Post AaIHa1OKZopAiFMJay by rastilin@aus.social
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 (DIR) Post #AaFFFEEIrmqV49kKUC by randahl@mastodon.social
       2023-09-29T02:07:18Z
       
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       "Why fight my friend Vladimir Putin, when we can fear immigrants in the US instead?"(Yes, the attached image is a screen shot of a real post from Elon Musk)
       
 (DIR) Post #AaFFFEsMSqt94OUJvM by ghast@liberdon.com
       2023-09-29T02:09:54Z
       
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       @randahl Yeah, fuck rational concerns, you brainless drone.
       
 (DIR) Post #AaIHa0GUlSxjDegXk8 by bastardsheep@aus.social
       2023-09-29T02:25:05Z
       
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       @randahl @ghost_shit So eternal genius Elon can't tell the difference between an invasion from a foreign country, and people / families desperately hoping for a better life?
       
 (DIR) Post #AaIHa1OKZopAiFMJay by rastilin@aus.social
       2023-09-29T02:28:18Z
       
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       @bastardsheep @randahl @ghost_shit Also, I don't understand why Elon cares about the border, like, what's it to him? I think he only cares because it's pandering, which actually mystifies me even more that he's not pro Ukraine.This is someone who really wants to be a popular figure for the right wingers because he sees how much attention people like Jordan Peterson get, and he knows he won't get that kind of love from left leaning supporters.
       
 (DIR) Post #AaIHa2PQnDIZrwshwu by passenger@kolektiva.social
       2023-09-29T09:07:36Z
       
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       @rastilin @bastardsheep @randahl @ghost_shit Musk cares about the border because "the border" is a publicly-acceptable euphemism for white supremacy."Care about the border" means sending cops to terrorise Latinx people, and having special unaccountable police forces and prisons specifically for this purpose. It means a racialised and minoritised group of people having to carry paperwork to protect themselves from being disappeared, which means the process for granting that paperwork can be made arbitrarily complex and expensive in order to force those people around. It means that process can be selectively made more rigid to fuck over individuals who stand out of line.In world-systems theory, we learn that a border is not a line on a map between countries; it's a line between human beings. "Care about the border" means, in this context, wanting to paint a legal dotted line around every minoritised person so that wherever they go, wherever they were born, they're always an outsider and their rights are only ever temporary and contingent.I'm South African. I know this tune, even if the words are different. They used to sing it in my country too.