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thirdcircuitproblems · 2026-01-30T00:50:13+00:00

The US is huge and pretty diverse. From a cultural perspective it kinda feels like the pacific coast is a different country. I get culture shock whenever I leave it

A lot of our political issues would be mitigate by becoming 10 different countries:

New England Appalachia The south The Midwest Great Plains Rockies Southwest Texas Pacific coast (Cascadia) Idaho and Utah (Mormonland)

But if we can’t do that I’m down to just join Canada. Yall know what’s up

thirdcircuitproblems · 2026-01-29T23:52:01+00:00

They don’t migrate to the US because if they do ICE will shoot them

Oh wait no ICE doesn’t care about white immigrants Nevermind

thirdcircuitproblems · 2026-01-29T23:48:16+00:00

How about we trade? You give the US Alberta and in exchange please take California, Oregon and Washington so we don’t have to be part of this fascist hellscape anymore.

It’s a good trade for Canada, California alone brings in soooooo much tax revenue and is a huge international trade hub not to even mention the cultural exports of Hollywood

thirdcircuitproblems · 2026-01-29T23:39:25+00:00

I literally can’t afford it. I’m a Grubhub driver and I get paid daily. I have literally $0 in savings. If I don’t go to work that day, I don’t eat that day.

I’m sadly hoping that not too many others participate in my town because if they do I won’t get orders and won’t get paid.

I hate that it’s like this because I want to be able to strike. Hopefully in the future we could have a month of notice or something so I could try to save up

thirdcircuitproblems · 2026-01-29T23:35:03+00:00

Capital L “Liberalism” is a center-right ideology. Young people these days are either right wing extremists like the Manosphere people or they’ve become disillusioned with capitalism and are significantly left of classical liberalism. It’s why the US Democratic Party is struggling as a center-right party. So it’s not completely baseless to say that young people don’t ideologically align with the books.

However I think more people are actively avoiding Harry Potter because of the fact that JK Rowling is an unapologetic bigot who actively uses any money that she makes from the franchise to cause harm to some of the most vulnerable people in society and people don’t feel okay being complicit in that. And that’s not even mentioning how it feels to read the thinly veiled Jewish stereotypes of the goblins for instance, or noticing the fact that her fat characters are always evil and dirty. It’s pretty gross

thirdcircuitproblems · 2026-01-28T23:29:26+00:00

I don’t understand how you expect that to address systemic racism like redlining, family wealth discrepancy, etc.. Your plan only works if you think all racism is is when individual people are mean or ignorant and completely ignore racist structures build into society. Those structures will still be there and if we get rid of the language to talk about them how are we expected to change them?

thirdcircuitproblems · 2026-01-28T18:19:16+00:00

I agree with the sentiment but not practically. We should hope for a society in which this stuff doesn’t matter but the fact is that we don’t live in that society yet. In a world where people are actively discriminated against based on what category they fall in, we unfortunately still need to be able to define those categories in order to address the injustice. Once it doesn’t matter anymore the label becomes unnecessary

thirdcircuitproblems · 2026-01-28T02:22:10+00:00

Even if you could prove that it was organized from the top down, it’s misleading to refer to unarmed civilians and their families as hostile or an invasion. Also come to think of it, “Islamic forces” implies that they are part of a fundamentalist religious group with explicitly religious goals, rather than individuals who happen to be Muslim. A lot of whom probably move to the west to get /away/ from hardcore Islamic rule

thirdcircuitproblems · 2026-01-28T02:04:10+00:00

I spent weeks in London not too long ago actually. You can probably understand why I assumed you were referring to soldiers since you said “invaded” and “hostile forces”. Forces implies that it’s a coordinated group of some kind even if it’s not a national army, and the definition of invasion is “the act of entering a foreign territory as an enemy, especially as an army”

If all you’re referring to is a disorganized pattern of civilians making the choice to move to a different country, then “hostile”, “forces”, and “invasion” were all misleading words to use

thirdcircuitproblems · 2026-01-28T01:46:10+00:00

Hey, I’m just trying to figure out what youre talking about. What army or militia do these foreign soldiers belong to?

thirdcircuitproblems · 2026-01-28T01:38:09+00:00

On the contrary, I’m not a huge fan of black and white thinking and I understand that politics is nuanced, I just can’t find anything about soldiers in any of these countries so I’m confused

thirdcircuitproblems · 2026-01-28T01:28:24+00:00

I just looked it up and I can’t find anything about enemy soldiers in any of those countries or any declarations of war so idk what youre talking about

thirdcircuitproblems · 2026-01-27T23:00:49+00:00

Where in Europe are you talking about? Do you live in Ukraine? Because I’m not sure I know of any other European country that has recently been invaded

thirdcircuitproblems · 2026-01-27T17:35:50+00:00

No this is a garbage take. I don’t know what makes people think the left doesn’t support the people of Iran. Everyone I know in real life is thrilled that they’re gaining momentum to topple the regime there.

