Yes, it’s a PCM meme, but still accurate as fuck.

  • TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    I’ve always wondered why conservatives harbor so much hate for immigrants and not the business owners taking advantage of vulnerable populations

    That second part won’t go away, they’ll just make a different vulnerable group

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      Because in a free market, “taking advantage of” someone else always involves them taking advantage of you too. It’s an exchange economy.

      In a free market, being used means being paid.

      If you really want to understand how conservatives think, you need to remember that we see our economy as a system of consensual trades between adults.

      Being exploited is always paired with exploiting the one exploiting you. That’s why we talk in terms of “jobs”. Trade: a two-way thing.

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        That’s some pretty serious mental gymnastics that completely disregards how employee/employer relationships work in the real world.

        If you really want to understand how conservatives think, you need to remember that we see our economy as a system of consensual trades between adults.

        It’s not really “consensual” if the alternative is homelessness, starvation, and criminalization is it?

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    6 days ago

    I don’t want any damn Mexicans working low paid agriculture jobs and paying taxes! I want MY taxes to go toward the private prisons that will house them before more of my taxes go toward deporting them! I’m prepared to pay even more for groceries so get ICE rolling.

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        Don’t worry, there’s plenty of room in these for-profit prisons for other minorities.

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    5 days ago

    Look what happened to the agricultural situation in the UK after brexit: a large portion of the east EU citizens left and there was no one who wanted to pick crops.

    Now they can’t get seasonal workers because of visa issues.