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Oh no, immigrants! What a terrible issue. Let’s worry about that rather than the problems created by wealthy people who are citizens of this country. Every pers

Oh no, immigrants! What a terrible issue. Let’s worry about that rather than the problems created by wealthy people who are citizens of this country. Every person who cares deeply about immigration unknowingly signals that their priorities are bullshit.

blell 9mo ago
Immigrants are a problem created by wealthy people with the intention of dumping the cost of labour.
- throwway120385 9mo ago
  You could control the price of labor far more directly by increasing the minimum wage instead of this system of cruelty people are building.
- mindslight 9mo ago
  Exactly. And now that labor's bargaining power has been thoroughly smashed for good, the problem they've perpetuated and grown serves as a convenient excuse for the need for lawless terror gangs and concentration camps to keep disempowered and desperate people in their place. I'm frankly amazed at how people can look at the capital strike orchestrated with the AI narrative, protests being attacked by the aforementioned jackboots, the big tech authoritarians taking the gloves off, and a corrupt pay-to-play administration looting our country, and then conclude that any of this will somehow lead to everyday citizens being more enfranchised. Sure, immigration reform could have achieved this twenty years ago. But powerful business interests didn't let it happen then, so it behooves you to start questioning why they are outright championing it now!
  - alsetmusic 9mo ago
    > Sure, immigration reform could have achieved this twenty years ago. But powerful business interests didn't let it happen then, so it behooves you to start questioning why they are outright championing it now! That can't possibly be because championing a vindictive and corrupt admin is in their interests. No, it has to be nefarious forces working in the shadows. The corruption and lawlessness of this admin is right out in the open, but you know what? It's probably the Jews, right? /s Oh right, and racism.
- alsetmusic 9mo ago
  You're right! George Soros is importing all of these immigrants because it somehow increases his bottom line. Foolish. Programmed. Buying into bullshit. My partner is an immigrant. Did she steal the job you would have done at Whole Foods? No. She didn't.
rayiner 9mo ago
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- pavel_lishin 9mo ago
  > People who think immigration isn't important are just ignorant about culture and the reasons some societies are more successful than others. Neighborhood dogs are barking for some reason!
  - rayiner 9mo ago
    No whistling: some cultures are better adapted to developing modern democratic societies than others. That’s not even a controversial statement: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/09/joseph-henrich-explores-weird-societies https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/09/joseph-henric... “One of the points I want to make is a lot of the big institutions we think about, like Western law or representative government, actually flow, in part, from the way people think about the world. It wasn’t that people invented these institutions first and then they began to think about the world differently. Rather, this was a kind of evolving process where people began to think about the world a little bit differently because their families had been transformed, so they tended to adopt different kinds of laws and think about new kinds of laws to account for this. As European societies became increasingly dominated by monogamous nuclear families in the High Middle Ages, for instance, the laws being created centered increasingly on the individual and on their intentions, rights, and obligations as separate from their kin groups. Those laws then shaped the world that they subsequently grew up in even more, and you had this kind of coevolution between our psychology on one hand and our social norms and institutions on the other.” That’s in the Harvard Gazette from September 2020! The book was covered in the New York Times and Psychology Today. So what’s with the innuendo?
    - alsetmusic 9mo ago
      I'm sorry, buddy. I recognize your name. I don't know if that's because your comments are high quality or low quality. But these posts are low quality. I find your arguments absurd.

blell 9mo ago

Immigrants are a problem created by wealthy people with the intention of dumping the cost of labour.

throwway120385 9mo ago
You could control the price of labor far more directly by increasing the minimum wage instead of this system of cruelty people are building.
mindslight 9mo ago
Exactly. And now that labor's bargaining power has been thoroughly smashed for good, the problem they've perpetuated and grown serves as a convenient excuse for the need for lawless terror gangs and concentration camps to keep disempowered and desperate people in their place. I'm frankly amazed at how people can look at the capital strike orchestrated with the AI narrative, protests being attacked by the aforementioned jackboots, the big tech authoritarians taking the gloves off, and a corrupt pay-to-play administration looting our country, and then conclude that any of this will somehow lead to everyday citizens being more enfranchised. Sure, immigration reform could have achieved this twenty years ago. But powerful business interests didn't let it happen then, so it behooves you to start questioning why they are outright championing it now!
- alsetmusic 9mo ago
  > Sure, immigration reform could have achieved this twenty years ago. But powerful business interests didn't let it happen then, so it behooves you to start questioning why they are outright championing it now! That can't possibly be because championing a vindictive and corrupt admin is in their interests. No, it has to be nefarious forces working in the shadows. The corruption and lawlessness of this admin is right out in the open, but you know what? It's probably the Jews, right? /s Oh right, and racism.
alsetmusic 9mo ago
You're right! George Soros is importing all of these immigrants because it somehow increases his bottom line. Foolish. Programmed. Buying into bullshit. My partner is an immigrant. Did she steal the job you would have done at Whole Foods? No. She didn't.

rayiner 9mo ago

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pavel_lishin 9mo ago
> People who think immigration isn't important are just ignorant about culture and the reasons some societies are more successful than others. Neighborhood dogs are barking for some reason!
- rayiner 9mo ago
  No whistling: some cultures are better adapted to developing modern democratic societies than others. That’s not even a controversial statement: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/09/joseph-henrich-explores-weird-societies https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/09/joseph-henric... “One of the points I want to make is a lot of the big institutions we think about, like Western law or representative government, actually flow, in part, from the way people think about the world. It wasn’t that people invented these institutions first and then they began to think about the world differently. Rather, this was a kind of evolving process where people began to think about the world a little bit differently because their families had been transformed, so they tended to adopt different kinds of laws and think about new kinds of laws to account for this. As European societies became increasingly dominated by monogamous nuclear families in the High Middle Ages, for instance, the laws being created centered increasingly on the individual and on their intentions, rights, and obligations as separate from their kin groups. Those laws then shaped the world that they subsequently grew up in even more, and you had this kind of coevolution between our psychology on one hand and our social norms and institutions on the other.” That’s in the Harvard Gazette from September 2020! The book was covered in the New York Times and Psychology Today. So what’s with the innuendo?
  - alsetmusic 9mo ago
    I'm sorry, buddy. I recognize your name. I don't know if that's because your comments are high quality or low quality. But these posts are low quality. I find your arguments absurd.