Counterpoint: Elon Musk is an immigrant and took my wife’s job via his department of bullshi embezzlement.
Who’s
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I still can’t get past my coworker who hates immigrants because (according to her) they’re unvaccinated and spread disease. And she’s also antivax.
My coworker immigrated. Got his citizenship, now complains immigrants are the problem. SMH
Sounds like her issue is their otherness, not their medical history.
Racists and xenophobes are capable of believing some really stupid, easily disproven shit.
Does she not see that contradiction?
Because like most of them, when someone else does it its lazy/evil/malicious, but when they do it there’s always some justifiable reason.
Just like a right-winger coworker of mine. She won’t stop talking shit about how she couldn’t trust her ex because he cheated on her. Meanwhile she’s cheated on every single bf she’s ever had. And her current husband
Logic just doesn’t work on her. That’s a big part of what makes trumpers … special.
The landscaping company my HOA contracts with is having trouble finding people to do the work, after, of course, many of their employees were rounded up.
My idiot neighbors are whining about how their yards look like shit, because the landscapers aren’t coming around once a week, like they used to. The same idiot neighbors who urge everyone to “vote red” and are absolutely certain that only “illegal” immigrants are being “deported”.
There’s a sketch in Family Guy where Abe Lincoln confronts his neighbor about his un-mowed yard and the neighbor says “yeah, I used to have a guy for that”.
Probably thought landscapers were a part of nature. Like landscapers are deer but instead of walking through yards to eat berries they cut hedges into clean shapes
The premise of MAGA was always that we’d have a permanent impoverished servant class. But the message got distorted as it moved from the middle class liberal PMC to the lower class industrial/service sector serf.
Turns out “Every Home A Castle, Every Man A King” doesn’t play out in practice so well.
Immigrants started SO many small businesses too btw.
no immigrant has taken your job
In fairness, the more common modern practice is outsourcing. Send the Capital to the large labor pool, rather than sending labor to existing capital stock.
If maga could read above a 5th grade level they’d be very upset
Whose mad? My mad?
Something something litter boxes in schools and your grandkids are coming home with secret forced gender transition surgeries done in one day by underpaid public servants!
My response to this is always: if a homeless person with no money or credentials wearing their only set of clothes with no friends or connections unable to speak the local language and requiring the boss to risk legal fines asks for a job and the boss chooses them over you… What does that say about you?
Beside the point. Some people have arrangements with homelessness services orgs specifically to hire homeless folk because they are signed up with a program that pays their payroll taxes or something, I can’t remember exactly what the grant we got set up was it was ages ago.
The “no friends or connections” comment isn’t true because they have a network already setup and if they aren’t interacting with the customer directly then why would they need to speak the local language?
I don’t blame the immigrants for their goals of a better life, it’s logical to take advantage of the situation. It’s also logical for the employer to take advantage of cheap labor. It’s also logical for me to offer something that the immigrants can’t to keep myself employed if I working the same field.
Ok, they may know people local, I’ll grant that. They need to speak local language to understand written instructions, to interact with co-workers, to understand what is needed for them to do.
I think your last point is the same as mine. You should offer something that is advantageous compared to an immigrant. You have a massive advantage. If you can’t do that it doesn’t matter since you definitely won’t be able to compete with natives with whom you don’t have a massive advantage.
I just saw a video lat night of some Jan 6 dork dressed in full military cosplay, literally saying he was afraid of the 8 year old brown children replacing him 🤦♂️
They are such losers
Cuz at 8 they be smarter
YES, it is all about regaining the narrative. We need culture, we need community.
The MAGAs are not the enemy, they are the victims of this unscrupulous machinery of brainwashing the Zuck, Murdoch, Musk…
They MAGAs are the weak, the susceptible too influence, and we have to reach to them, break this fabric.
The revolution is in our hands, we ‘just’ need to find the message.
I wish I could get on board with this initiative. I used to believe that to be MAGA, you had to be either incredibly cruel, or unfathomably stupid.
As things have developed, I was dismayed to realize: You have to be both.
They are the weakest and loneliest among us, hence why they are so susceptible to even the dumbest of narratives. If it weren’t for their hatred I’d feel pity for them. But what you’re suggesting is no small feat, we would be up against literal decades of brainwashing.
Something I’ve noticed is that whenever a maga says their political take, simply asking them for details sends them into a rage, cuz they don’t know any lol. Watch some Isaiah Thomas clips, the man has the patience of god. Maybe there’s something in that we could use?
The more I see of the world, on a macro and micro level, the more I believe that the generational task young people will face is stepping into a dying world, the effects of which they did not cause, and be the ones to deal with every mess the boomers are leaving behind. And the only way they succeed in that, is together. And of course the world is seemingly as divided as ever right now.
What do you think?
There are only so many unskilled jobs available. What would your wonderful communism do with this? Create worthless jobs and wasted resources of all society on it?
Spoiler alert: It’s a recipe for poverty
Train people for high skilled work.
Is it safe to presume that you classify certain people as “useless eaters” as well?
You haven’t answered my question. But I guess no answer is an answer too in this case
The actual answer is UBI and job training programs. It lets people survive and gives them the opportunity to learn new skills without worrying about starving to death in this capitalist hellscape.
