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@EmpireEnjoyer3 @_fat_ugly_rat_ stfu europoor

@_fat_ugly_rat_ Bros never seen the Mediterranean or the Alps or northern Portugal.

This is genuinely the best part of our entire planet

@Vudukid88 @FrodoLovesMMA @Halcy0nDays_ you don’t get rich from 9-5 whether under reagan clinton or trump

@smallmidcaps @FrodoLovesMMA @Halcy0nDays_ Real median household income is up about 18% over 20 years, but it’s roughly 0.8% a year, and by comparison, GDP per capita has grown far faster. Smells of stagnant to me.

Her parents came on an E2 non-immigrant visa. They have now lived in the US for 20+ years and have two US citizen children. What does that sound like? She went to public school and public university. The American taxpayer covered almost her entire education. She has been incredibly fortunate and “my parents could only mostly game the system” is not a heart wrenching sob story. Her parents are by all accounts intelligent people who understood the rules and the implications of their decisions. Them’s the breaks.

@Vudukid88 @FrodoLovesMMA @Halcy0nDays_ exactly my point. why would you care about the divergence within the economy. what happened to the rising tide lifts all boats. and the us gdp growth is only weaker than the chinas and indias among major economies

@smallmidcaps @FrodoLovesMMA @Halcy0nDays_ K-shaped growth means divergence within an economy, not “grew faster than other countries” so where are you getting that definition?

@Vudukid88 @FrodoLovesMMA @Halcy0nDays_ gov spending has been pretty much stable as the percentage of the GDP which invalidates your point

@smallmidcaps @FrodoLovesMMA @Halcy0nDays_ Nobody said GDP is fake. it includes government spending — which means when you’re running a huge deficit, some of your own “proof the debt doesn’t matter” is the debt itself showing up as growth.

@Vudukid88 @FrodoLovesMMA @Halcy0nDays_ brother income and wealth aren’t the same.

@smallmidcaps @FrodoLovesMMA @Halcy0nDays_ “Both” is a nice word, but the Census data says real median household income hasn’t moved in five years while the market’s been on a tear.

@Vudukid88 @FrodoLovesMMA @Halcy0nDays_ both

@smallmidcaps @FrodoLovesMMA @Halcy0nDays_ “Many people are getting richer” oh, richer by what measure, S&P returns or median household income? Those tell very different stories right now.

@Vudukid88 @FrodoLovesMMA @Halcy0nDays_ again you're just speculating about the debt-induced decline while the gdp growth and wealth are outpacing the rest of the world. what's next? gdp growth is fake? unemployment is fake?

@smallmidcaps @FrodoLovesMMA @Halcy0nDays_ The crisis is the current budget: interest on the debt overtook defense spending in 2024 and is about to cross $1 trillion, all money that isn’t going to anything else. You’re waiting for a headline event when the slowmo version is already showing up in the CBO’s own numbers.

@Vudukid88 @FrodoLovesMMA @Halcy0nDays_ this is just plain wrong. the k shape growth in the us since covid outpaced the growth in much more egalitarian states in the west.

@smallmidcaps @FrodoLovesMMA @Halcy0nDays_ “why should anyone care?” Pick one, either the stat is illegitimate or it’s irrelevant, but you don’t get both, and neither is true: the IMF links inequality to slower growth and financial instability, which is a pretty capitalist reason to track it.

@Vudukid88 @FrodoLovesMMA @Halcy0nDays_ idk why anyone should care about the gini index or claim it conveys something ominous, esp if you claim to be anti communist

@smallmidcaps @FrodoLovesMMA @Halcy0nDays_ The Census Bureau and the St. Louis Fed both publish the Gini index every year — so either the federal government is running commie slop, or citing a stat isn’t communism

@Vudukid88 @FrodoLovesMMA @Halcy0nDays_ lmk when the nations abandon the dollar standard or we’ll have some kind of financial crisis because of the debt. all the doom predictions haven’t materialized and the us keeps winning

@smallmidcaps @FrodoLovesMMA @Halcy0nDays_ How the fuck is complaining about the national debt “crying wolf?”

