Gallup: Five Million Latin Americans Coming to U.S. in Next 12 Months

[Anti Federalist]

Or maybe that's something that nationalist demagogues tell the simpleminded in order to win votes.

...as they dramatically increase the size of government.

Uni Party California is your proof.

I've seen enough...

[r3volution 3.0]

Except they are communists, they just elected a communist who is starting to turn Mexico into the next Venezuela.

We have our own problems but letting in the barbarians will only make things worse.

Voting (i.e. legal robbery) inevitably leads to barbarity; it makes no difference in the end who's doing the voting.

However, in the current political situation, it is you, with your irrational hatred of all foreigners, who are the barbarians.

Cosmopolitanism is a sign of a high culture and civilization: provincialism, a sign of decline and collapse.

[Swordsmyth]

Voting (i.e. legal robbery) inevitably leads to barbarity; it makes no difference in the end who's doing the voting.

However, in the current political situation, it is you, with your irrational hatred of all foreigners, who are the barbarians.

Cosmopolitanism is a sign of a high culture and civilization: provincialism, a sign of decline and collapse.

LOL

[Swordsmyth]

Voting (i.e. legal robbery) inevitably leads to barbarity; it makes no difference in the end who's doing the voting.

It doesn't inevitably lead to anything and it makes an immense amount of difference who votes.

However, in the current political situation, it is you, with your irrational hatred of all foreigners, who are the barbarians.

I have no irrational hatred of anyone and the communists are the barbarians, communism is just short of cannibalism in its barbarity.

Cosmopolitanism is a sign of a high culture and civilization: provincialism, a sign of decline and collapse.

You have that exactly backwards.

[Swordsmyth]

Voting (i.e. legal robbery) inevitably leads to barbarity; it makes no difference in the end who's doing the voting.

However, in the current political situation, it is you, with your irrational hatred of all foreigners, who are the barbarians.

Cosmopolitanism is a sign of a high culture and civilization: provincialism, a sign of decline and collapse.

[devil21]

They don't come here because we are poor, they come here because we are rich and then they vote to destroy the very prosperity that attracted them with communism.

Please explain why they come here if it isn't the prosperity.

No one claiming to be remotely informed can call $22trillion in national debt, with hundreds of trillions in unfunded liabilities, where every FRN in existence is created from debt and where none of us legally own anything simply because you can't pay a debt with more debt, to be "rich" and "prosperous". All that you view as "wealth" is debt and best believe that the creditors fully intend to collect on every last fiat penny of that debt. Immigrants that come here thinking that this is a "rich" country are ignorant of the reality of the situation. The funny part is that apparently you are no more educated to the reality than they are. It's a 3rd grade level education talking point, nothing more.

[Slave Mentality]

Made peace with what, specifically?

That freedom may not become popular in my lifetime. That the takers outnumber the producers and that will not change in my lifetime. That we live in a militarized police state that will only get worse due to the latest fear tactics. That generations have and will continue to get robbed by people of greed. That government always has been, is, and always will be an oppressive violence on the human condition. That the only freedom I or any of you really have anymore is the freedom inside our own minds - and they want to get at that.

I guess I am just entering the last stages of grief for what was my God given liberties. My heart and spirit will always be free, but my body is tied to this earth. There is nothing new under the sun and I am alright with that. Tyranny ain't going anywhere, but neither will liberty. They belong together like hot and cold, light and dark, love and hate. Without one we could not recognize the other. We didn't fight to keep our liberty. I have high hopes that future generations will fight to get it back. The Yin and the Yang.

Also, not giving a rat's $#@! can be very liberating. Seeking pleasure is in itself not a pleasurable experience - likewise embracing pain can be quite comforting.

These days I choose to let others do the suffering for me....RPFs members do a great job of taking care of that. I want to maintain a fulfilled life and politics/politicians/programs haven't done a damn thing to fulfill me, ever. I maintain as an interested individual, but am done getting emotionally invested. RPFs has also helped show me the futility in that. How about you?

Now, I am not saying burn the motherfucker down, as I enjoy my comforts too. What I am saying is that I have my marshmallows ready, not my fire extinguisher. I am good with the future, even if the future will not be as it was in the past. The past kind of sucked anyway.

