Politics & Stuff

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,920]

8 hours ago, Spike said:

It's why a lot of people are pro-immigration. They don't realise that brain-drains affect a country adversely and they don't realise that nations have limited resources and can't handle massive population influx. Take your ancestral country for example; would it be better off with a doctor in Mexico, or a doctor in USA sending money to their family in Mexico. The latter is fantastic because there is a very skilled individual working hard, the latter is fantastic because it provides a higher income to a family that otherwise wouldn't. Really what is the better pay-off?

Immigration is a far more complex issue than a lot of people realise and simply packing bags and leaving can often be terrible. 

We cant fault people leaving a country for a better life though. Especially when their country of origins are absolute failure, and have no way of objectively getting better.

[Fernando 6,585]

2 hours ago, Sir Mikel OBE said:

We cant fault people leaving a country for a better life though. Especially when their country of origins are absolute failure, and have no way of objectively getting better.

The one thing I want Trump to do is get rid of the criminals who are immigrants. I think most will agree with that. 

Now as to per the regular immigrants my solution would be that if they want to become residents they get chipped. An rfid chip so we can track them for the next couple of years. 

If they accept, grant them the permit to stay, if not they can ofsky. 

And granted we are more friendly because I was just in Dominican Republic and they kick out the immigrants, just like that. They kick out people from Haiti and Venezuela who don't have rights to be here. 

So let's not have double standards here as USA will be not be the only and last country to do this. 

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,920]

1 minute ago, Fernando said:

The one thing I want Trump to do is get rid of the criminals who are immigrants. I think most will agree with that. 

Now as to per the regular immigrants here my solution would be that I'd they want to become residents they get chipped. An rfid chip so we can track them for the next couple of years. 

If they accept grant them the permit to stay, if not of sky. 

And granted we are more friendly because I was just in Dominican Republic and they kick out the immigrants. Just like that, they kick out people from Haiti and Venezuela who don't have rights to be here. 

So let's not cry wolf here as USA will be not be the only and last country to do this. 

Dominican Republic is hardly a nation I feel we should, or even want to, compare ourselves to. Their one shining glory, in their entire history, is that they are NOT haiti lol.

 

I do agree that Immigrants who commit crimes should be punished by us, and then send back to their nation of origin.  No reason they should be allowed to stay.

[Spike 12,049]

5 hours ago, Sir Mikel OBE said:

We cant fault people leaving a country for a better life though. Especially when their country of origins are absolute failure, and have no way of objectively getting better.

Some people from failed states bring failed state issues into a their new nation. People are selfish and always look towards how they can help themselves, not society.

[lucio 5,418]

5 hours ago, Sir Mikel OBE said:

We cant fault people leaving a country for a better life though. Especially when their country of origins are absolute failure, and have no way of objectively getting better.

true , some populations are reliant on sustenance agriculture, but always face an uphill battle against drought, pestilence, disease ect. the area might not support farming, not a lot can be done. But our countries could easily invest in some better infrastructure there

[lucio 5,418]

I bet we could spend the £608m for nuclear weapons this year  on something good, home or abroad, never understood that.

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,920]

5 minutes ago, Spike said:

Some people from failed states bring failed state issues into a their new nation. People are selfish and always look towards how they can help themselves, not society.

 

Most people that make the effort to uproot their lives to move elsewhere usually try to give it an honest go at being productive in their communities though. The ones who don't should be shipped out.

[iseah100 5,612]

15 hours ago, Spike said:

On 11/15/2016 at 8:41 PM, Yeboii said:

lol this was nothing about Trump in particular. I was just pointing out how stupid it is to hold someone accountable for changing his opinion on something after 4 years.

The dude is 70 years old and doesn't just change his mind, he contradicts himself nearly on every issue. 

15 hours ago, Spike said:

15 hours ago, Spike said:

It's why a lot of people are pro-immigration. They don't realise that brain-drains affect a country adversely and they don't realise that nations have limited resources and can't handle massive population influx. Take your ancestral country for example; would it be better off with a doctor in Mexico, or a doctor in USA sending money to their family in Mexico. The latter is fantastic because there is a very skilled individual working hard, the latter is fantastic because it provides a higher income to a family that otherwise wouldn't. Really what is the better pay-off?

