• BertramDitore@lemmy.zip
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    25 days ago

    That’s straight up child exploitation, by the government. Blackmailing a parent with the safety of their child is one of the most villainously evil tropes around. This shit happens in movies all the time, and it’s almost always used as a big flashing “this person is bad and evil, and the villain of the movie” trope.

    There has been some incredibly fucked up and immoral treatment of human beings in this country, but this is next level evil.

    Problem is, it’s so evil that the brainwashed 40% of the population won’t believe it, so they’ll just go on about their business.

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      They’ll blame the parents, seriously. For entering illegally and “creating the situation.”

      “The rule of law” and the people who carry it out are just forces of nature and have no free will or choice in the matter, let alone accountability, of course.

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      Exploitation? It’s KIDNAPPING!

      If you have forcibly taken possession of my child without my or my wife’s permission, that’s kidnapping.

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    25 days ago

    The Department of Homeland Security denied the allegation, calling it a “disgusting smear.”

    Gotta make sure to give them the subtitle to frame it as a he said/she said.

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      They were. Just because there wasn’t a gun right at her temple, doesn’t mean that all those other guns on the scene weren’t an overt threat.

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    25 days ago

    Well, when you’re best friends with Israel, you’re gonna end up replicating their actions.

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    25 days ago

    Thank goodness it’s not Harris or Biden. They’d be burning kids at the stake for fun! Right bud?

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        It absolutely is and that is obvious sarcasm. Guess what’s getting worse in addition to a whole lot of other bad shit because people chose to throw their vote away, or plaster communities with posts that discourage voting, or stuff like that?

        Voting isn’t always picking someone you like. It’s about picking the one who’s better for the job. If you vote for no candidate then you help whoever wins, and you’re getting one of them whether you like it or not.

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          Guess what’s getting worse in addition to a whole lot of other bad shit because people chose to throw their vote away, or plaster communities with posts that discourage voting, or stuff like that?

          Anything that wasn’t being 100% on board with genocide was literally forcing everyone to vote for trump! How utterly convenient for people who can only call it a genocide after almost 2 years, only once a republican is president, and only after prompting.