• Candelestine@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I do appreciate how they’re just openly playing their hand now. Makes the battle against fascism very clear cut and plain to see. They’re relying on the news-bubbling and conspiratorial leanings of their base to carry them through, but they don’t have the numbers.

    We do. Just have to get them to the polls.

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      11 months ago

      I agree. The Republicans have really let the mask drop and shown who they really are. Biden wasn’t lying when he said democracy was on the ballot this year.

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    11 months ago

    So any business that hires Hispanic workers is now aiding and abetting known terrorists. I’d put $10 down that JJ or his relatives have such a business.

    I’d even be fairly certain that if he changed the language to “being in the US illegally” that he or someone close to him would still be culpable.

  • NoStressyJessie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 months ago

    the bill in question

    I’m not a lawyer, but it is hard to tell from reading that if it means if you mark off one of the numbers it applies, or if you have to have 2 of 3 or what, but since it’s so vague, and most of the laws I’ve seen in that format if one point applies it all applies, I cannot in good faith argue that it won’t be used to target Hispanic people.

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      11 months ago

      Point 2 specifies “and”, but it’s still super racist. Apparently white people who join street gangs and perform gang-related crimes aren’t terrorists, only Hispanics are.

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      11 months ago

      It’s definitely “and” of the conditions. But that’s not the point.

      Why can only hispanic gang members be domestic terrorists? Why wouldn’t any other ethnicity of gang members be considered domestic terrorists?

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    11 months ago

    No State shall … deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

    -14th amendment