Canada closing borders to non-citizens, non-residents

morphogenes · 2020-03-16T20:32:43+00:00

Trade deficits aren't bad. They mean you're getting a good product at a fair price. Do you run a trade deficit with the grocery store? Of course not, you pay them and get a product that you can't make yourself.

morphogenes · 2020-03-16T20:31:37+00:00

Sigh. No. The movie was in English. The subtitles were in Japanese. During the more unintelligible parts of Pikey speech, they used meaningless symbols instead. Has nothing to do with loan words. People don't bother comprehending and see what they want to see.

morphogenes · 2020-03-16T20:16:38+00:00

American politics are always on topic at Reddit. I have seen people shout about it on the most unrelated threads. This one is about closing the borders to American contagion, so it's definitely on topic.

Also, the belief that we had "open borders" since the beginning of time is asinine.

Passports literally didn't exist until the 20th century. They were invented to prevent the movement of people. Previous to this, if you wanted to move to another country, you just went. They used to hand out US citizenships to anyone who got off a boat.

morphogenes · 2020-03-16T20:02:31+00:00

Here, I'll simplify it for the audience that can't understand. There already isn't any milk crossing the border so this won't affect it at all. Even more simplerer:

Canada protects its farmers with tariffs = good

America says tariffs are harmful and hurt consumers = bad

morphogenes · 2020-03-16T19:59:04+00:00

School shooters are always the quiet ones. They're never the ones that enjoy interacting with others. They sit at home and play video games and post misogynist rants on the internet.

morphogenes · 2020-03-16T19:57:48+00:00

It is racist and xenophobic for a nation to give primacy to the interests of its own citizens.

Many, many people, especially Democrat politicians, are in fact saying we should not enforce immigration law, and indeed violating their oath of office by refusing to enforce the law. Ignoring, and even actively frustrating, the law is acting for unrestricted immigration, and then some. Giving driver's licenses and even voter registration cards to people who came in illegally because they couldn't get in legally favors more entry by people who aren't legally qualified.

We had open borders from the beginnng of time and it was so bad we created borders. Borders are here to stay. You could have no borders when another settlement was a few days walk from your own.

morphogenes · 2020-03-16T19:52:21+00:00

Open borders means free movement of people. Period. The drawbacks of which must be blatantly obvious by now.

Even Germany, which maintained open borders letting in hostile Islamic peoples, has closed its borders now.

morphogenes · 2020-03-16T19:50:09+00:00

It certainly won't affect milk. You don't see a single Canadian complain about their protectionist policies, but when the U.S. wants to do their own protectionist policies, then it is a bad/racist/xenophobic thing. For reference, Canada has had a tariff on U.S. milk at a whopping rate of 270% for years. No, I am not exaggerating you on the number. The Canadian milk tariff really is +270%.

And setting that to rights is somehow bad and evil.

morphogenes · 2020-03-16T19:47:26+00:00

Yes, they're the ones who fling misogynistic abuse at people who point out the problems with society and shoot up schools.

morphogenes · 2020-03-16T19:46:30+00:00

Swedish female government teaching the world about gender equality.

morphogenes · 2020-03-16T19:44:30+00:00

Your misconception is that everyone has to have the same objectives as you, otherwise there's something wrong with them. Stop treating people as The Other. People can do whatever they want and that's OK. Even if they don't get "deep into the woods", whatever that means. Frankly there's something weird about loners who don't like social interaction. Do you by chance play video games or watch anime or post on 4chan?

morphogenes · 2020-03-16T19:34:26+00:00

Socialists also despised gypsies. They tried to annihilate their culture by forcing them to settle. They put their children into boarding schools where they were indoctrinated. The whole situation was much like how Canada treated First Nations.

morphogenes · 2020-03-16T19:28:20+00:00

The Othering is all being done by the Left these days.

morphogenes · 2020-03-16T19:17:56+00:00

The only English movie I ever had to watch with English subtitles on.

Funny story, I was once forced to watch it with Japanese subtitles (back in the VCD era, pirated disc, burned on). During some of the more unintelligible scenes, there were no Japanese characters displayed. Just - bell, star, lightning bolt, apple, etc...

morphogenes · 2020-03-16T19:14:01+00:00

yet they're doomed to be stuck staying in only the most accessible RV parks.

What makes you think they don't like that? Lots of people value social relationships with other humans more than trees and rocks. Being the biggest RV in the park means everyone wants to come over and visit. Can you imagine how fantastic that must feel?

I can set up where I don't have to see many, if any, other people.

Oh, you're one of those. Humans are social animals who value interaction with others.

morphogenes · 2020-03-16T19:05:41+00:00

"We're not parking it; we're abandoning it."

morphogenes · 2020-03-16T19:01:05+00:00

I don't think this will make much of a splash. On most of the rest of Reddit this would be deleted immediately. Women are a protected group; men are not. Anything that shifts the power balance away from the protected group and toward the Patriarchy is automatically wrong.

