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[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

It's part of the strategy -- publicly condemn people as being the type of person that is easy to hate so that there is support for the punishment.

If he started disappearing people without giving any reason, his supporters would be more likely to take note of that and question him. "Violent criminals and terrorists" on the other hand, that the people can get behind, apparently without question.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Glad you can see it that way. Even your average liberal agrees that deporting violent criminals is a good idea -- what we oppose is the idea that the government can accuse anyone of being a violent criminal without evidence, punish them without scrutiny, and even make them disappear.

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

Not all 341 million are required, but other than that, yes, successful protests and other forms of resistance have always been about people "all agreeing to do the same thing."

History is your friend here.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

What you are missing about why we are actually enraged is the complete lack of evidence of their crimes or any kind of due process. Everybody deserves to be heard by the court.

Even if you don't care about immigrants, you should realize that if they can be targeted and punished without evidence, then you can be too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

How do you find it? I don't see an app called SafetyCore on my phone

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

There's a pretty easy out for someone determined to believe in this stuff: their own act of prayer itself was part of God's plan.

Also, these types of theists usually justify these outwardly incompatible beliefs with a distinction between "true" free will and the "perception" of free will. In some people's deterministic view, while God has this omniscient perspective that spans all of space and time, the human perspective is one of the impression of freedom, a sense that feels so real that you might as well call it it simply "free will".

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Probably figured they could get married real quick and everything would be fine, "Trump's only going after the thieves and rapists".

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (6 children)

That's exactly who he is trying to appeal to.