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• JustJack23@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I literally have friends who immigrated to the Netherlands and then complained that “all these emigrants ruined the Netherlands”… I was blown away…

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  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A Florida native once wrote that that the people who most want to stop Florida overdevelopment are the ones who brought their house last week.

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    • raltoid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Almost 60% of Cuban-Americans voted for Trump, the second time…

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    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure it’s anyone who believes in the ongoing climate catastrophe.

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is your friend white while complaining about non-white emigrants?

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    • JustJack23@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well that depends on who you ask of course, white is not a constant, but if you ask them, yes.

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    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How did you know?!?!?

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  • merdaverse@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Very common to hear this. I’ve heard family that were complaining that male only, illegal immigrants are moving in to steal jobs, when they were exactly in the same situation, just on the other side, some 20 years ago. It honestly shakes my hope in humanity.

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  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m a descendant of immigrants in the Netherlands and there is definitely a small subset of 2nd and 3rd gen immigrants who is ruining it for all immigrants. PVV would have never been voted in as the biggest party if their parents (who never bothered to integrate and to learn the language) weren’t given permanent residency.

    30 years ago people who pointed out the problems these non integrated migrants could cause in the future were labeled racists by the left wing parties at the time, even though the leader of the socialist party warned about this. The labor party who was in power at the time also didn’t bother to tackle this issue, since they relied on the immigrant vote. And now since the Muslims started their own center right conservative party, labor lost a big voting block and the fascists are in power because people have had it with the inaction of the labor party.

    Same thing is happening with the refugees. The illegals who have zero chance to get a refugee status and who are committing crimes have soured people towards the real refugees. Towns that were once welcoming towards refugees want to see the refugee center in their town gone.

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    • JustJack23@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Same thing is happening with the refugees.

      Yes they are being used as a straw man to scare and polarize people.

      The illegals who have zero chance to get a refugee status and who are committing crimes have soured people’s attitudes towards the real refugees.

      And it is working.

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  • skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Western expats in Japan are notorious for hating every other Western expat in Japan. It’s even got a name, “My Japan Syndrome”.

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  • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is your friend the current minister of the justice department? Because that sounds a lot like her.

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  • toofpic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I live in Denmark, I’m a “non-EU” person, but I’m here based on my skilled work. I do stuff, I am useful. So I have nothing against immigration in general, only against the part of immigration walking around malls in their slippers at 1 p.m., because they still haven’t spent all the money they got by faking disability.

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    • T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is a good time to remind everyone that not all disabilities are visible.

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    • JustJack23@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How do you know they take disability?

      How do we know you are not faking being skilled?

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    • TheEntity@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It has nothing to do with immigration, the native citizens can do this all the same, and some probably do.

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    • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I do stuff, I am useful.

      So go do stuff and stop trying to control what other people do in their days off.

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    • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So basically you just like to shit on less fortunate people. Class act.

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  • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Same in Canada.

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• finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Reminds me of all the Latinos who vote for Trump.

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  • drewcarreyfan@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Well, wants to send me and people like me to a concentration camp, but I do hate gay people sooooooooooooooooooo”

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  • kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Lots of misinformation in la familia group chat

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  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “This thing that’s happening reminds me of a different thing that’s also happening” isn’t exactly an unusual sentiment.

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    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah that’s fair, I could only process it with such limited information by comparing it to something else. Sorry.

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  • Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Something something leopards eating faces

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    At least one of them just wanted a free trip home.

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• Fontasia@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nostalgia for being oppressed is in full force.

  “Ștefan Șerban, 69, sitting on a bench with his friend Nicolae Carja, 74, said life had been better under the former Communist dictator, Nicolae Ceauşescu. “We were a rich country then,” he said. “Industry, petrol, gas, goldmines. And no debt.””

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  • drewcarreyfan@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I swear to God, I feel like the global rise in far-right parties has less to do with any kind of global cabal, and more to do with the fact that Boomers everywhere are powered by nostalgia. Seems like Boomers everywhere will stop at nothing to bring back the world of their parents that they never experienced.

