• RBWells@lemmy.world
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    Tom Russell wrote a song about this. It’s good.

    https://youtu.be/WZ3Q4W9Y6kM

    I’ve got 800 miles of open border

    Right outside my door

    There’s minute men in little pick up trucks

    Who’ve declared their own damn war

    Now the government wants to build

    A barrier like old Berlin 8 feet tall

    But if uncle Sam sends the illegals home

    Who’s gonna build the wall?

    (Chorus)

    Who’s gonna build your wall boys?

    Who’s gonna mow your lawn?

    Who’s gonna cook your Mexican food

    When your Mexican maid is gone?

    Who’s gonna wax the floors tonight

    Down at the local mall?

    Who’s gonna wash your baby’s face?

    Who’s gonna build your wall?

    (end chorus)

    Now I ain’t got no politics

    So don’t lay that rap on me

    Left wing, right wing, up wing, down wing

    I see strip malls from sea to shining sea

    It’s the fat cat white developer

    Who’s created this whole damn squall

    It’s a pyramid scheme of dirty jobs

    And who’s gonna build your wall?

    (chorus)

    We’ve got fundamentalist Muslims

    We’ve got fundamentalist Jews

    We’ve got fundamentalist Christians

    They’ll blow the whole thing up for you

    But as I travel around this big old world

    There’s one thing that I most fear

    It’s a white man in a golf shirt

    With a cell phone in his ear

    (Chorus)

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    I live in the northeast and was blown away the first time I had a burrito from a truck in the southwest. My immigration plan is to have a Mexican food truck on every corner of America. I don’t care how it happens. I’ll have ICE agents reverse deport people. Friggin kidnap them from Mexico and give them a truck and a parking lot or sidewalk. Everyone in America must experience what I have experienced.

    /s, though I do take this position facetiously in immigration arguments.

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      Food Trucks are the best way to get great & affordable food in the US.

      I, personally… always head to the area with the most food trucks when I go to a big city. It’s where things be happenin’, baby!!!

      …as far as small to middle sized Midwestern towns, they are often the best places to find food for hundreds of miles. It’s all “word of mouth” too. So if it’s good, you’ll make bank. If it’s bad, goodbye. No ‘Yelp’ necessary.

      You learn to trust the food trucks when you travel.

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        I feel that. Best burger I ever had was in the middle of nowhere and the nearest “city” had precisely two main roads and that’s it.

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      Bowling for Soup was a local band that made it big.

      They have a song, “Ohio (Come back to Texas)” with a line that says “the Mexican food sucks north of here anyways.”

      I have recently moved from Texas a little north and east, but still firmly in the south… man, I can get catfish on the corner, but I can’t find a decent taco to save my life. My wife is craving some GOOD Mexican food, and I keep telling her, she’s unlikely to find it here unless she learns Espanol.

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    The clowns pushing for this have already appropriated the most bland, lobotomized, passified, pasteurized, inoffensive versions of “Mexican” food imaginable. They won’t even miss the real deal. It’s like when people call American-style pizza “Italian food”, while no Italian alive would ever lay claim to that dish.

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      Tbf, (unpopular opinions follow), american pizza is better than italian pizza (I also wouldn’t call it italian food though) but real mexican food is leagues above texmex.

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      All too true, they consider Chili’s Mexican food when the hottest thing on the menu is made from Jalapenos.

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    Not just Mexican food…

    You go to the back of any local restaurant, regardless of cuisine, and chances are, there is a Mexican cooking the food.

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      I see on other social media complaining of Indian immigrants doing Deliveroo or Uber. Who’s going to be doing those then? It is the same result that happened with Brexit. Eastern Europeans left UK, and there is shortage of construction workers and truck drivers.

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      I know it’s fairly pervasive everywhere, but I’m in Houston. Most of the restaurants here would have to go out of business.

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      Yeah I really could’ve picked any food but Mexican is so iconic & universally liked. But when indian places start shutting down pretty sure my SO will riot.

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    This is where gentrification and appropriation come in. A burrito has already been branded a “wrap”. A taco is one racist ruling away from being a hotdog.

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        The maggots were always there. They just used to be kept under their rocks by the ratio of upstanding people.

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        More that spez is a greedy little pig boy and sucking of the orange oval office, so the admins seem to be purging any posts that might piss off the powers that be.

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      I assume because it is racist and implies all Mexican joints are owned, operated, and staffed by illegals.

      Everybody knows the cartels use legal immigrants to run the place and it is owned by an LLC subsidiary of a Mexican shell corp.

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        What part of this implies that it’s just illegal Mexicans getting deported because I’m pretty sure that’s a stretch? Also, pretty sure not everyone knows the cartel uses Mexican joints as shell corporations.

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          It implies that everybody that is Latin or Hispanic in America is here illegally, because there would be nobody to make tacos if they were all deported.

          The second half was a joke that plays on the idea that no legitimate taqueria exists and they all are money laundering operations for illegal activity.

          Fuck, all this taco talk has got me hankering for tacos.

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            I feel like you’re missing a core part of the joke. It is not just illegal immigrants getting deported so this reads more to me like “you can’t target everyone without broad consequences” and uses food as an example for comedic effect.

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            It implies that everybody that is Latin or Hispanic in America is here illegally, because there would be nobody to make tacos if they were all deported.

            Actually, you’re the racist one implying all Hispanics are Mexicans.