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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

US claims ‘emergency refugee situation’ as it admits 10,000 more white South Africans

www.theguardian.com

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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago
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Trump has repeatedly made false claims that white Afrikaners facing genocide with costs of resettling them at $100m
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  • cøre@leminal.space
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    So they’re importing a bunch of racists from South Africa. Who will vote for fascist Rs. Isn’t that what they accuse Ds of doing?

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      Every accusation …

    • arrow74@lemmy.zip
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      Using the max number from the article of 17,500 people, that’s not enough to make any real difference. Maybe if they went through a major effort to settle them in one or two close congressional districts.

      Also they can’t vote for at least 5 years after they arrive assuming they all rush to get their citizenship.

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzBanned from community
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      They’re not sending their best.

    • emmy5482@quokk.au
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      But would they even be eligible to vote?

      • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
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        Sure, if they speed up the naturalization process for them

        • emmy5482@quokk.au
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          Yikes

    • Peck@lemmy.world
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      Why are they racist?

      • DaleGribble88@programming.dev
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        Agreed, we don’t know that they are racist. Like most anywhere, you are very likely to find a mix of both racist, anti-racist, and everyone in between. However, given relatively recent historical context, they are likely to have a higher proportion of racists with a higher degree of severity.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid

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    Please publish their names and addresses so that we, their new neighbors, may properly welcome them.

    • nixFREAK@sopuli.xyz
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      100% none of them are vetted.

      • notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip
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        Their bank accounts and political ideology datapoints were, I guarantee it.

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    The real winners in all of this are the people of South Africa who no longer have to deal with these racist pieces of shit

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      Yes. Thank you for taking them from us. Some of you may be exposed to bigotry, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.

    • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      jdpon don strikes again by helping south africa’s decolonization efforts 🫡

      /j

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    Elon’s slow walk invasion. Part of a side agreement he and trump have. Everyone step right up! We’re selling it all!!

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    They’re not sending their best

  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
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    America is having an emergency president situation

  • sportsjorts@lemmy.zip
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    Gross.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    That’s exactly what we need… ffs.

    Reminder for anyone who doesn’t know, it’s highly likely that the Q account on 8chan was a white South Afrikaner before the account was highjacked by Ron Watkins and his father Jim Watkins (owners of the image board). Allegedly.

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    Man, I watched The Second Civil War for the first time a couple months ago, and thought it was kind of an interesting take on what issues might be prevalent today. I thought the mass immigration of certain groups to appease political groups seemed a little far fetched though. I guess nothing is satire anymore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Civil_War

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      I recently watched that movie. I liked the part where a news reporter has a freak out and says there is no other news. This is how they should be reacting to current events

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    i mean, this could be seen as a good thing, as a sort of late decolonization? if he gets the white people (which are all descendants of colonizers) out of south africa.

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      Not really, if we accept that premise then it’s just furthering colonization of a different place.

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      deleted by creator

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    These neo-confederates will make for shitty soldiers. The world will be better someday, once their plots are filled and promptly forgotten.

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    But he’s not racist

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    I wonder how they will get to vote. Hmmm.

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    I hear that Alligator Alcatraz is available!

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    Musk’s new Braun shirt army.

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