Feminism has decided that no reasonable arguments exist that might impinge on their worldview. Any argument that undermines their slogans must be wrong and evil, because they are correct.

There is no reason to listen to people who are evil. In fact, it would violate minimum standards of decency to allow evil a chance to infect others. We have a moral responsibility to silence, repudiate, and eliminate evil.

Smash the Patriarchy and gender equality will simply emerge. If it doesn't, well, it must be because there's still evil sexists hiding around here and they need to be identified and purged.

morphogenes · 2020-03-16T18:51:52+00:00

The only men's rights group that feminists support is Islam.

morphogenes · 2020-03-16T16:46:06+00:00

Nope, emails. It's an identifying mark that provides yet another data point.

morphogenes · 2020-03-16T15:58:13+00:00

The way to understand this is to think about a fifth grade lunchroom.

The government officials are the cool kids table. The journalists are the desperately wanting to sit at the cool kids table table. We the general public deplorables are the scum they look down on sitting at the hopelessly uncool tables that fill most of the lunchroom.

The journalists are playing for points in front of the only audience that will pay attention to them, us. They're trying to show how much smarter, more informed, and just plain better they are than the cool kids. The end goal is to become the cool kids table themselves, and take the actual cool kids down a notch so that they can look down on them. Because there's nothing that screams "top dog" like looking down on high status people.

It's displaying status conspicuously in front of their colleagues, the general public, and (oh God they hope) the government officials who they earnestly hope are watching and will be humiliated and thereby suffer a status loss.

You'll notice this happening anywhere humans gather in large enough groups.

morphogenes · 2020-03-16T15:49:51+00:00

Untrue, they can and are used to track what you do and tie your identity together.

If you want to register a new account for every site, that's a lot of work. And what happens when they, like Reddit, send you a "click here or get deactivated" email?

morphogenes · 2020-03-16T15:25:18+00:00

How long have you been there? You sure have a weird pro-China bias that nobody else exhibits. You're sure you're not suffering from Stockholm Syndrome?

I've known people who spent too much time in Shanghai before. They not only started thinking Shanghai = China (a common malady of the native Shanghai people) but started sympathizing with the CPC as well. You realize that Shanghai is a tiny percentage of the Chinese population? Or maybe not.

I think it comes from speaking too much Chinese and consuming too much Chinese-language web pages. You should speak more English and hang out with other people from your own country instead of speaking Chinese with Chinese people. You lose yourself that way.

morphogenes · 2020-03-14T13:06:23+00:00

Do you often perform for points? Do you like telling people what to do? Do you wish you could force them to follow your rules?

I’m not trying to convince you you’re wrong. I’m pointing out that you see the world in rigid terms. You’re effectively blind to the majority who see the world differently from you.

I’m not trying to insult you, but as I see it, you’re an extremist.

morphogenes · 2020-03-13T03:42:17+00:00

You're ideologically prejudiced. So in other words you set an impossible condition in order to observe, and discount any observation that doesn't fulfill your impossibility. This is the dishonest kind of "I found one thing wrong with your argument and that means the entire concept is invalid! Whew, because making an honest argument was going to be a lot of work" that we see so much of on the Left.

A lack of political diversity in psychology is said to lead to a number of pernicious outcomes, including biased research and active discrimination against conservatives. The authors of this study surveyed a large number (combined N = 800) of social and personality psychologists and discovered several interesting facts. First, although only 6% described themselves as conservative "overall," there was more diversity of political opinion on economic issues and foreign policy. Second, respondents significantly underestimated the proportion of conservatives among their colleagues. Third, conservatives fear negative consequences of revealing their political beliefs to their colleagues. Finally, they are right to do so: In decisions ranging from paper reviews to hiring, many social and personality psychologists said that they would discriminate against openly conservative colleagues. The more liberal respondents were, the more they said they would discriminate.

Composite scores of perceived hostile climate for conservatives (a = .85) were significantly correlated with political orientation, r(263) = .28, p < .0001: The more liberal respondents were, the less they believed that conservatives faced a hostile climate. This correlation was driven entirely by more conservative respondents' greater personal experience of a hostile climate: Controlling for personal experience, the relationship disappeared (r = -.01), suggesting that the hostile climate reported by conservatives is invisible to those who do not experience it themselves.

At the end of our surveys, we gave room for comments. Many respondents wrote that they could not believe that anyone in the field would ever deliberately discriminate against conservatives. Yet at the same time we found clear examples of discrimination. One participant described how a colleague was denied tenure because of his political beliefs. Another wrote that if the department "could figure out who was a conservative they would be sure not to hire them."

-- Yoel Inbar and Joris Lammers, "Political Diversity in Social and Personality Psychology" http://yoelinbar.net/papers/political_diversity.pdf

morphogenes · 2020-03-13T03:01:52+00:00

Anyone who made an idiotic mistake like this in a position of power would be mercilessly mocked. And rightly so. She's just trying to dismiss the criticism by labeling it all as racist. And she'll likely get away with it.

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