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I don’t, either, but I don’t believe that immigration should be restricted by the thoughts in your head. That part is more important than keeping out racists, because I’m never going to be the decider for which thoughts are OK and which thoughts are not OK.

I dunno, that’s a lot of reading. I’d rather share what I think than learn what someone else thinks. Can’t I just react to the first impression?

…because the refugees might have pending criminal charges. I feel like that’s a really important part missing from the headline. Nobody cares if a bunch of white farmers move from South Africa to the USA. They aren’t actually being persecuted, but whatever. America should be open to immigrantion. South Africa merely wants assurances that accepted “refugees” aren’t fleeing legitimate prosecution for crimes they have been charged with.

The larger issue is that we’re refusing legitimate refugees from other countries, and the Trump/Musk administration has made demonizing immigrants into their primary cause celebre.

To summarize, we’re sending innocent people to death camps because they’re brown, and we’re protecting criminals because they’re white.

Not to mention, there are all the opportunistic price gouges across all industries. Prices go up and then stay up because profits gotta grow.

There is some of that via India and other intermediaries, but mostly China is willing to wait it out.

Cruelty is the point

Duh, and I cannot stress this enough, doy.

Victim statements to the court are always emotionally manipulative. It’s akin to playing a video of home movies of the deceased, and obviously the judge understands that it is a fictitious creation.

Right, Gates is no saint. He became a billionaire the same way they all do, and he has caused a lot of unnecessary suffering in the world.

But that doesn’t invalidate his criticism of Musk. If anything, he’s speaking from experience, with his unique perspective from atop the same mountain. Doing charitable work doesn’t change the past, but it can change the future.

Gates probably disagrees with me, but at least he acknowledges the problem.