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Do Puerto Ricans have us citizenship?

This reminds me of when Trump said he was going to speak to the president of the US Virgin Islands about some matter.

It's so hard to get your head around so many people behaving so badly.

See also:

80% of Israeli Jews support US President Trump's proposal to ethnically cleanse Gaza, survey finds

Every society can fall to fascism when the conditions are right. Humans are pack animals and susceptible to mass delusion.

I never understood how fascism worked until recently. It's not the top dictator giving orders, it's everyone that wants to give him their power and act on his behalf without orders.

It wasn't even necessarily the majority. Not back then, and not now. What happens is that normalcy bias stops even people who oppose the regime from acting against it until it's already too late:

But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.

— Milton Sanford Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45

No! America just wants all the food (and spices) from brown countries!!!!1!! Brown people are obviously bad, though!

/s, but not really. Steal the culture and “good ideas,” hurt the people who created those things. All pretty par for the course.

They stayed through the meal. They were okay with the "illegal immigrant" serving them. Just not paying for their service.

These people think that so called “illegal migrants” are both undocumented and receiving benefits. Logic and reason aren’t their strong suits.

Plus, you’re at the brown=illegal migrant stage.

People like that are not the brightest doorknobs in the bunch.

Not all stupid people are racists, but all racists are stupid.

It's super sad when wait staff remember my wife and I because we treated them like human beings.

This isn't about tipping culture. It's very specifically about racism. Tipping is just the thing they're using to punish the people they hate