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Uhg, the self-serving know it all liberal who answers their own questions and thinks they're 100% correct is a big part of the unpopularity of Democrats and a huge enabling factor for Trump.
They both agreed that Mexican migration is the largest population migrating... But that point wasn't acknowledged by the liberal, because they had something else to say....
...yep, and the liberal media thinks this comic is a great point in favour of their righteousness - when it's EXACTLY why they lost, and why Republicans become more extreme. They just get so sick of the smug badgering that they just want to troll and annoy the left, to the point they'll vote for Trump and his loose knit-wit antics.
Slow clap for the losers still trying to lose their way out of the losing. Can you at least listen to Bernie talking about how corporations use migration to lower worker wages?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf-k6qOfXz0
No wonder Trump's popularity with minorities increased. Maybe listen to the working class masses for a change, and accept they don't pay attention to the same barage of identity politics the ivory tower does. Nor do they have the same class interests as that liberal elite.
[EDIT: Mexico makes up 55% of illegal migration. European countries aren't even in the top 10 list of countries of origin. America is a downgrade for most Europeans, that lady's smugness is unearned because if we're going by the stats, India and Asia are the next largest problem areas.]
Fuck them. If they're such children that they're willing to watch the world burn because the side that is looking to help them is smug, they can gargle these nuts and go fuck themselves. I'm done coddling these idiots.
A comic about THAT would be a lot better!
You'll find lots of people are childish - even when it comes to voting. A large amount of people vote based on the feelings they have towards someone's politics.
You might also want to note that "the majority can gargle on these nuts" doesn't translate well to election results, and may also just be your own form of childishness and basing your politics on your emotional vibe of others (so you're doing the same thing I was just talking about).
They think they're being moral and righteous too, but only one side won the election... And if that's "gargling on your nuts" then pass those nuts over here homie.
Unfortunately that ship has sailed. I'm not here to argue about it, I'm just pointing out that this comic and your comments are the perfect example of why.
The left mistook losing (an election) for winning (a moral victory). They thought politics was something other than WWE, so they didn't put on the right show (they became moral philosophers rather than top rope acrobats). They played it safe . They were correct, but wrong. Which isn't the point and is infact a great way to lose.
First, which continent do you suppose india is on? Second, did you see that continent mentioned in the comic?
The problem the liberals you mention have with the right is their blinders to anything they don't want to acknowledge.
I'm from Oceania so to us "South East Asia" is north/west... So we're not about to start calling them south east asians.
P.S Different places have different conventions. Europe just isn't our geographic center. Now you know.
I'll grant that terms have different meanings in different regions. English is rife with it. But the term "South East Asia" is in reference to the part of Asia, not the direction you have to go to get there. If we went by that then all of Asia would be "West Asia" for me and most of America would be South America.
Well, there are plenty of countries that are Island nations that aren't even on the continent of asia and yet still count as Asian. Not to mention that it's understood Indians and Pakistanis originate in the caucuses. So it's all rather haphazard and irrelevant.
I don't know why you brought it up as if it was shocking.
Frankly it sounds like a hang over from orientalism (trying to hold onto regions defined in the Victorian era of Colonialism), so how about this: I call them Indians because they're from a nation state which in English is called India.
Maybe get over it and stop trying to "correct" people if you accept that different cultures have different linguistic conventions.
... different places have different push and pull factors in terms of migration anyways, and that was the topic. Some populations are pulled by being attached to the same landmass, others are pushed by factors like war. People from a war zone might just want peace rather than a specific destination country.
But you know where wasn't on the list the Wikipedia link provides? Europe, like I said, they're not even on the top ten list for countries of origin... Yet it's the focus of the character in the comic.
No, as far as I can tell - it makes sense when addressing migration to go by source countries. So there's a valid argument (despite what the comic suggests), to have some level of focus on migration from Mexico.
Not liking the fact there's a valid argument isn't the same as their not being a valid argument.
P.S India and China are two high population countries, so you're going to have to accept they get mentioned separately in conversations about migration. Declaring them both to be "Asia" doesn't really make sense for this context, the high populations present as different push factors in both countries.
...... just to be clear, you think "South East Asia" refers to it's location relative to europe and not it's relative location to the rough centre of Asia ?
So, south america is called that because it's .... south of europe ?
Haha, what a loser, imagine getting off on feeling superior to people online. What a petty soul.
Pathetic.
"Just to be clear" ...and a bad liar to boot.
So a deflection and a personal attack rather than an actual answer, that explains a lot.
I'll just assume yes and save us both some back and forth.
No need for a follow up non-reply , i won't see it.
See how you're pretending to have made some important point when it would only be important point if you were an absolutely pathetic and superficial loser?
What's worse is that you were so incredibly tactless and blatant about it.
You may as well have just said "I'm a loser with no self-esteem, this is my only way to feel good, can you help me?"... Only that would have at least shown a modicum of self-awareness and empathy.
But you clearly went for your usual grinning idiot who thinks they're about to feel superior to a someone route.
I'm just pointing out what you were doing there "just to be clear"... And I'm not about to have empathy for someone who was trying to be an asshole on purpose and thought they could dogpile on.
You have zero social capabilities, and need to fix yourself. Find some other way to feel good about yourself. Seriously.
So don't try that shit with me. Swallow your anger and go get over being called out for it.
Self-serving applies to almost everyone, especially in politics, that's not a "left" specific trait.
Answering your own questions is annoying in a scenario where the side being asked the question will respond with an actual and coherent answer.
I'm not cherry-picking here, spin up almost any "debate" you'd consider "left vs right" (in the US at least) and consider how much of that is being done in good faith.
According to your own edit 55% of illegal immigration is from Mexico, so that means 45% of immigration is not from mexico, perhaps the point being made is that if you look in to the percentage of raids per community it's probably not 55% mexican.
That doesn't refute or ignore the mexican percentage being what it is, it points out the apparent disparity in enforcement, which is probably the point.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume "they" in "they just get so sick" includes you, i could be wrong however.
Having said that, i don't disagree that not being able to appeal to a larger base was a major contributing factor in why they lost, at least in my opinion.
They lacked a coherent strategy and relied far too much on people understanding that the other side were grifters, a plan which ultimately worked so poorly that you now get elon musk as de-facto president.
But i will also acknowledge the difficulty in appealing to a base of people who include literal neo nazi's, standard bigots, people willing to join an insurrection and pretty much anyone who wholeheartedly subscribes to the current republican regime.
There are people in the middle ground, the (largely white) people systematically left behind by the system over many years.
Unfortunately such people are easy pickings for a groups of grifters with appealing soundbites and a proven track record of either not following through at all, or following through to the detriment of the people they are supposed to be serving.
The systems in place aren't designed to help these people, they are designed to give them just enough hope to keep them working.
Running on a platform of nice sounding lies is easier when you don't actually have to follow through.
If you have to become the party of nice sounding lies to appeal to enough of the voter base to gain power, is that a victory ?
Agreed, though they do in fact have shared interests it's just not apparent from the messaging.
See the first point above.
You've pointed out why the statements made by the lady are correct in both a technical and literal perspective.
If you are seeing smugness here, that's indicative of who you are, for better or worse.