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cheesetriangles
Jan 5, 2011





The US should invade mexico to get rid of the cartels. We will be greeted as liberators.

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Jared Kush
Mar 4, 2015

by zen death robot
e: double post

Jared Kush has issued a correction as of 23:32 on Feb 15, 2016

stoutfish
Oct 8, 2012

by zen death robot

cheesetriangles posted:

The US should invade mexico to get rid of the cartels. We will be greeted as liberators.

Jared Kush
Mar 4, 2015

by zen death robot

Yasser Arafatwa posted:

what if i just think national borders are loving stupid

I won't say there's no merit in the idea, but I just don't think humanity is going to be ready for it any time soon.

Chalupa Picada
Jan 13, 2009

T r a v i s posted:

I won't say there's no merit in the idea, but I just don't think humanity is going to be ready for it any time soon.

that's fair tbh

i realize my opinion is horrifically unrealistic currently

Chalupa Picada
Jan 13, 2009

double post whoops

The Saurus
Dec 3, 2006

by Smythe
babypolis is just upset that the criminals and rapists are going to be sent back to mexico where he lives

Top Bunk Wanker
Jan 31, 2005

Top Trump Anger

a cop posted:

So what was the point of the press conference? I missed it.

Essentially, Trump called Cruz a lying cocksucker repeatedly for several minutes and said he will definitely sue him over presidential eligibility if he doesn't quit being a lying cocksucker.

babypolis
Nov 4, 2009

im down with being annexed by the us

Brannock
Feb 9, 2006

by exmarx
Fallen Rib

cheesetriangles posted:

The US should invade mexico to get rid of the cartels. We will be greeted as liberators.

Brannock
Feb 9, 2006

by exmarx
Fallen Rib

babypolis posted:

im down with being annexed by the us

Do you want a football team?

Immortan
Jun 6, 2015

by Shine

stoutfish posted:

we'll save money on healthcare compared to our current system and free tuition comes from a tax on wall-street speculation? are you retarded? in fact those two things will be a massive boost to the effective net-worth of the american people, so it's better than free.

Look at this idiot repeating Bernie Panders verbatim. It's amazing how many youth in this country have been dumbed down into an obedient, gullible voting block through PC culture & entertainment perpetuated by progressives over the last ten years. It really is something how a borderline senile old man promising free healthcare, college, etc. ad nauseam can assemble the poorest of Americans into willingly accepting increases in their taxes from a fourth to a third. You are a fool if you think Bernie's plan (assuming it could ever get implemented) wouldn't simply drive businesses out of the country or that importing hundreds of thousands of low-skilled immigrants from the third world would be a net positive for the economy and national security.

Ideologues such as you who think corporations are evil incarnate that need to be controlled by the government are just as insufferable as your counterparts who believe vice-versa.

Chalupa Picada
Jan 13, 2009

Immortan posted:

Look at this idiot repeating Bernie Panders verbatim. It's amazing how many youth in this country have been dumbed down into an obedient, gullible voting block through PC culture & entertainment perpetuated by progressives over the last ten years. It really is something how a borderline senile old man promising free healthcare, college, etc. ad nauseam can assemble the poorest of Americans into willingly accepting increases in their taxes from a fourth to a third. You are a fool if you think Bernie's plan (assuming it could ever get implemented) wouldn't simply drive businesses out of the country or that importing hundreds of thousands of low-skilled immigrants from the third world would be a net positive for the economy and national security.

Ideologues such as you who think corporations are evil incarnate that need to be controlled by the government are just as insufferable as your counterparts who believe vice-versa.

capitalism is the enemy, friend

But Rocks Hurt Head
Jun 30, 2003

by Hand Knit
Pillbug

Immortan posted:

Look at this idiot repeating Bernie Panders verbatim. It's amazing how many youth in this country have been dumbed down into an obedient, gullible voting block through PC culture & entertainment perpetuated by progressives over the last ten years. It really is something how a borderline senile old man promising free healthcare, college, etc. ad nauseam can assemble the poorest of Americans into willingly accepting increases in their taxes from a fourth to a third. You are a fool if you think Bernie's plan (assuming it could ever get implemented) wouldn't simply drive businesses out of the country or that importing hundreds of thousands of low-skilled immigrants from the third world would be a net positive for the economy and national security.

