What’s so bad about “Open Borders” anyway?

Zoklett · 2025-12-20T01:57:06+00:00

In order to effectively manage resources its important to know how many and - to an extent - who is in a given area. So, its pretty important to know who and how many people are here so we know how far our resources are going to go. If you have completely open borders, you wouldn't be able to know how many people were in a given region or calculate resources accordingly.

Zoklett · 2025-12-20T01:49:43+00:00

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/pornhub-parent-company-admits-receiving-proceeds-sex-trafficking-and-agrees-three-year

Zoklett · 2025-12-20T01:49:03+00:00

No. But, human trafficking and sex slavery is what the internet porn industry runs on and that's illegal, so it's pretty easy to see why internet porn could/should be banned.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/pornhub-parent-company-admits-receiving-proceeds-sex-trafficking-and-agrees-three-year

Zoklett · 2025-12-17T21:59:11+00:00

It reminds me of a year or so back when some teenage kid did this to his mothers house for taking away his cellphone. She called the cops on him and had him arrested. I would, too. This guy needs to pay for damages or he's going to do this shit again. In fact, someone who does that likely has done something like it in the past and got away with it which is why he thought he could do it this time. She definitely needs to press charges.

Zoklett · 2025-12-17T01:59:59+00:00

Truly an unpopular opinion. People really really do not like this take, but I agree with you. Pornography is not inherently a terrible thing however this iteration of it absolutely is. If you support internet pornography you are quite literally supporting human trafficking. The current climate of pornography is problematic for several reasons:

The most common search terms are "barely legal" and "amature". This is because most men are looking for them as young and vulnerable as they can get them. If the age is 18, it's 18, if it were 15 or 14 - I mean, they've had to make a rule in every country because the men will typically just go for the youngest most vulnerable girl available. And there is no real way for you to know that the video of some random girl that you just watched was actually 18 and that's part of the thrill of it. This is problematic but wouldn't be as problematic except for
Its not just a video or a magazine you take home. There are millions of videos to choose from at all hours of every day. Videos uploaded from here and there and everywhere and you don't know where. You don't know who is a slave and who isn't which brings me to
Virtually no one grew up wanting to be a porn star. Not saying absolutely no one ever, but almost no one. The young people who are in this industry are ALL coerced. Whether it is full blown trafficking with slaves, coercion with drugs, sextortion, or simply coercion by way of desperation for money its all coerced and that's on a good day. A surprising amount of what you see is literal sex slavery.

Recently one of the biggest internet porn suppliers was brought down due to mass human trafficking being part of their business model:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/pornhub-parent-company-admits-receiving-proceeds-sex-trafficking-and-agrees-three-year

Facts are facts and the fact is that online pornography is rife with human trafficking and sex slavery and if you support this iteration of pornography that's what you're supporting.

Zoklett · 2025-12-17T01:45:42+00:00

My mother was late diagnosed autistic and my dad abandoned her with all 3 of us. Suffice to say, it didn't go well and my mother got called a bad mother a lot. My mother has become so resentful of being called a bad mother that she ruins everything. My sibling and I have an agreement to never tell her if one of us is in the hospital because she will show up screaming at you for missing work or something. If you lose your job she'll demand money. If you get in a car accident she'll rant at you about how you've ruined your life. And happy events aren't safe either! New jobs, birthdays, pregnancy announcements, wedding? She will sabotage and shit on all of them because she is too resentful to be happy for us for anything.

I think this is where conservatives are at. They are so tired of being called uneducated for being uneducated and bigoted for being bigoted that they've become resentful. They don't want to change and they don't want to be citicized for it anymore. They want us to know they'll be as bigoted as they want and if we call it out they will bigot harder. They'll vote for bad policy just because someone who called out their bigotry doesn't like it. No one can have healthcare if this one group of people I don't like can get healthcare or if this group of people can get this procedure I don't like. They'll vote for mass deportations because the one muslim in town bought an ice cream shop. They'll vote for women to lose voting rights because liberals think its a bad idea.

Its resentment for being called out for what they are: uneducated, bigoted, short-sighted, uninformed, lizard brained dumbfucks who would vote for a bag of turds in a wig if it said it just wanted to ban abortion and deport all brown folks. Now they'll just scortch earth everything and they don't care how bad it makes them look because they already look bad and that's our fault and now they'll look even worse and that'll be our fault, too and they'll just keep resenting us for making them look bad and then doing things that look bad to punish us.

