POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

[otto-san]

People move here because they want to be free then complain when it's not like the stuffhole they left.

people move to new places seeking opportunities, or because they've already found them, not to necessarily take advantage of its freedoms. regardless, this post is a bold claim about the motives and satisfaction of immigrants en-masse.

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[Red Spy]

i disagree; implementing policies to enforce this would be effective censorship.

I never once implied any type of government mandate should be the answer- I'm saying this on an individual level. You're going to do better in America if you live by the standards it was founded on. Believing in free speech will be more beneficial than believing people should be silenced for wrong think. Emulating the culture you're surrounded by is going to benefit you in the long run. Immigrating from Portugal to Taiwan and still acting like you're living in Portugal is going to make integrating into the culture and assimilating 100% harder. If you're in Taiwan and you're still acting like it's Portugal then why even move to begin with?

[otto-san]

I never once implied any type of government mandate should be that answer- I'm saying this on an individual level. You're going to do better in America if you live by the standards it was founded on. Believing in free speech will be more beneficial than believing people should be silenced for wrong thing. Emulating the culture you're surrounded by is going to benefit you in the long run. Immigrating from Portugal to Taiwan and still acting like you're living in Portugal is going to make integrating into the culture and assimilating 100% harder. If you're in Taiwan and you're still acting like it's Portugal then why even move to begin with?

ye ye fair enough, i assumed you were implying a desire for government enforcement considering the context, but truthfully i wasn't sure if that was the case. got a conversation started anyways

[Foxscotch]

bofa?

[Red Spy]

bofa?

Bank of America I'm guessing

[Foxscotch]

Bank of America I'm guessing

it's a meme you dip

[Red Spy]

it's a meme you dip

[Cappytaino]

ah yes just as the inscription on the statue of liberty says, "keep away your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,"

Emma Lazarus' poem has nothing to do with the law.

people move to new places seeking opportunities, or because they've already found them, not to necessarily take advantage of its freedoms. regardless, this post is a bold claim about the motives and satisfaction of immigrants en-masse.

I can't say this is true for the US, but in Sweden practically all refugees are on welfare and less than one in ten are employed.

They chose Sweden and Germany to go to because they can take advantage of the social welfare systems these countries have. None of them went to Saudi Arabia despite it being richer, closer, and having similar language and culture to Syria.

[Zloff]

Bank of America I'm guessing

you had the opportunity to end his forum career with one sick burn and you wasted it

[SeventhSandwich]

tbh nobody here knows that legally immigrating to the US is literally impossible

actually, you can only be a legal immigrant if you have legal close family in the US or $500,000 to invest in the government

There are immigrants at my school who can offer more to this country economically-speaking than probably 99% of legal citizens, yet it's still nearly impossible for them to get a green card. They're also blocked out from lots of great industry jobs because of restrictions against non-citizens, meaning they'll still need to have a green card for 5 years before they can work at places like NASA.

Any immigration system that blocks out free, highly-skilled labor is a stuffty immigration system.

[Magus]

I wonder what Matthew's ancestry is.

[Donnies Catch]

ik this topic is mostly focused on the united states but the topic says 2017 politics and its that time again for my small ass country to vote!
so im voting D66 (Democrats 66), a social-liberal and progressive party. i was really stuck between them and CDA (Christian Democratic Appeal), who is more rightwing, but they are both super centre which is why i struggled. i disagreed with the CDA a bit more, and theyre really stuck up about softdrugs, and a friend of mine is voting D66 too, so thats what im voting for tomorrow.
ive only voted once before, which was the Ukraine referendum, which is still on hold. my vote was a bit more rightwinged on that one. i want my country to take care of what it has in its borders first, so i voted no.

[Corderlain]

Desperately hoping Wilders wins in the Netherlands.

[SeventhSandwich]

Desperately hoping Wilders wins in the Netherlands.

this guy actually managed to look more like an oompah-loompah than Annoying Orange. astonishing

[Donnies Catch]

Desperately hoping Wilders wins in the Netherlands.

he actually already won a few years ago but got denied by the senate and some other things iirc