Seriously, how does "mass deportation now" poll? Even the magic wand version that just magically knows who has legal documents and who doesn't without major disruption to those with legal status, that can't have more than 20%-30% approval right? I don't understand why this would be something they would make signs about.

Edit: well, I was off, the magic wand version gets 51% which at least makes some sense to have signs. Usually you'd have something more popular as a main signpost of your campaign but I guess it's not insane.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

If any pro-deportation voter were to learn exactly what "mass deportation" entailed and actually looked like, they would not only immediately change stance, but they would also question our current system and how much resources we're spending on chasing individual humans around the country to move them briefly.

They are WWE wrestlemania fans who chant a slogan, paint their faces and repeat the taglines. They don't even have the most remote ideas or perspectives on what our national infrastructure and policy enforcement look like.

A mass deportation would be the largest, most expensive project we've undertaken as a nation, there would be a sacrifice of rights like we've never seen, you would have to hire literally a million more agents and give them the power to crawl through anyone's personal lives, and the infrastructure alone in moving these people around would be a scale that beats our current mass transportation system by miles. Presuming the same powers that formed such overreaching organizations don't decide to just Holocaust the whole idea and start shipping dark skinned people by train to special camps outside town, and the worst part is there are soup-brained centrists reading this line and rolling their eyes and thinking "Such a thing could never happen in the modern world" from their safe, sheltered lives they assume will never change.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Who likes all our pretty songs,

And he likes to sing along,

And he likes to shoot his gun,

But he knows not what it means,

Knows not what it means,

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

If any pro-deportation voter were to learn

I think I found a flaw in your logic.