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01-28-2017 , 11:53 AM
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Originally Posted by zoltanbuccos
Woody I would be interested in knowing what kind of events leds you to get to your belief system. You were traveling and a foreigner scared you?

Gotta protect 'Merica
I have even less compassion for Americans. It's not about that. Americans are probably the current WOAT per capita.
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01-28-2017 , 11:59 AM
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Originally Posted by ClarkNasty
Random post I made on face today in response to a "are cheaper goods and free trade worth it for the middle class".......

I agree these are huge and complicated questions but I think the answer to your question is likely "yes". As in, most of those jobs go away anyways. NAFTA may well have been a net increase in jobs. Companies like GM cannot compete globally with US labor. And they sell far more cars outside the US than inside (~22% of car sales are domestic). Source: https://media.gm.com/media/us/en/gm/...bal-sales.html

Also, whether we lost jobs to trade or technology is also a question.

https://www.ft.com/content/dec677c0-...5-873e61754ec6

It also isn't clear that service jobs pay worse:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworst...-service-jobs/

And it isn't only US car companies that need trade. Ask Apple if they are cool without Chinese labor. The whole point of trade and economics is that things aren't zero sum. Side benefits such as a net migration of Mexican citizens FROM the US to Mexico over the last 5-years are very real.

Worth noting that things aren't just cheaper in the US than ~anywhere else in the world, they are better quality too. I doubt I need to elaborate in a Brazilian expat message group.

Fwiw the US Govt did an extensive review of the economic impact of NAFTA some years back and it came back slightly positive. I'd argue that the benefit of trade extends beyond pure economic impact as it's likely the largest force for world peace today. China is largely a non-issue on the global war stage precisely because of their huge trade dependencies.

I'm super concerned about not only what the President is doing but how rapidly and seemingly without detailed analysis he is going about it. And obviously making things personal with other global leaders, especially strong allies (and to be sure Mexico is that) is just not helpful and likely actively harmful.

The response to this (from the guy I was responding to) was "Your position is totally political, stemming from your opposition to Trump. A less politically motivated person would allow time for some differing approaches to it to play out and see how the dust settles. Your assertion that he is going about it rapidly and without detailed analysis says it all. How would you know that? If YOU don't agree with it, it has to 'just not helpful', and 'likely actively harmful', right? I would point out to you that Hillary started her campaign aggressively in favor of TPP, and by voting day she was on record as opposing it. So, you tell me, when was she right and when was she wrong?"

Pretty amazing. I cite conservative-ish sources and have a fact based post and somehow it's about Hillary now. #interwebs.
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01-28-2017 , 12:04 PM
Yeah my biggest fear about BRINGING JERBZ BACK is a massive drop in quality. Talentless, likely drug/alcohol addicted, dirt poor, factory worker humps in Detroit, Ohio, rural Pennsylvania, etc don't exactly inspire much confidence in product quality.

Will gladly just suck it up and pay more for stuff that gets taxed on way in if it's made better.
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01-28-2017 , 12:08 PM
Selfishly, as a youngish person in quite a bit of healthy rate-locked debt some nice inflation would be GOAT.
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01-28-2017 , 12:48 PM
Someone tell me I'm wrong but from what I'm hearing is if you have a green card from any of those 7 countries and if you took a vacation to say, Canada, you would be denied reentry

That can't possibly be true right?
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01-28-2017 , 12:49 PM
Yes it is.

Also. Apparently the first two people detained in the US under the EO were translators for the US Army during the Iraq war. And they can't get back in. Sorta doesn't get much worse than that.
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01-28-2017 , 12:54 PM
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Originally Posted by StoppedRainingMen
Someone tell me I'm wrong but from what I'm hearing is if you have a green card from any of those 7 countries and if you took a vacation to say, Canada, you would be denied reentry

That can't possibly be true right?
Sounds like it. And it's only going to get worse. And it's completely disgusting that we cannot accept Iraqi translators.
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01-28-2017 , 12:55 PM
Btw the requirement for getting a green card is to give up residency elsewhere.
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01-28-2017 , 12:56 PM
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Originally Posted by ClarkNasty
Yes it is.

