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E.g. countries like Poland and Hungary take HUGE sums of economic help from the EU to "develop" their countries (read: fund their clientelist politics). How the fuck is it fair that the EU in aggregate pays for this, and then Sweden, Germany etc. pay for the brunt of immigrants?

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And, to qualify that statement a bit, Swedish, German taxpayers fund it, not the corporations and landowners making massive bank on all of it. It's absurd. There is no argument for putting pressure on some countries to take on immigrants and simultaneously fund others who won't.

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Eh, sorry for ranting about this in your mentions at such length. I guess I've heard one Pole too many talk to me about "Sharia Sweden" or some other such idiocy. The categorical unfairness of the EU system is utterly infuriating to me. I'm always grateful Norway isn't a member.

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Absent any kind of social net, economic costs at the bottom and human costs are totally commensurate. GDP growth and other such measures are how many % corporate transactions? The real economy in most of Europe is deflationary. Poland is in "growth" and has 10000s of homeless.

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Growth in diseases of despair and in income & wealth gaps is hardly benign growth. This is the model I operate under when I say the economic costs concern me. They will appreciate into human costs soon enough.

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I don't mean to categorize demographically. I think the outsize racism experienced by immigrants in countries with extra-high and extra-low immigration rates is a symptom of political malice. It's a smoke screen for whatever BS the political-commercial complex is engaged in.

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Whether it's "we're protecting you from BARBARIAN INVADERS" or "you're RACIST if you oppose this political choice", it's malice. The intent is to offload costs on the population (ALL the population) and anger for economic decline on demographic minorities. That's how I see it.

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I don't mean to suggest that it isn't objectively worse to be an immigrant in these situations. You're a citizen, right? You grew up there? You have as much right to call yourself Swedish as anyone, but a nativist will make-pretend otherwise to your detriment. It's a sham.

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I have some nerdy hobbies like gaming and miniature wargaming. For whatever reason, shitturd racists love to use these to recruit - probably because a lot of these people are social pariahs and thus vulnerable. I've known people who think me being Sami is some kind of offense.

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I'm not brown or visibly different, nor am I easily identifiable by name or associations, so it's not something I worry about much. But it's clear if people like this got into power in Norway, they'd want a register of "people like me" - and to use it to do harm.

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I think to see this less as an issue with sides, more as a holistic social problem, is on some level helpful. Obviously people have tribes and will prefer their own, but there's more. The alt-righters arguing about immigration are on some level insane race theorists, however...

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