• MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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      3 months ago

      Our leaders wouldn’t mind that except that immigrants might come from countries where they grew up with access to banned books…

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        I don’t think that racism boils down to red scare or whatever you are implying. Racism has a long tradition like the Asian Exclamation Act from 1924

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          I’m implying that our leaders don’t want immigrants for the same reason they gut our educational funding, and that they attack our librarians. An educated population scares them.

          The average immigrant has been educated (by school or by life) outside our controlling parties’ spans of influence.

          I’m from a country with a very narrow span of acceptable political ideas. The average imported person will expand our horizons, and weaken our fragile belief that our current two party system serves our best interests.

          • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            be for real. our leaders don’t want immigrant people because they [the leaders] are white supremacists and/or want the support of white supremacists. they don’t like poor, uneducated immigrant people either (in fact they hate them even more!)

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      Short term solution. As countries become more affluent the birth rate tends to drop. Globally countries are generally becoming more affluent. So you’ll just shift the problem and run out of immigrants.

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          Letting Indians into the US will bring back “Indians” as the majority population. No not decades. For centuries you will not run out of immigrants.

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        India has 1.8 BEEELLION population. Do you want a flood ? Almost no Indian would voluntarily giveup migrating to the US or any Western country. Indian politics and situation is corrupt and terrible. And not many people are willing to go through the pain and crap that is living day-to-day in India.

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          Assimilation would be an issue but I feel like it’s a solvable issue. And we don’t need to open the floodgates, just open up the tap a little bit more.

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        “Short term” here meaning probably “at least a generation” lol

        Even absolute best case scenario, 3rd world countries are faaaaaaaaaaaaar away from the level of affluence where birth rates are declining.

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        The problem is not having enough young people to balance out the eventually aging of the GenX and Millennial generations. If things get too top heavy on the elderly side, the entire house of cards that is consumer and service driven capitalism tends to start toppling over. Immigration has traditionally helped in this regard by providing younger labor and tax base when native populations fail to keep up.

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          So wait, when all the boomers die and it topples over, does housing get affordable again?

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          By raiding and gutting SocialCare, Medicaid and Medicare and government emergency funds, the US Govt and State govt and other govt orgs have been running up the debt like crazy. Only way that debt and spending continues is by having a working population that steadily grows and increases each individual output while cutting back what they can consume.

          Starvation wages and rampant inflation is easy way for govt and private orgs to extract wealth from the working populace.

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        Hmm, yes; replace a population of immigrants with checks notes another population of immigrants. Yes indeed that is somehow a problem.

        /s

        Especially in the US this ‘worry’ is ridiculous and a dogwhistle.