r/politics • u/Icommandyou Washington • Jan 18 '25

Paywall Trump to Begin Large-Scale Deportations Tuesday

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-to-begin-large-scale-deportations-tuesday-e1bd89bd?mod=mhp
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u/Lostsailor73 Jan 18 '25

Imagine celebrating this...imagine being a horror of a human being.

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u/ButWhatAboutisms Jan 18 '25 edited Jan 18 '25

It'll take 50 years of retrospect for all of society to realize American Christians had a profound moral sickness and enjoyed a period of sadistic cruelty. Assuming we actually make it out to the other side of this.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25

Religiosity has decreased across America over the past few decades. I think what we are seeing now is that the people who would have funneled that belief into religion are instead funneling it into other things, like political figures or UFOs. Some "higher" power that will save them from all that is going wrong in the world or their lives.

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u/SubterrelProspector Arizona Jan 18 '25

Oh we're pushing back.

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u/Visible_Device7187 Jan 18 '25

No we're not. We are fighting stupid tiny battles over pointless shit instead of fighting the real battles.

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u/Automatic-Term-3997 Jan 18 '25

They haven’t even figured out it’s a class war and not a culture war yet…

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u/BeyondElectricDreams Jan 18 '25

Make no mistake, it can be both.

Some of the billionaires are radical Christians who want the US to be a christian nation. Read: the Federalist Society.

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u/SubterrelProspector Arizona Jan 18 '25

You say that. But when the chips are down, there will be resistance.

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u/Quietwulf Jan 18 '25

I deeply hope for all our sakes your right.

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u/spookytrooth Jan 18 '25

America has been sleepwalking into this shit for the last ____ without a fucking care in the world.

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u/HowTheyGetcha Jan 18 '25

Trump's child separation policy didn't last very long once it came to light. Just wait for the human interest stories coming out of this one....

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u/OmegaMountain Jan 18 '25

You keep up that optimistic view. I'm going to become a prepper, myself.

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u/account128927192818 California Jan 18 '25

That time has gone.  You can start but many of us saw this shit long ago.  I ramped up when I saw project 2025 2 years ago.   Good luck, know your neighbors, build community.  

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u/pandariotinprague Jan 18 '25

The Internet comments will be furious, with a 1.4x increase in expletives.

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u/Juunlar Jan 18 '25

Literally one person has had the guts to do a damn thing about the oligarchy in the last 5 years

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u/YourFantasyPenPal Jan 18 '25

What are the "real battles" that we were supposed to be fighting?

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u/Visible_Device7187 Jan 18 '25

Economic, political power, anti treason laws, and more. Turns out fighting for proper pronouns wasted a lot of time and resources when Christians/GOP were fighting for the courts

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u/Tasgall Washington Jan 18 '25

Except that's the thing - Democrats by and large weren't "fighting for proper pronouns". The biggest reason people think they were is because Republicans constantly tell people they are.

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u/pandariotinprague Jan 18 '25

True, it's not just pronouns. There are also like 6 other wedge social issues that Democrats spend 90% of their time talking about to distract from the fact that they're bribed to never do anything economically progressive.

And even with the social issues, they spend a truly absurd amount of time debating what terminology they should use instead of focusing on the actual issue. Leading to bizarre situations where using outdated or offensive terminology for a minority group is treated as more damaging than working that same minority group to death for shit wages, breaking every labor law in the book, and then stealing their wages on top of it. Some crazy, hateful rando in the park says the 'n' word on video, and that's a bigger deal than billions in wage theft from black people, and it's even a bigger deal than the fact that we still have a race-based permanent economic underclass in this country.

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u/yohoo1334 Jan 18 '25

Point me to where Americans are doing anything? I don’t see a protest

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u/uzlonewolf Jan 18 '25

Please, a good chunk couldn't even be bothered to vote.

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u/SubterrelProspector Arizona Jan 18 '25

That doesn't matter. History has shown that does not matter.

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u/USAisSoBack Jan 18 '25

I wouldn’t categorize whining on Reddit as “pushing back”

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u/SubterrelProspector Arizona Jan 18 '25

Do you really think you've made a point? You know that all comments like yours do is create apathy. You also make us suspicious of your intent. We already have astroturfing trolls and foreign bots doing the same thing. Either help or stay out of the way. But don't sew apathy. It only helps the bad guys.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25

Lol when?

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25

Bull shit

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u/simpersly Jan 18 '25

A period?

American Christians have always been shit bags. The only difference now is that for the last 20 years we did our Christian duties in the middle east.

Heck, it's harder to find a period where there wasn't a sadistic moral panic. American Christians think it was God's will to have chattel slavery, the 500 year long genocide of indigenous Americans, Manifest Destiny, Satanic panic, the gay disease, Christian rock.

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u/hooper_give_him_room Jan 18 '25

LMAO I love that you put Christian rock up as being on the same level of awful as those other things because actually it is.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25 edited Jan 18 '25

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u/Proud_Camp5559 Jan 18 '25

lol 

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25

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u/FinleyPike Jan 18 '25

I’ve never met a devout Christian I thought I was a good person, and I went to private religious schools for 1-12…

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u/ZippyDan Jan 18 '25

In 50 years people will be too busy trying to survive climate chaos to have much time for retrospection.

Maybe they will be looking back and cursing all the idiots that didn't do anything about climate change.

Nah, who am I kidding?! The conservatives of the day will blame the wars and starvation on liberals and frame the heat waves as God's judgment because of the gays.

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u/FellatingNemo Jan 18 '25

I hate to tell you but it was more like American Christians had a period of decency from 1965-2016.

The rest was mostly repugnant stuff.

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u/SnooAvocados6672 Jan 18 '25

No, they were still pretty shitty then too.

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u/codefinger Jan 18 '25

They celebrated AIDS

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u/wineheart Jan 18 '25

I'm gay, no Christians have ever been decent to me

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u/Fweenci Jan 18 '25

Put this on a fucking billboard. Very well said. 

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u/Cali-moose Jan 18 '25

British colonists also had these terrible practices

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u/masshiker Jan 18 '25

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!!!

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u/10_socks Jan 18 '25

Try 100 years.

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u/2gdismore Jan 18 '25

The books that will be written about this time, I’m living it but curious about reading about it in 20-30 years

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u/Negaflux Jan 18 '25

They know, they don't fucking care. Don't expect them to start.

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u/divestblank Jan 18 '25

You just realizing this now?

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u/Historical_Bend_2629 Jan 18 '25

“American Christians” are not an issue. Fascists calling themselves Christian are.

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u/Project2025IsOn Jan 18 '25

I'm an atheist