21/ I know why: the unspoken assumption is “well of course you wanted to leave because it’s a shithole country compared to Great America, who wouldn’t?”
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32/ And now it has the gall to act like the injured exploited party, take its resources and retreat behind its isolationist borders, loudly claiming it is the rest of the world that is “ungrateful”? Takes a very special, heavily edited sense of world history to do that.
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thnx, a thoughtful thread. However - currently many developed EU countries with a strong near history of departures (II WW, after the Berlin Wall crumbled and post EU-accession and free movement of labour) grapple with similar attitudes and narrative issues towards immigration
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You’re too free with your verbiage. Nothing has been “taken” wrt immigration since the Civil War. Building a case based on an appropriation metaphor is both dishonest and sloppy.
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