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Immortan
Jun 6, 2015

by Shine

katlington posted:

Nationalism is great, lmao. It's basically the same thing as patriotism or something right?

Economic nationalism at the very least should be pursued here, yeah. Leave the "citizen of the world" garbage in the textbooks, kiddo.

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Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 19 days!)

Lastgirl posted:

hi i just wanted to post in this honeypot thread for secret racists :heritage:

Trump.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
Trump supporters fail to realize that large-scale immigration and a general labor shortage can coexist at the same time. The United States has shortages in all kinds of blue collar jobs, such as mechanics, plumbers, electricians, truck drivers. At the same time, more and more working class white Americans are dropping out of the labor force.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
There's been a great deskilling of the American labor force. It actually reminds me a bit of the American Indians who lost their traditional ways of life and descended into addiction, poverty and despair. Make that comparison around leftists though and they'll have an apoplectic fit.

But it's true. And Trump will not save them.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
Here's a great mental image: You can in an hour drive from the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolis, one of the largest in the country and booming in part thanks to immigrants from all over the world, especially Latin America and Asia, to a Choctaw casino on the Oklahoma border, which is one of the largest casinos in the world, and is booming thanks to poor whites from all over the region -- and who are in serious physical and moral decline.

The Choctaw were also a pro-Confederate tribe that kept slaves. And a painting of the chief done up like Kim Il Sung greets visitors when they go in the casino. This is not a cyberpunk novel it's real life.

BrutalistMcDonalds has issued a correction as of 09:30 on Feb 17, 2016

Immortan
Jun 6, 2015

by Shine
Trump.

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

Chyna

Ja-h-pan

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 19 days!)

Lastgirl posted:

Chyna

Ja-h-pan

They are beating us, and beating us, and BEATING us. It's terrible.

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
could all the ironic trump supporters please
stand up
please stand up
pleast stand up

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN
Jun 26, 2009



white spittle in the corner of an orange mouth

C H Y N A

Jared Kush
Mar 4, 2015

by zen death robot

Omi-Polari posted:

Trump supporters fail to realize that large-scale immigration and a general labor shortage can coexist at the same time. The United States has shortages in all kinds of blue collar jobs, such as mechanics, plumbers, electricians, truck drivers. At the same time, more and more working class white Americans are dropping out of the labor force.

What do you mean by "dropping out of the labor force"?

a god damn idiot
Sep 7, 2006


T r a v i s posted:

What do you mean by "dropping out of the labor force"?

If you aren't actively searching for a job after awhile they pull you out of the labor force statistics by which unemployment rates are calculated

Jared Kush
Mar 4, 2015

by zen death robot
Liberals can't get workers to buy into socialism so they are using scab labor to keep wages and the job market depressed in order to force working people to go on welfare.

The Saurus
Dec 3, 2006

by Smythe

a god drat idiot posted:

If you aren't actively searching for a job after awhile they pull you out of the labor force statistics by which unemployment rates are calculated

Well yeah but that's just a bullshit way to massage the statistics, it doesn't mean those people wouldn't get back to work if they had the opportunity

1488
Feb 24, 2013

The Saurus posted:

Well yeah but that's just a bullshit way to massage the statistics, it doesn't mean those people wouldn't get back to work if they had the opportunity

im definitely never going back to work again after enjoying the freedom of unemployment

Jared Kush
Mar 4, 2015

by zen death robot
Is there a single liberal on this site who will answer the question, would you mind if you were replaced at your job by an illegal immigrant?

1488
Feb 24, 2013

T r a v i s posted:

Is there a single liberal on this site who will answer the question, would you mind if you were replaced at your job by an illegal immigrant?

assuming you believe in human rights, you can answer that for yourself.

Immortan
Jun 6, 2015

by Shine

1488 posted:

assuming you believe in human rights, you can answer that for yourself.

So if you don't want cheap labor of illegals replacing your job then you supposedly don't believe in human rights now? How far gone have progressives become?

unlimited shrimp
Aug 30, 2008
Don't you know? Only the massive influx and subsequent exploitation of undocumented migrants can revitalize the American Left.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

T r a v i s posted:

Liberals can't get workers to buy into socialism so they are using scab labor to keep wages and the job market depressed in order to force working people to go on welfare.
The mean annual wage for an electrician is $54,520.

Top Bunk Wanker
Jan 31, 2005

Top Trump Anger

1488 posted:

assuming you believe in human rights, you can answer that for yourself.

This doesn't work anywhere near as well as you think it does.

Jared Kush
Mar 4, 2015

by zen death robot

Omi-Polari posted:

The mean annual wage for an electrician is $54,520.

I'm not sure what you are trying to say with this statistic but it is interesting that you chose electricians instead of construction workers, landscapers, tree workers, masons, custodians, or farm hands.

unlimited shrimp
Aug 30, 2008
I think the point was that, much like being born a billionaire's son, it's a great gig if you can get it.

Jared Kush
Mar 4, 2015

by zen death robot

Top Bunk Wanker posted:

This doesn't work anywhere near as well as you think it does.

The only person to answer my simple yes or no question so far tied himself into a knot trying to avoid saying yes or no.

