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Game Thread Rays vs. Twins 6/27/19 12:10 PM CST
PseudoSABR replied to stringer bell's topic in Archived Game Threads
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Dude, you get so butthurt every time anyone wants to talk about race. That's what a snowflake is. Someone who gets easily offended and tells other people how to behave and how to talk. You. No one said her death was a result of racism. Nice strawman, there. But an immigration that focuses almost exclusively on border crossing (who largely consist of one race) rather than on visa overstays (a diverse group) invites questions about that policies implications on race.
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If race isn't a factor how do you explain the emphasis on border crossings rather than those who overstay their visas? After all, this administration first acted on the issue of immigration with a Muslim ban; we should be cynical about their motives. Again, stop policing the conversation, you may not agree that race is a factor in immigration policy, but there is a credible basis for that belief, and there's nothing "disgusting" about voicing that belief. In short, quit being such a snowflake and getting offended any time someone mentions the concept of race.
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All on Trump? No. Up thread, I said, that past administrations clearly have a hand in this BUT it is Trump's flagship issue. Holding Obama accountable, doesn't relieve holding Trump accountable as well, as his policies are not a mere continuation of an old regime.
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I think he eventually just runs for that Senate seat. Or Julian Castro beats him to the punch.
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Apologies for whatever personal tinge I embedded in my general complaint. I took your post as an opportunity to battle a developing theme to which the logic you laid out may apply; that I seemed to rope you in was unintentional and not at all deliberate. That said, if you think owning our country's policies towards much of the American Continent for last several decades (whether regime exchange or drug policy, etc.) bears upon the exodus of so many from such countries is a bridge too far for us to bear, I just disagree. It is not magic, or ****canning to suggest that the idyllic definition of asylum is ill-suited to the current crisis. There are humans at our border, by the hundreds of thousands. This will not go away. We complain of income inequity in this country, but globally, that inequality is a humanitarian crisis waiting to happen. Like walls, guns, millions of people at the border kinda crisis. We need policy to avoid that, and we need it now. I'm open to ideas, I have some of my own.
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He feels like the definition of twice-too-clever to me. All the tones and stories of authenticity, yet....something.
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A point that should be appreciated by those dead, no doubt? Of course, these people will not get legal asylum--though the concept broadly should perhaps include disenfranchisement due to failing governments, economies etc. My point is that there is ethical way to handle people who are obviously under the misapprehension of their access to asylum rights (is it illegal to apply for asylum even if one does not qualify??), and we are not doing that. The notion that the parents should have known better requires some legal sophistication I don't grant to most American citizens, let alone those escaping poverty in Central America. And again, that they do not qualify for asylum, might speak more to how our current law is equipped to handle the actual humanitarian crisis at the border than to the culpability of the parents. My point continues to be, where can WE be responsible, what can WE do, and not pass the buck to obviously desperate people to somehow know better. It may not be our fault, but it is our responsibility because we are the only ones with the means do something about this crisis and these specific deaths.
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I was struck how little Trump (and Biden) was mentioned tonight. The JV team for the Dems is pretty good. Should they win the Whitehouse, they have the makings of a good cabinet.
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Julian Castro's answer on immigration and why Trump's policy is responsible for those deaths is convincingly succinct. He points to the metering policy where this man and his daughter went to a port of entry and were turned away, it was after they explored legal entry that they crossed illegally.
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Jesus. He didn't burn down everything great in this country. We tend to overstate the power the president has in effecting our daily lives, so even with a vile creature in the Whitehouse, even the poorest of Americans have better lives than these people fleeing Central America.
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Tim Ryan? John Delaney? At least I've heard of the rest. I think this a big time opportunity for Warren to steal the spotlight and the news cycle for at least a day, though I'm not exactly glad she's up against the JV squad.
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I do. When that administration curtails access to and the granting of legal asylum, and puts such seekers into near concentration camp conditions, those who would seek legal asylum, out of desperation, seek other means of entry into the US. This administration cannot claim to lack the funds to humanely deal with the immigration crisis when the only accomplishment of GOP control of the government has been a tax cut benefiting the very wealthy. And moreover, the stupid build-the-wall policy serves to distract from efforts to actually put funds that can prevent deaths like these. I'm sure past administration share part of the blame here; but this is Trump's flagship issue. And he's ****ed up both in terms of his policy goals and the implementation.
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Don't disagree with the sensationalism critique, but I think we sometimes are too willing to grant desperate people the free will to make impossible, yet wise, choices. To have the foresight to see that coming to the US is somehow more dangerous than staying at home.
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And when children die in their home country due to whatever depravity should we blame the parents then, too, for not escaping such conditions?
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Powerful twitter thread https://twitter.com/Breznican/status/1143660035009966080
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So your point is that in order to protect people like Ariana Funes-Diaz or Angie Valeria from MS-13, through the implementing of a harsher immigration policy, we need accept that people like Ariana Funes-Diaz or Angie Valeria may end up dead along the way?
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MLB All-Star Election Day: What You Need to Know
PseudoSABR replied to Cody Christie's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
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The best people.
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Twins Showing "Strong" Interest in Bumgarner
PseudoSABR replied to Cody Christie's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
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Game Thread: Twins vs. Rays 5:10 PM PST (7:10 PM CDT) 6/25/2019
PseudoSABR replied to Blake's topic in Archived Game Threads
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No, it is not. It puts gay couples retroactively at the same tax level as heterosexual couples. It is not a payment for some harm society caused them. Hold yourself accountable and quit being so sloppy with your words, and then lashing out when you get called out on it. The term--reparation--as used here is meant to discredit the idea, and invoke anger over "special treatment" from a variety of bigots. In that sense, it has worked in getting you to lazily repeat it.
