I caught a mod at Late Stage Capitalism admitting they aren’t from the US, so they deleted all my posts and banned me.

  • Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    My sibling in Koalemos’ ignorance, republicans aren’t the democrat’s opposition. Every democrat proudly repeats the lie that America is the greatest country in the world at every opportunity, while stoking the same fears about illegal immigrants republicans do.

    Take a step back and actually think about the president for a second. Think about all the mechanisms that exist that are allowing Trump to do what he wants. So what mechanisms were stopping any previous president from doing the same? You are watching a group of people pass the chair between themselves and calling it democracy.

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      2 days ago

      It simply isn’t true that Democrats speak about immigrants the way Republicans do. Republicans treat immigrants as sub-humans without rights.

      So what mechanisms were stopping any previous president from doing the same?

      They didn’t control every branch of the government and they operated in good faith. No system can withstand a leader operating in bad faith who controls all the checks on his power.

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        15 hours ago

        Biden and Obama both deported more people than Trump.

        speak about

        Ah yes, as we all know, words speak louder than actions and you shouldn’t believe someone when they show you who they are.

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          10 hours ago

          Convenient that you ignore immigration rates and the rate of legal immigrations processed, which were both higher under Biden and Obama.