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NewSunshine
Profile Joined July 2011
United States5938 Posts
September 25 2024 16:40 GMT
#88261
On September 26 2024 01:16 Gorsameth wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 26 2024 01:07 Acrofales wrote:
On September 26 2024 00:48 oBlade wrote:
The word has been around since at least 1608, which predates the nation that this thread is about.

The N-word has been around for even longer. And initially wasn't racist. That doesn't mean it hasn't been a slur for roughly 200 years and nowadays the only people still using it are racists (and some who have adopted and coopted it as a badge of honor, but unless you're Chris Rock, Samuel L Jackson or Jay-Z, you're probably a racist if you use it).

The same logic applies. Stop being dim: the only people currently using "remigration" are people who want to kick "migrants" out of the country. It's possible that was its original meaning too, btw. I didn't bother looking it up, but it's clear what its modern use is, and the only people who actually use that are roughly the same demographic as those who use the N-word...
oBlade isn't dim, he knows what he's doing.

Yeah, now the conversation is about whether the origin of a word determines what it can mean, which it doesn't, instead of it being about Trump repeating right-wing, white nationalist talking points in regards to migrants, which is what he's doing.

Non-Trumpers: holds up a mirror
Trumpers: "the radical left's hyperbolic rhetoric is destroying America!"

"If you find yourself feeling lost, take pride in the accuracy of your feelings." - Night Vale
GreenHorizons
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States22983 Posts
September 25 2024 16:55 GMT
#88262
On September 26 2024 00:40 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
To anyone who wants to make the USA a better place I have a message.

Please, donate whatever $$$ you can to the Innocence Project. Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld only defend innocent men via the Innocence Project. Their reputation is impeccable.

Marcellus Williams was executed last night. Marcellus Williams was innocent.

https://innocenceproject.org/cases/marcellus-williams/

This is a sad tragedy. Once again, corrupted lab evidence was a major factor. My mother runs a lab. My grandma ran a hospital medical lab and a univeristy medical lab for 30 years. I come from a medical family. I've got stories for days. I could tell you stuff about Wade Lawson, Muriel Holland, and Paul Bernarndo that will never see the light of day. My mom and grandma worked in the labs that processed these cases. Just a brief google of these names and you can tell something is fishy happened. You can tell the cops are comprised in some way in these cases.

Prosecutors turn lab science into a religion. The Innocence Project fights this evil with every $ you donate.

Donate if you can.

In Democrats effort to turn into 80's Republicans, they recently dropped their opposition to the death penalty from their platform (and the Harris campaign has been refusing to answer questions about whether she still supports abolishing the death penalty for about a month).

In the 2024 party platform, there is no mention of police brutality. “We need to fund the police, not defund the police,” the text reads—a marked shift from previous progressive messaging. Though the platform calls for things like restricting state and local practices such as solitary confinement, it simultaneously argues that there needs to be more police on the streets in order to protect communities. Democrats also do not have opposition to the death penalty on their platform for the first time since 2012.

By comparison, in the Democratic Party’s 2020 platform, they dedicated an entire section to “reforming our criminal justice system,” explicitly calling out mass incarceration, saying the criminal justice system is “failing” the nation, calling for an “overhaul [of] the criminal justice system from top to bottom” and stating that “police brutality is a stain on the soul of our nation.” It also focused heavily on community-oriented policing. There’s no mention of “mass incarceration” in the 2024 platform


time.com
"People like to look at history and think 'If that was me back then, I would have...' We're living through history, and the truth is, whatever you are doing now is probably what you would have done then" "Scratch a Liberal..."
oBlade
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States5404 Posts
September 25 2024 17:11 GMT
#88263
On September 26 2024 01:40 NewSunshine wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 26 2024 01:16 Gorsameth wrote:
On September 26 2024 01:07 Acrofales wrote:
On September 26 2024 00:48 oBlade wrote:
The word has been around since at least 1608, which predates the nation that this thread is about.

The N-word has been around for even longer. And initially wasn't racist. That doesn't mean it hasn't been a slur for roughly 200 years and nowadays the only people still using it are racists (and some who have adopted and coopted it as a badge of honor, but unless you're Chris Rock, Samuel L Jackson or Jay-Z, you're probably a racist if you use it).

The same logic applies. Stop being dim: the only people currently using "remigration" are people who want to kick "migrants" out of the country. It's possible that was its original meaning too, btw. I didn't bother looking it up, but it's clear what its modern use is, and the only people who actually use that are roughly the same demographic as those who use the N-word...
oBlade isn't dim, he knows what he's doing.

Yeah, now the conversation is about whether the origin of a word determines what it can mean, which it doesn't, instead of it being about Trump repeating right-wing,

You know, you got me. Fair and square. Okay. Drumpf is right-wing. I will graciously stipulate. As of 2024, that's still not a crime. But as long as you feel this way, please do me a favor and start an email campaign telling all the Republicans who believe he's actually not a conservative, and he's a Democrat in disguise, that he's right wing. I'll furnish you their contact info if you like. It would be most helpful if you got around to this little task before November.

On September 26 2024 01:40 NewSunshine wrote:
white nationalist talking points in regards to migrants, which is what he's doing.

Please be kind enough to help us understand what these specific white nationalist talking points in regards to migrants are, because I don't think you recently have, although you keep alluding. This thread started with a 15 post account saying a single word was "...(insert deplorable synonyms)" and it's hard to understand a single word as "rhetoric" or a "talking point."

Actually, before that, would you just remind us by elaborating what non-white nationalist rhetoric against immigration looks like? So we know what the rules are ahead of time? Or if there's no such set of acceptable rhetoric, we'd need to know that before going any further. Because I've heard the same things for 10 years and if this is a case where the concept of deporting illegal immigrants from a country must inherently be "white nationalist," then we're at an impasse where only half of us even agrees with the idea of the existence of countries.

Here's all I found.
We will... return Kamala's illegal immigrants to their home countries (also known as remigration)

It doesn't sound particularly white nationalist, or indeed controversial at all, to me, maybe had he said "illegal immigrants except the proud Aryan ones" I'd find issue.
"I read it. You know how to read, you ignorant fuck?" - Andy Dufresne
ChristianS
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States3187 Posts
September 25 2024 17:12 GMT
#88264
On September 26 2024 00:32 BlackJack wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 25 2024 22:05 ChristianS wrote:
On September 25 2024 20:35 BlackJack wrote:
On September 25 2024 20:27 Sadist wrote:
On September 25 2024 20:04 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
On September 25 2024 19:57 Velr wrote:
Dude, you said "No, police don't shoot people that resist arrest"... This is pretty much "the" main cause for the police shooting people and it is also a legitimate one depending on how someone resists arrest.

WTF do you think Police has guns for, to shoot people that cooperate/don't resist them?


I thought BlackJack was kidding / being sarcastic when he said that police don't shoot people who resist arrest.

BJ, were you being serious?



