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Farmerbob1 1 point ago +1 / -0

That's the problem. Low skill / high labor work has been wage-stagnant for 30 years due to illegal saturation of the labor market.

If we do start to push out all the illegals, we will have to do it fairly slowly, and offer a lot of wage increases.

For example, in 1988, I worked as a landscaper in Tennessee for $10 per hour. 33 years later, landscaping jobs don't pay much more than that. Minimum wage has more than doubled in that time, if I am remembering right.

Not saying we shouldn't do it, just saying that it's going to be hard to do it quickly without really screwing up the manual labor & low skill labor markets.

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Farmerbob1 2 points ago +2 / -0

Take enough testosterone in early life, and the body changes a lot, even without surgery. Wouldn't surprise me at all if the Chinese are testing six-year-old girls for fighting skills, then putting the best of them on a testosterone & training program.

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Farmerbob1 1 point ago +1 / -0

The funny thing is that Trump IS a Liberal. The Leftists have driven the Democrats so far Left at this point that they see Liberals as being conservative, and WE do too, as a general rule.

This lets Leftists falsely identify as Liberals because we allowed them to co-opt the word.

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Farmerbob1 1 point ago +1 / -0

No. That's Leftist speech, not liberal speech. Don't let them redefine the word 'Liberal.'

Liberals want more freedom for everyone. Leftists want more freedom for themselves, and less freedom for anyone they disagree with.

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Farmerbob1 9 points ago +9 / -0

Wow, just need to point out here what real Liberals are.

"With little money allocated to send a team to the Olympics, the band The Grateful Dead funded the Lithuanian basketball team, and they went onto win a bronze medal that year."

The Grateful Dead were REAL liberals. (Not sure what the living members are doing these days, but 30 years ago they were sane Liberals.) Hell, they are pretty much the poster children of peaceful liberals who want more freedoms for everyone.

So, when Leftists try to pass themselves off as Liberals, don't fall for it. Modern leftists want more freedoms for themselves and less freedoms for others. Liberals want more freedom for everyone.

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Farmerbob1 1 point ago +1 / -0

Setting a precedent on that one would kick conservatives in the nuts for generations.

The closest we could get to that would be to establish manual labor prisons with a decent quality of life, and that would be risky since manual labor prisons are a thing that haven't existed in decades.

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Farmerbob1 1 point ago +1 / -0

Most Americans won't do the jobs that illegal immigrants do, at the prices illegal immigrants do them. Cause American citizens pay taxes.

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Farmerbob1 1 point ago +1 / -0

"Nothing to see here" ?

I beg to differ. The whole point of an audit is to be sure everything is seen.

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Farmerbob1 2 points ago +2 / -0

Just one more way to try and get more people to live in big shitties. Suburban and rural Americans would be hit hardest by this.

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Farmerbob1 0 points ago +1 / -1

"On that note, a lobbying ban is necessary as well.

Fixed that for you. Lobbying is just a polite word for bribery.

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Farmerbob1 3 points ago +3 / -0

I do not like the precedent of a President using enforced quarantine on a disease with a 0.1% fatality rate in order to advance his political agenda.

Bad enough the Democrats did it, but even they weren't officially SAYING they were doing it.

Precedent is a dangerous thing.

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Farmerbob1 16 points ago +17 / -1

Heh, one of the biggest modern meme concepts for conservatives is the 'redpill' and it comes directly from The Matrix.

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Farmerbob1 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yes, they could, but it was absurdly difficult to do well enough to fool film experts.

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Farmerbob1 10 points ago +12 / -2

Sure, when the Japanese and German soldiers and civilians started to starve, the prisoners didn't get fed well either.

However, there are thousands of pre-food-shortage eyewitness accounts of prisoners being worked like slaves and fed far less than what they needed to stay healthy. Both the Germans and the Japanese did it. The Russians did as well, with their German captives.

The prisoners in question were being intentionally held right at the edge, where they could still work, but most did not have enough energy to seriously consider escape or resistance.

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Farmerbob1 10 points ago +11 / -1

There was a very popular song written in his honor. Sabaton's 'White Death.'

Almost night, a crimson horizon Painting thousand lakes red As your army approach in the east A hunter is switching his prey

All alone, a man with his gun Wanders into the wild Track you down, you can’t hide Once he’s on to your trail

Into the night, a flash in the darkness White Death is heading your way The fear of his foes, a hero at home Hundreds will fall by his gun

You’re in the snipers sight the first kill tonight Time to die You’re in the bullets way The White Death’s prey Say goodbye!

After the dawn, when morning is broken Snow once white turn to red Hundred soldiers, we have them on sight A tale of a sniper is born

Snow in mouth, hiding his breath He is steady at hand Eye to eye, target in sight! The moment to fire has come

Hundreds of kills, a man and his rifle Embodied the Sisu of Finn’s Stay out of sight and cover your head When he pulls the trigger you’re dead!

You’re in the snipers sight the first kill tonight Time to die You’re in the bullets way The White Death’s prey Say goodbye!

[Solo]

You’re in the snipers sight the first kill tonight Time to die You’re in the bullets way The White Death’s prey Say goodbye!

(You’re in the snipers sight) SNIPERS SIGHT! (You’re his first kill tonight) FIRST KILL TONIGHT! (Say goodbye, say goodbye) SAY GOODBYE! (You will fall by his gun)

(You’re in the snipers sight) SNIPERS SIGHT! (You’re his first kill tonight) FIRST KILL TONIGHT! (Say goodbye, say goodbye) SAY GOODBYE! (White death is coming for you)

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Farmerbob1 0 points ago +1 / -1

My biggest concern is that if we start behaving like the Leftists, then we start becoming like the Leftists.

Does that mean we always turn the other cheek, that we put off violent resistance forever? No. But it does mean that we should try and hold the moral high ground until we are forced off it.

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Farmerbob1 1 point ago +2 / -1

Second cousins and farther out are fine, biologically. It's first cousins that have a statistically significant chance for genetics to kick their future kids in the head.

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Farmerbob1 1 point ago +2 / -1

I still cannot understand the idiocy of anyone who can say that burglarizing a store is somehow a protest. It's theft. The only way it could be considered a protest was if the products stolen were part of the problem scenario. Stealing from a grocery store during a food shortage, or some such.

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Farmerbob1 6 points ago +8 / -2

I don't think so, but might be wrong. Image editing back in the late 1930's and early 1940's was FAR more labor intensive then digital video editing today. Doctoring photos was certainly possible, but it was much easier to simply take pictures of actors or new arrivals than take pictures of starving people and edit the pictures.

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Farmerbob1 3 points ago +7 / -4

No, we get shilled by Israeli-hating Iranians.

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Farmerbob1 -1 points ago +1 / -2

No, but some politicians are better at getting lots of small donations than getting a few big ones. Sanders and Trump were both quite good at attracting small donors in very large numbers.

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Farmerbob1 2 points ago +2 / -0

What I am saying is that Trump is one of the greatest Presidents we've ever had. I do not expect others to be at his level. You shouldn't either. If Trump does not make it back into the White House (he's getting up there in years, even if he seems reasonably healthy,) the next person I vote for who manages to make it into the White House will almost certainly not be on Trump's level. I will be more than a little pleased to be proved wrong, but I doubt I will be.

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