• FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Deportation is not prison

    Devils Advocate: What they did was illegal though. Had they been transported to a cell in a prison van would that have been inappropriate?

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      3 days ago

      You assume that they are violent criminals and not just people who overstayed visas or are victims of a very slow refugee system.

      Trump has so many felonies, so many that are clear red flags showing that he shouldn’t be in charge of anything, and he is now the president of the United States. These people do not deserve the indignity of being sent home in chains on an unannounced military aircraft while that stupid fuck gets to prance around without any consequences at all.

      There’s being a devil’s advocate and there’s being stupid and cruel for the sake of it. You actually don’t need to “balance light and dark”.

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        Being a devils advocate is not enlightened centrism or bringing ‘balance’. It’s having a debate for the sake of having a debate. I don’t hold those views, hence why they’re so marked. Otherwise political discussion drains away as everyone sits in their respective silos. Im inviting people (if they want) to articulate their view beyond their emotional reaction.

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          You’re really not doing that and I do not have the time or energy to explain to it to you. Congrats on your opportunity to think on that, I wish you much luck.

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      This devil’s advocate position your holding is very akin to fascists “just asking questions”.

      You seem to equate any lawbreaking as requiring handcuffs and imprisonment. So by your “devil’s advocate” stand it seems like you think leaving your Christmas lights up deserves handcuffs and imprisonment. Do you agree?

      What situation do you think handcuffs should or should not be used when dealing with someone breaking the law?