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Oct 14·edited Oct 14Liked by Robert Stark

A great overview!

One of the greatest things Trump could do to fuck over the "gender ideologues" that so menaced JD Vance would be to open pathways for Ukrainians already displaced in central and western Europe to come to the US and "relieve pressure on allies". Far more women than men left Ukraine, although anecdotally most of the Ukrainian guys I know that wanted out were able to do so. Imagine what even a slight gender imbalance of attractive women of child bearing age would do if brought to the US. Portugal has experienced multiple waves of migration from Brazil, often from the (very attractive) middle classes. This forced native Portuguese women to very visibly up their game. And the culturally family-centric Ukrainians would be likely to seek out long term relationships over more ahem temporary arrangements.

Speaking of Brazil, right now many middle class Brazilians are heading to southern Europe thanks to having a Portuguese or Italian great grandparent. The US would obviously offer better economic prospects, and southern Europe is still suffering greatly from the Great Recession. So again there are many people from middle class family backgrounds that could be tapped. Argentina would be a great one as well. Don't even need to go just for the tech workers.

You're onto something with Nepal. For some reason tons of them were in Portugal and Romania last year as migrant workers. I guess they come cheap and non-Muslim and know just how fucked they'd be going to the Gulf instead.

Finally, if Trump really wants to go for the jugular and trigger the left, there's always South Africans...

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thnx!

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Both are horrible on foreign policy, imperialist wars, interventionism. Trump might as well be running for Prime Minister of Israel as he spends a great deal of time appealing to the crowd obsessed with a foreign

Middle Eastern nation thousands of miles away almost to the point of conflating the interests of this foreign land with our own country as if these are synonymous.

Kamala Harris is arguably somewhat worse as neocons who used to be active within the GOP have moved over to the Dems. We can expect the same crazy support for war on Russia and China, possibly on Iran too, while allowing Israel to do as its leaders please with few restrictions. Awful trade and immigration policies, more anti-white rhetoric and policies, more kooky woke shit pushing trannyism and other bizarre things because that’s what the urban liberal progressive base (perhaps minus unqualified support for Israel) and the liberal billionaire donor class wants.

The interests of the average native born white working and middle class American are of no real concern are placed last if at all.

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"while Trump could either negotiate a fair peace treaty or totally throw Ukraine under the bus."

Or massively escalate US aid to Ukraine, according to Anatoly Karlin.

BTW, the immigration issue is a huge part of the reason as to why I personally support Kamala.

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Oct 14Liked by Robert Stark

> [disorderly] Indian migrants tend to be poorer and more North Indian, in contrast with H1bs who are largely South Indian.

Interesting observation! Why don’t more poor South Indians try to get visas to the USA and overstay?

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Nothing will get better regardless which asshole is elected next month. Let’s be clear. Trump is all talk on immigration but then does nothing. His rhetoric about mass deportations of illegal aliens is nothing but hot air.

The Democrats want to cram as many non-white immigrants (legal or illegal) into the United States regardless of the negative economic or cultural impacts on average Americans. The Republicans apart from some of MAGA are the party of business, corporate, and other interests which profit from mass immigration.

Who really cares how ‘smart’ some Indians or Asians are when the result is the transformation of whole neighborhoods and regions into something alien and unsuitable for most Americans residing in these areas, 80-90% of whom will move to the next country or several over or leave for another state or region of the country.

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