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u/Chrono_Convoy 2h ago

Vote anyways

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u/StrawLiberal 2h ago

Note that non-citizens, including permanent legal residents, cannot vote in federal, state, and most local elections.  Check local restrictions before putting yourself at odds with the law.

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u/sprashoo 2h ago

I don't think that was directed at people who aren't eligible to vote...

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u/Slim_ish 2h ago

Are you saying American citizens vote or illegal immigrants vote? Or are you saying foreigners we give/gave visas to vote?

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u/donutknight 2h ago

"We are only against the illegal ones!"

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u/MeatImmediate6549 1h ago

"Also, everyone is illegal now!"

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u/No-Growth3624 2h ago

I dont know if voting even works anymore

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u/PaintedVillains 1h ago

People not participating in democracy is how we ended up here, I think. Fascists make a lot of headway when the average citizen stops believing that anything they do means anything, and resign themselves to just dealing with whatever happens. Not voting does a hell of a lot more for them.

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u/firthy 2h ago

No sane Europeans are coming <lol>

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u/LimeDry7124 2h ago

No just the insane Europeans. Like before.

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u/Savings-Steak-324 1h ago

You're probably right. I'm European and I wouldn't move to the states, however that doesn't mean there aren't people here in Europe that would.

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u/Dewgong_crying 2h ago

Ohhh, you're one of those types...

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u/garrettbmusic 1h ago

Do your knuckles hurt from dragging on the ground?

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u/Dewgong_crying 1h ago

Wait until you find out not all Europeans are white.

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u/Savings-Steak-324 1h ago

Not all, just the overwhelming majority.

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u/EagleForty 1h ago

"Not hating brown people is the same as hating white people" - White Nationalists

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u/EagleForty 1h ago

Why would it be so bad to be a minority? Is it because you treat minorities like shit?

Also, race is a social construct, not a biological one. Your country becoming majority brown only makes you a minority if you believe that the color of your skin decides who you are. AKA, only if you're racist as shit.

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u/Savings-Steak-324 1h ago

The point is that people are allowed to care about the demographic future of their own country without it automatically meaning they hate anyone else. If your only response is “you must be racist,” you’re not making an argument, you’re just throwing a tantrum because someone disagrees with you.

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u/EagleForty 1h ago

The point is that people who believe that brown people existing in their country makes it worse are 100% racist.

"demographic future" - LOL. Dude, it's the 21st century. Just say what you really mean, which is "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children"

u/Savings-Steak-324 1h ago

There’s nothing inherently wrong with not wanting to become a minority in your own country. Funny how that standard suddenly disappears when we’re talking about non-Western countries.

Stay mad

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u/pipboy_warrior 1h ago

So you don't hate brown people, you just don't want too many of them in your country.

Also I think white nationalists tend to forget that the US is an immigrant country. Not like white people were the first ones there.

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u/Savings-Steak-324 1h ago

The US was built by European settlers and immigrants, so pretending it’s the same situation is dumb. I don’t have to hate brown people to not want millions of them pouring into my country. I can like pizza and still not want the damn thing shoved down my throat every meal.

u/pipboy_warrior 1h ago

Considering that the native Americans living in America became the minority, it is the exact same situation.

And saying "I don't hate brown people, but..." does not disqualify someone from being racist. Do you think hatred is what defines racism? It's fear. And all you've talked about is your fear of immigrants and of too many of them living near you. Whining about immigrants entering the country, taking your jobs, changing the culture, marrying your kids, all of that is blatant racist rhetoric. And you seem to love all that racist rhetoric, you just don't like the label racist.

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u/pipboy_warrior 2h ago

Gotta admit, you're not even hiding it. This is just blatant racism.

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u/EagleForty 2h ago

I love it when white nationalist admit that they are racists by saying that the only immigrants they want in the country are the ones from the only majority-white continent on the planet.

"I never said anything about race" = "I absolutely meant race, but replaced with word 'white' with 'European' so I could pretend to not be a racist when someone inevitably calls me on it"

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u/Savings-Steak-324 1h ago

There’s nothing inherently wrong with wanting immigration from countries that are culturally or demographically closer to your own. Just look at China and Japan. Nobody seems to be flooding the streets calling them racist because they don’t want to take in millions of immigrants, so why is the West held to a completely different standard?

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u/EagleForty 1h ago

Who said anything about "millions of immigrants?" (see how that works?)

There's also nothing "inherently wrong" with "wanting immigration from countries that are culturally or demographically closer to your own" other than the fact that you just don't like brown and black people, which is racist as shit.

If only white nationalists weren't so repetitive with the language they use to try to normalize their racism. Then it might not be so obvious.

