The thing is, if we give up the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, we just lose our liberty completely. This is a situation where civil society *needs* to be in a state of constant struggle because the moment we stand down we can be picked off one by one just like in the Niemoller poem.
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Craig Harrington
No, actually, we shouldn't just let the government violently attack people on the streets and disappear them into foreign gulags. We should try to stop them.
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Walk AND chew gum?
(Wait, how does chewing gum while walking poll?)
If due process is off the table, violent resistance is on the table.
Trying to triangulate is madness. If we lack the conviction to do this, who's going to believe us in anything else?
The whole point of due process and human rights is that absolutely everybody gets to have them.
Some people who like Trump on “immigration” might still dislike “grabbing people and sending them to gulags”
Q: Why are you for allowing illegal alien criminals to run free?
A: Why are you for letting one person decide innocence or guilt?
A: Why are you for billionaires profiting from children with cancer?
Q: Why are you for allowing men in women's bathrooms?
A: Why are you for peeking in closed bathrooms stalls and looking under people's clothing?
A: Why are you in favor of ethnic cleansing?
Q: Why are you for DEI and against a meritocracy?
A: Why are you in favor of segregation?
Don't let them box you in with a strawman question - return the fire.
It's more efficient to put the cart before the horse when the wagon's full of BS and the horse is an ass.
The only people *surprised*+upset about the economy are single issue Trump supporters, which is why they want to make it news. The rest of us expected this shit show, so we should absolutely keep owning the narrative
But most MAGAs think he's a gang member, so until he's released, focus on prices, retirement accounts, social security and healthcare.
Trump took the popular vote because people thought the price of eggs was too high.
We have to fight with what we are given on any particular day.
immigration=disappearing people off the streets
Yglesias is so smug and condescending.
And he'll just raise salience anyway. He's not going to let immigration not be an issue. He wants dispose of 20 million ppl.
"Focusing" on one issue would fix his mistake for him (+ be evil).
I personally have settled on just calling arguments like his “dishonorable.” It doesn’t matter if they are right or wrong, they’re dishonorable and cannot be adopted.
The problem is that it doesn't fucking work, and would in fact massively backfire.
Prefer to ignore the realities. Telling the stories of immigrants and what is really happening in the ground has an impact.