Immigration is a far more complex issue than a lot of people realise and simply packing bags and leaving can often be terrible. 

I understand that immigration can cause problems in the other countries, but why should the USA try to prevent them from coming? Obviously it's not working for them in their home country and are willing to sacrifice everything and come to a country where they know no one for a better life. That is an incredibly courageous thing to do. If each country could do well for their citizens it would be great but Mexico, and several other Latin American countries have very corrupt governments, which the USA is partly to blame for, who don't look out for their citizens. 

15 hours ago, Spike said:

4 hours ago, Fernando said:

The one thing I want Trump to do is get rid of the criminals who are immigrants. I think most will agree with that. 

Now as to per the regular immigrants my solution would be that if they want to become residents they get chipped. An rfid chip so we can track them for the next couple of years. 

If they accept, grant them the permit to stay, if not they can ofsky. 

And granted we are more friendly because I was just in Dominican Republic and they kick out the immigrants, just like that. They kick out people from Haiti and Venezuela who don't have rights to be here. 

So let's not have double standards here as USA will be not be the only and last country to do this. 

You cannot be serious....1. That would violate the US Constitution. 2. Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Venezuela are 3rd world countries, not superpowers. 3. Who the fuck immigrates to those countries?

[CHOULO19 24,332]

2 hours ago, Spike said:

Some people from failed states bring failed state issues into a their new nation. People are selfish and always look towards how they can help themselves, not society.

People. Are. NOT. Always. Selfish.

Fuck that idiotic, cynical, post-capitalism, consumerist-apologistic view of humanity!  

[lucio 5,418]

we are mostly selfish, but one of the few animals that has to possibility not to be, other examples are mainly insects

[KevinAshburner 1,270]

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[Spike 12,049]

3 hours ago, CHOULO19 said:

People. Are. NOT. Always. Selfish.

Fuck that idiotic, cynical, post-capitalism, consumerist-apologistic view of humanity!  

Don't deny self-preservation.

[kmk108 1,186]

4 hours ago, Spike said:

Don't deny self-preservation.

Self-preservation doesn't come at the cost of being selfish. I think it's possible to both look out for your interests and for the interests of others. It doesn't always work at the same time, but it's hard to categorize a whole species as one or the other. 

[Spike 12,049]

4 minutes ago, kmk108 said:

Self-preservation doesn't come at the cost of being selfish. I think it's possible to both look out for your interests and for the interests of others. It doesn't always work at the same time, but it's hard to categorize a whole species as one or the other. 

The self is everything, it motivates altruism, family, love, hate, greed, envy, joy, rejection, and acceptance. Without selfishness there would be no charity.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

9 hours ago, Spike said:

Don't deny self-preservation.

Don't deny that we have evolved to live as part of communities, that we are programmed to prioritize the common good, that altruism is built into our morality, that what sets us apart as a species more than anything is a capacity for compassion and empathy for much more than just fellow humans, and most importantly that millions of ordinary people around the world commit incredible acts of selflessness every single day!

That's not to say that humans don't have selfish tendencies, of course they do. But human brains are a mix of all sort of different and often contradicting motives. But what you take as a given, that the prevailing tendency in humans is selfishness, is not only easily disproved by simply looking at the overall trajectory of human societies it is also a belief that only started to be wide-spread post capitalism** and even 200 years would have been considered ridiculous.

Sorry but I'm fed up with people using that shitty argument to try to justify targeting the weakest and most vulnerable among us and all sort of acts and positions that we ALL realize go against our shared moral codes.

 

 

**In fact, even if you read Adam Smith (which no body actually does, especially capitalists) his "invisible hand" is an argument of why modern day international corporations would not be allowed in a free market because he thought that corporations would decide against being that selfish; undoubtedly a stupid argument since corporations are not humans (despite what US law says), but it does show what sort of mind frame he had.