Summary
“American Pie” actress Jasmine Mooney, a Canadian citizen, was detained by ICE while attempting to renew her work visa at the U.S.-Mexico border on March 3.
She described the experience as a “deeply disturbing psychological experiment,” including sleeping on a mat with “aluminum foil wrapped over my body like a dead body,” being transported in chains, and receiving inedible food.
Officials allegedly told her she was “unprofessional because I didn’t have a proper letterhead” on her paperwork.
After her release, Mooney credited media attention and her support network for securing her freedom.
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Respectfully, Obama literally ordered the assassination of an American citizen.
Obama was an essential part of normalizing these extra-legal power grabs and the authoritarian state, and this is partly why Trump is able to get away with similar crimes.
You’re more respectful then the person you are responding to deserves.
People are less likely to listen to your point of view if you don’t approach them in good faith. I wish Democrats would learn this lesson.
Huh? That other person seems calm and respectful too. What do you mean?
They’re attempting to justify the unjustifiable.
They’re polite and calm about it, you’re correct. But those words pertain to how information is transmitted, not something that can be used to consider the morality of the information contained therein.
Do not confuse a kind way of saying horrible things as making the horrible things not horrible.
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You can defend him all you like, I voted for him too but he’s still part of the problem
I don’t think bombing campaigns in WWII are comparable to a president ordering illegal assassinations of American citizens by fiat.
You can justify it to yourself if you like, but it’s not an opinion that these crimes have normalized the activities of Donald Trump. (Though it was a 20+ year process that, IMHO, started with George W. Bush and 9/11)
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It absolutely was targeted.
Why are you saying it wasn’t?
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https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/world/middleeast/07yemen.html?hp
But, by all means, please continue lying.
You may be mistaking him for one of his children whom we’ve also killed.
Well, thank you for your perspective.
This is “effective” as well. For Musk/Trump.
Doesn’t make it okay.
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Everyone thinks they’re the good guys. The people of the US cast GW Bush, then Obama, now Trump in the good guy seat and these tools were on the table.
The whole problem with your philosophy of “the ends justify the means” is that that way of thinking is in itself an existential threat to humanity.
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Really was not expecting to see an openly fascist US nationalist on Lemmy of all places, but I guess it was only a matter of time.
If I wanted to be threatened by some bootlicker child from the other side of the world, I would be on the chans or playing Rust.
We’re done here.
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You don’t beat them by being them.
You also don’t win by lying about Obama assassinating American Citizens intentionally.
That’s horseshit used to justify sweeping your mistakes under the rug
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Those “messy solutions” are real convenient for White America I’ve noticed. I wonder how willing you’d be to accept “collateral damage” if it was your hospitals and weddings getting bombed.
This is liberal garbage and a huge part of the reason America is so hated.