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Protest seesaw links kids on both sides of US-Mexico border
MSN ^ | July 30, 2019

Posted on 07/30/2019 8:14:03 AM PDT by SMGFan

The border between US and Mexico becomes a playground for North American and Mexican families as they take turns on a seesaw called 'Sube y Baja (go up and go down),' in a form of protest against President Donald Trump's border wall.

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Fences make good neighbors
1 posted on 07/30/2019 8:14:03 AM PDT by SMGFan
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To: SMGFan

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/30/pink-seesaws-reach-across-divide-us-mexico-border

Pink seesaws reach across the divide at US-Mexico border

Children seen playing on art installation that aims to show unity amid Trump-era hostility

A set of fluorescent pink seesaws has been built across the US-Mexico border by a pair of professors seeking to bring a playful concept of unity to the two sides of the divide.

Installed along the steel border fence on the outskirts of El Paso in Texas and Ciudad Juárez in Mexico, the seesaws are the invention of Ronald Rael, a professor of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and Virginia San Fratello, an associate professor of design at San José State University, who first came up with the concept 10 years ago.


2 posted on 07/30/2019 8:15:34 AM PDT by SMGFan
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To: SMGFan

It’s not the President’s wall, it’s America’s wall.


3 posted on 07/30/2019 8:23:02 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: SMGFan

They need to be removed because of extreme liability


4 posted on 07/30/2019 8:27:20 AM PDT by dforest (tJust shut up Obama. Maybe everyone should just shut up!)
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To: SMGFan

Oh.

This is horrible.

Do these things have safety belts?

No?

They’re trying to kill Mexican kids!


5 posted on 07/30/2019 8:29:58 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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6 posted on 07/30/2019 8:32:28 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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Those have got to be Russian!

The Russians seem to have a whole subculture of doing something stupid and putting it on the Internet!


7 posted on 07/30/2019 8:37:44 AM PDT by Reily
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To: RightGeek

see, a wall would have prevented that


8 posted on 07/30/2019 8:39:55 AM PDT by SMGFan
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Stupid stunt. Typical of how liberals feel problems are solved - all delusion and ‘feelings’.

Maybe we can all hold hands and sing together - I’m sure that’ll work.

/s


9 posted on 07/30/2019 8:48:31 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats created black hellholes in many of our beautiful cities. Shame on them.)
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hands across the border.

there needs to be a no man’s land near that fence


10 posted on 07/30/2019 8:53:26 AM PDT by SMGFan
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Might help...

We also need to change ALL laws that draw the third world here...

Then educate our citizens on the realities of immigration - watch this, then pass it on... It stops liberals cold in their tracks.

Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs - NumbersUSA.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE


11 posted on 07/30/2019 9:25:41 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats created black hellholes in many of our beautiful cities. Shame on them.)
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How much money did the prof put into this sham or was it all done with a grant of my tax dollars?


12 posted on 07/30/2019 9:26:04 AM PDT by bgill
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To: dforest

Turn it into a trebuchet.


13 posted on 07/30/2019 9:27:50 AM PDT by bgill
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That’s what the Left does..opportunistic optical stunts ideated by immature minds...the kids on them probably have higher IQs than those who organized the stunt...


14 posted on 07/30/2019 9:32:09 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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"North American and Mexican families"
"'Sube y Baja"

Anyone notice the pattern?

Since the nationality of families from Mexico can be given as "Mexican", from what country are families who can only be called "North American?" And why not name an actual country?

Why does the game have a Spanish name (with the English translation merely parenthetical)?

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I wonder if German kids played the same game with ethnic Germans from the Sudetenland along their pre-1938 border? What's German for "Sube y Baja?"

15 posted on 07/30/2019 12:28:00 PM PDT by drpix
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