• driving_crooner
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    2 days ago

    You don’t need to add the “devils advocate” part, we’re already past 2010, we know is your own opinion.

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      Lol. See… this is why it’s necessary to add it. I’m a British socialist. I don’t hold those views, I value debate for the sake of it. Else everyone sinks further into their political silos, casting things in black and white.

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        Optics discussion aside, I think it cost like $800k to transport them via C130. There’s no reason to use this method other than to grandstand. They’ve sent thousands of folks back to Colombia via commercial and chartered flights.

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          +1 convincing argument

          Even IF it were a legitimate way to treat people who’d broken the law, it’s an unnecessarily expensive way of doing it