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Re:Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled t... by the_real_cher on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @01:06PM (#45505761)
I think America will be ok.
Re:Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled t... by LPisGood on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @01:51PM (#45506386)
Being okay is a lot different from maintaining academic, innovative, and cultural dominance which provides a standard of living many have grown used to.
Re:Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled t... by the_real_cher on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @03:30PM (#45507701)
Are you saying America was a backwater nation until non-european immigrants rescued them?
Re:Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled t... by LPisGood on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @04:17PM (#45508288)
I think it’s pretty clear that’s not what I’m saying.
Re:Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled t... by triceratops on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @07:30PM (#45510264)
Are you saying America was ok taking immigrants only as long as they were European?
Re:Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled t... by the_real_cher on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @01:30AM (#45512400)
That was the law up until the the Hart Cellar act of the 60's.
Re:Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled t... by triceratops on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @09:41AM (#45516094)
I'm asking about things working better when only Europeans were allowed, not the law. You were implying the former with your comment.
Re:Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled t... by the_real_cher on Thursday October 09, 2025 @06:10AM (#45525667)
there's objective evidence That things were working better when only Europeans were allowed.

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

Re:Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled t... by churchill on Thursday October 09, 2025 @11:38AM (#45529229)
I don't think that website implies what you're thinking. The only significant thing that happened in 1971 is that Nixon suspended the convertibility of the dollar into gold, giving the US leeway to run unlimited deficits, paying for imports with paper.

Now, America wants to reduce its debt and curb industrial powers like the EU, Japan, China, etc. but it doesn't want to give up its exorbitant privilege that got it into the debt whole in the first place.

You can't have it both ways.

Re:Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled t... by the_real_cher on Thursday October 09, 2025 @01:18PM (#45530511)
Its just data.

It could be a result of numerous causes.

My point still stands.

Re:Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled t... by churchill on Thursday October 09, 2025 @06:06PM (#45533591)
No, your point doesn't stand at all. It's completely baseless. You took a detailed resource referencing America's departure from a gold standard and you're twisting it to support your pet immigration policy.

Now, if you want to limit non-European immigration, it's a personal opinion and you have a right to it, but you can't make a blanket statement that, "everything worked better," or misinterpret data to say what you want.

Don't pretend you're being data-driven when you've made up your mind and now you're trying to torture the data into saying what you want.

What metrics are you measuring by?

So, while it seemed like you were trying to argue logically, it appears your argument is: I don't like non-Europeans. And you're trying to massage the data into showing your opinion is data-driven because it can't stand on its own merit.

But, feel free to change my mind with more data.

Re:Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled t... by triceratops on Friday October 10, 2025 @09:45AM (#45538974)
Aah racism. Cool cool cool glad you got it out there.