I think the point is they dont always or even often shoot people resisting arrest.

The number of times people are shot per police interaction is near zero. You just hear about the bad encounters in the media.


However i vehemently disagree with BJ's assertion that people overreact and Trump isnt so bad. I agree with Kwarks post. He already tried to overturn and cheat an election once. Its not far off to put anything past him or his weird team now.



My main assertion was really that there’s enough bad things to say about Trump that you don’t have to invent more shit to add onto it. The fact that we’re now debating ICE death squads being a thing pretty much proves my point. By inventing death squads and concentration camps they are muddying their own waters and then complaining that people don’t see it clearly.

I get the impulse to summarize people’s assertions with pithy hyperboles like “ICE death squads” but it really sucks to put hyperboles in other people’s mouths when your overall point is “look how hyperbolic you all are being.”

Anyway I think it’s worth talking more about Trump’s deportation promises. As I recall he’s promised to deport millions of people within a few days of taking office; if anybody wants to supply an exact quote I’d appreciate it. But I don’t know why we’d need an analogy to 1944 Germany when 1954 US is right there.
Overall, there were 1,074,277 "returns", defined as "confirmed movement of an inadmissible or deportable alien out of the United States not based on an order of removal" in the first year of Operation Wetback.[36] This included many workers without papers who fled to Mexico fearing arrest; over half a million from Texas alone.[37] The total number of sweeps fell to just 242,608 in 1955, and continuously declined each year until 1962, when there was a slight rise in apprehended workers.[38] Despite the decline in sweeps, the total number of Border Patrol agents more than doubled to 1,692 by 1962, and an additional plane was added to the force.[38]
Wikipedia

When the generation that stormed the beaches of Normandy decided they wanted to get rid of immigrants and didn’t care much about due process, they put together a task force and managed to deport about a million people in a year. Trump wants to deport 10million+ in a matter of days. I’m not overly focusing on the deaths (although to be certain, there were deaths caused by Operation Wetback) but with an operation of that scale and speed it’s simply not possible to have any real respect for due process. They deported legal migrants and US citizens just because they were brown. They didn’t give people a chance to retrieve their possessions or even talk to their families about what was happening. It’s total lawlessness, essentially a race riot carried out by the government instead of a mob. I see no reason to think Trump’s program here would be any better, and every reason to think it would be even more cruel and unburdened by conscience.

Tell me, are my concerns hyperbolic? Because I’d really love to hear where specifically I’m failing to understand why this would be less awful than it seems. If you can’t give me that, I’d really rather not hear that I’m fabricating “ICE death squads” or failing to appeal to “Joe Schmoe.”


Is “death squads” hyperbolic? He was pondering Trump signing a bill to give ICE authority to “shoot to kill” anyone that resists them. Is there a better name for teams of people employed by the government authorized to carry out extrajudicial killings to achieve their mission?

To your main point, it sounds impossible to deport millions of people in days. I don’t know how barbaric something that won’t happen would look if it could happen. Probably very?

If some state signed a bill authorizing cops to shoot to kill someone’s resisting arrest, would you consider all police in that state “death squads” from that point forward? I tend to doubt it. Not that I’m worried specifically about such a bill, I think most of Trump’s ambitions are intended to be done purely with executive authority.

If (let’s say hypothetically) amoral, questionably competent men were asking you to give them a huge amount of power, and promising to use it to perpetrate enormous, impossibly ambitious cruelties, I suppose I’d agree with you that if given power, they’re unlikely to accomplish exactly what they’re promising. More likely they’ll try and fail in various bizarre ways, accomplishing merely large but ordinary cruelty along the way. Still, I’d understand their opposition choosing the rhetorical approach of essentially quoting their promises verbatim and arguing “That would be really bad, yeah?” And I would, um, question the priorities of someone whose first impulse in such a situation was to accuse the opposition of hyperbole.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." -Robert J. Hanlon
Billyboy
Profile Joined September 2024
679 Posts
September 25 2024 17:19 GMT
#88265
On September 25 2024 23:44 oBlade wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 25 2024 23:30 Billyboy wrote:
It is hard to give Trump the benefit of the doubt when he uses terms like "reimigration", which only exist in white nationalist and other racists groups vernacular. No one who is not full of hate uses it, most wouldn't even know what it means without looking it up.

Anyone familiar with English immediately knows and understands the concepts and distinctions covered by the words migration, emigration, immigration, and remigration. Same with expatriation and repatriation.

The interesting part is when you google all the words you have listed except remigration you get definitions. With remigration you get either white nationalists tweets or articles explaining why white nationalists use the word.

I'm not sure if English is your first language but remigration is just not used outside of those circles, as far as I can tell it is a dead word. I did find a Webster's definition but it talked about how it was used about the Irish and Jews, which given the time period also tells you something about it even when it was common.

And then Kwark's post really takes all the guess work out, if you are reposting from nazis there is no mystery left.


I think people mistakenly think that this somehow means all Trump supporters are white nationalists, which it does not. What it means is that Trump is actively courting white nationalists. You can decide if that is OK with you or not but it simply fact.

Sadist
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States7205 Posts
September 25 2024 17:31 GMT
#88266
On September 26 2024 01:55 GreenHorizons wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 26 2024 00:40 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
To anyone who wants to make the USA a better place I have a message.

Please, donate whatever $$$ you can to the Innocence Project. Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld only defend innocent men via the Innocence Project. Their reputation is impeccable.

Marcellus Williams was executed last night. Marcellus Williams was innocent.

https://innocenceproject.org/cases/marcellus-williams/

This is a sad tragedy. Once again, corrupted lab evidence was a major factor. My mother runs a lab. My grandma ran a hospital medical lab and a univeristy medical lab for 30 years. I come from a medical family. I've got stories for days. I could tell you stuff about Wade Lawson, Muriel Holland, and Paul Bernarndo that will never see the light of day. My mom and grandma worked in the labs that processed these cases. Just a brief google of these names and you can tell something is fishy happened. You can tell the cops are comprised in some way in these cases.

Prosecutors turn lab science into a religion. The Innocence Project fights this evil with every $ you donate.

Donate if you can.

In Democrats effort to turn into 80's Republicans, they recently dropped their opposition to the death penalty from their platform (and the Harris campaign has been refusing to answer questions about whether she still supports abolishing the death penalty for about a month).

Show nested quote +
In the 2024 party platform, there is no mention of police brutality. “We need to fund the police, not defund the police,” the text reads—a marked shift from previous progressive messaging. Though the platform calls for things like restricting state and local practices such as solitary confinement, it simultaneously argues that there needs to be more police on the streets in order to protect communities. Democrats also do not have opposition to the death penalty on their platform for the first time since 2012.

