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For a long time now I've been for increased legal immigration and ease of legal immigration and just as strongly against illegal immigration. So you can see how I would be pretty big on border patrol being relatively heavy handed. That ended this afternoon.
I'm still just as strongly against illegal immigration but the border patrol being too aggressive is infringing on one of the most fundamental rights of the Mexican folks. Which is to say, catching the bigass flathead catfish that live in the Rio Grande. There's a lot of things I'm willing to allow for a solid border and rule of law but fucking with the pursuit of huge, delicious flathead is not among them. I'm going to have to revisit my views on river policy.
For them of you what ain't aware, most catfish over five pounds start getting unfortunate amounts of yellow, fatty meat that is other than the light, flaky, delicious meat that you expect to enjoy when experienced on a dinner plate. Now you can cut it out but that always seems wasteful, which is part of why a lot of catfish folks throw back anything over a certain size. Flatheads taste better than blues and channels (what you eat if you order catfish at a restaurant) to start with because they eat live bait almost exclusively and hardly have the yellow fat issue at all; if you catch an eighty pound flathead, you can expect to enjoy every bit of meat on it. They're also the most challenging to catch of the catfish in the US.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 19 2019, @12:05AM (16 children)
If those in power will ignore the rights of someone you don't like now, they will ignore your rights eventually.
Interesting that a fishing pole bends the pin on your "human" detector. Am I a human when I take a shower?
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday September 19 2019, @01:12AM (14 children)
See, the problem with your thinking is Mexicans do not in fact have the right to be over here unless they follow our laws to enter.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday September 19 2019, @05:07PM (13 children)
I always wondered why migrating humans have less rights than migrating animals.
We have borders to separate the whites from the coloreds.
And capitalism cannot function without enforced economic stratification.
Walls are for imprisonment.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday September 19 2019, @05:24PM (12 children)
Race has nothing to do with it. We have borders to separate one tribe from another, the same way you have a fence around your yard or locks on the doors on your house. What's yours is not mine to do with as I please and national borders are simply a way of expressing the same fundamental right on a larger scale.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday September 19 2019, @05:48PM (11 children)
We have borders to separate one tribe from another
Yes, exactly...
the same way you have a fence around your yard or locks on the doors on your house.
Not even close. A fortified dwelling is to keep out poisonous insects, and maybe the marauding river trout. It's about keeping out everybody. Nobody has any real right to occupy and block passage through miles of territory. The passage from Mexico to Canada is completely blocked. Outrageous! You have the right to wake up in the morning and find your stuff where you left it. Freedom of movement is essential. I wish it were inviolable, but all that weaponry... oh well, too bad we can't make all their guns backfire. Might makes right, as usual. The power of reason is squandered in justifying it.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday September 19 2019, @07:38PM (10 children)
Tell you what, how about EF comes over and does whatever the hell he likes at your house? If you don't believe it for a family-sized tribe, you're full of shit trying to say you believe it for a nation-sized tribe. And you know you are, which is why you're getting so angry.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday September 19 2019, @07:49PM (9 children)
Sorry, that bullshit doesn't scale. A private dwelling is nothing like national territory used to imprison humans. You have nothing but the power of mass weaponry to back you up. Borders are no different than Jim Crow. Discrimination based on place of birth is just as evil as that based on skin color and gender. This is one planet, and all humans are entitled to come and go as they please, just like the caribou and the butterfly
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday September 19 2019, @08:03PM (8 children)
Yes, it does. One quarter of an acre or a hundred million makes no difference. And no, it's not used to imprison anyone in capitalist nations. It's used to say "This is ours. Ask before you enter or fuck off." You already know and understand this but don't want admit to yourself that you've been so utterly wrong, so you double down emotionally.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday September 19 2019, @08:17PM (3 children)
One quarter of an acre or a hundred million makes no difference.
Sorry, it does. You take your property by force. Only by force can you claim exclusivity to natural resources. You will lose them the same way. You are only entitled to whatever you produce or extract from that property.
By the way, you're projecting on the emotional silliness. Just thought I'd let you know since you seem to be unaware. :-)
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday September 20 2019, @01:48AM (2 children)
No, civilized people (and even most uncivilized ones) acquire property via voluntary contract and retain it via social agreement to respect the property rights of others in exchange for your own being respected. Since pretty much the entire world works this way, saying silly bullshit like "you can't own land" with a straight face is only going to have people looking at you like you ride the short bus.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday September 20 2019, @02:10AM (1 child)
So you don't really own anything then, unless your neighbors agree? A bit communist, but ok, I can accept that.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday September 20 2019, @02:42AM
You thought ownership had an independent existence outside social contract? Huh...
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday September 19 2019, @08:21PM (3 children)
Oh, and if you have any respect at all for peoples' property, you will return the North American Continent to its previous inhabitants.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday September 20 2019, @01:43AM (2 children)
Make a cemetary of it then? Everyone it was taken from is long dead.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday September 20 2019, @02:06AM (1 child)
Ah, cool. Then I can just take over and hold out for a few generations and it's all mine... MINE!
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday September 20 2019, @02:44AM
Could always just get hit by a bus. Dead people aren't too picky about sharing their space with other dead folks. They're the least bitchy people I know.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday September 19 2019, @05:36AM
You could learn something from that, if you're not careful!