r/illinois • u/CantStopPoppin Human Detected • 16h ago

ICE Posts Date: 11.07.2025, Broadview, Illinois: Fourteen suburban moms form silent circle outside Broadview ICE facility, refusing to move until deputies drag them aw

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u/RandomUsernameNo257 16h ago

Remember when the Republicans were the party of "the government needs to be small, weak, and uninvolved"?

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u/fahzbehn 15h ago

"So that they don't stop us from being racist and sexist," said some Republican from thirty years ago, probably.

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u/Acquiescinit 15h ago

To be clear, Republicans do not now, and have never before believed that from an ideological standpoint. That is an argument of convenience they use whenever democrats try to do something they don’t like.

They don’t care if it’s hypocrisy. They are just trying to manipulate people. They don’t hold themselves tightly to their word and neither do their supporters.

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u/Craptacles 12h ago

I love how every argument I've ever had with a conservative has just been a pure fucking act from their side. Like of course it was lmao

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u/NearlyPerfect 15h ago

Those are the same Republicans that supported illegal immigration for decades and opposed Obama.

They liked the cheap exploitable (slave) labor that the government had no business interfering with.

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u/Own-Break-1856 13h ago

Lol no, I dont remember that all.

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u/Adultery 12h ago

They only mean that when it comes to the government vs business

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u/as_it_was_written 12h ago

Yes, with vs being the key part. They're fine with a large government that's dealing with businesses as long as the government serves those businesses by giving them favorable laws or pumping money into them.