Seleni @ Seleni @lemmy.world

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They still wouldn’t be white. Up until maybe a century ago Irish and Italian people weren’t, after all.

1. People who’ve never met one, and find it easier to blame others for their issues than blame themselves or their friends.
2. People who think white people are better. It’s not that they hate Mexicans, per se, it’s just that Mexicans are obviously inferior (or they’d be white!), and they’re getting all uppity, wanting to be treated like equals or some such nonsense.
3. A combination of the above.

Montana is banning those. Expect a nationwide ban to come soon.

They plan to import workers with visas and then hold those visas over their heads to force them to work for peanuts.

I mean, they do this small-scale already.

Their constituents want it. Why would they care?

Even in my time the person who reported the bullying was treated worse than the bullies, and I’ve been out of school for a while. From what I’ve heard, it’s been getting much worse.

Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot one, and there’ll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland? In fifty years’, thirty years’, ten years’ time the world will be very nearly back on its old course. History always has a great weight of inertia.

-Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)

Been thinking about this quote a lot lately. The fact that Trump is so popular shows that he’s just the symptom of a deeper, possibly terminal disease.

To be fair though, Texas seceded once already and within a year or two was begging to be taken back. They probably would have crumbled too.

M’ granduncle was fond of saying: ‘figures don’t lie but liars can still figure’. So could be cherry-picked data to convince the moderates that voted for Trump or sat out the vote that he’s great after all actually no need to complain about him no sir.

But more likely, given he’s making all the racists in the country happy by getting rid of DEI (which is their word-of-the-day stand-in for the n-word), and making all the religious fundies in the Bible Belt happy by getting rid of abortion and women’s rights, and the fact that almost all media is singing his praises…

I’d say the Post’s numbers are off; his approval hasn’t dropped, or it has but ‘he’s doing the Lord’s work’ so people don’t care and applaud anyways even if they don’t agree.

No, Trump will tell them it’s the DEI Evil Democrats he hasn’t purged yet, and vote for him and his cronies so he can keep doing The Good Work! And they will believe it, and vote for him, and cheer him on.

See: Hitler blaming the Jews for everything.

Pretty sure you’re too old to be this stupid, dude.

An upstanding guy who threatens little girls.

Then good luck and I hope you make it out soon!

I hate to say it, but you probably can’t. People with diagnosed mental illnesses are often banned by other countries from immigrating.

Go bark somewhere else, sealion

Yes, slavery and raping women and murdering children all being a-okay is definitely morally good nods head

Fess up. You’ve never actually read the Bible, have you?

Twat is slang for a woman’s vagina.

Hey, they asked for a random password, not a good one.

His ancestors are weeping

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

-Wilhoit’s Law

That’s it. That’s all. They want an out-group to abuse. And they have to justify people being in that out-group, so they make them lesser somehow: they’re ‘stupider, crueler, useless to society’, unlike the Amazing and Super Perfect people in the in-group.