Transcript: Image of sign reading, “If I could find a country that didn’t take immigrants in I’d move there”
This hurt my brain
Submitted 3 days ago by SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip to [deleted]
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Transcript: Image of sign reading, “If I could find a country that didn’t take immigrants in I’d move there”
This hurt my brain
It’ll hurt more when you understand some people actually, without a hint of irony, believe that.
I read it a few times, and I finally understand it, racist people are stupid
Are you racist then?
Ohhhh!!
They mean brown people
Yes because if you’re white you’re an expat and if you’re brown you’re an immigrant
Interestingly - North Korea exists, but also many of the most successful countries only take a minute number of immigrants, and only very highly skilled or very rich ones. E.g luxembourg, switzerland, monaco(?) and Singapore.
This is because they don’t tend to have “gaps to fill” in the economy/workforce and are very small.
Switzerland has about 25% foreigners and in Luxembourg the Portuguese minority alone is 15-20%
The GDP per capita of those countries are skewed because most of the workers live outside the city state and commute in. You’re just seeing the GDP benefits that cities have over rural areas.
Lol Luxembourg city population is 70% foreigner.
Likewise Singapore is mostly immigrants. This guy is wrong by such a huge degree that I don’t think it’s even a mistake, I think he knows he lying.
There is still freedom of movement for workers between the EU and Switzerland.
I haven’t seen anybody comment about this here yet so i figured I’d mention that these are signs (in London i think) that display text from the Epstein files
set of all sets
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 days ago
Antarctica is pretty exclusive.
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 3 days ago
I was briefly tempted by a winterover job there. It’d be a pay cut, plus a year and a half of continuous winter, and I’m not totally convinced that the U.S. would still exist by the time they’re supposed to pick us up.
how_we_burned@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
The rape sexual assault vibe is a bit of a problem though.
Akasazh@lemmy.world 2 days ago
True. The population of indigenous people is very stable