what you think about the raidahs this year?
incognito and burfict making the team?
I didn't know JaMarcus Russell cared so much about immigrants.
I didn't know JaMarcus Russell cared so much about immigrants.
Where do you think he gets his codeine cough syrup from???
No seriously this has me more and more on edge and mentally preparing for living through some dark shit and I’m very not okay with being quiet and skating by while my country puts people in concentration camps and shit soooooo where do I go
Not to be a reeeeeeeeeeeeeee guy here but this go against the fucking fundamentals this nation was set upon.
:whew
I'm looking forward to you coming around to the idea that the rounding up and suppression of minorities so settlers can enforce land claims are exactly the fundamentals this nation was set upon. Hope you're well btw, haven't seen you in a minute.
No seriously this has me more and more on edge and mentally preparing for living through some dark shit and I’m very not okay with being quiet and skating by while my country puts people in concentration camps and shit soooooo where do I go
what's your take on donald? (wasnt here in 2016)
I'm doing really well, unlike the state of this nation. job's working out, personal life going well, etc. hope the kids are well!
what's your take on donald? (wasnt here in 2016)
Family bla bla trauma has nothing to do with it. If I rob a bank today amd get caught I will do jail time, bu bu what about my family? Too fucking bad it was my choice to break the law and I knew what the consequences could be.What if the law isn't enforced for decades, then suddenly it is?
Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.
proportionate punishment for crossing an imaginary line
Family bla bla trauma has nothing to do with it. If I rob a bank today amd get caught I will do jail time, bu bu what about my family? Too fucking bad it was my choice to break the law and I knew what the consequences could be.What if the law isn't enforced for decades, then suddenly it is?
Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.
Looking forward to discussions in my 50s about how we need to defend the purity of border lines drawn by a colonial ruling class centuries ago during campaigns of explicitly genocidal accumulation. Possibly with automated drone bombing runs aimed at hordes of central americans fleeing habitats rendered unlivable by climate change.
Ed. If I haven't been death camped by then :thinking
If we are to win this fight the nation state is where its at to keep corporations down and make them pay their share.
If the state is hollowed even more we are lost.
Deal with it
pretend countries like Luxembourg
- The Netherlands is the 5th most competitive economy in the worldIf we are to win this fight the nation state is where its at to keep corporations down and make them pay their share.
If the state is hollowed even more we are lost.
A system of nation-states where pretend countries like Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Hong Kong (pls forgive me, Xi Jinping), get to exist even though they are neither economically viable nor forced to defend themselves from any real threat is a system where corporations will never be held accountable / pay their fair share.
If the fashies ever came back to power I'd just collaborate :smug.
Who says anything about collaboration?If the fashies ever came back to power I'd just collaborate :smug.
Kara, you can‘t call Luxembourg a pretend country while being the biggest San Marino fanboy I have ever seen on the internet. ::)
I feel ashamed since we only got these trash states representing europoors itt.
Sealand never signed the Treat of Rome :wag
Nintex, don't think i don't know you're brown.
Nintex, don't think i don't know you're brown.
But go ahead, be a cuck to native dutch because you fall into the "contrarianism is intelligence" line of thinking :lol
If we are to win this fight the nation state is where its at to keep corporations down and make them pay their share.
If the state is hollowed even more we are lost.
A system of nation-states where pretend countries like Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Hong Kong (pls forgive me, Xi Jinping), get to exist even though they are neither economically viable nor forced to defend themselves from any real threat is a system where corporations will never be held accountable / pay their fair share.
Kara, you can‘t call Luxembourg a pretend country while being the biggest San Marino fanboy I have ever seen on the internet. ::)
if you're telling me a country that still exists today because they let giuseppe garibaldi couch surf there for awhile is a pretend country then i don't know what to tell you :hmph
As a special administrative region of China it is independent in literally every way except for matters of defense and diplomacy
Every illegal immigrant is hurting the country he resides in, he is undercutting legal workers with his low wages, driving incomes down of those already on low incomes, not paying into the system either. Millions of jobs are lost this way. It undermines the entire system.
