been thinking abt why so many who are Based in their own countries are nevertheless stone-cold reliable D voters when you bring them here I think it's (over)confidence in their ability to protect their own communities/families, naivete about the strings attached to the gibshttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1427506320177958914 …
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If we could keep them safe without making them a demographic weapon, it would be a much easier decision If you could keep them safe in America without birthright citizenship, or even if we could just trust the government to limit it to actual asylees & not economic migrants
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Defining challenge of cultural conservatism is that "culturally conservative" people are not fungible A progressive Christian & a progressive Muslim can work together on virtually everything, bc their actual religion is progressivism - not so with actual believers
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@eigenrobot in principle that if we get people in trouble, we should get them out of trouble, & that this is a matter of honor I'm not sure I believe there's still a "we" to impute this debt to - the cost will fall to the regime's enemies, there's no honor in that3 replies 1 retweet 97 likesShow this thread -
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If anything, this feels more like the Roman or Assyrian practice of internal resettlement Point being to bind the displaced closer to the regime, & weaken the local power structures in the host province In fact they're saying this pretty explicitlyhttps://twitter.com/BudgetBen/status/1427328782965346306?s=19 …
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Ben RitzVerified account @BudgetBenA modest proposal: Utah is a red state with plenty of open federal land, unique sympathies towards refugees, and a compassionate/pragmatic governor. Let's just build a new city there and populate it with 100,000 Afghan refugees who supported our military over the past 20 years.Show this thread5 replies 19 retweets 155 likesShow this thread
i appreciate your writing about this without missing a mood. ty king.
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