By comparison, in the Democratic Party’s 2020 platform, they dedicated an entire section to “reforming our criminal justice system,” explicitly calling out mass incarceration, saying the criminal justice system is “failing” the nation, calling for an “overhaul [of] the criminal justice system from top to bottom” and stating that “police brutality is a stain on the soul of our nation.” It also focused heavily on community-oriented policing. There’s no mention of “mass incarceration” in the 2024 platform


time.com




With mass shooters and the like who are 100% certainly guilty, caught red handed in the act and no possibility that you get the wrong person, i would imagine the opposition to the death penalty would be near zero in this instance. Those people deserve to go. Its why we shouldnt have blanket statements/policies.
How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal and you have to be willing to work for it. Jim Valvano
brian
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States9616 Posts
Last Edited: 2024-09-25 17:57:33
September 25 2024 17:56 GMT
#88267
On September 26 2024 02:31 Sadist wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 26 2024 01:55 GreenHorizons wrote:
On September 26 2024 00:40 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
To anyone who wants to make the USA a better place I have a message.

Please, donate whatever $$$ you can to the Innocence Project. Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld only defend innocent men via the Innocence Project. Their reputation is impeccable.

Marcellus Williams was executed last night. Marcellus Williams was innocent.

https://innocenceproject.org/cases/marcellus-williams/

This is a sad tragedy. Once again, corrupted lab evidence was a major factor. My mother runs a lab. My grandma ran a hospital medical lab and a univeristy medical lab for 30 years. I come from a medical family. I've got stories for days. I could tell you stuff about Wade Lawson, Muriel Holland, and Paul Bernarndo that will never see the light of day. My mom and grandma worked in the labs that processed these cases. Just a brief google of these names and you can tell something is fishy happened. You can tell the cops are comprised in some way in these cases.

Prosecutors turn lab science into a religion. The Innocence Project fights this evil with every $ you donate.

Donate if you can.

In Democrats effort to turn into 80's Republicans, they recently dropped their opposition to the death penalty from their platform (and the Harris campaign has been refusing to answer questions about whether she still supports abolishing the death penalty for about a month).

In the 2024 party platform, there is no mention of police brutality. “We need to fund the police, not defund the police,” the text reads—a marked shift from previous progressive messaging. Though the platform calls for things like restricting state and local practices such as solitary confinement, it simultaneously argues that there needs to be more police on the streets in order to protect communities. Democrats also do not have opposition to the death penalty on their platform for the first time since 2012.

By comparison, in the Democratic Party’s 2020 platform, they dedicated an entire section to “reforming our criminal justice system,” explicitly calling out mass incarceration, saying the criminal justice system is “failing” the nation, calling for an “overhaul [of] the criminal justice system from top to bottom” and stating that “police brutality is a stain on the soul of our nation.” It also focused heavily on community-oriented policing. There’s no mention of “mass incarceration” in the 2024 platform


time.com




With mass shooters and the like who are 100% certainly guilty, caught red handed in the act and no possibility that you get the wrong person, i would imagine the opposition to the death penalty would be near zero in this instance. Those people deserve to go. Its why we shouldnt have blanket statements/policies.



i don’t think you’re right. i think there are many, many people who still think a mass killer who is guaranteed (hypothetically) to have done it should live the rest of his life in prison.

i think abolishing the death penalty with the upside of not murdering innocent people and the downside of allowing guilty people to serve a life sentence is a very easy call for me, personally, to make with 100% certainty of all possible hypotheticals you could toss at me.
Simberto
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Germany11402 Posts
September 25 2024 17:58 GMT
#88268
On September 26 2024 02:19 Billyboy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 25 2024 23:44 oBlade wrote:
On September 25 2024 23:30 Billyboy wrote:
It is hard to give Trump the benefit of the doubt when he uses terms like "reimigration", which only exist in white nationalist and other racists groups vernacular. No one who is not full of hate uses it, most wouldn't even know what it means without looking it up.

Anyone familiar with English immediately knows and understands the concepts and distinctions covered by the words migration, emigration, immigration, and remigration. Same with expatriation and repatriation.

The interesting part is when you google all the words you have listed except remigration you get definitions. With remigration you get either white nationalists tweets or articles explaining why white nationalists use the word.

I'm not sure if English is your first language but remigration is just not used outside of those circles, as far as I can tell it is a dead word. I did find a Webster's definition but it talked about how it was used about the Irish and Jews, which given the time period also tells you something about it even when it was common.

And then Kwark's post really takes all the guess work out, if you are reposting from nazis there is no mystery left.


I think people mistakenly think that this somehow means all Trump supporters are white nationalists, which it does not. What it means is that Trump is actively courting white nationalists. You can decide if that is OK with you or not but it simply fact.



Funnily enough, the word "remigration" has also become very popular with our current German hard-right assholes.
Billyboy
Profile Joined September 2024
679 Posts
September 25 2024 18:06 GMT
#88269
On September 26 2024 02:31 Sadist wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 26 2024 01:55 GreenHorizons wrote:
On September 26 2024 00:40 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
To anyone who wants to make the USA a better place I have a message.

Please, donate whatever $$$ you can to the Innocence Project. Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld only defend innocent men via the Innocence Project. Their reputation is impeccable.

Marcellus Williams was executed last night. Marcellus Williams was innocent.

https://innocenceproject.org/cases/marcellus-williams/

This is a sad tragedy. Once again, corrupted lab evidence was a major factor. My mother runs a lab. My grandma ran a hospital medical lab and a univeristy medical lab for 30 years. I come from a medical family. I've got stories for days. I could tell you stuff about Wade Lawson, Muriel Holland, and Paul Bernarndo that will never see the light of day. My mom and grandma worked in the labs that processed these cases. Just a brief google of these names and you can tell something is fishy happened. You can tell the cops are comprised in some way in these cases.

Prosecutors turn lab science into a religion. The Innocence Project fights this evil with every $ you donate.

Donate if you can.

In Democrats effort to turn into 80's Republicans, they recently dropped their opposition to the death penalty from their platform (and the Harris campaign has been refusing to answer questions about whether she still supports abolishing the death penalty for about a month).

In the 2024 party platform, there is no mention of police brutality. “We need to fund the police, not defund the police,” the text reads—a marked shift from previous progressive messaging. Though the platform calls for things like restricting state and local practices such as solitary confinement, it simultaneously argues that there needs to be more police on the streets in order to protect communities. Democrats also do not have opposition to the death penalty on their platform for the first time since 2012.

By comparison, in the Democratic Party’s 2020 platform, they dedicated an entire section to “reforming our criminal justice system,” explicitly calling out mass incarceration, saying the criminal justice system is “failing” the nation, calling for an “overhaul [of] the criminal justice system from top to bottom” and stating that “police brutality is a stain on the soul of our nation.” It also focused heavily on community-oriented policing. There’s no mention of “mass incarceration” in the 2024 platform


time.com




With mass shooters and the like who are 100% certainly guilty, caught red handed in the act and no possibility that you get the wrong person, i would imagine the opposition to the death penalty would be near zero in this instance. Those people deserve to go. Its why we shouldnt have blanket statements/policies.

