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Trump allowing 600,000 Chinese students to come in. Want's to "get along with China," which angers MAGA (www.rawstory.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by pelespirit@sh.itjust.works to c/politics@sh.itjust.works

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This would be a massive reversal from Trump's policies so far, which have threatened international students' ability to enter the country and jeopardized the admissions of many top institutions — and it also contradicts his prior moves to revoke visas for Chinese students. But the new pledge, which was backed up by Trump's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, provoked instant fury from the MAGA world.

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

There is a real opportunity to drive wedges between Trump and his base on many issues right now.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 weeks ago

That might be why there is so much trolling in this community today, there are a lot of wedges.

New epstein victims drop next week
Guiffrie's tell all book comes out soon
They're not hurting the "right people," meaning foreigners are taking their college spots.
A shit ton of his base is losing money because he's rounding up their slave wage staff
They're losing their social security and medicaid
Student loans are kicking in again.

[–] hanrahan@piefed.social 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Don't see how, they're literally ok with him fucking their kids.

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is Brad okay?

[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

Brad, is in fact, not ok

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's lunacy. I wonder if his answer would change if it was Biden or Obama...

That said, I do agree w/ forgiving someone who does something terrible to your family. But forgiveness doesn't mean you try to remove all consequences, it just means you move on from hating the person to focusing on recovery. That individual should absolutely face consequences for their actions, and it should certainly call into question whatever you thought you knew about them.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Very optimistic. I hope you are right. They are the most gullible people among us so I'm sure their brain rot will just be manipulated into accepting it.