Rich Toronto on X - "If you believe dogs are dirty, don’t move to a country or a community where the culture includes keeping dogs as pets, and expect them to stop walking their dogs. If you require quiet time for prayers, don’t go to places that aren’t quiet, and expect them to be quiet for you. If you believe alcohol should be forbidden, don’t move to a society that allows alcohol, and expect them to stop drinking for you. If you believe women should dress a certain way, don’t move to a country and expect women to change the way they dress, just for you. If you believe music is evil, don’t move to a country that enjoys music as part of their culture, and expect them to stop just for you. Moving to a new country, and learning to live amongst people who keep dogs as pets, and listen to music and dance, and have loud amusement parks and beer and wine, and women who choose for themselves how they dress - or who have any other parts of their culture that differ from yours - that’s immigration. Expecting them to change, and trying to force them to change to accommodate you? That’s invasion."
Geoff Russ: Even Japan, with its already strict laws, has had it with immigration - "Japan faces the choice of accepting more immigration to offset its chronic demographic decline, or prioritizing cultural cohesion with tight borders, and its new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, is a champion of the latter. “I want to have a calm, mutually considerate relationship with foreigners,” Takaichi said . “Year after year, the culture between us, and everything else, is so very different, yet people are being brought in all together … this policy, we must pause and reconsider it.” The worldwide immigration debate has crashed onto the shores of Japan. Unlike Western mass immigration regimes, the Japanese system admits temporary workers and students but offers few routes to naturalization. Citizenship is jus sanguinis, naturalization is strict and dual citizenship is forbidden. Last week, Takaichi , a right-wing nationalist and admirer of Margaret Thatcher , became Japan’s first female prime minister. She must now confront the same trade-off that is roiling the world’s wealthy democracies: to pursue growth through immigration, or choose to safeguard national identity and cohesion in the wake of demographic decline... Voters are losing patience with the LDP, often describing the political establishment as “weak-kneed” and lacking transparency and direction. The salience of migration as an electoral issue breaks the stereotype of the immigration question being restricted to Europe and North America. Takaichi explicitly identified the behaviour of foreigners as a reason for Japan’s rising opposition to further immigration. “Some illegal activities and breaches of rules by certain foreigners have created situations where members of the public feel uneasy and perceive unfairness,” Takaichi announced in her first policy speech after becoming prime minister. “While we draw a clear line from xenophobia, the government will respond resolutely to such acts.”"
Joe Rogan Podcast News on X - "Joe Rogan: "When China wants to stay Chinese, no one has a problem with that. But when Poland wants to remain White, suddenly it’s a problem.""
Claudia Webbe on X - "Don’t like Asylum Seekers? Stop voting for the parties whose arms sales create them."
Casey on X - "We have people from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Iran and Eritrea claiming asylum, none of these countries are at war or have been invaded."
Meme - "It's illegal to bring a plant into our country because it might upset the ecosystem. But bringing in millions of people from the 3rd world is supposed to make it better?"
