# No worries, but deportation talk kind of sort of is topical **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 27, 2025, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-worries-but-deportation-talk-kind-of-sort-of-is-topical/1013497 "2025-01-27T23:03:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-worries-but-deportation-talk-kind-of-sort-of-is-topical/1013497/1 "2025-01-27T23:03:54Z")
…though honestly in the thread in question I wasn’t sure. Anyway, the point of using tariffs as a cudgel is to hurt others and show your sincerity by hurting yourself. Arguments for free trade in goods and services line up with arguments with free entry and exit of people, though they are not identical. Even worse, since we’re operating in a framework of dominance politics rather than advancing actual national interests, deportations and oh I guess everything else like the Friday Night Massacre of the Inspectors General that Trump was pushing off of the headlines - these are all topical. Ok then MfM, how would _you_ mod these discussions? A: No bloody clue. Maybe ask the author of the OP? I dunno. > [@Retaliatory tariffs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/retaliatory-tariffs/1013322/108): > > This is not the thread for deportation talk, please keep it on tariffs. Moderating. Note: The OP requested we keep this thread from be derailed by deportation and I agreed. There are other threads for deportation. including this very active one: [https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/) Will do. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-worries-but-deportation-talk-kind-of-sort-of-is-topical/1013497/2 "2025-01-27T23:14:02Z")
> [@Measure\_for\_Measure](#): > > how would _you_ mod these discussions? I would mod them in accordance with P&E policy to keep them on the given topic. More wide-ranging discussions are also possible in P&E. **[I started one myself](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774)**. No one has been modded there for being off-topic AFAIK. I do believe in some amount of organic shift in the conversation as a thread progresses, and I’ve said so before. But the point remains, IMHO, that someone joining a thread should not have to wonder WTF the discussion they wanted to participate in has become, where it has little to do with the original topic. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-worries-but-deportation-talk-kind-of-sort-of-is-topical/1013497/3 "2025-01-27T23:19:34Z")
The OP flagged it to stop the Deportation tangent. I agreed. Pretty simple one. We’re both reasonably sure there is at least one topic more appropriate for the deportation tangent. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-worries-but-deportation-talk-kind-of-sort-of-is-topical/1013497/4 "2025-01-27T23:22:32Z")
@wolfpup That was a pretty cogent response, thx. @What_Exit If the OP flagged it, then the decision looks pretty straightforward. As a poster, when I introduce tangents I _try_ to allude to the link between the tangent and the topic at hand, to encourage others to be mindful of topic drift. Though deviations of inches can eventually add up to miles. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-worries-but-deportation-talk-kind-of-sort-of-is-topical/1013497/5 "2025-01-28T09:56:39Z")
> [@Measure\_for\_Measure](#): > > Though deviations of inches can eventually add up to miles. Username checks out.