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Immigration should be about what is best for the country, not what's best for the immigrant. We have no obligation to foreigners. Their country being in shambles is not our problem, and it is not our responsibility to save them.
This argument is absurd on its face. Should I open my private home to a homeless person on the street because they "deserve a better life?" Of course not.
Comparing liberal immigration laws to ending slavery is just abhorrent and offensive.
Sometimes simple arguments are correct.
Slavery: Bad to own humans
Closed borders: Bad to force someone to stay somewhere based on their place of birth
Sure, open borders can cause chaos, but so could ending slavery. You still have to work to that end. richardhanania.com/p/open-im…
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Another technocratic ‘Good Governance’ intervention from the Danish Centre Left Government, after migration cuts and raising the pension age for sustainability purposes - significant tax cuts including for the rich in a bid to boost economic growth (even more). This is Nordic Excellence - even the Centre Left will look at the data and dispassionately do what the data tells it to. Here Reaganomics
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Trump ran on “racism” in 24 and won the highest percentage of minority voters for a Republican presidential candidate.
Republicans still did better among Hispanics in the midterm blowout than they did among them in the “anti-racist” pre-Trump era.
Pointing to Canadian Conservative “successes” with minorities really proves the stupidity of this post. The Conservatives get blown out in every election despite all their pandering.
Republicans will never win elections again if they’re only getting 51% of the white vote. “Natural conservative” minorities will never make up for that.
If Republicans could just curb their racism, immigration psychosis, and obsession with white identity politics, they’d be an electoral powerhouse. There are so many minority communities with fundamentally conservative instincts, particularly when it comes to faith, family, business and public safety.
We see it a lot here in Canada, especially among South Asians, whose communities often vote Conservative these days.
The American right is determined to shoot itself in the foot.
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A founder of the 1894 Immigration Restriction League, Prescott F. Hall fought five admins, three vetoes and an increasingly alien electorate to end the invasion of his era.
It wasn't until 1917 that his work finally won, when the Literacy Test and Asiatic Barred Zone became law.
ALT Immigration and other interests of Prescott Farnsworth Hall by Hall, Prescott F. (Prescott Farnsworth), 1868-1921
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"When my candidates win, it is a praiseworthy vindication of the wisdom of the people. When your candidates win, there must be some sinister cognitive defect at work"
“It’s not a coincidence that 74% of the world today is now under authoritarian rule. We are literally electing illiberal leaders democratically because we have lost attention, intimacy, and agency,” argues @mariaressa, Nobel laureate and cofounder and CEO of Rappler, speaking at CFR’s 31st annual Term Member Conference.
Drawing on her firsthand experience surviving attacks from the Duterte government in the Philippines, she poses a question to Americans: “The Georgians are out on the streets. The Ukrainians are fighting for their rights. The Iranians are fighting for their rights. The Filipinos have sent a dictator to The Hague. What are you guys willing to sacrifice for the truth?”
Watch the full conversation: cfr.org/event/thirty-first-t…
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This woman is powerful than 99% of rw twitter. Let that sink in
It’s difficult to explain without sounding crazy but this person successfully blocked turning an abandoned parking lot into taxable 21st century infrastructure because she thought the space could be better used as a trampoline park. (No one has offered to build the trampoline park).
She’s homeless and pulls people’s hair out for almost a living.
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We need our own national media infrastructure but all we have is this faggot hellsite
four Black boys lured a white boy to an abandoned house and fatally injured him and left him for dead a few days ago. the white boy called his mom but didn’t know where he was so he wasn’t found until he was dead.
that was just a small local story, though.
the big news is two white college girls made rude noises in a hallway. that got extensive national news coverage bc it dramatically demonstrates the dark truth of our white supremacist society and how dangerous it is for Black people.
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In 1984, the three world powers were in constant competition to access a pool of cheap labor. In the 21st century, nations will compete to rid themselves of useless eaters.
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Great redpill. The Party Line is that the society that built this was backwards, evil, horrible, etc etc.
The society that runs current St Louis (just look at it) is ... awesome, progressive, the best we've ever had in human history. No one has ever had it better.
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The work of anti-data center activists is the new civil rights movement, according to some. Degrowth is the new social justice — block a $5 billion investment into your community on an abandoned lot? You’re literally MLK Jr.
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You can see how easy it is for foreign powers to manipulate this type of person via Instagram reels or whatever. Massive national security threat where freedom of speech is being weaponized against low IQ retards with zero defense mechanisms
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Every single word of this
a week post-midterms and you’ve got senate republicans working like their hair’s on fire.
where was this the past two years?
if just a quarter of the 2024 trump voters turned out in iowa, kansas, ohio, south carolina, or a few thousand in alaska and mississippi, they’d all have gone red. alaska and other close races are still uncalled.
van jones is bragging on CNN about the “american accountability network” - an astroturfed social media outreach program to demoralize voters about affordability.
not to mention gas prices suddenly dropped almost a dollar in a week.
it’s all deeply demoralizing for even the most plucky plan trusters.
not in the sense of some grand conspiracy, just that elected republicans are stupid and got rolled again, and worse they have no party discipline or defenses to keep it from happening again.
this wasn’t ballot stuffing, it was simple outmaneuvering that started with redistricting when several deep-red legislatures threw up their hands and did nothing. the only solace is some of those people are jobless now.
what you’d consider “right wing media” is focused on wholly invented purity tests and backbiting against jd vance, who’s still the frontrunner for 2028. there’s a concerted effort to drive a wedge between him and trump, between trump and republicans, and sow constant discord. trump didn’t glass iran or declare martial law over the midterms.
it’s the world’s most boring reality show over midterms that went similarly to eisenhower, reagan, obama, among others. thankfully we didn’t have twitter back then.
meanwhile, across town the left’s coalition started fracturing before races were even called with newly energized “it’s called being a decent fucking person” forces calling for future speaker hakeem jeffries head.
democrats couldn’t even be bothered to show up for a symbolic achievement vote by that lunatic massie against pete hegseth, and their streak of being unable to govern their way out of a paper bag remains untouched.
outside an outsized figure like trump, elections have become present day american idol, with fewer votes taking much longer to count.
the issues on the ballot this year were “data centers = BAD!!”, “omg everything is expensive…”, and “don’t be mean :(“
luckily other than the odd “texas 💙” meme everyone’s basically forgotten that there was an election - probably the only predictable result
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Can “remigration” ever be justified?
The answer is: it depends.
My new @JConIdeas paper asks: who, why, how, and with what moral limits?
Read the first academic paper on remigration ethics below.
#Remigration
journalofcontroversialideas.…
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The (totally 100% made up) allegations about data centers and water, like the Epstein stuff, are a profound blackpill.
The American populace really is turning into 19th century Russian peasants. I assume it's a combination of demographic change, pot, and brain-melting algorithms.
It's not just the stupidity, it's the defensive crouch against anything, the resentment, the incuriosity, the easy anger and venom... Real "moral basis of a backward society" vibes.
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Republicans might want to take note.
@TheMeteorBlog has some ideas on how to address this.
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To Congressional Republicans:
Over the next two years, it is IMPERATIVE you propose as rosy of legislation as possible. Think the Congressional Stock Trading Ban, Families & Working Peoples’ Affordability Act (large tax cuts by cutting dem pet project funding), etc. Make dems choose whether or not they strike down legislation that HELPS Americans
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Top line ways to improve our political circumstance (NOTE: I’m not particularly ideologically in line with every one of these proposals, but would rather have a country)
1. End the war in Iran
2. Get on TikTok, instagram reels, facebook reels
3. Focus on domestic economics
4. Work to lower healthcare costs
5. Continue mass deportations