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      Democrats are just as racist as the Republicans

      That’s just not true. They are obviously not even close to the same. They are both racist (and even both very racist), but actively engaging in white supremacy IS WORSE and I shouldn’t have to explain why. You can argue that they are both bad, but I think the side that is okay with a former police officer chasing a black man down with his truck and shooting him might be worse.

      I get that you want to equate these two, that any amount of racism is somehow just as bad, but it just fucking isn’t, and I’m tired of this “both sides” bullshit when one side has active lynchers in its midsts and brandishes at the sight of a black person. Make an argument that calls out the “tough on crime” narrative that passively destroys the lives of racial minorities, but don’t call them the same. That’s such a weenie position.

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    Dems are the “good cop” to the republican “bad cop”. They both want to fuck you over in the exact same way. One just pretends to be nice to you.

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    No but you don’t understand, suddenly now that the media is telling me how bad ICE is, I care about this. When a blue president is in office the media doesn’t talk about it, so I just assume everything is okay again.

    Not talking about things = progress!

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      Under any previous administration they at the very least respected the law. This administration has given them carte blanche to ignore the law and infringe on the rights of citizens (who they aren’t even supposed to be interacting with). More importantly they weren’t fucking murdering citizens in the streets back then either. This ICE is not the ICE of 2 years ago, not by a long shot. The media is barely even saying how bad ICE is because they fear authoritarian backlash. The world is saying it because we have eyes and ears.

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        ah yes when they were forcefully sterilizing women a few years ago, it was within the bounds of the empire’s law and that makes it all okay 😇

        go to hell, like actually

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        My concerns aren’t that they are doing it in an unlawful way, my concern is that they are doing it period.

        Inserting a layer of bureaucracy into the process doesn’t make it in anyway better or okay.

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    Yeah, I never understood why these establishment corporate Democrats respond to Republican criticism by acting more like Republicans. Those psychos have big mouths, but that doesn’t mean that what comes out is worthy of attention.

    Democrats need to learn to say Shut The Fuck Up and Get The Fuck Out, when MAGAs start whining, NOT listen to them.

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      Horrified? Most voters, dem or rep, have the exact same mentality around immigration. One is just slightly less ashamed of expressing that mentality than the other.

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    They’re still courting the mythical “Republican centrist” that just needs a little push to vote Democrat. They’ve learned nothing.

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    Look at this neo-liberals. This is why those on the left hate you just as much as the conservatives and MAGAt. When it gets down to brass tacks, your leaders are barely better than they are. We’re tired of arguing with you as much as them as well.

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    Most of the laws that are allowing trump to pull this immigration shit were passed by Democratic administrations. Bidens big strategy was to mock Trump for not deporting as many people as he did.

    But yeah, is the leftists fault that brown people aren’t voting for Democrats.

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      Democrats lose: “It was the left’s fault for not voting for us! We need to be more conservative in our policies!”
      Democrats win: “We did this without the left, we have no need to pass legislation that appeals to them.”

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    It’s because it’s not about that it’s about terrorizing the population to support Shitler and turd Reich

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    without putting children into detention camps

    Unfortunately this is not true. Obama’s administration put families in detention camps and separated them. It was not used with such fervor, but it was wrong then, too

    We protested this. There were court cases, and the Flores Settlement Agreement essentially ended the policy. But it took public outrage to enact change.