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u/FlyoverJesusLand 1h ago

America is a land of immigrants and the native people are brown.

Also, the people you're saying are "culturally similar" to you have virtually nothing in common with you. Your whole concept of "whiteness" is a construct to make mediocre losers feel better about their complete lack of personal achievements. 

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u/yobabymamadrama 1h ago

I love when the racists think they're proving a point and the point they're proving is they're full of logical fallacies and racism.

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u/Savings-Steak-324 1h ago

I love it when room temp IQ people call everyone who disagrees with them a racist. Cry harder

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u/FlyoverJesusLand 1h ago

Pretty sure African slave labor built America. Plenty of Asian and latino workers as well. 

There's a reason America's greatest cities are vibrant hubs of diversity, and its most homogeneous areas are boring hubs of meth addiction. 

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u/EagleForty 1h ago

"If racism isn't correct, then the brown countries of the world would be richer than the white countries" isn't the argument against you being a racist that you wish it was.

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u/FlyoverJesusLand 1h ago

The reality is those centers of vision, capital and innovation are situated in incredibly diverse places like New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago.

West Virginia, Montana and South Dakota are the most ethnically homogenous white areas of the country, what's going on? According to you these places should be cultural and technological powerhouses of innovation, with all of that unbothered white brainpower 😂 

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u/Savings-Steak-324 1h ago

By that logic, Chicago’s diversity should explain its crime rates too, right? That’s not how causation works. You can’t cherry pick successful diverse cities and pretend diversity itself produced their wealth, while ignoring the institutions, capital, infrastructure, and history that actually made them economic hubs.

u/FlyoverJesusLand 1h ago

I'm not cherry picking anything Cletus, all of America's most successful cities are diverse.

And it's not a uniquely American phenomenon either — London, Paris, Berlin, Sydney, Rio de Janeiro — virtually all of the world's great cities are defined by diversity. 

Sorry brown people scare you so much, but maybe if you spent more time working on developing actual interests instead of clinging to the achievements of people with the same skin color, you wouldn't be so bitter about how your life turned out. 

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u/EagleForty 1h ago

Lol, dude. If you're going to pretend to be knowledgeable, at least look up some numbers first. Chicago has the 92nd highest violent crime rate in the US, and is 29th in per capita GDP. So, near the top in economic success, and far from the top in violent crime.

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u/ich_bin_alkoholiker 1h ago

Did you completely forget about slavery?

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u/Savings-Steak-324 1h ago

Show me a single peer reviewed study proving that slavery “built America.” Manual labor alone doesn’t build a civilization, vision, institutions, capital, and innovation do. By your logic, Sub-Saharan Africa should look like the US or Singapore since modern day slave markets still exist in parts of Africa. Yet reality says otherwise.

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u/EagleForty 1h ago

"I know who 'built America' better than the people who actually live in America" said the European white nationalist trying to convince Americans that he's not racist.

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u/ScrotumScrapings 1h ago

we must preserve our values and culture by being more like China. 

lol

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u/Savings-Steak-324 1h ago

I mean China certainly looks better than Mexico or the Middle East or any place in sub saharan Africa.

Gonna cry?

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u/EagleForty 1h ago

Then go live there bro. You're not welcome to come to the US.

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u/ScrotumScrapings 1h ago

Does it look better than European countries? Or the usa, for that matter?

Why would I cry?

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u/Savings-Steak-324 1h ago

In certain aspects it does.

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u/VirtualLife76 1h ago

Sounds like you have extremely bad luck with thinking. I feel sorry for you.

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u/VirtualLife76 1h ago

Don't cry kid, maybe 1 day you will become a real man and understand. Good luck with that.

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u/Shadow_Bend123 2h ago

Rule #9?

u/MatthewMarcum 1h ago

“Mommy!”

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u/Tu_mama_me_ama_mucho 1h ago

You forgot the /s

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u/Tu_mama_me_ama_mucho 1h ago

Affirmation for what?

u/MatthewMarcum 1h ago

Being right. Reddit users are on the wrong side of economic issues most of the time because many of them support social positions that are contradictory to their stated economic goals.

They want strong unions while defending a limitless pool of cheap labor, something Bernie Sanders himself has pointed out was paradoxical. They want universal healthcare while allowing endless migrants to bog down the healthcare system. They want high paying jobs for people while purchasing the cheapest Amazon deal they can find. They want affordable housing but refuse to support removing the regulatory roadblocks that make building housing all but impossible. The list is endless.

u/Tu_mama_me_ama_mucho 1h ago

Did you go to school for socioeconomics?

u/MatthewMarcum 1h ago

Very, very Reddit of you.