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RE: Democrat Conspiracy
July 19, 2024 at 10:29 pm
(July 19, 2024 at 9:23 pm)Lek Wrote: (July 19, 2024 at 8:53 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: Disrupting your sensibilities is not the same as disrupting your life. You're hearing the rhetoric so much that you genuinely believe your very way of living is somehow magnificently impacted by illegal immigration. As unlawful as it may be, it genuinely has zero bearing on your daily life. Tell that to the overrun Democrat mayors of Chicago and New York City. I've had my say. Thanks.
Cool, that means you are going to shut the hell up for a while.
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RE: Democrat Conspiracy
July 20, 2024 at 2:09 am
(July 19, 2024 at 7:40 pm)Lek Wrote: Sorry. I'm just trying to figure out how an immigrant with no documentation is in the country legally.
I'm pretty sure Anji didn't write that -- though with your poor thinking, I might see how you could come to such an erroneous conclusion.
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RE: Democrat Conspiracy
July 20, 2024 at 2:16 am
(July 19, 2024 at 7:45 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: My wondering is more along the thought process of which jobs specifically are undocumented immigrants taking away from everyone else. After all, if it's so easy to get these jobs without proper documentation, why aren't more Americans doing it?
You know, for years and years I strived to be a premiere tomato-picker. I deliberately bent my back to unhealthy angles while carrying tens of pounds of weight under a very bright and hot sun, with little water and only giving myself a fifteen-minute lunch-break -- not even being paid, I was only training for the big game! -- and then some sorry brown sonofabitch came along swimming over the river and stole my 5th Avenue meal-ticket.
I coulda been a contender!
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RE: Democrat Conspiracy
July 20, 2024 at 4:10 am
(This post was last modified: July 20, 2024 at 4:11 am by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(July 19, 2024 at 9:23 pm)Lek Wrote: (July 19, 2024 at 8:53 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: Disrupting your sensibilities is not the same as disrupting your life. You're hearing the rhetoric so much that you genuinely believe your very way of living is somehow magnificently impacted by illegal immigration. As unlawful as it may be, it genuinely has zero bearing on your daily life. Tell that to the overrun Democrat mayors of Chicago and New York City. I've had my say. Thanks.
Better yet, let the mayors tell you. One of them, anyway:
https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/fact...in%202018.
The only real issue that local governments have with immigrants (documented or not) is not getting this message out.
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RE: Democrat Conspiracy
July 20, 2024 at 5:58 am
(This post was last modified: July 20, 2024 at 6:01 am by Sheldon.)
(July 19, 2024 at 9:23 pm)Lek Wrote: (July 19, 2024 at 8:53 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: Disrupting your sensibilities is not the same as disrupting your life. You're hearing the rhetoric so much that you genuinely believe your very way of living is somehow magnificently impacted by illegal immigration. As unlawful as it may be, it genuinely has zero bearing on your daily life. Tell that to the overrun Democrat mayors of Chicago and New York City. I've had my say. Thanks.
I think I know the answer already, but do you not see the irony is responding to an objection to your use of pure rhetoric, with more rhetoric? Theists often do this when they present poor evidence, they offer more of it thinking it adds up to something compelling, it's bizarre, but 0 + 0 isn't two, it's 0.
Without engaging anyone, go back through this entire thread and count the number of citations you have offered to support your claims, how often did you look for multiple sources to check any subjective bias, for example just searching online for what you wanted to support your position, and not looking for evidence that would suggest it wasn't true?
Critical thinking is not magic, it is merely a tool one employs if one cares that what one believes is true. Yet most people never use it. Rhetoric is of no value at all in validating anything, that's why unscrupulous politicians use it so easily and to such effect, because people rarely are sceptical when hearing what they want to hear, and appealing to people's base fears and ignorance with rhetoric is both easy and dangerous. It works best when people are genuinely suffering of course, but that's not necessary.
Convincing a slight majority they'd be better off by demonising a minority is nothing new, Hitler used it to great effect, and he was of course not the first, nor sadly will he be the last.
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RE: Democrat Conspiracy
July 20, 2024 at 12:12 pm
(July 19, 2024 at 6:38 pm)Lek Wrote: It's so funny. What do you all know about me that makes you hate me? Is it hateful to want legal immigration? If so, all of Congress hates brown and black people because they made the immigration laws which I support.
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RE: Democrat Conspiracy
July 20, 2024 at 12:28 pm
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(July 19, 2024 at 6:38 pm)Lek Wrote: What do you all know about me that makes you hate me?
That strikes me as a straw man fallacy.
Quote:Is it hateful to want legal immigration? If so, all of Congress hates brown and black people because they made the immigration laws which I support.
That strikes me as a second straw man fallacy.
Wanting to reduce illegal immigration, and control immigration need not involve demonising or persecuting people to whom that process is likely beyond reach, and so enter the country illegally. Even if you decide ultimately not to let someone stay, there is no need to persecute them, or demonise them with bigoted rhetoric, as of course Trump does, nor indeed is there any need to punish them beyond not letting them stay. Wouldn't you do anything to lift those you love out of crushing poverty?
You are citing something many might agree with, at least in principle, but you're mendaciously pretending this is their main objection, when it is more likely they object to how Trump portrays and treats illegal immigrants.
Parenthetically, if your only objection is that they have broken the law, then your hero worship of Trump is pretty ironic, given his contempt for the law, and his oath to uphold the constitution. Or do your objections go further perhaps, in which case why mislead with straw men like this?
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RE: Democrat Conspiracy
July 20, 2024 at 12:31 pm
@ Lek my sweet child I carry no hate. Verily I only want you to embrace FSM's light and reject the dark teachings that cloud your mind.
"For the only way to eternal glory is a life lived in service of our Lord, FSM; Verily it is FSM who is the perfect being the name higher than all names, king of all kings and will bestow upon us all, one day, The great reclaiming" -The Prophet Boiardi-
Conservative trigger warning.
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RE: Democrat Conspiracy
July 20, 2024 at 12:36 pm
Ramen.
Schopenhauer Wrote:The intellect has become free, and in this state it does not even know or understand any other interest than that of truth.
Epicurus Wrote:The greatest reward of righteousness is peace of mind.
Epicurus Wrote:Don't fear god,
Don't worry about death;
What is good is easy to get,
What is terrible is easy to endure
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RE: Democrat Conspiracy
July 20, 2024 at 12:58 pm
(July 17, 2024 at 6:15 pm)Lek Wrote: It's nice to read all the friendly posts about Trump and me. I hope you're all making your plans to leave the country after he's elected, although I see we all made it through his first term very well.
You should really get a doctor to check your TDS. It's really flaring up again, America hater.
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