I'm for the abolishment for the death penalty and not because I do not think the world would be better off with some people dead, and also not only because I'm worried about innocent people killed (though I very much am worried).

One of the main reasons is the logistics of it. To make it safe from mistakes you need to have a incredible amount of checks and balances, ones that currently do not exist in the US to a point that stops mistakes. And even with the current US level it is more expensive to put someone to death that it is to put them in prison for life.

For me personally life in prison without the chance at parole is close enough to death as a punishment that the extra cost to society is not worth it. And then when you consider all the mistakes that are made it just becomes a slam dunk to get rid of.

Now that the Dems took it off their list wouldn't change my voting one tiny bit, most obviously because the Republicans want more death penalty so for someone with my beliefs they are worse. Next it seems to be more of a state issue and the blue states do a much better job (imo) than the red ones so regardless of what their official list is their actions fall closer to my beliefs.

A bigger issue for me is how pedophiles are punished. Pedophiles are in my book much worse than murderers, they often are "serial" offenders and there is no documented successful rehabilitation. That it is not life without parole disturbs me. I don't know if it is just because you do not hear about it, so this part I could be wrong on, but it also appears that far less people are wrongly convicted of pedophilia than murder.
Billyboy
Profile Joined September 2024
679 Posts
September 25 2024 18:12 GMT
#88270
On September 26 2024 02:58 Simberto wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 26 2024 02:19 Billyboy wrote:
On September 25 2024 23:44 oBlade wrote:
On September 25 2024 23:30 Billyboy wrote:
It is hard to give Trump the benefit of the doubt when he uses terms like "reimigration", which only exist in white nationalist and other racists groups vernacular. No one who is not full of hate uses it, most wouldn't even know what it means without looking it up.

Anyone familiar with English immediately knows and understands the concepts and distinctions covered by the words migration, emigration, immigration, and remigration. Same with expatriation and repatriation.

The interesting part is when you google all the words you have listed except remigration you get definitions. With remigration you get either white nationalists tweets or articles explaining why white nationalists use the word.

I'm not sure if English is your first language but remigration is just not used outside of those circles, as far as I can tell it is a dead word. I did find a Webster's definition but it talked about how it was used about the Irish and Jews, which given the time period also tells you something about it even when it was common.

And then Kwark's post really takes all the guess work out, if you are reposting from nazis there is no mystery left.


I think people mistakenly think that this somehow means all Trump supporters are white nationalists, which it does not. What it means is that Trump is actively courting white nationalists. You can decide if that is OK with you or not but it simply fact.



Funnily enough, the word "remigration" has also become very popular with our current German hard-right assholes.

I was reading that when it came up, that it is more commonly used across Europe but massively in Germany, (paraphrase incoming) even that there was some semi secret meeting about getting all non German blood out of the country , and that Frances far right even thought it was too far.

Is this a term you hear fairly regularly in Germany? Like would an average German know what it meant or does it go over most peoples heads if they are not part of the pure German blood crowd? And does it sound as awkward in German as English?
BlackJack
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
United States10335 Posts
September 25 2024 18:18 GMT
#88271
On September 26 2024 02:12 ChristianS wrote:
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On September 26 2024 00:32 BlackJack wrote:
On September 25 2024 22:05 ChristianS wrote:
On September 25 2024 20:35 BlackJack wrote:
On September 25 2024 20:27 Sadist wrote:
On September 25 2024 20:04 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
On September 25 2024 19:57 Velr wrote:
Dude, you said "No, police don't shoot people that resist arrest"... This is pretty much "the" main cause for the police shooting people and it is also a legitimate one depending on how someone resists arrest.

WTF do you think Police has guns for, to shoot people that cooperate/don't resist them?


I thought BlackJack was kidding / being sarcastic when he said that police don't shoot people who resist arrest.

BJ, were you being serious?



I think the point is they dont always or even often shoot people resisting arrest.

The number of times people are shot per police interaction is near zero. You just hear about the bad encounters in the media.


However i vehemently disagree with BJ's assertion that people overreact and Trump isnt so bad. I agree with Kwarks post. He already tried to overturn and cheat an election once. Its not far off to put anything past him or his weird team now.



My main assertion was really that there’s enough bad things to say about Trump that you don’t have to invent more shit to add onto it. The fact that we’re now debating ICE death squads being a thing pretty much proves my point. By inventing death squads and concentration camps they are muddying their own waters and then complaining that people don’t see it clearly.

I get the impulse to summarize people’s assertions with pithy hyperboles like “ICE death squads” but it really sucks to put hyperboles in other people’s mouths when your overall point is “look how hyperbolic you all are being.”

Anyway I think it’s worth talking more about Trump’s deportation promises. As I recall he’s promised to deport millions of people within a few days of taking office; if anybody wants to supply an exact quote I’d appreciate it. But I don’t know why we’d need an analogy to 1944 Germany when 1954 US is right there.
Overall, there were 1,074,277 "returns", defined as "confirmed movement of an inadmissible or deportable alien out of the United States not based on an order of removal" in the first year of Operation Wetback.[36] This included many workers without papers who fled to Mexico fearing arrest; over half a million from Texas alone.[37] The total number of sweeps fell to just 242,608 in 1955, and continuously declined each year until 1962, when there was a slight rise in apprehended workers.[38] Despite the decline in sweeps, the total number of Border Patrol agents more than doubled to 1,692 by 1962, and an additional plane was added to the force.[38]
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When the generation that stormed the beaches of Normandy decided they wanted to get rid of immigrants and didn’t care much about due process, they put together a task force and managed to deport about a million people in a year. Trump wants to deport 10million+ in a matter of days. I’m not overly focusing on the deaths (although to be certain, there were deaths caused by Operation Wetback) but with an operation of that scale and speed it’s simply not possible to have any real respect for due process. They deported legal migrants and US citizens just because they were brown. They didn’t give people a chance to retrieve their possessions or even talk to their families about what was happening. It’s total lawlessness, essentially a race riot carried out by the government instead of a mob. I see no reason to think Trump’s program here would be any better, and every reason to think it would be even more cruel and unburdened by conscience.

Tell me, are my concerns hyperbolic? Because I’d really love to hear where specifically I’m failing to understand why this would be less awful than it seems. If you can’t give me that, I’d really rather not hear that I’m fabricating “ICE death squads” or failing to appeal to “Joe Schmoe.”


Is “death squads” hyperbolic? He was pondering Trump signing a bill to give ICE authority to “shoot to kill” anyone that resists them. Is there a better name for teams of people employed by the government authorized to carry out extrajudicial killings to achieve their mission?

To your main point, it sounds impossible to deport millions of people in days. I don’t know how barbaric something that won’t happen would look if it could happen. Probably very?