Ideologues such as you who think corporations are evil incarnate that need to be controlled by the government are just as insufferable as your counterparts who believe vice-versa.

Buy me something off my amazon wishlist, paypig

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003

Immortan posted:

Look at this idiot repeating Bernie Panders verbatim. It's amazing how many youth in this country have been dumbed down into an obedient, gullible voting block through PC culture & entertainment perpetuated by progressives over the last ten years. It really is something how a borderline senile old man promising free healthcare, college, etc. ad nauseam can assemble the poorest of Americans into willingly accepting increases in their taxes from a fourth to a third. You are a fool if you think Bernie's plan (assuming it could ever get implemented) wouldn't simply drive businesses out of the country or that importing hundreds of thousands of low-skilled immigrants from the third world would be a net positive for the economy and national security.

Ideologues such as you who think corporations are evil incarnate that need to be controlled by the government are just as insufferable as your counterparts who believe vice-versa.

where are the corporations going to, when they leave?

Alucard Nacirema
Apr 22, 2008

by exmarx
I don't agree with the exaggerations Trump made about illegal latino immigrants at the beginning of his campaign but why exactly is everyone opposed to legal immigration? Why is it ok that people have to wait years and fill out tons of paperwork and go through tons of background checks and interviews for a shot at becoming a U.S. Citizen while anyone who sneaks across the border is given full rights and citizenship? Isn't that essentially line cutting and an unsafe way for people to enter the country? Would people that are ok with illegal immigrants also be ok with hundreds of people cutting in line while they wait at the DMV or a ride at Disneyland?

stoutfish
Oct 8, 2012

by zen death robot

Immortan posted:

Look at this idiot repeating Bernie Panders verbatim. It's amazing how many youth in this country have been dumbed down into an obedient, gullible voting block through PC culture & entertainment perpetuated by progressives over the last ten years. It really is something how a borderline senile old man promising free healthcare, college, etc. ad nauseam can assemble the poorest of Americans into willingly accepting increases in their taxes from a fourth to a third. You are a fool if you think Bernie's plan (assuming it could ever get implemented) wouldn't simply drive businesses out of the country or that importing hundreds of thousands of low-skilled immigrants from the third world would be a net positive for the economy and national security.

Ideologues such as you who think corporations are evil incarnate that need to be controlled by the government are just as insufferable as your counterparts who believe vice-versa.

if the corporations leave they shouldn't be allowed to sell their products in our country

Immortan
Jun 6, 2015

by Shine

Alucard Nacirema posted:

I don't agree with the exaggerations Trump made about illegal latino immigrants at the beginning of his campaign but why exactly is everyone opposed to legal immigration? Why is it ok that people have to wait years and fill out tons of paperwork and go through tons of background checks and interviews for a shot at becoming a U.S. Citizen while anyone who sneaks across the border is given full rights and citizenship? Isn't that essentially line cutting and an unsafe way for people to enter the country? Would people that are ok with illegal immigrants also be ok with hundreds of people cutting in line while they wait at the DMV or a ride at Disneyland?

It's because progressives want 12M + illegals to have the ability to vote for obvious reasons. It's ideology for them, the cost doesn't matter. With republicans it's because of greedy donors seeking cheap labor. In the end, they want the same thing for different reasons. Open borders capitalism and open borders socialism is a disaster for the native population.

stoutfish
Oct 8, 2012

by zen death robot
so if you feel that the illegal immigration situation gets out of hand, vigilantism would be justified?