@Vudukid88 @FrodoLovesMMA @Halcy0nDays_ i don’t buy the argument that you are only against illegal immigration. that’s a great trick you guys pulled off in 2024. most maga wants zero immigration. btw you shouldn’t project man. the nation is doing well. many people here are getting richer

@smallmidcaps @FrodoLovesMMA @Halcy0nDays_ I never said shut down immigration, I said it’s not compassionate to add immigrants to a nation in decay. That’s a critique of timing and capacity, not a policy of zero immigration. You keep swapping in a more extreme version of my point because the actual one survived contact.

@Vudukid88 @FrodoLovesMMA @Halcy0nDays_ at some point you gotta admit you are just crying wolf about the debt. one way to end med bankruptcy is to have socialized medicine which you apparently like. the life expectancy is not that bad. ozempic and fewer opioids will help long term

@smallmidcaps @FrodoLovesMMA @Halcy0nDays_ Which number is wrong, the $38T, the life expectancy rankings, or the medical bankruptcy stats? Pick one.

@Vudukid88 @FrodoLovesMMA @Halcy0nDays_ shutting down immigration and trying to “fix” inequality are the two brain dead ideas that you apparently have

@smallmidcaps @FrodoLovesMMA @Halcy0nDays_ Pick a side, I can be the guy who wants closed borders or the guy who wants to seize the means of production, but not both. You reached for two insults because you didn’t have one real argument.

@Vudukid88 @FrodoLovesMMA @Halcy0nDays_ you literally list inequality as the reason for this country going down the drain. what kinda pro communist slop it is

@smallmidcaps @FrodoLovesMMA @Halcy0nDays_ As the son of Vietnamese refugees from the war, fuck commies and fuck the DSA. But calling out actual numbers isn’t a lie nor is it communism.

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@JamesDeroest @Halcy0nDays_ you are focusing on that her parents’ visa was temporary, but that’s beside the point. she was a child and had no say in anything. you aren’t sympathetic to immigrants. that’s fine. but that’s exactly how you pull the ladder up behind you.

E-2 is a temporary non immigrant visa. They are not permanent residents. People need to consider their visa status when they live in another country and how it will affect them and their family. I came in as a permanent resident from day 1. I’m not pulling up the ladder behind me, the US has a clearly laid out immigration system and if people ignored it, that’s on them. And just because I’m in the country doesn’t mean I’m sympathetic to others getting in just because I was an immigrant. Btw, here’s one of the conditions of E-2. “Intent to depart — It’s a temporary (nonimmigrant) visa, so you must show ties abroad and intent to leave when the status ends.”

@JamesDeroest @Halcy0nDays_ incredible. so you want to pull the ladder behind you by denying the same opportunities to other immigrants. fyi, her legal status expired because she aged out and could no longer remain on her parents’ visa. the system is cruel to people like her who know no other country.

If she grew up here since she was 4 months old she’s not a citizen. So she’s on a visa. And some where along the line the visa was cancelled. And yes, I know all about visas, I went through the process myself. All visas have restrictions, this wasn’t cancelled out of nowhere. Something has happened that we aren’t being told.

@JamesDeroest @Halcy0nDays_ wow again maybe educate yourself about different visas. she could have gamed the system like many did under biden, but she grew up american and was unwilling to do it. playing by the rules means you get kicked out.

@smallmidcaps @Halcy0nDays_ Then she did something that got her status cancelled. There is always something more to these stories. They didn’t just cancel a legal status.

@galos_gann @Halcy0nDays_ i thought your side didn't accept the so-called paperwork americans. that little girl is a paperwork citizen of whatever country she was born in. she grew in the us and considers it home.

@smallmidcaps @Halcy0nDays_ She now has to return to the country where she has citizenship. There's no punishment involved.

@JamesDeroest @Halcy0nDays_ please educate yourself that DACA only applies to illegal immigrants. the family in question did everything legally.

@smallmidcaps @Halcy0nDays_ We don't. We have something called DACA which still exists. There is more to this story than being mentioned, there always is.