Native Americans must roll their eyes. While they've been in the Americas for a thousand generations, immigrants who have been here for a handful of generations argue about who belongs and who doesn't.
Personally, my uncles and cousins who have naturalized see people like me as a threat to their progeny. Like our kids and grandkids will have to compete against yours for jobs and resources. It’s laughably wrong but also some want to be ahead of others so they can think they are better .
Assuming a Leader and Party committed to barely concealed racism would actually deport *white* immigrants is unwise, but I wouldn’t call it bizarre. Fairly banal racist psychology.
Allistic people don't expect other people to literally say what they mean, so when someone does step up and broadcast their positions loud and clear, allistics discard the literal meaning of the words and replace it with their personal interpretation.
Women vote for republicans - more than half of us white ones. Same "pick-me" sensibility. It's a delusion that blends well with the ideology of American Exceptionalism.
I do 🙋🏼♀️ you see, in Dasha's mind, she's not a recent immigrant, but a temporarily embarrassed Daughter of the Revolution.
Reminder that, in what I'm guessing to be Dasha's home country, just one or two generations before her dad's, people were reporting friends and neighbors to authorities as
Funny story, Minsk is my mom's city of birth. She and her sister were evacuated w their daycare on June 22, 41. Dad went to war and never came back. Mom evacuated too and eventually found them.
After the war, they wanted to return to their apartment (ofc) asked about it, and got an official letter
back saying that, due to apartment shortage, it was not possible to provide them with living arrangements in Minsk right now. Like they had randomly asked for an apt in a major city and not to return to their home.
They assumed the building had burned down. Went to visit the city when Mom was 16
and found the building standing and someone living in their apartment. Which was the reason they had been denied in the first place. Like I said, a long-standing tradition of stabbing each other in the back for an apartment, a job, a carton of eggs (no wait, that last one would be the US)
foreign spies and enemies of the people because they 1) in many cases stood to benefit from it materially and 2) thought it would never happen to them. It is a long storied tradition of throwing each other under the bus for the fun of it.
My great-aunt's neighbor told us that her dad worked in academia, was a dept chair, and a guy in his dept wanted his job. So he wrote a report about how he'd seen her dad and the other two contenders for the chair position all walking down the street together on Nov 7, singing "God save the tzar"
(the pre-1917 anthem) which was such a wildly dumb accusation, but they were all arrested anyway and she never saw her father again. Good times, good times.
Slightly immodest turn of phrase ( yes, I am beloved too ) reaps a whirlwind of bigoted revisionism.
Bye Dad!
Wait there's a truck out front of our place too...
I’d hoped that would be the case, but the business wing seems to think there's still gold in them thar racist hills, if election spending in '24 was anything to go by.
Putin's held a coalition of racists and oligarchs together for quite some time, albeit with more coercion as of late.
Immigrants of a lighter hue will NOT be deported! Immigrants with a bunch of degrees n are not so light will NOT be deported! The govt will mane sure only poor immigrants of color are kicked out. The laws/rules are very fluid.
“Thank you, Mr Josiah, kind sir. I was very concerned you would deport my family with ill will. But after your tweet, I know you and the government will provide a lovely deportation process for me and my family.”
“See, your murderers come with smiles, they come as your friends, the people who've cared for you all of your life. And they always seem to come at a time that you're at your weakest and most in need of their help.” —Goodfellas, 1990
I've been a programmer for over 40 years, so I am familiar with H1B's and their impact on the industry. It would be greatly appreciated if my coworkers and friends are NOT deported.
"Dennis might have done a lot of good for The Cause and the community. However, we cannot overlook the harms Dennis has done to me (he said my tuna casserole was a bit underseasoned)."
VS
"Oh, your favorite genocidal thinker is Schmitt? Ugh, I'm a BAP guy. We can kill some people together, FINE"
The Dashas of this world aren't going to see this as a sign to leave the coalition, it is just going to make them MAGA harder in the hopes that it will be noticed and appreciated
Of course, what he's not saying is he believes in the old National Front policies of not only immigrants being deported, but descendants of immigrants.
Continue watching the conflict over who has the most influence in Trump 2.0 — his historic MAGA base or his new-found techno-libertarian allies. Truly entertaining 🤭
The groyper instinct to kick someone in the face even as they are genuflecting to them, preferably just after they complained about how no one wants to understand or debate them on their views.