Are Britain and the US losing their allure for top talent? - "An under-discussed challenge facing modern democracies is the fact that the public’s intuitions about economics are frequently not only wrong but precisely backwards. What should be done to bring down inflation? A plurality of the public suggest cutting interest rates. Or take housing, where voters tend to think increasing supply will also raise prices and rents. An unlikely but welcome exception to this pattern is immigration. Voters are hostile to those who come in search of welfare payments or a career in food delivery, but welcoming of immigrant doctors, scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs. An economist seeking to maximise growth, innovation and the fiscal balance would be in complete agreement with the average person in the street. Better yet, maximising genuine high-skilled and high-wage immigration also delivers broader societal benefits. Educated professionals working alongside their native-born counterparts tend to integrate more quickly and smoothly into the host country’s culture. There’s even a reduction in income inequality, as the rise in the number of high earning (and high spending) people boosts demand (and pay) for services provided by those in lower-skilled work without increasing competition for their jobs. What, then, would a policy tailored to maximise these benefits look like? The emerging consensus from recent and forthcoming reports by bipartisan think-tanks on both sides of the Atlantic is relatively straightforward. First, stricter filtering: lean much more heavily on salary thresholds, applying current (or higher) earnings floors to a larger share of legal immigration routes. Second, reduce or even fully waive visa fees for top talent, in recognition of the increasing competition for top talent among high-income countries... In the US, the H-1B visa has long been distortive, its lottery nature incentivising pseudo-offshoring of middling talent rather than selecting for the very best, while also disincentivising entrepreneurship, suppressing one of the biggest positive economic impacts immigrants make... Britain is just not as attractive a destination as it once was. According to data from Gallup, a decade or two ago the UK was consistently the second most desirable destination for migrants worldwide after the US. Now it’s seventh, behind Canada, Australia, Germany, France, and even Spain. It’s a similar story if we drill down specifically to the most educated and highest earning would-be migrants. It’s notable how Britain’s slide in desirability maps on to two much larger factors than visa policy: first Brexit, and second the UK tumbling down the international income rankings, even for top earners. As countries become increasingly selective on immigration, the race for the world’s talent is only going to get hotter. Britain and America would do well to remember that talented people with a range of options want to feel welcome, and to join a dynamic economy with the promise of high and rising wages. At least the US can still offer the latter."
Time for the UK to "tax the 'rich'" eve more
Thread by @mdubowitz on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Spent a week in London & Paris — two great cities — for meetings on the Muslim Brotherhood, Iran & Israel. My takeaway: if the British & French don’t replace their feckless leaders with those who will confront Islamism decisively, both nations will be gone in a decade. I went to some areas in Paris which most tourists will never see. Shocking. You’re safer in Damascus. I was particularly interested in hearing from Muslims — the ones most threatened by the Islamists. They’re trying to raise their children as proud British and French citizens while the Islamists work to radicalize their kids. I learned the term “entryism” which is how the French describe what the Islamists are doing — the political strategy of penetration, subversion and takeover of existing institutions (first described by Trotsky). I’m reading this book by one of France’s top scholars on the Muslim Brotherhood (unfortunately, despite the author’s best efforts, not available in English). books.google.com/books/about/Le…"
Food Bank Usage in Toronto Has Skyrocketed Since 2020 : r/Toronto_Ontario - "Excessive immigration is an issue, but it's not the only issue and it's definitely not the biggest issue. The top 10% of this country own 53% of the wealth, and our good friend Galen Weston owns a significant chunk of that."
"Excess immigration is literally and directly the vehicle for the rich getting richer. It's why corporations and lobbyists have pushed so hard for basically open borders. I don't get it when people do this "don't blame immigration, blame the super rich". The super rich are the reason we have mass immigration across the West."
Left wingers are easily manipulated. Somehow being against mass migration is the same as hating immigrants. And hating billionaires and corporations ends up in doing the thing they want you to do, but somehow it's supposed to spite them
Why Do the Results of Immigrant Students Depend So Much on Their Country of Origin and so Little on Their Country of Destination?
John Rain on X - "A study shows that the quality of the school has no influence on the intelligence of children from immigrant backgrounds. Their cognitive abilities "remain at the level of their country of origin not only in the first generation, but also in the second and even later.""
Proof that racism and xenophobia are keeping migrants and their descendents down forever! We need even more funding and campaigns against "stigma" and "discrimination"!
Zarathustra on X - "In the Netherlands they’ve made the data public: each Somali immigrant has been found to cost the public about $1.2 million over their lifetime, while each North American and Japanese immigrant generated a net contribution of roughly $500,000."
