Colombia lifts ban on deportation flights after Trump tariff threat

[flyingsquid@lemmy.world]

The citizens will still be mistreated. Why are you just blindly trusting Trump here?

[sarmyth@lemmy.world]

Huh? What are you talking about? That's not a statement trusting Trump. The headline implies the flights were rejected. They weren't. Drink more coffee dude. It's Trump's propaganda that they were rejected.

[sarmyth@lemmy.world]

If the Nazi have grabbed your citizens, please take them back. Leaving them in the hands of Nazis is a cruelty of its own.

[flyingsquid@lemmy.world]

How do you expect that to be achieved?

[flyingsquid@lemmy.world]

The flights were originally rejected. He even put out a statement on it. Then he backtracked.

[werefreeatlast@lemmy.world]

That's where Trump will send you regardless of country of origin.

[pyr_pressure@lemmy.ca]

We need to make a global Alliance where if Trump tarriffs one country, every country responds with double the tarriffs.

[pyr_pressure@lemmy.ca]

China threatened 75% tarriffs when Trump mentioned 10% tarriffs. Don't see him following through with his threat yet.

[p00ptart@lemmy.world]

Get your kinks off with someone who knows it's for fun.

[knightly@pawb.social]

After he got what he wanted from Trump, who capitulated immediately because the threat to tarrif Columbian imports was a bluff. Deliberately bumping the cost of coffee would be political suicide.

[earphone843@sh.itjust.works]

Buddy, this is fascism. Political suicide isn't a thing anymore.

[knightly@pawb.social]

The fascism persists only because it promises to be of benefit to its supporters.

Fascism falls apart when it fails to deliver them tangible benefits.

Trump's coalition is a house divided, he cannot provide his billionaire sycophants with economic benefits without taking them away from his voting base, and he can't do economic populism without disadvantaging the billionaires.

We're already seeing this with the H1-B visa debate. Musk, Zuckerberg, and Thiel want them for the cheap exploitable labor, and non-rich Republicans want the program to end for both anti-immigrant and economic nationalism reasons.

[sarmyth@lemmy.world]

Well, if they are flown there, take them no matter the circumstances. What else could I have possibly meant by that?

If they're your citizens and they've been nabbed off the street in a hostile foreign country (USA) don't make them suffer for your principles and let them end up in some camp or holding cell, because that's what these nuts are gonna do. They 100% will be abused if they get rejected back out of Columbia, because that's a clear sign no one cares about their well being.

[flyingsquid@lemmy.world]

I thought you meant before they were flown there. That's why I asked.

[d00phy@lemmy.world]

Personally, I’ve stopped thinking, “he can’t be that stupid/crazy.” Every time I think that, he proves me wrong!

[ne0n@lemmy.world]

Bullshit, no capitulation. Colombian president refused to accept deportees by military transport on humane grounds. Both threatened tariffs, Trump ‘capitulated’ and agreed to put them back on commercial flights, which is how it always has been - Colombia accepting deportees. Don’t buy into this myth the media is creating.