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[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 114 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

For reference, the population of the USA is approximately 350 million. That's a pretty significant chunk.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 105 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Also for reference, 100 million doesn't correspond to the number of immigrants, but does correspond to the number of non-white people.

They're actually talking about ethnic cleansing.

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 29 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

yeah so think of every 3 or 4 people you know and toss one of them. That is chilling. I live in a complex with several buildings so just blast one of the buildings right out of existence. The fact they mention texas though makes me think this is all eventually going to be turned around action wise to elections. Texas wants to make their vote based on land rather than population so that dense urban centers can be disenfranchised.

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[–] notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 weeks ago

Nearly a third, of which ‘illegals’ constitute a fraction of the 100 million goal. The answer is plain to see, esp when considering the reich’s current push to obtain voter data to help populate the central database that is integral to this effort.

My money is on ‘unreliable voter’ as the through line that will connect those that are taken and at the very least harassed and abused by law and/or financial enforcement officers.

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[–] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 70 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

That is solidly, I shit you not, A THIRD OF THE POPULATION.

Does this moron not realize that this proposition is economic and logistical suicide?

... you know what, thinking about it, he probably doesn't.

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 33 points 3 weeks ago

"That's just a fraction of the eleventy billion illegal voters that steal welfare every day."

Of course he knows that number is nonsense. He also knows the people he's speaking to are too stupid to notice or care.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 31 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Does this moron not realize that this proposition is economic and logistical suicide?

When they say "deport", they actually mean "enslave"

[–] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Ah, right, the fun little loophole in the 13th Amendment. By golly, I keep forgetting why America has the highest incarceration rate on Earth, it's because it's legal slavery.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

They're only going to enslave them until they have enough. They've already calculated that the 100,000,000 are those that are unsuitable for slave labor, for whatever reason, including age, health, resistance, etc. They'll keep the compliant ones, and eliminate the rest.

He's just saying deportation because he doesn't want to be controversial.

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Why stop there? If we deport 200 million, commuting will be faster.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Why stop there?

Because that's when they run out of non-whites.

Don't get me wrong; after that they'll pick another out-group and continue the purge, but they're not gonna just come out and say that up front.

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[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 57 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Deport them where? You're just going to dump them on someone else's shores for them to become undocumented immigrants to be shipped back to America? I know we've set up camps in other countries but there's several orders of magnitude of difference there. The logistics alone of moving a third of the US is insane and that's if they wanted to participate. Of course they don't have any long term plans

[–] Carmakazi@piefed.social 77 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

At that scale, they'll start "deporting" people into the ground with a bullet in the back of their heads in no time.

The Holocaust was initiated because of the logistical challenges of merely displacing the number of people they wanted gone.

The smart ones pushing this probably know this, the others will realize it and fall in line when the time comes.

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago

"Evacuate" was the term they used in Wannsee.

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

The Jewish storage problem.

It won’t be long now.

Hopefully America speed runs its way to the final days of the reich.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hopefully America speed runs its way to the final days of the reich.

How? Germany was stopped by outside military forces, and there's no opposing great power that's gonna come and conquer/liberate us.

Do not pretend there's any way out of this without you, personally helping to make it happen.

[–] TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago

It’s remarkably easy for the average person to believe all of America is collectively just like Trump, without realizing there’s a large swath of the American population who are vehemently against it who are being ignored.

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[–] GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone 35 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

The Nazis wanted to force all Jews out of the country. Turns out there's a lot of insurmountable financial and bureaucratic hurdles associated with housing and deporting several million people all at once.

Make no mistake, these conservative ghouls are fully aware that it is not feasible to do the same thing with 10x as many people and they'll eventually need to come up with a more... "Final solution" to the problem they're creating.

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[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm a first generation American citizen and I would love to be deported to the Netherlands or Germany if the US and the EU an come to an agreement.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Best we can do is a few months of taxpayer-funded disease-ridden torture camp then, if you survive that, deportment to some war-torn dictatorship where you will disappear without trace.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Hmm....that or live in Alabama....tough choice.

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[–] artyom@piefed.social 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The logistics are impossible, the only thing you'd achieve is triggering a second American revolution.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

They're going for a second Holocaust.

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

For those who haven't figured this out yet:

They're going to cancel or seriously disrupt the midterms, and they will go door to door, with ICE, based on your known political affiliation, after they declare anyone who disagrees with them to be a terrorist.

Be ready.

Hopefully they fuck it up and turn on each other before it gets to that point.

But... do you really wanna just rely on that happening?

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 30 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Imagine deporting 1/3 of your country's population.

[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

I don't want to, but these freaks are currently masturbating FURIOUSLY to the thought of it.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

Hate is a powerful narcotic.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Deport citizens? Deport them where? Oh. Deport them into death — just like the Nazis did with their undesirables.

[–] NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The US has agreements with a number of third countries to take on non-citizen deportations. According to the article in the link, these include Mexico, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Guatemala, and South Sudan.

It’s fairly likely that the US applies enough economic pressure until these countries have little choice but to do it. I recall they were trying to force Bahamas and Grenada into it last year, but as far as I’m aware they have managed to maintain their rejection

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[–] MushuChupacabra@piefed.world 28 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Counter-proposal:

Deport all xenophobes.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

We don't want them.

You created them, you can keep them.

Sincerely, the rest of the world.

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[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Texas Railroad Commissioner

Well guess he's looking to use a lot of trains for something. Seems familiar....

[–] Areldyb@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The railroad commission is actually the state's oil and gas regulatory agency, and doesn't have anything to do with railroads anymore. The name confuses people and they like it that way.

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[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean that's what a white supremacist would say after all.

White, White baby.

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Isn't that about 1/3 of the country? Aren't these the same dipshits that worry about birth rates for some fucking reason?

[–] halowpeano@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
  1. Yes. Guess which color skin they want the 100M to be.
  2. Yes. Again, guess which colors the skin of the people they worry are having too few/to many children.
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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

Some small town bar has lost their village idiot. We need to return this idiot to where he belongs.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

“I’m going to say something that’s going to make some people uncomfortable: The problem is, we call it Sharia [law], but the problem is actually Islam,” French said. “If they can infiltrate Texas and conquer Texas, then what’s going to happen? They’re going to be able to control the United States.”

[–] riskable@programming.dev 27 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Apparently he didn't get the memo that the fastest growing religion in the US is "no religion". This is also true for the 2nd generation of immigrants.

While American Muslims have higher retention rates, their kids are also becoming atheist (in the US) at a rapid pace.

In short, he's got nothing to worry about! What's going to happen? Easy: Religion will become a smaller and smaller factor over time no matter who we "let in" 😁👍

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah but he's actually just worried about brown people existing.

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[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 17 points 3 weeks ago

I fail to see the difference between the current Christian overlords in Texas and what they call Islam, they just want the authoritarianism to be white, they always want to fuck over women though

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 weeks ago

American displays what happens when you sabotage your educational systems by making expected bizarre and dumb claims

So your average Monday evening, then

[–] you_are_dust@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A third of the population?! What the fuck?

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[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

After hearing the CPAC audience cheer for a Trump impeachment I'd be curious to hear their response to this.

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[–] boeman@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

More like Dollar General David Hasselhoff.

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[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Without the great, the value, or the Willem Dafoe

[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Fuck you Bo French. Goddamnit, my bowels can produce only so much shit to splatter all over these Fascists' graves.

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