(01-21-2018 09:16 PM)Cobra Wrote: This is laughable. Last time I checked, being born here isn't the only thing that makes you an actual American citizen. So what you're saying is honorable military service doesnt matter but getting on the forum and screaming muh America does?
I served with many guys of all colors and origins. Some were more dedicated than others but there were many "born somewhere else" that were better than "actual Americans" at their jobs and dedication to their units and commands. Vice versa too but you get my point.
Some of the biggest degenerates I have known were born here and take more than they contribute.
Quote:This is laughable. Last time I checked, being born here isn't the only thing that makes you an actual American citizen. So what you're saying is honorable military service doesnt matter but getting on the forum and screaming muh America does?
(01-21-2018 10:16 PM)SamuelBRoberts Wrote: This is a simple fact, and it's understood implicitly in every other part of the world. I spend almost half my year in Japan. I'm a history buff, and I know Japanese history better than many Japanese people. But the Meiji Restoration, when Japan rose out of backwards poverty to become a world power, means something different to them than it does to me. I like studying religions, and can tell you all kinds of obscure facts about Japanese Shinto and Buddhism, far beyond what your average Japanese guy does. But the sight of a torii arch, and the long stone steps leading up to a shrine, means something totally different to me than it does to a Japanese man who walked up steps just like them at midnight in the cold on every January 1st for 30 years. I'm a good cook. I can make better sukiyaki than your average Japanese housewife. But when I eat the sukiyaki, it tastes a little different to me than it does to the housewife, who sat down with her parents around a boiling pot of white cabbage, negi onions and thinly sliced beef stew to celebrate the time she passed her middle school enterance exams.
I can, and do, spend a lot of time in Japan. I speak the language fluently, I know enough about the nation's culture and history to pass any citizenship test you could devise, I don't break laws, and I bring in a lot of valuable know-how that contributes to the Japanese economy. I would pass the "evaluation" you speak of with flying colors. But I am not Japanese, I will never be Japanese, and I will never even comprehend what it means to be Japanese, any more than I could understand what it means to be a bat, or a tiger. It is not my country, and it will never be my country, and if I were to get Japanese citizenship I would never in a million years dream of telling the people there that they had to let in a bunch of immigrants like me, because we're better people than they are. If I tried they'd be fully justified in shipping me on the next plane out of Narita, and making me pay for the ticket.
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(01-21-2018 10:21 PM)iop890 Wrote: I don't want to deport all non-whites. I want to close the borders and deport all illegal invaders.
(01-21-2018 10:35 PM)Dusty Wrote: What’s with the arrogance of IRTs in America anyway? We saw a couple examples on this thread recently. We saw it on the Project Veritas hidden video of IRTs talking down “red necks” ( e.g., who they perceive to be degenerate white Americans who don’t hate their country).
I saw an article about possibly reducing HB1 visas, and all these “Sanjay’s” were in the comments section saying America needs Indians because Americans are too dumb and Indians are better.
It’s always the same, their perceived superiority over white Americans and how we “need more of them.”
Is it the caste system? I don’t know. I don’t know their ways anymore than they know mine (real American here).
And what’s hysterical about this superiority complex, look at how Indian societies function. Shitholes.
(01-21-2018 10:35 PM)Dusty Wrote: What’s with the arrogance of IRTs in America anyway? We saw a couple examples on this thread recently. We saw it on the Project Veritas hidden video of IRTs talking down “red necks” ( e.g., who they perceive to be degenerate white Americans who don’t hate their country).
I saw an article about possibly reducing HB1 visas, and all these “Sanjay’s” were in the comments section saying America needs Indians because Americans are too dumb and Indians are better.
It’s always the same, their perceived superiority over white Americans and how we “need more of them.”
Is it the caste system? I don’t know. I don’t know their ways anymore than they know mine (real American here).
And what’s hysterical about this superiority complex, look at how Indian societies function. Shitholes.
(01-21-2018 09:44 PM)iop890 Wrote:(01-21-2018 09:38 PM)El Chinito loco Wrote: I think the general sentiment is that non whites can't be ideologically, racially, or culturally American no matter what the situation and should all be deported en masse.
If there were any immigrants that voted for smaller government as a group I would welcome them, this has never happened however. All immigrant groups so far have chosen to be ingrates and vote for the destruction of their host nation while talking about how much better they are than the degenerate natives.
(01-21-2018 09:38 PM)El Chinito loco Wrote: Place of birth is a minor detail.
I think the general sentiment is that non whites can't be ideologically, racially, or culturally American no matter what the situation and should all be deported en masse.
I'm not casting value judgement on that sentiment but just pointing it out as it's oft repeated in these ideological debates.
When people draw hard line ideological line in the sand like this and take it into the mainstream that's when things will get real interesting indeed.
I give it a decade.
