FFS. Don't follow Donald Trump's example. Europeans are supposed to be smarter than this.
this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2025
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We only think we are. We are sitting in the same boat and don't dare to leave it. Trump has to be seen more as a sympton of our political and economical system not being able to enact changes that betters the lives of the majority of people.
Middle east? We don't want to change our design Social Injustice? The poor aren't working enough and also they steal our jobs Climate Change? We can't afford to do what needs to be done. We will just have to acclimate to a vastly different world somewhere in the future... Wars and conflict? Our allies have no other way and some countries need simply to be toppled as to get better contracts for them companies
I could go on or into detail but thinking that we can push back autocracy without getting rid of the old sins and problems will not work out. Until we realise this, autocracy will try anything and everything to uphold the status quo for as long as possible.
That's not deportation. That's human trafficking.
Certainly we will not tolerate this? Where's the protest?
Can we instead "deport" every moron who supports this insanity to the moon, or if that's too expensive to the bottom of the sea perhaps? What in the everloving fuck are these people even thinking?!
They're thinking "We wanna get rid of these people, but we don't want to deal with the rigermarole of actually dealing with sending them to places that either don't want them or are active warzones, so we're gonna send them to a random country that may or may not want them so they can deal with these random stateless people."
It's literally playing hot potato with people.
Imagine needing Xenophobia to deflect from the fact that one has no better ideas than everyone else. Just put those problems on migrants and pretend to fix something by deporting.
The most ironic part is that our system NEEDS fresh human capital as we are not able to get our greedy little hands on any other ressources right now and thats not good for our economy.
Our god (the economy) is dying and all our system knows is to carry on, prevent reform und deflect.
I'd like to quote the wise Rage Against The Machine: "Burn, burn, yes, you're gonna burn"
You too, huh?
How many of those countries have right wing governments?