Immortan
Jun 6, 2015

by Shine

stoutfish posted:

so if you feel that the illegal immigration situation gets out of hand, vigilantism would be justified?

so if you feel that the Wall Street donor situation gets out of hand, vigilantism would be justified?

stoutfish
Oct 8, 2012

by zen death robot

Immortan posted:

so if you feel that the Wall Street donor situation gets out of hand, vigilantism would be justified?

hell yeah

Mr.Pibbleton
Feb 3, 2006

Aleuts rock, chummer.


I've run the numbers, this checks out.

Pomplamoose
Jun 28, 2008

T r a v i s posted:

Another question for the liberals to pull funny faces and make farting sounds with their armpits instead of answering: How do you think immigrants who went through the process to become a legal citizen feel about the plan to give amnesty to everyone who didn't?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwqfkWq9Rh4

Jared Kush
Mar 4, 2015

by zen death robot
Liberals think that illegal immigrants should have jobs and black people should be on welfare.

Random Asshole
Nov 8, 2010

The one thing I don't understand I don't understand about the Trump 'philosophy' is this: do you genuinely think that just deporting people and building a wall will solve the problem of illegal immigration? I mean, I can see those being aspects of a comprehensive plan, but on their own they seem to me insufficient. Deportation isn't ever going to be a deterrent (we already do it a fair amount already), and everyone you deport made it over the border once and presumably could again. As for the wall, I can think of two other massive walls in history, and both are mainly famous for failing to keep people out/in. Are there other facets that I'm missing?

It just seems to me like treating the symptoms rather then the disease. Treating illegal immigrants poorly isn't going to discourage them from coming here - they aren't coming because they expect to be treated well, but because there are a large number of jobs for those willing to work for much less then an American living wage. Shouldn't any solution to the problem necessarily include targeting employers of illegal immigrants? It seems to me like it should but I never hear Trump or his supporters talk about it.

What are your feelings on the subject?

Random Asshole has issued a correction as of 07:30 on Feb 16, 2016

Immortan
Jun 6, 2015

by Shine

Random rear end in a top hat posted:

The one thing I don't understand I don't understand about the Trump 'philosophy' is this: do you genuinely think that just deporting people and building a wall will solve the problem of illegal immigration? I mean, I can see those being aspects of a comprehensive plan, but on their own they seem to me insufficient. Deportation isn't ever going to be a deterrent (we already do it a fair amount already), and everyone you deport made it over the border once and presumably could again. As for the wall, I can think of two other massive walls in history, and both are mainly famous for failing to keep people out/in. Are there other facets that I'm missing?

It just seems to me like treating the symptoms rather then the disease. Treating illegal immigrants poorly isn't going to discourage them from coming here - they aren't coming because they expect to be treated well, but because there are a large number of jobs for those willing to work for much less then an American living wage. Shouldn't any solution to the problem necessarily include targeting employers of illegal immigrants? It seems to me like it should but I never hear Trump or his supporters talk about it.

What are your feelings on the subject?

He's talked extensively about cracking down on employers hiring illegals (a law which progressives consciously ignore) and quadrupling border security personnel with modernized equipment in addition to the wall.

Top Bunk Wanker
Jan 31, 2005

Top Trump Anger

Random rear end in a top hat posted:

The one thing I don't understand I don't understand about the Trump 'philosophy' is this: do you genuinely think that just deporting people and building a wall will solve the problem of illegal immigration? I mean, I can see those being aspects of a comprehensive plan, but on their own they seem to me insufficient. Deportation isn't ever going to be a deterrent (we already do it a fair amount already), and everyone you deport made it over the border once and presumably could again. As for the wall, I can think of two other massive walls in history, and both are mainly famous for failing to keep people out/in. Are there other facets that I'm missing?

It just seems to me like treating the symptoms rather then the disease. Treating illegal immigrants poorly isn't going to discourage them from coming here - they aren't coming because they expect to be treated well, but because there are a large number of jobs for those willing to work for much less then an American living wage. Shouldn't any solution to the problem necessarily include targeting employers of illegal immigrants? It seems to me like it should but I never hear Trump or his supporters talk about it.

