[–] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

Invading the ancestors descendants of wage slaves whose dead imperial overlords drew some maps is almost as dumb as fighting over those maps.

Modern China and India have their own homegrown oligarchies exercising levels of oppression that put the British imperials to shame.

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  • [–] 31 points 4 days ago*

    What an arbitrary distinction given that legal immigrants are in just as much danger from ICE right now, and ICE is completely lawless — first amendment, fourth amendment, violating habeas corpus (a legal principle older than the Magna Carta), masking their identities, not to mention executing people. If the Supreme Court weren’t illegitimate, everyone involved with ICE would be in prison.

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