• Still with Trump

    From Vilenihilist@VERT to Dumas Walker on Mon Mar 30 06:48:27 2026
    Re: Still with Trump
    By: Dumas Walker to VILENIHILIST on Fri Mar 27 2026 10:51 am

    This is the thing. I'm no Biden st > > the actual left (not just "Democrats") are of the same mind. > > Biden and the dems did botch many aspects of their immigration polic > > which then made room for Trump's horrific xenophobia
    to gain traction and become policy >
    We agree here 100%. The Biden admin > would have been better off going bac > to whatever the Obama admin was doin > It probably wasn't near perfect,
    either, but it worked better than wh > they did/didn't do and probably
    would have satisfied all but the mos > left-leaning Democrats.

    Now, on the subject of flight risk > > I would just say that the issue is > > the ability to overclassify people > > We should use the actual apparatus > > of the state to actually DETERMINE > > who would be a flight risk, not
    just do it as a matter of course,
    which is my part of my point.
    If you just blanket classify peopl > > we arrive right back where we are now. That is why it is bad policy > > do.

    I would agree in the case of people > know something about. The problem here is that US law enforcement may > have any past history with these people. Treating them like they are > not a flight risk, blanket or not, while not knowing anything about the > is a worse policy.

    There is a right way to do this.
    I don't think there's a "middle" w > > to do this,

    I think the correct way is likely go > to be closer to a "middle" way than to the either side of the political
    spectrum way.

    but I do think the
    left I often talk to doesn't do
    enough to consider how people are
    living out on the border states,

    Agree.

    and the right, in particular the
    MAGA right, refuses to
    acknowledge the facts that
    most of the things they complain
    about are NOT tied to immigration
    but rather to a combo of market
    forces and refusal to stamp out
    corruption and financial power
    by our politicians from the
    local level on up.

    I agree with the last bit re:
    corruption. Some of what they compl > about certainly is tied to immigrati > and a combo of forces -- HRC's stint > SOS and the Biden admin's, and/or th > person he named as border czar's,
    failures -- that certainly won't be
    fixed by anything the left comes up
    with.

    Which takes me back to the correct w > is likely somewhere in the political > middle and not the way either politi > extreme has or would want it handled >
    Punishing people that actuall have > > nothin to do with the real problem > > does nothing but hurt our country. >
    I agree that rounding people up in t > streets falls into this "nothing but > hurt" category. Turning them away a > the border, or holding them somewher > until their court date comes up, doe > not.


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    I have only small points of
    disagreement with you on this, but
    nothing that is easily discussed
    through writing; some things are
    expressed better in person via voice.
    Otherwise I can reach a point of
    agreement in that. I will clarify
    though that what I mean is that the
    issues based in immigration, such as
    they are, are based in the forces I
    mentioned; they didn't sppontaneously
    occur on their own. There is a class ofAmerican exploiting all of us and foreigners who come here, and that,
    plus American interventionism, is a bigdriver of the illegal immigration that animate the conservative mind. And if
    you approach it from that perspective,
    you will find that neither party is
    eager to address the underlying cause
    of that immigration.

    Dems and Reps will not hold the
    business classes responsible for their
    role, they won't enforce labor laws
    that would reduce the incentive to havethis underclass of workers, and in Trump's unique case, he has gutted
    USAID so the chance to use soft power
    to help foreign governments and thus
    reduce the issues that drive mass
    exodus to the US has been vastly
    weakened.

    This of course is becaue ultimately thewealthy benefit from the less wealthy underpaying the destitute because they
    have nothing and are desperate.



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  • From dexxalex@VERT/ZBMCBBS to Utopian Galt on Mon Mar 30 10:12:24 2026
    Re: Still with Trump
    By: Vilenihilist to Utopian Galt on Sat Mar 21 2026 11:59 am

    Its not just white people, its Christians and non muslims of any ethnicity. The problem is the left largely wants to replace their population because they want their agenda passed.

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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANTIR to Vilenihilist on Tue Mar 31 04:10:26 2026
    Re: Still with Trump
    By: Vilenihilist to Arelor on Fri Mar 27 2026 06:23 am


    So tryin to force others to abide
    that is fucked up.

    Absolutely.

    That is why inorganic attempts at forcing a particular cultural archetype have utterly failed and a big factor why entertainment franchises these days are in ruins.



