No, people must assimilate to the american culture not bring their full culture here. As a foreigner you come, follow our rules, ask us if we like your pizza, or corned beef, or whatever and if we like it, we bring that to OUR culture. Also, 100% of history is people going somewhere, killing everything else, and setting up shop. If you can defend it, it's yours. If not, you get a casino and a couple sports teams named after you.
The current big mad is modern "defense" of ones culture because the hoards don't come in with physical weapons anymore. They come armed with your own morals aimed at you.
"I thought you said it was a free country"
"You need yo take care of the poor"
"I am seeking asylum, you can't deny me."
And to be fair if these new tactics work, Americans deserve to lose the country. The defense against the new weapon (contrived hypocrisy) was too weak.
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Isn't the US technically a country of "foreigners"? iirc europeans went there, killed almost all the bisons and indigenous people and settled. Why are they so mad at foreigners now?
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Are there any examples of this happening? I can think of absolute closed door policies, but those countries fell behind on technology during that time. I can think of countries getting overrun.
More importantly, how exactly do you plan to enforce this?
I don't think we are talking about the same thing. I am not talking about government rules. I am talking about individuals in their own towns being forced BY the government to accept forced association of people who don't keep the local values.
"More importantly, how do you plan to enforce this?"
This is Goverment, top down thinking.
My town already enforces this. We don't listen to rules imposed by the state. We make people who don't assimilate feel unwanted and they take the hint.
We could show them with kindness that the way we do things here is why it was nice enough for them to want to come here in the first place.
Or we could just treat everyone like shit for being a little different.
Making them feel unwanted is a surefire way to make sure they stay isolated doing things the old way rather than assimilating.
I never said I wanted any rules for or against at any level. My position on immigration is that if we stopped economically exploiting the global south they wouldn't feel the need to leave in mass and come here.
America has just completely failed at replicating our system of human rights in other countries. Americans don't even know that was/is the correct goal. Instead our government does everything it can to destabilize other countries, thereby making sure people want to leave those places. We know our morals work and certain other morals definitely don't work : you fix the extreme immigration problem by enforcing property rights in countries where people have no such rights. Instead of toppling governments and leaving a mess, we should park a carrier group nearby and send experts to instruct them on how to make courts be less corrupt, with an "or else" implied but not said.
Now... Since we've failed at doing that, our own courts are corrupt, our own rights at diminished, and we're making a pitiful last stand, and the very concept of human rights will fall along with us.
Bitcoin is how we stop exploiting the south. Its not really "us" that's doing it - its our corporations, which are transnational and above our laws. When money is a store of value, stocks aren't a store of value, and that whole edifice of extraction collapses. We don't even have to get rid of corporations, just fix the money, and human rights will come back.
It is well understood that the American freedom ethos is why things are good here. But, it is also well known that freedom is easy to exploit. Kindness is not immediately turning everyone away implicitly. That kindness was exploited, that's kind of my point.
Also it's not "treating them like shit for being different." It's reacting to evil, laziness, exploitation, and violence with appropriate repercussions. I am obviously not talking about people who follow the rules but are different.
As far as exploiting the global south, their governments do a good enough job themselves. Just like how Americans have no say on how our government functions, nor do they. No need to reflexively self-flagellate as if you made the deal with Exxon.
There's no better illustration that the Government is not the people.
I meant we as in the grand we of america in that case. Their governments suck, but a significant cause is the US government meddling in their politics.
Sure I didn't support or do any of it and a lot of it happened before I was born. I don't fall for being guilted over shit like that like some do.
My point is that the US government benefits coming and going. They pocket the gains from their meddling, then when people try to escape the exploitation they get Americans to hand over more rights to keep them out.
People say "bitcoin fixes this" about a lot of things and typically I disagree. The horrors of government were quite real on the gold standard, see slavery and the Indian wars in America as examples.
We need to stop thinking we've already won and understand that Bitcoin is just 1 tool that can help us if we use it correctly.
By counter point if a government went full Bitcoin while people across the globe ignored it, they could amass resources to commit horrors on a whole new level never seen before.
TLDR, Bitcoin is an economic weapon. Weapons don't pick sides. They help whoever uses them most effectively.
Yep. Other tools we need are better education and localism. Every piece synergizes with other pieces. Imagine a town comprised of land owners who use regenerative agriculture principles, use 3d printers and share designs, and use Bitcoin. Its actually a really low bar, but seems nearly impossible right now. The key is education. That's always the key, which is exactly why the state has purposely ruined it, filled it with gay and trans teachers and made 90% of it a total waste of time. Bad education synergizes with the state's goals : workers isolated from family and community, dumb soldiers to throw at whatever country they want to steal from, and people generally too stupid to figure out they're being lied to about almost everything. The statist left won the education piece decades ago and its done a lot for them. We have to take that piece.
Never trust others to educate you. Read you own books.
That's the secret sauce - there's actually no such thing as a teacher. Teachers can only try to get students to teach themselves.
