cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/mop/p/829888/immigrants
An immigrant did take something tangible from me. My tonsils. I am eternally grateful for this.
Did it improve your deep throat game?
Post this on Nextdoor to see who your neighbors are.
Would be instantly taken down as politics. Next-door is not a friendly place to begin with. The only ones on it are the neighbors you don’t want to interact with anyways.
Immigrants were never “taking” jobs. The American business owners, millionaires, and billionaires were giving the jobs away. No immigrant ever forced the head of any company to replace their American employees with foreign born workers.
Same goes for any other country where this ridiculous claim is made.
replace their American employees with foreign born workers.
For half their salary
excuse me but i actually do have a list of real things immigants have stolen from all of us. just one immigant in fact, his name is elon musk.
most immigrants i’ve met and hung out with and lived with, great people. my second favorite roommate ever (wife wins that one, sorry bro) was a refugee from iran. he cooked the best food and was the sweetest, kindest guy i’ve ever met. only complaint i have about him is he liked to count his tips from work right when he got home (i don’t blame him) but like it was 1AM and there were coins and i was asleep and we shared a room. we talked about it once and i bought earplugs and he waited until morning to count his tips and everything was great.
On that whole “they only take jobs we don’t want” tip: I think it’s 90% true. Fruit picking? You won’t see white Americans doing that work, ever, no matter what comes. It will be roboticized first.
But things do happen in that other 10%. Sometimes I think there are a bunch of Jethros sitting around who would in fact like to have a business mowing peoples’ lawns. Jethro would like this because he has the brain capacity of a vole but wants to earn money, and he knows how to push a mower. Thing is, Jethro wants to charge about 4x the going rate for lawn mowing in his area to support his child support payments and alcoholism, but he can’t because Mexican immigrants are willing to work harder for less. Instead of using his massive advantages and privileges to skill up to an appropriately paying job that they aren’t able to compete with him for, Jethro just wants the military to cleanse the immigrants from the land.
That’s the sad part: some native born Americans actually do want these jobs.
You won’t see white Americans doing that work, ever
what am i, chopped meat? wait, don’t answer that. i picked berries up in oregon when we didn’t have other farm work to do
I intended no disrespect to your work history or your whiteness!
or my chopped uppedness don’t forget that neither i am in a huff :3
those were good berries too. i gotta wait a month and a half before my berry bush is ready.
