in overcrowding; overcrowding will mean poor sanitation; people will get sick and die from communicable diseases / illnesses
Not have enough food, or the food will be terrible for the prisoners. Private contractors will scrimp and save by cutting ration bars below the recommended 2,000 calorie day diet
Employ guards who will rape / sexually assault women and children
Will alternatively be too cold, or too hot. People will die from temperature extremes
People will try to escape / riot, you know, because they've been locked up against their will, and guards will shoot them. Trump's administration will commit a mass shooting
Cover up people dying in the camps; bodies will be buried in unmarked graves
e: typo
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u/spacerun2314 26d ago
Good. Every leopard voter that gets their face eaten and family deported should have to explain to their family why they voted that way. There were already plenty of viral cases of this in the last term. They think they're "one of the good ones" but they're the bad ones.
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u/Easy-Concentrate2636 27d ago
Agreed. Along with naturalized citizens, citizens born to immigrants are at risk. Also, there’s bound to be a lot of people who are citizens but have relatives who are at risk of being deported.
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u/Billowing_Flags 27d ago
I have NO DOUBT that if you piss off ICE, your official documents and proof of citizenship will just mysteriously end up in the shredder! Then 'good fucking luck to you' getting replacement documents while you try to survive wherever they ship your ass, former citizen!
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u/Pendrych 26d ago
I once had a DMV in North Carolina refuse to accept my US passport as a valid form of ID. This wasn't in some small town either; this was a major office in the Raleigh-Durham area. It was also pre-Trump, before the racists became really emboldened.
The people who are going to be targeted by the incoming administration are screwed to an extent they cannot yet fathom.
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u/hoofie242 26d ago
Stephen Miller said families can be deported together, and denaturalization will be a thing.
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u/Elegant_Tech 26d ago
Every time there has been mass round ups in history plenty of citizens are still wrongly rounded up as well.
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u/pikleboiy 27d ago
Also the children of illegals, so now their parents might get deported.
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u/VastSeaweed543 26d ago
One leftist dude is going around reporting all the Latino republicans in his area - some of which are there legally and some not. Some have parents or grandparents or kids that are supposedly being investigated now too - and they're all confused and shocked. For some reason.
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u/Magicthundercat 26d ago edited 26d ago
But they should be on-board with it considering that this is what they voted for. They should be self-deporting anyone in their family here illegally.
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u/sarcasm_rocks 27d ago
Too many people don’t understand this. Hispanics that have legally immigrated know what they voted for and more often than not, can’t stand illegals. Lots of hidden anger in that community.
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u/visforv 27d ago
They're OK with members of their own family who came over illegally but it's the others who are the problem.
You see it all the time tbh
Even my relatives do it.
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u/JapaneseFerret 26d ago edited 26d ago
The leopards will feast themselves into morbid obesity once Hispanic trump voters realize that the incoming fascists are also nazis. They simply hate brown people and don't care how they got to America. Legal or not, they're all targeted for "removal". Ideological purity and their virulent racism demands it. Denaturalization is just one of the tools. Stephen Miller, trump's chief nazi, was already salivating over it when he first talked about using denaturalization weeks after trump's first win. 8 years later, all of the rules, laws and protections that immigrants had in the US are now on the chopping block. All of them, for everybody. SCOTUS won't save us.
And of course, "removal" doesn't necessarily equal deportation. When Project 2025 unfolds, Hispanic trump voters will find out up close and personal that under trump, they're slated to become a permanent underclass of super cheap labor or outright slaves thru legal prison labor.
Nor does any of this start and end with Hispanic people. Or immigrants. Anyone can be targeted, incl. US born citizens. Citizenship can be stripped, modified and invalidated by govt agencies. Citizenship can be used as a tool to force obedience and compliance of the population, and to limit travel. Hitler did it, East Germany did it, it's a standard strategy of authoritarian control.
