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Mexico Demands Texas Remove Floating Barrier of Buoys with Saw Blades in Rio Grande

www.democracynow.org Mexico Demands Texas Remove Floating Barrier of Buoys with Saw Blades in Rio Grande

Mexican officials are demanding Texas remove its border buoys from the Rio Grande, saying the floating barrier, aimed at blocking asylum seekers from reaching the United States, was installed on Mexico’s side of the river. Between the buoys there are circular saw blades. Dozens of asylum seekers, in...

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We've reached sci-fi level dystopia

www.democracynow.org /2023/8/11/headlines/mexico_demands_texas_remove_floating_barrier_of_buoys_with_saw_blades_in_rio_grande

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Saw blades? What the fuck?
- I mean, is it really much different than razor wire at the top of a wall/fence?
  
  I saw the fence wire and don’t get me wrong - that is fucked up in its own right, but from the image, it looks like that’s partially on land, so drowning shouldn’t be as much of a concern as if you’re in the middle of the river and can’t grab onto one of the buoys because of saw blades.
  
  Please, don’t get me wrong - it’s fucked up. It’s all so very fucked up. But if the current is fast and someone needs to hold on to a buoy to avoid drowning but can’t because of a saw blade, that’s just…..a whole other level of fucked up.
  
  And as a woman who lives in Texas, fuck Greg Abbott and the assholes who enable this and him and their “owning the libs” attitude and mentality that drives them to continue their continuous patterns of behavior that do nothing but hurt actual people who are very vulnerable.
  
  Yes, because the current carries you into the blades and, you can't see them, and once you get stuck on them, you're drowning
Mexico should just destroy them. It’s their river too.
- If they made sure to quietly talk to Biden or whatever executive branch person is relevant first, that might actually be a decent strategy. What's Abbot going to do about it?
- should take Texas back while they're at it
  
  Texans crave liberation! AMLO! We call for freedom!
If only the tree did a better job
Recent liberal take on these: "ACTUALLY the saw blades aren't motorized therefore this is okay actually and being upset about it is overreacting."
I don't know who saw serrated guards and immediately thought they were all saw blades but they're not saw blades.
- I will start calling my chainsaw a "chain with saw serrated guards".
  
  The guards are as much sawblades as barbed wire is.
- Stupid people searching for clickbait
The Mexican government is a flimsy cartel front. The cartel should be grateful for Hunter’s business and leave it at that. President Biden could wipe them from the face of the earth whenever he wants.

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