The US doesn't want indiscriminate population growth. It wants white people that were born here to reproduce more.

tastyface 31 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

"The US" as a whole definitely does not want that, just the deeply unpopular white nationalists who have their hands on the levers of power at the moment.

As an aside, it's hilarious that they try to brand themselves as "Heritage Americans" since "Native American" is already taken.

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fragmede 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Does it? It sure costs a whole helluava lot. I mean, there's tax credits and things, but it's not at all cheap!

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bradlys 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think capitalists just want cheap labor. The US itself doesn’t have a unified position on population. Plenty of people want a population decrease because they feel everything is overcrowded.

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rjbwork 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Well, when I say "US" I mean the current administration and the people that have power within it. Maybe that's not their actual intention or desire, but that is the story their policies and actions are telling.

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myth_drannon 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's interesting how the sides flipped. Left was strongly anti-immigration because it saw it as a tool of capitalism to drive down wages and just general abuse of working-class rights. Now Left is pro-immigration, and the right is against for the same reason the Left was. When did this change happen?

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jpadkins 22 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Globalists have been taking over liberal institutions since the 90s (they have control of the DNC for longer). Media, academia, education are aligned with the globalist agenda. And the left dare not speak out against it, or they get mobbed.

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rjbwork 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm on the left and am anti-immigration. Always have been. I think pulling the cream of the crop is objectively good for the country, but bad for the places they come from. Liberal low skilled immigration is just bad for everyone except the handful of people that actually employ them.

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bradlys 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

When the “left” started becoming more about social wokeist policies than about economics and fiscal policy.

I think the reason the left became this way is due to neoliberals trying to fracture the left by getting center left people all concerned about social issues. Secondly, the left became completely disjointed and hopeless many years ago. Once the capitalists had completely thwarted the movements and fucked with the parties, the left collectively realized they really couldn’t do anything against the economic engine that was running against them. So they were left with virtue signaling, woke shit, and so on as a means of trying to get some kind of change.

The left of today is very soft and unwilling to engage in violence. At least in the US. I think abroad there are other movements that are willing to throw down and actually suffer for their principles. Americans aren’t and I don’t think we’ve ever had a real leftist movement here anyway. People will think Bernie 2016 is probably the closest thing we’ve had in 50 years and he’s pretty mild…

	▲	tensor 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's amusing. The left is always accused of "woke" but the ones constantly crying about it are those on the right. The right will even vote against their own economic interests to "stick it to the woke." Seems to me we need to fix the narrative here, the right are woke obsessed while the left would rather vote on economic principles like reducing healthcare costs and improving jobs (not just availability but also pay and quality).