[Full disclosure: I'm a long-time naturalized citizen myself, from Germany. Technically I should be "safe". However, the incoming clown show of federal govt appointees will be so riddled with advanced brain worms that after 40yrs in the US, I can no longer rely on established immigration law to protect me. What if one of the incoming clowns ODs on ketamine and hallucinates that Germany is the anti-christ and all German-born citizens must be "removed" from the US? We got close to something like that during trump1.0, when trump got himself into an embarrassing dust-up with then-German chancellor Angela Merkel. At the 100th anniversary ceremony that commemorated WWI, no less. So this time, I'm not sticking around for the incoming psychotic circus. I'm taking my EU passport and my queer, legal immigrant ass and will be decamping to Portugal next year.]
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u/visforv 26d ago
They simply hate brown people and don't care how they got to America
In my experience it's not just "brown". I pass perfectly fine as a white person but when I tell people my ethnicity I suddenly stop being white to them.
Other white latino people think they'll be safe because of their skin color but fascists are perfectly happy to "recolor" anyone. It's like a one drop rule but even more solipsistic.
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u/selfrespectra 27d ago
I imagine there are plenty families, friend groups, or communities where some people are citizens and some aren’t. So I still think some will be surprised when it happens to their closed ones.
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u/Isabeau56 27d ago
I’ve heard many say the govt is only going after criminals. Which part of the term “ILLEGAL immigrant” did they not understand?
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u/Bundt-lover 27d ago
What they also don’t understand is that all the “vermin“ and “poisoning our blood” rhetoric is criminalizing being an immigrant. They’re not saying they’re going to deport people who are here illegally. They’re saying being an immigrant is illegal and they’re going to deport them all.
It’s EXACTLY the same rhetoric that was used in Nazi Germany, and it drives me insane when both conservatives AND particularly gullible leftists act like us comparing these people to the Nazis is just being mean ol’ meanies who don’t want to consider an alternate viewpoint. No, this is “We are ramping up for a genocide” language. They just don’t fucking get it.
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u/Aggravating-Fee-1615 27d ago
It’s the “I got mine, you gotta work for yours” mentality that’s the brainwashing of America
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u/macphile 26d ago
My issue with it is that people can't tell the difference between an "illegal" and "legal" Latino person. I mean, I can't. It's not like undocumented people have a scarlet letter on their foreheads. So even those who are legal may end up being harassed, reported by neighbors, targeted by officials asking for paperwork, etc. By "rounding up" all people of a certain type who often look a certain way and speak a certain language, you're painting a big target on all the people who meet those criteria, both the ones you want to remove and the ones you don't (well, you do, but they'll be in the second round). Just like that woman who believed in trans bathroom laws who got harassed in a bathroom because she didn't look sufficiently "female" to someone.
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u/Alpha-Trion 27d ago
What's crazy to me is: how do you think ICE is going to be identifying illegal immigrants? By checking IDs right? How is ICE gonna know who to check? I think we all know the answer, but proponents of this initiative are being dishonest with themselves.
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u/TheRealDreaK 27d ago
It’s like that time my client got pulled over for Driving While Brown. He showed the cop his international driver’s license, which oops, went missing along with his entire wallet when he was arrested for driving without a driver’s license. Good luck getting a copy of documentation proving you’re a US citizen from inside a detention center, before you get dumped over the Mexican border. Despite being born here, and your parents are Cuban. Dumber shit has already happened, and will happen again.
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u/atuarre 26d ago
Yep. They used to do this down in Maricopa County in Arizona under Sherrif Joe Arpaio. Pulled over anyone that looked "Mexican" and asked to see proof of citizenship. Maricopa County paid hundreds of millions for it and they finally got his ass out. He was costing the taxpayer ridiculous amounts of money because of his racism.
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u/Mateorabi 27d ago
A large % of operation wetback
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u/onehundredlemons 26d ago
TIL that the government really did use a nasty slur to name their deportation initiative. I thought it was a colloquial name for the operation but nope, they called it that. Fun. Fun times here in the ol' U.S. of A.
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u/PhilosopherSharp4671 27d ago
Gosh…I suppose we could have people wear something on their clothing, but no…no guarantee they actually will. Maybe we can mark them with a number of some sort…but if only there were a way to ensure it won’t come off…oh, and to make sure none of these illegals escape before we deport them, maybe we can put them somewhere, some sort of “camp”…
Is it ever going to sound familiar to people? And at what point?