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    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Read a book called 'Future Shock" by Alvin Toffler. He wrote it around 1970 and pretty much predicted everything that happened since. “Future shock” was his term for the madness that people would embrace when they realized they couldn’t/wouldn’t deal with the changes that the shift from the Industrial Age to the Digital Era would bring.

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    • epicstove@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      USSR foreign policy was basically “Damn, remember when we were an empire?”

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    • straightjorkin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not just boomers, Gen x. They’re literally more willing to believe that the earth shifted into an alternate universe before they’re willing to believe their own memory is fallible.

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    • monogram@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But the world of the Boomer’s parents was ww1 into ww2. It was a pretty big deal

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  • endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    like all russian pensioners saying life was better under stalin since they could just move into an apartment of the people whose whole family was killed.

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  • CherryBullets@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “They yearn for the mines”.

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    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Except it became so expensive to run them.

      Similar thing happened to the copper mines of Hungary, at one point it became so expensive to mine it was cheaper and easier to shut them off, at least temporarily. We potentially even have some gold in the same mine, it’s just allegedly so deep no current technology is able to mine them.

      Same with the local closed coalmines, but with environmental concerns, and my house is sinking because of them. However, there’s way more conspiracy theory is out there about them.

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  • martin4598@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Rich? They were poor AF and everybody knew it, it was a rolling joke in the west.

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  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They were probably very drunk '89. Otherwise they would have remembered that the dude got clipped for using the country as his own personal bank account.

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• Wilco@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They are playing 4D chess: Dumbass, Disturbed, Duped, and Derpy are the four Ds.

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And Dickhead.

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• Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sure blame the minority of a minority, majority of which can’t vote yet.

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We can though. Yes it was a minority of a minority and not likely to have made a difference. I blame everyone who voted for the end of democracy, human rights, rule of law, but especially those who voted most against their own interest

    Latinos and people from West Virginia. wtf did you do that for. You’re the people hurt the most, but you’re taking the rest of us down with you

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  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You would be surprised what younger Romanians have learned of the (not English!) US lexicon.

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    • RobotZap10000@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I used to play GTA Online with one. I wonder if they’re taught the language at school, or if they just learned it from the internet.

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• avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Please. The Western European, anti-immigrant voting slavs have nothing on our North American balcanic compatriots. We vote right in record proportions! For example the Canadian Bulgarians voted twice harder for the Revival party.

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• Ileftreddit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The liberal won the election in Romania

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• loomy@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  eli5?

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  • Aqarius@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Diaspora, while benefiting from free movement and pluralusm, often feel like they’re losing their identity. In turn, they seek to symbolically reassert this identity by remote-voting for the most far-right maniac they can find. The fact that such a maniac would never have let them in, and will ruin the country, doesn’t bother them as they don’t live there anymore.

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    • ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Filipinos included, oh and Turks.

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    • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But, is there a method to the madness? Or are they just assholes? Are they voting the biggest idiot because they dont live there and want to watch their country burn (assholes) or do they somehow benefit here?

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    • loomy@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      strange

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  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Immigrants voting for someone who would never let them into the country.

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    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Makes sense, they’re in and they want to pull that ladder right the duck up.

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    • loomy@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      then how do they vote?

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• cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  on.ft.com/4jaMyVF

  Pro-EU centrist Nicuşor Dan was on course to become Romania’s president on Sunday, according to exit polls, leading a run-off against an ultranationalist Eurosceptic who had topped the first round and raised fears about the country’s pro-western orientation.

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  • iasmina2007@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • gmtom@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A little bit confused by the graph but it seems like he’s solidly ahead with most votes counted? So he’s secured the win?

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    • eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      While I can’t read the language, the website is done very well. Loads quickly, simple but not flashy. I’m always amazed what happens when governments just use technology for the benefit of the public.

      Australia has a open source public transit tracker system, where on mobile and desktop, you can see near real-time positions of buses, trains, boats, and estimated percentages of how packed it is, and how late it is. All for free.

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• theangryseal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hey, this guy starred in one of the only memes I’ve ever made. Neat.

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• Gammelfisch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Stupid fucks, go back to piss poor Romania or better yet, shove off to Russia.

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• fnrir@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just wait until you see the results of the Polish presidential election.

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