(01-21-2018 09:41 PM)zigZag Wrote: Green card holders are LEGAL residents. They aren't citizens. They asked permission to come into the house and stayed. DACA are illegals. There is a difference. I will never disrespect immigrants and for me immigration is foundational to this country. What is unacceptable is Illegal immigration. We have those laws for a reason.
(01-21-2018 10:16 PM)SamuelBRoberts Wrote:(01-21-2018 09:16 PM)Cobra Wrote: This is laughable. Last time I checked, being born here isn't the only thing that makes you an actual American citizen. So what you're saying is honorable military service doesnt matter but getting on the forum and screaming muh America does?
I served with many guys of all colors and origins. Some were more dedicated than others but there were many "born somewhere else" that were better than "actual Americans" at their jobs and dedication to their units and commands. Vice versa too but you get my point.
Some of the biggest degenerates I have known were born here and take more than they contribute.
Look at the fundamental premise of your post: American citizenship is a reward given to people who are "better" than other people. As long as you "earn" it, you should have it. In your mind, it's like a cushy job position that should go to the most deserving, provided they pass an "evaluation".
Never mind what happens to the people who are already living here, whether they would like to have their culture transformed by a flood of immigrants, or whether they want to compete with millions more for jobs. They don't get a say in the matter.
I would rather have a thousand of your "biggest degenerates" than one person like you, who thinks that this country is a giant job application and that anyone who meets the requirements should be allowed in. I can deal with degenerates. I can avoid them, I can ignore them, and worst comes to worst I can have them jailed when they break the law.
You, on the other hand, are a cancer. Left to your own devices you'll turn this nation into a giant swamp of a million ethnic groups, none of whom give the slightest damn about the people whose home this is. A "degenerate" is a nuisance, but you are poison.
Quote:This is laughable. Last time I checked, being born here isn't the only thing that makes you an actual American citizen. So what you're saying is honorable military service doesnt matter but getting on the forum and screaming muh America does?
I am an American, not by virtue of the fact that I'm "screaming muh America" on a forum, but because this is my home, in a way that it will never, ever be yours. Everything I see, every emotion I have, every experience I have is filtered through the lens of American culture that I grew up in, and you did not. The American flag means something to me that it doesn't to you. A Christmas tree means something to me that it doesn't to you. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, the liberty bell, a billion other things that I can't even list, down to the tiniest miniature like chicken wings and the way a maple leaf turns color in the fall, all of them hold a meaning to me that I can't explain, and you will never, ever comprehend.
This is a simple fact, and it's understood implicitly in every other part of the world. I spend almost half my year in Japan. I'm a history buff, and I know Japanese history better than many Japanese people. But the Meiji Restoration, when Japan rose out of backwards poverty to become a world power, means something different to them than it does to me. I like studying religions, and can tell you all kinds of obscure facts about Japanese Shinto and Buddhism, far beyond what your average Japanese guy does. But the sight of a torii arch, and the long stone steps leading up to a shrine, means something totally different to me than it does to a Japanese man who walked up steps just like them at midnight in the cold on every January 1st for 30 years. I'm a good cook. I can make better sukiyaki than your average Japanese housewife. But when I eat the sukiyaki, it tastes a little different to me than it does to the housewife, who sat down with her parents around a boiling pot of white cabbage, negi onions and thinly sliced beef stew to celebrate the time she passed her middle school enterance exams.
I can, and do, spend a lot of time in Japan. I speak the language fluently, I know enough about the nation's culture and history to pass any citizenship test you could devise, I don't break laws, and I bring in a lot of valuable know-how that contributes to the Japanese economy. I would pass the "evaluation" you speak of with flying colors. But I am not Japanese, I will never be Japanese, and I will never even comprehend what it means to be Japanese, any more than I could understand what it means to be a bat, or a tiger. It is not my country, and it will never be my country, and if I were to get Japanese citizenship I would never in a million years dream of telling the people there that they had to let in a bunch of immigrants like me, because we're better people than they are. If I tried they'd be fully justified in shipping me on the next plane out of Narita, and making me pay for the ticket.
I am an American. You are a person with his name on a sheet of paper that reads "citizen". So you have no right to try and change this place. It's not yours to change.
(01-21-2018 09:58 PM)doc holliday Wrote: Sam this is just pathetic. You sound like a white IRT here. No one here in this discussion is advocating flooding America with third world immigrants to fundamentally change America. That's what all the white leftists want but according to you, you have more kinship with them than some one like Cobra who probably agrees with 90% of your political and social views but is brown. Just because said leftists are white and were born in America.
(01-22-2018 01:31 AM)Wutang Wrote: Did you inadvertently say that you have more in common with your typical soy boy rather than someone like Roosh?
(01-22-2018 02:00 AM)Wutang Wrote: Can these cultural nuances ever be transmitted to someone who was say born to parents who are from else where but who himself was born and raised in the country? Or are you asserting some sort of blood memory theory where these sort of cultural traits can never be passed outside of a particular bloodline?