Immigrants don’t take my job; they are unemployed and take my taxes.
Congrats, you’re wrong twice.
An immigrant took my anal virginity, assuming all the random, eclectic objects I shoved up there in my childhood and adolescence do not count towards that stat.
Second line from the bottom, about the middle or so of the line
I still can’t get past my coworker who hates immigrants because (according to her) they’re unvaccinated and spread disease. And she’s also antivax.
My coworker immigrated. Got his citizenship, now complains immigrants are the problem. SMH
Sounds like her issue is their otherness, not their medical history.
Racists and xenophobes are capable of believing some really stupid, easily disproven shit.
Does she not see that contradiction?
Because like most of them, when someone else does it its lazy/evil/malicious, but when they do it there’s always some justifiable reason.
Just like a right-winger coworker of mine. She won’t stop talking shit about how she couldn’t trust her ex because he cheated on her. Meanwhile she’s cheated on every single bf she’s ever had. And her current husband
Heck, most of them don’t know anything about anything and are just repeating talking points. I had a super conservative coworker go on a rant once which happened to be 100% false. It was so wrong that had they written it down they would most definitely have used the wrong your/you’re.
Logic just doesn’t work on her. That’s a big part of what makes trumpers … special.
You should put two pieces of bread on the sides of her face
Like so
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Whose is possessive. Who’s means who is
Where doe it say whose or who Is in that post though?
Ninth word from the end on the bottom panel of the posted image
Thanks for that. I read it 3 times prior and could not find that word. Lol. Funny how my brain skipped over it, the counting helped.
Counterpoint: Elon Musk is an immigrant and took my wife’s job via his department of bullshi embezzlement.
The landscaping company my HOA contracts with is having trouble finding people to do the work, after, of course, many of their employees were rounded up.
My idiot neighbors are whining about how their yards look like shit, because the landscapers aren’t coming around once a week, like they used to. The same idiot neighbors who urge everyone to “vote red” and are absolutely certain that only “illegal” immigrants are being “deported”.
There’s a sketch in Family Guy where Abe Lincoln confronts his neighbor about his un-mowed yard and the neighbor says “yeah, I used to have a guy for that”.
Probably thought landscapers were a part of nature. Like landscapers are deer but instead of walking through yards to eat berries they cut hedges into clean shapes
The premise of MAGA was always that we’d have a permanent impoverished servant class. But the message got distorted as it moved from the middle class liberal PMC to the lower class industrial/service sector serf.
Turns out “Every Home A Castle, Every Man A King” doesn’t play out in practice so well.
… Wait, but that still means being anty immigrant is in your own interest (no immigrants = noone for the capitalist to take advantage of).
Me?
Who’s hiring immigrants for less. Equal pay, my dude.
This is also why they gleefully shipped all the manufacturing jobs/skills and tech to other countries (mostly China).
They’re unbelievably giddy you think China did something wrong in accepting all this work and then building a country that is lifting more and more of its billion+ people out of poverty.
No, China did what we should have done and should have been doing the whole time; but we did the opposite and you blamed the Chinese instead of the wealthy industrialists who sent the jobs there. You wept and cried over China’s one-party offering no freedom “like we have here” except here they took away our protections, our rights, and gave all the military spending money to defense contractors who designed more and more outrageously complex systems that take forever to build, cost more than a billion dollars each, and then apparently can just be taken out.
We’re not safe anymore, we’re not rich anymore, we’re not asked for help anymore, we’re not smart anymore, we’re not comfortable anymore, we’re all struggling to make ends meet even if we have good income, all the water is dirty, all the roads are failing…but at least we still got football and Jesus right?
Everything is Nazis and gambling now.
Why is it always Nazis and gambling? Why can’t it be hookers and blow?
Indeed, everything for the shareholders and the MAGA fucknuts still fail to realize how the US job market works.
Immigrants started SO many small businesses too btw.
Something something litter boxes in schools and your grandkids are coming home with secret forced gender transition surgeries done in one day by underpaid public servants!
