In addition to that reference, I bet this is a pandemic era joke about public health guidance

I think there’s also a bit of rationality behind that system, because

a) Trolls will just lie and declare an article says something it doesn’t to “win” an argument or waste people’s time making them read their bullshit article (usually something hosted on a website you don’t want to give traffic to)

b) Some people on those forums might have tightly constrained time-frames for looking at things because they’re students or they’re working in a restaurant or retail shop or some other kind of closely managed service job where they can get yelled at by a supervisor for using their phone

c) There’s a lot of content to get to on the internet

So, I think it’s kind of a dick move to get mad at other people for not reading the article, and it’s definitely a dick move to do that if you don’t take the time to quote the specific part of the article they’re claiming contradicts someone else

I came here to say both of those things about the Internet Archive, but I also hope both of those orgs get tons of donations regularly because I wouldn’t want to live in a world without them

Survival in a world that wants us dead is a revolutionary act and every day is another chance for you to make a new crack in their systems of oppression

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I think it’s a way bigger problem how some adults refuse to ever consider that the system is at fault and think every single problem in the world must be reduced down to an individual failing instead of a badly designed system that makes it easy for individuals to fail for stupid reasons

Important to note that prior to the first Trump administration (archived), the process to apply for asylum was to enter the United States, surrender yourself to CBP, go through their booking process, say you wanted asylum, and then a hearing on that claim would be scheduled. Critically, you would wait in the US for your hearing, which is far more secure from the drug cartels and corrupt cops and soldiers people are seeking asylum from.

Trump used COVID as an excuse to forbid anyone applying for asylum from first just entering the United States, instantly removing anyone who surrendered themselves after entering no matter what they were running from and forcing them instead to wait outside the US for appointments at designated ports of entry, which Border Patrol would spontaneously slow down (archived) or shut down (archived) for made up reasons. Biden kept that restriction on entry in place (archived and added a requirement that all applications for asylum come through [a glitchy app]](https://www.npr.org/2023/05/12/1175948642/migrants-are-frustrated-with-the-asylum-claim-app-even-after-the-latest-overhaul) (archived).

The people who you read about suffering in this news story would not be suffering in this way if Biden had gone back to Obama-era asylum procedures. Trump would certainly try to harm them in some other way, but by entrenching the international law violating system Trump first came up with Biden’s administration made it a lot easier for him. The next Democratic party member who becomes President has to learn that echoing Republican rhetoric and Republican policies has no political upside and causes real human suffering.

Yeah, my only consolation is the fact that we broke international law when it came to asylum seekers for all of the last presidential administration but it’s been hard to get many people to care because Dems don’t like to speak bad about one of their own and Republicans are all just assholes who want asylees to suffer. Now that a Republican is the one doing it again maybe hopefully Dems will find their consciences again.

Important to note that

The Biden administration enacted its own asylum restriction last June, also citing the 212(f) authorities. While that order disqualified most migrants crossing the southern border illegally from asylum, it still gave them the opportunity to plead their case before asylum officers if they expressed fear of being harmed once deported.

Asylum officers that have been caught being racist and abusing migrants so many times I don’t even know what to link to, so here’s a catchall page from the ACLU (archived), but go on.

Former President Joe Biden’s asylum restrictions also had a major exemption: they did not apply to migrants waiting in Mexico who used a government smartphone app, known as CBP One, to request a time to enter the U.S. at an official border entry point.

An app that never worked right (archived) that allowed you to apply for an appointment CBP might never give you (archived).

Trump is going to be awful for migrants in a ton of ways (for example, doing ICE raids on churches schools and hospitals is new and awful), but at least as far as people seeking asylum go it will be hard for him to be any worse than Biden was.

Yep, and never forget the “fund the police!” Democratic party members who put us in this situation

I think the senior military types will only talk about this stuff to journalists who have swallowed at least a little bit of American propaganda, but yeah thank you for getting the correct version of history out there

Like when Biden said he wanted a ceasefire but kept sending Israel weapons anyway?

Or this is an attempt at even more critical thinking, i.e. “These are fine concepts, but if you don’t reckon with the context of what you’re talking about before throwing one of these out because it kinda fits you actually bring conversations down and keep people from exchanging more pertinent ideas and information.”

They probably could have communicated that better if that was their intent, but that’d probably kill any humor potential which was probably more of a priority here.