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Post by jdredd on Sept 21, 2022 1:18:15 GMT -5
The right is having way too much fun with the hypocrisy of Martha’s Vineyard residents. I am so jealous.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 7, 2022 12:26:12 GMT -5
So the mayor of NYC is asking for a billion f#cking bucks to deal with a few thousand migrants. I’ve never given a rats ass about immigration but that is ridiculous. Well, it is better than giving it to the Ukrainians to kill Russians.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 27, 2022 1:57:30 GMT -5
As I said before, immigration has never been an issue that concerns me, but I am enjoying the Republican failure to turn America into a gated community. May not last but I’ll enjoy it for now.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 15, 2022 16:41:48 GMT -5
So Title 42, Trump’s end run around asylum laws continued by Captain Senility, is set to expire on December 21. Heard Steven Midler whine about it on the radio. Of course he even supports repealing birthright citizenship. Do I care? Only as it irritates anti-immigration zealots.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 4, 2023 12:40:31 GMT -5
I still find it hard to believe we put up fences topped with concertina wires on our borders? How sadistic is that? Is that what Jesus would do?
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Post by jdredd on Sept 7, 2023 11:33:42 GMT -5
Ha-ha! Sadistic blowhard governor of Texas got slapped down in the courts for his illegal buoys on the Rio Grande. Sorry, guv, but your border is all of America’s border and many Americans are horrified at your inhumane strategies.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 20, 2023 18:26:38 GMT -5
Time to change the focus of this thread. The politics of the border has expanded beyond just keeping poor people out. Lots more hay to be made emphasizing the crime aspect.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 23, 2023 10:49:54 GMT -5
As I said elsewhere, I’m leaving rants on the “immigration crisis” to CM’s thread, but this one will work for idiotic wars over borders, such as the one going on in the Ukraine. By the way, using “the Ukraine” instead of just “Ukraine” is an apparently a political position now, but that’s the way I’ve always thought if it so deal with it.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 28, 2023 15:55:25 GMT -5
What are borders for? Nagarno-Karabakh has been digested by Azerbaijan. And many Armenians in NK are fleeing to Armenia. I guess being Christian they don’t want to live in an Islam state. Which may be a justification for borders, separating religions from each other, even though we know all religions preach peace. What separates Ukraine from Russia? What separates Mexico from the US? We were Mexico here in San Diego once. What happened?
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Post by jdredd on Oct 28, 2023 13:00:27 GMT -5
We have a thread on how Zionism may be a threat to Judaism so I need a thread to comment on Palestinian Nationalism, but I’ll use this one. I used to be supportive of Palestinian Nationalism, but recent events made me rethink that. The ugliness going on over there is just not justified by a Palestinian state, two state or one state. I don’t even support Irish Nationalism any more, for that matter. In cliche idealism, we are all citizens of the world, but it might take AI to bring that into reality.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 30, 2023 1:48:04 GMT -5
Hamas vs. Israel? Ukraine vs. Russia? China retaking Taiwan? All boring Nationalistic wars. I feel sorry for young soldiers who have to die for them. What a waste. Far more interesting is how AI and humans will come together. Or not.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 24, 2023 16:30:52 GMT -5
Article in the NYT about the big surge of asylum seekers from China. And why not? We do multiculturalism right. Who needs borders? Heck, the Native Americans had to put up with assholelic Europeans.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 27, 2023 14:55:13 GMT -5
Watched a video of right wing Irishman whining about immigration. And his main target was Ukrainians!
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Post by jdredd on Dec 7, 2023 2:17:22 GMT -5
So what border policies are the Republicans asking for so they will vote to drop more billions into the Ukrainian rathole? Good money after bad.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 9, 2023 13:51:06 GMT -5
Looks like Venezuela and Guyana are in a tiff over where Venezuela ends and Guyana begins. I know little about the history, but Guyana being a former British colony carved out of the jungle makes me suspicious. Of course so many borders have dubious origins. Most are the result of wars.
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