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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 51 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Oh, so the dumb fucking wall is still happening? And we can just waive laws now? Since fucking when, and how come the California High Speed Rail Authority doesn't know about it, or does efficiency only apply when we're increasing suffering?

[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago (1 children)

does efficiency only apply when we're increasing suffering?

Yes, correct. These are the rules of hellworld

[–] GoebbelsDeezNuts@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

Getting closer and closer to the Allied Mastercomputer reality everyday.

[–] Posadas@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago

California high speed rail = inconveniancing white landowners

Boarder wall = getting to destroy indigenous graves and harm people displaced by US foreign policies

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And we can just waive laws now? Since fucking when?

I started looking into it and found this:

The controversial work, which included construction on federally designated wilderness, was permitted under the Real ID Act. Created in the wake of the September 11 attacks, the act grants DHS the authority to waive any law, including bedrock statutes meant to safeguard the environment and areas of cultural significance, to build border barriers in the name of national security.

Source

[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

Bulldozing wildlife habitats and native burial grounds to curb the threat of (checks notes) Mexican terrorism

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

Because the richest people in the US wanted to undermine a left wing government in Afghanistan in the 1980s they funded an army of appalling reactionaries which eventually turned against the US. Because of this, it is now legal to build the border wall regardless of the consequences.

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago

And we can just waive laws now?

astronaut-1

the laws have never applied to the ruling class.

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago

Oh, so the dumb fucking wall is still happening?

always has been brump

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

And we can just waive laws now?

We cannot; they can. The ruling class has only practical constraints on what it can do, but in truth bears no legal obligation to anything but itself. Individuals in the ruling class may receive punishment for lawbreaking, having violated their obligation to their class, but when the ruling class moves in a unified fashion, there is no such thing as them being bound by their own laws, because they are the ones who write the laws, enforce the laws, and rule on allegations that the law was broken (or, more accurately, they own the people who do those things). In a capitalist society, what has the general support of capitalists and thereby the major parties is always going to be "legal" unless a divide forms in that coalition.

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 49 points 2 years ago

Literally burning a pile of all the money budgeted for this would be better for society.

[–] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago

oh cool wasn't this part of why people were mad at trump's border wall concept? Like migratory bear species won't be able to migrate north anymore

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Wait. I know Biden was basically continuing everything trump did but the border wall? Pardon my ignorance but fucking why?

[–] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago

Because the Democrats' issue with what the GOP does at the border isn't the cruelty but the inefficiencies. They could run the immigrant-mulching machine so much quicker and cheaper.

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

fascist border policy has always been bipartisan in Amerikkka brump

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

It's impossible to be a capitalist and not eventually turn to ethnic scapegoating to explain why everything is so shitty.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well you can't say Biden did nothing now. He did biild the wall

[–] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago

kobeni-dance H A R M R E D U C T I O N A C H I E V E D niko-dance

[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What's the orange Biden emoji called again?

[–] Posadas@hexbear.net 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago

Lmao of course

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] pumpchilienthusiast@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago

pushing Biden to the left itt

[–] NeelixBiederman@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

biden-point I want the floating saw blades and razor sharp concertina wire to be made with American steel!

[–] Retro_Unlimited 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I have been to the wall several times.

A wall is something that you can go over, under, around, and through. It won’t stop anything. Just takes resources to build and destroy.

[–] Dingus_Khan@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

It won’t stop anything.

It stops plenty of migratory species, some of which are endangered doomjak

[–] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago
[–] SupFBI@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] oregoncom@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thought that was a picture of prince charles at first.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Prince Joerge

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago
[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He's doing what the unions asked him to do

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

Power dynamics

[–] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

love me 'arm reduction, love me police state, 'ate the native Americans, no' racis' jus' don't like 'em

Death to America

[–] Flinch@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

HES DOING HARM REDUCTION. HES REDUCING HARM, IM TOLD. matt-jokerfied

[–] wombat@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

we may have to start making excuses for the lack of terror

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

I like my walls like i like my women: BIG AND ERECT.

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

get out here and defend your boy, you fucking liberal cowards

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know you can see these posts you little piece of shit

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Even those sophistic liberal fucks can't come up with a way to smuglord out of this one, so they'll just ignore it until it fades from view.

[–] showmustgo@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's a long list of Acts that I really fucking like

[–] showmustgo@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Who gives a fuck about

that clean water, National history, those migratory birds (X2), that clean air, that wildlife refuge system, those eagles, fish and wildlife (X2), archaeological resources, paleontological resources, that clean water again, the noise we make, the solid waste we dispose of, any liability or compensation for environmental harm, and whatever the fuck an antiquity is

we need to build the damn wall NOW biden-harbinger

[–] windowlicker@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

blue MAGA must be currently receiving the new updated talking points, from "we need to stop trump's racist border wall!" to "its okay for biden to bulldoze protected wildlife conservation areas for the racist border wall"

[–] Optimus_Subprime@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

destruction of Indigenous graves and endangered species

I hope that this comes back around on Biden to literally haunt him, like Poltergeist.

[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If Biden constructed a 10-layer deep wall with machine gun towers and landmines across the entire southern border and nuked Mexico, killing everyone, you know what conservatives would say?

"Damn I can't believe Joe Brandon and his open border policy, we need Trump so he can finally build the wall"