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    Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 21 Nov 2018
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    I think people are so furious about this because they know the arguments are compelling, feel threatened by it, and can't offer a coherent responsehttps://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/11/the-left-case-against-open-borders/ …

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      2. Michael McLaughlin‏ @MichaelMcl1970 21 Nov 2018
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        You can't have open borders ~and~ the welfare state.. it's a flat out fact of economics. You want endless immigrants entering the country? Fine...but you'll need to get rid of EVERYTHING from welfare to public schools to paved roads to the postal service.

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      2. Surveillance Films‏ @MySurveillance 21 Nov 2018
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        4/5: We are supposedly against Neoliberalism, yet we encourage globalization of capital and labor, otherwise its racist. Reading this article almost feels like deprogramming from a cult, slowly remembering something long forgotten, even while questioning if...

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      3. Enemy#1‏ @MonstaWill 21 Nov 2018
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        True, all our current immigration laws were lobbied for by big corporations.

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      2. Surveillance Films‏ @MySurveillance 21 Nov 2018
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        1/3 : For many progressives who were active during the anti-globalization/anti-NAFTA movement of the 1990s -- which in part came to a head during Seattle '99 -- reading this article is a spooky experience...

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      3. endless recession‏ @InsurgentDesire 21 Nov 2018
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        Bring it back

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      1. Surveillance Films‏ @MySurveillance 21 Nov 2018
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        3/3: But somehow in the decades since, the ideological guidance via our own liberal punditry, media outlets, think tanks, academic institutions, took the Left in a different direction. Related contradictions have likewise been papered over: We are supposedly...

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      2. Surveillance Films‏ @MySurveillance 21 Nov 2018
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        2/3: 20 years ago there was a good deal of clarity around confronting policies that undermined democratic sovereignty, decimated organized labor, and helped give rise to global regions zoned for slavery.

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      3. Tara Ann Thieke‏ @TaraAnnThieke 21 Nov 2018
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        Zoned slavery is the great key here. Capital is building what seem like permanent underclasses and ‘disposable’ regions. And b/c much of it is out of sight people pretend the meritocracy is clicking along great

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      2. Author ((E Joseph Weixel))‏ @eugeneprojectil 21 Nov 2018
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        The working class does not reside exclusively in United States of America. This might be news to some people. Anyhow American workers do not gain by having sweatshop auto assembly plants on the Mexican side of an imaginary line.

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      3. Author ((E Joseph Weixel))‏ @eugeneprojectil 21 Nov 2018
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        Oh another thing about workers and the working class - a whole lot of them are not white or men either.

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      1. Dierk Groeneman‏ @amish_hooligan 21 Nov 2018
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        For sure it's a challenge. Read it yesterday and still digesting it. Exposed lots of holes in my thinking.

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      2. HägAdzussa  💀 A Heathen's Curse‏ @adzesband 21 Nov 2018
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        Lol, she said that the fall of the berlin wall resulted in free movement of capital AND labor. There's never been free movement of labor. Also, "how are we going to pay for it" is a ridiculous argument for a country that spends $90M on a jet that can't fly

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      2. whodunit?‏ @DawgsWillHunt 21 Nov 2018
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        Or its bad. You can solve the problem of low wage by restricting access to the labor market. We live in an increasingly automated workforce. You're not going to get workers high long-term pay if your argument is based on limiting the supply of workers. The demand will not keep up

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      3. The Anti-Gnostic‏ @Anti_Gnostic 21 Nov 2018
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        In other words we don't need immigrant labor either.

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      1. Highbrow Haze‏ @HighbrowHaze 21 Nov 2018
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        Legal immigration is not anti-globalism. Mixing these two narratives is sloppy thinking.

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      1. Nancy Jones‏ @NancyJo35842333 21 Nov 2018
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        Two different kinds of Walls

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