Comment by burnerRhodov3
14 hours ago
Measured as a percentage of population, we have more immigration now than we did in the 1890's peak. Given our drastically larger population, this is a problem.
Suicidal empathy mixed with this 'idea that america is illegitimate' cause we are a 'nation of immigrants', and we 'took land from the natives' is quite frankly retarded. And i can use the word retarded because i mean it in the literal since, "a verb meaning to slow down, delay, or impede a process."
Measured as a percentage of population, this graph:
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/imm...
shows the USofA having much the same level of immigration as it had from 1860 through until 1920.
Holy shit, we've gone form 4.5% of the pop and 10M to 14.5% to 50M?(!)in 40 years since 1970? Isn't that alarming? we are at the same level of immigration as the potato famine?
Also, check the definition of that chart... We have far more "illegal immigration" today than we did back in 1890. So.... egg zack ly. Don't you think that's a big problem considering our current size? I'm all for 'some' immigration, but the level we are at today is totally unsustainable when we have an absolute homeless epidemic in all of our cities?
I guess its was inevitable that Suicidal Empathy guys would break containment and make Hacker News accounts.
Au contraire, the actual suicide is blowing up our economy just to stick it to some brown people. Make no mistake, dumping tens of billions of dollars into ICE and supporting a man with the fiscal responsibility of a rock will not help the American economy.
It is truly astounding to me what lengths Republicans will go to to "win". Well, you've won. When are things going to get better? I'm waiting.