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Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications on Thursday August 27, 2026 @03:23AM (#49461121)
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Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications on Thursday August 27, 2026 @02:14AM (#49460525)
Big cities are indistinguishable from other big cities in other countries. All big cities mostly have the same culture. That's why I liked the Japanese perspective on us. They saw cool things that they liked and included in their fiction that contained us.

If you want to experience American culture I recommend https://www.youtube.com/@PeterSantenello

America doesn't have one culture. It has 500 cultures. But the ones that other cultures notice are the ones I listed. Cities literally stink.

Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications on Thursday August 27, 2026 @01:55AM (#49460366)
Yeah, you seem like a stand-up dude, that's why I was so curious.

>Thanks for trying anyway

Same to you!

Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications on Thursday August 27, 2026 @01:06AM (#49460003)
No more than they like white people. The only race in any study you can find shows that every racial group prefers themselves the most, other races less, and whites the least. Except white people. Who've been conditioned to get rid of their in-group bias. If HN supported images, I could show you the charts.

I looked at that data and decided deliberately, out of rational self interest to be just like them and put my own race first exactly like they do. Equality!

Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications on Thursday August 27, 2026 @01:04AM (#49459980)
Of illegal immigrants on some form of welfare.
Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @11:24PM (#49459260)
There are thousands of dead Afrikanners, what are you talking about? Every other refugee under the sun seemingly gets in with no issues and support from the very organizations meant to keep them out under Biden.

What Mayorkas alone did to this country is treason: https://x.com/search?q=from%3Afentasyl%20mayorkas&src=typed_...

Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @11:19PM (#49459210)
>There's no real Us culture to preserve.

Fish Fails to Detect Water

The easiest way to see it is look at Japanese portrayals (outsider perspective). Cowboys, horses, guns, pride in our military and our free speech, fireworks and BBQs.

Just because you look down on the culture doesn't mean there isn't one.

Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @11:13PM (#49459161)
Estimates vary from 40-80%. Not just birth tourism, but all sorts of government handouts (your tax dollars). Especially under Mayorkas.
Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @11:04PM (#49459091)
White people are a global minority at ~7%. "Minorities™" have their own countries where they are majorities. If they don't want to be Minorities™, they can stay home.
Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @11:02PM (#49459077)
>The economy is not some zero sum thing

No it's a negative sum thing. Especially when they come in at such insane rates as they did under Biden. Notice you car insurance rates going up? Housing costs skyrocketing? Hospital waits taking forever? That's the cost of mass immigration. And that's not even accounting for the millions of illegal immigrants.

>Every economic analysis

Since there apparently so many, surely you wouldn't mind citing a handful.

Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @10:59PM (#49459062)
You sound like someone who started paying attention to politics in 2016. Trump isn't even an outlier. Foreign policy has been dictated by AIPAC (as well as a lot of domestic policy) for decades.

Do you not remember the two-minutes-hate where they screamed at Emmanuel Goldstein? Apparently not. The point is people rabidly attack Trump when his policies - especially foreign - are indistinguishable from Biden, Obama, and Clinton. You're attacking a dummy setup for that. Your obsession with him makes it obvious. Israel gets whatever they want instantly, and Americans get fancy speeches from figureheads.

You're the one screaming at a figurehead and accusing me of doublethink? Read the book again.

Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @10:54PM (#49459006)
>As you're well aware, the US is just barely meeting replacement birth rate.

Oh no, they'll have to raise wages due to lack of labor. How terrible for the working class (everyone).

Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @10:53PM (#49458997)
You basically nailed it. USD crashed in the 1970s after the Nixon shock, and is basically a shambling corpse losing 3-8% of its value every single year while BTC is 600x the value of a 1913 dollar... and trending up: https://i.imgur.com/PJT01T8.png

Even if they don't give me a raise, I'll still have more purchasing power at the end of a year rather than less as the case with USD.

Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @05:48PM (#49456377)
Who cares when I can sell BTC to USD in seconds?
Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @04:45PM (#49455654)
I was wondering why you thanked two people who provided secondary sources (very courteous of you), but not me when I'm who you asked and I provided the source immediately. So I opened the reply in a private window and realized the reply I gave with nothing but exactly what you asked for is [dead], but that fact is hidden from me while logged in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49454527

This site is worse than reddit in all of the worst ways.

Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @04:41PM (#49455603)
Pretending the word doesn't mean anything is the most obvious sign that the person saying that is one of them.

If you don't like the term given to your basket of political beliefs give one that encapsulates it that you like better.