Of course legal migration can also do this but at least the government and thus the people can set minimum (living) wages.
How?
Genuine question: what is the current prevailing opinion on how undocumented people affect the government's finances
Mandark I know you are a psychologist right? Or counselor?
If you reward someone for bad behaviour what signal is that giving?
If I tell my kid, no dessert unless you eat dinner, but give them dessert anyway when they don't finish dinner... What will they do next time? What will their siblings do? The rule of eat dinner or no dessert doesn't exist if I don't enforce it.
Seems really basic stuff to me.
Mandark I know you are a psychologist right? Or counselor?
If you reward someone for bad behaviour what signal is that giving?
If I tell my kid, no dessert unless you eat dinner, but give them dessert anyway when they don't finish dinner... What will they do next time? What will their siblings do? The rule of eat dinner or no dessert doesn't exist if I don't enforce it.
Seems really basic stuff to me.
If the fashies ever came back to power I'd just collaborate :smug.
Alternate parenting metaphor:
If you have made it clear to your children that you will permanently disown them if you catch them engaging in behavior you find immoral (using drugs, having premarital sex, gambling, etc.) then if they do any of these things and find themselves in a bad situation, they will be much more likely to hide it from you, and the situation could get much worse since they are cut off from the people best positioned to help them.
Not directed at anyone here btw, but dems online wonder why poor uneducated folks vote for evil republicans that want to curb healthcare and shit.
Its because they are more worried about illegal migrants and jobs they are competing with them for. Yeah illegal migrants are not competing for fancy university level jobs because you cant do them illegally, but these poor uneducated folks just need any job. Their direct competition is these migrants.
If there is 1 million illegal dishwashers doing it for 4 bucks an hour then there is a lot less jobs for legal workers, not 1:1 but large amounts.
Considering the election was lost by margins in a few states it seems weird you dismiss the white non educated voters.
That said you might have a better view of things in the US then me.
Millions died over those lines being crossed. They're immaterial, but they're not imaginary.i think this is both i) too strong wrt to a border’s justification, which is at least partly discursive and conventional (like, it’s not a fact about the natural world); and ii) too weak wrt it’s real world consequences, which are clearly material.
Ultimately and in the abstract, is a political entity sovereign over a territory in its right to deny entry to people for whatever reasons ? I don't think I've often heard that clarified by those opposing nationalist arguments, the left in particular struggle with that.left deontological:
Likewise, the net effect on the economy is really hard to tease out empirically but the whole "costs millions of jobs" rhetoric is transparently silly.Last time I looked into this the general consensus was that low skill labor slightly depresses wages in the target industry and was an overall slight net positive in the economy at large, and that’s with factoring in consumption of public services. And that’s just short term.
Considering the election was lost by margins in a few states it seems weird you dismiss the white non educated voters.
That said you might have a better view of things in the US then me.
Hillary didn’t really have a satisfying answer for that. “We are going to bring a bunch of high tech jobs and offer job retraining” doesn’t really make sense for a full grown ass man”. Especially when a lot of times taking some manufacturing job and replacing it with call center work means big pay cuts.Right, Hillary was the only Democratic candidate who wouldn't lie about manufacturing and she got punished for it. We don't deserve her.QuoteIn some sense the TPP was kind of the right answer, but as usual, whatever we negotiated to protect jobs and workers was really just a fig leaf, and also the Democratic messaging was awful.TPP wouldn't have had any meaningful impact on the manufacturing sector, it was mostly an agreement between developed economies to ease business relations, protect sacrosanct IP lordship, and also secure a soft-power counterweight to Chinese influence. Spend well over 250 years knocking down barriers in Asia, dominating every country, dropping nuclear weapons on Japan, killing over 200,000 of my people in the Philippines, only to have some boomer asshole blow it all over a meaningless number at the precise moment in history where discipline was most important, brehs.