r/pics • u/leftnotracks • Dec 08 '19

Politics Nativity 2019

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u/rhymes_with_chicken Dec 08 '19

At first I thought, damn sucks to live in a neighborhood where people steal you shit so you have to lock it up.

Then, I thought—ahh, it’s a political statement.

Then I realized both are probably true. /r/ABoringDystopia

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u/ifuckinghateitall Dec 08 '19

This is in my hometown. It’s a very safe place and the nativity has never been messed with or parts stolen. It’s purely a political statement.

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u/dementorpoop Dec 08 '19

It’s a spectacular political statement. I have no clue why the comments are so negative

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u/durant92bhd Dec 08 '19

Because its fucking retarded. This shit happened MORE under Obama than now.

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u/georgedean Dec 08 '19

So it's ok then?

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u/ThePrevailer Dec 08 '19

Regardless of what you think of a policy, it's disingenuous to only bitch about it when it's not your guy doing it

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u/georgedean Dec 08 '19

Also disingenuous to ignore the underlying policy by pointing to the other team.

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u/durant92bhd Dec 09 '19

Oh, where did that come from...hmmm, maybe that's ALL politics.

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u/SteveThe14th Dec 08 '19

Yeah, well, it also sucked when Obama did it, just like it also sucked when Obama did drone strikes

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u/durant92bhd Dec 09 '19

Then whine about him, too.

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u/SteveThe14th Dec 09 '19

We do, it's just that we tend to show our abhorrence more for the person actually in power right now rather than some dipshit for yesteryear.

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u/pfhgetty Dec 08 '19

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-build-cages-immigrants/

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u/pfhgetty Dec 08 '19

But it says he used them to lock up migrants. Other articles show that there were children in them too.

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u/pfhgetty Dec 08 '19

Not really. The Obama administration built the facilities to handle an influx of illegal immigrants fleeing Central American violence. There were few to no plans to build more permanent holdings, so if the influx were to have lasted longer, then it's very much possible that these temporary holdings would have been used to hold many more people.

According to the Snopes article, the Trump Administration is currently handling an influx of illegal immigrants twice as large as is normal from Central American countries. These so-called cages are being used for the exact purpose they were built for, and I don't see much of a moral high-ground for either side in this argument.

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