This is so deeply embarrassing and shocking at the same time.
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@briankrebs Weelll... Decades ago, when I was still traveling to the USA, I found it bizarre that at the Immigrations entrance of the airports, they had an entrance for "Aliens" (instead of "foreigners") - as if we were from Mars or something. So, not particularly new as far as I am concerned.
@bontchev @briankrebs don't get lost in the wordplay. That's the exploit.
The legal word with a Latin root carries one meaning. A person who holds citizenship somewhere, standing outside the boundary of that authority. It describes the relationship to authority and makes no claim about the kind of being a person is. "Alienus" meant belonging to another authority, and that was always a sovereign by law, never a species.
This flips to the twentieth century pulp magazine meaning, which is about the "nature" of something. It's the essence of being, an "other kind" or outsider. The meaning is known, it's loud and obnoxious, it's dehumanizing (Entmenschlichung) on purpose, using "humor" to inject the cruelty. The cruelty is the sorting itself, designated as something you can't change.
Nazi Germany did exactly this (Blutschutzgesetz and the Reichsbürgergesetz of September 1935) using a framework of blood as either "artverwandt", for kindred species, and "artfremd", for wrong species (literally alien).
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@ZeroTrustWraith @briankrebs I have no epistemic authority to state anything definitively, but if I was a twisted psychopath that wanted to depopulate the US in preparation for liquidation of assets and silent transfer of control to foreign governments… this currently playing scenario is precisely what I would do. Which is, of course, not any proof of anything other than my own bias. The truth is I’m not a twisted psychopath and I actually can’t imagine how they think. Any statement I’m otherwise is just an attempt to assert false control in a chaotic world.
@Netraven @briankrebs birthrates have been declining since the 50s. I am not sure what the agenda is, but that information alone is worrisome.
https://www.macrotrends.net/datasets/global-metrics/countries/usa/united-states/birth-rate
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This is so deeply embarrassing and shocking at the same time. Navigate to whitehouse.gov/aliens/ and you will see a page that at first glance appears to tease unclassified information about aliens from outer space "walking among us." But as you scroll down it becomes apparent the White House is referring to immigrants in the US.
I realize the POTUS has said far worse in plenty of Executive Orders that are published on whitehouse.gov, but this is just disgusting to see.
@briankrebs All white Americans are descendants of illegal immigrants. All are aliens.
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@Netraven @briankrebs birthrates have been declining since the 50s. I am not sure what the agenda is, but that information alone is worrisome.
https://www.macrotrends.net/datasets/global-metrics/countries/usa/united-states/birth-rate
@ZeroTrustWraith @briankrebs I’m sure after all the atrocity, whatever purpose life exists for will carry on as normally as ever.
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This is so deeply embarrassing and shocking at the same time. Navigate to whitehouse.gov/aliens/ and you will see a page that at first glance appears to tease unclassified information about aliens from outer space "walking among us." But as you scroll down it becomes apparent the White House is referring to immigrants in the US.
I realize the POTUS has said far worse in plenty of Executive Orders that are published on whitehouse.gov, but this is just disgusting to see.
For the last couple of minutes I‘ve been trying to find the correct words to express just how wrong this is. I can‘t. It‘s repulsive and utterly disturbing to say the least.
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@pacman you must have missed the big red button that says "REPORT SUSPICIOUS ALIENS → ICE TIP LINE"
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This is so deeply embarrassing and shocking at the same time. Navigate to whitehouse.gov/aliens/ and you will see a page that at first glance appears to tease unclassified information about aliens from outer space "walking among us." But as you scroll down it becomes apparent the White House is referring to immigrants in the US.
I realize the POTUS has said far worse in plenty of Executive Orders that are published on whitehouse.gov, but this is just disgusting to see.
@briankrebs protect citizens from... what, exactly? They are here now for 60+ years. What earth-shattering cataclysm did they cause which no one else noticed?
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i am half serious about the abduction phenomenon thing, i read the books john mack and david jacobs wrote on the subject and its chilling, i fully believe that something is happening to the people that experience this, not sure what is actually happening but what they say is extremely consistent and indicate that there is a large program of some sort involving reproductive health. i like weird and spooky things, but i know a couple of people that suspect or believe its happening to them.
Wonder if you've seen this? I've not read extensively on the subject, but am aware of he broad outlines. I thought this story provided a plausible explanation for at least some of it. In any case, it's a great movie!
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This is so deeply embarrassing and shocking at the same time. Navigate to whitehouse.gov/aliens/ and you will see a page that at first glance appears to tease unclassified information about aliens from outer space "walking among us." But as you scroll down it becomes apparent the White House is referring to immigrants in the US.
I realize the POTUS has said far worse in plenty of Executive Orders that are published on whitehouse.gov, but this is just disgusting to see.
The way it looks is this is a way for the POTUS to inject uncertainty and confusion into the voting process, which only helps his inevitable claims (when his side loses) that the election was rigged. You don't mandate these changes five months from a mid-term unless you're trying to introduce chaos into the system.
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The way it looks is this is a way for the POTUS to inject uncertainty and confusion into the voting process, which only helps his inevitable claims (when his side loses) that the election was rigged. You don't mandate these changes five months from a mid-term unless you're trying to introduce chaos into the system.
@briankrebs don't anyone dare tell me this "actually" isn't fascism.
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