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Trump, Bashing Migrants, Likens Them to Hannibal Lecter, Movie Cannibal (www.nytimes.com)

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This is the language you use when preparing your audience to commit mass murder

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[-] apocalypticat@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

I'm an immigrant and US citizen that's lived here for 28 years. These people (republicans) have done nothing but demonize people like me for as long as I can remember, and it's getting more and more hateful every year. We are just people who want to live peacefully and give back through our hard work. We came here thinking that this was a multi-cultural and freedom-loving nation. Instead we are constantly reminded of the hateful hypocrisy in many Americans whose family immigrated here not long before us.

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

The saddest part is that many immigrants who received their citizenship are the most hateful towards migrants and new immigrants.

[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 10 points 5 months ago

If that were true then we should elect the president with the best track record for criminal prosecution and/or deportation of immigrants: Joseph Biden.

Trump's ineffective policy led to more detentions, including children separated from their families, but less convictions.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 17 points 5 months ago

Oh, but you’re forgetting something: the cruelty is the point. They don’t actually care if the policy is effective. They want to, and enjoy, hurting groups that they don’t like.

[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Even the most stalwart xenophobe would feel conflicted when you force them to weigh raping murdering hash slinging slashers being free on the streets against not punishing innocent subhumans.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Would they, though?

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Really? Then who is doing all the raping and killing I wonder?

[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today -2 points 5 months ago

Normally I'm all for a mandatory /s tag, but the fact that you somehow missed that the Hash Slinging Slasher comment was analogous satire is beyond my comprehension.

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

yoU cAN't PROvE ThaT—we LosT mosT Of the iMmIgRAnt ChildrEn WE DEtained! tHey CoUlD havE EndED uP In PRiSon

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Given that nearly every word he says about other people is projection respectively admission of guilt, I wonder who he has eaten recently...

Is anyone of his lawyer team missing?

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

That's what it says on his business cards, btw:

Hannibal Lector, Movie Cannibal

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Trump’s or Lector’s?

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Yes.

[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Yikes. Incredibly ignorant.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 months ago

It's not ignorant — it's studied as a method of stirring up anger and resentment in a way that leads to social permission for violence.

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