Jezza™
@nerthos @temporaryDouchebag @gemlog a detail worth noting in the structure of arguments for and against is where they focus on the immigrant vs. the host nation:
Those that focus on the immigrant are largely emotional appeals, those that focus on the host nation run the gamut, but contain most of the sound economic and cultural arguments both ways.
Do notice much of the coverage in the news focuses on the immigrant(s) and emotionally loaded stories that develop sympathy without perspective.
Jezza™
@gemlog @temporaryDouchebag "Need" migrants? I don't think so. We could redirect that energy in a working educational system and do just fine with the human resources we presently have.
To me, it seems like a denial of space strategy: shithole countries lose their best to Europe and USA when they should stay home and fix their fences.
Jezza™
What is up with the border?
Scott Adams w/ Brandon Darby on the caravan, cartels, media cooperation with cartels, walls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxI0OyhhxjQ
h/t @temporaryDouchebag !
Jezza™
@gemlog As to the porous border: it's open because it benefits people who are underpaying people. A porous border is friendly to drugs and human trafficking, which are both long-term problems. An unchecked immigration policy is a parallel, undocumented population putting their fingers on the scale of wages and the overall cost is the market value of entry-level jobs, and a flooded market.
Most of all, it reflects a lack of respect for our laws and established legal immigration process.
Jezza™
@gemlog the choregraphy is exceptional. Precisely because of its media transparency, it should be possible -- by checking flight records, etc -- to get a picture of the people managing the media part, if not the support network (if any/exceptional.)
Jezza™
Anyone with military logistics experience riddle me this:
As of 6 days ago, ABC had the caravan at 7200 people.
That's 7200 people eating, drinking, and shitting.
Who's feeding them? And more to the point -- how much food does it take to do this? How many pounds a day are we talking? If this were soldiers on their feet, what kind of support would be required to keep them fed and watered?
Jezza™
@moonman Newest parts of Torah/OT were written 700 years before earliest NT... the two translations of the OT that were current at the time in Jerusalem were the Septuagint (a scholarly Greek translation) and the standard hebrew version, which hasn't changed to a letter in a very, very long time, give or take a few scribal errors.
Jezza™
@weltini @gemlog We _specialize_ in breaking balls. And professionally, kneecaps.
Jezza™
@moonman is there some evidence for this? There's plenty that they are...
Jezza™
@gemlog @weltini it's contextual to the show. look at the variants here: https://phoneboy.com/noagenda-ringtones :-)
Roughly, it has to do with the show being broadcast "in the morning," and perhaps to the old "crazy morning show" format that influences No Agenda (soundboard, jingles, et al.)
Jezza™
@gemlog @weltini ITM = "In the morning", standard salutation in the No Agenda community. Likewise, TYFYC or, "Thank you for your courage."
Jezza™
@xahlee jewish people come in all shades, from black to white... Jews from Morocco, Ethiopia, Germany, and Kerala...
Jews are diverse, politically. Anyone that tries to say, "jews are this, or that" politically is projecting.
For general interest reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaifeng_Jews
Jezza™
@gemlog @MutoShack In the 1990s, the local bus was great. Bike racks on the front, accessible transport, good coverage.
Today, they're not funded to keep up with the city, and increasingly serve the people in ghettos far from work/non-convenience-store shopping.
The campus system is still nice enough, but the city system... in some cases, it's a mobile homeless shelter. People bother you for money _on the bus,_ and get hostile/shitty when you don't make with the gibs.
Jezza™
@gemlog @MutoShack It didn't happen at once; it reflects downward demographic changes.The consequences include vulgar language, general rudeness, notable odor, and hostility.
I'm unapologetically a snob like that: i expect people to be minimally civil and not smell like burning tires when they take a seat next to me. Not having lice would be nice, too. The bus company cannot reasonably be expected to address these problems (they could add delousing to the boarding process...) so I drive/walk.
Jezza™
Muh minimum wage
#NPC
Sir Johnny the Swamp Knight
I weep that people are paid to write about such stupid ideas.
NYAAN
Jezza™
@gemlog @MutoShack I used to take the bus, but then the bus became crowded by unpleasant people.
The problem in most places is planning: either planning for cars to the exclusion of walkable neighborhoods (increasing traffic); the biggest planning thing to get right is not to disincentivize automobiles, but to incentivize living in one's neighborhood. That takes planning, zoning... consideration. skill. long-term thinking... so we're doomed. :-)
Jezza™
@gemlog @MutoShack James May of Top Gear fame did an experiment in "driving like a Good Christian" to work, vs. driving normally. He found that with the halo on, he got to work earlier. Sort of reminiscent of Jackie Stewart winning races by going the slowest.
Where cities are expanding, however, traffic is miserable. What was a 15 minute jaunt is now an hour of reading bumperstickers, constant construction and roadwork -- it's like Facebag: a situation contrived to see people at their worst.
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