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Treating people based on individual merits =/= not caring about the future.

Feels like the discussion on practicality never happened, it just collectively jumped to outright blanket bans, based on undefined data.

Are you telling this to 2021 thethe or to me?

Nothing’s wrong with it! You said when you made that post that we should evaluate people based strictly on individual merit, not based on country of origin. Fast forward a couple of years and I’m offering that exact opinion and you’re acting like I’m some sort of squishy leftist. Not sure why...

https://www.chopcountry.com/threads/global-events-amp-politics-uberthread.7383/page-151#post-817598

I’m not sure why (R) isn’t putting their political capital behind such a system. A screening that ends with a thumbs up or down based solely on country of origin is a recipe for missing out on a lot of net producers, and worse, letting in a bunch of net takers.

Yes really. Are you for evaluating people based on individual merit or not?

Similarly, I hope MAGA applies its renewed admiration for meritocracy by treating people as individuals in all contexts, rather than as representations of statistical abstractions when convenient.

FWIW, I wasn’t bothered by the alleged race element, I just thought it was ridiculous thing to admit/say to any audience (especially for a presumed presidential candidate)

Does the world not understand by now that a deal is never a deal when Trump is involved?

If those dopes were elected, I’d be spending my time pointing out their stupidity, but they weren’t elected…Trump was, so I’m more concerned with his idiocy.

Smh

He’s a moron

Weren’t we told by Trump just a few months back that Iran’s capabilities were completely obliterated and any suggestions to the contrary were fake news?

Or, you could tell us how he's wrong. If there's no balance of payments deficit, how is it legal to enact a tariff based on the statute?

Hell of a performance by Waltz in that role. All-timer.

I just got a chuckle out of the multiple forms of ID and amount of documentation required to be a per diem snow shoveler

https://www.nyc.gov/site/dsny/careers/civilians/emergency-snow-shovelers.page Emergency Snow Shovelers Get paid to help keep New Yorkers safe after winter storms. Emergency Snow Shovelers are called on after heavy snowfalls to remove snow and ice citywide from public areas like bus stops...