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 look I'm not defending immigration because of myself being an immigrant, you can keep your anti-immigration stance and I hear you, altho i don't agree at all, it's fine.

my point is the whole world is going in a big down trend and wherever you are you can apparently feel it, just in synchronous pace. maybe there's deeper reason like the fiat system breaking up, and chaos-peace unstoppable cycles. the alien-phobic response is the easiest way to be weaponizd by nationalistic governments to tackle internal problems, my government uses this trick all the time.