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(DIR) Post #Avn5D6GgP9DmjyF6BM by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-07-04T13:11:42Z
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There are some news clips of an Iranian American man whose wife, who came here at age 3 is currently “detained” (kidnapped) because of the racist bigoted targeting of Iranians — Fox is running clips of the guy who says he “still supports Trump” to comfort their viewers who may still have so residual bits of empathy they haven’t fully excoriated from their souls. On more liberal news outfits everyone is deeply confused by this man. But I’m not confused by him at all.
(DIR) Post #Avn5bH3NxKGR8oY94K by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-07-04T13:16:04Z
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He would be very annoyed to hear me describe him as a victim of anti-Arab racism. Because racism is something that happens to The Blacks, and Mexican, not a fine trump supporter such as himself— and he’s delighted to be on the news saying he still supports Trump and is certain his wife being in a jail cell is just an honest mistake because he thinks Trump will see him and recognize he’s not one of those people— he thinks his loyalty will be rewarded. and it might work
(DIR) Post #Avn5mCLtmAKnkHPzPs by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-07-04T13:18:02Z
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or his wife will end up in el salvador or with those alligators in florida.For her sake I hope it works out for him. But I have no respect for people like that who are so eager to get their tush on the lifeboat and pull the ladder up after them—
(DIR) Post #Avn6BM1cwt2mz9vpOy by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-07-04T13:22:35Z
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If you have ever thought someone might “mistake” for “one of those people” or not “one of the good ones” the sooner you learn you ARE “one of those” (in the eyes of the right) the better.
(DIR) Post #Avn6SZH6wKQF0ANlAm by photovotary@beige.party
2025-07-04T13:25:37Z
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@futurebird Exactly what I was thinking. My family is from Honduras and some of them think the way this man thinks. I just shake my head and think of leopards.
(DIR) Post #Avn74e1TjfmajOE760 by TobyBartels@mathstodon.xyz
2025-07-04T13:32:31Z
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@futurebirdHe'd also be annoyed because Iranians (the vast majority of them anyway) aren't Arabs, but you're still right because the racists don't care.
(DIR) Post #Avn7JmDzWX8QVpILpI by TobyBartels@mathstodon.xyz
2025-07-04T13:35:16Z
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@futurebirdHe'd also be annoyed because Iranians (the vast majority of them anyway) aren't Arabs, but you're still right because the racists don't care.
(DIR) Post #Avn7oR1IPdWLiwyYSm by benroyce@mastodon.social
2025-07-04T13:40:45Z
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@futurebirdSome MAGA hate trans peopleSome MAGA hate brown peopleetc, etcTrump delivers to them the abuse they want to see. They are so happy about itAnd then they find out they aren't rich enough, or Christian enough, etc. They find themselves in a modern concentration campThere's all sorts of cons and grifts in the word. Political ones. Financial onesThe biggest are the psychological ones. The ones that trick hateful morons into destroying their country. And eventually themselves
(DIR) Post #Avn81ga5rqBBkcZRBY by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-07-04T13:43:15Z
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@TobyBartels That’s kind of the whole problem—
(DIR) Post #Avn8VitznoT1dYCciW by edgeofeurope@mastodon.social
2025-07-04T13:48:39Z
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@futurebird I'm thinking of one night in the 90s when some aggressive ex Yugoslavian dude was being an ass in his car, hitting a passer-by on their bike in the process.An older woman with Indonesian roots (when you're Dutch, you can tell) stood and watched with her daughter, and said something like ""e should take our country back". I said, "Excuse me, but you don't look very Dutch yourself?" Her daughter said "Exactly mom!" but she answered "but we were here first".
(DIR) Post #Avn9LMkTPjQFzGNEQK by monarchist@na.social
2025-07-04T13:58:04Z
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@futurebird Me either. His wife lost her visa because of a shoplifting charge.He knows she has to go.
(DIR) Post #Avn9O6Q8ZsAODQAOKO by monarchist@na.social
2025-07-04T13:58:35Z
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@futurebird The grim fact is that no one thinks diversity is functional in the long-term.We are just looking for our cash-ins now, for the most part.
