They don’t but I do because borders are COMMUNIST and HATE FREEDOM. I’m not letting some GOVERNMENT tell me where I can and cannot go! Sounds like a SOVIET PLOT to KEEP US APART. All TRUE PATRIOTS tread where we please and WELCOME OTHERS who do the same!!1!
I’m unironically all for open borders across the globe.
Would not be any “illegals” if we just let anyone who wanted to immigrate do so. I’ve heard rebuttals of, " what about the criminals". I say, let the police worry about that. Frankly I’m not fond of the police, but those rebutting my immigration stance usually are, so why can’t they be expected to do their jobs? Being born in this country is no guarantee of lack of criminality. But let’s make our country actually great, with social services to prop up those that need help, and protections for those that can’t defend themselves. What the hell is with wanting to be world police, yet arguing to let the bad guys trample whomever they want? Oh, right, they are all about the power fantasy and authoritarianism, not actually being responsible members of the global community.
The problem, IMO, with criminals crossing the border is more about not knowing they are criminals. We don’t just check databases in other countries willy nilly, if they even let us. In some ways it’d be nice to have access to that information across the globe. On the other hand, it means if you ever get in that database you’re kinda fucked. Too many bad faith actors.
Frankly, I don’t care if they were criminals before coming here. If they want to come start a new life, then let them. If they decide to do crime here, then the criminal justice system can be called upon to act. If we actually supported the lower classes with social services, it would be more attractive to be a productive member of society than to do crime anyway.
Food, clothing, housing, medical care, education, and protection for everyone. Let’s actually make America “the greatest nation on earth”.
Food, clothing, housing, medical care, education, and protection for everyone. Let’s actually make America “the greatest nation on earth”.
Damn lIbErAls, and who do you think is going to PAY FOR that???11!!! Oh lemme guess, my heroes, the rich! Just leave those rich folk alone! They work hard to stomp their boot into my back to earn that money so they DESERVE it!
Absolutely. 100% open borders. Keep track of border crossings if you want to, I’m not a fan, but I understand it, for reasons of human trafficking or kidnapped children, but honestly, if I want to move to Nicaragua or Michigan or Montenegro it should be the same process. Find a place to stay and travel there. If someone from anywhere else wants to do so to move here, they should be able to. Think your country is number 1 go murica hell yeah! Then fucking prove it. Open the borders world wide, and let’s see where who wants to stay where. Incentivize living here instead of trapping poor workers in a hell hole they can’t escape.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2024/02/11/trump-biden-immigration-border-compared/
Washington Post is a left leaning news source so don’t give me the usual “that’s not a viable news source” bullshit.
Billionaire-owned and left-leaning are two incompatible things.
If you are gonna share something like that, at least share a link people can look at without having to make an account to see what you are even trying to claim or put your claim in your actual message.
Oh for the love of god. What news outlets are acceptable to you? Cause every single fuckin time I link a news article one of you chucklefucks has a new goddamn problem with it. You won’t listen to right leaning sources which is fine. I get that. But even when I specifically make sure to find a left leaning news source you STILL make up problems with that shit.
I’ll make sure to find a news site run by broke college kids so you’ll find their reporting acceptable.
Also I can read the article just fine without making an account so maybe you just need to get better ad blocking.
AP and BBC are rarely rejected, unless you’re amongst tankies. Wapo has been serving, to a greater and greater degree, as a mouthpiece for bezos.
Many here dislike ground news and media bias check. Dunno about adfontes and the other. In any case, I gave you the answer. You’re welcome to extrapolate from it, but that was all I intended
Do you see how that might be a problem though? This is like arguing with right wingers. “All the news stations are corrupt and nothing can be trusted!”
At some point you guys are just rejecting everything and deciding to only use stuff you like which is precisely what you accuse the right of doing with shit like fox news.
Maybe WaPo used to be left leaning. I don’t think their actions and editorials over the past 6 months support that statement to be true at all. There are fewer and fewer trusted news sources, as they become mouthpieces for billionaire shitheads, if not the fascist leaning current regime. It’s a shame. Also, for what it’s worth, the article is blocked for me too, and I have pretty strong blockers running. I could just get an archive link, but to be honest I can’t be fucked to do so.
I’m a fan of specific, actionable information. I don’t trust wapo due to bezos personally killing stories and advertisements, per his needs as a billionaire. That said, my statements earlier weren’t my opinions, they were my observations of Lemmy’s preferences and reasons. I was just here to offer agnostic information, until you began asking for extrapolation
Please keep in mind that despite being downvoted, you are not alone with your opinion. I for my part find your argument very compelling. So please don’t let yourself be overwhelmed by the echo chamber!
I’m not so well versed in American media to answer your question which left leaning media would be acceptable for lemmings.
BUT the Washington post is really a bad example. Just a few days ago the billionaire owner himself published his decision to focus on defense of ‘free market’ and ‘personal liberty’ in the opinion section. And let’s not kid ourselves that he isn’t deciding the direction of the rest of the news paper, that’s the only reason why you buy one.
In 2024, the year of your article, the WP didn’t endorse any presidential candidate. So you seriously want to argue that a left leaning media would NOT endorse Harris over Trump?
So it might be many things, but left leaning, under the current ownership, it is not.
Left leaning history doesn’t mean anything if the current persons there aren’t the same who worked during that left leaning period.
I wouldn’t have said anything about the source if you weren’t making weird claims about a billionaire being left leaning. I don’t even know what you are claiming because the article you shared is behind a sign-in wall and you never made a claim. So what else can I do but complain about your source?
I’m not making any claims about anything. Washington Post has a long history of a left leaning bias. I’m not saying anything about any billionaires.
The only reason I mentioned it at all in my original comment was because in the past I have posted sources and people responded telling me they were invalid because they were right leaning or center. So I specifically went out of my way to find a new outlet that leans left politically and y’all still have a problem with it.
Impossible to appease you lot.
If you weren’t attempting to make some claim, what was the link for?
That article was proving the meme to be false.
The left half or the right half?
