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[–] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 1 points 1 hour ago

yeah ok Thanos

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 13 points 12 hours ago

Some small town bar has lost their village idiot. We need to return this idiot to where he belongs.

[–] you_are_dust@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

A third of the population?! What the fuck?

[–] Airowird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 hours ago

Tbf, GOP with all their sycophants is about 100 mil, if you need a place to start the deportations...

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Imagine deporting 1/3 of your country's population.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours ago

Hate is a powerful narcotic.

[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

I don't want to, but these freaks are currently masturbating FURIOUSLY to the thought of it.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Texas Railroad Commissioner

Well guess he's looking to use a lot of trains for something. Seems familiar....

[–] Areldyb@lemmy.world 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The railroad commission is actually the state's oil and gas regulatory agency, and doesn't have anything to do with railroads anymore. The name confuses people and they like it that way.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

I feel dumb for daring to think government would pretend to care about public transport.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Deport citizens? Deport them where? Oh. Deport them into death — just like the Nazis did with their undesirables.

[–] NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The US has agreements with a number of third countries to take on non-citizen deportations. According to the article in the link, these include Mexico, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Guatemala, and South Sudan.

It’s fairly likely that the US applies enough economic pressure until these countries have little choice but to do it. I recall they were trying to force Bahamas and Grenada into it last year, but as far as I’m aware they have managed to maintain their rejection

[–] AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

This, exactly. A nice tidy way of keeping their hands clean. Deport them to a country with prisons where detainee deaths are common, or their government can be subtly coerced into killing the people our government sends there. When people demand answers, our government can just throw up its hands and say, "Well, how were we supposed to know they were doing that?"

[–] NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

Precisely - it’s just like money laundering, except that it’s for abuse.

Just another way in which the USA’s government functions like the mafia on the global stage

[–] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They will just round them up and "concentrate" them into camps, while figuring out where to send them. Who knows, maybe some of them will even happen to die while the Republicans try to find a final solution, solving part of the problem that way.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Probably why there's so many ICE camps being made that are so huge. Have no fear though. I'm sure that work shall set you free.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago

American displays what happens when you sabotage your educational systems by making expected bizarre and dumb claims

So your average Monday evening, then

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago
[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

For those who haven't figured this out yet:

They're going to cancel or seriously disrupt the midterms, and they will go door to door, with ICE, based on your known political affiliation, after they declare anyone who disagrees with them to be a terrorist.

Be ready.

Hopefully they fuck it up and turn on each other before it gets to that point.

But... do you really wanna just rely on that happening?

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 2 points 1 hour ago

That fact that this comment doesn't have a single downvote is a terrifying reality check all on its own.

None of this is hyperbole anymore.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Midterms are the warm up for 2028. They are setting the stage to control congress so they can take the election if their other thefts fail. We will see whom their leader ends up being in that election.

They want to get that extreme this midterm, they don't have the support yet. Not that they won't try and have some limited success.

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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Let them, and see how the country won't function without the 100 million able bodied people.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

They never think that far ahead. Also I dont think they care.

[–] Napster153@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

They never need to. They just have to last longer than their immediate victims.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 111 points 1 day ago (7 children)

For reference, the population of the USA is approximately 350 million. That's a pretty significant chunk.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 100 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Also for reference, 100 million doesn't correspond to the number of immigrants, but does correspond to the number of non-white people.

They're actually talking about ethnic cleansing.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Restaurants are going to really suck after their ethnic cleansing plan.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bo French, a Republican candidate for Texas Railroad Commissioner…

…Was all I needed to know this was about race.

This is like a shitty comic book plot. Fuck these fascists.

[–] morriscox@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Soon to be Bo American (and proud of it).

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 points 22 hours ago

The number of Democrat voters also. Could be a political cleansing...

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So you're saying they'd need to do it on an industrial scale? Might need to make large scale gas chambers that will be disguised as gas chambers to lure them in without resistance. Need a cheap gas to do it. Maybe Zyklon B?

  • ~~Nazis~~ Republicans, effectively.
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[–] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 68 points 1 day ago (10 children)

That is solidly, I shit you not, A THIRD OF THE POPULATION.

Does this moron not realize that this proposition is economic and logistical suicide?

... you know what, thinking about it, he probably doesn't.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 30 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Does this moron not realize that this proposition is economic and logistical suicide?

When they say "deport", they actually mean "enslave"

[–] tristynalxander@mander.xyz 2 points 11 hours ago

So... invest in private prisons?

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[–] MushuChupacabra@piefed.world 28 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Counter-proposal:

Deport all xenophobes.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Lets just give Texas to Mexico and Florida to Cuba. or Iran can take both as a deal for peace. Whoever will accept them really, we're not picky at this point.

[–] tristynalxander@mander.xyz 3 points 11 hours ago

Maybe if we call it a "free vacation" we can send them all to Israel?

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

Better proposal:

Kirk these bastards.

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[–] 6stringringer@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

So like, my good foot is kinda f’d. However, I am so willing and god so help me, to do Red Formans work with my other good foot. I know where to put it!

[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago (14 children)

Deport them where? You're just going to dump them on someone else's shores for them to become undocumented immigrants to be shipped back to America? I know we've set up camps in other countries but there's several orders of magnitude of difference there. The logistics alone of moving a third of the US is insane and that's if they wanted to participate. Of course they don't have any long term plans

[–] Carmakazi@piefed.social 75 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

At that scale, they'll start "deporting" people into the ground with a bullet in the back of their heads in no time.

The Holocaust was initiated because of the logistical challenges of merely displacing the number of people they wanted gone.

The smart ones pushing this probably know this, the others will realize it and fall in line when the time comes.

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