If maga could read above a 5th grade level they’d be very upset
My response to this is always: if a homeless person with no money or credentials wearing their only set of clothes with no friends or connections unable to speak the local language and requiring the boss to risk legal fines asks for a job and the boss chooses them over you… What does that say about you?
Beside the point. Some people have arrangements with homelessness services orgs specifically to hire homeless folk because they are signed up with a program that pays their payroll taxes or something, I can’t remember exactly what the grant we got set up was it was ages ago.
What does that say about you?
I mean… not much? Everything you listed except for the part about the employer risking fines is a positive to the capitalist. And the fines are just a cost of doing business.
The employee not speaking the local language is a positive? Then why are the homeless not employed? If not having a stable home or clean clothes a positive… Where the fuck do you work so I can i avoid it? The smell alone.
Yes they are all signs of desperation. Maybe you could argue they are indicators the person will accept lower wage and as such less expense to the employer. That said it’s hardly a positive… If I owned a laundry mat and hiring an attendant(easy job, no real requirements) I would want a person who can interact with customers, who didn’t have an odor, who had a stable way to pay. It may cost more, but I’d likely get more customers.
I’m not saying immigrants are less then local people(how ever you interpret that) but native citizens have a huge advantage. If I move to India and don’t speak Indian, don’t know anyone there, have no training, don’t have a place to live,l, barely can cloth myself… I don’t expect many job opportunities. Nothing against India, same with Germany or Gambia or any country you pick.
If you fail to cross even that minimal bar then… If you can cross that bar great, be welcome. It like a game of say super smash bros and the immigrant has a mandatory handicap of -100(should probably be higher) …its much more likely for you to pick the non-handicap person then the handicap one. If the non-handicap still fails to win with that advantage they are not a good player.
Yes they are all signs of desperation. Maybe you could argue they are indicators the person will accept lower wage and as such less expense to the employer.
Yes, that’s my point exactly. These are workers with no social safety net, no knowledge of local labour laws, no union membership and a desperate want to not have to go back to where they came from. They are ripe for abuse.
Then why are the homeless not employed?
Because the reason they’re homeless to begin with is that they could not find or hold a job. Usually this is because of untreated mental illness and substance abuse problems.
On your second point I agree. My initial point was that should encourage them to change/get help and not blame immigrants. If you have those issues and don’t fix them you will still be unemployed regardless of immigrants. You can fix them and improve your situation but even if we had 0 immigrants, no one will voluntarily hire a meth addict who shows up 10% of the time.
I’m pro-immigrant. My point was against people against them. If you are native to your country and can’t compete vs an illegal immigrant that’s a you problem. A native has so many advantages and the immigrant has so many struggles, it’s like the lowest bar.
“they are taking are jobs” people are basically complaining about the mice taking droppings from their feast.
I’m not arguing against immigration, just against abusive employment practices.
A lot of the present-day immigration is facilitated by neoliberal globalists looking to drive down the price of work by introducing competition for unskilled labour (well, all labour really, but this is especially common for unskilled labour). They first offshored their production to countries with lax labour laws and cheap labour, and now that they’ve offshored everything they could, the only way they can further drive down labour costs is by driving them down locally.
In other words, the “they are taking the jobs” people are not entirely incorrect, though they are still barking up the wrong tree by blaming the immigrants rather than the people hiring them. But the rest of us must also not be blind to the fact that the current model of immigration is built to benefit multinational companies and billionaires, not so much anyone else.
The “no friends or connections” comment isn’t true because they have a network already setup and if they aren’t interacting with the customer directly then why would they need to speak the local language?
I don’t blame the immigrants for their goals of a better life, it’s logical to take advantage of the situation. It’s also logical for the employer to take advantage of cheap labor. It’s also logical for me to offer something that the immigrants can’t to keep myself employed if I working the same field.
Ok, they may know people local, I’ll grant that. They need to speak local language to understand written instructions, to interact with co-workers, to understand what is needed for them to do.
I think your last point is the same as mine. You should offer something that is advantageous compared to an immigrant. You have a massive advantage. If you can’t do that it doesn’t matter since you definitely won’t be able to compete with natives with whom you don’t have a massive advantage.
