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Comment by drcongo

10 days ago

Yep, and from the outside, the rest of the world is watching you all just let it happen.

How can you watch the protest and organization in MN and conclude people are "just letting it happen". Quite the opposite.

  • Sorry, bad wording. I was using the "you all" in the same context as the parent's "collective we". Yes, there's tens of thousands out in the streets protesting, but also yes there's tens of millions who aren't.

    • I think it's millions, not tens of thousands protesting.

      I hate that the online world is so polluted with America Bad that we cannot even have a good discussion. There is literally nothing American citizens could be doing right now that would meet with approval from outsiders.

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A lot of the world would not tolerate the amount of illegals that the US has within its borders.

  • You are getting downvoted, but this is a fair point. The only other country with a higher estimate for illegal immigrant population is Russia. The next closest Western European country is France, with barely over half the rate of the US. [0]

    [0] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/percentag...

    • In the poorer parts of the world, people absolutely detest illegal immigrants (or basically most working migrants as well) because they are taking jobs from the locals. They hate refugees because there's not enough resources to go around to use in feeding and housing them.

      Welcoming people in because "no-one wants to do those jobs" is very much a luxury belief of the well off.

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