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u/Stoomba 27d ago
Papers please!
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u/codemonkeyhopeful 27d ago
Things you can say in 1942 and 2025 for $100 please, Alex.
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u/Dantheking94 27d ago
EXACTLY WHAT I TOLD MY FRIEND! They’re not gonna stop and ask you for papers, most people don’t walk around with their birth certificate or passports…smh
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u/Bergasms 26d ago
The weird thing to me, as someone watching from a different country, is the mental gymnastics you see people do where they say "oh but when they consider my case, they will see i'm one of the good ones" but at the same time they vote for Trump/Musk because they're going to cut government spending and reduce government oversight.
So who is going to consider your case? What person is going to employ the dilligence and nuance to do this? Because employing people costs money and requires beurocracy.
You know whats cheaper, the blanket approach where you just can everyone who looks vaguely like they fit the profile and then let back in the rich ones who can afford lawyers to argue about it.
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u/URABrokenRecord 27d ago
I honestly believe there will be bounties. Like in TX for people involved, helping or performing abortions. Elon has paid for participation before and he will again.
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u/Easy-Concentrate2636 27d ago
We will see profiling really ramp up. This is also partly an extension of the 9-11 years when many Americans supported profiling and openly engaged in racism.
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u/apneax3n0n 27d ago
I know this. They have to wear a Yellow star on them so they can be recognised. This was never tried before but It should work . /S (*internally streaming)
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u/Hoopy_Dunkalot 27d ago
No seriously, it's what they want. Fuck everyone who comes after them.
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u/threehundredthousand 27d ago
It's not even worth fighting anymore. Everyone knows the immigration system needs work, but the GOP doesn't believe in reform. They'll continually say the immigration system is not working right, but claim the only option is to brutally enforce the broken system. They never defend their solution. It's nothing but false dilemma with them.
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u/PachotheElf 27d ago
It's a fantastic topic to build your hate-based politics around now that abortion was taken off the table. The ones directly affected by not fixing the problem cannot vote, you can vilify them all you want without any repercussions. Since the entire voter base is built upon having a target for hatred, fixing the issue would actually be detrimental.
There just needs to be lots of theatrics, but not actually make it any better. The ones that pay the price of all that posturing and maneuvering don't matter anyways.
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u/I_Magnus 27d ago
I don't understand how people are this dumb and I have anger in my heart for everyone that said I was overreacting because "he wouldn't really do that."
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u/MattGdr 27d ago
We know when he’s lying, and when he’s telling the truth. They do not.
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u/cg12983 27d ago
If he talks about doing something helpful, he's lying.
When he talks about inflicting punishment and cruelty, he's damn sure going through with it.
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u/ThePurpleKnightmare 26d ago
He's just a really bad liar. "I know nothing about project 2025, I haven't read it, I don't plan to. I hear it has some pretty good things though" like that's an obvious lie.
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u/letouriste1 27d ago
to be honest you need some social acumen to filter the bullshit. He tend to rant about the weirdest useless crap and only drop the actual info somewhere in it.
Like meat with too much fat.
I guess they like the fat and or turn off their brain when he talks, or just listen to people "translating" what he said. I mean, nobody who actually listen to him speaking can think he's fit to be anywhere but in a nursery home.
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u/MattGdr 26d ago
This is what kills me - he rambles like a complete idiot. How can any reasonably intelligent person listen to him and not recognize this?
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u/Bacon_Raygun 27d ago
I'm gonna need a smaller violin
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u/imdesmondsunflower 27d ago
The Lawrence Berkeley National Lab has a $27 million electron microscope. It can see objects as small as 0.05 nanometers, or roughly half the size of a hydrogen atom. If I could just borrow it, maybe I could find my violin.
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u/transient_eternity 27d ago
At this point the uncertainty principle is affecting my ability to play mine.
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u/Apprehensive_Set9276 27d ago
This part made me laugh...those sweet tax dollars are going to dry up.
"Florida is among 40 states where undocumented immigrants pay a larger share of their income in taxes than wealthier residents."
