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[–] 77 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Ron Swanson, as much as he hated government, loved his friends more.

He would have fought literal tooth and nail to protect Tom from getting deported.

I'm mixed on whether he would have supported DOGE. There's an entire episode where he's on record of "slashing the budget with a machete" but in that same episode sacrificing his job to save Leslie.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Tom is from South Carolina. There was a whole plotline about him marrying a Canadian woman so she could get a green card.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh I wholeheartedly know.

    But ICE has and continues to arrest citizens. Not sure if they have gone through with trying to deport them but Trump is on record saying that he wants to be able to deport "undesirable" citizens.

    So yeah....Tom might be from South Carolina but he's on the lower half of the Peter Griffin skin color chart.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeha I was just thinking that after I posted the comment.

    There were a lot of people deported to El Salvdor without trial. So there is no way to know whether or not any of them were citizens.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    There’s an entire episode where he’s on record of “slashing the budget with a machete” but in that same episode sacrificing his job to save Leslie.

    That pretty much captures the Republican ideal in a nutshell: Think that the world is simple and have no empathy for the other side, until it personally affects them and suddenly they are for gay rights, or trans rights, or unemployment, or Social Security, or whatever is being debated.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    More often it's them thinking that they, and the once they care about,should be exempt from the heinous rules they support. Because they are just good people in a bad situation.

    They don't think that the actual rules should be changed.

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