• PlainSimpleGarak@lemmings.world
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    5 hours ago

    “There are more undocumented people working in Texas right now than there are unemployed people in Texas,”

    Hmmmm. How about that.

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    17 hours ago

    Bullshit. They want those workers scared that they’ll be deported because being afraid of that will keep their wages low and keep them compliant. This is good for the larger construction companies who employ those workers.

    I’m going to make a prediction. If I’m wrong then I’ll admit it. I think they’re going to do one wave of very loud deportations, quietly abandon it, and relax the borders briefly to fill the spots that were left by that wave. Just enough to scare the absolute shit out of migrant workers into working, coming home, not putting their kids in school, and not peeking their heads out until it’s time to make agriculture and construction companies money.

    This is drunk speculation.

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      26 minutes ago

      I don’t think you are incorrect. It’s not like Trump and such have to prove results, just the perception of results.

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      It does them absolutely no good to deport people. It’s who do the shit jobs for low wages without healthcare. They are absolutely trying to keep people on edge.

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      7 hours ago

      Wait what makes you think the victims placed in emcampments will stop working?

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      21 hours ago

      I’m really sorry for all the people that did try to stop this, and for the people that couldn’t fit whatever reason. But the idiots that caused it? I really hope they suffer enough to learn at least a bit.

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        21 hours ago

        They will not.

        It’s like everyone forgot COVID-19. The administration’s response and almost daily scandal during that barely moved the political needle, and people are even more siloed in now… I honestly don’t know what it would take.

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          As someone who sat “next” to a child clearly coughing mucus at the movie theater: Yes, everyone forgot about COVID (and masking). Can’t wait to be sick in a few days!

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            My sister just got sick as stink visiting family who didn’t bother to tell her they were sick! She’s coughing up blood!

            I know a nurse who’s an anti-vaxxer.

            …Yeah, I guess pandemic-conscious hygiene is not on people’s minds.

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          19 hours ago

          They need a concept of prejudice that’s simplistic (as in singular) in nature with with a tangible body of people or person/s to blame. It would also need to tie into beliefs that they heard or taught while growing up.

          Trying to get them to understand (put two and two together) the different facets of a conspiracy or something that is rigged tends to lose them when there is more than one thing at fault.