"MAGAts" is the obvious 'other side' parallel. Both sides have their crazies and denying that one exists means you're obviously one of them. As a Pacific Green I don't even like the fact that I can say "both" and people both know what I'm talking about and perpetuates the misguided notion that only two parties exist.

Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @04:35PM (#49455512)
>And the U.S. has been doing even better since 1965.

Better for whom? People are struggling to afford groceries largely because the dollar is worth 1/165th of its 1913 value and the minimum wage hasn't been raised in 17 years.

I found a job that pays in BTC and I'm super hopeful about that one because my effective salary won't go down by 3-8% every year but instead will appreciate relative to what things are priced in.

Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @04:26PM (#49455366)
I have a better idea. Let them make their countries worth living in. If they don't like it in America they can leave. Because unlike Americans, we don't have another home country to retreat to.

Most countries have MUCH higher standards for immigration and their citizens much better off for it.

Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @03:52PM (#49454873)
The parallels between Emmanuel Goldstein and Trump Derangement Syndrome are impossible to ignore for anyone who's actually read 1984.

To borrow from Baum (The Wizard of Oz): today there's not only a curtain with men behind it, but a man in front of the curtain that everyone is pointing to (a la Goldstein). And if he stops being useful they'll replace him. This has happened several times already while the men behind the curtain and long standing policies he people hate remain unchanged.

Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @03:33PM (#49454578)
Conflating not wanting to compete with foreigners for jobs in your own country with racism is bad faith bullshit. Foreigners of the exact same race are equally unwanted competition.
Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @03:23PM (#49454424)
You'd have to ask them:

“Once we squeeze all we can out of the United States, it can dry up and blow away.”

—Benjamin "Netanyahu" Mileikowsky

Just because I have nothing to hide doesn't mean I have anything I want you to see.

People are entitled to privacy because they enjoy it. No further justification is needed.

"preventable medical errors" kill between 270,000 - 400,000 Americans every year.

It was listed on this wikipedia page until July 11, 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preventable_causes_of_death

I know because I frequently cited it in arguments with citizen disarmament advocates before it was edited out.

Re:The weekend is 100 years old on Sunday August 16, 2026 @07:30PM (#49324871)
>4 Earth Quadrants

Another arbitrary invention. Why not divide by 3? Or 5? Or any other magic number?

Re:The weekend is 100 years old on Sunday August 16, 2026 @07:29PM (#49324866)
>The statement about months is kinda wrong.

No it isn't.

>Moon months exist, and there are 13 of them

I said the months are defined by the moon. You said it was wrong, then agreed with me. Note that I never said there are 12 months. I said:

>Months exist, defined by the orbit of the moon.

>1: 11th month by name, but some Pope's birthdays reforms happened until we ended up with February at 28 days and no spring's start is the new year, etc.

This refers to calendars, which are an inventions by man.

>2: Even if that was Christmas before the popes changed it and/or Christians like to feast when heathens brethren/converts did, simultaneously. And historically more plausible for a time of travel to do a census.

This is more calendar stuff. I'm not talking about calendars, but periods defined in nature by things that exist independent of mankind. The ones I listed are all very clearly defined by mostly celestial events. Weeks are an arbitrary invention and so are calendars.

Re:The weekend is 100 years old on Sunday August 16, 2026 @07:22PM (#49324819)
>1/4 of a month

Where does the 4 come from? Human artifice.

Re:Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker on Sunday August 16, 2026 @06:33PM (#49324444)
Shot in the dark, but since you seem to know: does this work in the brave browser? I know(?) on iOS that under the hood everything is still safari so I'm wondering...
Re:Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker on Sunday August 16, 2026 @06:21PM (#49324327)
I don't know why people still use Google. They've sold out and literally been documented reducing search quality to serve more ads.

I use https://search.brave.com by default everywhere and for things even they don't want to show you, there's https://yandex.com.

I only use google as a last resort.

Re:The weekend is 100 years old on Sunday August 16, 2026 @05:25PM (#49323846)
Just anti-jewish, nothing else? Sounds a bit jewish supremacist.
Re:The weekend is 100 years old on Sunday August 16, 2026 @05:19PM (#49323785)
The 7 day week is completely artificial.

Days exist, defined by the rotation of the Earth.

Months exist, defined by the orbit of the moon.

Seasons exist, defined by the solstices and equinoxes.

Years exist, defined by the orbit of the Earth.

Pretty much everything else is an invention of man.

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