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Wtf does “directionally correct” even mean?
I think what he's saying is that "eating dogs" is bad and "unchecked immigration risk" is also bad. Therefore, it's okay to lie about one in order to warn about the other. I see extremists do this all the time. By the same token, it's okay to lie about post-birth abortions, because abortion is bad, and if lying about it helps to prevent abortions, then it's for a good cause.
These assholes use this logic to lie about all kinds of things. They know that they're lying. At least, the smart ones do. They just see it as justified.
He's implying immigrants commit crimes, even if they didn't commit this specific crime, so it's OK to make up a batshit scenario that never happened because other things do happen.
Of course, every fucking statistic out there proves that immigrants, per capita, commit less crimes than citizens. Which makes sense - why the fuck would you spend all that time and money getting here, just to commit a crime and immediately be kicked out? Are there a small percentage of immigrants involved in narcotics and gangs? Sure. Are there citizens involved in narcotics and gangs? Yes. A lot more.
Yeah and undocumented immigrants commit crimes at a way lower rate than citizens and legal immigrants. Like half. Because if they get arrested for anything they're probably getting deported. Pretty big incentive to stay out of trouble.
Yeah it's a form of (for lack of a better term) virtue signalling within extremist groups. "I'm so dedicated to the cause I'm willing to lie to further it!"
It means he is a racist, he agrees with Repub leadership that Hatian people are inherently evil, and he wants to do mass deportations which will turn into progroms.
"Directionally " does the same job as the "alternative" in alternative medicine (or alternative facts) - it just means "not".
Even a good number of MAGAts can spot this lie - but when the pronouns of the rest are Trump/Nazi-sympathiser, why would you expect them to care?
That statement made me soooo mad I fucking hate people like that.
"It was false, but I believed it so that says something."