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The piece I posted was a broader look at immigration and the myths surrounding the topic. The article makes some good points. Doesn't really matter if they are undocumented or legal. The crux of the argument, or should we say 'myth' set by Trump, and easily licked up by posters on here - who push their shallow arguments through silly memes and slogans, is that immigrants, legal or not, commit less crime than US born citizens https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/undocumented-immigrant-offending-rate-lower-us-born-citizen-rate There's probably tons more about the economic input and output of US-born citizens compared to immigrants, but I can't be arsed.

Your point?

Maybe have to copy and paste

This is a little longer than a meme, so some might struggle, but, it does offer a little more than a simple twitter post without context: https://www.bu.edu/articles/2024/do-immigrants-and-immigration-help-the-economy/

Some people on this thread have economic and political literacy at the playground level, driven by ignorance and blind ideology rather than any sense of pragmatism.

The problem with 'make it great again' slogans is that no one is sure when it (the UK) was ever great. If it's the empire period, then who felt it was great, the privileged classes or the fighting/ working classes. Another problem with using words like 'again' - as a backward move, is that humans are evolving, and although I think sometimes technological progress is going to fast for our reptilian brains, we, as a species, are designed to move and evolve forward, not backwards. Otherwise, we die out (which we probably will anyway as most human problems are self inflicted). Btw, the Telegraph is not a great source to be quoting for anywhere near balance on a subject.

There is free speech, to a point, but it works both ways. No such thing as 'white guilt'. What's happened is that by teaching real history, and not none that excludes the truth about what white Europeans have done over the last few hundred years, and how 'success was achieved, some people have taken that as explicit criticism of white people in general - which it isn't. Any anthropologist will tell you that humans have always thrived on diversity. The far right IS racist, that's their working hypothesis, also see anthropology and how white supremacy is not good for humanity etc.

Difference being that, unless the clear TV images, images taken by the rioters, and police/guard deaths and injuries are all wrong; the Trump pardons are mainly for violent crimes, and arguably treasonable under the constitution. A lot of the executive decisions will be overturned or, at the minimum, delayed and challenged in the courts. Just show for the bumkins.

Maybe the UK people are now (post Brexit) more politically intelligent? The UK is not the US, which can almost operate as 50 different countries under one referee. The UK is smaller, and the people behave as if in one country, not 50.

Reform is a mix of the worst of all parties (look at the candidates). Just slogans, rich oligarch backing, jingoistic, outdated ideas, and promises the real world out there cannot afford to implement.

Won't be immigrants taking jobs, it'll be AI. Who do you think is funding the development of AI, and who do you think will benefit the most? The same people bankrolling Farage. The people cheerleading this new aristocracy or oligarchy the most, are the ones with the most to lose. The poorer of thoughts, of ideas, of riches, of progress.

Farage is a grifter. He's a privately schooled stockbroker, hates the NHS, and is backed by the same establishment he purports to dismantle (sound like anyone we know?) People are attracted to him because he promises a new way etc. etc, and the general disappointment in world politics and life etc, which, ironically, is caused, in part, by the same kind of people backing Farage (the very rich). Always goes full circle back to him being nothing but a grifter. He'd be a disaster. The UK isn't the US. The acronym MUKGA sounds about right, but more for its onomatopoeia, i.e. throwing up at the thought of Farage.

They're all terrified of him

You support him?

So you don't think he gives a crap about you; which also means about what you care about, how you live, how what he does/says affects you, about your values, your feelings, your situation in life etc, etc etc. You don't care?

You should be careful about who you champion here. You think Musk gives a crap about you? He obviously knows some history and how manipulation of the peasant works. Not sure you do.

So, you don't understand what 'woke' means, or you don't want to tell me?

No, that's just repeating another asinine term. Not sure the Alien would understand that. The alien might take the literal meaning, which is close to 'awake', but then get confused because the alien keeps hearing the word used to insult other people, so clearly not understood by the person using it. The alien would then probably decide that humans are obviously stupid, not worth assimilating with, then go ahead with destroying them.

That's DEI. Pretend I'm an alien. I've just come to earth and I want to know what the word 'woke' some people are using means. How would you explain it? Please try and keep it simple, but intelligent.

No. I stated that as my point of view. I think that the Trump camp is akin to a lunatic asylum. I'm still debating whether my statement is disparaging to lunatics. What d'you reckon?

The use of Reich here is most likely descriptive. Many similarities to the regime a lot of posters here viciously defend, although with limited vocabulary (woke, libtard, etc) Could easily be applied here, on this thread https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/third-reich

Your left or my left?

Another use of the term "woke"... What's a "woke" hire?

You seem far more excited about your contribution.

No, I was asking a question. The video, where is it from?