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BlueNinja0 The Mod with the Migraine from Taking a left at Albuquerque Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
The Mod with the Migraine
#26: Jan 28th 2011 at 12:31:23 AM

you're aware of Mexicos illegal immigration problem at their southern border? - Deboss
Yes, but the border there will be so much smaller, we can patrol it with the same number of people!

As for Texas, while I do applaud the home defense laws, and wish that more states had laws like it  *

, I would have too many other problems to live there myself, starting with their education system that seems to want public schools run like Evangelical pep rallies.

That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw
Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
I see the Awesomeness.
#27: Jan 28th 2011 at 2:01:28 AM

Pep rallies, while annoying, are easy to skip if the librarians like you.

Fight smart, not fair.
Barkey Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#28: Jan 28th 2011 at 2:40:16 AM

^^

I agree.

And it isn't necessarily ITL to patrol a smaller border with the same amount of folks, means it'd be that much more secure.

And I mean shit, at the rate this country is going Mexico is going to annex us before we annex them.

edited 28th Jan '11 2:40:35 AM by Barkey

JosefBugman Since: Nov, 2009
#29: Jan 28th 2011 at 4:18:58 AM

Population of mexico: 112,322,757.

Population of United States: 308,745,538

Unlikely that you will be outnumbered really. And for the love of God this ludicrous paranoia is as bad as all the people in Britain who went mental about "Oh god too many polish people", its just sad.

edited 28th Jan '11 4:20:46 AM by JosefBugman

AllanAssiduity Since: Dec, 1969
#30: Jan 28th 2011 at 5:34:13 AM

They're coming over 'ere, an' takin' our jobs...

pvtnum11 OMG NO NOSECONES from Kerbin low orbit Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
OMG NO NOSECONES
#31: Jan 28th 2011 at 10:36:42 AM

Best way to fix Mexico and their drug problems - annex them. Well, ask them if they'd like to be part of the union, of course...

Happiness is zero-gee with a sinus cold.
Karkadinn Karkadinn from New Orleans, Louisiana Since: Jul, 2009
Karkadinn
#32: Jan 28th 2011 at 10:41:01 AM

How about we stop trying to use 'Take it over' as the default solution to every problem, seeing as how we can't even run the country we've already got that well to begin with? I think you'll find that if marijuana were legalized, the drug cartels in Mexico would be a great deal less problematic.

edited 28th Jan '11 10:42:21 AM by Karkadinn

Furthermore, I think Guantanamo must be destroyed.
pvtnum11 OMG NO NOSECONES from Kerbin low orbit Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
OMG NO NOSECONES
#33: Jan 28th 2011 at 10:47:56 AM

Jeez, can't make some jokes around here... cool

I'm actually open to that suggestion. We tax alcohol and tobacco a bunch, we could get a good sum of money on Marijuana and regulate it so it's not laced with bad crap, too. The problem is this - if we legalize it, does Mexico consider it to be legal as well?

Happiness is zero-gee with a sinus cold.
breadloaf Since: Oct, 2010
#34: Jan 28th 2011 at 10:57:30 AM

Mexico matters? Canada wouldn't mind and USA is the only roadblock to us legalising it because of the constant threats of trade sanctions. We'll throw marijuana under the NAFTA agreement too, free trade ftw.

I think as far as conservative economic policy goes, Texas is hardly the worst. They're pretty middle of the pack as far as I can see, but I never looked that closely at Texas. Florida though, man do they suck.

pvtnum11 OMG NO NOSECONES from Kerbin low orbit Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
OMG NO NOSECONES
#35: Jan 28th 2011 at 11:05:16 AM

I think it's everywhere. The recession didn't help at all. Even Hawaii is projecting to run close to a billion in the hole. Abercrombie is fixing to piss off organized labor by saying that they need to make concessions to help balance the budget - the same peopel who voted him into office. I guess he loooked at the budget and went "Oh, Crap!."

Happiness is zero-gee with a sinus cold.
Barkey Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#36: Jan 28th 2011 at 11:59:23 AM

Population of mexico: 112, 322, 757.

