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Re:Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to elect... by LAC-Tech on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @06:48PM (#31675415)
No, every other country outside the US is the best at everything. That's why every American is desperate to make a better life for themselves in the EU, Australia, New Zealand and Canada while the reverse almost never happens.
Re:Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to elect... by girvo on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @06:55PM (#31675487)
You’re right, the reverse, ie “every Australian (etc)” wanting to make a better life for themselves in the US does never happen.

You can’t start your topic broad “every American” and then use the much less broad amount of immigrants to “prove” your point.

Because “every American” means I can’t bring up the non-zero amount of Americans that do emigrate elsewhere.

Your entire argument is in bad faith.

Re:Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to elect... by claytongulick on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @11:45PM (#31677356)
Bad faith?

Seemed like a tongue-in-cheek quip to demonstrate that there are a lot more folks in the world who are trying to come to the U.S. than the opposite, which as far as I know is pretty true.

Re:Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to elect... by solar-ice on Thursday June 09, 2022 @05:43AM (#31679295)
"According to a Gallup poll from January 2019, 16% of Americans, including 40% of women under the age of 30, would like to leave the United States."

In my experience of talking to said Americans, that many can't is largely a case of restrictive immigration policies in most places Americans would like to move to.

Re:Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to elect... by upsidesinclude on Saturday June 18, 2022 @10:16AM (#31790006)
Citing 'college girls want to go abroad' is not particularly convincing
Re:Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to elect... by kortilla on Thursday June 09, 2022 @02:58PM (#31685331)
“ Though relatively average by global standards, the 16% of Americans overall who said in 2017 and again in 2018 that they would like to permanently move to another country -- if they could -- is higher than the average levels during either the George W. Bush (11%) or Barack Obama administration (10%).”

So usually America has lower than average citizens wanting to emigrate. Trump made Trump haters want to leave, bringing it up to global averages.

That’s a significant jump, but being globally average does not fit the narrative you’re trying to portray.