hoe_math = PsychoMath on X - "Remember they told you the immigrants were to boost the economy It turns out they cost over a million dollars each"
No evidence ageing or declining populations compromise socio-economic performance of countries - "Concerns about declining or ageing populations often centre on the fear that fewer people will translate to a weaker economy and lower living standards. But these fears are frequently based on oversimplified or misapplied interpretations of economic models, and appear to be driven more by political agendas rather than evidence. In reality, long-term prosperity depends more on how societies invest in education, skills, and technology, not just how many people they have. We examine national data at the global scale to test whether slower population growth or ageing populations are linked to worse economic or social outcomes. Using nine different indices of socio-economic performance (domestic comprehensive wealth, income equality, research and development expenditure, patent applications, human capital, corruption perception index, freedom, planetary pressure-adjusted Human Development Index, healthy life expectancy at birth), we find no evidence that they are. In fact, we find that countries with low or negative population growth perform better on average for all indicators, and that even within-country time series show that most older and slower-growing populations fare better on average. These findings challenge common assumptions and highlight the need to move beyond fear-based and politically motivated narratives toward a more informed understanding of what truly supports thriving societies."
‘It’s been very humbling’: The British dream of moving to Australia is far from paradise - "Product manager Andrew, 37, says his similar situation has left him questioning whether Australia is really the best place for British people looking to build a long-term career – or certainly if they didn’t start it there. His partner, a lawyer, transferred from London to Sydney with her firm, so he was able to secure a partner visa – a factor he hoped might give him the advantage when searching for jobs. He was wrong. “It’s been a lot harder than I anticipated,” he says of the job-hunting process so far. He has applied for more than 100 jobs and gone for more than 20 coffees with recruiters. He hears the same story every time: he doesn’t have enough Aussie experience. “Which is all very well – but how am I supposed to get that first Aussie job then?” he asks. Some British white collar workers are changing tack: an accountant he knows has chosen to retrain as a carpenter since moving to Sydney a couple of years ago and a British procurement manager friend now works as a gardener. Andrew and his partner were shocked by the rent and even more shocked by the quality of housing. “I was stunned at how cold, damp, mouldy the houses are here,” he says of their flat-search in Manly, a wealthy suburb in the northern beaches of Sydney. “You pay London rent prices for student accommodation here – our friends at home are shocked whenever we tell them we’re paying A$1,150 a week (£2,290 a month) for a small two-bedroom flat. “That and now the job search... it all just adds to the feeling that this isn’t working out how we thought it would.” So what’s made the move to Australia so much more challenging? An Australian rental crisis and an increasingly competitive job market appear to be two of the leading factors... On top of this is the surge in the number of British people in Australia on a working holiday visa. The number was at an all-time high of 79,000 in 2024-25 compared to 47,000 the year before. This is in part due to the extension of the working holiday visa age limit to 35 in July 2024. Sydney – the most popular city among British expats – recently became the second least affordable city in the world for housing after Hong Kong, according to the Demographia International Housing Affordability report. On top of that is the fact that most rental properties in Sydney come unfurnished, a quirk of the Aussie rental system that many Britons don’t realise until they’re on the ground, raiding furniture stores with limited funds and no car to cart mattresses around the city. It’s not much better in Brisbane, Melbourne or Perth, three other Australian cities popular with expats. The latest data suggest Perth’s median asking price for a rental apartment is A$600 a week – just A$150 less than Sydney’s. Lucy is still glad he moved to Australia to scratch the itch of living abroad and to soak up the relaxed, outdoors lifestyle. But he wishes he’d known the impact it might have on his career. His advice? “I’d say absolutely come for the lifestyle and outdoor living – but be resilient and come prepared to live in ambiguity for a long period of time.” Woodward agrees. It’s all very well living next to the beach, but most 30-somethings he knows aren’t prepared to take casual, entry-level jobs or go backwards in their career."
Meme - Wolf: "This is the dataset that settles the remigration debate. The more Westernised and educated Muslims get the more radical they become. They actually get less assimilated over time. By the way this phenomenon has been consistently shown in the survey data for over two decades."
