• @foggy@lemmy.world
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      218 months ago

      Yes. Just tell millions upon millions of suffering people they can’t cross the invisible line to find refuge.

      Genius strategy.

      • @yetAnotherUser@feddit.de
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        58 months ago

        Do you think the people who fear migration care the slightest bit about anyone but themselves?

        An awful number of them would support attacking rafts filled with refugees with military warships.

        • @Kaboom@reddthat.com
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          -38 months ago

          Nah, but the sinking rafts bullshit is a super dangerous ploy and needs to be addressed somehow. We cant incentivize it. Maybe just jail everyone involved so no one wants to pay just to sit in an Italian prison?

          • @yetAnotherUser@feddit.de
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            28 months ago

            I’m sure people who accept the realistic risk of drowning - most cannot swim - will be discouraged by the threat of… being in a prison with better living conditions than their home?

          • @yetAnotherUser@feddit.de
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            28 months ago

            I’m sure people who accept the realistic risk of drowning - most cannot swim - will be discouraged by the threat of… being in a prison with better living conditions than their home?

        • @foggy@lemmy.world
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          58 months ago

          Are you suggesting people culturally removed from your own are a threat to you in some way?

          Cause damn. That’d be embarrassing.

          Like did they train your job in pantomime?

          Or are your own police not more violent to their citizens?

          What is it that allowing immigrants in doesn’t improve?

          • @Kaboom@reddthat.com
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            -68 months ago

            Well yes, some cultures are dangerous. Rape culture for instance.

            As for jobs, short sighted management will always take a lower skilled worker for less money.

            Honestly, I dont see how immigration helps the worker, theyre scabs in my book.

            • @foggy@lemmy.world
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              …rape culture? Wtf kind of truth social bullshit are you on about? This question is rhetorical.

              As for jobs, only if you have 0 fucking skills. Get good and stfu.

              Your arguing that “foreigners are highly skilled professionals here to take our jobs but also they’re criminals and rapist boogymen”

              They can’t be both, unless they’re, ya know, just regular humans like your neighbor.

              Christ.

    • @xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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      108 months ago

      Are there no prisons? And union workhouses, are they still in operation?

      Fuck off and watch “A Christmas Carol” again… but this time try and realize that Ebenezer Scrooge isn’t meant to be a role model.

        • @xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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          68 months ago

          No, this was the right comment to respond to - your comment lacked empathy to why people might become migrants and reminded me a lot of Ebenezer Scrooge commenting on the poor without empathy to the fact that he was contributing to their poverty.

          Us first-world nations play a large role in the global warming that drives climate refugees… I think it’s extremely immoral to just put up a big wall and tell people fleeing desertification to go somewhere else after making their home uninhabitable.

            • @xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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              78 months ago

              It doesn’t, but we’re all humans and if some of us wreck another person’s country it feels unjust to leave that person stateless.

              There might be a basic misunderstanding here… at the rate climate change is going some areas of the earth that are currently inhabitable are becoming uninhabitable. There are farms being swallowed up by desert and the people who were fed by that farm have no where to go.

              • @saltesc@lemmy.world
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                Do you know what the word sustainability means, though?

                Or are you just piling us all into one stereotype and now I have to starve along with everyone else while the rich that caused the problem are the only ones that can afford to live?

                This is xmunk’s secret plan for cleansing migrants and low socioeconomic majorities off the planet. Put them all in areas that can’t logistically support them until only those that could afford to survive remain. The same that ruined the climate.

                • @xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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                  38 months ago

                  Yup, I’m an evil villain. In actuality I just don’t believe in borders or nationalities - being born into a western country is an extreme advantage and it’s a matter of fucking chance. I dislike discriminating based on country of origin and I think we should strive to ensure everyone gets as equitable a chance at success as we can.

                  Also, our climate isn’t under pressure because we’re at the population limit for earth - climate change is happening because of greed. In theory we can fucking fix it if we work together.

              • @Kaboom@reddthat.com
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                -108 months ago

                There are people who live in the artic and those who live in deserts. People even farm in the desert. It might not be great, but itll be more than inhabitable.

                • Flying SquidM
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                  28 months ago

                  You do know that not very many people live in those places, right? It wouldn’t be sustainable. India has over a billion people and the Himalayan glaciers they depend on for water are not getting replenished.

                  • @Kaboom@reddthat.com
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                    -68 months ago

                    And moving them here doesnt fix the sustainability problem either. It just moves sustainability problems here.

    • @juicy@lemmy.today
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      78 months ago

      Just let them slowly cook in the global oven that our industrial consumerist society has created?

    • Eggyhead
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      28 months ago

      Oh, you must mean the ones who migrate the properly legal way?

    • @Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee
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      18 months ago

      Living in a stable safe country is a privilege we’re born into, much like inheriting a trust fund. It’s an ethical duty to take in people in a less fortunate position. The emphasis should not be on numbers of immigrants so much as better integration once they’re here. And also on helping less fortunate countries (yes I realise why they aren’t as fortunate) become more developed. People don’t tend to migrate if the place they live is good. Oil wars are not helpful.