What are your feelings on the subject?

Here is Trump's position on immigration reform. https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/immigration-reform Under the subsection "Put American Workers First", which has a bunch of links that I am absolutely not going to take the time to format in bbcode:

quote:

Put American Workers First

Decades of disastrous trade deals and immigration policies have destroyed our middle class. Today, nearly 40% of black teenagers are unemployed. Nearly 30% of Hispanic teenagers are unemployed. For black Americans without high school diplomas, the bottom has fallen out: more than 70% were employed in 1960, compared to less than 40% in 2000. Across the economy, the percentage of adults in the labor force has collapsed to a level not experienced in generations. As CBS news wrote in a piece entitled “America’s incredible shrinking middle class”: “If the middle-class is the economic backbone of America, then the country is developing osteoporosis.”

The influx of foreign workers holds down salaries, keeps unemployment high, and makes it difficult for poor and working class Americans – including immigrants themselves and their children – to earn a middle class wage. Nearly half of all immigrants and their US-born children currently live in or near poverty, including more than 60 percent of Hispanic immigrants. Every year, we voluntarily admit another 2 million new immigrants, guest workers, refugees, and dependents, growing our existing all-time historic record population of 42 million immigrants. We need to control the admission of new low-earning workers in order to: help wages grow, get teenagers back to work, aid minorities’ rise into the middle class, help schools and communities falling behind, and to ensure our immigrant members of the national family become part of the American dream.


Additionally, we need to stop giving legal immigrant visas to people bent on causing us harm. From the 9/11 hijackers, to the Boston Bombers, and many others, our immigration system is being used to attack us. The President of the immigration caseworkers union declared in a statement on ISIS: “We've become the visa clearinghouse for the world.”

Here are some additional specific policy proposals for long-term reform:

Increase prevailing wage for H-1Bs. We graduate two times more Americans with STEM degrees each year than find STEM jobs, yet as much as two-thirds of entry-level hiring for IT jobs is accomplished through the H-1B program. More than half of H-1B visas are issued for the program's lowest allowable wage level, and more than eighty percent for its bottom two. Raising the prevailing wage paid to H-1Bs will force companies to give these coveted entry-level jobs to the existing domestic pool of unemployed native and immigrant workers in the U.S., instead of flying in cheaper workers from overseas. This will improve the number of black, Hispanic and female workers in Silicon Valley who have been passed over in favor of the H-1B program. Mark Zuckerberg’s personal Senator, Marco Rubio, has a bill to triple H-1Bs that would decimate women and minorities.

Requirement to hire American workers first. Too many visas, like the H-1B, have no such requirement. In the year 2015, with 92 million Americans outside the workforce and incomes collapsing, we need companies to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed. Petitions for workers should be mailed to the unemployment office, not USCIS.

End welfare abuse. Applicants for entry to the United States should be required to certify that they can pay for their own housing, healthcare and other needs before coming to the U.S.

Jobs program for inner city youth. The J-1 visa jobs program for foreign youth will be terminated and replaced with a resume bank for inner city youth provided to all corporate subscribers to the J-1 visa program.

Refugee program for American children. Increase standards for the admission of refugees and asylum-seekers to crack down on abuses. Use the monies saved on expensive refugee programs to help place American children without parents in safer homes and communities, and to improve community safety in high crime neighborhoods in the United States.

Immigration moderation. Before any new green cards are issued to foreign workers abroad, there will be a pause where employers will have to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed immigrant and native workers. This will help reverse women's plummeting workplace participation rate, grow wages, and allow record immigration levels to subside to more moderate historical averages.

Random Asshole
Nov 8, 2010

Fair enough! I knew he was a critic of free trade agreements, but I didn't know he was in favor of minimum wage laws too. Now I'm just kind of shocked that he's successfully running as a Republican. Exciting times!

