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View submission: Ross Nusser’s public statement on ICE
can you hear yourself? seriously, please, read back what you wrote. you are saying we have to sacrifice our neighbors. we have to send peoples’ parents and grandparents away from them. we have to destroy lives of people we know and care for. we have to send people who trust us and live with us back into very dangerous and unfamiliar situations far from their homes.
we don’t. and we can’t. it’s the simplest of things.
Comment by clookie1232 at 02/02/2025 at 07:50 UTC
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I know what I wrote. There’s going to be suffering regardless. I’m not saying it’s right or that I’m supporting it. But someone, somewhere is going to suffer. But who are we to say which suffering is worse than the other. If your kids relied on you to feed them, but you relied on social services to feed your kids then how would you feel if it funding to your kids’ next meal was suddenly gone. Do you have kids in public school? 13.6% of funding for iowas public schools came from federal funding. What about the refugees who are actually here legally? You’re talking about one group of people from your state and calling them “neighbors,” while completely ignoring the detriment your other neighbors are experiencing. No one person is worth more than the other regardless of anything. But its for that reason, I’m so adamant about this. Do they deserve deportation? No. But the many Iowans also don’t deserve to suffer because our morals favor one group over the other.
Comment by clookie1232 at 02/02/2025 at 07:55 UTC
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Downvote me, cancel me, whatever you have to do. At the end of the day, no matter how long you and I spend trying to prove the other wrong, we’re both living in a fucked up time in American history. You’re not wrong. But you’re not totally right either. And the same goes for me. Our system has been broken for a very long time and it has culminated to some billionaire tv host manipulating his way into office. The deportations suck but welcome to America. Name one good thing that’s happening here and you win a sticker. Not trying to pessimistic, but I think we all can agree that we’re fucked. Live in your echo chamber if you want, it works for most people. Just know that despite our differences in opinion, we’re all in this shit together this point. He doesn’t care about the right and he doesn’t care about the left. And as things start to get into full swing, even those that once supported him will begin to see the full picture.