"The most educated and younger Muslims are more likely to say it was because Hamas wanted to forward the Palestinian cause
18-34 year old Muslims think it is more acceptable than not to protest outside an MP's home if they differed on Israel/Palestine
18-34 year old Muslims are the most likely to think that Hamas did not commit atrocities on October 7th
Female Muslims and younger Muslims are most likely to have a positive view of Hamas"
Meme - Mr. Reply Guy: ">Get paid under the table by undercutting min wage
>0 reportable income so they can apply for welfare
>The left thinks pic below is an amazing "gotcha"
>my sides"
Secular Talk: "Schrodinger's Immigrant. *Lazily collecting all the welfare but also somehow taking all the jobs"
Not to mention half could do one and the other half could do the other
Pope Leo urges against US incursion of Venezuela as he warns Western countries to be ‘less fearful’ of immigrants : r/worldnews - "He said the lessons from Lebanon need to be “heard in Europe or North America, that we should perhaps be a little less fearful and look for ways of promoting authentic dialogue and respect.”"
"Lebanon had a nasty Civil War due to rapidly changing demographics, where Christians were no longer the majority. Not sure Lebanon is a lesson that will convince any anti-immigrant factions in the west."
Pope Leo urges against US incursion of Venezuela as he warns Western countries to be ‘less fearful’ of immigrants : r/worldnews - "Lebanon? You mean the country that was fine until they allowed Palestinians expelled from Jordan that tried to overthrow the king to come stay and then they took over part of Lebanon and tried to turn it into an Islamic state and now it’s been a fighting disjointed mess for the past 50 years?"
Dan Burmawi on X - "Lebanon is a perfect model of what happens when two civilizations share geography without sharing a political philosophy. It’s a small country, same language, same food, same weather, same ancient history. No walls. No checkpoints. But each community, Christian and Muslim, lives behind invisible civilizational lines. They don’t mix in political life, educational life, or social life. These lines have existed since the Ottomans, and they hardened after the civil war. The Christian areas built their society around a European-influenced political culture: secular schools, mixed-gender social norms, individual rights, and a relatively open civic space. The Muslim areas built "Islamic society". The result is not “diversity," but dual sovereignty inside one state. In 2023, the country literally split into two time zones during daylight-saving time, one Muslim and one Christian. It was an honest reflection of two separate civilizational logics refusing to follow the same clock. Lebanon because it tried to fit two incompatible political visions under one flag. The West is repeating Lebanon’s experiment but pretending it will end differently. There is no historical precedent for that working."
The West could end up like Lebanon - "Twenty-four hours before the terrible events on Bondi Beach on Sunday, police in Germany arrested five men suspected of plotting to attack a Christmas market. The men in custody – an Egyptian, a Syrian and three Moroccans – were allegedly planning to use a car to run over people as they enjoyed the market in the Bavarian town of Dingolfing. Police described it as an “Islamist motive”. Christmas markets have been targeted in the past by Islamist terrorists; in 2016, 12 people were killed in Berlin by a truck and in 2018 a man fatally shot and stabbed five people in Strasbourg. The murder of 15 people attending the Hanukkah celebration in Australia is just the latest appalling act of anti-Semitism in the West. In October, two worshippers died because of an Islamist outside their synagogue in Manchester, while across Europe synagogues have been attacked and Jews assaulted. The rise in anti-Semitism is linked to Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7 2023, but the truth is that it was already soaring before that awful day. A French Islamist filmed himself shooting dead three Jewish children in a Toulouse playground in 2012, and two years later four people were shot dead at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels. It is not just Jews who have been targeted. As well as attacking the symbolic Christmas markets, Islamists in France have murdered a priest in his Normandy church and killed three worshippers in Nice. The most recent attack in France was last month, when a man who allegedly shouted “Allahu Akbar” ran down five people in his car on the quiet holiday island of Oleron. Nearly every country in Western Europe has experienced the horror of an Islamist attack in the last decade but it is France that has borne the brunt. The country recently commemorated the 10th anniversary of the Paris attacks, when 130 people were massacred in bars, bistros and the Bataclan concert hall. In the decade since, however, the threat of Islamism has not diminished. On the contrary it is expanding. The 67 investigations opened by France’s