Enabling the Capitalist tendency for monopolization is not “for nothing”, it’s a necessity of the system.
As those smaller businesses go out of business, their leaders will either be scooped up under the lead of larger business, or they will be forced to return to the mass labour workforce, either way their market now belongs to the higher up capitalists and their new role is ensuring profits for those bosses.
Yeah and I get that. But they also don’t know anyone is Russia and/or Europe and don’t speak Polish/German/etc to make sneaking through Russia to Europe a more valid option than going to Mexico… especially when Europe themselves are going through a big surge in anti-immigant sentiments.
I just didn’t like how their message came off as if Mexico was literally Hell to be avoided at any cost.
“suggesting to go back to Mexico is as good as no advice, because that’s what deportation does as well.”
No it’s not. Do you deny the existence of the border camps? Do you deny that people are being sent to Guantanamo or an El Salvadorian concentration camp?
Suggesting they go back to Mexico is suggesting that the reward is not worth the heightened risk.
Edit: and to be clear I’m not even suggesting that they do go back. I’d just suggest that they asses the risk/reward and if they choose to stay they NEED to recognize the risk and organize within their communities accordingly.
Yes, that would obviously be best for discovering their individual reasons and I have discussed it with a few. But I’m not asking you why they come here. I’m asking why you believe what you said to be true and valid. I’m Mexican-American myself and your words just didn’t sit right with me, it felt like you were just dismissing the whole idea of people living in Mexico…like a liberalized/opposite version of the “if you love Mexico why don’t you go back!” We get whenever we show pride for Mexico (Implying that Mexico is a terrible place nobody should want to live or be proud of). I’m sure that wasn’t your intention but its how it came off to me.
As for the substance of your response.
While mexico is certainly below in most metrics on averages, that includes wealth and cost of living averages. You shouldn’t focus on just averages but the disparity between things like cost of healthcare and general living vs wages. Also being among the lower classes drastically increases your chances to be murdered in the US which isn’t accurately represented in the average national statistics. It’s not as simple as Mexico being a death pit and America is safe.
You are trying to defect rather than answer the question. Are you denying that he sent billions in weapons and aid to Israel, sent warships to defend them against potential retaliatiatory attacks, and loudly defended their “right to defend themselves”?
I’ll answer your deflection question though, just so you have no excuses.
Yes, many things happen without our permission. Examples from just under Biden, “We” didn’t want china to surpass us in so many metrics and “we” didn’t want Russia to continue to last against Ukraine despite our weapons shipments and sanctions, but ultimately “we” had no say in the outcome. The genocide that Biden (and now Trump) directly assisted in Gaza is just not one of those things.
He funded, supported, and aided in it’s destruction, yes. Are you denying that he did?
Why couldn’t they live in Mexico? Why is the EU or US the only option? Is the rapidly declining US really so much better for you that you would risk being detained and sent to a concentration camp than live in Mexico?
Why are your only options the EU or US? Is every other option really unavailable/worse than ending up in a concentration camp? /Gen.
Not saying you should flee just because you face oppression, just wondering about your listed reason not to.
You’re still under the illusion that Biden/Harris and the Americans history of voting for their fascist enabling policies isn’t what lead us to where we are now.
Democrats were all in on the immigrant/crime panic and supported the violent squashing of protests against their genocide. To act like they aren’t also guilty of “punishing of out group and strict social control” is just apologia.
I don’t see the point of yourblast paragraph…do you believe capitalism is just voluntary exchange and that’s the only way wealth transfer happens? They want your money and they will take it any way they can. Fascism is a form of capitalism…
Supporting the genocide of Arab people abroad while at home increasingly demonizing and rallying against Arab immigrants!
You had me in the first half. Then you just had to moralize about genocide not being a valid red-line for you.
Common Claudia W.
If you already made and read back a list of all of Bidens progressive policies and the ways they excuse his genocide in the 4 minutes it took you to respond, then that itself proves both that he wasn’t very progressive and also it doesn’t take much to get you personally on board with genocide.
More like
One offers to shoot you in the head and kill your loved ones.
One offers to shoot you in the head and kill a bunch of strangers.
Ooh, unlucky! You just happened to be one of the “sacrifices” they had to make!
Who destroyed the Gaza Strip to begin with?
There would be no “Trump plan to rebuild Gaza” is Gaza wasn’t destroyed under Biden.
Why are you so “on board” with the destruction and genocide of Palestinians as long as it’s a Democrat doing it?
I think it’s definitely weakening.
The dismatling of organisations like USAID Is a representation of the move away from “soft power” liberalized imperialism to more aggressive outright imperialism.
Aggressive imperialism i much easier to spot and much harder to defend, both within the imperial countries and within the exploited countries.
It’s not like America was just “too nice” to do the imperialism outright before, it’s that after decades of direct imperialism it realized that it was much easier to do it less-directly so that was the better focus.
Conducting a genocide automatically removes all “progressive” credibility as it’s the worst and least progressive thing you can do.
Calling him progressive, let alone “The most progressive” is an insult to the very idea of “progress” and legitimizes genocide.
Grab a piece of paper and list the ways in which he was “progressive” and explain, on paper, how they excuse his genocide. Read it back out loud.
Also maybe stop insulting people, calling them morons, for not ignoring his genocide.
Could they though? You think China would just sit around and let the U.S fire nuclear missiles at them without intercepting them and firing their own? Why are you so sure that wouldn’t just end up with a U.S sized crater north of Mexico?
Also, dismissing any predictive situation as some crazy out there “what if” is hilarious.
War games are an extremely important part of any strategy so that you don’t just walk right into an easily predictable slaughter because you “don’t care about what ifs”.