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12-29-2014, 08:43 AM #91
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12-29-2014, 09:03 AM #92
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i actually wasn't addressing you, i was just building on what you said. This is not up for debate. Pakistan is not in the middle east. Even Afghanistan isn't and it's west of Pakistan. If that's what's taught in American schools and mentioned in the media (you sure?!) It just prives my point. That general area has a name, it's called the Indian Subcontinent.
The thing is, when you talk about reducing the immigration rate or even limiting it only to skilled workers, you're going to be called a xenophobic bigot anyway. So most people don't care about how they're going to market or package that position in the first place.
The Saudis that you speak of usually come to the west in few numbers and for a limited amount of time so they can go shopping. But when you hear about Sweden shipping in thousands of ****lis who don't know the language, have no transferable skills, have no work ethic, and just want to live off of social programs (which many specifically go to Scandinavian countries for), then there's a problem.
The point about the Moroccans and ****lis is that you need to avoid making blanket statements. Saying it's a muslim problem is lazy. Being anti-muslim immigration is xenophobic. Setting standards for example based on needs/wants is how this should be done. That way you can avoid the riff raff and trouble makers and not be racist. Successful people integrate well. If i can avoid being xenophobic as an atheist anyone can.
I don't want to immigrate to the west, but if i did, do you think the process should be hindered because some idiot from another continent that you let in was riff raff? That would be silly, and with that same logic i've hired non-poverty Europeans. Keep in mind that you're not allowed to stay in ***** without a job, so if i fire them, they're out. Kahoona the immigration officer.
LOL @ beer, this isn't Belgium, *******. Do you even bourbon?
Glenfiddich > bourbon brah
But yeah i just came back from Prague (and Amsterdam) where i had quite a bit of beer. I enjoy beer socially from time to time"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity"
Atheist Lebanese
BDS: Boycott - Divestment - Sanctions
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12-29-2014, 09:10 AM #93
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12-29-2014, 09:19 AM #95
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12-29-2014, 09:23 AM #96
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12-29-2014, 09:25 AM #97
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European Nationalism =/= theocracy. I can't think of one nationalist regime that wanted theocracy, most were secular. The only religious nationalists I recall at any time in the last 150 years were Francisco Franco and Antonio Salazar and that's only because Catholicism played a major role in Spain and Portugal's social order, but even they didn't want a theocracy.
Now far right in the American sense of the term might involve religion, but even that is debatable since America has never had a true nationalist uprising to begin with.
In the US, South America and North America are considered two separate continents, even though in Europe and the rest of the world, "America" is just one of the 5 continents. There are various political maps out there that divvy up the world's map in 50 different configurations, people like to have their own names for things.
You can't deny that there isn't a strong correlation between being anti-immigration and racism. But, correlation doesn't imply causation so of course there are non racist anti-immigration folk. You can't not care how you're seen when you're discussing the topic. We don't live in medieval times, you can't just pick people up and throw them out. This needs to be approached sans ego and with maturity.
you'd be surprised at the number of saudis who move abroad to study. I'll see if i can find the number, but the number threw me off.
The point about the Moroccans and ****lis is that you need to avoid making blanket statements. Saying it's a muslim problem is lazy. Being anti-muslim immigration is xenophobic. Setting standards for example based on needs/wants is how this should be done. That way you can avoid the riff raff and trouble makers and not be racist. Successful people integrate well. If i can avoid being xenophobic as an atheist anyone can.
I don't want to immigrate to the west, but if i did, do you think the process should be hindered because some idiot from another continent that you let in was riff raff? That would be silly, and with that same logic i've hired non-poverty Europeans. Keep in mind that you're not allowed to stay in ***** without a job, so if i fire them, they're out. Kahoona the immigration officer.
Glenfiddich single malt 18 years after work crew
Glenfiddich > bourbon brah
But yeah i just came back from Prague (and Amsterdam) where i had quite a bit of beer. I enjoy beer socially from time to time
We can set universal standards, I agree with that. But let's say we set the standard of "you must be educated, have a job here prior to entering the country, a clean criminal record and a place to stay." You're already going to be disqualifying the vast majority of immigrants from the ME and North Africa to begin with. So what you are saying isn't much different from outright banning immigration from entire regions. It will effectively do the same thing.
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12-29-2014, 09:30 AM #98
Well, its not about Putin.
I just wanted to show that the strongest European neo-nazi movements are in Russia, not in France, Ukraine, Hungary, or wherever OP is trying to say.
Saying that members of volunteer batallions in Ukrainian conflict are using nazi symbols, some guys in Hungarian and Sweden politic parties have swastika tattoos... but ignoring the fact that neonazis in Russia organize into gangs and regularly are beating non-white people...