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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANTIR to Vilenihilist on Tue Mar 31 04:18:01 2026
    Re: Still with Trump
    By: Vilenihilist to Arelor on Fri Mar 27 2026 06:31 am


    You cats cannot seem to acknowledge
    that there is a rot, a cancer coming
    from the right that stinks of the
    old evils of this country. You get
    mad when people like me tell you
    this is real and a problem.

    I am not a cat. I identify myself as a horse.

    And as I said, I am not dennying there are rednecks who are fucked up in their heads, but when I interact with American business or get in contact with American cultural products, you rarely see any of that but you used to get a whole ton of crap from the other field.

    For all the tariffs and protectionism and American isolationism, I get vibes that my contributions to the American economy are not welcome from the woke types whereas everybody else does not care the least who I am or where I hail from.

    Thankfully most of that trend is crashing and burning these days.



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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANTIR to Vilenihilist on Tue Mar 31 05:17:26 2026
    Re: Still with Trump
    By: Vilenihilist to Dumas Walker on Mon Mar 30 2026 06:48 am


    Dems and Reps will not hold the
    business classes responsible for their
    role, they won't enforce labor laws
    that would reduce the incentive to havethis underclass of workers, and in Trump's unique case, he has gutted
    USAID so the chance to use soft power
    to help foreign governments and thus
    reduce the issues that drive mass
    exodus to the US has been vastly
    weakened.


    This approach comes from the point of view that powerful countries are responsible for the problems of less powerful countries, which is not true as often as some would like to believe.

    Let's take Mexico as a simplified example. To put it bluntly,

    a) The work of the US government is to defend the interests of their citizens, nor Mexico's.

    b) A whole lot of Mexico's problems are related to the way Mexico manages their matters.

    c) If the US were to introduce projects to develop Mexico they would be thrown into /dev/null

    The European counterpart is clearly visible: Spaniards have a tendency to blame all of their problems on external forces - it is always Germany or whatever who is to blame for the fact Spanish farming is barely sustainable, for example. But then the EU injects vasts amounts of money into developing the Spanish farming economy...

    ... and it doesn't improve...

    ... because money they hand to a government does not get translated into adecuate use, and beyond that, core issues are internal and cannot be fixed with money.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to VILENIHILIST on Tue Mar 31 11:37:44 2026
    This of course is becaue ultimately thewealthy benefit from the less wealthy underpaying the destitute because they have nothing and are desperate.

    No doubt that has a whole lot to do with it!

    Mike


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  • From Vilenihilist@VERT to Arelor on Wed Apr 1 06:06:06 2026
    Re: Still with Trump
    By: Arelor to Vilenihilist on Tue Mar 31 2026 05:17 am

    This approach comes from the point o > view that powerful countries are responsible for the problems of less > powerful countries, which is not tru > as often as some would like to belie >
    Let's take Mexico as a simplified
    example. To put it bluntly,

    a) The work of the US government is > defend the interests of their citize > nor Mexico's.

    b) A whole lot of Mexico's problems > related to the way Mexico manages th > matters.

    c) If the US were to introduce proje > to develop Mexico they would be thro > into /dev/null

    The European counterpart is clearly
    visible: Spaniards have a tendency t > blame all of their problems on exter > forces - it is always Germany or
    whatever who is to blame for the fac > Spanish farming is barely sustainabl > for example. But then the EU injects > vasts amounts of money into developi > the Spanish farming economy...

    ... and it doesn't improve...

    ... because money they hand to a
    government does not get translated i > adecuate use, and beyond that, core issues are internal and cannot be fi > with money.


    I take your point but its also not
    quite what I was getting at. It's not
    tht it's our RESPONSIBILITY to do
    things for other countries. Its not.
    And they do have their own agency, you
    are correct. What I'm saying is that ifAmerica has certain domestic policies
    it wants accomplished, in this case a
    reduction in illegal immigration and
    the "wrong" type of immigrants, then itfollows that we need to pursue
    policies, relationships, trade, and
    programs that accomplish those goals,
    and that cannot be done entirely withinthe borders of the United States. So while we can complain about who has to
    step up their game all night long,
    there's theory and there's fact.

    Now mind you, I don't believe in doing
    this to the point of interventionism;
    clearly that is a failed policy and hasbeen harmful around the world for decades. But cooperation? Building up
    allies to shore up our domestic
    tranquility? We should always be doing
    that.

    That's just my two cents though.



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