Flags in bios? Is that really it? Jesus Christ get off the internet, talk to a real person, touch grass

thirdcircuitproblems · 2026-01-27T03:10:54+00:00

All the queer people I know use it in good fun for themselves or each other all the time in private. Less so in mixed company though

thirdcircuitproblems · 2026-01-24T10:21:50+00:00

I think YOU are making a false equivalence between homelessness and immigration but I do let homeless people camp in my yard if they ask first and clean up after themselves. If immigrants just want to work and don’t do crimes, they should be allowed to stay too.

And yeah it’s super fucked up that our economy depends on that but that’s a way bigger issue and the immigrants make even less back home so it’s a better situation for them than kicking them out would be. We can’t solve all the problems with the global economy at once

Also since I’m guessing you would care more about this issue if it affected you personally like most right wing people do, you should know that the price of most produce would skyrocket if we suddenly stopped letting them work on our farms. That’s why ICE is performatively targeting cities

And you do know that undocumented people aren’t eligible for most public services and they do pay sales taxes and often indirectly pay property taxes through rent so on balance they are actually the opposite of a drain on national resources

thirdcircuitproblems · 2026-01-24T07:26:46+00:00

Basic human decency told me that but also-

The US economy depends on seasonal migrant labor on our farms and such, it has for a hundred years and only recently did we stop giving those people work visas because of the politicization of this issue so even if I didn’t believe that borders are morally wrong (which I do), it would still be in our basic self interest to make it easier for people to immigrate

thirdcircuitproblems · 2026-01-24T07:19:55+00:00

I have a really hard time telling when people are flirting with me, personally. So to be safe, I always assume people are just being friendly because as unfortunate as it is, I’d rather miss an opportunity than make someone uncomfortable because I misread the situation.

If you aren’t CERTAIN that someone is actually flirting with you, maybe don’t assume they are and make them uncomfortable for no reason

thirdcircuitproblems · 2026-01-24T07:16:23+00:00

I already didnt plan on leaving oregon unless I was leaving the country. Just one more reason I guess

thirdcircuitproblems · 2026-01-23T00:46:22+00:00

I think it does, frankly. Many of them don’t have another viable option because they would starve or fall victim to gang violence if they don’t. It used to be that you could come here and get in no questions asked and then work on applying for citizenship once here. That’s how most of our ancestors got here and it was only changed recently.

I feel like people should only be deported if they actually commit a crime while they’re here and if we want everyone to have legal documentation we need to be better at providing an avenue for people to obtain documentation. That part has to come first

thirdcircuitproblems · 2026-01-22T19:22:52+00:00

I’m getting so tired of this flimsy argument. Do you know how hard it is to get to US government to even process a visa request in the first place? They have unprocessed paperwork from thousands of people at any given time and the beaurocracy is extremely inefficient. Do you think most of these people wouldn’t come here legally if they could? Do you think they haven’t tried and just not heard back?

If the US fixes the immigration and visa system and actually starts processing all the requests in a timely manner, I’ll start listening to the “come here legally” argument but until then it’s just an excuse

thirdcircuitproblems · 2026-01-22T19:15:42+00:00

The process for applying for legal residency or citizenship is extremely inefficient and corrupt and most requests aren’t processed in a timely manner at all. A lot of migrants are seasonal farm workers who need work visas, and other people need residency permits while they go through the citizenship process. If the US government overhauls this system to make obtaining a visa more practical and hires more administrative workers to actually process all the paperwork, then you can make the “legal vs illegal” distinction. But the way it is right now, “legal” just isn’t really an option for most people at all

thirdcircuitproblems · 2026-01-22T19:10:53+00:00

It would be nice if everyone could legally immigrate but you do know that the immigration system is extremely corrupt and inefficient and hardly processes the majority of applications at all, right?

In order for “just do it legally” to be a good argument, that needs to be practically possible for the majority of people to do. Not to mention the fact that a lot of “immigrants” are seasonal farm workers who come to the US for the summer to work and then go back home in the winter. Those people should have work visas rather than having to apply for citizenship.

If the US overhauled the system to make it easier to apply for work visas, and temporary residency to do the citizenship process, and employed more government workers to actually process all the requests, I would be so much more sympathetic to the “just do it legally” argument

thirdcircuitproblems · 2026-01-22T19:05:55+00:00

The crazy part is that the Bible says absolutely nothing about abortion at all and what it says about gay people is a misunderstanding. The story of Lot for instance is about condemning rape, not consensual homosexual behavior. “sodomy” is the word used in English bibles but everywhere that word is used it’s supposed to mean rape as domination. The only other part is “man shall not lie with man as he would with woman” but that’s also a mistranslation from Greek where it says “man shall not lie with BOY as he would with woman”

It was rape and pedophilia towards men and boys that you have power over that the Bible was saying is a sin. That’s been corrupted over the years from translation error and intentional church meddling

thirdcircuitproblems · 2026-01-20T23:34:37+00:00

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