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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: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 19 2019, @03:13PM (5 children)
All they give us is stupidity and hatred.
The idiots will be happy to have their wall, and the sane people left down there will get out.
But how will they get over the wall? Maybe they'll use ladders. But then, they've got this big ladder and now they're stuck way up high. How would they get down? Maybe a rope.
(Score: 2, Disagree) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday September 19 2019, @03:27PM (4 children)
Hate to burst your bubble but you'll find a whole lot more racism up north. Spend some time in Atlanta or Memphis and then in Detroit or Chicago. I have and the racism levels weren't even of the same order of magnitude. Hell, growing up where most of us are, it had never even occurred to me that someone might be racist against Indians until I went north of Nebraska; then it became as common as air.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 19 2019, @07:31PM (2 children)
This is the truth. The south actually integrated after reconstruction - not perfectly, but still a damn sight better than anywhere in the north. The north is far, far, more segregated, and kids outside of more diverse urban centers are just ripe to be plucked because they've never seen a non-white person in real life and will readily believe racist bullshit.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday September 19 2019, @07:42PM (1 child)
Urban centers are less diverse than rural areas in my experience. Even placing money entirely aside, people self-segregate more in large cities than they do out in the sticks. I have no idea why.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 20 2019, @12:03AM
Because there's no point to segregation when you can't see or hear your neighbors until you go into town and choose to interact with them?
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 20 2019, @06:18AM
Woooooooosh
It is ok bird brain, you'll develop a sense of humor once you let go of all that cognitive dissonance. Don't worry, I believe your claim that there is plenty of racism outside the South. Sorry for that shock, hope your heart is holding up ok.