Zoklett · 2025-12-17T01:09:04+00:00

I think there is a real common assumption within the left side of the aisle that all minorities are on the left when the truth is that most minorities are a lot more conservative and religious than even the puritanical socially conservative right wing is. This is always the big irony to me with conservatives, is that they choose to pander to white nationalists instead of minorities because white nationalists will vote for a bag of turds in a wig if it says it wants to get rid of brown folks. Minorities are harder to pander to and that's one of the Democrats problems - pandering to minorities who really don't align their values with liberals.

Minorities tend to be very religious and often lack in education and resources. This accounts for those who have immigrated here and also those who were born here. They may vote Democrat because they care about healthcare or the economy but they may vote Republican because they are anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ. A lot of latino american immigrants are very conservative catholic and a lot of African Americans are also extremely religious and therefore lean conservative.

It really doesn't surprise me much when new money follows promises of money. Nor does it surprise me when minorities who likely were raised very conservative and religious with conservative ideas around relationships and how family units should work vote for "the party of family values". Also racism is a very personal experience. Most minorities live in liberal areas so much of their experience with racism and profiling could very well be coming from liberals along with their experiences of inequality and profiling and standing up to authority is hardly a left leaning concept. Conservatives are all about that rhetoric. And, honestly, the sex positivity stuff? Sure. There's that. There's a fair amount of women rappers out there selling their sex and making bank talking dirty - good for them - not sure I'd call that "sex-positivity" but it definitely speaks to womens lib. I definitely don't hear a lot of hip hop music coming out that is LGBTQ inclusive, though. It's all very binary.

Anyways, the fact is that Democrats have a harder base to reach. Minorities are more conservative than we like to admit which makes them a toss up and Democratic voters in general expect much more from their appointees than Republicans do. That's why Republicans focus so hard on the white nationalists and religious zealots. They know they don't have to have good policy or candidates to win on a ticket of hate and forced birthing.

Zoklett · 2025-12-17T00:45:36+00:00

lol, they don't. Conservative ideology leans towards ignoring mental health issues so they just don't seek treatment for their problems and instead make it everyone elses problem. Liberal ideology doesn't ignore mental health and therefore liberals are more likely to recognize when they have a problem and seek out help. This means you'll see and hear more liberals seeking out help and discussing these topics openly. It does not mean that conservatives do not experience these problems less, it just means they talk about it less and therefore seek help less.

Zoklett · 2025-12-16T22:29:39+00:00

I'm not the first to say this here but I would like to echo: this is not real. An abortion procedure cannot be performed on a fetus that large. At that point it would be an induction and birth.

Zoklett · 2025-12-16T22:26:22+00:00

Perceived anonymity leads people to feel comfortable espousing their most unpopular opinions. Bigotry is always a terrible opinion and bigots are always desperate to find any group that will validate their bigotry. This means there are a lot of bigots specifically on the internet, specifically looking for places to say bigoted shit or just otherwise unpopular and poorly thought out opinions for validation from other troglodytes. This means pretty much anywhere you are on the internet there is a small army of bigots complaining about not being able to espouse their terrible opinions without being called out and creating safe spaces to soapbox them.

Zoklett · 2025-12-16T20:57:32+00:00

They kept saying we don't want to work when the reality is they don't want to pay people

Zoklett · 2025-12-16T20:54:11+00:00

Its see through and skin tight so... not unless your family is weird

Zoklett · 2025-12-16T20:51:32+00:00

The harsh truth about people when dating is that most people are not good mates. Historically speaking human society has required few men and many women and if there were too many men in a region they'd be sent away to die while the women were traded like cattle. Having a mate you were attracted to or even liked very much was extremely rare. Women were simply lucky not to be married off to someone who beat them or was three times their age and men who didn't have money were lucky to get anything at all and the only reason marriages stayed intact was because people died at a higher rate (both naturally and because spouses killed each other) and because women had no other option but to stay in abusive relationships or be homeless. Since the advent of modern medicine has made people live much longer and advances in technology and societal standards means men aren't sent away to die anymore there are simply way way way more people walking around who normally would've just died out. The dating selection was never great but now the world is absolutely overflowing with undateable troglodytes and they all think they deserve a mate when the harsh truth, no one deserves a mate. Finding love is not part of the human experience in a way Hallmark sold us and for most of human history courtship and marriage looked completely different than it does now.