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u/bluetechrun 26d ago
It's already been starting to dry up with Destalin's anti-immigration bill, but this will really close the taps off. The farmers who vote GOP still haven't learned because they're spending tens of thousands more a year to get H2A workers, and are they aren't happy about that.
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u/Dreamsnaps19 26d ago
You noticed how all that shit quietly just stopped once people started throwing a fit? They stopped randomly pulling people over and stopped talking about trying to arrest people.
The difference is that Trump doesn’t give a shit what fits people throw
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u/bluetechrun 26d ago
That's the problem, he doesn't care about anyone but himself. Alabama did the same thing about a decade back and they also decided to reverse course when the farmers and construction companies cried about lack of workers. Trump would only make sure that he and his cronies still had their domestic help.
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u/Njabachi 27d ago
Miami-Dade's economy is about to crater.
It's an all-you-can-eat buffet.
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u/macphile 26d ago
If Trump does what he promises, it's going to be like a triple or quadruple whammy for places like Miami (maybe only double for some of us). Rounding up all of the undocumented workers will affect food and building costs for everyone in America, but if Florida has a fair few of them, that's a population loss (and loss of workers in multiple industries). They also have a little "hurricane problem" that means new construction is needed more often, but they'd lose those workers, and the lumber would be tariffed and the insurance companies already don't want to deal with them. And if the economy overall is in the toilet, which is likely, fewer people will be spending money on vacations, and Florida is pretty dependent on tourism. Florida's going to be feeling the heck out of the next 4 years if it all goes down as promised.
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u/ChasingPerfect28 26d ago edited 26d ago
As a born and raised Floridian, it's going to get so bad and so ugly real quick. I also work at a title 1 school where 95% of the student demographic is Latino.
I'm not ready for the worst that's about to come. It's going to be brutal down here.
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u/macphile 26d ago
It's not going to be wine and roses in my red state, either. We just have to bite down on something, I guess, and hope there's still anything salvageable after 2 and 4 years.
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u/fapsandnaps 26d ago
Rounding up all of the undocumented workers
y'all still think they're just going to go after undocumenteds? Guarantee we hear stories of perfectly legal immigrants being detained in camps or even being deported. They'll just claim their paperwork is fake or something.
I won't even be surprised when actual American Citizens are detained and deported as well just because their brown.
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u/sunplaysbass 27d ago edited 27d ago
The opposite though right? The thousands of restaurants in FL still have their waiters, but not their cooks in this scenario.
Surely good for businesses…
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u/Sad-Development-4153 27d ago
Cubans still so terrified about muh communism and hating other Hispanics that they elected another Batista but white.
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u/ravens2131 27d ago
I wish that they get everything they voted for
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u/Cosmicdusterian 27d ago
Got exactly what y'all voted for. Enjoy the consequences.
Oh, and y'all are to blame. Not Democrats, not even the orange himself. He told you what he was and what he was going to do, and you created this kindly old man who was not going to depart the "good" illegals. There are no "good illegals" in his worldview. There is no kindness. That's reality.
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u/TimeAd7159 27d ago
It's not even that they deluded themselves about Trump really being kind, they deluded themselves about being spared by the monster they voted for to harm other people. They're victims of their own self-centered malevolence.
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u/mortgagepants 27d ago
he's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting
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u/JuliusCeejer 26d ago
It's even stupider than that, they were exactly who he said he was going to hurt and they still voted for him
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u/Commercial_Tough160 27d ago
This is actually very good news. They weren’t any good at reading the signs when they were merely blatantly obvious, after all. Some people simply cannot learn until it happens to themselves. And this is a great “learning opportunity,”
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u/Zeremxi 27d ago
This is assuming that it is in fact a learning opportunity and we have the chance to reverse course democratically.
People said Trump wasn't serious on the tariffs and now we are all bracing. People said Trump wasn't serious about deportations and headlines like this are making their rounds. People said Trump's Supreme Court picks wouldn't repeal Roe vs Wade, and now women are dying because they can't find health care for their miscarriages.
Trump said in a rally we would never have to vote again. Do we really think he doesn't intend on making good on that?
