Tomorrow’s headline “The Trump administration removes the requirement to report US deaths due to war.”

Funnily enough, this is also the framework for those reality TV shows. It’s the move fast and break things approach that seems to be entertaining in a morbid way… So clearly the solution is to monetize your project (mis)management as entertainment!

Yes, the supreme leader of Iran stated he was opposed to developing nuclear weapons in 2003. The supreme leader then did not proceed to authorize two decades of an Iranian nuclear weapons program, a nuclear weapons program the West has not been negotiating about with Iran under his supreme leadership, a nuclear weapons program which was not bombed out last year, because of course it didn’t exist. /Sarcasm

It’s sad only because the tone is dismissive/condescending. Otherwise it’s just describing someone who figured out how their gf likes to receive affection. My head canon says they’ve only been dating for a couple months and they’ve had their dog for years.

People who cannot discern context or degrees of wrong are no better than ICE agents. Love you

Oh my god I forgot about this! What an absolute banger!

It’s a fruitful discussion here, and I agree the comic is reductive. Notwithstanding the incomplete representation of the circumstance, the point the comic is trying to make is that there is inequity/injustice in the distribution of costs and benefits produced even in the complete picture from beginning to end.

The debate eventually gets to difficult conflicts in ethical values around concepts of property/ownership, labor, individual/society, rights, and meaningful living.

What the comic aims to illustrate is a symptom of a system that maximizes the opportunities to live freely for a minority at the expense of a majority who see their opportunities to live freely minimized, suggesting that the symptom indicates the system is unjust.

I don’t think the comic is that successful in doing so, there are many ways to poke holes in it. However, the degree of successful communication by the comic is a different thing from the argument it points to.

Genomics can help to delineate the boundaries of ethnicities. This is useful because people of different races in a shared/neighbouring ethnic regions such as around the Mediterranean often share far more genetic similarity than they do with people of the same race in northern Europe or sub-Saharan Africa. The concept of race has always first and foremost served privileged groups and oppressed groups, often along ethnic lines, but not always. A great example is how pasty ass Irish people were once not considered “white”. The genetic argument is typically cherry-picked to reinforce these power structures.

But I have so many white friends!

Most immigrants were there in the first place because they have people to feed. What do you suppose they should do as an alternative after they refuse to work in those fields?

You might be right, in which case “just cop shit” may be rather damning. Regardless, what does associating cops with criminality have to do with racism?

Depends, are you in Ibiza?

Depends, in some technical fields it’s starting to flip because kids don’t need to learn computer skills as much when they just use iPhones and tablets where everything “just works”.

If history is anything to go by, the US is headed towards a grim situation where if that form of intimidation doesn’t work, they go to the next thing, which may be to point the gun at the person next to you and pull the trigger. And if that still doesn’t work, they pull the trigger on you. They are closing the door on free and open elections.

You can’t steal this, we stole it first!

My argument wasn’t against the implication about the “vast majority exploiting”, not even the article you posted suggested the vast majority of Somali immigrants were “exploiting”. I was arguing against the suggestion that the problem of “a large proportion of Somali immigrants in Minnesota live in/near poverty and remain so over 10 years resulting in a net draw on tax funding” is generalizable to immigrant populations across the country.

Why would you say people (presumably you mean in general) be tired of seeing it if you weren’t suggesting it was also a pervasive problem? If the situation of the Somali immigrants was statistically uncommon across the country, then the explanation of “people are tired of seeing it” would be a poor one.

I wasn’t suggesting that nobody else does this at all. I’m saying that the proportion matters, the statistics both in subpopulations and overall tell the complete story. What you’re suggesting is like saying a state like Alaska or California alone is representative of the entire country.

Yikes, those outcomes are rough and not an easy problem to address. But we were talking about immigrants in general, not a particular subgroup of immigrants. I could carve out a sub-population of US-born people, like fentanyl addicts and show they’re a net drain on tax-payers too. Or entire states like West Virginia or Alabama for that matter.

I understand feelings around struggle and how they get directed. Ive looked at broader statistics around immigration and economics, but not specifically around tax receipt vs contribution over time, so I’m genuinely curious about the statistics on immigrants becoming net tax recipients.

Curious about the statistics on this. Which ones are you looking at?