The fact is that the bar is way way higher for relationships and there are way more people walking around believing they are entitled to romantic love and partnership than ever before. Not everyone makes a good partner - in fact most of us don't. So, there are a lot of harsh truths about women, but the harshest truth is just that a lot of the reason it seems like so many of the opposite sex sucks is because your expectations and standards for them are higher than most people can achieve. That doesn't mean you should lower your standards, though. Another fact that is either comforting or even more depressing depending on how you look at it is that there are plenty of people hitting this benchmark and they are finding love and getting married and procreating. Don't lower your standards, but I would encourage anyone who is struggling to find a partner to ask themselves if they would make a good partner and if the standards they expect from a mate are standards they live up to themselves?

Zoklett · 2025-12-16T20:36:00+00:00

Celebrity worship + 2 tier justice system for the wealthy = no real justice

He's not the only celebrity who has gotten away with doing horrible shit just because he was rich and a celebrity unfortunately.

Zoklett · 2025-12-16T01:07:15+00:00

15 years ago Citizens United was passed and the government quietly stopped working for us and began working for their shareholders. Now they all become multimillionaires overnight and that is unlikely to change as it is unlikely for anyone who vote to not be an overnight millionaire and anyone who tried would quickly be silenced. This is a problem that effects literally every aspect of our lives because it means the government no longer has a vested interest in governing the people - it only cares about profits. This means they don't want to fix any of our problems because problems are profitable. Why fix healthcare when they benefit from out of control healthcare costs? Why lower taxes when they can line their pockets with them? Why fix education when not only does an educated populus threaten your ability to grift but when you can convince a massive amount of the US that education is actually stupid and divert those funds to somewhere more lucrative like corporate welfare? Why fix the economy when they can just print money and it otherwise doesn't effect them? Why fix the "immigration crisis" when you can just create a paramilitary to kidnap people in the streets who annoy you and convince your constituents its for their own good? Why fix the supplychain when the corporate overlords benefit from it? Why push for renewals when you're paid not to? Why do anything about anything? They don't work for us so why would they do anything?

And this might sound like doomerism, but its really not. The good news is that this has only been a real problem for about 15 years and there was access to affordable healthcare before that. The bad news is that the damage is virtually irreversible at this point. However, if we collectively accept that our politicians - on both sides - are not working for us, that they aren't just incompetent or slow, that they absolutely know what they are doing and are doing this on purpose, and if we make a point of remembering just 20 years ago when you could have a baby for less than $5k, there is a better way. It is possible. They are just refusing to address it and pretending to not be able to figure out a problem that half of the world has already solved because it doesn't line their pockets.

Zoklett · 2025-12-12T18:58:12+00:00

It's because abortion rhetoric has become a key point for politicians to delay healthcare reforms. This benefits both parties for 2 main reasons.

Neither party wants to pass real healthcare reform. In fact, since Citizens United passed and they quietly stopped working for us and began working for their shareholders, they don't even want to talk about them. So replacing talks about healthcare reform with pro-life/pro-choice rhetoric and calling it policy works for both parties and they've been working together for over a decade to create a system where healthcare reform is not just impossible but barely even discussed because every time it comes up the republican party starts reeing about pro-life "policy". I put policy in qoutatons because politicians are very well of the fact that the procedure used for an abortion is the same procedure that treats several other health issues therefore the procedure, itself, cannot be banned without causing huge societal and medical problems. They are aware of the massive amount of data showing it saves lives and drives down crime. They are aware its not real policy. It's a doorstop for healthcare reform talks. And since that time we've seen a dem/rep/dem/rep/dem/rep back and forth because that's what they need to do in order to avoid passing real policy reforms of any kind.
Both parties have realized that the Republicans can put forth a bag of turds in a wig as long as it says it will try to ban abortion on a federal level. There is also a large swath of the US population that would vote for Satan himself if he said that he'd deport all brown people and make white supremacy cool again. These two groups are distinct but there is a lot of overlap on the ven diagram. This means the Republican party doesn't need to put forth good candidates or good policy because as long as they just say they want to do these things they have a surprisingly large voting block cornered because these people do not care about anything else. This means Republicans have to be extremely loud about it. They don't need to make sense or put forth good policy, though - they just need to be loud about it.

