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 Damn. Powerful and extremely sobering. Everyone should take a minute to watch this.
https://m.primal.net/JpXj.mov 
 fix the money 
 Do states import immigrants because they want to make the world a better place, ir because they want to fix their own broken birth rates and prevent the country from dying out?

I think no state takes in immigrants for humanitarian reasons. They all do it because some spreadsheet warrior has calculated that each dollar invested into an immigrant, the immigrant will eventually bet the state many more dollars in tax money.

Of course those calculations are hugely flawed, similar to our climate models or Keynesian economic models. 
 It’s not for humanitarian reasons in the end (although the idiots implementing it at a middle management level beleive that shit).
The ultimate goal is to increase the number of cattle to harvest tax from, and to replace the home population.
Immigration is a weapon of war 
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 Awesome, could't be clearer 💯 
 That’s stupid. The Workd Bank tells us, the World Bank tells us! Dam, if only the World Bank would stop keeping all those countries in a permanent state of poverty! 🤦🏻‍♂️ 
 great visualisation 🤙🏻 
 Great video

When was the speech?  what year?
 
 Thanks for sharing 
 This is retarded.

1. Millions of people can still be helped
2. USA has little agency to help the other 5bn
3. The millions that do immigrate send remittances so the impact is greatly multiplied
4. The millions that do immigrate have a positive economic impact (granted, not for everyone)

Agree US immigration policy is not the total solution to world poverty, but no one is arguing that it is. Clearly a small, but helpful element. 
 That was by far the dumbest response I have ever read in my life.
Let’s agree to mutually mute each each since blocking is not a feature here. 
 No thanks - I'm still happy to point out bad arguments when they come across my feed, but feel free to mute me if you want. You didn't have any substantive counter argument to what I said anyway, so I don't think I'll be missing out on any great insight.