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Turn at the next light.

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@wayfarer679 @derzum_ Broke the whole American cultural identity. One of the reasons why people say "America doesn't have a cultural identity"/"white people aren't a culture" is because immigration broke the Anglo-Saxon cultural dominance that had been the American norm.

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@derzum_ It's weird how often you hear leftist falsehoods being uncritically repeated by people in the conservative establishment. Just heard Michael Knowles the other day spreading the false claim that the U.S. overthrew Iran's democracy and installed the Shah.

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@spqr_sulla Also "fighting Muslims." From 2001-2007 the Republicans controlled all three branches, and Bush had massive popular support for a few years there. Reps were so braindead they didn't care that almost nothing got done other than the "War on Terror."

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@xwanyex "They're mercenary individuals who's only loyalty is to whatever brings them the most wealth. Nationality means nothing to them, just a method to get more wealth. These are the exact people who we should be giving citizenship to!"

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@caesar_pounce @eigenrobot John Podhoretz's ancestors were part of that wave, so he's going to defend it. Another problem with immigration - no matter what happens over the next few decades, the grandchildren of the people we let in will try to rewrite history to say it was a great success.

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@pjsempe @eigenrobot People had reason to question their loyalty. You had previous cases where Irish battalions defected to the enemy (Saint Patrick's Battalion), or Irish-American veterans attacking Canada to help Ireland (Fenian Raids). Took generations for these groups to become fully loyal.

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@eigenrobot A lot of media in the last 50 years was created by the children of those immigrants, trying to paint the immigration from that time as the quintessential American experience. Which is another problem with immigration - rewriting national identity to supplant the natives.

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@quiet_ridge_ @Cibolan2000 @xwanyex Every cab company was like that, just like you don't really get a difference between Lyft and Uber. Have you ever seen someone flag a cab down on the street pay attention to the company? There were even bigger problems with them as well, but they were often area specific.

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@JoshEakle @TheEbonyMaw No. The evidence for this claim is basically nonexistent. The 250,000 victims of grooming gangs report was built on much more reliable evidence. https://t.co/YZKX3uKvNJ

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@BarbMcQuade People don't like unelected bureaucrats blocking the efforts of democratically elected officials. NPR even did a series celebrating how staffers secretly sabotaged Reagan's efforts to reform the EPA:

https://t.co/GkGDilStIz

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@TheMeteorBlog Tens of billions of aid is still flowing. The U.S. is still saving millions of foreign lives. Any conversation that ignores this is just being dishonest.

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@jessesingal Can we first admit that the U.S. has been saving millions of foreign lives under every U.S. president? And is still doing it under Trump? Because only counting the money we don't spend instead of the tens of billions we spend yearly feels like someone trying to trash the U.S.

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@quiet_ridge_ @Cibolan2000 @xwanyex Maybe your town was better run? @Cibolan2000 experience is similar to how things were for me. Call a couple of times to get through, dispatcher says they'll send someone within the next hour, you hope that they actually do. Not to mention the tons of other problems with cabs.

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@Oilfield_Rando Also coupling "it's horrible that the corporations have such high profits and Musk has a trillion dollars" with "we need to keep mass migration going or else companies won't earn as much."

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@ChristianHeiens Depends on if you're talking about the primary or the general. Trump himself has been going after GOP incumbents, often with much less of a justification than many of the people getting attacked.

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@HammondEd92739 @MysteryGrove Do you think it's wrong for Trump to have gone after GOP incumbents?

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@ZachWLambert You support book bans?

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@RonDeSantis Subsidized by federal loans and grants that both parties support. Why?

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@HammondEd92739 @MysteryGrove Except that's literally what Trump did to get elected - he pointed out that the GOP had betrayed it's promises. You can't say Trump's run in 2016 was a positive, and then say doing what he did is harmful (unless you are controlled opposition, which many are).