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HighResolutionSleep
2d ago
I'm not completely opposed to telling brown legal immigrants and citizens in illegal immigration hotbeds (kind enough to label themselves "sanctuary cities") that they really ought to start carrying their papers, provided that the state of exception doesn't last too long.
My bet, though, continues to be on nothing ever happening. The browning of America will continue apace, and the Trump deportation spree barely a blip in the grand scheme of things.
SecureSignals
Training the Aryan LLM
2d ago
It's now just accepted conventional wisdom that Israel wants to drag the United States into a likely globally-destabilizing conflict on the basis of their insane, racial-supremacist Abrahamic cult-myths. We're totally done with bullshit platitudes about this being about oil or Spreading Democracy. Everybody knows now. We're done with the precepts. At this point there's nothing left to say, all of the predictions and analysis of the so-called Anti-Semitic Right is proven correct. It's just a matter of whose side you're on at this point.
#NoWarWithPersia.
AlexanderTurok
Alt-MSNBC
2d ago
Trump support doesn't correlate much with the presence of illegal immigrants.
AlexanderTurok
Alt-MSNBC
2d ago
You do get that there's already people doing this down-the-tech-tree work, right? If you're this upset at the thought of some college kid or NEET picking fruit instead of playing video games, why do you want to import massive amounts of low functioning foreigners?
So Americans can go to college and get work in offices instead of picking onions in the sun. The foreigners benefit too, win-win.
AlexanderTurok
Alt-MSNBC
2d ago
the baltics, the ballans, the eastern Mediterranean, Eastern Europe, or Southeast Asia
America isn't Lwow 1918 though. In Florida and Texas the majority of Hispanics voted the same way as the majority of whites.
Closedshop
話說天下大勢，分久必合，合久必分
2d ago
For my part, I'm disgusted that so many people seem to think it's okay to cyberbully celebrities
Saying mean things about someone online is not cyberbullying, especially when she specifically searched her name to see all the mean things people said. Also, her entire business is attention, so negative attention is just a part of the bargain she made. I have no sympathy for someone who literally courts attention receiving negative attention.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
2d ago
hate male
Laughed at the typo.
pigeonburger
2d ago
People sometimes survive absolutely unbelievable stuff because bodies just happened be in just the right way. And sometimes they die because their body has a mild shock in a very unlucky way.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
2d ago
If I understand you correctly, you think:
Her posts are not provocative, just sincere curious inquiries.
She does noy stir up controversy, she's just interested in non mainstream things
People unfairly accuse her of being controversial. You can relate to this.
Close?
Iconochasm
2. Bootstrap the rest of the fucking omnipotence.
2d ago
Yes, there are plenty of people who have no contact with illegal immigrants and suffer from a virulent Typical Mind Fallacy.
aqouta
2d ago
I understand the catharsis in cheating to win the Kobayashi Maru challenge but it really is the cop out answer. Oh, so you're guarded and cynical and don't want to discuss sacred values? That's fine, you can use this maneuver to get out of it when it's an inappropriate time to have the discussion but are you genuinely just committed to never exploring which of your values plays master to the others? Too afraid of judgement for making a call?
Fighting the hypothetical is small talk, it's a dodge. It exchanges a kind of low grade cleverness to avoid substance.
OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
2d ago
Sure, I can conceive that someone could be incorrect. But my point is, what do you mean by "American" here?
Iconochasm
2. Bootstrap the rest of the fucking omnipotence.
2d ago
You do get that there's already people doing this down-the-tech-tree work, right? If you're this upset at the thought of some college kid or NEET picking fruit instead of playing video games, why do you want to import massive amounts of low functioning foreigners?
HighResolutionSleep
2d ago
As a Shareholder-American, it sure would be great for me. Not so sure about others, though.
ThisIsSin
Cainanites and Abelists
2d ago
Like the incest stuff that's taken over the world for some reason.
It costs nothing for the actors to say the word "step-X", so they do. Easy to dub out, too. (I think its prevalence far outstrips those who actually have this fetish for that reason.)
AlexanderTurok
Alt-MSNBC
2d ago
Can you even conceive of the idea that someone could think open borders would be good for Americans?
AlexanderTurok
Alt-MSNBC
2d ago
You can literally do anything, it’s not hard.
Yeah no s***, if we really set our minds to it, we can move down the tech tree and make our country's economy more similar to Bangladesh. Why anyone would want to is beyond me.
self_made_human
C'est la vie
2d ago
If you couldn't tell, this was a joke.
Closedshop
話說天下大勢，分久必合，合久必分
2d ago
look into the face of a god
deny its existance
Just how based can one man get?
ccc
2d ago
This can't be overstated. Have a look at the questions she asks on Manifold. Almost all of them are about herself or about sex. Every time I hear about her it's one of those. It's so tiresome.
2rafa
2d ago
Human beings have worked in agriculture picking crops for thousands of years. Modern technology (including novel reflective materials) makes fruit picking more comfortable than ever. Change the incentives and people will do it. Put simply, if I had the choice between starving and picking fruit, I’d pick fruit. Everything else is just moving incentives along a scale.
The high school kid who picks the most fruit gets guaranteed entry to Harvard, suddenly every child of every tiger mom and pushy Indian dad in America is out there training their kids to pick strawberries from the age of 8. You can literally do anything, it’s not hard.
OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
2d ago
But then there's no more American people. Who will our elected leaders serve? "The people currently standing on the territory formally known as the USA?" Whose long-term interests do they protect?
Our leaders should have a referent "American people" and put the interests of these "American people" first. I assure you that leaders of other countries understand who "their people" are and serve their interests to the detriment of our own. If we do not have leaders who look out for our interest, then we will taken advantage of at every turn.
Who are the American people? Citizens, their children, and those they adopt in. Adoption isn't an uncaring, unnoticed act. It's always personal and usually planned for. The adoptee needs to want to join the family and take on the family's customs.
remzem
2d ago
Rubio has denied American involvement. Not that we'd admit it even if we were involved.
https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1933328486669697508
Though it makes sense for Israel to claim otherwise. If Iran strikes US bases it will help them pull us into their war. On the off chance the neocons haven't already greenlit it.
ccc
2d ago
If she repents and changes her ways, I will forgive her.
Of course, this is meaningless. I am nobody. In the world of online microcelebrity culture, there is no institution that can make her this promise. Before the Internet, there were things like religious leaders that could meaningfully make this promise. Even the irreligious would usually have their censure limited to a well-defined social group with de facto leaders who could grant clemency. That's all gone now.
With the tools we have, there's only really two good options. Ignore her, or make an example out of her.
Technically noticeable, but barely! Very interesting if true.
If I had to guess there's probably better ways to make farm work attractive, too, besides that – the article says that the average wage is $28/hour right now. For instance, normalizing shorter workdays (two shifts) or work weeks and paying more might generate a lot more interest and keep costs lower than simply quadrupling wages. But I'm spitballing (and not terribly familiar with what's normal in big ag right now anyway).
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