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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Quick reminder: The Nazi German government emptied out Eastern European towns and villages taken by the Wehrmacht during various campaigns, most notably Operation Barbarossa, for resettlement of "pure" Germans to those occupied lands (called Lebensraum)... this started almost literally once these occupied towns and villages were far enough from the front lines. Also, the whole point of the US Government's genocidal forced march of native tribes, often referred to as the Tail of Tears, was to clear said native tribes out so the Southern aristocracy could seize the land for plantations worked by chattel slaves... whole swaths of what is today Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi were settled by whites as a result.

Many a "populist" (read: Fascist or proto-Fascist) operate their politics in this manner. Promise either cheap land (or, at the very least, housing) to the workers and others by committing what is, on it's face, a genocide. There's more modern examples (two in particular, going on right this minute for all the world to see), but I don't want to get the ban-hammer so I won't name them directly (I forgot to check the instance in which I am commenting before doing so, but not taking my chances).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Additionally, "Mass deportation" is a fucking genocide, I don't know how this can even be said loudly. Guess people never learn...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (7 children)

It’s not in any way genocide. How do you figure that it is?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Let's say you suddenly got yanked from your home and sent to live in the land of your ancestors (where you don't have a home or any friends). Would you survive?

If yes, ask yourself again, but now you're broke and have a medical condition and you require medication to survive. How about now?

These people getting deported don't have 2nd homes they can return to, and they can't just put one on a credit card.

Don't like homelessness? Mass deportation creates homelessness crises.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Be more accurate if Padme said "You have 10 chairs for $10,000 and 10 kids with $100"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

sell the kids to purchase a tenth of a house

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I'd say the middle ground of learning from your mistakes and focussing on having less children in the future is perhaps something to consider.

In the meantime you should get enough chairs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Both ideas are terrible.

Limiting how many homes that can be owned and preventing foreigners from owning rental homes would hurt the oligarchy, so our bought government would never do that, though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

The analogy is just incorrect. It's not that there's 7 chairs and 10 kids. It's that there's four kids and one asshole is taking up all seven chairs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Kill 10 kids, sell 7 chairs

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Broke: Kill three kids

Woke: Buy three chairs

Bespoke: Birth control 20 years ago

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