• TechnoBabble@lemm.ee
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      That’s disingenuous.

      The point is to seem like he’s got a plan for the migrant crisis by bussing them out of state.

      And if he sends them to Blue states where services are better for undocumented migrants, isn’t that better for the individuals? Or would they really be better off in Texas?

      Regardless, my point is, if you don’t try to understand why your political opponent is doing something, you’ll never be able to fix anything.

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        this is disingenuous.

        if abbot wanted to reduce the suffering of migrants he would coordinate with sanctuary cities to better allocate resources.

        suffering is the goal.

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        Yes, his plan is to be cruel.

        Hitler had a plan to solve the financial crisis by oppressing jews. Is it disingenuous to say the cruelty was the point? Should we actually be talking about Hitler’s terrible economic ideas?

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          To be fair, it WAS a pretty terrible long term economic plan to attempt to systematically murder huge swaths of your citizenry.

          It is just that the moral, ethical, humane, etc horrors of that direction are much more important.

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    I don’t understand why the federal government allows these buses (or chartered planes, or whatever) to continue. Since it involves crossing state borders, don’t the feds have jurisdiction?

    I don’t know what the passengers were told in this instance, but in other cases, people were lied to. They agreed to go because were told they would be getting jobs and homes. I don’t think they would have voluntarily gone if they were told the truth - “we’re going to dump you somewhere as a political stunt. We’re not giving them any prior notice, so it’s anyone’s guess as to how you and your family will be taken care of. We don’t care, because to us, you’re not people. You’re just tools we’ll use to own the libs.”

    When some creep lures a kid into a van with the promise of candy, and then drives them halfway across the country, we call it kidnapping. Why hasn’t anyone been prosecuted?

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    A child died while he was trafficking immigrants. Why is he not in a federal prison?

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    A man whose actions kill children took actions that killed a child. Pretty much the face of the GOP right here.

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    This isn’t even the first migrant child he’s killed with his inhumane policies. This won’t even faze this disgusting piece of shit.