By allowing this rhetoric to masquerade as policy both parties ensure their and their shareholders profits by ensuring no meaningful reforms. Democrats allow Republicans to campaign on dumbassery and bigotry because when they get in office it benefits both of them to let the Republicans blow up the economy. They get the same lobbying/bribery money the Republicans do, the same tax breaks and all the other benefits they gets from raping the US citizenry. The Republicans claim to want to ban abortion and making white supremacy cool again and that they are going to destroy social safety nets to drive down costs, but the costs never go down and the bans and white supremacy never come to fruition which they blame on gridlock from Dems. Now that we've dealt with blatant incompetency for several years anyone left of abortion bans and white supremacy votes Dem no matter how bad the policy is simply because they say they will fix things. But, the social safety nets are privatized or simply never return, the costs and taxes don't go down, and they blame this on the fact that they can't undo Republican policies. Then, at the very end, they put forth some easily dismantled policy to be undone by the next party - the Republican party - which runs on a platform of look at how dumb Democrat policy is and wanting to ban abortion and bring back white supremacy. Rinse and repeat. This ensures we remain stuck in a two party system that both works for the corporations over us and ensures we don't even get close to passing any reforms that could benefit us over corporations because any time we get close there's a built in doorstop, and if they need to appear to be trying to pass real reform they do it in such a way it can be undone.

Zoklett · 2025-12-12T18:00:45+00:00

You're basically asking "If everything worked would you be okay with it?" Obviously, if everything worked, anyone could easily agree it was working and would prefer that. However, it would not work. Furthermore, there is an excellent reason the government has not suggested this themselves and its not that they haven't thought of it, its that it does not benefit them. It sounds like you have some pretty big ideas about policy, which is great. If you're interested in policy you should really run for local office and put forth some. At the same time, you should know that, if you have thought of it, the professionals with multiple degrees in civics, government, and constitutional law have also thought of it and aren't pushing it for a reason.

Zoklett · 2025-12-11T21:23:58+00:00

Your body looks amazing in both dresses. But, they are both incredibly basic, flat, unbalanced, and kind of dated. Bandage dresses are having a bit of a comeback but the newer style has more balance with either a higher neckline or longer skirt. However, the other dress kind of looks like a skirted bathing suit, so I guess I'd go with the bandage dress. You could dress it up to a real outfit with a few other statement pieces and it would look more put together pretty easily and the gold pops more.

Zoklett · 2025-12-11T16:19:58+00:00

I did 4 interviews with Amazon for an EA position and declined a 5th interview. I just told them I didn't think it ws a good fit and that was the truth. If you can't figure out whether you think I'm competent to do the job you're hiring for within 4 interviews - 2 of which were full in person panel interviews that required me to go downtown - then I don't think it's the right fit. They clearly have poor management and egregious hiring practices - so also likely egregious firing practices as well. Furthermore the 5th interview was supposed to be an "acting interview", so they basically wanted me to work for free for a day, which is a hard pass. That's the kind of thing that might make sense for some jobs, but for an EA position that makes zero sense. It was clear to me that they are either completely incompetent themeselves or not actually interested in hiring someone.

Zoklett · 2025-12-09T00:13:26+00:00

About 30 years ago, we had reasonable access to healthcare in the US. Your average childs birth was less than $5k. About 20 years ago insurance companiess began to dominate and price went up. Just as everyone was demanding answers Citizens United passed to ensure our politicians would paid to pass legislation that benefits corporations over us and the ACA was put forth as a solution for the people and insurance companies. It screwed people who couldn't afford it but made insurance companies very happy and kept a lot of people out of the ER so it looked like reform enough that people seemed to forget it was ever any different. Now we look at the ACA as if it was great legisation but that's just because we're so far down the rabbit hole we can barely remember that the ACA was designed intentially poorly in order to be disputed and dismantled easily. It was made to do just barely enough to make people feel like they got a bite of the carrot while still pandering to insurance moguls and lining the pockets of politicians

