• mosiacmango@lemm.ee
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    26 days ago

    “Homegrowns” itself is such a weird way to say “american citizens.”

    I cant tell if its just his drug-addled brain coming up with weird slang or its something elon shared from a DOGE boy.

    Either way, it lets them avoid saying “we will deport Americans” directly while still floating the idea and getting the infrastructure in place.

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      26 days ago

      I was watching “Born in East LA” for the upteenth time and there were comments from 3 or 4 years ago defending the (actor) cop’s deporting an American (Cheech). This is not a new thing, this is them carrying on doing what they’ve wanted to do.

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      26 days ago

      The point is dehumanization. That’s why all they ever talk about are “Illegal aliens” rather than undocumented immigrants. It reduces them from people to unwanted objects.

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      26 days ago

      They’re trying to make you associate these people with the known phrase of “homegrown terrorist” without actually accusing them of terrorism.

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        26 days ago

        And as the innocent man who is either still in that horrific prison or dead proves, they’ll apply the label to anyone they please and it will work with their base.

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          26 days ago

          That’s how they always do it.

          It’s usually terrorism, sometimes treason. But there is always an unproven accusation of some heinous crime, which is why most people will just accept it, because “it only affects the criminals”. And it is also how they motivate their henchmen to do the dirty work.

          Communists and Jews in Nazi-Germany were accused of causing millions of Germans to die in WW1 and of causing poverty in the depression through exploitation. And this is why the Nazi henchmen worked diligently to get rid of the Jews, because they had lost family members in WW1 and lived through Depression poverty and they wanted to help their country become great again by getting rid of all the undesirables.