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He won’t stop because the cruelty is the point

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That’s disingenuous.

The point is to seem like he’s got a plan for the migrant crisis by bussing them out of state.

And if he sends them to Blue states where services are better for undocumented migrants, isn’t that better for the individuals? Or would they really be better off in Texas?

Regardless, my point is, if you don’t try to understand why your political opponent is doing something, you’ll never be able to fix anything.

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this is disingenuous.

if abbot wanted to reduce the suffering of migrants he would coordinate with sanctuary cities to better allocate resources.

suffering is the goal.

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Yes, his plan is to be cruel.

Hitler had a plan to solve the financial crisis by oppressing jews. Is it disingenuous to say the cruelty was the point? Should we actually be talking about Hitler’s terrible economic ideas?

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To be fair, it WAS a pretty terrible long term economic plan to attempt to systematically murder huge swaths of your citizenry.

It is just that the moral, ethical, humane, etc horrors of that direction are much more important.

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Regardless, my point is, if you don’t try to understand why your political opponent is doing something, you’ll never be able to fix anything.

I agree, but there’s not much more “understanding” necessary when we’re dealing with child death. If nothing gets fixed after this, then what’s left to try to understand?

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Why won’t anybody think of poor Greg!!!

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I don’t understand why the federal government allows these buses (or chartered planes, or whatever) to continue. Since it involves crossing state borders, don’t the feds have jurisdiction?

I don’t know what the passengers were told in this instance, but in other cases, people were lied to. They agreed to go because were told they would be getting jobs and homes. I don’t think they would have voluntarily gone if they were told the truth - “we’re going to dump you somewhere as a political stunt. We’re not giving them any prior notice, so it’s anyone’s guess as to how you and your family will be taken care of. We don’t care, because to us, you’re not people. You’re just tools we’ll use to own the libs.”

When some creep lures a kid into a van with the promise of candy, and then drives them halfway across the country, we call it kidnapping. Why hasn’t anyone been prosecuted?

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IIRC it’s being worked on. I think they’re working on builing a case.

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I certainly hope so! Thanks!

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A child died while he was trafficking immigrants. Why is he not in a federal prison?

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Enough republicans support this and many republicans coming from out of state are keeping Texas red.

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Because he’s a Republican and the DOJ would have to care

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As the conservatives cheer…

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I don’t think the online backlash matters. The real question is if Abbott is receiving any backlash in Texas and it appears probably not much, if any. Texans need to step up here and they don’t seem to be doing that.

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Half of us have tried and tried to vote this asshole and his cohorts out. The other half re-elect republicans after school shootings.

Personally I wish this state would break itself up into five smaller states so at least one of the five might be run by sane people.

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This but unironically

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Not.All.Texans.

But most of their voters sadly.

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Blue areas tend to be disgusted with his actions, red don’t care at best or think, “well that’s what they get trying to cross illegally”. The problem however, is that the districts are gerrymandered like crazy and the actual polling places tend to disproportionately be in Republican areas, which makes it hard for Democrats to get a real hold anywhere they don’t already have control of. Additionally, the Democrats really feel like they aren’t sending their best. Iirc Beto didn’t originally want to run for governor, but he did because all the other options were so bad that very few people even knew who they were.

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