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u/rare_star100 26d ago
Right? It’s like we’ve already forgotten our world history. I’m looking at you Germany and the former USSR. But what do I know? 🤷♀️
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u/cg12983 27d ago
Beholdeth the field where I grow my fucks. Gaze thine eyes upon it and see that it is barren.
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u/IdToaster 27d ago
This year's harvest of fucks is reaching all-time lows, it's practically a famine of fucks.
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u/ImaginaryAnimal7169 26d ago
mine's barren too - maybe trump will put a tariff on importing fucks and we can get a bailout.
i guess importing fucks is what he did with melania, but that's different lol.
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u/ScentedFire 27d ago
Apparently we were the racists for warning them what the GOP really meant.
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u/IdToaster 27d ago edited 27d ago
There's someone in this very thread that's arguing that the libs were the real racists.
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u/mortgagepants 27d ago
DARVO- deny, attack, reverse victim and offender.
remember all those arab voters telling us how trump would be better for palestine?
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u/strawberry-coughx 26d ago
Well, you see, liberals using the word “latinx” in a misguided attempt to be inclusive is obviously racist, so therefore it makes perfect logical sense to vote for the rich white guy who generalized all Latinos as rapists and is threatening to deport them all and take away their citizenship. (Obvious /s)
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u/Kilen13 27d ago
Bold that you expect they'll learn. I live in South Florida and work with a couple people who's parents and relatives are either undocumented or protected by the programs Trump will get rid of first to start deportations. They both voted for him and say some version of "he'll only deport the ones who are criminals or bad people" even when I show them video proof of him saying exactly the opposite.
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u/Flipnotics_ 26d ago
You should make a few phone calls to a certain government agency. I'm sure your co-workers will appreciate you helping to get illegals out of the country.
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u/DiscontinuTheLithium 27d ago
This is fucking hilarious. I’m going to enjoy not giving a shit once they start crying about it online.
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u/KazranSardick 26d ago
I've already started. They are already starting to cry about it. I felt much better about the election once I started to enjoy the idea of people suffering the consequences of their actions.
AITH? Yes, yes I am.
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u/goonbud21 26d ago edited 26d ago
You're not an asshole for respecting democracy and self-determination.
These people literally voted to deport their family members, de-naturalize any citizens with non-citizen parents, focusing on those with certain skin tones and cultural names first.
You should be happy, they should be happy, this IS democracy manifest.
Trump, MAGA, and the GQP are gonna do a lot of horrendous things over the next 4+ years, but there will be a non-zero amount of good ideas. Gotta give credit where its due, sounds this this mass deportation will make everyone happy.
Sane citizens get to celebrate a bunch of violent MAGA fascist getting deported, and the deportees get exactly what they voted for. Win-win everyone's happy.
When the Muslim ban is reinstated MAGA Muslims should be overjoyed that they get exactly what they voted for, being separated from their families as they await their eventual arrest, deportation, de-naturalization, or all three.
When the genocide of Palestine gets all brakes removed, and gas applied instead, I fully expect MAGA Muslims and Jews to celebrate together, this is what they voted for. MAGA Jews should weep tears of joy when Trump helps Isreal complete its genocide making Isreal a full pariah state and isolated from the rest of the world, this IS what they voted for.
When violence against Asian's is on the rise again (if it hasn't spiked post-election already) I expect MAGA Asians to write songs and ballads of pure joy, THIS IS what they voted for. When darker MAGA Asians such as Indians start getting de-naturalized and deported, they will fly home happy knowing that they are being judged by the color of their skin and not the content of their character.
I expect nothing but silent submission from all the MAGA women and members of the LGBT community when they have all their human rights stripped away one by one, remember, THIS IS what they VOTED for.
Me? I'm a tall white male working in the aerospace industry that gets 8 bonuses a year, (no taxes on bonuses will be giving me over an extra months worth of pay each year), my strong union will guarantee I still have overtime benefits that are wildly more gratuitous then current federal overtime laws, even if they remove all federal overtime laws. MIC contracts will guarantee my company gets carve-outs in the impending tariffs, because of national security interests. Gutting NASA only frees up aerospace talent for my company, we already have our money for the upcoming Artemis program even if NASA is axed, no NASA (my heart will weep) will just mean more money for my aerospace company. I voted for Kamala so that other young people in their 20's with no college degrees like me can have a real chance of a decent life in America, I won't shed a single tear for all the hardships the poorest, dumbest, and most hateful among us will experience. THEY VOTED FOR THIS.
