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[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 116 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Could the USA please stop sending their raw sewage to other countries?

[–] PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But we have SO MUCH of it! It’s all we have to offer right now.

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 16 points 1 week ago

Yes, I know and it already didn't work with your cars. So please start innovating and stop ... that.

[–] TheGoldenV@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s less sending and more leaking. Sorry about that, but the US is ten kg of shit in a one kg bag so some leakage should be expected.

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is this the famous 'trickle down'?

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[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago

Apparently we're just adding to the shit pile that's already there.

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[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 60 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Portuguese people you know what to do.

[–] krigo666@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

we should all moo him... got it? wink wink, nudge nudge...

[–] FlowerFan@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You should take inspiration from a certain green nintendo character is all I'm saying

[–] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Americans outsourcing to other countries again! Why should the USA be the rest of the world's problem to fix ? Can't you do it yourselves ?

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[–] Blibly@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Retired" is a funny way to say disgracefully shitcanned...

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

no, it's retired because he wasnt fired. so he'll still be able to pull a pension and everything.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why is a concentration camp commander type asshole allowed to set foot in Europe?

Deportbthe fucker on arrival

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[–] Soapbox@lemmy.zip 39 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I honestly wonder if american white supremacists would consider Portuguese people to be white.

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Historically, even the "whiteness" of Irish was not always a thing in the US.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Historically, whiteness doesn't exist.

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 week ago (18 children)

Biologically whiteness does not exist. Culturally, some asshole came up with it and was adopted widely.

[–] logi@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I mean, low melanin is a thing. Having to slather on the factor 50 before even thinking about leaving the house is a thing. I used to think that was what white meant. Then I met The Americans and their really odd ideas.

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

The Nazis wouldn't have qualified by the standards at the time of the American Revolution in Benjamin Franklin's eyes. Nor even the Italian side of Bovino's family.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observations_Concerning_the_Increase_of_Mankind,_Peopling_of_Countries,_etc.

https://www.profmarkbaker.com/blog/2017/6/3/whiteness

I recently read derogatory comments a prominent political leader made about non-white immigrants swarming into our towns and cities and ruining our way of life. It was not Donald Trump, but Benjamin Franklin. And the threatening masses were not Latinos from south of the border, but immigrants from Germany—my ancestors.

“Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc.” – what follows is an excerpt from the 1751 original by Benjamin Franklin

[W]hy should the Palatine Boors be suffered to swarm into our Settlements, and by herding together establish their Language and Manners to the Exclusion of ours? Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion.

Which leads me to add one Remark: That the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth. I could wish their Numbers were increased. And while we are, as I may call it, Scouring our Planet, by clearing America of Woods, and so making this Side of our Globe reflect a brighter Light to the Eyes of Inhabitants in Mars or Venus, why should we in the Sight of Superior Beings, darken its People? why increase the Sons of Africa, by Planting them in America, where we have so fair an Opportunity, by excluding all Blacks and Tawneys, of increasing the lovely White and Red? But perhaps I am partial to the Complexion of my Country, for such Kind of Partiality is natural to Mankind.

I have always been labeled as white—by myself and others. Yet not according to Ben Franklin. My ancestors are the exact people he sees as a threat to whites. They came from Germany and swarmed into Franklin’s beloved Pennsylvania. My father is a 6th generation German-American. And even after five generations in Pennsylvania they still spoke German. My grandfather did not learn English until he went to school. According to Franklin I am not white, but a swarthy German—a threat to the ways of whiteness.

It is common place to observe that most of those who complain about immigrants today are part of ethnic groups that once were slandered and scorned in similar ways. Franklin’s comments reinforce that important observation. Important, but not new for me. What was new for me was the realization that there was a time when some people would not have seen me as white.

"White" is a surprisingly mutable term over time as social norms change.

EDIT: I'd also add that you can also watch, over the course of America's history, "Protestant" morph into "Christian" and then morph into "Judeo-Christian" in political speeches and the like among people complaining about traditional American values being under threat.

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[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The concept of race is a strange thing, and it varies widely by culture.

I live in Colombia, and people here mostly consider themselves to be white. The few exceptions are people of African descent or people with strong indigenous heritage.

Obviously, Stephen Miller and his ilk don't consider Latinos to be white. If they did, ICE wouldn't have persecuted them so heavily for the past year.

Look at the very select groups this administration has welcomed into the country. Miller et al consider South Africans to be white. Do they offer the same consideration to the Portuguese?

[–] Bristlecone@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I wish more people understood this. Race is a hateful social construct put in place by our ancestors ignorance. It's one of those things like religious violence, and oppression that has straight up held all of humanity back in the worst possible ways.

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (39 children)

Portuguese people HATE fascists. You don't even have to be that old in Portugal to remember living under a fascist dictator.

