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0 pointsarray_key_first1d ago0 comments

The point is your parents, or their parents, were immigrants. But those very same people we are now trying to restrict from coming here.

Meaning, if we time travel and apply these restrictions, you yourself would have never been a citizen. In fact, you probably wouldn't even exist. Do you see the problem?

That, my friend, is ladder pulling. When you destroy the very conditions that allow you to thrive.

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burnerRhodov31d ago

The entire world has been settled and resettled. You can't let past conquests stop you from having a country, laws and borders or all countrys would be illegitimate.

>The point is your parents, or their parents, were immigrants.

Or my parents, parents, parents, parents, parents, parents were... And if they came here for a better life, obviously there was some mind virus that was going on in their home country that forced them to leave in search of a better life. Don't try and bring that mind virus here if you had to immigrate here to escape it.

array_key_firstOP1d ago

The US in particular has always been made up of immigrants. I don't know how it works for canada. But for the US, that's always been the case. We're a country by immigrants, for immigrants. An American identity is not one of skin color or race. To suggest otherwise is not just a ahistorical, it's anti-American.

There is no mind virus. People wish to rewrite history to fuel their own delusions. They don't require enforcement around immigration, they require medication and perhaps a history lesson or two.

burnerRhodov31d ago

Measured as a percentage of population, we have more immigration now than we did in the 1890's peak. Given our drastically larger population, this is a problem.

Suicidal empathy mixed with this 'idea that america is illegitimate' cause we are a 'nation of immigrants', and we 'took land from the natives' is quite frankly retarded. And i can use the word retarded because i mean it in the literal since, "a verb meaning to slow down, delay, or impede a process."

defrost1d ago

Measured as a percentage of population, this graph:

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/imm...

shows the USofA having much the same level of immigration as it had from 1860 through until 1920.

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etc-hosts1d ago

I guess its was inevitable that Suicidal Empathy guys would break containment and make Hacker News accounts.

array_key_firstOP1d ago

Au contraire, the actual suicide is blowing up our economy just to stick it to some brown people. Make no mistake, dumping tens of billions of dollars into ICE and supporting a man with the fiscal responsibility of a rock will not help the American economy.

It is truly astounding to me what lengths Republicans will go to to "win". Well, you've won. When are things going to get better? I'm waiting.

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burnerRhodov31d ago

The entire world has been settled and resettled. You can't let past conquests stop you from having a country, laws and borders or all countrys would be illegitimate.

>The point is your parents, or their parents, were immigrants.

array_key_firstOP1d ago

There is no mind virus. People wish to rewrite history to fuel their own delusions. They don't require enforcement around immigration, they require medication and perhaps a history lesson or two.

burnerRhodov31d ago

Measured as a percentage of population, we have more immigration now than we did in the 1890's peak. Given our drastically larger population, this is a problem.

defrost1d ago

Measured as a percentage of population, this graph:

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/imm...

shows the USofA having much the same level of immigration as it had from 1860 through until 1920.

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etc-hosts1d ago

I guess its was inevitable that Suicidal Empathy guys would break containment and make Hacker News accounts.

array_key_firstOP1d ago

It is truly astounding to me what lengths Republicans will go to to "win". Well, you've won. When are things going to get better? I'm waiting.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse