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He’s awfully sure that tower points towards Canada, and not at the guy who put up signs threatening the Feds in his driveway.
I'll give him some credit, he got the government to pay him for the privilege of surveiling him; that's better than most of us have gotten.
Eh, they point to Canada. Securing that border is an impossible task but according to official Border Patrol data the Canadian border in that area is a growing problem as a result of Canada's changes to their e-Visa system.
Authoritarians know people will want to escape, so "the border" issue is dual-purpose. It's to get numbskulls to join in a dumbass plan to get rid of "undesirables" while not realizing these borders go two ways, and when things get so bad that we're trying to sneak into other countries... it won't be the other countries trying to stop us.
They know people will try to escape their fascism, that's why step one is to make it harder to escape.
Leia was wrong, the tighter Vader gripped, the more star systems were crushed in his palm.
My first thought was absolutely "they're getting ready to keep people in."
Only a matter of time before a dmz-style border fence goes up and guards are posted facing inward. I hope I'm being hyperbolic.
Only a matter of time before a dmz-style border fence goes up and guards are posted facing inward.
The land border is over 3,000 miles long. There's no possibility of a "DMZ-Style Border Fence" being built. Ever.
sentinel drones with arial drone backup are likely inevitable.. but just charging and maintaining so many would take an army to keep up.
Anyone with two feet and a brain can walk across the US / Canadian land border. It's over 3,000 miles long and less than a 1/4th of it is guarded. If you throw in the water border it's over 5,500 miles!
No one is guarding all of that. It's not possible.
If Repubs could read they'd be very upset by this statement.
It's so weird that conservative talk radio for many years had conspiracies about how the government will violate everyone's rights and now it's happening and they are blind to it or accepting it because they think the person doing it is on their side. Remember the FEMA camps conspiracy theory? Where are those people now?
maybe their funding got cut
“We need something they can work with to catch those aliens,” he said
Using the word "aliens" for immigrants is so extremely degrading. Damn.
Aren’t immigrants different to “aliens”?? Immigrants, you know, immigrated. Aliens are people who are citizens of another country still and not in a given country legally from my limited understanding.
citizens of another country
Or another planet. Back in the day we addressed the alien problem with style, advanced technology, and a cool theme song. Nowadays it'll be just MAGA bumfucks running things, people who can barely put two coherent thoughts together, and that's on a good day.
One has to wonder if that's to help keep the Canadians out or the American in...
My thoughts exactly. Way more Americans need to escape in the coming years than Canadians will want to join the Nazis
I wonder if people who are in the US illegally are crossing the Canadian border so they can travel internationally. Considering the extreme restrictions put in place by the US and zero path to citizenship, seems to me that if I were in that position and I wanted to visit home for example, the only way I could do that would be to fly in and out of Canada.
Can't trust them moose.
He's thinking up new crimes to commit.
Death Stranding vibes.
"I am the eye in the sky, looking at you-ou-ou"
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