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You still think this is just about immigrants? They are coming for the dissenters next, they will just make excuses as to why.
by diamond559 1y ago
You still think this is just about immigrants? They are coming for the dissenters next, they will just make excuses as to why.
- hcurtiss 1y agoWhat evidence do you have to believe that’s true?
- throwawaymaroon 1y ago[dead]
- pksebben 1y agothe 1950s comes to mind...
- mrexroad 1y ago… and 2/19/1942. Two thirds of those required to report to camps for internment, per the Executive Order, were US citizens.
- jahewson 1y agoThat was a Democrat president.
- tumsfestival 1y agoWho cares. Doesn't matter who did it, it matters that it happened and you're about to commit the same mistakes again. It matters that you let this slide just because he's your guy.
- pksebben 1y agoFor real. I feel like we need a PSA about how many of us aren't supporters of the opposition just because we don't like 'your guy'. Ronald Reagan was a trash goblin who destroyed our economy to enrich the wealthy. So was Bill Clinton. George Bush was a war criminal who indiscriminately bombed brown people. So was Obama. Hillary Clinton was a huckster con artist who worked for her wealthy friends. So is Trump. Your dichotomy is a trap. There are no good guys because the system itself is rigged in favor of militaristic capitalist oligarchs, which is the actual problem.
- mrexroad 1y agoFor fucks sake, an irrelevant partisan jab is all you can comment? Save that drivel for Reddit and please put a little more thought into your contributions here. Point is, an Executive Order issued by the President did this to natural born citizens of the United States based on their ethnic background.
- miltonlost 1y agoTrump just said he's going to try to take Rosie O Donnell's citizenship away.
- phkahler 1y agoDo people still take his comments like that seriously?
- micromacrofoot 1y agoHe's given us more reason to take him seriously than not at this point, you can probably measure it objectively. He's practically perfected "just kidding... unless"
- kashunstva 1y ago> Do people still take his comments like that seriously? Yes, because he has a pattern of staking out one extreme position and then doing something slightly less extreme; but both of which would have been unthinkable when laws and due process meant something. And also, yes, because joking around is something you do on your own time and when you’re a child. Like not wanting your pilot to announce his intention to do some aerobatic maneuvers on an airline flight. Whether they carry it out or not is almost beside the point.
- wombatpm 1y agoHow are we to know which official statements repeatedly made by the President in public are True?
- zippothrowaway 1y agoThe people of Greenland do. I'm old enough to remember when that was considered just "one of his jokes".
- AlecSchueler 1y agoDo people still downplay the seriousness of statements like this?
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- bigyabai 1y agoDeportations without due-process, for a start. Why not deprive you of due process, too?
- strathmeyer 1y agoDoes the state you live in have concentration camps, yet?
- hcurtiss 1y agoWe have several prisons.
- Geeek 1y agoThey are coming? They are already here. RE: What the president said about Rosie O'donnell last week. Norms have been eroded and we are now clearly in the laws-are-being-eroded territory.
- djeastm 1y agoCorrect. Rosie is an American citizen born in the US and Trump threatened to "revoke" her citizenship. We are all provisional citizens at this point.
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- ASinclair 1y agoJust to clarify, you're espousing the Great Replacement Theory here, correct?
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- jahewson 1y agoThat (conspiracy) theory pertains specifically to France, and Europe more generally w.r.t. Muslim immigration. It gets mentioned over here but it’s not a US thing.
- heavyset_go 1y agoIt's metastasized and is very much a US thing, now. It hearkens back to the old white supremacist belief that Jewish elites are hoodwinking white people/culture/etc and replacing them with black people/culture/etc, for example. Similarly shaped ideas existed for hundreds of years in the US.
- tastyface 1y agoImmigrants are the electorate and have always been. *They* are what make America great, not some racist, talentless bums who believe they are entitled to an entire nation by virtue of their ancestry.
- ljsprague 1y agoPoppycock. Complete, Orwellian inversion of the meaning of a nation.
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- lr4444lr 1y agoOh really? And charge them with what? The USA doesn't have vague laws around social harmony by which to prosecute people. This is exactly why it's so important to protect so called "hate speech".
- Henchman21 1y agoHow about they just black-bag her and she’s never heard from again? How will we prosecute that overreach and outright law breaking?
- heavyset_go 1y agoPeople are being violently kidnapped off the street by masked men and exiled to secret prisons with zero due process and you're over here worrying about charges and laws lol
- AlecSchueler 1y agoThey stopped worrying about charging people about two months ago.
- jahewson 1y agoThe tendency to replace what is actually happening with some dark figment of the imagination is telling. Do you have real objections or just conspiracies?
- tastyface 1y agoThis is something that the President is *literally talking about*: https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/18/us/us-citizenship-revocation-trump-cec https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/18/us/us-citizenship-revocation-... But, of course, you already know that. So why bother with the theatrics?
- saubeidl 1y ago"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past." - Jean Paul Sartre.