1488
Feb 24, 2013

Immortan posted:

So if you don't want cheap labor of illegals replacing your job then you supposedly don't believe in human rights now? How far gone have progressives become?

that was meant to be a really good joke about the definition of liberalism, but i hosed it up.

T r a v i s posted:

The only person to answer my simple yes or no question so far tied himself into a knot trying to avoid saying yes or no.

no one is answering your question because its a false dilemma. under marxism-leninism-maoism first world workers wont need to be displaced in order to provide meaningful work for immigrants.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 19 days!)

the trump tutelage posted:

I think the point was that, much like being born a billionaire's son, it's a great gig if you can get it.

There's nothing stopping you from going to a trade school and joining the IBEW.

unlimited shrimp
Aug 30, 2008

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

There's nothing stopping you from going to a trade school and joining the IBEW.
Isn't becoming a certified, master tradesman (as opposed to a Mr. Fixit type handyman) actually extremely difficult? We once reviewed the entrance exam and admission rates for the plumbers union and you may as well have been talking about medical school.

Jewel Repetition
Dec 24, 2012

Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

Panniculus Rift posted:

there's a variety of good reasons for voting trump, being racist is just one of them

Lol

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 19 days!)

the trump tutelage posted:

Isn't becoming a certified, master tradesman (as opposed to a Mr. Fixit type handyman) actually extremely difficult? We once reviewed the entrance exam and admission rates for the plumbers union and you may as well have been talking about medical school.

it's called "having a career" you lazy white sack of poo poo

Jared Kush
Mar 4, 2015

by zen death robot
Liberals think we need to get people with no rights or bargaining power to work in the sun because if black people did it would be racist and white people would get a sunburn.

Talmonis
Jun 24, 2012
The fairy of forgiveness has removed your red text.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

it's called "having a career" you lazy white sack of poo poo

This seems unnecessarily hostile. Becoming a master tradesman is absolutely not for everyone, and is something to be drat proud of if you accomplish it.

Talmonis
Jun 24, 2012
The fairy of forgiveness has removed your red text.

Immortan posted:

Economic nationalism at the very least should be pursued here, yeah. Leave the "citizen of the world" garbage in the textbooks, kiddo.

I don't entirely disagree here... Though likely would on the degree. Things like loving around with South American countries to keep banana prices low is some serious bullshit, for example.

You take care of your own first, so that you have the capability to take care of others when needed. We have a lot of taking care of our own to do, and Republican policies of austerity are not the answer.

unlimited shrimp
Aug 30, 2008

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

it's called "having a career" you lazy white sack of poo poo

I meant "difficult" as in "good luck even getting the opportunity," not "work is hard abloobloo".

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 19 days!)

the trump tutelage posted:

I meant "difficult" as in "good luck even getting the opportunity," not "work is hard abloobloo".

You don't have to be a Master tradesman to qualify for union membership in the first place. Most trades certainly have a place for apprentices, and journeymen. Journeymen also make very good pay after putting in the years and experience, so even if Master certifications are limited in your field it's still lucrative work.

Jared Kush
Mar 4, 2015

by zen death robot
Electrical work pays well because the licensing and insurance requirements keep illegals out of the trade.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 19 days!)

That's how all of the trades work, so I don't know what kind of point you're trying to make.

If you want there to be mandatory licensing to pick fruit or roof shingles, then maybe you should organize laborers and agitate for favorable regulations.

Talmonis
Jun 24, 2012
The fairy of forgiveness has removed your red text.
Man, you've got a serious problem with illegal immigrants. There's no point in blaming desperate people fleeing their terrible countries with no future. Blame the rich assholes who pay them so little and work them half to death. They're the real problem. If you want to get rid of illegal immigration, just enforce the law on the demand side. Trying to round up people and their families is inhumane and like bailing water with a seive.

Jared Kush
Mar 4, 2015

by zen death robot

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

That's how all of the trades work, so I don't know what kind of point you're trying to make.

If you want there to be mandatory licensing to pick fruit or roof shingles, then maybe you should organize laborers and agitate for favorable regulations.

You are intentionally missing the point, and you don't know much about the trades at all.

Jared Kush
Mar 4, 2015

by zen death robot

Talmonis posted:

Man, you've got a serious problem with illegal immigrants. There's no point in blaming desperate people fleeing their terrible countries with no future. Blame the rich assholes who pay them so little and work them half to death. They're the real problem. If you want to get rid of illegal immigration, just enforce the law on the demand side. Trying to round up people and their families is inhumane and like bailing water with a seive.

You think the working class is made up of people too stupid to get a computer science degree and vote for Bernie.

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Talmonis
Jun 24, 2012
The fairy of forgiveness has removed your red text.

T r a v i s posted:

You think the working class is made up of people too stupid to get a computer science degree and vote for Bernie.

The working class is made up of people who don't want to get a comptuer science degree. This includes myself. If they choose to follow (very specifically) the current crop of Republicans, they're either stupid or evil. This is not the party of George W.'s Compassionate Conservatism. This is FYGM screamed at the top of their lungs conservatism.

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