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      no, it’s retired because he wasnt fired. so he’ll still be able to pull a pension and everything.

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    Why is a concentration camp commander type asshole allowed to set foot in Europe?

    Deportbthe fucker on arrival

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    I honestly wonder if american white supremacists would consider Portuguese people to be white.

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      The concept of race is a strange thing, and it varies widely by culture.

      I live in Colombia, and people here mostly consider themselves to be white. The few exceptions are people of African descent or people with strong indigenous heritage.

      Obviously, Stephen Miller and his ilk don’t consider Latinos to be white. If they did, ICE wouldn’t have persecuted them so heavily for the past year.

      Look at the very select groups this administration has welcomed into the country. Miller et al consider South Africans to be white. Do they offer the same consideration to the Portuguese?

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        I wish more people understood this. Race is a hateful social construct put in place by our ancestors ignorance. It’s one of those things like religious violence, and oppression that has straight up held all of humanity back in the worst possible ways.

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      In my experience, no. Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian people are all below “white people” and above most other “non-whites” in their racial hierarchy. I think white supremacists usually give them bonus points for being European so its not as virulent a hatred as with other groups, but it’s still there.

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      No, I can tell you only 2/4 of those people in the photo would be considered “white” were I’m from.

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    Portuguese people HATE fascists. You don’t even have to be that old in Portugal to remember living under a fascist dictator.

    But I guess that doesn’t stop the lunatic fringe.

    Also, most Portuguese people look hispanic so I really wonder how an ICE-like force there would go…

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      I feel like their racism is selective enough to consider Portuguese-looking Portuguese in Portugal as “okay” and Portuguese-looking Mexicans with the same exact skin colour in the US as not okay, does that make sense?

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        I don’t know, all three Portuguese guys in that picture are white-passing.

        Which, if it’s any surprise, is more common among the upper-class in Portugal. Shocker, I know…

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      I’m Portuguese. I wish that were true, but unfortunately it isn’t. Currently at least 1/3 of Portuguese people love fascism. Ventura, leader of the far-right Chega party, has even stated that Portugal needs not one but three Salazars without losing popularity for it. Currently, they are the second most voted party, having surpassed the PS (center-left) in the last elections. And the ruling party, PSD, supposedly center-right, has been adopting increasingly extreme measures in an attempt to compete with its newest rival.

      P.S.: By the way, looking hispanic isn’t very relevant here. The concept of “white” in Europe is different from that used in North America. Fascists here generally prefer to use the name of the largest ethnic group in the country they are in instead of “white” as the superior group. “White” here is even used in certain more radical circles to refer to a mixed person of different European “races” who cannot trace their ancestry to a single “pure” nationality. Basically, many “white” Americans could be seen as “mutts” by some of these lunatics.

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      What happened to all the fascists after the dictatorship? Did they magically disappear?

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      Portuguese people do not look hispanic, they can be swarthy, like all mediteranian peoples in southern europe. They are not all that swarthy either in comparison. Maybe they had some hispanics emmigrate, it’s a minority.

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          I looked it up too, after the fact, and I’m right. I don’t know where you got that from, it’s incorrect.

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            I don’t know where you got that from, it’s incorrect.

            Oh I don’t know I’ve only been to Portugal and talked to Portuguese people. They don’t all look hispanic, and I never said they did, but there certainly are many Portuguese people who look hispanic.

            But you “looked it up,” so you know better I guess…

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              I’m sure they have a sizable number of immigrants from Hispanic countries. How would that even work? Where you think the Portuguese are Hispanic? Like, I wouldn’t even know where to start on that. Seriously bro.

              Edit: here is Wikipedia with the statistics, 35% of their immigrant population is hispanic, and it is sizable, not the largest.

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Portugal

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                The word Hispanic doesn’t appear in that article.

                Maybe you think Brazilians are Hispanic? They are not, as they speak Portuguese not Spanish. (Brazilians are Latino though).

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                  You’re just moving the fucking goal post because you are wrong, and you were raised not to admit when you were wrong. Apparently.

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                Oh, well see, when I’m in Portugal and I meet people who speak perfect Portuguese and understand the culture perfectly and have lived there for years and integrated perfectly, I tend to think they’re Portuguese.

                If you disagree, then you might have more in common with Chega than you realize…

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                  Oh rather, so your point here is that Portuguese are hispanic? Please let me know what is your fucking point here? Because get the fuck out of here you’re wrong and fuck you with all due respect.

