this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2024
1 points (100.0% liked)

politics

24794 readers
2237 users here now

Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!

Rules:

  1. Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.

Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.

Example:

  1. Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
  2. Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
  3. No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
  4. Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
  5. No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.

That's all the rules!

Civic Links

Register To Vote

Citizenship Resource Center

Congressional Awards Program

Federal Government Agencies

Library of Congress Legislative Resources

The White House

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Senate

Partnered Communities:

News

World News

Business News

Political Discussion

Ask Politics

Military News

Global Politics

Moderate Politics

Progressive Politics

UK Politics

Canadian Politics

Australian Politics

New Zealand Politics

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Please watch the entire video before commenting.

The take away, in my opinion, was much less about the Chinese migrants than it was the story of the specific location they were coming through and how and why the process of legal immigration is broken. It seems so, so easy to fix this problem but it’s clear “the border” is being used as a political pawn to divide us for political gain.

top 11 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well that, and an open border means more votes for dems

[–] MyPornViewingAccount@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But they can count towards the census, which is more important

[–] MyPornViewingAccount@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Were those goalposts heavy? You sure moved them a long way.

And no, thats not more important. If the House wasn't limited to a certain number of seats then I could buy your argument.

The House should not be limited, that is a direct limit on representational government. (Tangent)

[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay, voting power. Same difference.

[–] MyPornViewingAccount@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, its not.

The current distrobution of the House delegates an extreme over representation to lower population areas.

Illegal imigrants in already heavily populated places, which is where most migrants are headed for, are already underrepresented.

[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you familar with gerrymandering?

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, it's the only way Republicans can get elected.

[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com -1 points 1 year ago

Great, it works by artificially increasing census counts in their districts. Illegal immigrants accomplish the same thing.

[–] iain@feddit.nl 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The "fuck immigrants over" party is not popular with immigrants. Big surprise.

Republicans fuck over so many people, then they have to resort to crazy schemes like gerrymandering and voter suppression to not lose all the time. If they want to win, maybe do more popular things! This also goes for Joe Biden: all this complaining about leftist not voting for him, but he does nothing to convince them either.

[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com -1 points 1 year ago

Illegals cant vote. They just count for the census, basically amplyfing whereever they live.