Neither are most of the people they are deporting. This isn’t really about threats to the US it is about threats to their dominance. Suppression of political opponents.

In case they need a massive public distraction from something else.

This part’s interesting

Mary Dietz, in her essay “Trapping The Prince”, writes that Machiavelli’s agenda was not to be satirical, as Rousseau had argued, but instead was “offering carefully crafted advice (such as arming the people) designed to undo the ruler if taken seriously and followed.”[83] By this account, the aim was to reestablish the republic in Florence. She focuses on three categories in which Machiavelli gives paradoxical advice:

He discourages liberality and favors deceit to guarantee support from the people. Yet Machiavelli is keenly aware of the fact that an earlier pro-republican coup had been thwarted by the people’s inaction that itself stemmed from the prince’s liberality.

He supports arming the people despite the fact that he knows the Florentines are decidedly pro-democratic and would oppose the prince.

He encourages the prince to live in the city he conquers. This opposes the Medici’s habitual policy of living outside the city. It also makes it easier for rebels or a civilian militia to attack and overthrow the prince.

Machiavelli wanted a Republic, another inyerpretation is he put in a bunch of bad advice in the hopes of them taking it and being overthrown.

Thanks for asking this question. I have enjoyed reading the answers people gave you.

what do you want from a 1500 year old book

The question isn’t what do you want from an old book, it’s what do you want from a book people are choosing to follow.

The problem is that billionaires should not exist but come on. $80 billion already donated. $7 Billion more just for Africa. Hundreds of millions in malaria research.

Philanthropists hoarding wealth and resources and then getting to choose which of the poors to allow to have any is actually part of the problem, even if it makes you feel good.

We saw that when Gates leveraged his contributions to force a vaccine that had been developed with public money for the benefit of humankind, to become patent locked and hard for the Third World to access or afford.

This. Thank you.

That was a villain level move from Gates. The behaviour of the rich nations towards the LICs over covid vaccines was absolutely shameful and destroyed the illusion of Gates’ benevolence.

He was until he forced patents onto a vaccine that was supposed to be free to the entire world.

Gates is responsible for millions of people in the Third World dying or getting long covid.

Worth noting its common for these gang members to be forcibly recruited as children or teens so even a lot of the tatooed ones are akin to child soldiers.

You must be Ho, with all that computer knowledge.

I kind of hate it when other people do it though, so I don’t. But admittedly it would be effective.

Pretty much

CECOT, mentioned in this article, is a horrifying dystopian nightmare.

This. Feels like people are just rising to the bait.

No need. Just lock him in a tesla long enough.

A billionaire tax haven where over 50% of the labourers are non-citizens?

That person is delusional. If North America were a group of Indigenous nations it wouldn’t have been a major immigration target for European refugees.

I am here because Germany went fucking nuts and bombed my homeland.

No, you’re there because the people already there decided to let your family in.

Them being in a position to let you in js a crucial factor. And the reason their society got to control that is because of what they had done to other people beforehand.

No one is asking you to feel guilt and no one is blaming you. But facts are facts.

they treat anyone outside of their bubble as an enemy

There’s the problem.

It might be you who needs to grow up. This is a weird knee jerk reaction.

Non Americans should be able to ask a question about America without being told to “grow up”.

It’s not childish to wonder how much Americans understand about how fucked up their choice of leadership is. We’re not psychic.