• Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 day ago

    Note that she admits obama-sad was the one who started it. Then Trump wanted to ramp it up. Now she wants to look non confrontstional in building more and basically puts some meritocracy bs to immigration "you have to earn it."

    No discussions of the consequences of our foreign actions and that directly leading to these waves of refugees.

    I really want a reporter to ask why we don't melt the Statue of Liberty if that is what they truly believe and want wrt to immigration now. Obviously the give us your tired, your poor, yearning to be free banter is not what the parties stand for any more. It'd be political suicide suggesting the destruction of a national icon, but I kind of want them to fall on their own sword with this.

    • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
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      16 hours ago

      Reminder that America's initial love for immigration came from the need to populate the empire with loyal white soldiers who could hold it against blacks and the indigenous, the same way Israel loves immigration (only if it is white jews).

    • miz [any, any]
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      1 day ago

      if we melted it down we would have enough metal to make a whole lot of child cages

      • BobDole [none/use name]
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        1 day ago

        Ripping the copper walls off the statue of liberty along with the rest of the wiring. Real 2024 capitalism hours.

    • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]
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      1 day ago

      Bill Clinton started it under Operation Gatekeeper.

      There were iterations of walls for decades. They all just kept it going.