• rImITywR@lemmy.worldEnglish
    63·
    12 days ago

    Dey took er jerbs.

    Also they’re lazy and don’t work and take all the welfare money that should be spent in better things like corporate tax relief.

    • Octagon9561@lemmy.mlEnglish
      43·
      12 days ago

      Shrodinger’s immigrant, being lazy and collecting all the welfare but somehow stealing everyone’s job

      • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        12 days ago

        Funny thing is that it is literally impossible to take someone else’s job. You cannot, for example, go into a place of business with a gun and order someone to give you a job and then actually expect to work there. Jobs have to be given. And that’s where the real problem lies, but god forbid society ever acknowledges it.

        Or to put it another way, if these immigrant-blamers had even a fraction of this contempt for those actually guilty, cheapskate employers so desperate to avoid paying a living wage to the people they rely on for services that they willingly drive down standard of living for all, the world would be a vastly different place and immigrant vs. non-immigrant would make no difference whatsoever.

        There is more than enough on this planet to go around and have lots left over. The problem is that it’s been rigged for so long that wealth only ever flows upward now, not across and certainly not downward.

  • Grail@multiverse.soulism.netEnglish
    27·
    12 days ago

    In Australia we have a huge problem with immigrants. It started about 300 years ago when a bunch of English people came. They brought war, disease, and drugs, and they refused to assimilate into the local culture. They imported invasive new animals that fouled up the water, and they fenced off the transit system.

    If you’re thinking of moving to Australia, then you are welcome here, but please learn a bit of the local language and don’t just speak English. Attend a welcome to country. And don’t drive a car! It’s terrible for the environment!

    • mycodesucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      12 days ago

      Get out of here with your logic and common sense and several hundred years of incontrovertible proof of value!

  • Ioughttamow@fedia.io
    13·
    12 days ago

    Every time I order some pho, or water boiled beef, or beef tongue tacos, it’s just that it’s a positive effect. Thank you immigrants!

  • flandish@lemmy.world
    English
    12·
    12 days ago

    all for immigration, heck even dissolving all nations, but anecdotally my neighbors are shitheads. hoarding and filling right up to the property line. would be fine except that it’s small engines air compressors and impact wrenches.

    and my house is four feet away, loud. and they don’t care.

    but the other immigrants down the road are beautiful and wonderful kind people.

    i just wanted to bitch about my asshole neighbors living the american dream.

    • teslekova@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      12 days ago

      Heh. I know the feeling. Neighbours are a matter of luck. I am lucky that the only loud sounds I hear from my current ones, right outside my window when I’m at my desk, is laughter and screaming from all the kids coming over to swim in their pool. It’s been interesting hearing them get older as time goes on.

      They haven’t even started playing loud music as they get into their teens! Great neighbours.

      Previously, though, when I lived in a flat, my neighbour told me he might stab me.

      So, y’know, luck.

  • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
    5·
    12 days ago

    For somebody who is five, the explanation is that it’s like older kids who don’t want to play with them.

  • blockheadjt@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    11 days ago

    There are two things:

    1. White-owned corpos see hispanic-owned businesses earning revenue they’d rather be receiving themselves

    2. People imagine it’ll be mostly men affected, and men (who call the shots) see that as less competition for finding partner(s)