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Texas Republican Valentina Gomez sparked outrage after releasing a video proposing public executions of undocumented immigrants who commit violent crimes, claiming it would act as a deterrent.

The video, shared on X, simulated Gomez shooting a hooded dummy representing an undocumented migrant.

Her comments followed the arrest of a Guatemalan immigrant for a subway murder in New York.

Known for far-right provocations, Gomez’s remarks drew sharp criticism from political figures and activists, with some praising her stance while others condemned it as hateful and extreme.

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      Yes and no. The monsters are using migrants as a scapegoat to distract from the outright theft that’s about to ramp up.

      But the thing about a scapegoat, they’re still killed.

      When a monster tells you what they want to do, believe them.

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      Accepted!

      Next week official definition of nazi changed to “Either left or right wing extremist not affiliated with federal goverment of USA” ^^

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        then let’s use “right-wing asshole who spits on the human rights of others” as the definition. the gallows- and guillotine industries will have a nice economic upswing

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      I’m thinking televised executions of instance CEOs that do do their jobs

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      two major things to keep in mind

      a) majority of hispanics in the US have been there multiple generations. while they may hold some varying level of ties to their family’s home country, they’ve more or less been mostly americanized and are effectively just a different flavor of “american”

      add in the fact that these are a more socially conservative people who more likely to be religious and it makes sense why they have been moving to the right. GOP could have taken advantage of this a long time ago. I think it’s strange that Trump is the one to finally harness this group of people, but I guess reality is stranger than fiction

      b) the US isn’t stupid and it imports right-wing anti-left people. For example from Cuba or Venezuela. Miami has a massive Cuban population and they’re all descendants from people fleeing the communist Castro regime. The Cubans are bred from birth to believe the Castro regime was evil and they’re told all about the horrors (conveniently nobody remembers the just as brutal Batista regime, coincidentally supported by the US).

      So all it takes is for there to be a connection between “democrats -> left wing -> communist” and all the Cubans turn against the DNC.

      what I find fascinating is that you talk to a young Cuban who is one or two generations separated from Cuba, they have all sorts of horror stories and hatred for the Castro regime.

      But you talk to an old-timer, someone in their 60s or 70s and they have nostalgia and nuanced views. Sort of like how people view the Soviet Union.

      If we’re gonna summarize all of this I’d just say this- assimilation. We’re watching the process of how Irish went from “ethnic minority” to “white” and hispanics are going through a similar process

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        Sort of like how people view the Soviet Union.

        I’ve never met anyone personally who speaks fondly of their time in the USSR. Tankies online who are too young to have lived through it are the only ones.

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          There’s that infamous quote from Putin- “Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain”

          People who actually grew up during the Soviet Union and went through the process of collapse and liberalization as an adult experienced quite a chaotic period of time. Your way of life was violently changed, the ideology you were taught disposed of, and you went through economic troubles. It’s no wonder some look back fondly

          I’ve seen similar statements from both Cubans and ex-Soviets. One of the main themes is how under liberal societies you are “addicted to money”, so to speak. For example in Cuba, you could not get what you wanted. For example you go to the store one day, there’s no shoes. Tomorrow, there’s no batteries. You could not eat beef, you could not just leave. There were many restrictions.

          But you were sort of guaranteed a certain minimum quality of life. You would have a place to live, you would have food. You would have a steady job without worrying about losing it.

          Whereas in the US, you have an exponentially higher purchasing power- even the lowest segments of the population. But there’s a catch. You have to be working all week to sustain that lifestyle. And the employer can more easily fire you- it’s not as stable.

          So they look back with nostalgia at what to them seems likes simpler and calmer times. Less stressful

          anyhow, to back up my anecdotal experience with data: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2017/06/29/in-russia-nostalgia-for-soviet-union-and-positive-feelings-about-stalin/

          78% of older Russians think collapse of Soviet Union was a bad thing. Majority of Russians view Stalin favorably.

          It depends on the country you’re from, but it’s safe to say many older people have nostalgia and look back at the Soviet Union fondly. I’ve seen the same thing with Cubans

          here’s a thread on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/esy6i5/russians_of_reddit_what_is_the_older_generations/

          where people share their experiences. Few of the top comments basically mirror what I referenced above

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      kinda stockholm syndroming. german christmas market attack was a saudia arabian refugee voting for the newer german Nazis “AfD” that also Space Karen likes.

      so the dumbest of migrants seem to overcompensate their lack of identity.

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      I mean it might not be too relevant (as I know the majority of the Hispanics youre referring to aren’t Spanish per se), but I’d like to remind people that Spain was a fascist dictatorship up until 1975, when it became a democracy.

      I’m sure they at least produce media that’s enjoyed in other Spanish speaking countries idk but nonetheless just a thought I had

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francoist_Spain

      (It’s really not related to the thing here the right wing propaganda Hispanics in America are being subjected to probably isn’t from Francoist Spain

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        Spain didn’t exactly just become a democracy after Franco’s death in '75, things were very iffy well into the eighties, or at least until they joined NATO in '82. The military even attempted a coup in '81.

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          Thanks for the elaboration.

          I just quoted a Wikipedia generalisation.

          I’m not too well versed in Spanish history

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      Spain raped brown people, then made fun of the product of that rape for being brown. This has had very bad repurcussions for racism. And they trained them to hate themselves. So now there’s a lot of mexican cucks.

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    NGL, that’s a good looking meme setup.

    Would be a shame if someone happen to put words like Luigi or healthcare CEO. Not saying what order though.

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    Shouldn’t the headline be “Republican said something terrible to get the media talking about her, and we’ve done exactly what she wanted”?

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    She hopes by showing her ass that the whites won’t spend her as a token.

    But they will.

    Dumb fascist cunt.

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    She not only thinks this, but took the time to plan this out. At no point while thinking about shooting immigrants, or building a dummy to represent an immigrant, or taping its arms and legs, or putting it in a chair, or loading the gun, or setting up a tripod to film it, or pulling the trigger, or loading it to a computer to edit it, or uploading it, did she think maybe this is a bit much.

    Disgusting human trash.

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      What are the chances that one of the motivations for these people is profit. ? I mean, seriously. Is there profit potential here for these creators whose content goes viral, or does it only satisfy their sadistic blood lust ? Misanthropy of the highest, or direct connection to the cult?

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        One thing the rise of the Internet has led to is people’s desire not for information about the world around them, but for echo chambers that just repeat what they want to hear. For others, finding that echo chamber isn’t enough. They need to be in the center of that chamber causing the echo. Eyes and ears on them, always. And for these people, no level of extreme is too much so long as it results on the attention being focused on them. Not only do they want to find the echo chamber, they want to control the echo chamber to ensure that it will always continue to just tell them what they want to hear.

        Profit and consolidation of power are secondary motives, but that is the primary. And the reason that it’s the primary is that they know that if they’re successful, the profit and consolidation of power are soon to follow anyway.

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      I’m not arguing this isn’t horrible, because it is, but it isn’t “too much.” She gets articles written about her stance against immigrants, which is beneficial to her. The people voting for her obviously aren’t turned away by this crap, so it’s only a positive for her.

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    I wonder what would happen to someone who did a video like that except with a dummy of a CEO? I suspect the reaction would be huge amounts of screaming, condemnation, and an arrest for promoting terrorism. But this video? it’s juuuust fine. Nothing will happen to her, probably not even having her video taken down.