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  Complain incessantly about paying taxes to support the common good of their community and nation, but more than happy to spend tens of thousands on mean spirited, life endangering practical jokes.  That the party of Christian love in modern America.
context: The cruelty is the point. Merry Christmas republicans.
  
  Multiple busloads of migrants were dropped off at Vice President Kamala Harris’s residence in Washington, D.C. on Saturday — Christmas Eve — leaving migrants on the streets in below-freezing temperatures, according to multiple reports.
  Three busloads of migrants were driven to D.C., ABC 7 reported, and arrived outside the Naval Observatory, which is the vice president’s residence. The migrants were later taken to a church by the Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network, a local aid group.
  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) was responsible for Saturday’s incident, according to ABC 7 and Fox News, marking the latest episode in a months-long effort by the governor to send migrants to democratic-run cities as a way to encourage the Biden administration to take steps to control immigration in the U.S. >
  
  What a spectacular display of “traditional Christian values” in this holiday season. >
  
  Same people who are mad that "Christ is being taken out of Christmas" >
  
  I have Muslim, Jewish, and Atheist friends who celebrate “Christmas” because it’s fun and we get the day off from work. The religious aspect has been overshadowed by general holiday sentiment for many of us already >
  
  The religious aspects are all still there,  it's just the religious traditions surrounding decorating a tree and having  a winter solstice feast  all come from religions long dead and gone. >
  
  I mean, most of the traditions people still adhere to (trees, lights, holly/ivy, green/red, general winter ritual) were originally pagan. It was a great way for early Christian’s to get people on board with their new religion: have a party when everyone else already does and rebrand it. Based on astronomical data (“Christmas star”), Jesus was likely born in the spring, if at all. >
  
  In 1656, the City of London soldiers were ordered to patrol the streets and seize any food they discovered being prepared for Christmas celebrations. The act of celebrating Christmas was regarded as giving liberty to carnal and sensual delights.
  We'll have to ask Justice Alito what he thinks. >
  
  You should listen to 'The Constant' Podcast on the true history of Christmas.  Apparently up until the 18th century it was a drunken crossdressing suck n fuck fest for the peasants.  Caroling was basically trick or treating with the threat of having your home ransacked if you didn't feed and booze the carolers l.This current version of Christmas is apparently a 19th century invention. >
  
  So, wanna go julebukking? >
  
  Sure, then we can go wassailing >
  
  This is why I chuckle when MAGA Republicans whine that people shun them for their "political beliefs."
  No one shuns them over their thoughts on tax policy or deficit spending.
  They are shunned because, frankly, to be a MAGA Republican is to be a bad human being. This article is just another data point.
  This stunt would never have occurred if Republican leaders weren't pandering to the most vile people in the country. >
  
  For the record, I shun them for their regressive tax policy too. secretaries paying a bigger % of their income to taxes than billionaires is outrageous. >
  
  It's fair to feel that way but being objectively wrong about government spending doesn't make you a bad person. These are the kinds of things we need to try and have mature conversations about
  Thinking it's okay or funny to kidnap immigrants and leave them in the freezing cold outside of the VPs house makes you a total scumbag
  E: the sentiment in the responses are wild. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. >
  
  I worked at a libertarian ‘think tank’ for awhile sort of out of curiosity (I filed papers in college). Virtually all of them know exactly what their tax policies are aiming to accomplish in one manner or another. The ‘think’ part was really two things; 1) coming up with new ways to fuck people without them realizing it and 2) think of ways to spin it after the fucking occurs. I’m way done giving any of them benefit of the doubt. They are shit people through and through >
  
  Libertarianism is societal cancer. >
  
  It’s funny as hell to me.  
  A place for people who want to be selfish as fuck in all things but also be re-invited to the party where all the nice people go.  
  It’s so funny to me now than ever before because it’s a fence sitting place while when push comes to shove they will always choose the selfish conservative side of policy.  
  The problem is they don’t want people to think they are shitty people.   
  It works on dumb people and it worked a lot easier before Trumpism shattered their camouflage.  
  I cannot find a libertarian that votes progressive.  I can’t find one that didn’t like Donald Trump.  At least not here in Louisville Kentucky. >
  
  Republicans resort to human trafficking on Christmas eve.  Stay classy! >
  
  Considering the weather conditions, I feel it goes beyond human trafficking, and moves to attempted murder. It equates to throwing them in a freezer. >
  
  I feel a Nazi comparison is warranted here, because this is exactly what the Nazis did to Russian civilians during Barbarossa. They were forcibly deported in the freezing cold with no food. >
  
  Between this and the list of trans people Texas is making they are openly inviting nazi comparisons. And they know it, but don’t care. >
  
  Because they know that's exactly what the Nazis did. Texas has always been cozy with Nazis >
  
  Gotta use our money to fund migrant buses instead of fixing the goddamned electrical grid... >
  
  Seriously.  Fuck this fucking fuck Abbott.  What a fucking Christian. >
  
  Fuck Texas in general. No sympathy for Texans when they keep putting these pieces of shit in power. >
  
  Maybe change that to say no sympathy for the ones that keep putting him in power, because quite a few of us don't. I'm sure gerrymandering plays quite a role here too. I didn't choose to live in Texas but I'm fucking stuck here. >
  
  And people wonder why half the country is disgusted with the other. REGULAR SANE PEOPLE DON'T DO THIS STUFF TO OTHER HUMANS. The fact that they are incapable of any self reflection is not only astonishing but disappointing. Why do they hate so much? >
  
  Maybe they're looking at it from the psychopath point of view of "If we send enough of them elsewhere to freeze to death and then news gets back, they'll stop coming" >
  
  I think it’s more like, “the libs want open borders and sanctuary cities. Let them deal with it.” >
  
  Okay, but wanting legal immigration pathways is not open borders. >
  
  "Open borders" is just a conservative buzzword that has no meaning. Every administration has the same problem with refugees. But when Democrats win the "borders are open" when republicans win the "borders are secure" its all just drivel at this point.
  Its like trying to ask some slack jawed frothing right winger "Explain to me how Joe Biden is a socialist" and them answering "Because hes the Devil!" >
  
  I'm convinced that the entirety of Fox News has become brainwashing through buzz-phrases of two or three words. If someone hears "Hunter Biden's Laptop", "Open Borders", "Build the Wall", etc, they aren't thinking about those words or what they mean, it's just a dopamine response of tribalistic anger