You are technically only an "American" as long as Trump cannot convince the Supreme "Court" that the 14th Amendment natural-born-citizen clause does not mean what it says. He's already succeeded with the 14th Amendment Insurrection/Disqualification Clause.
People here on visas are here “legally,” so this confirms what of course is obvious, which is the MAGA Party wants to deport all (brown) immigrants, not just “illegal” ones (many of the latter are here because they requested asylum, which is also legal, even though MAGA World thinks it shouldn’t be)
“Without malice” is a nice way to say we don’t care enough to feel anything about the suffering we are causing. Almost worse than overt contempt and cruelty.
True. Doctors in rural hospitals are already an issue. Nurse practitioners carry the load acting as primary care physicians. With even less doctors, this will be a bigger deal. People will have to travel for pretty much any procedure that an “ologist” would do.
It's just as corrupt in the hospitals and healthcare!! Those workers imported will do anything for the company to stay in the U.S.! So they turn on us, the Americans!!
She's rethinking becoming a Trump shill and turning Red Scare into a weird ass Thiel Cult outlet 💀 Sorry Dasha, turns out the "woke" you pretended made you stop being a Democrat was just "human rights"
Co-host of a formerly left-wing podcast called "Red Scare." She now supports Trump and gets funding from Peter Thiel. Also wacko Catholic who called the Pope a "heretic."
theres a weird split between cradle catholics who are generally chill, and catholic converts who are just protestants but they like the aesthetics of Catholicism more. they dont get the shame and healthy amount of self loathing that comes from being raised catholic so they act preachy and arrogant
"When we deport your father" sounds like an endearing, warm start of a true long lasting friendship between two immigrants fighting over which one of them is more American than the other. Destroying something is usually easier than building it.
The protection of the Constitution only really lasts until you realize the fourteen amendment is the same one that prevents insurrectionists from taking government offices, and that Trump's going to be wanting to get rid of it as soon as he can.
He’s been a pretty big piece of shit for a while know. I’m always curious with people like that, were there any signs that he was unhinged back in the day, Andrew?
The latest redesign of the Hillsdale Collegian website seems to have broken all its author pages, which might be just as well, is all I'll say about that
Even afterwards it was a weird split-screen of the actual personal experience with good friends, professors, etc contrasted with all the public facing stuff and the set of alumni who come out like *that*
2016 for me and yeah I left the history nerds and theater department and ran smack into all the election shit like "what? Where is this coming from?" I remember a yearmate EVISERATING with red pen an Imprimis issue on Facebook.
really just that I wasn’t aware how deep it went, wrote things off as just wacky politics, but others have shared some truly wtf stuff I wasn’t aware of so the signs may have been there all along https://bsky.app/profile/thorrison.bsky.social/post/3leanictx3s2c
I genuinely thought he was someone from the left mocking Dasha just because openly threatening your own cheerleaders is so clearly not something you want to do even if no exceptions deportation is your ultimate agenda.
nah, he is... fully like that. maybe he always was and I just didn't know (I wasn't particularly friends with him but Hillsdale is a very small school)
And with all due respect, your neighbor will expect good-hearted, decent folks (the kind who voted for Harris) to save him/her. It's very hard to have compassion for that person, to be honest (their children are another matter, of course).
Been pretty disgusted by the behavior of a pro-Trump former classmate and, like, dude. You are a Coptic Syrian who very much presents middle-eastern, you aren’t safe with that gang!
Wait, are we just lol-ing at Milo's hypocrisy of being a recent immigrant railing against immigrants? I ask 'cause while admittedly even the most mathematically adept person can make silly arithmetic errors, IMHO Jason getting to a *billion* by doing 5 million/yr x 20 yrs = 100 million deserves a...
It's the corporate pro skilled immigration side that's actually in power, though, via Musk and Ramaswamy. The groypers are realizing they're not needed anymore.
The thing is, this is Trump's wing of the party, too. I still think enriching himself and protecting himself from jail was always his top priority. He was willing to play footsie with the hard-line open Nazis to win, but he never cared much for them.
I think Trump is a weak enough President that he'll be willing to let the worst elements get away with a lot - as long as they don't threaten his bottom line. That's the first clash we're seeing here.
I think Dasha and Anna and a bunch of other Dimes Square types are gonna have a really tough year. They didn’t actually want these people to win I don’t think.
