Diotima @ Diotima @kbin.social

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Did you wake up hangry or something? Your comments are... special.

I somewhat exaggerate. They can be fun, but turn based is more my style.

We can solve a good deal of the issue by enforcing labor laws against exploitative companies and making it easier to immigrate to work. Shameful that Democrats and Republicans are more or less on the same page when it comes to immigration policy.

So basically, we are expanding the scope of government oversight and surveillance to pursue a dubious policy that has a very low probability of success, to enforce immigration laws that are archaic, unnessessarily restrctive, and utterly ineffective.

Real time strategy games are not my cup of tea. Nothing against anyone who enjoys them, understand, but they're basically exercises in who can do the clicky clicky faster. Give me a turn-based game any day... where you actually have to out-think versus out-click your opponents.

Oh, and any game that pits console players against PC players. Yes, let's put the 'stock controllers only' console players up against the PC players with $8,675,309.00 of custom equipment and every cheat they can get away with. Sounds like a reasonable plan. Overwatch, I'm looking at you.

Or legal crossings, which remain the easiest way to enter and stay. Enter the US for a vacation, simply... fail to go home. That neatly avoids the whole sneaking in issue entirely.

I can't say I'm surprised at this, given that Biden has never been particularly pro-immigration beyond lip service. I am, however, disappointed.

Questions that beg answers:

• Who "deserves" to be here? What criteria are we using?
• What constitutes "under control?" This feels like a 9/11-ish Patriot Act sort of open-ended law.
• How does one "shut down" a 2000 mile long border without meaningful defenses?
• What constitutes a fix?
• How are we tracking migrants, given that plenty of people slip through unnoticed, or cross legally and remain illegally?

With respect, bullshit.

"Closing the border" is a meaningless statement where the southern US border is concerned. More than a thousand miles of border, much of it sparsely inhabited, and he's going to secure it all?

Sure.

We can close official crossings as much as we like, but it will do little to stop people immigrating. I'm guessing that this is targeted at southern crossings, too, as I doubt the govt is seriously considering turning people away in airports or up north.

1. Because "closing the border" is a nonsense statement that doesn't account for the reality of the border abd its size. Thousands of miles of border means it is nearly impossible to patrol even a small fraction of it.
2. People working for super low wages is a product of policy and exploitation. Making it easy and legal to immigrate for work is the right answer, as is enforcing labor law.

Are you sure you want to do that? -The GM

And nearly all 700 superdelegate party elite votes went to Clinton, which was more than enough to override any effort by grassroots activists to effect meaningful change. I mean, they've stated as much themselves; the superdelegate system is designed as a failsafe against the party commoners. Hell, they've even argued that if they wished, they could ignore the results and appoint who they like.

You can bury your head in the sand and pretend that your party elite haven't rigged the system to silence your voice if you like. Or, you can educate yourself on how your party nominations actually function.

For a Democratic party, the process is pretty undemocratic.

Said like someone who doesn't actually grasp the DNC primary process.

Is that what we're calling the extremely undemocratic process of nomination in the DNC? We do not select our candidates, the party elites do.

Then they need to pick a candidate who will appeal to a broader base of voters. This idea that Biden, a neoconservative only appealing because Trump is batshit crazy, is "owed" the candidacy is lunacy. If the priority is defeating Trump, then they need to select someone who can succeed with a healthy margin, not a candidate who has lost enough of his swing voters to make his victory extremely questionable.

Reality? Democrats... or at least the DNC... feel that they are "owed" those votes. Every time they lose, they blame third parties, voters who abstain, sun spots, dark sorcery.... anything that will allow them to avoid introspection. It's time they took responsibility, listened to the people who could actually win them this election.

Biden may not be as bad as Trump by far, but he's not a good candidate. If Trump wins, it'll be in large part because the Democratic elite once again put forward a bad candidate with bad baggage instead of finding someone that would energize those outside the core.

Oh, so he only wanted to be a dictator for the FIRST day. Got it, sir.

That anyone supports this fetid fecal stain is beyond my comprehension.

That the ego of most presidential candidates won't allow them to seriously contemplate standing aside doesn't mean that there arent better options.

Arguably, Clinton standing aside in 2016 might have prevented Trump. Alas, the ego of both her and the party elites would not have allowed it. So thanks for Trump I guess, DNC.

If Trump beats Biden, the loss is on both the idiots who love Trump and those in power in the DNC who refuse to embrace alternatives to their Chosen Few.

They always do. If they win, it's a mandate to keep on being a little bit better than the other people. If they lose, its everyone's fault but theirs.

You know, despite the fact that they control who they run, they control who is allowed to participate on any meaningful level, they're the ones that continue to collude with fascists to keep everyone else out.

If if were about beating Trump, they'd choose a better candidate. After all, the core votes for blue no matter who. But that isn't likely, as its easier to just gaslight and harass anyone who questions the wisdom of the party elite.

It really isn't, though your defense of a despotic tyrannical wannabe god-king is very, very telling.