A Single Somali immigrant is estimated to cost Finland €951,000 over their lifetime. A native Finn contributes a net €3,400 per year. It takes 280 working Finnish people to offset a single Somali migrants arrival. #Finland#Somalimigrants#Benefitscammers#CloseTheBorders
Aristotle says that arguing with random people is a waste of time because the average person doesn't know how to argue and therefore will not help you become better at it (let alone help you clarify a point). A nice thought to post on the "argue with random people" app.
Just FYI as someone who works in consumer tech and sees a whole lot of conversations online daily: people are starting to snap. Between the price of everything and being surrounded by these foreigners who don't belong here who are somehow better off than our own people who are struggling and the politicians who are enriching themselves and kissing Israel's ass on TV all day people have had enough. It's a pressure cooker out there.
I have a foreigner from Venezuela (probably 35 years old) who bought the 10 acre field next to mine (for $240,000)
He started a concrete company and requests payment in cash. His wife started a tax service and he is her “customer”.
He speaks very little English. His wife and crew speak no English.
He drives a brand new F-350 dually and is building what looks like a 3,000 sq ft home on his $240,000 lot.
Imagine that. You drop yourself into a country totally foreign to you. You have whatever money you scraped together before leaving your 3rd world shithole. You don’t speak the language and know only the other foreigners from your clan who arrived before you.
You want to start a business? That requires capital, advertising, business licensing, employees, a reputation.
You cannot tell me these people are doing this without serious help: preferred loans, grants, subsidies, tax avoidance.
I’ve started 3 businesses. One thing I’ll tell you is it has been like pulling teeth over the years getting a loan for ANYTHING when you own a small business, unless you have YEARS of solid tax returns to show.
But this guy someone got financed for raw land, plus a construction loan, probably $750,000 in total?
And it’s not just him. It seems like every brand new truck at the gas station is being driven by a foreigner with no English.
This is not envy. We are very clearly being invaded and someone is helping the enemy army with my tax dollars.
2 years ago I lost a very lucrative contract to a crew of Hispanic foreigners who we outperformed by every metric (including pricing), all because the customer’s management was also Hispanic foreigners.
But we’ve all held our nose because we were told they were all going home. What a crock of bullshit that was.
So yeah people are about to snap, and when they do it’s going to be biblical.
How do undocumented immigrants "live in our communities for decades" without being deported? My late father failed to sign the 2019 tax return that he mailed into the IRS during April 2020. This triggered a multi-year investigatory process involving multiple IRS employees. I had to respond to about 20 letters and phone calls, mostly with "Both of my parents are dead and I don't have any of their financial documents from 2019." At stake was about $6,000 that the IRS thought my dad had owed because they ignored his (filed-but-not-signed) return with all of the deductions, such as the medical expenses of two people in their 80s, listed. By the time the dust settled, the IRS decided that actually my father had been owed a $4,000 refund that he never got. 61% of undocumented immigrant households use welfare, which can easily be 100 times more expensive, over the years, than what was at stake with my father's 2019 taxes. How is it possible that we have had no mechanism for sending home the vast majority of those who have no legal right to be in the U.S.?
Worst call of Trump II, by far, has been the failure to back DOGE resolutely, reinforce it with the FBI and intelligence services, pull Palantir into the fight, and use it as the crowbar to prise apart, defund, and roll up the entire progressive deep state.
the reason moby-dick remains such a vital piece of human art is that it addresses what is probably one of humanity's greatest collective atrocities, the genocide of the whales, with an ambivalence it cannot itself fully articulate. melville is distraught, but he can't explain why
It's been observed before but it's interesting how each western countries lower stratum (gypsies and arabs in Europe, Latinx in America) began to look and dress something like this beginning around 2015(?). Currently sitting in a bus stup and multiple picrel have passed me by.