So US has 1/4 of China population and can't compete economically.
World is in a sharp fertility crisis.
U get free humans coming to your country to help u with that economic problem.
U should use those people, dumbest thing u can do is deport them and waste tons of money in the process.
U want cheaper houses - that's how u get cheaper houses ffs
*moot
Can we deport this inbred, middle-school-educated Trump supporter and keep the Colombian industrial engineer instead?
I mean, deport him where? Any other country would probably deport him right back here.
.... Antarctica doesn't seem to have much in the way of law enforcement, so they likely wouldn't deport him back to us.
Could we Try there?
So he could fuck up the only thing really going on there which is scientific studies? Fuck that. There's entire deserts that would love to have him
Her work ethic is absolutely mute.
What? Did you say something?
Afraid of they spelled it right someone would think they were insulting her by calling her a cow. Moo.
Classic assumption that "the left" doesn't love this country.
Love that phrase…”love this country”.
What does it even mean? The citizens? The flag? The physical land and soil that encompasses “this country”? Love the government? If so, what about the government do you love? The governments policies? Laws? The constitution? The actual government employees? Which ones? The president? A combination? How is the combination divided?
Also, depending on the answer to the above, why? Because you were born here? You think it’s better than other countries? How are you defining “better”?
Stupid phrase imo.
For me loving a country is a natural love of home. It's a sentimental attachment. I want my country to be a nice place the way I want my home to be a nice place. I want to feel the pride of both. If my kitchen stinks because of spoiled food and piles of dirty dishes I don't feel right. Same when my country stinks of poverty, homelessness, sick people who can't afford cures, etc. I want my home to be better than that. Recognizing faults doesn't mean someone doesn't love their country. it means they're honest.
A friend who worked in D.C. for a while clued me in to the Rosetta Stone of understanding the right-wing mentality: It all flows from a deep, abiding self-hatred. They need constant reassurance that they are good people, because they don't really believe it.
Furthermore, they literally need an untermenschen (the poor, the homeless, the sick) to be better than, so their own success proves that they are good.
It's obvious when you look at it this way: America must axiomatically be all good, because they are Americans; with your criticism, are you saying they're not good?
Whenever I’m driving through highways, hiking at the Adirondacks, walking around nyc, visiting my friends in LA, I’m always in the awe of this country. Fuck these people who think we don’t “love” this country.
Patriotic lefty marine corps veteran here, I’m so sick of the right wingers highjacking the word patriot. You are exactly correct in calling out the difference between nationalism and patriotism. I love this country and I hurt so much seeing what it has become over the last 20-30 years.
In all fairness it's only an assumption of those who confused Nationalism with Patriotism.
Patriotism (what can I do for my country) fits naturally with Leftwing principles (such as "The greatest good for the greatest number") whilst Nationalism (what can I get from being born were I was born) fits naturally with Rightwing principles (such as "What's in it for me?")
Fun fact, if she renewed that visa with her plans to go to school in Florida, but then stayed there... She's ineligible to ever become a citizen because she lied to get a visa.
No, she's special, unlike those other lazy libruls.
I personally know, or knew (I stopped talking to him) a guy who was on welfare for 10+ years, but always ranted loudly about people on welfare being freeloaders. Their situation is always special in their minds, unlike all those other lazy moochers.
Conservatism is correlated with a complete lack of empathy. They have trouble understanding other people are sentient beings, let alone equally deserving of freedom. Any problem that doesn't affect them is just a lie made up by evil Others to take away what they rightly deserve, which is everything.
Not sure if its the same study that we're talking about here, but there was a study done on conservatives and (neo)liberals empathy levels towards others during the covid pandemic's initial onset, one of the works it cited as supporting evidence looked into political biases in relation to empathy in 2010, and while those classified as liberals (not remembering how they defined liberal for the paper, will have to find my citation & check later) more often attributed external factors to people's suffering (someone is poor because they suffer from bigotry based discrimination), conservatives almost universally attributed personal factors to those same people's suffering (someone is poor because they use drugs) UNLESS that person was listed as conservative in which case they were more likely to attribute it to an external factor.
They do have empathy, just only for those who are also conservative.
Interestingly, if I'm recalling which paper it was correctly, jordan b peterson (who is now a right wing influencer) actually contributed to it, this was BEFORE he started appearing in right wing circles and was while he was still someone who would be considered respectable
IMPORTANT: I'll have to find my statistics notes to back this up, so for now, please take this with a heavy grain of salt
Right now I can see two futures.
One where the 2026 election gives the Dems control of both Houses.
The other where the 2026 elections are cancelled for national security reasons.
Or the Republicans push through "election security" laws that gerrymander the whole country to the point that Democrats can never gain a majority in either house ever again.
This is 100% how every single dictatorship in existence today works. Almost all countries in the world hold elections. But some are more democratic than others. Every single tyrant in power today has been or claim to have been democratically elected.
"Authoritarians get voted in. They never get voted out."
There is absolutely a third future where the Democrats refuse to change their platform and fuck this up again. Don’t be naive.
"absolutely mute" 😆
The opposite of when you mispronounce a word because you’ve only read it in books.
These dummies don’t read and heard this word wrong.
She getting deported to?
To Columbia.
I don't think Trump's regime is going to work that hard at deporting everyone to the right country. She might end up in Mexico or even Rwanda.
Assuming they even know the definition of deported. They don't seem to understand the definition of words. I still think Trump thinks asylum means people from insane asylums.
But this is my fear. They just start stripping citizenship from people who have been here legally to arbitrarily hit their quota numbers. Brown and got a bit of an accent? Naturalized in the last couple of years? Hope you're not here on January 20th. That day has a very ominous feel to it to me.
I say this as a man married into a family of Salvadoreños. People aren't treating this with the gravity it deserves.
"She loves this country more than 3/4 of the folks on the left"
I'd like to see what data they were referencing for this claim.
Oh, that's simple. There's a doctor with a rubber glove and a flashlight that helps them get their data.
Colombia is probably going to be safer in 4 years.
Thems the rules. The rules we made up so we could demonize people and pretend it's not racism.
Maybe she can instead stay in the new complexes for migrants. And wonder if deportation is actually the plan when the trains arrive because maybe her education included gas chambers.
Look at the name, it is a bot.
The second username is just a suggested Reddit username, I have one on my Reddit account because I was too lazy to think of an original name. It doesn't mean you're a bot.
And the first username looks like it belongs to somebody who owns a 2017 Subaru Impreza.
These troll bots are here on Lemmy too. Same language. Bootlickers enabled by the internet. Do not feed them.
Honestly, what’s worse, that someone has so little empathy that they’ll just tell some innocent person that they should be separated from their loved ones because they didn’t say the right magic words as they went over the imaginary line, or that someone would invest the time and energy into creating software to do so automatically
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