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Leopards Ate My Face

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Haha, I love the shadenfreud and I refuse to feel bad about it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

"refuse to feel bad"?

I'm openly laughing about this. I always feel bad when bad things happen to people, even to bad people, but this guy literally asked for it, and persuaded others to also ask for it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 19 hours ago

Good. Fuck him and anyone who voted for Trump.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 21 hours ago
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

He probably didn’t even try not sucking

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago

He’s also gay which makes his support for trump extra stupid

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I’d feel sorry for the guy, but he literally asked for this.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

but I asked for it to happen to other people!

typical maga

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[–] JackbyDev 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Wait, hold on, this person was actually here illegally (not passing judgement) and openly campaigned for someone who was talking about deporting people?

Edit: Fix typo

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

https://www.cubaheadlines.com/articles/296478

He's an anti-communist who thought he was the right kind of refugee.

Keeping in mind refugees and asylum seekers are not illegal.

Unfortunately for his dumb ass, Trump didn't just not reinstate the Wet Feet, Dry Feet policy, he specifically complained about its existence (despite it ending under Obama)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_feet,_dry_feet_policy

But, also, he's literally a criminal and a scammer so while this is still a Face Eating Leopard situation it's not * just* because Trump is a racist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

so this is not an issue of stupidity, just a scammer seeing the opportunity to and trying to board the mother ship by kissing ass (like many other scammers and billionaires) but failing miserably. I am sure when ICE came to get him he was shouting "BUT I SUPPORTED TRUUUUUMP"

[–] [email protected] 97 points 2 days ago (6 children)

“I’m on of the good ones!” They scream as they are being put into an ICE van!

“I voted for Trump!” They plead.

“I’n here legally!” They cry.

ICE cares not for their screams. For ICE only cares that they are non-white*.

*Don’t worry white immigrants. One day, you too shall be deported. Once all the non-white people are gone.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Funny fact about a cage, they’re never built for just one group, So when that cage is done with them and you still poor, it come for you

~~Killer Mike~~ El-P

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 2 days ago (4 children)

The Cubans thought they were safe because they've been staunch Republicans. One of the key demographics in keeping Florida red.

Well, now they learn. And for people thinking oh they'll release him when they find out they can't deport him because there are no flights to Cuba...

ICE asks where you're from but they don't take your word for it. They can easily decide you're from anywhere else, like Haiti or El Salvador. And with quotas they are now incentivized to do so, rather than before where the paperwork incentivized them to accept you were not deportable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Deporting him to Haiti would be hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

No it wouldn't. Nothing about this is funny.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I always thought it was funny Cubans voting Republican. I am told it's because they fear socialism because of Castro, so they vote for fascism. Even though the DNC is still far into the capitalism territory. It makes no sense to me.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago

They feared the tankies so much, they voted the far-right...

🤣

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The first wave of Cuban immigrants to the US came immediately after the revolution, and it was mostly rich people. Castro was redistributing the land and the wealth, executing former police torturers, and going after crime lords who had been safe under the Batista regime, and every worm that could escape did so. These types were allowed into the US for their propaganda value because of course they wouldn't have any trouble going on TV and talking about how horrible communism was and crying about how their plantations were taken away from them by the government. That group of rich people and cops was already right wing by American standards when they came here, and set the tone for all Cuban migrants who came after.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can't say ICE discriminates...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

can we say ICE is DEI

[–] [email protected] 157 points 2 days ago (9 children)

I’d like to see the information environment that made this guy a Trump supporter.

What did he see? Was he deep in Facebook? Twitter? Local stuff?

[–] [email protected] 132 points 2 days ago

From what I understand, Republicans, especially in Florida, put out political ads targeted specifically at Cuban immigrants. They play off the inherent hatred of communism in this demographic to convince them to vote against the "radical Marxist Democrats."

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 days ago (5 children)

environment that made this guy a Trump supporter

A LOT of Immigrants and Illegals in the US are very pro-Trump. I spoke with a few in my old neighborhood to get their take.

They said that the government didn't worry them because it wasn't that far off from where they came from. They felt elitism created niches where someone knowledgeable could profit. Party of the entrepreneurs and all.

Two said they didn't want any more immigrants here, they felt pressure from the incoming immigrants to take their places and out-compete them for work.

Because this was the last trump presidency, there was less deportation talking. I'm sure that gave some concern, but If I had to guess based on their psyche, I'd say they expected the deportation to lighten the low-hanging fruit and take the pressure off their own jobs at the same time, expecting them would just be ok because they were always ok.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 days ago (12 children)
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[–] [email protected] 97 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I would bet money he still supports Trump, there's no limit to the doubling down.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 days ago

I would bet money he still supports Trump

Obviously, trump just put him there by accident, he didn't know he was one of the good immigrants, If they just had some way to signal him, he'd change his plan.

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[–] [email protected] 122 points 2 days ago (2 children)

OMG he must be so happy right now.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 days ago

He is! He voted Trump for the free flight home! So much winning!

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago

He really owned the libs.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 days ago

Protip: You aren't being a "Model Minority" or "One of the good ones", you're being a useful idiot and will be left holding the bag 200 out of 100 times.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The system is working as designed. This is how the system was built to work.

Dude campaigns for rich asshole, rich asshole deports him on principle.

The worker shortage that will be caused by deporting illegal workers will not be filled by the fat lazy Americans who are unemployed. They refuse to do such work because it is beneath them. So we'll have a massive gap, especially on farms. The farmers will take this to the government, and the farmers will get even more compensation because the government keeps fucking them over. Over and over and over again.... At this point, I think farmers qualify as government employees.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I am not a fan of the narrative that Americans are too lazy to take jobs that are being worked by immigrants. It's just not true. Americans won't take these jobs because these jobs aren't going to pay what Americans demand. Not because they're lazy. These immigrants are being taken advantage of and are being paid way less than they deserve simply because they're illegal immigrants. Them being deported isn't going to suddenly make these jobs higher paying positions. The problem is with corporations. Not with immigrants nor with American citizens (well except the fucked up americans that voted for trump).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I just want to clarify that I'm saying the fat and lazy Americans won't take the job, not that Americans are fat and lazy therefore they won't take the job.

There's a bit of a difference and I just want to be clear about what I'm saying here.

There's a lot more to consider on this and how it impacts inflation and the viability of American farming as an industry. Since I'm neither and agricultural expert, nor an American, I'm going to dip instead.

Good luck neighbors.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Well, that was a pretty dumb thing for him to do. It's not like Trump was unclear on his deportation policies.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (3 children)

"But I'm one of the good ones"

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

LOLOLOL!!! Good! Adios asshole!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

I don't actually feel bad for this guy at all. He was a scammer and probably deserves to be deported, but I'm not going to credit Trump for accidentally doing a good thing, his rhetoric just happened to align with reality for a very brief moment.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 days ago

That’s a quality self-own, if you ask me.

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