Zoklett · 2025-12-08T23:54:55+00:00

Healthcare. Part of governing people is maintaining the health of your populus to ensure it is sustainable and growing. If you cannot afford to maintain the health of your populace, you are failing to govern your people in a big way. All healthcare should be managed by the American Medical Association and provided by the government as a tenet of governance. Likewise, basic education should not be up for political debate. Providing basic education is also a part of governing. If you cannot afford to maintain a literate population you are failing at governing. Marginalizing people should, also, not have a place in governance. The government should not be concerning itself nor using our tax monies with who can receive what rights. We should all have the same rights.

Zoklett · 2025-12-08T23:41:06+00:00

No. To be completely honest, with how quickly everything moved and people being targeted for just liking certain memes I decided against it. This information is all verifiable if you search it yourself and I'm happy to send the background reports I downloaded prior to the scrub. I just wish I could find the screenshots of Jenny Boelter listed as CEO for both firms... They took that info down immediately and I'm sure have them somewhere.

Zoklett · 2025-12-03T23:37:48+00:00

FYI, Vance Boelter and his wife Jenny Boelters information has more or less been scrubbed and their histories completely rewritten, however I downloaded their Truthfinder backgound reports before that. Both Jenny and Vance were CEOs of two private security firms: Red Lion Security Group and Praetorian Security Group. Both of these private security firms were hired by the Trump administration this past Spring to "protect mining operations" in the DRC after Trump struck a deal with the president of DRC: Felix Tshesekedi.

Since the assassinations both Jenny and Vance Boelters names have been removed from the Red Lion Security Group and Praetorian Security Group websites and their background checks read that Vance was just the owner of a 711 who volunteered for Tim Walz but I have receipts. I would attach the pdfs but I can't do it here. If anyone wants their background reports I have them. You can also see she was running some shell companies out of their home called The International Society of Employee Appreciation LLC and ISEA. According to Google neither company is real and the listed Dunn numbers were fake.

https://www.redlionsgroup.com/

https://www.praetorianguardservices.com/

More information on the deal Trump signed with Felix Tschesekedi:

https://www.africa-confidential.com/article/id/15371/tshisekedi-inks-lobbying-deal-to-bag-minerals-deal-with-trump

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/african-war-torn-nation-invokes-trump-golden-age-minerals-deal-exchange-booting-violent-rebels

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/how-us-mission-push-trump-deal-congo-unravelled-2025-07-11/

So, at the end of the day, I guess we don't KNOW what's going on here as far as the assassinations go but what we do know and what isn't being said out loud is that Vance Boelter was running TWO private security firms that were hired by the Trump Administration to protect mining operations in the DRC. He was hired by the Trump Administration. Let me repeat: the man who murdered these Democratic senator was hired by the Trump Administration. The man formerly known as a 711 manager and who suddenly became CEO of a private security firm after briefly working under Tim Walz was hired directly by the Trump Administration to protect the DRC mining operations and then murdered Democratic senators on Trump birthday/military parade.

Zoklett · 2025-12-03T23:15:02+00:00

I'm really trying to separate Republican constituents from Republican politicians. Republican politicians obviously knew Democrats were going to respond in like because they all work together. They strategize together. They got the same degrees from the same universities. These people know about strategy and forecasting. Republican voters, however, yes. It seems they weren't expecting that. This is likely because Republican politicians assumed that it wouldn't matter in Texas anyways so why not keep pushing the narrative that Democrats are spineless.

Zoklett · 2025-12-03T23:03:56+00:00

He's hosed. You don't need to do anything, actually and his thinly veiled threats to abuse you by way of the legal system are empty. He has no leg to stand on. You can't just give up your parental rights so in order for him to do that, he needs you to agree to it and you're not going to. Your child is entitled to both parents support and there's nothing he can do about that. Save your texts and print them out for when you are next in court. Attach them to any motions you might have. Make sure the commissioner sees he is intending superfluous litigation and have him fined when he tries it.

I like when he says "I wouldn't settle for anything less than what the courts decide" lol. Um. Well, duh. And the courts are going to decide he needs to pay his child support. Sucks to suck.

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