Srsly?
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12-29-2014, 09:41 AM #99
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So disqualify them. You wouldn't be doing it on bigoted grounds, and whoever doesn't like that should go pound sand. You'd have a strong defence against any racist accusations. Otherwise you will always face even stronger opposition and reform will be harder
Btw, the criteria you mentioned is almost exactly what we have in place in *****. It's actually even stricter. Works well for us"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity"
Atheist Lebanese
BDS: Boycott - Divestment - Sanctions
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12-29-2014, 12:07 PM #100
I already stated where Pakistain was located specifically. I very clearly have picked up a map. There are more than a few thousand arabs there I can guarentee that and the closer you get to pakistans western and Northern borders the more arabs you get. Most pakistanis are south asian but there is no question that there are some racially arab peoples living there. Hell india itself has people of arab descent living there, it is a very diverse place itself.
LOL, I already stated I agree that I hate US foreign policy when it comes to the middle east as well. You did not counter my point that wealth and terrorism are not at all mutually exclusive.
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12-29-2014, 12:24 PM #101
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12-29-2014, 01:16 PM #104
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12-29-2014, 01:34 PM #105
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12-29-2014, 01:45 PM #106
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In an ideal world, that would happen. Unfortunately, in western countries, they either go in one direction (extreme liberalism) or the other (nationalism/fascism). Then there are the in between years when there's a medium but rarely does that last.
They sure have had no problem voting for it for the last 40 years.
You live in the UK?
I've come across quite a few people who don't recognize two separate continents.
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12-29-2014, 01:56 PM #107
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12-29-2014, 02:10 PM #108
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12-29-2014, 02:15 PM #109
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What he said.
And also the legacy left behind by 1930's Germany. Any kind of resistance to mass immigration or multiculturalism brands you a racist, bigot, nazi.
Let's not forget that the European Union was originally designed as a trading bloc between european countries NOT as a totalitarian entity based in Brussels.
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12-29-2014, 02:16 PM #110
Yup. Other than kids at school who just didn't know anything about anything I've not known anyone who's said that there's only one American continent. Grew up learning how there was a North and a South America, and so on. Tbh this is the first time I've ever heard anyone claim that anyone believes there to be only one.
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12-29-2014, 02:21 PM #111
Charles De Gaulle also said this:
It's a very good thing that there are yellow French people, black French people and brown French people. It's a sign that France is open to all races and that it has a universal vocation. But on condition they stay a minority. If not, France wouldn't be France anymore. After all, we are an European people from white race, Greek and Latin culture, and Christian religion. Try to mix oil and vinegar together. Shake the bottle. After a while, they get separated again. The Arabs are the Arabs, the French are the French. Do you believe that the French nation is able to integrate ten million Muslims who shall be twenty million tomorrow and forty million the day after? If we integrated them, if all the Arabs and Berbers were considered French, how could we prevent them from moving to our home country where the standard of living is so much higher? My village wouldn't be named Colombey-les-Deux-Églises (Colombey of the Two Churches) anymore, but Colombey-les-Deux-Mosquées (Colombey of the Two Mosques)
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12-29-2014, 02:24 PM #112
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12-29-2014, 03:34 PM #113
immigration without assimilation of any kind is always terrible for the host country. while i haven't heard about it in the US.... in the UK so areas have become 'muslim blocks' where non-ethnic-muslims are berated and/or attacked.... just as is seen with gangs in poverty. The gangs are composed of natural-born citizens...
My point is that it is stupid to create a secondary issue... gangs, plus having to deal with religiously-violent immigrants.
Wana up the skilled-worked visas, go ahead... groups of skilled-workers... no matter their origin, are usually never violent.
The US MUST start acting like a business... a 'nice' business like Chicfila that helps people during disaster... we must keep safety nets for our natural born citizens.... everything else, we must tighten the belt on. Just Stop Spending FFS!!!!!!!!We need systems approach to government, no longer partisan patchwork
adios guys, ill lurk 2/15
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12-29-2014, 03:51 PM #114
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12-29-2014, 04:25 PM #119
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12-29-2014, 06:07 PM #120
And this arrogant twat is STILL the Assistant Secretary of State. She still has her high profile job. Amazing how something like this leaks, and literally, no one gives a shyt.
Listen to her,
- You need Biden?
- Probably tomorrow for an "atta boy" to get the deets to stick. So Biden's willing.
As if anyone needed any more proof our politicians weren't anything other than puppets selling their souls to the highest bidder.
sick, sick world we live in.
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