"First They Came" is going to continue to be used incorrectly, probably with increasing frequency, while gofundme will fill up with requests for financial assistance from people who write they "never thought Trump would turn on them" or perhaps those excruciating pleas to the powers that be to let Trump know a mistake has been made so he can sort it out. They didn't mean for regular everyday citizens to have their lives destroyed. Just the ones Fox News and Trump told them were secret Furry Marxist Non-binary Unchristian Democrat Baby Eaters or something. They didn't know those things weren't real. So they shouldn't lose their home/job/freedom/safety etc. It feels like more people than not in this country are precisely the same kind of self absorbed credulous assholes as your average "good German". Not everyone, but a bit more than half at least.
It's really not easy for me to to feel sympathy for the people who can claim ignorance and show regret and remorse, I'm doing it, but it's difficult. The ones still not understanding (that guy who just got married and ICE took his wife?) I'm not sorry for. The woman? Yes. Right now.
Thanks so much for speaking up about this issue. I agree that there are bad people who need to be deported, but ICE apparently has quotas of 1500 arrests a day now which means that they will arrest anyone just to meet their quotas which means that people who are here legally and living a normal life are being arrested and detained for weeks at a time. it's unbelievable!
It's pretty frightening. I remember when Trump promised "10 million criminal deportations," but there aren't that many undocumented people with criminal records, so it was very clear they'd be arresting any and everyone.
“Deporting” someone generally means sending them back to their country of origin, not sending them to a violent mega-prison in a different country altogether without any due process.
And who defines “bad”? We’re living in Minority Report times here, with Tom Homan going on the national news talking about how people who have no criminal records can be arrested and deported because of the crimes they might commit.
"First They Came" is going to continue to be used incorrectly, probably with increasing frequency, while gofundme will fill up with requests for financial assistance from people who write they "never thought Trump would turn on them" or perhaps those excruciating pleas to the powers that be to let Trump know a mistake has been made so he can sort it out. They didn't mean for regular everyday citizens to have their lives destroyed. Just the ones Fox News and Trump told them were secret Furry Marxist Non-binary Unchristian Democrat Baby Eaters or something. They didn't know those things weren't real. So they shouldn't lose their home/job/freedom/safety etc. It feels like more people than not in this country are precisely the same kind of self absorbed credulous assholes as your average "good German". Not everyone, but a bit more than half at least.
I'm having a really hard time feeling sympathetic for the "I support Trump and he hurt me, please help but I still like what he's doing."
It's really not easy for me to to feel sympathy for the people who can claim ignorance and show regret and remorse, I'm doing it, but it's difficult. The ones still not understanding (that guy who just got married and ICE took his wife?) I'm not sorry for. The woman? Yes. Right now.
Thanks so much for speaking up about this issue. I agree that there are bad people who need to be deported, but ICE apparently has quotas of 1500 arrests a day now which means that they will arrest anyone just to meet their quotas which means that people who are here legally and living a normal life are being arrested and detained for weeks at a time. it's unbelievable!
It's pretty frightening. I remember when Trump promised "10 million criminal deportations," but there aren't that many undocumented people with criminal records, so it was very clear they'd be arresting any and everyone.
“Deporting” someone generally means sending them back to their country of origin, not sending them to a violent mega-prison in a different country altogether without any due process.
And who defines “bad”? We’re living in Minority Report times here, with Tom Homan going on the national news talking about how people who have no criminal records can be arrested and deported because of the crimes they might commit.