• FunkyStuff [he/him]
    hexbear
    65
    16 days ago

    America is a profoundly diseased society. What kind of sick, unfeeling nation reaches the point of denying membership to people born within its borders because of their parents? What the hell?

    • huf [he/him]
      hexbear
      24
      16 days ago

      america is a diseased society, but most countries in the world dont give citizenship to people born on their soil. instead, they give citizenship based on "blood" descent. the place of birth system is most common in the new world.

      so yeah, the US moving towards the norm is bad, but the norm is bad and the US is still better in this sense than most countries. weird shit.

      • barrbaric [he/him]
        hexbear
        7
        16 days ago

        So if the parents have immigrated somewhere and have a child there while not having citizenship themselves, they have to go to an embassy and do a bunch of paperwork or something? Weird that someone could be a citizen of a country they've never been to.

        • @bdonvr@thelemmy.club
          hexbear
          9
          16 days ago

          Yes generally. If a couple in India are living in France (without being citizens) and have a kid there, they'd submit the child's vital documents to the Indian embassy in France or possibly mail them to India so an Indian passport can be issued.

  • laziestflagellant [they/them]
    hexbear
    50
    edit-2
    16 days ago

    damn at this rate the democrats will barely have to propagandize to prime the libs to accept climate refugees being "turned back" at the border doomjak

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
    hexbear
    46
    16 days ago

    I mean Dems have been supporting that for decades, but also the Sins of this Guilty Nation etc etc

  • culpritus [any]
    hexbear
    44
    16 days ago

    clear example of the political ratchet effect hauling the overton window rightward, and Dems are clearly complicit in the process no matter how much they claim otherwise

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]
    hexbear
    41
    16 days ago

    They’re anti immigration but won’t change any policies to reduce poverty and suffering and exploitation, so they’ll keep coming and coming. I wonder how many Americans are aware and would rather just be reactive than reduce their treats or they simply are incapable of thinking 2 steps ahead and don’t understand the correlation. Or perhaps they think the American lifestyle is natural and exists out of pure willpower and anyone can do it.

    • Rojo27 [he/him]
      hexbear
      29
      16 days ago

      In my personal experience people are just too shortsighted and/or unwilling to accept the fact that the system of neo-colonial exploitation has lead to mass migration.

      Anytime I even start talking about systemic issues people just jump back to the personal responsibility bullshit that they've been propagandized to default to.

      It doesn't help that all mainstream news media constantly drills the idea that there are migrants are dangerous gangsters to are out to hurt the poor wittle and pure whites and you've got a recipe for anti-migrant fervor.

    • Red_Eclipse [she/her]
      hexbear
      22
      16 days ago

      In my experience they have no fucking clue how their treats are made. Everything is disconnected from everything else and happens in a vacuum. Random people are just showing up to the border to take advantage, no context or anything. They just fell out of a coconut tree. volcel-kamala

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
      hexbear
      14
      edit-2
      16 days ago

      I suppose he's at least making it easier to agitate for actual leftism if only because of how brazenly terrible he and his party are

      They used to keep the mask on a bit more

  • @lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml
    hexbear
    29
    16 days ago

    The more I see the more I think that the US and EU won't have a revolution they'll just balkanize and spiral into endless cannibalistic violence

      • @lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml
        hexbear
        19
        16 days ago

        Damn you're right thanks for making me see the bright side of it!

        Unlimited genocide on the first world

    • huf [he/him]
      hexbear
      8
      16 days ago

      europe is already balkanized, they never could put together a truly large polity after the romans... the only thing that saved their bacon was stealing everything they could from the rest of the world, and they fucked that up too.

      • @lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml
        hexbear
        5
        16 days ago

        I won't be happy until all German landers are fully independent, Catalonia fully split, Corsica fully autonomous, and Brittany in a new Celtic anti-imperialist alliance with reunited Ireland and Scotland

        • huf [he/him]
          hexbear
          4
          16 days ago

          oh why not go further? a homeland for rusyns, a free picardy, split belgium, italy gone back to being normal italy, hungary split entirely between slovakia and romania.

    • SkingradGuard [he/him]
      hexbear
      2
      16 days ago

      "Western"/Euroid society made the choice of barbarism and reaction in 1989-1991. We are paying the price for this decision, now and in the future.

  • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
    hexbear
    29
    16 days ago

    They told us they'd push Biden left. Turns out, Biden pushed them right.

  • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
    hexbear
    28
    16 days ago

    Maybe burgerlanders will finally figure out that the constitution doesn't ”guarantee” anything.

  • sourquincelog [he/him]
    hexbear
    24
    16 days ago

    Dusting off my copy of "A Day Without A Mexican" and muttering "it's happening again"