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Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026

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Symptoms of a failed state the way I see it. The only realistic solution I can think of that doesn’t involve executing these people is repatriation. But one thing I’ve always wondered is, what if their home country refuses to take them back? If I was a cynical and opportunistic statesman, I’d see it more in my interest to see them there so that future endeavors ensure I have a foothold or entryway into influencing the politics of another country because let’s face it, “immigration” may be the name of the game but it’s “integration” that really matters. Populations that just truck along side by side in the same territory isn’t a way for either one to live life meaningfully.

For most of these countries - think like West Africa, not Afghanistan - their wealthy elites all want to be able to visit the West, buy property, open bank accounts. And they're the ones who have the power at home.

what if their home country refuses to take them back?

Third country deportation. Just dump them in a poor African country.

"But this guy isn't African." No worries, he'll learn to fit in.

what if their home country refuses to take them back?

The typical right wing response is "stop aid and remittances, refuse to issue visas to anyone else from those countries"

I think that might work for removing illegal migrants, but wholesale uprooting of the community that sends remittances in the first place is basically threatening to shoot the hostage unless you get what you want.

It's already a political problem sending some of these people back home in places like West Africa. People would dig in their heels

Gunboat diplomacy to take them.

And if they’ve already been living in your country? I don’t thinking rounding them all up in a Kristallnacht is going to make great international news.

You punish their source country until they decide to take them. And if Kristallnacht is needed to keep Europe safe, then so be it. Although I think that there are some milder approaches to culturally assimilate the better lot of them if we are hard enough. And only deport the culturally incompatible ones.

Anyway chemical castration for border trespassing is a suitable punishment I think that will do wonders both for reducing immigration/refugees and sexual assaults committed by them.

Although I think that there are some milder approaches to culturally assimilate the better lot of them if we are hard enough.

If the local community got a direct vote on which migrants got to stay, you'd see a level of civility that would rival major tourist centers.

I don't know if that's assimilation but it'd certainly be different.

major tourist centers

Anecdotally, many places with lots of tourism have locals that really dislike tourists. Even when tourism indirectly pays the bills.

Yeah they may complain about them, but actual antisocial acts are usually policed pretty hard even in countries where Western norms are totally different to the local ones.

On the contrary. The first state to round up illegal immigrants and asylum fraudsters to airdrop them over their country of origin may receive all the tut-tuts in the world, but it will also demonstrate that it is in fact a functioning state that is not to be trifled with and the laws of which are actually binding.

… airdrop them over their country of origin…

Lmao. Did you mean this literally?

I meant it ambiguously.

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