But I guess that doesn't stop the lunatic fringe.

Also, most Portuguese people look hispanic so I really wonder how an ICE-like force there would go...

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

Hi from Portugal. Chega (far right) is a major party in parliament right now (1/3) and arguably PSD (another 1/3) has gone far right lately especially on immigration. So we basically have two out of three parties who are far-right.

One of them even talked in parliament about “diluting Portuguese blood” and “keeping Portugal for the Portuguese”, right before they voted to retroactively prevent all the foreigners from being allowed to apply for nationality, and prevent most of the southeast Asians from being eligible to renew their residency.

They are also talking about trying to amend the constitution, not to put anything good in there.

So uh, you sure about that?

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[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I feel like their racism is selective enough to consider Portuguese-looking Portuguese in Portugal as "okay" and Portuguese-looking Mexicans with the same exact skin colour in the US as not okay, does that make sense?

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

First European Remigration Summit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Bovino

Bovino was born to an Italian American family; his great-grandparents emigrated from Calabria to Pennsylvania in 1909, becoming naturalized citizens in 1927.[3] He has also claimed Cherokee ancestry, but is not a member of any Cherokee tribe.

white nationalist conference in Portugal

The world is a complicated place.

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 12 points 1 week ago

or some people are just idiots

[–] Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 week ago

to say what "We made our country a shithole, and with our help, you can too!"?

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The same type of Portuguese that got their asses handed to them in Angola and Mozambique. The racist shitbag, Bovino, should have been denied entry into the EU or arrested and handed over to the ICC.

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[–] Amberskin 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why isn’t that fascist piece of shit banned from entry in the Schengen area??

[–] Tryenjer@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Because unfortunately we are also full of them on this side of the Atlantic. Chega is already the second most voted party in Portugal and supports the Reconquista group, whose leader, Afonso Gonçalves, is the guy on the right in the image above.

This time the disease appears to be spreading from the new world to the old one. There are many pro-Trump Luso-American businessmen investing in Chega.

P.S.: We'll see what the reaction of these idiots will be the day that the dementia reminds Trump that he would like to turn the Azores into an Eastern Hawaii. After the Greenland controversy, it doesn't seem like such an impossible scenario.

[–] lemonwood@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

Because fascism is right at home in Europe?

[–] chahn.chris@piefed.social 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The stupid smile, the stupid fing thumbs up, and the stupid attempt at wearing nice clothes.

F these people they’re the biggest losers possible.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yes the clothing, wtf. This is like some weird modern attempt at Miami Vice or something.

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[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

What the fuck is going on? So that photo is for real? Am I dying? What's wrong with his fucking legs? That's not what legs do. Why does that guy have clown shoes? WHY?!

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

It's always sunny vibes, the pedophile uncle of charlie obsessed with his small hands, wearing fake large hands.

Bovino is only 5 foot tall so he's likely self conscious about his, er, sizes, and got some oversized clown shoes like whatshis face, the woke guy, Desantis. He did something similar with his boots to look bigger.

Pathetic.

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[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Imagine being so uncritical that you see something like,

You [ICE] have the world watching and supporting your efforts

and just accepting it as truth.

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[–] Horsey@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

The right is slowly re-adding Hispanics to the list of “white” people.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 week ago

Not really though, but they lean into that lie when it is convenient for them.

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[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bovino is only 5 foot tall, so he rounded up three other of the shortest dudes he could find for this picture, how vain.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Those boots.. dude is on tiptoes, still looks tiny.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 11 points 1 week ago
[–] leagman1@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago

So they're opening up to lesbians. That's a step in the right direction.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 8 points 1 week ago

Does his name mean “cow”?

[–] WiseScorpio@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And the people who show up should be noted because they represent the fascist and neo- nazi part of Europe.

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[–] Bristlecone@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Yep, fucking white supremacists. Just watch these fucking disgusting videos these pieces of shit post on their dumbass zitter. Remigration is a dog whistle for whiteness. They aren't showing videos trying to bring the type of person they want to Europe, they are posting videos of what they see as a problem that needs to be solved which is literally people with brown skin just hanging out in a public space.... Like what the actual fuck? As soon as he's out of the public eye he's free to make a shitload of money on fucking Nazis. There isn't a trump supporter in my life I would give a red cent to at this point without a fucking apology for the last goddamn decade.

https://x.com/RESUM26

Such fucking weirdos, smh just let people live their goddamn lives. If you don't want to marry a person of another skin tone that's your prerogative you baby back bitch

[–] Jiral@lemmy.org 7 points 1 week ago

The craziest thing is this international movement of nationalist xenophobes. I wonder if Bovino conflates Portuguese with Hispanics.

[–] phneutral@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago

Of course Martin Sellner was is standing right next to him. He shouldn’t be allowed in Portugal as well.

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