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Leopards Ate My Face

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[–] Toneswirly@lemmy.world 5 points 37 minutes ago

yeah... ya'll really dumb enough to ignore every sign this was going to happen. Thing is, you were always racist. You're just upset that your wealth is at risk from voting in a psychopath that doesnt care about anybody but himself.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 35 minutes ago

Won't someone please think of the business owners!? These are actual businesses being impacted by this shit. :(

[–] Jikiya@lemmy.world 9 points 1 hour ago

“It’s quite a shock. You get to know these guys, you become their friends—not just an employer but a friend,”

This guy doesn't understand how friendship works. You guys are my friends, and that's why I've voted in someone to ruin your life, because I care about you! But this is mildly inconvenient for me too guys, c'mon think about me.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 2 points 25 minutes ago (1 children)

Guy is a fucking roofer, and he's voting to kick out all foreigners. What a putz.

I was in roofing for a few years, and believe me, you want a Mexican ( or some other south of the border) crew working on your roof. They are fast, quiet, efficient, and fast. They will get it done, and get it done right.

Only a terrible businessman, and really stupid person would vote for the guy who is expressly saying that he intends to hurt your workers, and your business. "Yep, Im voting for the guy who is promising to ruin my business!"

This guy deserves everything he gets.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 23 minutes ago

They are fast, quiet, efficient, and fast.

Wow that's really fast

[–] Lanske@lemmy.world 17 points 6 hours ago

I hope all these maga trump supporting idiots go bankrupt

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 88 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

HE'S their EMPLOYER! If there were any justice he'd be in jail for employing them.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 95 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Adding to Scardina’s annoyance, the men had valid work permits and pending asylum applications, according to their attorney Regilucia Smith. “They are legally here,” she said. “Valid work permit, not even close to expired… again, no criminal records—not here, not in Nicaragua.”

Remember, it's not only the people who are here illegally that are being arrested/deported.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 3 points 33 minutes ago

It's important to remember that it isn't your citizenship or documentation that is the problem, it is your origin. If you were born somewhere else, they want you out, no matter what your legal situation is. Once they get done rounding up the undocumented, they will come for the rest. They don't even respect birthright citizenship, which is baked into the Constitution, they certainly aren't going to respect green cards or naturalized citizenship.

If you were born someplace else, you are unwelcome by the MAGA Nazis, and they will send you back, citizen or not.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 93 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

“It’s quite a shock. You get to know these guys, you become their friends—not just an employer but a friend,” he told NBC6

[–] DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 27 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

After he said he didn't really have buyer's remorse. Fuck this guy.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 11 points 5 hours ago

trumpers never admit buyers remorse, than they will have to reflect on thier decisions.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 34 points 17 hours ago
[–] Catma@lemmy.world 120 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Starting to feel cheap getting so much use out of this

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 56 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (4 children)

Should have used the version of this picture that makes his face bigger

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 2 points 32 minutes ago

They're the same picture.

[–] answersplease77@lemmy.world 26 points 19 hours ago

thanking intensifies

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[–] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 177 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Trump voter can go fuck himself. Then get back to fuckin work doing what his employees used to do before he voted for Trump.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 54 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Himself

Vincent Scardina supported Donald Trump’s tough stance on immigration at the ballot box. But that decision came back to bite the roofing boss when ICE detained a third of his workforce.

[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 47 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

He can hire other Magats. They will do the job even better!

[–] ericatty@infosec.pub 36 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

My Dad did construction for 40 years. Even before the companies started hiring a lot of immigrants, it's hard to find roofers.

It's a hard to find people with the knowledge or ability to learn - that are also not afraid of heights and have the coordination to not fall off and the attention to detail to not make the conditions for other people to fall.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 37 points 21 hours ago (8 children)

Plus it's a horrible job. My dad was also a general contractor, and where we live is very hot and dry in the summer. I remember, as a kid, seeing roofers on top of a house in 100+ F heat, mopping hot tar; I thought that must be the worst job there was. When I got older and started working in aerospace, when my boss would say he needed someone to do some unfun task, I'd always volunteer because I'd be thinking, "this is so much better than mopping tar on a hot roof."

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 26 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

But no Amuricans want to do back breaking labor for only $5 an hour, and without healthcare or three weeks vacation. Where am I supposed to find new labor to exploit so cheaply?

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[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 60 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Scardina, who runs a small roofing business in Florida’s Lower Keys, cannot believe it. “It’s quite a shock. You get to know these guys, you become their friends—not just an employer but a friend,” he told NBC6, visibly emotional.

He continued, "It's almost like they're actual people. I mean not actually, but almost, you know?!"

[–] draneceusrex@lemmy.world 20 points 20 hours ago

I am sure he will feel better once DoJ shows him photoshopped pictures of his former employees' MS-13 tattoos.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 75 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

Pure leopard material yes, but this also highlights where the goalposts have shifted. The business owner fell for "were getting the criminals and rapists" lie, while the admin is rounding up everyone.

According to his lawyer, these employees had their papers in order and no criminal records domestically or in home country. So why were these employees collected? and why are so many republicans okay with this behaviour?

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 49 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

So why were these employees collected? and why are so many republicans okay with this behaviour?

it's racism. always has been. cult leaders give their followers an easy target to blame their shitty lives on, and it works. legal, illegal--doesn't matter. they're brown. that's literally the reason

how can we get to the point where the "why are they doing this?" no longer needs to be asked?

[–] okmko@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

The sad part is that even if the lives of these MAGAs get worse - worse than the lives of the immigrants they look down upon in their home country, they would likely still be racist.

There are pockets in rural America, an obscenely rich country, that are borderline third world country conditions, and they still vote Republican with a sense of superiority and extreme ignorance of their relative standard of living compared to rest of the world.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if some of them were okay with trading electricity and sewage systems (return to 1700s) for racial and religious homogeny.

[–] Soulg@ani.social 15 points 19 hours ago

I might be naive, but many Republicans are okay with it just because it hasn't affected them yet.

Oh, this guy knew these workers, thought of them as friends? Clearly they were just hiding their criminal lifestyle from him. Not like MY friends. Hey, why are there a bunch of white vans outside their house?

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[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 20 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

OH NO
anyway

Edit: Just realized this could be misunderstood. The above sarcasm was in the "fuck you, leopards at your face because you and others voted for leopards who eat faces" kind of way.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 10 points 17 hours ago

1000001630

Making Americans Humble Again

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 47 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Still, his colleague, Virgil Scardina, says they count themselves lucky. “I get to go home and hug my kid,” he said. “These guys don’t. And they don’t deserve that.”

"Given what you know now will you vote against trump and the GOP in all races coming up?" - reporter probably

"Absolutely not! The GOP will always have my vote!" - this Roofing company owner probably

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He’s not actually upset about his staff being kidnapped, he’s just upset about his own bank account

[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 29 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Trump voter gets choked

🥳

up

😴

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 27 points 21 hours ago

Scardina says he voted for Trump and still supports many of the former president’s policies, but this isn’t what he signed up for. “Buyer’s remorse? I don’t know, a little bit.”

Lessons learned: 0

Party supported in next election: republiQan

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