Post AwxCS9IKaelBT7AxYO by pawsplay@dice.camp
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(DIR) Post #AwwVkwaXlAw9XAPUu0 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-08T00:13:38Z
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Suppose you claimed you could save a business money by getting rid of "hundreds of employees who are stealing from work" and then you get the job... but you lied. There aren't really 100s of employees stealing from work. What would you do?First fire the one or two who might really be stealing. But now what?Fumble around and see who else you can fire?And what happens when the company doesn't start saving "so much money" because all of the crooks are gone?
(DIR) Post #AwwVzvskfUUtgf4elE by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-08T00:16:22Z
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ICE is going after green card holding spouses of American citizens. Children, anyone they can think of to try to meet that number. And all of the "easy" cases are gone. They target people for not speaking English (less public sympathy, because people are terrible) they target poor people who might fight back less. Recently the 3000 a day has been more like about 1000. Those are deportations. The number of arrests and detentions is much less clear.
(DIR) Post #AwwWBtt5uReeyawPJI by Callalily@a2mi.social
2025-08-08T00:18:30Z
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@futurebird They are evil.
(DIR) Post #AwwWSj8P8sdMY77rTk by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-08T00:21:34Z
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I'm trying to keep an eye on those detentions because that is very sinister. But if they fail, and I hope they do, to do anything like a significant population shift what will Republicans think when they still hear Spanish on the bus? Because Spanish is one of the most popular American languages. And most of the people Republicans assume aren't citizens ... are.
(DIR) Post #AwwWy8iu3Phct8B0BE by tobinbaker@discuss.systems
2025-08-08T00:27:13Z
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@futurebird the effect is predictably like the arrest/execution quotas during the Great Purge
(DIR) Post #AwwZMbHBkJz2In0LSK by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-08T00:53:59Z
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@FediThing They are already doing this. They deny it but it's kind of obvious.
(DIR) Post #AwwaAssAb4dFM7HOLY by MLE_online@social.afront.org
2025-08-08T01:03:05Z
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@futurebird when my Mexican American grandparents were young parents, there was a strong push to make speaking Spanish shameful. My dad and one of his siblings ended up learning no Spanish because of that. Is that where we're headed again? Would that even be feasible? There are so many Latinos here now. Then again, German Americans were a very large minority and gave up their language because of prejudice, so who knows
(DIR) Post #AwwgKl4X3ONxmd9ZfU by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-08T02:12:10Z
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@MLE_online I think it's very clear that they are targeting people who can't speak much English then they "decide" that whatever they've said in Spanish (or a few other languages) is "I'm here illegally" there have been multiple cases where ICE officers claimed in their report someone came up to them and announced "I'm here illegally" and they use that to meet the court order of reasonable suspicion. It doesn't work as well on someone who speaks English.
(DIR) Post #AwwgOvySSiQ6knIseu by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-08T02:12:56Z
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@MLE_online I'm certain they think this is very funny and clever.
(DIR) Post #Awx55z15QMIRXdaq9I by blogdiva@mastodon.social
2025-08-08T02:18:57Z
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Spanish is historically USA’s first settler colonial language. fuckers always start with the Mayflower and never with Ponce de León’s invasion of ―OF ALL PLACES― Florida.Statistically it is also the 2nd most spoken language in the land.thanks to Puerto Rico, it’s the 2nd judicial and legislative language in the country. and thanks to the Puerto Rican amendment to the Civil Rights Act, voting ballots have to be multilingual. so yeah, Spanish is USA’s 2nd official language 😎@futurebird
(DIR) Post #Awx560HQj4xpScFPGK by pawsplay@dice.camp
2025-08-08T02:23:38Z
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@blogdiva @futurebird My family has been speaking Spanish in Texas longer than the USA has existed.
