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[–] [email protected] 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Didnt Latino men mostly vote for trump? I don't see a problem, they wanted him in office.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

The Latino men who voted for trump are not the undocumented ones

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

And they are too dumb to realize it doesn't matter, they will be denaturalized and put in the same camps

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, these men are pulling up the ladder as they climb.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

It's the American Dream, so why shouldn't they?

Tap for spoiler/s

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Bullshit. They want those workers scared that they'll be deported because being afraid of that will keep their wages low and keep them compliant. This is good for the larger construction companies who employ those workers.

I'm going to make a prediction. If I'm wrong then I'll admit it. I think they're going to do one wave of very loud deportations, quietly abandon it, and relax the borders briefly to fill the spots that were left by that wave. Just enough to scare the absolute shit out of migrant workers into working, coming home, not putting their kids in school, and not peeking their heads out until it's time to make agriculture and construction companies money.

This is drunk speculation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

I don't think you are incorrect. It's not like Trump and such have to prove results, just the perception of results.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

It does them absolutely no good to deport people. It's who do the shit jobs for low wages without healthcare. They are absolutely trying to keep people on edge.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Wait what makes you think the victims placed in emcampments will stop working?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Then they'll get to 1) be paid nothing instead of a few dollars an hour, 2) be a drain on the taxpayer from funding+running the new immigrant labor camps, 3) get abused by camp staffers, and 4) still pick your crops

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Shoulda voted Democrat then.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

42% of the state did, not everyone in Texas is a Republican.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Good. We need consequences.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm really sorry for all the people that did try to stop this, and for the people that couldn't fit whatever reason. But the idiots that caused it? I really hope they suffer enough to learn at least a bit.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

They will not.

It's like everyone forgot COVID-19. The administration's response and almost daily scandal during that barely moved the political needle, and people are even more siloed in now... I honestly don't know what it would take.

[–] Galapagon 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

As someone who sat "next" to a child clearly coughing mucus at the movie theater: Yes, everyone forgot about COVID (and masking). Can't wait to be sick in a few days!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

My sister just got sick as stink visiting family who didn't bother to tell her they were sick! She's coughing up blood!

I know a nurse who's an anti-vaxxer.

...Yeah, I guess pandemic-conscious hygiene is not on people's minds.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

They need a concept of prejudice that's simplistic (as in singular) in nature with with a tangible body of people or person/s to blame. It would also need to tie into beliefs that they heard or taught while growing up.

Trying to get them to understand (put two and two together) the different facets of a conspiracy or something that is rigged tends to lose them when there is more than one thing at fault.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hey, Texas construction industry leaders...

☑️ Fucked around

👈 You are here

🔳 Found out

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Schadenfreude

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Sorry bruh, get fukt.