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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
