But unlike America these countries have actual policies to protect nationals jobs.

This is nativism.

Which doesn’t make it any less wrong.

summer flings with people who called me “bella,”

LOL Italian men wanted nothing to do with American white women. They’ve gotten a reputation.

She wanted to be the center of their attention and them constantly begging her to participate in their ingroup, which she would scornfully decline as she’s not that kind of person. She’s going to be a journalist!

A semester abroad was required for her degree. Note that she could have done it anywhere, though. This is a common failing of immigrants: having some romantic idea of the place you want to go based mostly on media. Only to find once you get there it’s just another place, with people everywhere and expensive apartments and smelly cooking from the downstairs neighbors and public transportation that stops at 9pm. Paris Syndrome.

You’re supposed to party with them. That’s what “semester abroad” is for.

How much of a nerd do you have to be to stay in? The only way it could be worse is if she brought her video game system and bitched about it not fitting in to the 220v outlet.

AI will be the death of the text-based internet. You won’t be able to find a real human opinion in the torrent of forced thoughts from what the powerful in DC want you to think. Reddit is already over half bots, and this is going to make it much worse.

Remember when Sarah Palin called for the assassination of Rep. Giffords by putting crosshairs on her congressional district in mailings? And then one of Palin’s fans showed up at Gifford’s public appearance and shot her several times?

I remember going down the rabbit hole with this back in the days before bots took over Reddit. Evidently what’s happened is we’ve made dogs so dependent on us through domestication that they absolutely require this kind of treatment simply to survive. It’s like how milk cows wouldn’t survive a single winter in the fields.

And there is a rather large number of dog people who absolutely love this dependence. It’s been postulated that deep down, they miss the experience of having slaves and this is as close as they can get in this day and age.

“well if 1 in 10 M&Ms were poison would you eat any?! No, so why would you let in a Muslim that might be a terrorist!”

That was feminists. And they were talking about the 1 in 6 men who are rapists. I believe it was Andrea Dworkin who said every male is a potential rapist. Assume that every man has violated someone rather than assuming they’re innocent until proven guilty. Here’s a good writeup from the zeitgeist.

Next time you’re in a large, mixed group, count all the women, always count to six. Every six is your rape-victim. Count the men. Count to 15. 15 is your rapist. Fact is, the victims and the rapist just look like everybody else, you’d never have guessed.

Trump twisted that one to make it racist, of course.