Oh and I know sooooooo many MAGA parents that are freaking the fuck out about no DOE, no NOAA, or their kids potential climate future. I don't have any kids; nor do my wife and I ever plan on having them, not my fucking problem. They voted for 4 years of callous hate, who am I to stand in the way of Democracy manifest, THIS IS WHAT THEY VOTED FOR.
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u/KazranSardick 26d ago
Pretty much exactly how I feel and expressed much better than I could have. I'm a white guy in my 50s with a recession-proof job (not depression-proof, though) and no kids. I can't conceive of the circumstances that might cause me to vote for a Republican, even if it is better for me personally, because I know what they mean for most people not like me. I was raised better than that. But I will have no tears when the wailing starts.
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u/disabledinaz 27d ago
Send the Cubans back first just for spite
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u/smythe70 27d ago
I wish, they consistently voted Republican and for Trump. They in Florida can't stand any other immigrants and talk shit about them.
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u/jon_hendry 27d ago
Just wait until they get deported because, while they were born here, their parents were illegal.
I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if Homan deports some Cubans.
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u/Salsa_El_Mariachi 27d ago
The MAGA Hispanic community feels resentment towards recent immigrants; they feel that these migrants are getting a ton of help and benefits (they’re not) that they themselves never received when they (or their parents) arrived. They especially feel a lot of resentment towards migrants who entered illegally.
Obviously the undocumented didn’t vote, so it means the naturalized and US born latinos went MAGA. Very disappointing. They’ll never be part of the MAGA inner circle.
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u/East_Reading_3164 26d ago
This is Miami, where most of the immigrants are Cuban. They have taken the lion's share of help and benefits and still do so through the Cuban Adjustment Act. No immigrants have had the red carpet rolled out for them like Cubans.
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u/JTibbs 26d ago
Noone hates Miami Cubans more than Puerto Ricans in my experience.
IIRC Puerto Ricans in miami got displaced from their neighborhoods and shit on when the Cuban Adjustment Act went into effect. They ended up moving north to Orlando/Tampa/New York.
Had an older Puerto Rican man who worked for me years ago who would spit nails anytime Cubans and their benefits got brought up.
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u/00Qant5689 27d ago
I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired at this point. If they voted for him, then they should get exactly what they voted for and nothing more.
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u/TomTheNurse 27d ago
I moved to California 3 years ago. Prior to that I lived in the Miami area for over 50 years. Most people don’t understand how much many Hispanics look down on other Hispanics based on what country they are from, what dialect of Spanish they speak, what neighborhood they live in and/or what their economic status is. In my experience the Cubans were the worst at doing that.
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u/resistancerising56 27d ago
My favorite phrase for the next 4 years will be, “Well, this is what you voted for.”
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u/salty_redhead 27d ago
Nothing is more painful than the consequences of your own actions.
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u/MissionCreeper 27d ago
I'm starting to worry that there is a deluge of FAFO articles that are designed to sap the rest of the populace of their empathy so that nobody fights back. I don't even know what to do about it, because it works on me too. I can't bring myself to try to save people who hurt themselves and everyone else.
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u/LetsGetsThisPartyOn 27d ago
They will have Trump signs in their yard as they get carted off
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u/library_wench 27d ago
25 days ago, I decided it’s time to stop feeling sympathy for anyone stupid enough to vote against their own interests. FAFO, as the kids say these days.
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u/Major-Specific8422 27d ago
My guess is they will target California and New York over Florida. We saw in Trumps first term he was unwilling to help people in democratic states.
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u/BeeBench 27d ago
Maybe one day folks will realize you can’t make yourself white enough, religious enough, or pure enough to be one of ‘the good ones who doesn’t get punished’. You aren’t a billionaire.
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u/DocLego 27d ago
Now if only Trump's policies would only impact those who voted for them.
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