@learning2much@AliceFromQueens You sound reasonable. It’s fair to dispute us doing policy. But labeling America as imperialist or capitalist (as a bad thing) is usually a front for, and language invented by, communist critiques.
@learning2much@AliceFromQueens They expressly “hate it.” If your “different vision” is the complete eradication of western civilization as Avila Chevailier wrote, you are an American-hating communist.
@AliceFromQueens Him or me? Mamdani and Omar and their ilk are literal third-world communists. Darializa refused to say she wasn’t! You seem to be the only one offended by the label, a mark in your favor undone by your dismissal of it.
@TheFirstRandy@charlescwcooke Ain’t no one enforcing the “want or the “embrace” part of that. It’s one thing to say it, another to apply it. And we’ve brought in far too many who “embrace” freedom and/or free stuff but not America. I’m all for people coming in who love America.
@TheFirstRandy@charlescwcooke I was and am for liberal immigration. Inviting millions of people into the country and giving them a path to citizenship and welfare—something even you would agree they would “qualify” for, is disastrous.
@TheFirstRandy@charlescwcooke I don’t have antipathy towards them. It’s a false choice between being a bad person or allowing millions of immigrants into this country permanently who otherwise would not be allowed.
@TheFirstRandy@charlescwcooke Your fake empathy blinds you. Haitian woman helping our housecleaner got thousands a month in assistance, including free English language classes, free healthcare, such that she worked only part time and then eventually not at all.
@TheFirstRandy@charlescwcooke They weren’t granted asylum, which I assume you knew. And “put down roots and became upstanding members”? You don’t know that. Most are on welfare. I’m not responsible for every person in the world.
@TheFirstRandy@charlescwcooke They are saying it’s wrong because it will hurt people, but the “hurt” is forcing people, especially and mostly young men, back to their countries. Remember those countries are good and noble and honorable.
@AliceFromQueens@hecubian_devil@nytopinion Except it’s mostly vague nonsense. Fighting for “healthcare”? Meaning, the right to go a gynecologist as a man pretending to be a woman? The right to have someone else pay to have your healthy appendages cut off? Please, the entire write-up is self-important gobbledygook.