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It’s always the ones you most expect

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Jesse what the fuck are you talking about

Talking threatening shit about the US / Israel is a common pastime among leaders of a certain alignment. It’s like US leaders talking about jobs. It’s just sort of what comes out from time to time if you want to win elections.

The bill in question gave billions to ICE, CPB,

True

US martials

I feel like this part isn’t true. Is this true? Idk, maybe it is.

hire more officers

True

and increase detention capacity

Interesting that you don’t like this

I talked way up at the top of the thread about more details of what’s going on at the border and why the bill is the way that it is. I would ask you the same thing I asked before: What should Biden/Harris do?

It always warms my heart a little when people are mean to the bot

A lot of conservative Americans, yes, and almost no one else

That's what makes it so fascinating

Good news, Biden tried to fix that, by giving enough funding to ICE so they would have places to put those people, increasing the number of judges so there wouldn't be this massive backlog of 3 million asylum cases to be heard (THREE FUCKING MILLION PEOPLE). Bad news, the Republicans killed it, and none of the left supported him on it either because the media doesn't give a fuck about any of those people in any of those open air detention camps, and so they represented it all wrong, so people thought he was doing cruelty to migrants and opposed his attempt to do anything to fix it. So, nothing happened. They're still in the camps. And ICE is still racist. Biden can't fix that either.

It's a fucking disaster. And now, the left is preemptively shitting on Harris for getting tangentially involved in it, before she's even had a chance to fuck anything up. Sounds like those people better have their supplies of sunscreen and bottled water in place.

😢😢😢

Acknowledging that this whole border crisis is manufactured would do more.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/migrants-desperate-live-us-endure-inhumane-conditions-mexican/story?id=99108515

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1745-9133.12580

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/12/27/immigration-court-backlog-grows/72030952007/

There is absolutely a crisis at the border, just not the one that conservative media has manufactured.

Specifically, when I did some real analysis on the question, less than 10% of lemmy posters who talk about Democrats do it by saying "Democrat" as an adjective, and there's significant overlap between those posters and the posters that are saying that people shouldn't support the Democrats (claiming that the Democrats aren't far left enough to deserve support from the left).

Why is that? IDK, man, it's a mystery. I can draw a up a little diagram for you; maybe we can figure out the mystery together.

Yeah, exactly. There was some genuine cruelty in the bill, put in as an attempted compromise with the Republicans so they could get it passed (incl. making it harder to get asylum and easier to kick people out), although nothing even close to the child-stealing horror movie stuff that Trump was getting his kicks out of putting into place. But the majority of the legislation was trying to help -- increasing the number of judges so people aren't waiting in custody for over a year in a terrifyingly racist and overcrowded prison when they didn't even do anything wrong being a big one.

I had a feeling you wouldn't have an answer for what her messaging should be / what she should do instead.

Honestly, like I say, I do sort of agree that it's off-putting and misleading messaging, and that maybe it would be better to make some sort of attempt to communicate what's actually going on and what the Democrats have been trying to do (since our media seems uninterested in doing that fairly important thing.) But, it is complex. Maybe it is right to just talk "border security", lean into that, and if people get confused but still vote for her, then whatever it is fine.

But yes it's a bunch of shit to attack her with headlines that claim she said something she never said. IDK if she will make a genuine attempt to fix the border, but Biden did make that genuine attempt, and you attacked him with precisely the same messaging, so I think it's fair to call this one bad faith also.

(Edit: Also I see what you meant about "angry"; I went back in fixed it in my message)