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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 day ago (13 children)

Maybe I miss something, but why Laos of all places? I didn't get what connects her to that particular counrty, could it be her ethnicity as a person who was actually born in another country? Why not Tai? Like, I miss a lot of questions to ask before that, why she's even deported in the first place, but the seemingly random choice of the country is what surprised me and the article's writer the most.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I’m far from an expert and only know what I know from a short story.

But the Hmong people are from Laos but many of them fled to Thailand as refugees I think it was from some military action.

I’m not sure, but it might have been the US military. I read somewhere that Laos had the most bombs dropped on it or something.

Again, this info could be off, so please double check if you want to learn more, but this might get you started.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

IIRC, the CIA convinced the Hmong to fight for them against the communists in southeast Asia, and promised to take care of them if it all went south. Well, we all know how the Vietnam war went, and while a government that was very unhappy with the Hmong for siding with the CIA was taking over, the CIA basically threw deuces and vanished on them. So shocking and uncharacteristic of the US to betray an ally, I know. So, the Hmong fled to Thailand and begged the US for aid. I'm sure we'll get the duality of tankie responses (nobody was treating them badly but if they were they deserved it), but the gist is that they were seeking refuge. A few years later, the US granted it. Now, bear in mind, originally they'd been told they were going to be able to have their own farms and fuck off to nowhere and mind their own business. Uncle Sam basically dumped them in Merced, California, patted himself on the back, and walked away. There was a lot of drama about it for a while, because the locals got real upset that this entire population just showed up basically overnight and seemed to resist integration, and the Hmong were upset because they just wanted to fuck off and mind their own farms. Fifty years later, though, the Hmong are a pretty big deal (in a good way) in the community, so that's cool.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

Oof, what we did in Vietnam to the Vietnamese people was already unbelievably evil and unforgivable, but we even betrayed people that risked everything to help us? Wow.

My heart breaks for all the people who died in that terrible war: the innocent Vietnamese who merely wanted to be free to self determine and also the young boys that the US sent to their death for absolutely no good reason.

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

It's a testament to Kurdish military prowess that the same story with different details didn't happen to them

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm scanning the article for the part where she or members of her family voted for trump

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[–] [email protected] 124 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Anyone wondering why they are so needlessly cruel - that's the point. It's a demonstration of malign power for both the oppressed and the oppressors so that each knows their place.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago

Same reason as the Nazi regime and the Jews. They need somebody to hate and destroy because of their fragile ego. It is easier to believe in something than it is to question something.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

One of my friends was complaining that Biden's border policy is a disaster and I told her that it's actually very easy to "fix" the border, it's just incompatible with stated US values:

Ritual torture.

Now they have to expand the target population because Biden's deportation numbers were better.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Uh she was involved in a drug trafficking operation. She is not some innocent person. Being a PR this was very stupid on her part.

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh, she's also diabetic and running out of insulin & heart medication. And the Lao government is holding her things so she has no money or identification or anything. Neat.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hopefully Laos deports her back to the US.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

Where she won't be able to afford the medications anyway!

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Where did Wisconsin’s electoral college votes go to? I’m guessing they wanted this.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why? What's surprising about Nazis doing Nazi things?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Right? What part of "mass deportations" do we not understand when voting for Krasnov?

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