If some state signed a bill authorizing cops to shoot to kill someone’s resisting arrest, would you consider all police in that state “death squads” from that point forward? I tend to doubt it. Not that I’m worried specifically about such a bill, I think most of Trump’s ambitions are intended to be done purely with executive authority.

If (let’s say hypothetically) amoral, questionably competent men were asking you to give them a huge amount of power, and promising to use it to perpetrate enormous, impossibly ambitious cruelties, I suppose I’d agree with you that if given power, they’re unlikely to accomplish exactly what they’re promising. More likely they’ll try and fail in various bizarre ways, accomplishing merely large but ordinary cruelty along the way. Still, I’d understand their opposition choosing the rhetorical approach of essentially quoting their promises verbatim and arguing “That would be really bad, yeah?” And I would, um, question the priorities of someone whose first impulse in such a situation was to accuse the opposition of hyperbole.


Just to be clear, if Trump got reelected and gave ICE or some paramilitary group directive to round up all the immigrants and shoot to kill anyone that resisted you would object to people in the thread calling them “Trump’s death squads” on grounds of hyperbole? I find that hard to believe.
Introvert
Profile Joined April 2011
United States4682 Posts
September 25 2024 18:19 GMT
#88272
A silly debate, Biden abused (putting it mildly) the law to allow tens or hundreds or thousands of people in who shouldn't never have been allowed to cross the border, but it's Hitlarian to say they have to go home. The progressive rachet. I have less sympathy for people taking advantage of our laws and a president more concerned with making himself look good without offending his insane base.
"It is therefore only at the birth of a society that one can be completely logical in the laws. When you see a people enjoying this advantage, do not hasten to conclude that it is wise; think rather that it is young." -Alexis de Tocqueville
oBlade
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States5404 Posts
Last Edited: 2024-09-25 20:07:58
September 25 2024 18:22 GMT
#88273
On September 26 2024 02:19 Billyboy wrote:
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On September 25 2024 23:44 oBlade wrote:
On September 25 2024 23:30 Billyboy wrote:
It is hard to give Trump the benefit of the doubt when he uses terms like "reimigration", which only exist in white nationalist and other racists groups vernacular. No one who is not full of hate uses it, most wouldn't even know what it means without looking it up.

Anyone familiar with English immediately knows and understands the concepts and distinctions covered by the words migration, emigration, immigration, and remigration. Same with expatriation and repatriation.

The interesting part is when you google all the words you have listed except remigration you get definitions. With remigration you get either white nationalists tweets or articles explaining why white nationalists use the word.

That shows nothing more than despicable ideological capture of media in the Anglosphere. It's imperative for them to head off at the pass any development that suggests leftist policy about immigration is wrong, and simply lambast any opposition to it by whatever pejorative means available.

The reason you can find more white nationalists using it in Europe is European countries are also ethnicities, so first of all they have more of those movements (Europe is more racist than the US, although I don't want to get into the race realist details of whether those from Hispania count as white supremacists or whatever else is important in modern leftist discourse), but also it's more plausible to label any old sap who still believes in the idea of their country's border as a whatever-supremacist when they use the completely innocuous term "remigration." Which even the Swedish government has adopted, by offering money for people to return home. It's that special kind of white supremacist, you know, the one that pays money to "minorities" (I use scare quotes because immigrants always are, and always should be, a minority, in every single country ever, because that's what differentiates countries).

However, when for example Koreans have been, and are, repatriated to the DPRK from China, it's not because China is white supremacist. It's not even because China is Chinese supremacist, which it is. When Japan had remigration of foreigners in the wake of Fukushima, it's not because Japan is white supremacist. It's not even because Japan is Japanese supremacist, which it is. It's because they were picking up after a national tragedy. It's because they're countries and that's a policy that exists.

Could anyone update me whether the word "deport" is inherently racist or not. I want to know whether kicking someone out of a country by force is less racist than Sweden paying them to leave voluntarily.
On September 26 2024 02:19 Billyboy wrote:
I did find a Webster's definition but it talked about how it was used about the Irish and Jews, which given the time period also tells you something about it even when it was common.

What something does that tell us?

"Re" has two meanings, roughly "again" and "back." In the case of Jews, they had been analogous to gypsies, essentially wandering without a home for many years, so my guess is "remigration" in that context referred to repeated migration a la nomadism. As prior to 20th century Zionism there wasn't really a "home" to be sent back to? But please reveal your tacit conclusions, inquiring minds want to know.
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I'll be honest, I don't think you were really told anything by the use of Irish and Jews in whatever definition you read, you just briefly glanced the mention of what can be categorized as groups that were persecuted at some point or other and thought that was an insight - although Irish are nearly uncontroversially white. But the other half of me is legitimately curious. Please edify us.

On September 26 2024 02:19 Billyboy wrote:
And then Kwark's post really takes all the guess work out, if you are reposting from nazis there is no mystery left.

The 9 year old retweet of a made-up infographic about black crime looks to me like a red herring for Drumpf saying to return illegal immigrants to their homes.

On September 26 2024 02:19 Billyboy wrote:
I think people mistakenly think that this somehow means all Trump supporters are white nationalists, which it does not. What it means is that Trump is actively courting white nationalists. You can decide if that is OK with you or not but it simply fact.

Maybe it actually means that Drumpf is courting people who believe in borders, and it's embarrassing that even white nationalists manage to be smart enough to be in this group - which by opinion polling now reads as a majority of Americans, thanks to years of Drumpf using immigration as one of his flagship issues - while so many of our comrades regrettably fall outside of this seemingly obvious group.
"I read it. You know how to read, you ignorant fuck?" - Andy Dufresne
NewSunshine
Profile Joined July 2011
United States5938 Posts
Last Edited: 2024-09-25 18:33:52
September 25 2024 18:29 GMT
#88274
On September 26 2024 03:19 Introvert wrote:
A silly debate, Biden abused (putting it mildly) the law to allow tens or hundreds or thousands of people in who shouldn't never have been allowed to cross the border, but it's Hitlarian to say they have to go home. The progressive rachet. I have less sympathy for people taking advantage of our laws and a president more concerned with making himself look good without offending his insane base.

I should hope it's not that hard to understand that while people can enter this country illegally, it can also be true that it's inhumane to just kick them out. It's similar to someone stealing bread so they can eat. Yes, they're committing a crime, but the alternative is they starve.

Would-be migrants don't have the means to be convenient for everyone else, that's part of the reason so many people migrate, and the reason the USA used to have a reputation as a country that welcomed people in with the promise of a better life. Now, even if you're legal, you get blasted as a dog eater and people hate you for existing.