A global crackdown on fentanyl has led cartels to innovate production methods and test their risky formulas on people, as well as rabbits and chickens ...
No benefit of the doubt - I’m just observing how they’re behaving. And I don’t actually think “playing at reactionary as a Lower East Side poseur because it’s cool and lucrative” is, like, more good faith than “reactionary.” They’re both dumb.
No this tracks, there was a post election article about a election party a bunch of these guys were at, and the writer talked about how weird it was that all of these guys seemed to be genuinely nervous and confused about Trump winning. They’re all fucking useless now.
There’s a wild part where a dude goes from telling the writer that he’s excited for Trump to put trans people into concentration camps to nervously asking him if he thinks they’re gonna get jobs out of this.
Watch rather for the capitalists to use the threat of mass deportation as a wedge to renegotiate the nature of both visas and labor laws to deal a heavy blow against immigrant workers both documented and undocumented, and probably native workers too
The sheer number of epiphanies by (pickme)s and (I'm one of the good ones)s will far outnumber the electoral margins of the previous four decades. I'd pretend to sympathize with some of them, but I'm not that dishonest.
So they can deport family lines because they changed their minds? I remember when bonuses had to be paid to bankers in 2008 because not to would create moral hazard.
They deported US citizens the last time he was in office. Some of them were vets. I think the problem is you’re thinking like a sane person that follows the law and they aren’t either one of those things.
Reading this exchange I would say both of them are bot accounts trolling to get families to accept the deportation plan. It is just so contrived it’s blatantly false.
“What kind of name is Lippincott?” A question that is going to be coming at him fast if history is any guide. Along with “Josiah, doesn’t sound very American. Sounds kind of ‘foreign’ if ya know what I mean?” I am sure he will Nazi it coming.
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They have been working on destroying public education for 40 years. That's because an educated populace would hopefully not fall for their bullshit.
https://youtu.be/CloOL-8wzhw?si=lHp3anNHKHnChcQS
just call them nazis (and yes I know the english translation of their original name but how does using that add anything?)
"I'm different"
"Surely, he won't...."
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National_Jews for a list of people who were very similar.
A bit delusional.
Show them a video of Trump talking and they'll give you a long list of reasons why nothing he literally said is actually what he *really* said.
So they arbitrarily divide themselves into good and bad immigrants, trying to separate themselves from that internalized shame.
Reminder that, in what I'm guessing to be Dasha's home country, just one or two generations before her dad's, people were reporting friends and neighbors to authorities as
After the war, they wanted to return to their apartment (ofc) asked about it, and got an official letter
They assumed the building had burned down. Went to visit the city when Mom was 16
Bye Dad!
Wait there's a truck out front of our place too...
Putin's held a coalition of racists and oligarchs together for quite some time, albeit with more coercion as of late.
I never cease to marvel at how little self respect right wingers and their hangers on/sycophants have
Same with the pundits who just get played by them
“Go back to where ever Beloved is if you need a hyphen!”
What you don't realize is that you are going with them.
They have told you that repeatedly.
- Dasha, probably
That person's whole timeline could be read either way.
And perhaps in other ways as well.
VS
"Oh, your favorite genocidal thinker is Schmitt? Ugh, I'm a BAP guy. We can kill some people together, FINE"
Works less easily for America...
They're only noteable to themselves and you're way ahead of the game not knowing more about them.
You are technically only an "American" as long as Trump cannot convince the Supreme "Court" that the 14th Amendment natural-born-citizen clause does not mean what it says. He's already succeeded with the 14th Amendment Insurrection/Disqualification Clause.
The last wave of immigrants to become Real Americans was the 1840-1880 Germans.
The exodus will continue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditionalist_Catholicism
Probably by claiming immigrants made him do it.
This guy isn't even joking
Certifiably fucking insane
It's a pretty standard expression of just what they are.
Oh, in that case, never mind
they all also graduated before 2015
Also, wow, he’s had quite a journey the last couple of years.
Dunno why I’m surprised, guess I wasn’t paying enough attention…
He just doesn't know it yet.
Will he remain in power when Trump gets jealous?
"You and what army?"
But never underestimate the power of spite.
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19th century racism moment
It's about her father, why the hell is she so content with her father being deported?
Its all perspective.
It's the same amendment that prevents insurrectionists from standing for public offices. 😄