Comment by rimbo789

4 months ago

Typical right wing popularism to divide people and ignore the fact they have no actual solutions.

Racism is bad people. This will hurt people living in Switzerland today and those who end up there in the future.

Most of the immigration is French, German, Italian.

This isn't about racism. This is about unchecked immigration putting a strain on infrastructure and people feeling like they're losing their identity.

This initiative is stupid but the underlying problem is real: we're letting in too many people too fast.

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  • I said nothing about cheap labour.

    People should get to move and live where they want.

    If Switzerland has a lack of infrastructure it should build more, not xenophobically cap its population. You can’t freeze a society in amber.

    • This view reduces countries to nothing more than oversized hotels or economic zones, as if they don’t have communities that go back many generations and who would fight or die to defend the borders.

      Think this through: If the world likes your real estate, they can just come in and take it over overnight? Borders suddenly don’t matter?

      Pop caps can easily be understood as visa or naturalization buffers. Hysteria doesn’t help.

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