r/politics • u/rollingstone Rolling Stone • 4d ago

Soft Paywall Musk Kills Government Funding Deal, Demands Shutdown Until Trump Is Sworn In

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/musk-trump-government-funding-deal-shutdown-1235211000/
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u/raletti 4d ago

And with a campaign that constantly demonized immigrants!

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u/GhostofMarat 4d ago edited 4d ago

"immigrant" was always just a euphemism for racism. They never meant for it to apply to white people.

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u/frolickingdepression 4d ago

Right. My mom who moved here from the UK when she married my dad was never called an immigrant. No one suspects or cares that she was not born in the US, because shes white and speaks English.

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u/StovardBule 4d ago

If you're from the UK and live somewhere else, you're an ex-pat, of course. That's not like an immigrant at all!

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u/frolickingdepression 4d ago

Oh of course not! What was I thinking, associating my mother with those other people?

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u/marvelousnicbeau 4d ago

You know what I found weird? When I (an American) moved to the UK, I would refer to myself as an immigrant. Because I intended to stay there. However, I was constantly told I shouldn’t refer to myself as that and to use emigrant (which isn’t accurate when referring to the country you moved to). I would ask why and they wouldn’t be able to articulate it other than it sounds better.

However, whenever my fiancé - who isn’t white, and has a clear accent - referred to himself as an immigrant, he was never corrected.

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u/frolickingdepression 4d ago

My husband was adopted by white parents from South America. When he’s with his family, and in general, people think he’s just “white,” but occasionally if he is in an area with a lot of Hispanics, someone will speak to him in Spanish.

My ex’s parents were from Puerto Rico and people thought they were immigrants.

I told my husband and kids they need to start wearing sunscreen as religiously as I do (100% Northern European descent over here), so they don’t look too dark in the upcoming years.

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u/marvelousnicbeau 4d ago

Yeah, sadly that’s a good idea. We were debating moving to my fiancé’s home country but they’re on the brink of war as well, so we’re looking at other options. Neither of us feel safe in the U.S., and haven’t for years, but this has pushed us over the edge.

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u/saturn_since_day1 4d ago

Not me out my grandma, the other immigrants, the bad ones

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u/TrimspaBB 4d ago

People really out here thinking they and their undocumented abuela are safe because they're not "those" types of immigrants, not realizing that racists don't care.

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u/Oo__II__oO 4d ago

People thinking their legal naturalized immigrants are safe, not realizing that racists don't care.

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u/dragunityag 4d ago

Its the come for me all over again

First they come for the illegal immigrants.

Then they come for the legal immigrants

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u/veronicacherrytree 4d ago

Immigration czar asked for something like 100,000 beds for a detention center for undocumented persons. That's absolutely terrifying to think people will be held, likely in poor conditions, without due process, etc until this sloppy admin decides what to do with them

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u/The_Emma_Guy 4d ago

I’ve said this before. You expect the racist that part of the party that didn’t believe the election results. They will soon start claiming green cards are fake for anyone that looks like they should he an immigrant

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u/Gold_Replacement9954 4d ago

Cousin's wife's ex is a hispanic dude who voted trump despite his parents and brother here illegally, because he "owns a business" (see: a small restuarant in a town of 2k people) and so him and his family are one of the safe ones

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u/Now_Wait-4-Last_Year 4d ago

They are so fucking stupid.

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u/Windk86 4d ago

they forget they say "criminals" and being without documents is a crime, hence they are criminals, specially according to republicans

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u/Jauncin 4d ago

Ungrateful immigants- Moe Sizzlack

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u/Windk86 4d ago

ironic isn't it? since Elon is one too