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Study says Europeans fear migration more than climate change – DW – 05/08/2024 (www.dw.com)
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[+] -36 points 2 years ago (7 children)

You can say no to migrants. Just dont let them in. Its that easy.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yes. Just tell millions upon millions of suffering people they can't cross the invisible line to find refuge.

    Genius strategy.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Do you think the people who fear migration care the slightest bit about anyone but themselves?

    An awful number of them would support attacking rafts filled with refugees with military warships.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Nah, but the sinking rafts bullshit is a super dangerous ploy and needs to be addressed somehow. We cant incentivize it. Maybe just jail everyone involved so no one wants to pay just to sit in an Italian prison?

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  • [+] -11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    How would letting them across improve anyones situations?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Are you suggesting people culturally removed from your own are a threat to you in some way?

    Cause damn. That'd be embarrassing.

    Like did they train your job in pantomime?

    Or are your own police not more violent to their citizens?

    What is it that allowing immigrants in doesn't improve?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Are you suggesting people culturally removed from your own are a threat to you in some way?

    I can rather confidently say that there are cultures with values that are a threat to me, my society and my values, yes.

    Cause damn. That’d be embarrassing.

    Not in the slightest.

    Or are your own police not more violent to their citizens?

    No. For a very long time our police was amongst the least violent in the world. Probably still is.

    What is it that allowing immigrants in doesn’t improve?

    It reduces the productivity of society. Most certainly on an output/capita level, probably even on a total output level. Previously we were able to afford huge amounts of support to organizations such as the UNHCR (almost 1% of GDP) - money that could be used to make the places these people are moving away from better. That isn't the case anymore.

    The solution isn't to move everyone to developed countries, it is to improve the situation in developing countries. We can't help with that if our country is an unstable mess of migrant gangs attacking each other and the rest of us.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    lol I'd be embarrassed to have such a narrow-minded worldview. You should be too. But go on and stay stubborn, I don't care. I'd tell you to enjoy your life, but that won't be possible for you. Is sad.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's amazing how quickly you resorted to toothless personal insults when you ran out of relevant things to say. Would be sad if it wasn't so funny. Thanks!

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  • [+] -8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Well yes, some cultures are dangerous. Rape culture for instance.

    As for jobs, short sighted management will always take a lower skilled worker for less money.

    Honestly, I dont see how immigration helps the worker, theyre scabs in my book.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    ...rape culture? Wtf kind of truth social bullshit are you on about? This question is rhetorical.

    As for jobs, only if you have 0 fucking skills. Get good and stfu.

    Your arguing that "foreigners are highly skilled professionals here to take our jobs but also they're criminals and rapist boogymen"

    They can't be both, unless they're, ya know, just regular humans like your neighbor.

    Christ.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Are there no prisons? And union workhouses, are they still in operation?

    Fuck off and watch "A Christmas Carol" again... but this time try and realize that Ebenezer Scrooge isn't meant to be a role model.

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  • [+] -12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Did you reply to the wrong comment? I said nothing about prisons or unions?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No, this was the right comment to respond to - your comment lacked empathy to why people might become migrants and reminded me a lot of Ebenezer Scrooge commenting on the poor without empathy to the fact that he was contributing to their poverty.

    Us first-world nations play a large role in the global warming that drives climate refugees... I think it's extremely immoral to just put up a big wall and tell people fleeing desertification to go somewhere else after making their home uninhabitable.

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  • [+] -13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    How does letting someone move to your country fix their country?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It doesn't, but we're all humans and if some of us wreck another person's country it feels unjust to leave that person stateless.

    There might be a basic misunderstanding here... at the rate climate change is going some areas of the earth that are currently inhabitable are becoming uninhabitable. There are farms being swallowed up by desert and the people who were fed by that farm have no where to go.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Do you know what the word sustainability means, though?

    Or are you just piling us all into one stereotype and now I have to starve along with everyone else while the rich that caused the problem are the only ones that can afford to live?

    This is xmunk's secret plan for cleansing migrants and low socioeconomic majorities off the planet. Put them all in areas that can't logistically support them until only those that could afford to survive remain. The same that ruined the climate.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yup, I'm an evil villain. In actuality I just don't believe in borders or nationalities - being born into a western country is an extreme advantage and it's a matter of fucking chance. I dislike discriminating based on country of origin and I think we should strive to ensure everyone gets as equitable a chance at success as we can.

    Also, our climate isn't under pressure because we're at the population limit for earth - climate change is happening because of greed. In theory we can fucking fix it if we work together.

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  • [+] -11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There are people who live in the artic and those who live in deserts. People even farm in the desert. It might not be great, but itll be more than inhabitable.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You do know that not very many people live in those places, right? It wouldn't be sustainable. India has over a billion people and the Himalayan glaciers they depend on for water are not getting replenished.

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  • [+] -8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And moving them here doesnt fix the sustainability problem either. It just moves sustainability problems here.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm pretty sure moving from a place that has no water to a place that has water does, in fact, fix the problem. Maybe you would prefer them to just die?

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Who says therell be water here?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    If there isn't, enjoy dying of thirst.

    But generally, places that don't rely on glaciers for their water do better than places that do in a warming world.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Okay, so the plan is move tye entirity of china here then? All 1.4 billion people?

    Thats not a reasonable goal. Even you moved in 10 percent of china, youd overwhelm every social service and everything else for that matter. And youd be leaving 90% of china to die while destroying the west's ability to function.

    Migration is not a solution.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Now you're moving the goalposts. And you've moved them more than once already.

    First you claimed that it would be sustainable for the over a billion people in India to stay where they were because it's possible to survive in tundras and deserts.

    Then you said that moving them to a place where water exists wouldn't fix the problem of them dying due to a lack of a water.

    Then you asked why water would exist in the new place, which was just a silly question for anyone who understands basic geography.

    Now you're talking about moving all of China, when China wasn't even discussed.

    And at each step, you haven't gone back to the previous one and acknowledged it was a silly thing to say.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I never said India, this is the first comment india was uttered. Youre the one that brought up glaciers. And China is largely watered by glaciers, its the logical next part in the discussion. And even it was India, they also have over a billion people and you face the same problem with simply too many people.

    Immigration is not a solution.

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  • [+] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    I think its not ethical to just let in everyone who was born in a third world country. That doesnt even make sense, its just not sustainable, fucks a lot of things up, and doesnt solve problems for anyone. It makes their country worse, make our country worse, what is the plan here?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    The alternative would be helping those countries most affected to prevent migrations from happening. In practice, that would look like giving them [Shitloads] of (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8694300/) money .

    Like, regardless of ethics, those people will not stop existing once climate change makes their homelands unlivable. The two available plans appear to be "solve climate change as rapidly as possible and bootstrap poor countries up to developed countries pro Bono" or "shoot migrants at the border".

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