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Why would Xi Jinping want to flood my basement and rust my Bowflex? To what end?

This has always been the unspoken purpose of immigration enforcement in America during even the supposed “good times.” Not to actually get rid of immigrants, but to be the sword of Damocles dangling above to keep them in line.

Anti indigenous white supremacists be like:

I can't wait until we all stop with this bullshit state of nature stuff

There's a direct line from the war on terror to Donald Trump

After years of security theater, all too many Americans seem ready to accept Trump’s pledge to root out the vermin.

Lot of people going to learn the very hard way that the war on terror turned the majority of Gen x into rabid anti-arab bigots

"gotta think about that" *30 seconds pass* "Alright that's probably enough of that"

The most helpful thing you could do for MAGA in this moment is argue that our political institutions work well for the American people, which most voters do not believe. This is one reason why the party making that argument in November lost to Donald Trump, returning him to the White House.

Thinking about the revolution and founding documents as a fight over liberty or whatever rights he's talking about is misguided. Those things existed and had been articulated independent of the American revolution, which was about expansion. Good interview with Marc Egnal talking about this:

If you haven't finished reading America, América you've at least started it right? If you haven't started it you've at least purchased it right? If you haven't purchased it why the fuck are you reading my posts you have stuff to do

The notion that the founders straight up invented the idea of liberal universalism and without them those ideas wouldn't exist to build a country from is a childish view of history