• ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
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    “I’m on of the good ones!” They scream as they are being put into an ICE van!

    “I voted for Trump!” They plead.

    “I’n here legally!” They cry.

    ICE cares not for their screams. For ICE only cares that they are non-white*.

    *Don’t worry white immigrants. One day, you too shall be deported. Once all the non-white people are gone.

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    The Cubans thought they were safe because they’ve been staunch Republicans. One of the key demographics in keeping Florida red.

    Well, now they learn. And for people thinking oh they’ll release him when they find out they can’t deport him because there are no flights to Cuba…

    ICE asks where you’re from but they don’t take your word for it. They can easily decide you’re from anywhere else, like Haiti or El Salvador. And with quotas they are now incentivized to do so, rather than before where the paperwork incentivized them to accept you were not deportable.

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    [Scene opens on a wide, desolate savanna at dusk. The camera slowly pans over a leopard lying under a tree, its large body barely able to move. The sun is setting, casting a cold, dim light over the scene. Soft wind rustles through the dry grass. The leopard’s eyes are dull, its breathing labored.]

    Narrator (soft, somber voice): In the wild, leopards are meant to stalk, to hunt, to climb. But for some, this is no longer possible. These are the leopards of the forgotten savanna… the ones who can no longer live the life they were born to lead.

    [Cut to a close-up of another leopard, this one lying next to a watering hole, panting heavily. The camera lingers on its enormous, bloated body, its paws barely able to reach the ground. The leopard’s eyes seem vacant, devoid of the wild spark they once had.]

    Narrator: Overfed and unable to move, these leopards have been left to a slow, painful existence. They can no longer hunt their prey, no longer climb the trees to escape danger, no longer feel the thrill of the chase. They are trapped in their own bodies.

    [Cue the soft, mournful opening chords of “Angel” by Sarah McLachlan. The camera slowly pans over a third leopard, sluggishly trying to rise, but its massive weight prevents it from standing. It lets out a heavy sigh, its once-strong legs buckling beneath it.]

    Narrator: They are the forgotten victims of a world that has abandoned them. Too fat to run, too weak to fight… These leopards are slowly fading, one breath at a time. They need your help.

    [Cut to a shot of a leopard staring out over the savanna. The camera lingers on its face, eyes half-closed, its expression one of quiet resignation.]

    Narrator: For just $3 a day, you can provide the care and support these leopards so desperately need. A donation will help give them the chance to live a life of dignity. Help them find their way back to the wild they were meant to roam.

    [The music swells as the camera fades to black, and the words “Your donation can make a difference” appear in white text on the screen.]

    Narrator (whispering): Please, don’t let them suffer in silence. The time to act is now.

    [The music fades out, and the SPCA logo appears in the corner, along with a toll-free number and website for donations.]

  • Modva@lemmy.world
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    I would bet money he still supports Trump, there’s no limit to the doubling down.

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      The catch is that there’s no real benefit to not supporting Trump, as an individual. Its basically the Pascal Wager. If you pray to Trump, then he may hear you and appreciate it, at which point there’s a small-but-real chance to benefit. If you pray to him and he doesn’t, you’ve lost nothing. If you defy him, there’s a a small-but-real chance he makes your life worse. But if he doesn’t, you don’t really gain anything for your defiance.

      The incentives are all skewed as there’s no material support for migrants in the US from either major party. Harris is out there telling people “Do Not Come!” and Biden was deporting people as fast as any prior president, Trump included. Republicans were practically telling on themselves when they insisted that Democrats wanted to import a bunch of voters to swing the election, because that’s exactly what the Republican playbook was in Florida via Cuban Expats (heavily Republican-leaning constituency that enjoy some of the loosest immigration rules on the books).

      This Cuban MAGA guy has every reason to keep chanting Trump’s name and hope he (or one of his minions) notices. There’s zero reason to appeal to the Clintonite liberals, as they have no power to improve his situation and no interest in doing so even if they did.

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      I would bet money he still supports Trump

      Obviously, trump just put him there by accident, he didn’t know he was one of the good immigrants, If they just had some way to signal him, he’d change his plan.

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    Well, that was a pretty dumb thing for him to do. It’s not like Trump was unclear on his deportation policies.

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      I know people like this. For some reason people affected by different policies are surprised because they thought he was kidding. Deportations? Na, he’s not actually gonna do that. Tarrifs? Na, he wouldn’t do that.

      I know, he literally said he would, but idk.

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        This is where American politics feels so culty.

        So many Democrats and Republicans honestly think they’ll be spared the negative consequences of their vote just because they demonstrated loyalty. These people are very clear on what they’re going to do to you, whether it’s Trump saying he’s going to deport 20,000,000 people or Nancy Pelosi saying 'We’re capitalists" and we’re going to profit while we let our golf buddies rob you of your labor.

        This is what the Cuban gentleman voted for, and it’s unreasonable that he expected to be spared.

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          The difference being that democrats largely recognize the deficiencies of their party. You also don’t see the party rallying behind the Menendez/Weiner/Blagojevich types. This is the advantage the Republicans have - blind, unquestionable allegiance, for better or worse.

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            The difference being that democrats largely recognize the deficiencies of their party.

            I don’t think that matters all that much to the wage workers getting fleeced, considering their steadfast refusal to do nothing about it.

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      The Cuban Embargo is no joke. Our trade policy has been strangling their economy for decades. The poverty is real and severe, and no other Atlantic nation has the balls to violate our blockade for fear of economic sanction.

      One upshot of the Trump/Musk regime tearing out all the copper wires in the various federal agencies may be that our trade sanctions and our role as international banking center deteriorate enough that the Cuban embargo stops functioning.