Quote: (11-20-2014 12:39 AM)Tuthmosis Wrote:
Quote: (11-20-2014 12:33 AM)Fighting888 Wrote:
I really question why, in the midst of a painful recession with high unemployment, we should bring in large numbers of foreign guest workers to compete against American workers.
Because the ultra-rich and corporations--that wholly own Congress, Obama, and all their henchmen--run this country and want to finish the job of drowning the middle class in the bathtub. They put on some Kabuki theatre about fighting things out, but they all want a large, quiet, controllable, slave-like underclass that just keeps the roads paved, the hedges trimmed, and the Starbucks coffee flowing--it doesn't matter what language they speak. Whether you're a grateful Mexican immigrant or an Literature-degree graduate saddled with $80,000 in student loans at 19% interest doesn't make a difference to them.
This is the go-fuck-yourself politics of the multi-national corporation. Then their media outlets--which they also control--lather people up about the ethnic aspects of the issue so you stay distracted and not come after the real villains.
Take the real "red pill," not the one the TV or corporate-owned internet site is selling you.
Goddamn this hits home. I want to print this out and show this to so many people that need to read this.
It's amazing how many people in daily life you hear squabbling about the most inane and trivial bullshit.
People are addicted to drama; they thrive on it. And they're seemingly unaware that 95%+ of their daily interactions that provide their RDA of drama is
intentional. I see it everywhere around me. Divide and conquer.
Oh but the Apple watch is coming out, everyone rejoice. The timing of these things is amazing.
The past 10 years have been extremely poignant. I can remember being 23 like it was yesterday, and it was a pivotal year. It was the year I got my first cell phone. My new bitch girlfriend insisted I get one so she could reach me at all times. She was my second serious girlfriend and my first exposure to a girl that had been around the block, to put it lightly. She was my window into modern American women. (My first gf was an honest to god small town sweetheart, before cell phones, before social media)
So I can look back over the past 10 years and PRECISELY map individual milestones in the downfall. If I make it to a ripe old age, I will still recall the decade between 23 and 33 as the accelerated demise of a culture, and it is precisely due to this:
The more we rely on purchased devices to fulfill our need to connect as humans, the more doomed we are. The things that were supposed to make the world a smaller place have made us more isolated than ever. It is one puzzle piece to a larger dystopian future, of which this executive order is a key part.
To those saying that Mexicans will assimilate...serious offer: let me take you on a tour of this fair city and see how well that's gone. I'm all about the brown folks and I hit up taco trucks at least 3 times a week. Sometimes I even like the music. But making the claim that they'll assimilate is a joke, and that goes for all ethnic groups and nationalities. Why else would there be a Koreatown, Thai Town, Filipinotown (there's no actual Filipinos there, they're in Panorama City) Garden Grove/Westminster (Little Saigon), Little Tokyo, San Gabriel Valley (largest population of Chinese outside of China). Go to any of these places and it's not hard at all to find businesses that are completely in Chinese, or Vietnamese, and English isn't spoken. That's assimilation?