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Hold up, a future where both bloated mega-churches and bloated elite educational institutions lose their tax-exempt status? Maybe Trump is on to something here, let’s let him cook.

I’m still waiting on a reasonable answer to why we wouldn’t just, you know, deport the people without a criminal record. If the border is so secure now, just call El Salvador, offer them some extra compensation for their lost slaves and ask them to drop them off in Guatemala or something.

I don’t know that c2c strikes me as a bleeding heart unconcerned with border security.

I’m going to get so rich re-publishing Das Kapital but just adding MAGA talking points and terms to each page.

Meh, I think the general left-wing view on this would likely boil down to finding gang violence less “bad” than terrorism, whereas I’m just annoyed that we are fucking around with some poli sci terms. I’m also annoyed that we suddenly accept massive restrictions to due process if terrorism is...

…What do you think retirement accounts are?

I don’t think many on my side are particularly concerned with the etymological implications of classifying gangs as terrorist organizations actually. More of a niche argument than a leftist talking point.

Unless you lose, in which case I get to decide what reality is. It’s a fun ruleset you’re providing me here.

Well, I guess we know now that if Dems win again that you’ll agree that science and language are fluid and it’s fine if President AOC is just following the will of the people and imprisons someone in El Salvador for mis-gendering someone. After all, winners determine what the law is.

You’re describing gang violence, a thing we have always recognized as bad. I don’t really even take issue with the Trump Admin declaring them terrorists. If I have any qualms on the law side, it’s that we afford the government too much authority to combat terrorism when other types of violence...

By the way, my point isn’t that you’re wrong to call them terrorists. My point is that you lot used to be the ones that clutched your pearls about re-defining things to suit your political agenda.

I don’t need gangs to be re-branded as terrorists to be opposed to gang violence or to be in favor of deporting gang members, but I think this is all a bit of a stretch when it comes to the commonly understood meaning of terrorism. Doesn’t make them any less bad, just different. We just have...

I’m shocked that someone who asks me what a woman is every few weeks has so openly embraced such a radical change to the definition of terrorism.

This is just naked authoritarianism, by the way.

This is the same information we’ve had all along?

Then Then convict them of a crime worthy of their sentence.

Trump is not the law. He doesn’t get to dictate what is legal or not.

No, in this case I’m asking for additional punishment to not be doled out to someone beyond deportation. It’s a pretty simple ask.

We’re literally only asking you not to pay El Salvador to imprison people without due process. Don’t get me wrong, I have other asks, but I don’t expect to get very far with those ones. But this one doesn’t feel extreme.

You’re simply describing two lies and excusing one because you like his policies more.