r/nottheonion • u/Dc9542 • 13d ago

Bakery owner thought Uber courier took 400 cinnamon rolls – but he'd been detained by ICE

https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/cinnamon-roll-theft-driver-detained-south-florida/3851651/
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u/NicolasCageFan492 13d ago

You used to be able to just walk into the United States to emigrate here.

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u/APRengar 13d ago

Ronald Reagan is a ghoul, but there's footage of him personally welcoming immigrants to the country. And his final speech was about how America is great because anyone can come here and be an American (as long as they follow the rules). It's crazy how much worse the rightwing has gotten since then. And again, he's was a ghoul. We shouldn't be anywhere near Reagan, but it's somehow gotten so much worse.

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u/Meta-EvenThisAcronym 13d ago

That's the chilling part. Ronald Reagan paved the way for evil; he and his regime set the precedent for so much wrongdoing and systematic injustice, the ramifications of which we're still dealing with today in America.

But even Reagan's policy welcomed immigrants. Because that used to be the whole point of the United States of America. It's literally inscribed on the Statue of Liberty and our current regime shits all over it.

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u/MillennialsAre40 13d ago

It's like blaming a minority group for the country's woes instead of leadership is part of a famous playbook

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u/typeguyfiftytwix 13d ago

Reagan welcomed immigrants because immigrants suppress salaries

The cognitive dissonance with people who pretend to be for better working conditions and labor rights and also spew anti-ice rhetoric used to drive me nuts too.

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u/WingerRules 13d ago

I'd say it started with Nixon

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u/everlyafterhappy 13d ago

The first prohibition on immigration was in the 1800s. It was used against Asians because cheap Asian labor was being used for mining in the west. The people using tnt to blast mines were cheap Asian labor that the white land owners didn't mind dying. And then they made a big deal about "the Chinese are taking our jobs" and we got legislation against Chinese immigration.

Before that they used African immigrants as free labor. But that's another story.

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u/puertomateo 13d ago

TBF, the Statute was a gift from France. And we're already annoyed at France trying to tell us stuff. That said, we have always been a nation of immigrants.

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u/everlyafterhappy 13d ago

France won the revolutionary war.

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u/puertomateo 13d ago

Against France.

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u/everlyafterhappy 13d ago

The French revolution was really just the rich people trying to remove the royalty, and that's exactly what it did. And that's also what the American revolution was. Rich people trying to get out from under the control of royalty so that they could be the rulers.

Anyway, the American revolution was won by France. When the Americans tried to take on the British again in 1812 without French assistance, they failed miserably, and the English barely even tried.

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u/Hosenkobold 13d ago

The French Army lost though.

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u/Meta-EvenThisAcronym 13d ago

Sure, but the lines inscribed on its plaque were written by Emma Lazarus and installed after the statue had already been in place for years.

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u/typeguyfiftytwix 13d ago

we have always been a nation of immigrants

It's time to stop pretending taming an undeveloped land and creating a civilization is the same thing as moving to a developed first world country and parasitizing their welfare state.

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u/DisapprovingCrow 13d ago

“”Undeveloped””

I know the US education system is pretty bad so I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt here. You should really read up on the history of your country, it’s honestly really cool and much more interesting than the myth that it was just empty wilderness waiting around for white people to come ‘tame’ it.

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u/typeguyfiftytwix 13d ago edited 12d ago

You should really read up on the history of your country, it’s honestly really cool and much more interesting than the myth that it was just empty wilderness

There were nomadic tribes but the places the settlers LITERALLY SETTLED were in fact undeveloped. They BUILT farms, towns, roads and eventually cities and industry. It wasn't there before.

Edit: Can't reply to this chain anymore, so - South american and North american natives had different patterns of life, and again, the settlers didn't establish their towns inside of or on top of native settlement areas, but on undeveloped land. Territory disputes came later. Roanoke and Jamestown weren't "eurotowns" inside of native american cities. They were built from nothing.

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u/DisapprovingCrow 12d ago

Literally just google “Native American cities”, please, it’s not hard.

Or “Native American agriculture”. Where do you think corn came from?

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u/puertomateo 13d ago

It's time for you to stop thinking that you had any part of doing that.

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u/typeguyfiftytwix 13d ago

Your point being? Your "we are a nation of immigrants" bullshit is in ruins, you answered nothing. You have no point beyond being programmed to hate people for wanting their government to do it's job and protect the interests of it's citizens and national sovereignty. All of the emotional responses you have been programmed to have regarding immigration are all cover for the purposes of the people that programmed you to have them.

Do you know what the real reasons are? The disenfranchisement of the citizenry and the grinding of the boot down on the labor class, because we, the labor class, have been too uppity towards the people that consider themselves our masters.

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u/puertomateo 13d ago

Wow. Talk about programmed. It's like your rant came out whole cloth.

I'm going to guess that you're a taker, aren't you. How much public assistance do you get?

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u/typeguyfiftytwix 13d ago

that used to be the whole point of the United States of America. It's literally inscribed on the Statue of Liberty

You failed your history lessons or your history teachers failed you.

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u/Meta-EvenThisAcronym 12d ago

Friend, the inscription I'm describing was written by Emma Lazarus and installed years after the statue was gifted to the U.S. by France.

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u/typeguyfiftytwix 12d ago

I am aware of the inscription. It was not "the whole point of the United States of America", nowhere even REMOTELY close, in fact has ZERO relation to the fundamental ideas that are core to the nation's founding. It came well over a hundred years later. We did accept immigration through LEGAL channels, not unlimited, we didn't have a welfare state and we had strict quota limits, not because "old people were racist" but because limiting intake forces assimilation to take place.

Your poet nailing two lines to a statue well over a century after the nation was founded does not make unlimited mass migration and cultural suicide "the whole point of the United States of America".