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>the erosion of western values to accomodate the despots we trade with What do you mean by this? > Today, these governments literally import voters and distri
by jamilton 3y ago
>the erosion of western values to accomodate the despots we trade with
What do you mean by this?
> Today, these governments literally import voters and distribute them throughout their country to prop up their political parties in contested areas because natural citizens don't vote for the looting and demolitions of their own societies
What governments are you referring to?
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- cataphract 3y ago> What governments are you referring to? Even glossing over the latent xenophobia in the commentary, let's just think if this makes any sense. You need to specifically allow immigrants in that will gote for you, they'll have to wait 5 or more years to become naturalized citizen and at the end... naturalized citizens typically vote at much lower rates than the native born. Not a great plan. Much easier to suppress voters or kick out those that won't vote for you. See Jim Crow, or the expulsion of the Arab population of Israel before and after the 1948 war (without which Israel wouldn't even be viable as a Jewish state).
- stcroixx 3y agoChina has concentration camps. Western values say this is bad, yet we are willing to overlook them so we can have economic relationships with China. Saudi Arabia, similar.
- jamilton 3y agoI would not say those are examples of western values being eroded, they seem more like examples of economic relationships between countries being detached from the values of their populaces. The values themselves in these cases are relatively unchanged.