However, saying all that, I'm happy to start saying we should enforce the law and hold people accountable for crimes they've committed. Why don't we start with convicted of 34 counts Trump? I'd be much more willing to sit down and have this discussion if Republicans could hold their guy accountable. If we want to pretend we care about what's legal, and all...
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BlackJack
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
United States10335 Posts
Last Edited: 2024-09-25 18:39:50
September 25 2024 18:36 GMT
#88275
On September 25 2024 20:44 Acrofales wrote:
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On September 25 2024 18:11 BlackJack wrote:
On September 25 2024 18:05 EnDeR_ wrote:
On September 25 2024 16:44 BlackJack wrote:
On September 25 2024 16:09 Acrofales wrote:
On September 25 2024 15:43 BlackJack wrote:
On September 25 2024 15:38 EnDeR_ wrote:
On September 25 2024 15:05 BlackJack wrote:
On September 25 2024 08:08 KwarK wrote:
On September 25 2024 07:50 BlackJack wrote:
The problem isn’t the messaging, it’s the messengers. Trump is the next Hitler. Trump is going to declare martial law and round people up. Trump is going to start executing journalists. Trump is going to start world war 3. Blah blah blah. The same things were said in 2016 too and none of it panned out. It doesn’t work to say after the fact “ok I know Trump isn’t actually as bad as Hitler but Jan 6 was pretty fucked up, am I right?” If they didn’t cry wolf in the most hyperbolic hysterical fashion then they might get more people to take them seriously this one time.

But it literally did pan out.

In 2016 they asked Trump if he'd accept the results of the election. He said "if I win". Then in 2020 he didn't accept the results of an election and attempted a literal coup. Even after that failed he did huge and continuing damage to the social fabric of the country by undermining the basic principle of the democratic system we all live under. The only thing that keeps political violence at bay is the belief that the system is fair. If we really did live in a one party state that was secretly controlled by a Chinese/Venezuelan alliance then bombing Federal buildings is a pretty reasonable and sane response.

The people crying wolf in 2016 were right. There was a fucking wolf. We all saw it. Then he started eating people. And then dumbasses like you go "this is more of the same crying wolf shit we heard in 2016" like you didn't see him eat people on live tv. Fuck right off.

He ordered election officials in Georgia to find him the extra votes required and told them that if they didn't comply then very angry people would hold them personally responsible for the election result.


You’re missing the sentiment of my post. Denying elections is pretty small potatoes compared to being Hitler, building the camps, nuclear holocaust, starting world war 3 and other things that were said about him. Your response reads “but we were right about the election denying.” The point is the message would be better received if 8 years weren’t spent saying a bunch of other things that weren’t right.


Isn't Trump promising to deport millions of people to clean up the blood of the nation? I know he didn't literally say it like that, before you nit pick me, but he did say that immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our nation" and that he will deport tens of millions.

That sounds a bit hitlery to me.

I mean, how is that going to go? They are going to have to forcefully remove people from their homes, right? Considering how trigger-happy police are, how many are just going to get flat out killed for resisting? If ICE finds a lot of resistance, and Trump gets a bill authorizing them to shoot to kill any immigrant that resists, do you think he would not sign it? No matter how you dress it up, it's still systematic ethnic cleansing.


Implying that if Trump gets reelected ICE might go around shooting immigrants only adds to my point.


Is your point that Trump actually doing all the things he has said he'll do would be very very bad, but we have to trust him not to do all the things he says he'll do because he's just saying them to get elected?

Because that's a pretty bad point to be making...


Has Trump said he would sign a bill authorizing ICE to shoot immigrants that resist deportation?


Are ICE police? Do police shoot people that resist arrest? Like conservatives like to say, I'm just asking questions.


No, police don’t shoot people that resist arrest


Trump is going to start world war 3. Who said that? This looks like a right-wing talking point that you are confusing. It's not that Trump will start world war 3. It's that he claims he's the one who will stop it (in other words: Biden/Harris will cause it):
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-issues-world-war-iii-warning-isnt-president-1931064
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-warns-us-approaching-world-war-iii-territory-under-biden-harris-admin-clowns

The actual criticism regarding war and Trump is that he will let Russia walk all over Ukraine, which seems to be his policy proposal, from his own words.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/trump-praises-russias-military-record-argument-stop-funding-114048372
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/17/whats-donald-trumps-plan-to-end-russias-war-on-ukraine

The most I see regarding Trump causing WW3 is Zelenskyy's take on it. While I personally sympathize with that latter more than with Trump's own take, I wouldn't call Zelenskyy representative of "the left", let alone the people in this thread.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/zelenskyy-warns-vances-plan-ukrainian-lands-seized-russia-result-global-showdown


Here’s a quote from yourself you said in September 2016 pondering that a stupid Trump may lead us to WW3

Trump advocates actively bullying other countries to "get what he wants". Which tends not to be taken very well on the world stage. I not only think it won't achieve its goals, but will actually backfire quite badly. As long as Trump isn't completely stupid, that only means a tariff war. If he is, it means ww3.


You’re right that it’s been dropped this go around after it turned out that Trump wasn’t as much of a chicken hawk as people thought he would be but it was definitely something that was said in the run up to the 2016 elections
Billyboy
Profile Joined September 2024
679 Posts
September 25 2024 18:37 GMT
#88276
On September 26 2024 03:22 oBlade wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 26 2024 02:19 Billyboy wrote:
On September 25 2024 23:44 oBlade wrote:
On September 25 2024 23:30 Billyboy wrote:
It is hard to give Trump the benefit of the doubt when he uses terms like "reimigration", which only exist in white nationalist and other racists groups vernacular. No one who is not full of hate uses it, most wouldn't even know what it means without looking it up.

Anyone familiar with English immediately knows and understands the concepts and distinctions covered by the words migration, emigration, immigration, and remigration. Same with expatriation and repatriation.

The interesting part is when you google all the words you have listed except remigration you get definitions. With remigration you get either white nationalists tweets or articles explaining why white nationalists use the word.

That shows nothing more than despicable ideological capture of media in the Anglosphere. It's imperative for them to head off at the pass any development that suggests leftist policy about immigration is wrong, and simply lambast any opposition to it by whatever pejorative means available.

The reason you can find more white nationalists using it in Europe is European countries are also ethnicities, so first of all they have more of those movements (Europe is more racist than the US, although I don't want to get into the race realist details of whether those from Hispania count as white supremacists or whatever else is important in modern leftist discourse), but also it's more plausible to label any old sap who still believes in the idea of their country's border as a whatever-supremacist when they use the completely innocuous term "remigration." Which even the Swedish government has adopted, by offering money for people to return home. It's that special kind of white supremacist, you know, the one that pays money to "minorities" (I use scare quotes because immigrants always are, and always should be, a minority, in every single country ever, because that's what differentiates countries).

However, when for example Koreans have been, and are, repatriated to the DPRK from China, it's not because China is white supremacist. It's not even because China is Chinese supremacist, which it is. It's because it's a country and that's a policy that exists.

Could anyone update me whether the word "deport" is inherently racist or not. I want to know whether kicking someone out of a country by force is less racist than Sweden paying them to leave voluntarily.
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On September 26 2024 02:19 Billyboy wrote:
I did find a Webster's definition but it talked about how it was used about the Irish and Jews, which given the time period also tells you something about it even when it was common.