Also. Apparently the first two people detained in the US under the EO were translators for the US Army during the Iraq war. And they can't get back in. Sorta doesn't get much worse than that.
Time for some civil disobedience.
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01-28-2017 , 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by ClarkNasty
Btw the requirement for getting a green card is to give up residency elsewhere.
details details. Disko already assured us that this is AWESOME.
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01-28-2017 , 12:57 PM
Just got an email from IU trying to help out our students that are affected. Impeach this idiotic mother****er
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01-28-2017 , 01:01 PM
Even Dick Cheney sayin this is a bad idea.

Mattis, Pence, Ryan have all spoken out against it in the past and I do feel like Trump could be persuaded by them. So why didn't they try to persuade?

edit: as mw points out Cheney quote is old. Thought it was from yesterday or today.
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01-28-2017 , 01:02 PM
The Dick Cheney quote is old. I'm sure he has changed his opinion by now because REASONS.
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01-28-2017 , 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Onlydo2days
Even Dick Cheney sayin this is a bad idea.

Mattis, Pence, Ryan have all spoken out against it in the past and I do feel like Trump could be persuaded by them. So why didn't they try to persuade?
Uh, because they don't care. Was this just a rhetorical question?
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01-28-2017 , 01:23 PM
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Originally Posted by ClarkNasty
Btw the requirement for getting a green card is to give up residency elsewhere.
This isn't true
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01-28-2017 , 01:51 PM
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Btw the requirement for getting a green card is to give up residency elsewhere.
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Originally Posted by StoppedRainingMen
This isn't true
You have to move to USA#1 and live here 6+ months of the year to keep the green card, but you keep your old passport, citizenship, and can keep a house or property back in the home country.

USA#1 has to be your primary residence unless you get some kind of waiver (not common unless you're working for USA#1).
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01-28-2017 , 01:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Riverman
Time for some civil disobedience.
I mean, yes that is true (and has been for a while re: executive orders). But if you think this is going to be what brings this on you're mistaken. Remember, Trump didn't take power through military coup. 60+ million people voted for him and millions more abstained from voting against him because they didn't care enough about him saying he's going to do EXACTLY THIS.

Don't think this is even going to be that unpopular. Americans really ****ing hate Muslims.
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01-28-2017 , 01:57 PM
Correction, YOU really hate muslims
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01-28-2017 , 02:03 PM
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Originally Posted by StoppedRainingMen
Correction, YOU really hate muslims
Delusional libtard continues to be massively clueless about the country he lives in and the people who inhabit it. More at 11.
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01-28-2017 , 02:04 PM
Libtard says THIS will finally be the thing that sinks Trump in the polls. Oh wait that one doesn't work anymore.
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01-28-2017 , 02:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Wooders0n
Just a thought but they could have tried not leaving the US to go back to Syria or Yemen or Iraq in the first place.
They wouldn't have had to return to their home country. They could have been on a holiday in France. They'd still have to return to the US with their original passport and GC.
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01-28-2017 , 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by diskoteque
Trump killing it, this ban is really good stuff.

I've never been back to Syria to visit family or anything but people I know who go back for long periods aren't even concerned.
How is it "really good stuff"?

What do you think it's going to accomplish?
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01-28-2017 , 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Wooders0n
The ACTUAL TERRORISTS are not the biggest problem with Islam and the way it currently exists in the world. This isn't just a few thousand extremeist. It's hundreds of millions of people. I'm not trying to solve the TERRORIST problem. I'm trying to solve the Islam problem (as it currently exists in the world, not the ideology of Islam). It just so happens that it would solve terrorism as a side effect.
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Because **** Iran that's why
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Originally Posted by Wooders0n
It's probably more "lol at western world allowing Islam to exist and be actively practiced" more than "lol religion" at this point
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Originally Posted by Wooders0n
Part of the problem. You're what allows sharia law to exist.
Bigot isn't actually a bigot. He's just WOKE and has the COURAGE to say what everyone's thinking. Or something about Bernie or DNC or emails idk

Ayo good **** tut
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01-28-2017 , 02:19 PM
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Originally Posted by heh
How is it "really good stuff"?

What do you think it's going to accomplish?
He likes that liberals hate it, and that's enough.
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01-28-2017 , 02:20 PM
Trump killing it tho.
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