• Dragomus@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Hmm not to discredit this, but how does that work, being detained and having to produce a birth certificate … does one normally daily carry a birth certificate next to ones ID?

    And if you’re detained without a a birth certificate while on vacation across the country?

    Only ID on you? Go to prison?

    No ID nor birth certificate and you’ll either get shot or deported?

    What if you speak something else than Spanish or English amongst yourselves?

    How long 'till the Trump administration mandates a form of ID on ones hand, arm, or forehead?

    • Marleyinoc@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Lol. The religious nutjobs will really love it when he gives us a choice of the taking the mark (of the beast) or face deportation.

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        2 years ago

        It would be awesome though if we were able to deport all the religious nut jobs. Though not for the places these crazies would be deported to.

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          Put them on an Ark - wooden, overloaded, cast adrift in the type of weather that would cause massive flooding, if you catch my drift. Of course, gathering two of each animal would be cruel, so we’ll skip those.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    As of 2023, there were over 42 million Spanish speakers in America.

    I used to live in South Gate, a neighborhood in L.A. We were the only family in the neighborhood that didn’t speak Spanish. Even the local pizza places didn’t understand us well enough to order from. We didn’t complain, we were the white people who chose to move there and we were fine with it. But we’re talking about a neighborhood full of homeowners, not undocumented immigrants. Some of them were in the U.S. for generations.

    And then there’s Florida:

    First settled by the Spanish in the 16th century, 19% of Floridians now speak Spanish, which is the most widely taught second language. In Miami, 67% of residents spoke Spanish as their first language in 2000.

    In addition, there are several other major cities in Florida with a sizable percentage of the population able to speak Spanish, most notably Tampa (18%) and Orlando (16.6%).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language_in_the_United_States#Florida

    The U.S. has no official language. Spanish is one of many spoken in the U.S. A large proportion of the U.S. used to be Mexico. Of course we have a ton of people here who speak Spanish.

    But, you know, “they all look and sound alike.”

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    2 years ago

    Honest question and genuinely not suggesting anything, but, Isn’t this what the second amendment is for?

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        Well I think they really only did two things : A) appeal to far right people with their roots waaaay out in the boondocks mostly northward rather than southwestward using stuff like dog whistles, and B) use doublespeak to simultaneously appeal to, draw in, and superficially radicalize the more centre right types just enough to get their vote over the top, to have a substantial base, and to be able to call it ‘a mandate’. I mean they really went out into the deep country for campaigning.

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          2 years ago

          You forgot the most important step: lie your ass off constantly faster than the truth can catch up to you

          The “mandate”, for instance, is horseshit. There is no mandate. Trump won by one of the smallest margins in American history and immediate turned around to cry, “The people love me! They voted for me overwhelmingly! Best most fairest election of all time!”

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            2 years ago

            yeah… that whole concept of mandate or not presumes our representitves respect the voters or try to do what we want, and its been proven with studies that what we want doesnt matter at all to them. Theres near zero correlation with what we want and what they do. So we can just stop talking about mandates entirely, its a myth.