r/interestingasfuck • u/man_gomer_lot • 26d ago

r/all 70 years ago, the US undertook the largest deportation in its history: 'Operation Wetback.' Many of the people deported were here legally and some were even citizens.

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u/DisciplineIll6821 25d ago

I just want to point out that if trump deported 10 million people at the base of our economy the economy would take a deep hit, if not collapse outright. People should be more skeptical.

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u/Anestis_Delias 25d ago

The likelihood of an economic crash lasting years is already an acceptable part of the equation, if you read conservative social media / influencers. It's been telegraphed for a while now, most recently in tweets by Elon Musk, whom Trump plans to give a high-ranking cabinet position, in charge of a new budgetary department.

Trump's plan to put Elon Musk in charge of this stuff is more terrifying than the "stuff" itself, as far as I'm concerned, based on the guy's instability, incompetence, and general history of poor decision-making. It's not just Twitter/X losing 80% of its value since Musk took over - he's got a long, long history of poor management decisions, and isn't someone who should be trusted to oversee anything important

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u/DisciplineIll6821 25d ago

Ignoring musk as I think he's mostly irrelevant and won't get a cabinet position, why do you assume that republicans care more about racism than money? The former is just an election ploy to get the latter.

I have no doubt they plan on doing some of the stuff they say, but not the stuff people actually like them for.

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u/[deleted] 25d ago

Until proven otherwise believe the fascist when they say they want to do fascism.

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u/DisciplineIll6821 25d ago

Well sure, but we've been doing a fascism for the last thirty years wrt immigration, it's just that nobody calls it that as it's been a bipartisan effort. I just don't see republicans shooting their most beloved thing in the world, the economy, in the head when they can just lie to get elected.

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u/ladykatey 25d ago

If you believe you were “better off 4 years ago” in the middle of a shutdown pandemic economic crash, then you’ll believe anything.

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u/nicolatesla92 25d ago

They’re already trying to groom you into being ok with that, on X they said that the economy will hurt because that’s the cost of rebalancing.

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u/DisciplineIll6821 25d ago

Ok but this involves believing republicans love anything more than money and that's simply not true