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          Recognizing facts about countries including demographics is not Racist, you cynical fucking piece of shit

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            Demographics? Did I miss your population and birth-rate calculations in the comment I replied to? You were talking about Portuguese people not being Hispanic. Did you notice Spain is in that word? The word Hispanic means spanish-speaking people. “Swarthiness” or any physical appearance has nothing to do with being Hispanic. Spain and Portugal are neighbours if you didn’t know and there is no Chinese wall between the two countries. So yes, you saying Portuguese people have certain physical attributes is by definition racist. So yes, fuck you you racist piece of shit. And apparently you’re also stupid, since I had to explain this shit to yoi. And you probably still don’t get it you idiot.

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              I’m not reading this drivel, you know God damn well Hispanic is also used In reference to brazil, And you know God damn well The Portuguese are European.

              This is too fucking stupid to argue and your comment is too fucking stupid to read fuck off please thank you.

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                You telling me to I can’t read after saying you won’t read my medium length racism for dummies explanation is hilarious, like seriously, are you a 12 year old Tik Tok addict or something?

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                  You can’t be a chatbot of course, Grok might be as racist, but it might be smart enough to at least have an argument.

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                I don’t care about your wikipedia link, can you read? I told you I’m talking about what I’m responding to. I’m not reading your other bullshit. I tried making arguments, you told me you won’t read it, you’re pathetic, give up trying to look like you’re the one being reasonable.

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                  Uhh, what? You are arguing that the portuguese are hispanic, and I’'m racist for calling bullshit. GTFO.

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    First European Remigration Summit

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Bovino

    Bovino was born to an Italian American family; his great-grandparents emigrated from Calabria to Pennsylvania in 1909, becoming naturalized citizens in 1927.[3] He has also claimed Cherokee ancestry, but is not a member of any Cherokee tribe.

    white nationalist conference in Portugal

    The world is a complicated place.

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    to say what “We made our country a shithole, and with our help, you can too!”?

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    The same type of Portuguese that got their asses handed to them in Angola and Mozambique. The racist shitbag, Bovino, should have been denied entry into the EU or arrested and handed over to the ICC.

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      Given that Bovino commited his crimes in the US, the ICC has no mandate. Unless, you know of crimes he committed in Mexico or Canada. That would change things and might make it a matter for the ICC.

      Should have Portugal denied entry? Maybe but I guess people just don’t care enough about some random failure like Bovino.

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      Because unfortunately we are also full of them on this side of the Atlantic. Chega is already the second most voted party in Portugal and supports the Reconquista group, whose leader, Afonso Gonçalves, is the guy on the right in the image above.

      This time the disease appears to be spreading from the new world to the old one. There are many pro-Trump Luso-American businessmen investing in Chega.

      P.S.: We’ll see what the reaction of these idiots will be the day that the dementia reminds Trump that he would like to turn the Azores into an Eastern Hawaii. After the Greenland controversy, it doesn’t seem like such an impossible scenario.

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    The stupid smile, the stupid fing thumbs up, and the stupid attempt at wearing nice clothes.

    F these people they’re the biggest losers possible.

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    What the fuck is going on? So that photo is for real? Am I dying? What’s wrong with his fucking legs? That’s not what legs do. Why does that guy have clown shoes? WHY?!

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      It’s always sunny vibes, the pedophile uncle of charlie obsessed with his small hands, wearing fake large hands.

      Bovino is only 5 foot tall so he’s likely self conscious about his, er, sizes, and got some oversized clown shoes like whatshis face, the woke guy, Desantis. He did something similar with his boots to look bigger.

      Pathetic.

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      Just standing on his toes I guess? God forbid pepople actually notice his true length (or lack of it)

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      Imagine being so uncritical that you see something like,

      You [ICE] have the world watching and supporting your efforts

      and just accepting it as truth.

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        It’s part of the Nazi “silent majority” narrative. They believe that because most people are not saying anything, they must be secretly supporting them. That’s why it’s so important to confront these fucks everywhere - it shatters this narrative.

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          To be fair, they’re not completely wrong are they?

          If you are silent about this shit, you are complicit. And that includes like 40+% of people who live in this country

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    Bovino is only 5 foot tall, so he rounded up three other of the shortest dudes he could find for this picture, how vain.