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[–] PRIMEcavitationfetishist@quokk.au 44 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (41 children)

Speaking as someone from america:

If you kill them, they'll try to spin it as justification for war. This can be mitigated. Might blow back on the administration anyway.

If you let them keep going, they'll see you as weak and try to invade. There's apparently a munitions shortage, so that could get pretty interesting.

If you try to stop them without killing them, you're so fucking fucked. They'll never stop coming, and it will become a weird racist/nationalist thing with lots of conspiracies. Peace will become domestically costly for any us admin to do. The dead are easier than the imprisoned. That's not to say you can't apply legal process, but you need high confidence there's a rope at the end.

[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

ICE has shown the way, arrest them and lock them up in immigration detention with no access to anything. If Greenland has anything, it’s ICE!

[–] PRIMEcavitationfetishist@quokk.au 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

*immigration detention in another country and losing the paperwork, denying you ever made contact

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