(DIR) Post #Awx5619fTQLiApcino by blogdiva@mastodon.social
2025-08-08T02:29:49Z
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@pawsplay @futurebird and Puerto Rico also existed before the USA, so yeah.am not defending Spain, but it’s really something for these gringos de mierda to want to erase and re-write 500 years of European settler colonialism in the Américas.
(DIR) Post #Awx561nj4UOMB4MiEy by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-08T02:35:32Z
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@blogdiva @pawsplay 1. There is no official language in the USA. Although I don't want to remind them of this FACT at the moment. 2. Speaking English is easy mode in so many parts of the world. In the US IDK how anyone can complain. Center of the universe big head language. Frankly if you speak English it can be hard to learn another language since people will switch and don't have patience for my Spanish (I cannot blame them, but I have a very nice accent I'm told.)
(DIR) Post #Awx562LP3HKXrW7bjU by blogdiva@mastodon.social
2025-08-08T04:59:49Z
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1. i know there’s no official language but there’s not one but two hegemonic languages: English and Spanish. this was basically the whole basis for the Puerto Rican Amendment: our island isn’t a state, it’s an independent country annexed to USA by war, denied our right to our own citizenship yet given one by USA. so as long as PR is a territory and our people citizens, you can’t force them to only speak English to vote. that amendment passed in ±1973. 🧵@futurebird @pawsplay
(DIR) Post #Awx568lr9q3VnIXonY by blogdiva@mastodon.social
2025-08-08T05:08:28Z
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2. on the internet it’s lingua franca by force, because most of the CEO techbros (like Bill Gates) creating this digital hellscape were illiterate in all the lingua francas of the world. it’s 2025 and fuckers have no concept of a multilingual keyboard and dictionary.Spanish & French are still very much lingua francas in meatspace. American English will get you treated like crap in many places. 3. yeah, it’s hard to raise bilingual american kids, even in nyc 😔@futurebird @pawsplay
(DIR) Post #Awx8jnt2WW0cT8Vbvs by IveyJanette@mastodon.social
2025-08-08T02:20:22Z
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@futurebird They will go after US African Americans next.
(DIR) Post #Awx8x8xDVTjtZZp7lA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-08T02:32:02Z
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@MLE_online I just remembered that we only know about the ICE officers lying like this because they have detained several US citizens who spoke only Spanish along with the claim that they said "I'm here illegally"Naked contempt for the law and racial/ethnic profiling.
(DIR) Post #Awx96s4V88rG6mrxKa by VirginiaHolloway@urbanists.social
2025-08-08T02:19:38Z
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@futurebird @MLE_online That's interesting. That very thing about ICE saying the person said they were here illegally was just reported in a case here.
(DIR) Post #AwxCS9IKaelBT7AxYO by pawsplay@dice.camp
2025-08-08T05:04:17Z
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@futurebird @blogdiva I want to add also that with regard to Texas specifically, not only is a fourth of the state Spanish-speaking, but there are tens of thousands of Texas German speakers. When you take into account Asian languages, the idea of a monolingual Texas is an utter fantasy.
(DIR) Post #AwxFcYqOkiN3T1lbkG by MLE_online@social.afront.org
2025-08-08T03:07:31Z
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@futurebird right, but like you said, if they deport all of the undocumented people that they can get their hands on and they still hear people speaking Spanish, are they going to start deporting American citizens who they catch speaking Spanish in public? It wouldn't be the first time in our history, and if just speaking Spanish ends up being enough to get your deported, are parents going to stop teaching Spanish to their kids?
(DIR) Post #AwyMV8kIHUknKnHQLw by burnitdown@beige.party
2025-08-08T21:39:20Z
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@futurebird anyone can learn Spanish!learning Spanish is probably good idea right now. confuse the incestuous motherfuckers. we are all Spartacus!
(DIR) Post #AwylZA3ppaH5QSQzuC by burnitdown@beige.party
2025-08-09T02:20:12Z
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@futurebird @MLE_online that's what cynicism leads to.