What something does that tell us?

"Re" has two meanings, roughly "again" and "back." In the case of Jews, they had been analogous to gypsies, essentially wandering without a home for many years, so my guess is "remigration" in that context referred to repeated migration a la nomadism. As prior to 20th century Zionism there wasn't really a "home" to be sent back to? But please reveal your tacit conclusions, inquiring minds want to know.
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I'll be honest, I don't think you were really told anything by the use of Irish and Jews in whatever definition you read, you just briefly glanced the mention of what can be categorized as groups that were persecuted at some point or other and thought that was an insight - although Irish are nearly uncontroversially white. But the other half of me is legitimately curious. Please edify us.

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On September 26 2024 02:19 Billyboy wrote:
And then Kwark's post really takes all the guess work out, if you are reposting from nazis there is no mystery left.

The 9 year old retweet of a made-up infographic about black crime looks to me like a red herring for Drumpf saying to return illegal immigrants to their homes.

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On September 26 2024 02:19 Billyboy wrote:
I think people mistakenly think that this somehow means all Trump supporters are white nationalists, which it does not. What it means is that Trump is actively courting white nationalists. You can decide if that is OK with you or not but it simply fact.

Maybe it actually means that Drumpf is courting people who believe in borders, and it's embarrassing that even white nationalists manage to be smart enough to be in this group - which by opinion polling now reads as a majority of Americans, thanks to years of Drumpf using immigration as one of his flagship issues - while so many of our comrades regrettably fall outside of this seemingly obvious group.

I don't think any word is inherently racist, and I think other people were trying to point this out by pointing how words like N****R at one point were not. It involves context, so if some random person used it I wouldn't instantly point at them and yell racist. Now if someone was talking about how immigrants were taking black jobs or calling all the Mexicans rapists, and so on I would. And if they were a politician I would have more scrutiny because they're being thoughtful about their message. Remigration is not a term you ever hear used in regular conversation, if you are reading or hearing out it in 2024 it is either supremist groups or people complaining about supremist groups using it.

The Irish, well white, were actually the others back in the day along with the Jews and the Italians. There is a lot of interesting things you can read about how this impacted crime as many Irish and Italians as they had struggling finding regular jobs. It is a strange thing how who people are racist towards have changed but the "others" being bad is fairly consistent.

I mean sure it could be another Trump screw up, that is entirely plausible considering his track record. But is that really better? Like I mean morally yes but I'm talking when you are picking the man to lead the most powerful military in the world. Do you really want someone so incompetent that they keep making the same mistake over and over again of retweeting racist material and saying words attached to racists movements? A big draw for Trump initially was that he was going to hire the best, by his own admission he keeps hiring idiots and terrible people. So you could also blame his staff for not stopping this but that just further proves what a terrible pick is for the job.



Elroi
Profile Joined August 2009
Sweden5588 Posts
September 25 2024 18:39 GMT
#88277
On September 26 2024 03:12 Billyboy wrote:
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On September 26 2024 02:58 Simberto wrote:
On September 26 2024 02:19 Billyboy wrote:
On September 25 2024 23:44 oBlade wrote:
On September 25 2024 23:30 Billyboy wrote:
It is hard to give Trump the benefit of the doubt when he uses terms like "reimigration", which only exist in white nationalist and other racists groups vernacular. No one who is not full of hate uses it, most wouldn't even know what it means without looking it up.

Anyone familiar with English immediately knows and understands the concepts and distinctions covered by the words migration, emigration, immigration, and remigration. Same with expatriation and repatriation.

The interesting part is when you google all the words you have listed except remigration you get definitions. With remigration you get either white nationalists tweets or articles explaining why white nationalists use the word.

I'm not sure if English is your first language but remigration is just not used outside of those circles, as far as I can tell it is a dead word. I did find a Webster's definition but it talked about how it was used about the Irish and Jews, which given the time period also tells you something about it even when it was common.

And then Kwark's post really takes all the guess work out, if you are reposting from nazis there is no mystery left.


I think people mistakenly think that this somehow means all Trump supporters are white nationalists, which it does not. What it means is that Trump is actively courting white nationalists. You can decide if that is OK with you or not but it simply fact.



Funnily enough, the word "remigration" has also become very popular with our current German hard-right assholes.

I was reading that when it came up, that it is more commonly used across Europe but massively in Germany, (paraphrase incoming) even that there was some semi secret meeting about getting all non German blood out of the country , and that Frances far right even thought it was too far.

Is this a term you hear fairly regularly in Germany? Like would an average German know what it meant or does it go over most peoples heads if they are not part of the pure German blood crowd? And does it sound as awkward in German as English?

Re-migration is a very common word in Sweden too. The government plans to offer up to 35 000 bucks per person who re-migrates from 2026 and the opposition parties aren't even particularly critical about it. Most of the people here are clear about the absurd amount of damage our migration policies have caused over the last 15 years.
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NewSunshine
Profile Joined July 2011
United States5938 Posts
Last Edited: 2024-09-25 18:42:56
September 25 2024 18:40 GMT
#88278
On September 26 2024 03:36 BlackJack wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 25 2024 20:44 Acrofales wrote:
On September 25 2024 18:11 BlackJack wrote:
On September 25 2024 18:05 EnDeR_ wrote:
On September 25 2024 16:44 BlackJack wrote:
On September 25 2024 16:09 Acrofales wrote:
On September 25 2024 15:43 BlackJack wrote:
On September 25 2024 15:38 EnDeR_ wrote:
On September 25 2024 15:05 BlackJack wrote:
On September 25 2024 08:08 KwarK wrote:
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But it literally did pan out.

In 2016 they asked Trump if he'd accept the results of the election. He said "if I win". Then in 2020 he didn't accept the results of an election and attempted a literal coup. Even after that failed he did huge and continuing damage to the social fabric of the country by undermining the basic principle of the democratic system we all live under. The only thing that keeps political violence at bay is the belief that the system is fair. If we really did live in a one party state that was secretly controlled by a Chinese/Venezuelan alliance then bombing Federal buildings is a pretty reasonable and sane response.

The people crying wolf in 2016 were right. There was a fucking wolf. We all saw it. Then he started eating people. And then dumbasses like you go "this is more of the same crying wolf shit we heard in 2016" like you didn't see him eat people on live tv. Fuck right off.

He ordered election officials in Georgia to find him the extra votes required and told them that if they didn't comply then very angry people would hold them personally responsible for the election result.


You’re missing the sentiment of my post. Denying elections is pretty small potatoes compared to being Hitler, building the camps, nuclear holocaust, starting world war 3 and other things that were said about him. Your response reads “but we were right about the election denying.” The point is the message would be better received if 8 years weren’t spent saying a bunch of other things that weren’t right.


Isn't Trump promising to deport millions of people to clean up the blood of the nation? I know he didn't literally say it like that, before you nit pick me, but he did say that immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our nation" and that he will deport tens of millions.