Business Octopus
Jun 27, 2005

Me IRL

Zombies' Downfall posted:

Obviously that's a bad scenario, but I'm also not sure why a bunch of people paying illegals 2 bucks an hour or whatever would go "ya got me" and pay Americans 8 bucks an hour to do the same jobs or why Americans would suddenly be content to pick fruit for minimum wage if we spent tons of tax money finding and mass deporting illegals.

It seems more likely that all the places they worked would just go out of business.

Labour shortages aren't a thing that exists in the current economy. Mind numbing and poor paying data input jobs get 100s of applications. You really think that there aren't people at telemarketing jobs that wouldn't gladly pick fruit for the same wages?

babypolis
Nov 4, 2009

Business Octopus posted:

Labour shortages aren't a thing that exists in the current economy. Mind numbing and poor paying data input jobs get 100s of applications. You really think that there aren't people at telemarketing jobs that wouldn't gladly pick fruit for the same wages?

picking fruit is a really lovely job so no i dunno why they would leave the comfort of an office with a/c to go stand under the hot californian sun for hours

unlimited shrimp
Aug 30, 2008

Top Bunk Wanker posted:

Here is Trump's position on immigration reform. https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/immigration-reform Under the subsection "Put American Workers First", which has a bunch of links that I am absolutely not going to take the time to format in bbcode:
I agree with and support all those proposals. I'm through the looking glass.

Jared Kush
Mar 4, 2015

by zen death robot

the trump tutelage posted:

I agree with and support all those proposals. I'm through the looking glass.

None of those proposals are unreasonable to anyone that doesn't hate America or black people.

Business Octopus
Jun 27, 2005

Me IRL

babypolis posted:

picking fruit is a really lovely job so no i dunno why they would leave the comfort of an office with a/c to go stand under the hot californian sun for hours

I've worked as a farmhand and I've worked as a telemarketer and I know which one I'd rather do. But maybe that's because I was working for my family's small farm and being paid 15 an hour and I actually had lunch breaks.

If people were paid proper hourly wages and had a lunch break and weren't treated basically as chattel by the farm owners then yes they'd do manual labour. I know plenty of white people that do tree planting jobs. Hell, even if you can't find Americans, you should rely on legal immigrants to do the jobs under wages and working conditions that aren't massively exploitative and illegal.

The Saurus
Dec 3, 2006

by Smythe
yeah seriously, gently caress this idea that there are some jobs that white people just WILL NOT DO NO MATTER WHAT and the entire economy will collapse without exploited immigrants to fill that role

some people like working outside, some people like physical labour

Ace of Baes
Jul 7, 1977
When people talk about jobs people won't do for minimum wage, they fail to realize those jobs will still need to be filled, and the business will have to raise wages to fill the vacancies, considering labor is a small part of the cost of producing goods or services, this will be a net benefit for workers.

Jared Kush
Mar 4, 2015

by zen death robot
It's like the liberals are out of touch with the American working class.

Ace of Baes
Jul 7, 1977
Both sides of the aisle are, only with conservatives replace the immigrant issue with raising minimum wage.

Jared Kush
Mar 4, 2015

by zen death robot
Here's a progressive idea that will be good for America: let's get Wall Street to loot the retirement funds of working people to pay for college kids to study social sciences and liberal arts.

Jared Kush
Mar 4, 2015

by zen death robot

The Saurus posted:

yeah seriously, gently caress this idea that there are some jobs that white people just WILL NOT DO NO MATTER WHAT and the entire economy will collapse without exploited immigrants to fill that role

some people like working outside, some people like physical labour

The best part is they will never talk about black unemployment in this context, probably because the idea of black people working in a field makes them squeamish.

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The Saurus
Dec 3, 2006

by Smythe
I'm appling for jobs right now and I loving wish that entire industries weren't barred to me due to the presence of illegal immigrants.

I also wish that 50%+ of the office jobs didn't require bilingual english/spanish because Mexicans are too loving lazy and arrogant to learn the majority language of the country they moved to.

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