REgon [they/them] to [email protected]English • 6 months agoFact Check: Reuters Is Wrong — Biden Is Not Deporting More Illegal Aliens than Trumparchive.phmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up143
arrow-up143external-linkFact Check: Reuters Is Wrong — Biden Is Not Deporting More Illegal Aliens than Trumparchive.phREgon [they/them] to [email protected]English • 6 months agomessage-square11fedilink
minus-squareREgon [they/them]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish23•6 months agoThe point seems to be that a return is not cruel enough because migrants don’t get physically yeeeted over the border
minus-squareSacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]linkfedilinkEnglish18•edit-26 months agoThis is exactly the same semantical nonsense they used to handwave Obama’s deportations as well “He’s not deporting them, he’s RETURNING them”, never mind that the end result is the same
minus-squareREgon [they/them]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish20•6 months agoIt’s kinda funny to see it from the other side though. It’s usually “nooo the kids aren’t in cages, they’re uhhh containment shelters!” This time it’s “the kids aren’t even in cages! It’s just a containment shelter!”
minus-squareWertheimer [any]linkfedilinkEnglish8•6 months ago“Did I say ‘corpse hatch’? I meant ‘innocence tube’!”
minus-squareviva_la_juche [they/them, any]linkfedilinkEnglish10•6 months agoSTOP USING ANTI-LIBERAL LANGUAGE Instead of saying “cages” say “containment shelter” Instead of saying “deported” say “returned home” Instead of saying “escaping economic conditions that exist bc of U.S. imperialism” say “coming to sell drugs” Instead of saying “the wall is a waste of money” say “build that wall!”
actually you will see that they have not been removed merely deported actually you will see that they have not been removed merely deported
The point seems to be that a return is not cruel enough because migrants don’t get physically yeeeted over the border
This is exactly the same semantical nonsense they used to handwave Obama’s deportations as well
“He’s not deporting them, he’s RETURNING them”, never mind that the end result is the same
It’s kinda funny to see it from the other side though. It’s usually “nooo the kids aren’t in cages, they’re uhhh containment shelters!”
This time it’s “the kids aren’t even in cages! It’s just a containment shelter!”
“Did I say ‘corpse hatch’? I meant ‘innocence tube’!”
STOP USING ANTI-LIBERAL LANGUAGE
Instead of saying “cages” say “containment shelter”
Instead of saying “deported” say “returned home”
Instead of saying “escaping economic conditions that exist bc of U.S. imperialism” say “coming to sell drugs”
Instead of saying “the wall is a waste of money” say “build that wall!”