• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    Jesus Christ, even ProPublica is doing the “he might not do it” thing? Have he and all of his surrogates not repeated themselves enough yet?

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      "But what about last time! The guard rails worked! It won’t be that bad.”

      Meanwhile every single guard rail is 50 miles behind us.

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        There’s literally someone making that argument right now. “The genocide isn’t going to happen, they’re just lying about it” is the most dangerous possible position to take right now.

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      Everybody has to use the “maybe he does, maybe he doesn’t”. His unreliability is a feature not a bug.

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        It is far from just Trump boasting in this case. And they are already acting on it. New Jersey is expanding its camps, and Texas donated land to build camps there too.

        This is just not a “maybe” situation.