Everything is so simple and black and white with you that there's no way to have a nuanced conversation when:
Anything bad = lIbTaRd!
Anything good = nOt lIbTaRd!
It's unbelievable to me that you've had six years of college, which means you would have had to do research for papers. How do you get a passing grade if all your footnotes credit Insurrection Barbie and D.C. Draino? I don't get it.
And just because they are non-AI videos from X means nothing when I routinely bust you for tweets with misinformation, like I just did yesterday with your tweet about Cueta migrants. Knowing that you'll post anything without vetting makes all of your clips suspect, sorry.
Anyway, last night Growls posted a tweet about rioting in Milan Italy, which I thought was really weird, so I went to the tweet on X and asked grok about it and got this response:
- The protests, organized under "Italia in Piazza," drew over 5,000 mostly young participants including minors against high living costs, fuel prices, low wages, and public service cuts, with primarily Italian flags though some Palestinian symbols appeared.
And that's what sent me down the rabbit hole that led me to multiple articles that explained that high gas prices, which contribute in multiple ways to a higher cost of living, were a major source of the discontent spreading across the continent. And you can lie to yourself all you want, but you know exactly who's responsible for that.
Having said that, the immigration problem is a multi-faceted issue spanning decades that conservative politicians also contributed to due to severe labor shortages in the same industries we use immigrant labor for here - agriculture, construction, caregiving, etc...but there's no denying that the humanitarian policies of liberal governments played a huge role, no doubt, and it's coming home to roost unfortunately.
I don't know what they'll do about it since a majority of them can't be deported but we'll see. So for understandable reasons the electorate is leaning more conservative in hopes they can do something about it, but not sure how that will work in France in particular because their conservatives want to cut even more from the budget, including education funds. It's gonna be an extremely tough issue to tackle, that's for sure.
But there are many reasons you can't compare what's happening there to here because unlike Europe, our country is young and began with a mixing and welcoming of all cultures and many of the people you see as "others" have been here as long as or longer than the white population, so we have no choice but to make it work. For instance, Hispanics make up 20% of the population and the vast majority of those are legal so even if you deport all the illegal ones, it won't change the culture even a little bit. We are a melting pot and we will always be, so it would be better to focus more on assimilation than deportation.
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