[Swordsmyth]

No one claiming to be remotely informed can call $22trillion in national debt, with hundreds of trillions in unfunded liabilities, where every FRN in existence is created from debt and where none of us legally own anything simply because you can't pay a debt with more debt, to be "rich" and "prosperous". All that you view as "wealth" is debt and best believe that the creditors fully intend to collect on every last fiat penny of that debt. Immigrants that come here thinking that this is a "rich" country are ignorant of the reality of the situation. The funny part is that apparently you are no more educated to the reality than they are. It's a 3rd grade level education talking point, nothing more.

There is an abundance of resources here that are relatively easy to access, that is all the immigrants know or care about and that is all I was talking about and all that matters as far as this subject is concerned.

If we ended welfare and restored liberty there would be more and truer prosperity and they would still come here and vote for socialism in order to easily access it.

[Swordsmyth]

That freedom may not become popular in my lifetime. That the takers outnumber the producers and that will not change in my lifetime. That we live in a militarized police state that will only get worse due to the latest fear tactics. That generations have and will continue to get robbed by people of greed. That government always has been, is, and always will be an oppressive violence on the human condition. That the only freedom I or any of you really have anymore is the freedom inside our own minds - and they want to get at that.

I guess I am just entering the last stages of grief for what was my God given liberties. My heart and spirit will always be free, but my body is tied to this earth. There is nothing new under the sun and I am alright with that. Tyranny ain't going anywhere, but neither will liberty. They belong together like hot and cold, light and dark, love and hate. Without one we could not recognize the other. We didn't fight to keep our liberty. I have high hopes that future generations will fight to get it back. The Yin and the Yang.

Also, not giving a rat's $#@! can be very liberating. Seeking pleasure is in itself not a pleasurable experience - likewise embracing pain can be quite comforting.

These days I choose to let others do the suffering for me....RPFs members do a great job of taking care of that. I want to maintain a fulfilled life and politics/politicians/programs haven't done a damn thing to fulfill me, ever. I maintain as an interested individual, but am done getting emotionally invested. RPFs has also helped show me the futility in that. How about you?

Now, I am not saying burn the motherfucker down, as I enjoy my comforts too. What I am saying is that I have my marshmallows ready, not my fire extinguisher. I am good with the future, even if the future will not be as it was in the past. The past kind of sucked anyway.

It is our duty to retain and restore as much liberty as we can so that future generations will have a better shot at true liberty, letting the barbarians in to smother it entirely is a dereliction of that duty.

[Occam's Banana]

And just think, he can even have AF as Minister of Culture! (as per post #66, which has now been edited and scrubbed, but was quoted in post #216 and can be viewed there)

AF's post #66 was not quoted in your post #216. AF edited post #66, but I don't know what he is being supposed to have "scrubbed" from it.

AF's post #157 was quoted in post #216 - but it was neither edited nor "scrubbed" by him (although parts of it were omitted from your quotation of it).

[Occam's Banana]

You are [...] gutting the definition of liberty.

There is and can be no such thing as the freedom to engage in tyranny.

You need a new playbook with more accurate definitions (assuming that being factual is actually a goal for you).

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liberty

Definition of liberty (Entry 1 of 2)
1 : the quality or state of being free:
a : the power to do as one pleases
b : freedom from physical restraint
c : freedom from arbitrary or despotic (see DESPOT sense 1) control
d : the positive enjoyment of various social, political, or economic rights and privileges
e : the power of choice

If the definition of "liberty" you have cited is supposed to be a "more accurate" one for Swordsmyth's "new playbook", then I am failing to see how it undercuts his claim that liberty is exclusive of "the freedom to engage in tyranny". If anything, entry 1c from your citation rather seems to support that claim. (And note that this is so regardless of whether or not you agree with the position in support of which Swordsmyth made that claim - i.e., regardless of whether or not you think Swordsmyth is completely full of $#@! about immigration.)

This is (yet another) perfect illustration of why it is silly and pointless to play the "dueling dictionaries" game for anything other than resolving disputes over etymology or colloquial usage. They really need to assign a new category of informal fallacy for this kind of thing: call it argumentum ad vocabulum ...

[invisible]

AF's post #66 was not quoted in your post #216. AF edited post #66, but I don't know what he is being supposed to have "scrubbed" from it.

AF's post #157 was quoted in post #216 - but it was neither edited nor "scrubbed" by him (although parts of it were omitted from your quotation of it).

Thanks for the correction! I suppose that which post it was had gotten lost in the shuffle among pages and pages of trumpette drivel, and I was looking at the wrong post. My bad, and apologies to AF for saying that he scrubbed the post, when he didn't! At least he's standing behind those words.