• jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    Worth noting that everyone in the Americas is an immigrant or descendants of immigrants.

    The only difference is if you came here yourself, like my daughter in law did, a couple hundred years ago, like my family did, or 10,000 to 50,000 years ago like the first nations.

    Human life did not evolve in the Americas, everyone here either came here from somewhere else or came from someone who did.

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      As stupid as that sounds for him, what’s even worse for me is that he is trying to make the case that all immigration in America is essentially criminals and insane asylum monsters. Even when he knows full well he himself married several immigrants, he comes from immigrant families, his kids have immigrant mothers, and so on.

      He’s trying to tell a nation built by immigrants that immigrants are all criminals and monsters.

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    7 hours ago

    More info and source

    https://www.newsweek.com/trump-explains-why-he-keeps-praising-hannibal-lecter-1930009

    During his Wednesday rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, Trump appeared to explain why he keeps praising the character, saying it was because they are “real stories.”

    “They go crazy when I say the late, great Hannibal Lecter. They say, ‘Why would he mention Hannibal Lecter? He must be cognitively in trouble.’ No. These are real stories. Hannibal Lecter from ‘Silence of the Lamb,’ is a lovely man. He wants to have you for dinner,” he said.