That sounds a bit hitlery to me.

I mean, how is that going to go? They are going to have to forcefully remove people from their homes, right? Considering how trigger-happy police are, how many are just going to get flat out killed for resisting? If ICE finds a lot of resistance, and Trump gets a bill authorizing them to shoot to kill any immigrant that resists, do you think he would not sign it? No matter how you dress it up, it's still systematic ethnic cleansing.


Implying that if Trump gets reelected ICE might go around shooting immigrants only adds to my point.


Is your point that Trump actually doing all the things he has said he'll do would be very very bad, but we have to trust him not to do all the things he says he'll do because he's just saying them to get elected?

Because that's a pretty bad point to be making...


Has Trump said he would sign a bill authorizing ICE to shoot immigrants that resist deportation?


Are ICE police? Do police shoot people that resist arrest? Like conservatives like to say, I'm just asking questions.


No, police don’t shoot people that resist arrest


They do. Does absolutely everybody who resists arrest get shot? No. It's more a criticism of the police than an accomplishment that the victims of police shootings aren't all people who violently resist arrest, but include people who are innocent bystanders, don't resist arrest or resist non-violently. In an ideal world, nobody would get shot, but seeing as sometimes people do shoot at the police, and they may sometimes need to shoot back, we may accept some number of people being shot by the police if they are violently resisting arrest.

That aside, aside, stop being dense and moving the goalpost. Your original point was that the hyperbole from the left was problematic:

The problem isn’t the messaging, it’s the messengers. Trump is the next Hitler. Trump is going to declare martial law and round people up. Trump is going to start executing journalists. Trump is going to start world war 3. Blah blah blah. The same things were said in 2016 too and none of it panned out. It doesn’t work to say after the fact “ok I know Trump isn’t actually as bad as Hitler but Jan 6 was pretty fucked up, am I right?” If they didn’t cry wolf in the most hyperbolic hysterical fashion then they might get more people to take them seriously this one time.


Trump is going to start world war 3. Who said that? This looks like a right-wing talking point that you are confusing. It's not that Trump will start world war 3. It's that he claims he's the one who will stop it (in other words: Biden/Harris will cause it):
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-issues-world-war-iii-warning-isnt-president-1931064
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-warns-us-approaching-world-war-iii-territory-under-biden-harris-admin-clowns

The actual criticism regarding war and Trump is that he will let Russia walk all over Ukraine, which seems to be his policy proposal, from his own words.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/trump-praises-russias-military-record-argument-stop-funding-114048372
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/17/whats-donald-trumps-plan-to-end-russias-war-on-ukraine

The most I see regarding Trump causing WW3 is Zelenskyy's take on it. While I personally sympathize with that latter more than with Trump's own take, I wouldn't call Zelenskyy representative of "the left", let alone the people in this thread.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/zelenskyy-warns-vances-plan-ukrainian-lands-seized-russia-result-global-showdown

Blah blah blah.
Indeed.


Here’s a quote from yourself you said in September 2016 pondering that a stupid Trump may lead us to WW3

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Trump advocates actively bullying other countries to "get what he wants". Which tends not to be taken very well on the world stage. I not only think it won't achieve its goals, but will actually backfire quite badly. As long as Trump isn't completely stupid, that only means a tariff war. If he is, it means ww3.


That was also a conditional statement, wherein the more likely outcome was a tariff war. Which is exactly what Trump did, and is still doing, promising that tariffs will somehow pay for everything he's promising to do. But congratulations, you found a quote from 8 years ago where someone considered Trump starting WW3 as a remote possibility. Anything to avoid being wrong on the internet, eh?
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Billyboy
Profile Joined September 2024
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September 25 2024 18:47 GMT
#88279
On September 26 2024 03:19 Introvert wrote:
A silly debate, Biden abused (putting it mildly) the law to allow tens or hundreds or thousands of people in who shouldn't never have been allowed to cross the border, but it's Hitlarian to say they have to go home. The progressive rachet. I have less sympathy for people taking advantage of our laws and a president more concerned with making himself look good without offending his insane base.

Why is there no talk from the Republican party about going after all the businesses who are hiring illegals? By the rhetoric these people should be considered traitors who are hurting America by lining their pockets by paying people who shouldn't be there much less than Americans (especially when you consider total compensation).

How knowing that the vast majority of illegals in the US get into the US legally and just staying would you put such a massive amount of money into a giant wall that even if effective (which is not since everyone since medieval times knows you need to guard a wall or they are super easy to pass), will barely stop a trickle of the problem?

As shown by Trumps actions (blocking the Republican immigration bill) he does not want to solve anything, he wants more problems so he can blame others for them
Simberto
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Germany11402 Posts
September 25 2024 18:52 GMT
#88280
On September 26 2024 03:12 Billyboy wrote:
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On September 26 2024 02:58 Simberto wrote:
On September 26 2024 02:19 Billyboy wrote:
On September 25 2024 23:44 oBlade wrote:
On September 25 2024 23:30 Billyboy wrote:
It is hard to give Trump the benefit of the doubt when he uses terms like "reimigration", which only exist in white nationalist and other racists groups vernacular. No one who is not full of hate uses it, most wouldn't even know what it means without looking it up.

Anyone familiar with English immediately knows and understands the concepts and distinctions covered by the words migration, emigration, immigration, and remigration. Same with expatriation and repatriation.

The interesting part is when you google all the words you have listed except remigration you get definitions. With remigration you get either white nationalists tweets or articles explaining why white nationalists use the word.

I'm not sure if English is your first language but remigration is just not used outside of those circles, as far as I can tell it is a dead word. I did find a Webster's definition but it talked about how it was used about the Irish and Jews, which given the time period also tells you something about it even when it was common.

And then Kwark's post really takes all the guess work out, if you are reposting from nazis there is no mystery left.


I think people mistakenly think that this somehow means all Trump supporters are white nationalists, which it does not. What it means is that Trump is actively courting white nationalists. You can decide if that is OK with you or not but it simply fact.



Funnily enough, the word "remigration" has also become very popular with our current German hard-right assholes.

I was reading that when it came up, that it is more commonly used across Europe but massively in Germany, (paraphrase incoming) even that there was some semi secret meeting about getting all non German blood out of the country , and that Frances far right even thought it was too far.

Is this a term you hear fairly regularly in Germany? Like would an average German know what it meant or does it go over most peoples heads if they are not part of the pure German blood crowd? And does it sound as awkward in German as English?


As far as i know, it was completely unknown and unused about a year ago. I haven't heard it used ever before the whole hubbub you mention. Our main hard-right party loves it, and as you mention, had this semi-secret meeting about that topic, which is when the word became commonly known. It is currently known by most politically interested people, but only in the context of being a rightwing propaganda term.

No one who is not hard-right uses it except when talking about stuff the hard-right said.
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