Could they though? You think China would just sit around and let the U.S fire nuclear missiles at them without intercepting them and firing their own? Why are you so sure that wouldn’t just end up with a U.S sized crater north of Mexico?

Also, dismissing any predictive situation as some crazy out there “what if” is hilarious.

War games are an extremely important part of any strategy so that you don’t just walk right into an easily predictable slaughter because you “don’t care about what ifs”.

Took em long enough

If this was a targeted tariffs at something we specifically used to be good at, for example cars, and it came with price controls for the internal market, you might have a point.

As it stands a broad global tariff will not shift manufacturing “back” to the US it will simply serve to further monopolize the economy further.

That’s a good sentiment which should be encouraged. If more Americans had that base level of compassion we wouldn’t be here now.

Decades of trading death and destruction globally for comfort at home built an America ripe for the taking by the likes of Trump as he simply had to capitalize on the sentiments created by that “us at the cost of them” system better than Kamala was able to.

“suggesting to go back to Mexico is as good as no advice, because that’s what deportation does as well.”

No it’s not. Do you deny the existence of the border camps? Do you deny that people are being sent to Guantanamo or an El Salvadorian concentration camp?

Suggesting they go back to Mexico is suggesting that the reward is not worth the heightened risk.

Edit: and to be clear I’m not even suggesting that they do go back. I’d just suggest that they asses the risk/reward and if they choose to stay they NEED to recognize the risk and organize within their communities accordingly.

Yes, that would obviously be best for discovering their individual reasons and I have discussed it with a few. But I’m not asking you why they come here. I’m asking why you believe what you said to be true and valid. I’m Mexican-American myself and your words just didn’t sit right with me, it felt like you were just dismissing the whole idea of people living in Mexico…like a liberalized/opposite version of the “if you love Mexico why don’t you go back!” We get whenever we show pride for Mexico (Implying that Mexico is a terrible place nobody should want to live or be proud of). I’m sure that wasn’t your intention but its how it came off to me.

As for the substance of your response.

While mexico is certainly below in most metrics on averages, that includes wealth and cost of living averages. You shouldn’t focus on just averages but the disparity between things like cost of healthcare and general living vs wages. Also being among the lower classes drastically increases your chances to be murdered in the US which isn’t accurately represented in the average national statistics. It’s not as simple as Mexico being a death pit and America is safe.

Why couldn’t they live in Mexico? Why is the EU or US the only option? Is the rapidly declining US really so much better for you that you would risk being detained and sent to a concentration camp than live in Mexico?

Why are your only options the EU or US? Is every other option really unavailable/worse than ending up in a concentration camp? /Gen.

Not saying you should flee just because you face oppression, just wondering about your listed reason not to.

You had me in the first half. Then you just had to moralize about genocide not being a valid red-line for you.

Give me mechanical tentacles like doc ock. I wouldn’t want to replace anything.

Greatly worded imo.

There are doubts and things we can’t understand or explain no matter what we ultimately believe.

I personally left my religion and considered myself atheist but I continued to research other religions and belief systems and happened to have found one that I agreed with on a pretty consistent basis and didn’t oppose my other understandings of the world, obviously belief still fluctuates and I do have doubts but on average I believe my religion to be true more than I doubt it.

TLDR: No explanation/understanding is “beyond all reasonable doubt”, so “more likely than not” is enough and that happens to be a religious framework for me personally.

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If you already made and read back a list of all of Bidens progressive policies and the ways they excuse his genocide in the 4 minutes it took you to respond, then that itself proves both that he wasn’t very progressive and also it doesn’t take much to get you personally on board with genocide.

More like

One offers to shoot you in the head and kill your loved ones.

One offers to shoot you in the head and kill a bunch of strangers.

Ooh, unlucky! You just happened to be one of the “sacrifices” they had to make!

Who destroyed the Gaza Strip to begin with?

There would be no “Trump plan to rebuild Gaza” is Gaza wasn’t destroyed under Biden.

Why are you so “on board” with the destruction and genocide of Palestinians as long as it’s a Democrat doing it?

I think it’s definitely weakening.

The dismatling of organisations like USAID Is a representation of the move away from “soft power” liberalized imperialism to more aggressive outright imperialism.

Aggressive imperialism i much easier to spot and much harder to defend, both within the imperial countries and within the exploited countries.

It’s not like America was just “too nice” to do the imperialism outright before, it’s that after decades of direct imperialism it realized that it was much easier to do it less-directly so that was the better focus.

Conducting a genocide automatically removes all “progressive” credibility as it’s the worst and least progressive thing you can do.

Calling him progressive, let alone “The most progressive” is an insult to the very idea of “progress” and legitimizes genocide.

Grab a piece of paper and list the ways in which he was “progressive” and explain, on paper, how they excuse his genocide. Read it back out loud.

Also maybe stop insulting people, calling them morons, for not ignoring his genocide.

Never forget: Trump wants to build his Casino over the rubble Biden created.

Don’t let Biden and the Dems get away with their genocide because Trump wants to continue it.

They do this at the start of Ramadan intentionally to cause the most pain and suffering upon the people.

It’s absurdly evil