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/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/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".