(DIR) Post #Avn9VzsOnCKQEg9Mlk by monarchist@na.social
2025-07-04T14:00:00Z
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@futurebird
(DIR) Post #Avn9n2PCdu1d0DcTVg by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-07-04T14:03:02Z
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@monarchist I don’t think it makes any damn sense. It’s disruptive and pointless and makes this country worse to deport over petty nonsense. And The erosion due process is a direct threat to ALL of us foreign born or not. It’s boneheaded and disgusting.
(DIR) Post #AvnAfqUgdBRZzEJpom by monarchist@na.social
2025-07-04T14:12:58Z
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@futurebird Let me summarize what I think they're saying before I inject any of my own nonsense:1. The country changed a lot in the 1960s2. These changes were not good and got worse under Clinton, Obama, Biden3. They are reversing these changes like scraping a layer of varnish off a floor to let the natural wood show
(DIR) Post #AvnAorJKxlVt7uJAEi by monarchist@na.social
2025-07-04T14:14:36Z
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@futurebird If you stick with my formulation:* Left = individualist* Right = orderYou can see why conservatives love naturalist (not "naturist") metaphors.To them, the state of nature is neither good nor bad, just an opportunity for us to make it work in our favor.Leftists see the state of nature as Satan.
(DIR) Post #AvnCp5OcnI8Wig18me by macacator@mastodon.social
2025-07-04T14:36:56Z
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@futurebird red hat thugs who hate, regardless of their targets of hate, are now enemies of the people. I don't trust anything Fox Entrainment puts on because it is always right wing. Oh, here..
(DIR) Post #AvnDvMZHxgqDfYYvaq by BenAveling@mastodon.ie
2025-07-04T14:41:16Z
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@billiglarper @futurebird it’s a mistake that I’ve been thrown in here with all these criminals
(DIR) Post #AvnE0IlFXmEFJGVnii by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-07-04T14:50:14Z
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@BenAveling @billiglarper It’s like an empathy stress test.
(DIR) Post #AvnJ2mSgaX4Tm4pXZQ by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
2025-07-04T15:41:24Z
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@billiglarper @BenAveling @futurebird also apparently people put trip wall during repressions in USSR quite often were proclaiming, just before the shooting squad would fire: "please tell comrade Stalin that a horrible mistake has happened!"
(DIR) Post #AvnJCf44wccbjH22oy by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-07-04T15:48:29Z
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@IngaLovinde @billiglarper @BenAveling I suppose it must be a terrible thing to be so totally abandoned and ostracized from what you thought was your special superior in-group. But I want to insist it is still *more* terrible to have your family broken apart or to yourself be dead.
(DIR) Post #AvnKmtLLR10KONwpEm by BenAveling@mastodon.ie
2025-07-04T16:06:11Z
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@futurebird @IngaLovinde @billiglarper It's all going to be a bit "¿Por qué no los dos?". And not in a good way.
(DIR) Post #AvnMDaXtX1S7rj6zke by tobinbaker@discuss.systems
2025-07-04T16:22:14Z
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@futurebird he probably would be annoyed since he’s not Arab
(DIR) Post #AvoQocmalrvgUcrVMu by andymandias@mastodon.social
2025-07-05T04:48:27Z
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@futurebird according to my Iranian-immigrant coworker he’d probably be additionally annoyed because he’s not Arab (not that the Trump cohort would know or make a distinction), and given his political allegiance there’s a decent chance he’s also bigoted against Arabs
(DIR) Post #AvowS2tOj6idLNK4Om by gay_ornithischians@sauropods.win
2025-07-05T04:44:36Z
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@futurebird (i know it can't actually be the case but) i sometimes feel like most of my fellow mexicans think like that iranian man
(DIR) Post #AvowS4G7e6UTa8xjSS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-07-05T10:42:55Z
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@gay_ornithischians It's not "most" it's just that five or six like that is too many.(blackfolks try to pull this too which is... remarkable... what are you doing??)