• mightyfoolish@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    There’s a lot of white people who don’t see Europeans emigrating to the US as immigrants; because white people are generally from Europe. It’s absolutely absurd and misses the point of what an immigrant is.

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      3 months ago

      Ivanka has had surgery. I don’t think she’d be ugly without it or anything, but it does make comparing them a bit unbalanced.

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    “When [those countries] sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

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    Yeah. This isn’t a big reveal. The Trump family got there’s. How are they supposed to be better than everyone if everyone has the same opportunity they did?

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      Many Trump supporters seem to tolerate some European—particularly west, north, and central European—immigrants for some reason.

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    Please stop giving Germany more of a bad name. We already have Hitler to be associated with the country, even though he was Austrian. We
    also have enough fascist pieces of shit of our own. We vehemently deny any “germanness” in these sleazy con artists and fascists.

    /a German

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    So do I.

    Both US and Canada (I’m Canadian) can benefit from increased immigration.

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      Canada needs to slow its immigration so that infrastructure can catch up.

      Our unemployment rate is over 6% as well.

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    Technically, colonialists are not “immigrants”. Regardless, if we go by first settlers then it’s the English since they settled first in 1587. First German settlers didn’t arrive till 1628, and when the U.S. was formed these disparate groups combined together to form a better front for fighting. Germans fought on both sides. If these different settler groups didn’t have a common enemy (the Natives or English), they would have started fighting each other. In fact, that’s why we still see remnants of the US civil war to this day.

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      Nobody im the Trump family was a coloniser or european settler. They all came to the US in the last 100 years only.

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        Ah okay, so yeah Trumps family are all immigrants. I was speaking to the enthnocentric state discussions people often have

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          Which is just not applicable at all.

          This is now a thread about soup.

          If you had to eat soup in the summer, what would it be?