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“Immigrants are good for your GDP, but fuck your GDP. Honestly, that is a secondary benefit. The primary focus, I think, should be on the moral case, or the human argument, and I think there are two basic ways to make it. One is to talk about this border: where was it drawn, how was it drawn there, and who drew it? And if you look at pretty much any country in the world right now, and we can just stick with the United States for our current audience, the way that we drew this border line, and the reason we drew it where we did, is because we engaged in genocidal slaughter of the people who liv ..read more

“I think that there is a humanitarian crisis at the border. All the things that both Democrats and Republicans are proposing to do to respond to that crisis—by failed policies and tactics—not only don’t address the causes of why we’re seeing increased numbers of people moving across the border, they actually make it worse. They often make more people cross the border, and then don’t respond to them in any humane way. They make the crossing more deadly; they make people suffer as they cross more, and they’re stripping people of rights.” - John Washington ..read more

“If you can’t come up with a business that earns enough money to pay each of your staff enough money to live with dignity, you’re not really good at business, what you’re good at is exploiting the poor.” - holly ..read more

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52,529 guns once owned by police departments have been later used in crimes, new data finds: Law enforcement resold guns to firearms dealers for discounts on new equipment and, in some cases, directly to their own officers, records show. Some of the guns were later involved in shootings, domestic violence incidents, and other violent crimes ..read more

“In National Review, Buckley gave Virginia newspaper editor James Kilpatrick a platform to assure readers that desegregation challenged American values. Black Americans had no right to the equality declared unanimously by the Supreme Court, Kilpatrick wrote. Rather, the white community had an established right “to peace and tranquillity [sic]; the right to freedom from tumult and lawlessness.” Desegregation would lead to bloody violence, he promised, implying that Black Americans would rage and riot, although, in fact, it was the white community that was attacking Black Americans. In 1964 ..read more

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“When you complain, people judge you. It doesn’t matter what you’re complaining about. It doesn’t matter what you’re protesting or whistle-blowing. It doesn’t matter if your life is at stake. It doesn’t matter if thousands of lives are at stake. It doesn’t matter if the fate of humanity is at stake. Someone’s first instinct is to suspect you. It’s to accuse you of lying. It’s to label you a troublemaker.” - How Good, Kind, Caring People Became The Bad Guys ..read more