Population of United States: 308, 745, 538

Unlikely that you will be outnumbered really. And for the love of God this ludicrous paranoia is as bad as all the people in Britain who went mental about "Oh god too many polish people", its just sad.

And how would you feel if all the signs in your neighborhood started being written in Polish, and all the radio stations were now playing polish music?

JosefBugman Since: Nov, 2009
#37: Jan 28th 2011 at 12:01:14 PM

Well 1. It would be profoundly unlikely since I live in Cheshire, one of the most white and conservative areas of Britain.

2. If it was in addition to the normal street signs and radio stations? I actually wouldn't mind all that much, I need to learn another language anyway.

Barkey Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#38: Jan 28th 2011 at 12:27:32 PM

Well, that's not how I feel about it. I'm sick of going to stores and having the clerk look at me weird because I'm the one who doesn't understand him in my own country.

Yamikuronue So Yeah Since: Aug, 2009
#39: Jan 28th 2011 at 12:28:51 PM

And yet if you were born here into a primarily Spanish-speaking family, you'd get even worse crap than the occasional inability to read a sign. Not only would everyone be speaking your second language, you'd also be accused of being illegal and 'stealing American jobs' and told to 'go home'.

BTW, I'm a chick.
Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
I see the Awesomeness.
#40: Jan 28th 2011 at 12:28:53 PM

I'm almost positive he said "replaced".

Fight smart, not fair.
Barkey Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#41: Jan 28th 2011 at 12:30:41 PM

^^

All the kids in families like that that I knew growing up in So Cal learned fluent english very quickly from a young age via things like public school, they usually ended up translators for their parents.

JosefBugman Since: Nov, 2009
#42: Jan 28th 2011 at 12:38:55 PM

"started being written in" is not the same as "replaced" Deboss.

In short I can see why you are worried, but there are larger things to worry about than the language of signs and radio stations.

Yamikuronue So Yeah Since: Aug, 2009
#43: Jan 28th 2011 at 12:46:13 PM

It's still a second language and you didn't address the shit they get for being hispanic.

BTW, I'm a chick.
jewelleddragon Also known as Katz from Pasadena, CA Since: Apr, 2009
Also known as Katz
#44: Jan 28th 2011 at 1:27:54 PM

Given that any other country you go to will feature plenty of signs and radio stations in English, the correct response might just be a gracious acknowledgment that the world doesn't revolve around you.

Barkey Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#45: Jan 28th 2011 at 1:39:47 PM

^^

What does that have to do with there being way too damn many of them?

I mean shit, where I live, I'm a minority. I'm not too damn sympathetic.

edited 28th Jan '11 1:43:19 PM by Barkey

JosefBugman Since: Nov, 2009
#46: Jan 28th 2011 at 3:42:33 PM

Are you a minority in your country? No? Well oh no you are actually just part of a different neighbourhood. I lived for 3 years in a primarily Islamic part of Leeds, there was a mosque about 2 streets away and enough arabic posters to technically count as idolatry.

Its all just ephemeral stuff dude, why does it matter all that much?

Barkey Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#47: Jan 28th 2011 at 3:58:28 PM

It matters when it's my entire tri-county area, an area almost the size of your entire country at that.

edited 28th Jan '11 3:58:45 PM by Barkey

Yamikuronue So Yeah Since: Aug, 2009
#48: Jan 28th 2011 at 4:01:02 PM

You're complaining about having to see the Spanish language on a sign every once in a while.

I mean, that's pretty much the definition of entitlement there.

BTW, I'm a chick.
Barkey Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#49: Jan 28th 2011 at 4:01:49 PM

No, not once in a while, it's commonplace where I live. It seriously does feel like an invasion here, especially since I remember what it was like a decade ago.

It makes me uncomfortable, and I don't like it. I'm not in the "Deport Everyone!!11!!" camp of things, but it doesn't mean I have to like it.

edited 28th Jan '11 4:03:55 PM by Barkey

Yamikuronue So Yeah Since: Aug, 2009
#50: Jan 28th 2011 at 4:04:07 PM

How does it hurt you? I mean, you just come off as xenophobic for the sake of xenophobia.

edited 28th Jan '11 4:04:29 PM by Yamikuronue

BTW, I'm a chick.

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