the panic is definitely there, i’ve seen more than one story about potential harvests rotting in the fields because of undocumented workers not showing up out of fear, but this does in part seem to me almost entirely driven by rhetoric and news media hyperfocusing on it. i guess my point is that the US was pretty much already deporting as many people as it could. I suppose the EO that’s trying to overturn the 14th amendment may have something to do with it as well

whoever owns this account just posts all the dumb shit they see on other lemmy instances, they also only ever copy paste the full post verbatim, never seen them highlight the dumb comments or anything like that

we’re back to it? it never left, is there any actual functional difference between this and what the US has been doing since bush (and probably earlier)? they’re just being mask off with the cruelty of what deportation actually is, the lives theyve spent so hard on building up here is destroyed either way. again, obama deported over 400k in one year. the biggest difference here seems to be in its foreign policy implications

looks like others covered it for me lol

biden literally tried to pay egypt to do this and couldnt, right, am i crazy?

thx!

yeah holy hell man i knew this to be the case but liberals really do not care when it’s blue hitler doing it, obama did 400 fucking thousand one year apparently

do you know where i can find the stats on this?

so where were they being deported to before? i dont really understand the sudden resistance from mexico and columbia

is ICE actually increasing the amount of deportations? there’s all this hullabaloo now that the dang cheeto is doing it but hundreds of people have been deported every day since like, obama no?

dad fell and hit his face on the coffee table because he’s too stubborn to use a walker or even the cane we just got him. really dont know how to deal with this tbh

wow, great insight

(a story first broken by us on hexbear)

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anticommunists continue to run wild on an instance run by an anticommunist, what a surprise (/s)

pushes up glasses you know you could just hit the edit button, right?

its capitalist restoration

from my understanding late 90s/2000s were much worse until president xi came into power, i dont think we could say for sure yet. it is concerning though

GOOD post

Like, maybe it’s reflective of an attitude that affected things later on, but it’s a bit of a stretch to think, like, that was the thing that set them on the path of defeat.

i’m not sure either, again not a harsh criticism of the ussr, i just think the only chance for the soviet union to win the cold war was for the west to collapse first, too many good communists died in ww2 that it was always going to fall during the cold war, so in retrospect things that ended up strengthening the west and harming the (already miniscule, especially in the US) chance of revolution

wut. last presidency every other week he would suggest using nukes on someone, there’s no way this lasts

gonna reply to both recent comments you made to me in this one:

Shanghai is the city with the highest GDP in the entire country and also its premier financial center. These people have a lot of power and seriously screw with the growth of the economy. One example is pension/retirement fund, which has become a hot topic recently. Because China cannot print money at will (and also the pension fund cannot be used in stock investment like you’d see in the US), it has to generate growth/revenues to finance the pension payout - there is some calculations floating around that the country will run out of its ability to pay retirement salaries to an increasingly aging population by 2035 if it cannot sustain a continuous growth at 5% over the next 10 years. This is why China is so obsessed with GDP growth even though we all know it’s just a number, and why they had to raise the retirement age recently.

All this can be solved by the central bank directly printing money, but that’s not the model they’re going after.

i guess my confusion comes down to why it seems like the libs are making a comeback. are the central leadership really unaware that they could reform their finances and then probably just have free reign to purge shangai? but if libs are actually making a comeback, why did the party tell all those property developers to go pound sand? why are they still pushing through with the poverty alleviation initiatives? it’s why i keep harping that i think they must just be overly afraid of instability or something like that, it’s the only explanation that makes sense to me with my relatively limited knowledge and am trying to see if you have a better idea? i find it even more unbelievable that they are simply unaware of this idea.

also, i dont disagree that wealth inequality needs to be combated, but again im wondering how much actual consumption can/should be boosted, really the technically best way to quickly rectify these problems you’re mentioning would be to move back to a fully centrally planned economy but uh i dont think thats anywhere close to being on the books lol.