@SenateAgitator@jonatanpallesen@TRobinsonNewEra Australia has insane amounts of immigration. You can't be a country with a tiny population and throw the gates open to a communist country with 1B people. You can overdo something that would be fine in small numbers
@SenateAgitator@jonatanpallesen@TRobinsonNewEra Which country is this? Yes, there are Chinatowns in many cities but I really don't see the problem. There are legitimate complaints about excessive immigration and undesirable crime-prone immigrants
@jonatanpallesen@TRobinsonNewEra I think that's reasonable, but welcoming a small number of young productive workers to fill gaps in industry isn't going to radically change your country except to improve the economy for everyone
@mattyglesias It would have won the Yglesias vote but not much more than that. We already had Mahan in the lane of competent non-ideologue and he got nowhere
@Cloudwatch199 I don't know why this surprises you. Wikipedia's standard for "truth" is that it got published in a left-wing news outlet or a left-wing academic journal. What else would you expect? Every political conflict has a strong partisan-left bent. The Israelis are even worse off
@nw3@devahaz Your vote carries much more weight in local elections. Competence matters quite a lot for these jobs. People should care far less about elections where their vote really doesn't matter (like the presidential one)
@moltar81435@ZacksJerryRig@Tesla@elonmusk The car has improved enormously in its capability in the last 3 years since I bought the car. You have standards that you apply to no other car.
@nw3@devahaz I understand that. Democrats pay 0 attention to local politics and vote based on national political brands. A vote for Bass becomes a vote against Trump
@jonatanpallesen@TRobinsonNewEra I agree with your takes about Somali, Afghan, and other low quality Muslim and African immigrants. There's no reason to be against Indian, Chinese, Japanese immigrants - they don't rape or commit crimes, they aren't on welfare, they are net contributors