"We need to take away children." (super effing long read, maybe just favourite it now, don't be a hero.)

Aug 11, 2022 2:10 AM

I want to cram this article down the throat of every Trump voter in America. But I realise that's not practical so, screenshots.

source: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/09/trump-administration-family-separation-policy-immigration/670604/

en español: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/09/trump-politica-de-separacion-familiar-inmigracion/671028/

Trial-run Holocaust.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Bless you for the share of a paywalled article. But also, the Atlantic is the one magazine I pay for, and I urge everyone to do the same!

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Kudos to you for posting a 30,000 word essay. But everyone should fucking read this

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Caitlin Dickerson's own tweet about the article: https://twitter.com/itscaitlinhd/status/1556306591506374657

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"you'll never see your kids again" That's a call to violence if I've ever seen one. Republican's invite it every time they speak.

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This is the shit he really needs to be in prison for.

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For another sad example of this, read up on actress Diane Guerrero (from ?????? ?? ??? ??? ????? and ???? ??????).

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Support real journalism.

3 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

(which this is. I subscribe to The Atlantic)

3 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I've favourited this because I know my heart can't handle this right now. But I also know it's important. I'll try later, maybe.

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I have a very interesting story when my family landed in PDX from Vietnam. A couple tried to take me away when I was born (5 mths after)

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They were told from the sponsored church that they could have me (illegal adoption). Lucky my dad took me and ran home.

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bookmarked, so I can read little by little on my break. Sadly I had to stop reading, back to work.......for now

3 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

Wholly crap! And I mean that literally!

3 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Also remember that America has a history of forcibly sterilizing minorities and "unwanteds" against their will.

3 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Holy shit

3 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

To fucking shreds, I say.

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And his wife?

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To fucking shreds, you say?

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Donald Trump is an evil man and one of the worst humans alive today. BAR NONE.

3 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

Yes hes evil but hes just the face of it. Stephen Miller and all the others going back to the Nixon admin are the evil minds behind him

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So, when are the prosecutions for the blatant crimes against humanity, please?

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The moment you have a foreign army occupying your capital. Well, a foreign army that cares at least a bit about human rights. So not China.

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Any takers?? Please??? Canada, wyd?

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As a future social worker, this is why I don't want to work with children. This hurts just reading and having to work like this would kill m

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Me too.

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TLDR;

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I got thru the first "pic" before having to stop. I'm a mother, & the idea of losing my child to jackboot thugs almost drives me to>

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Committing violence against those threatening him. Bc I know damn-well they only did this for the southern border. No one said a word to>

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The border agents about separating families from our northern border. Bc of course not. Cruelty is the point.

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The GOP are theocratic fascists otherwise known as Nazis. Reading this just told me they already started the trains & many looked away. (1)

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Interstate highways replaced by intercity railroads and car grids replaced by light rail? Sign me up for the Team Choo Choo.

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They cannot be allowed to win the midterms at any cost. Lest even more trains are started. (2)

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See the right has no problem with open borders cuz they can just sell them to the fields

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"Bethany Christian services, one of the groups contracted by the US Government..." Tax churches.

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Holy crap this is LONG. You weren't lying about that.

3 years ago | Likes 45 Dislikes 0

Yeah thats a god damn novel as far as imgur posts go.

3 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Yup. In fact, it's the longest article ever published by The Atlantic.

3 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

Yo fuck Homan with a cactus for suggesting family separation as a deterrent. Much like his name, he's not quite human.

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It's telling that upon seeing a dead father & son, he didn't feel guilt himself but imposed it on the dead father & used it as justification

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The US has long been in the business of genocide of anyone who isn't a white Christian. This is neither anything new or surprising.

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SOP since 1620.

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"if you got some brown people in your country, you better tell them to look the fuck out, because we will bomb them." - George Carlin

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everyone should appreciate a thorough grasp of history, but dismissing present horrors as par for the course doesn't help.

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You know what? Agreed and my bad. +1 op

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TLDR: Trump is horrible and he sold his firstborn child, Donatella, to goblins for “goblin gold” (i.e. lead)

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Isn’t goblin gold just another term for hot piss from a chlamydia ridden Russian hooker?

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Underrated

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Agreed. I also want to add that Congress is implicit in this. As Americans, we have failed.

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Our country failed us long before we failed it. America is just legacy families ruling a land they committed atrocities to obtain.

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I shouldn't be having difficulty figuring out if this is true

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That final comment from Miller regarding his spending time with their kid. Hypocrites both of them.

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What

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Yeah, it's pretty effed up...

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Donatella?

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The child separation program was happening under Obama's admin also and before that too. Ask activists in Texas and native nations in SW US

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I know for a fact child separation was happening in texas under the obama admin because my community was protesting it even then.

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Talk to indigenous and latino activists in Texas, you are wrong about this. US gov has taken children away for decades.

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I did a thorough search. I did find evidence of what you are saying. I stand corrected.

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I do not have to time to read it all, but the first few pages are gut-wrenching. The thought of my son being taken from us is unbearable and

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I'm sorry people had to go through that, Trump is a fucking monster, and its voting base are no better, they rejoiced for it.

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Btw, and I swear it's true, when scrolling, each time I saw a photo of people in front of US flags or symbols, I saw swastikas.

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Same. The implications are unnerving.

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