the virtue ethical argument for taking in refugees is that it would be dishonorable not to
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i wont ask you to defend your opinion if you disagree. thats between you and your conscience. but i will ask you if you are on the right to consider why your mad about the idea of taking in white, culturally-conservative people from a culture where firearms are de rigueur
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yes I 100% support exchanging with the Taliban on a 1:1 basis various translators and such who worked with us in return for handing over to them the various Presidents, Secretaries, Members of Congress, Generals, etc who have been running the US for 20yrshttps://twitter.com/spaghet_expert/status/1427499666485260308?s=19 …
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go ahead yell at me more and see what that gets youhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1292136128175206401?s=19 …
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eigenrobot @eigenrobotthis thread started as an amusing anecdote about responding to tiresome rude people however so many people responded by being deliciously unhinged I will continue stanning billionaires hope everyone Mad has learned something about incentive structures where im concernedShow this thread5 replies 0 retweets 113 likesShow this thread -
if you are genuinely concerned that 30,000 people are going to overrun a nation of 300,000,000 im sorry you are an absolute coward, you lack the courage of your convictions, and you should quit america for the Sea Trenches immediately is your culture so fragile? good god
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Extremely weird how people purposefully overlook that the ones receiving visas are translators, liaisons, embassy employees and administrative personnel. Educated, sufficiently connected to America, made an actual stand for our values by aligning with the mission.
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Replying to @Westphalite @eigenrobot
love the economic argument -- well my dudes once you realized how much money was burnt for mostly nothing in Afghanistan -- getting the people who helped you out and settled in the US is a minor 'collateral cost'. Not doing so would have real, unsalvageable costs.
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I'm very ashamed of governments who leave people who helped them at great risk hanging and will never forget that
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Replying to @DRO_oDR @eigenrobot
Any arguments against or around this is just cope for being dishonorable, and betraying those you have named friends. Made all the more worse by the fact that there is no real obstacle to assisting these people in the first place.
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Replying to @Westphalite @eigenrobot
People who would defend you with their life if you were their guest. We were very horrible guests.
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Look up "Green on Blue fire" if you think they were gracious hosts.pic.twitter.com/yAWlfiHE4o
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