National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office in 2024 were unprecedented. A recent report stated that in the first 11 months of this year a further 51 investigations had been launched relating to Jihadist terrorism. Another one was added to that number in the first week of December when police arrested two teenagers – one of Chechen origin – on suspicion of plotting to kill Jews in Strasbourg. Like the father and son who opened fire on Bondi Beach, the French teenagers had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has vowed to tighten gun control in the wake of Sunday’s slaughter. That is a facile response. It’s not guns that need controlling so much as an Islamist ideology whose ultimate goal is a global caliphate. The West and its allies finally vanquished the Islamic State on the battlefield in 2019, but far from defeating the ideology it has chosen to import it. Australia, America and Europe have allowed vast numbers of legal and illegal migrants to cross their borders from countries well-known for their Islamism. Background checks have in most cases been non-existent. One example is the Syrian who arrived in Germany in December 2022 as an asylum seeker. Eighteen months later he stabbed three people to death at a music festival in Solingen. At his trial earlier this year he said he “could not bear to see people dancing in Germany while children were being killed in Gaza”. For over a decade commentators and politicians in France have warned that their country is showing signs of disintegrating in the same way Lebanon did 50 years ago, what is known as the “Lebanonisation” of France. Once a prosperous and ethnically harmonious country, Lebanon’s sectarian tensions intensified when Palestinians settled in large numbers in the late 1960s and by the 1970s the country became Muslim-majority. A 15-year civil war erupted in 1975 and today one in three people live in poverty. What’s true of France is now true of other European nations, as Donald Trump pointed out last week. “Civilisational erasure” isn’t a figment of the American president’s imagination. It is happening before our very eyes."
Overeducated Gibbon on X - "I would be less bearish on low skill immigration if:
1) we could actually punish violent criminals
2) we made people stand on their own 2 feet
I remain bullish on significant (but controlled) levels of high-skill immigration
Being a place that rewards productive people and punishes destructive people also shapes the population of immigrants who arrives on your shores, beyond what might be initially observable. People who want to build want to come, people who want to destroy stay away."
Hunter Ash on X - "It is deeply weird that the absolute top priority for a lot of American and European politicians is bringing in millions of unvetted third-world immigrants. They could have shut down right wing populism entirely by compromising on this issue, but they refuse."
Elon Musk on X - "Once you understand the incentive, the reason for the behavior becomes obvious: they are importing a left-voting bloc that depends on government handouts. A prominent example of this in America is Ilhan Omar and her Somali voting bloc in Minnesota, an area which used to be primarily Nordic-German. Importing voters is a CERTAIN path to a single-party supermajority and has ALREADY happened at the state level in California and New York. It also explains why those states have BANNED VOTER ID in order to accelerate a permanent socialist supermajority, destroying any semblance of democracy. We stand on the precipice of disaster, an end to America."
Micheál Martin on X - "I strongly condemn the violent disorder that unfolded in Citywest in Dublin this evening. I pay tribute to the frontline gardai who acted courageously and quickly to restore order."
vittorio on X - "> “asylum seeker” rapes 10 years old
> people protest
> prime minister condemns protests
The fuck is going on in Ireland?"
Lawyers For Justice Ireland on X - "Denmark's strict immigration policies have been shaped by the recorded facts of the correlation between migration and crime. In Ireland the facts are NOT recorded. This means the establishment can continue to deny any correlation between migration and crime in Ireland. At a Press Conference on 2nd December Una McGurk Senior Counsel exposes the establishment for NOT recording data on the correlation between nationality and crime, unlike other EU countries. What do they fear? Is it because once An Garda Siochana record nationality and ethnicity as a mandatory field on PULSE the CSO must publish the data? Do they fear the Irish people knowing the facts so they cannot longer deny the correlation between migration and crime?. The establishment will continue to deny the facts of any correlation between migration and crime in Ireland if the data is not recorded. Una McGurk calls on the establishment to make nationality and ethnicity a mandatory field on PULSE. Soaring crime changed immigration policy in Denmark and Sweden. The Irish people have a right to know the facts about the incidence of nationality and crime in our country."
