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[–] RichardButt89@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

Good. Fuck him and anyone who voted for Trump.

[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago
[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 46 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He’s also gay which makes his support for trump extra stupid

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

some people are just trolls but afk as well….
just think about how many internet trolls there are… and write anything disagreeing with anything and a troll will find it and try to argue the opposite side.:. but disingenuously and with the sole purpose of pissing you off….
then if you look at their post history, it’s entirely that sort of thing.
then you have to realize that they’re not all just edgey teenagers exploring the dark side, most of them are full grown adults.
i think a lot of loud trumpets are just trolls living the roll. moral outrage is very entertaining for them because they don’t feel real emotions or have moral motivations….
i’ve heard that america has a much larger percentage of psychopaths because of the way the country was founded… a: genocide, and b: people leaving their family and friends behind probably forever, to gamble on a future…

[–] lowside@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I work with a person like that and it's driving me up a wall.

He starts arguments for the sake of arguments. He is extremely vocal about anything that he knows will cause any sort of disagreement with anyone. Actively looks for ways to pit other people against each other. Endlessly talking shit to and about everyone. Just an annoying, toxic person. Leadership sees him as harmless, but he is a real cause of a lot of drama in the workplace. Usualy not Involving him directly, but often caused or stirred up by him. Motivated entirely by two things, his amusement, and his money. Everyone else just exists in his world to amuse him.

collage educated, smart, reletivly successful. But fucking toxic.

My point is you are absolutly correct. These people exist. They are emotional stunted and live for cause problems for others. It's kinds funny for a little bit but gets realy fucking old realy fast.

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[–] Freefall@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Haha, I love the shadenfreud and I refuse to feel bad about it

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

"refuse to feel bad"?

I'm openly laughing about this. I always feel bad when bad things happen to people, even to bad people, but this guy literally asked for it, and persuaded others to also ask for it.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago
[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 160 points 4 days ago (9 children)

I’d like to see the information environment that made this guy a Trump supporter.

What did he see? Was he deep in Facebook? Twitter? Local stuff?

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 134 points 4 days ago

From what I understand, Republicans, especially in Florida, put out political ads targeted specifically at Cuban immigrants. They play off the inherent hatred of communism in this demographic to convince them to vote against the "radical Marxist Democrats."

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 57 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 40 points 4 days ago (5 children)

environment that made this guy a Trump supporter

A LOT of Immigrants and Illegals in the US are very pro-Trump. I spoke with a few in my old neighborhood to get their take.

They said that the government didn't worry them because it wasn't that far off from where they came from. They felt elitism created niches where someone knowledgeable could profit. Party of the entrepreneurs and all.

Two said they didn't want any more immigrants here, they felt pressure from the incoming immigrants to take their places and out-compete them for work.

Because this was the last trump presidency, there was less deportation talking. I'm sure that gave some concern, but If I had to guess based on their psyche, I'd say they expected the deportation to lighten the low-hanging fruit and take the pressure off their own jobs at the same time, expecting them would just be ok because they were always ok.

[–] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 4 days ago (12 children)
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[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 100 points 4 days ago (6 children)

“I’m on of the good ones!” They scream as they are being put into an ICE van!

“I voted for Trump!” They plead.

“I’n here legally!” They cry.

ICE cares not for their screams. For ICE only cares that they are non-white*.

*Don’t worry white immigrants. One day, you too shall be deported. Once all the non-white people are gone.

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 42 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

Funny fact about a cage, they’re never built for just one group, So when that cage is done with them and you still poor, it come for you

~~Killer Mike~~ El-P

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[–] zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 84 points 4 days ago (4 children)

The Cubans thought they were safe because they've been staunch Republicans. One of the key demographics in keeping Florida red.

Well, now they learn. And for people thinking oh they'll release him when they find out they can't deport him because there are no flights to Cuba...

ICE asks where you're from but they don't take your word for it. They can easily decide you're from anywhere else, like Haiti or El Salvador. And with quotas they are now incentivized to do so, rather than before where the paperwork incentivized them to accept you were not deportable.

[–] CptOblivius@lemmy.world 40 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I always thought it was funny Cubans voting Republican. I am told it's because they fear socialism because of Castro, so they vote for fascism. Even though the DNC is still far into the capitalism territory. It makes no sense to me.

They feared the tankies so much, they voted the far-right...

🤣

[–] Carl@lemm.ee 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

The first wave of Cuban immigrants to the US came immediately after the revolution, and it was mostly rich people. Castro was redistributing the land and the wealth, executing former police torturers, and going after crime lords who had been safe under the Batista regime, and every worm that could escape did so. These types were allowed into the US for their propaganda value because of course they wouldn't have any trouble going on TV and talking about how horrible communism was and crying about how their plantations were taken away from them by the government. That group of rich people and cops was already right wing by American standards when they came here, and set the tone for all Cuban migrants who came after.

