• bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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    10 days ago

    I’m 4th generation American, my Mexican wife is 3rd generation, I often wonder what length of time those idiots classify as American enough.

    But remember, native Americans aren’t thought to be real Americans, so it’s a wee bit of a shit show.

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      I was just reading about how Navajo and other Native peoples are being detained even if they show their Indian status cards (sorry idk the American name) because ICE doesn’t recognize them as legitimate proof of citizenship…

      Where the fuck you gonna deport them to?

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        Where the fuck you gonna deport them to?

        Work camps to be used as slave labor is my bet if we’re talking mask off open fascism becoming the norm in the USA.

        I really despise trump voters by now, I could forgive them the first time but after his first term and all the rest of everything these fuckers are either willfully ignorant or actually subscribe to his rhetoric and fucked up beliefs which is worse. There’s no redeeming them at this point I’m afraid.

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          The first time we were all right to feel uncertain, and with time even the more “normal” GOP members of his administration were turned off by the shit show and spoke out against him. Who concerns me most is whoever spoke out against him, especially after Jan 6 and come this election cycle are the Trumpiest of all the new MAGA supporters (cough cough Vance). As they say, you can’t do the same thing more than once and expect a different result.

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      I’m just going to start asking my family for their papers.

      “I was born here!”

      Doesn’t matter any more, your orange puppet-king said so.

      “My parents were born here!”

      See above. Got proof? No? So sorry.

      “Something something Ellis Island!”

      Yeah, that’s the story that everyone tells themselves. More likely that it was just a random boat at a random port (or beach) and your vaunted ancestors just started… you know, living here.

      Papers, please.

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        Straight up this

        I know how my family got here back in the day and my relatives know too and yet a bunch of them still voted for the evil cheeto.

        3 brothers got on a boat from Ireland during the Potato Famine, 1 died on the way over. 1 stayed on the East Coast and the other, struck with wanderlust, went out West.

        I’m descended from the wanderlust brother.

        They didn’t go through Ellis Island, they were stowaways.

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      whatever length of time it takes for you to become rich white Christians.

      ita not really about how long youve been here, and it hasn’t for a long time. maybe it never was