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[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Deporting him to Haiti would be hilarious.

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[–] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 125 points 4 days ago (2 children)

OMG he must be so happy right now.

[–] noride@lemm.ee 68 points 4 days ago

He is! He voted Trump for the free flight home! So much winning!

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 38 points 4 days ago

He really owned the libs.

[–] Modva@lemmy.world 99 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I would bet money he still supports Trump, there's no limit to the doubling down.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 62 points 4 days ago

I would bet money he still supports Trump

Obviously, trump just put him there by accident, he didn't know he was one of the good immigrants, If they just had some way to signal him, he'd change his plan.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago

The catch is that there's no real benefit to not supporting Trump, as an individual. Its basically the Pascal Wager. If you pray to Trump, then he may hear you and appreciate it, at which point there's a small-but-real chance to benefit. If you pray to him and he doesn't, you've lost nothing. If you defy him, there's a a small-but-real chance he makes your life worse. But if he doesn't, you don't really gain anything for your defiance.

The incentives are all skewed as there's no material support for migrants in the US from either major party. Harris is out there telling people "Do Not Come!" and Biden was deporting people as fast as any prior president, Trump included. Republicans were practically telling on themselves when they insisted that Democrats wanted to import a bunch of voters to swing the election, because that's exactly what the Republican playbook was in Florida via Cuban Expats (heavily Republican-leaning constituency that enjoy some of the loosest immigration rules on the books).

This Cuban MAGA guy has every reason to keep chanting Trump's name and hope he (or one of his minions) notices. There's zero reason to appeal to the Clintonite liberals, as they have no power to improve his situation and no interest in doing so even if they did.

[–] ef9357@lemmy.sdf.org 43 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I’d feel sorry for the guy, but he literally asked for this.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

but I asked for it to happen to other people!

typical maga

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 40 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Wait, hold on, this person was actually here illegally (not passing judgement) and openly campaigned for someone who was talking about deporting people?

Edit: Fix typo

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 36 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

https://www.cubaheadlines.com/articles/296478

He's an anti-communist who thought he was the right kind of refugee.

Keeping in mind refugees and asylum seekers are not illegal.

Unfortunately for his dumb ass, Trump didn't just not reinstate the Wet Feet, Dry Feet policy, he specifically complained about its existence (despite it ending under Obama)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_feet,_dry_feet_policy

But, also, he's literally a criminal and a scammer so while this is still a Face Eating Leopard situation it's not * just* because Trump is a racist.

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 42 points 4 days ago

Protip: You aren't being a "Model Minority" or "One of the good ones", you're being a useful idiot and will be left holding the bag 200 out of 100 times.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 66 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 41 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Well, that was a pretty dumb thing for him to do. It's not like Trump was unclear on his deportation policies.

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 4 days ago (3 children)

"But I'm one of the good ones"

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[–] Nanook@lemm.ee 49 points 4 days ago

That’s a quality self-own, if you ask me.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 40 points 4 days ago (2 children)
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[–] illi@lemm.ee 37 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This community really fired up since the US election lol

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I re-opened it right around the US election.

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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The system is working as designed. This is how the system was built to work.

Dude campaigns for rich asshole, rich asshole deports him on principle.

The worker shortage that will be caused by deporting illegal workers will not be filled by the fat lazy Americans who are unemployed. They refuse to do such work because it is beneath them. So we'll have a massive gap, especially on farms. The farmers will take this to the government, and the farmers will get even more compensation because the government keeps fucking them over. Over and over and over again.... At this point, I think farmers qualify as government employees.

[–] MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 39 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I am not a fan of the narrative that Americans are too lazy to take jobs that are being worked by immigrants. It's just not true. Americans won't take these jobs because these jobs aren't going to pay what Americans demand. Not because they're lazy. These immigrants are being taken advantage of and are being paid way less than they deserve simply because they're illegal immigrants. Them being deported isn't going to suddenly make these jobs higher paying positions. The problem is with corporations. Not with immigrants nor with American citizens (well except the fucked up americans that voted for trump).

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[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago

I don't actually feel bad for this guy at all. He was a scammer and probably deserves to be deported, but I'm not going to credit Trump for accidentally doing a good thing, his rhetoric just happened to align with reality for a very brief moment.

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 4 days ago (2 children)

he's probably still blaming biden for this

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[–] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You can't say ICE discriminates...

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[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Napdyn@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago

Leopards got him

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