by "El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!" (lightningzone)
Published 10/16/2017 at 03:38
by "El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!" (lightningzone)
Published 10/16/2017 at 03:38
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Think, for a moment, at a world without borders. It’s already happening in Europe. We should make it happen, globally.
"Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura" (sundowne36)
10/16/2017 at 03:43, STARS: 2
A world without borders, huh?
"duurtlang" (duurtlang)
10/16/2017 at 04:32, STARS: 0
Within the EU (so that excludes Switzerland, from the video) you simply drive on a highway and suddenly there’s a sign saying“welcome in [ new country ]”, indicating you’ve just crossed a border. At the Swiss border you can, theoretically, be stopped. The last time I went there, this June with the Oppo meet, we could just drive on. Last year, when I was participating in the Carbagerun in an old Galant with a muffler that had just become detached from the rest of the exhaust, we were stopped but could continue on after a minute or so.
"Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell." (oppisitelock)
10/16/2017 at 04:39, STARS: 1
Meanwhile the UK wants to take a step backwards...
"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
10/16/2017 at 05:01, STARS: 2
world without borders?
(Tony Abbott, former Australian Prime Minister)
"Nauraushaun" (nauraushaun12)
10/16/2017 at 05:43, STARS: 1
Didn’t Brexit just kick up a couple of borders?
"Nauraushaun" (nauraushaun12)
10/16/2017 at 05:44, STARS: 0
I bus tripped through 13 countries in Europe recently (including Switzerland), only got stopped going into England.
Of course most of those trips were during the day. But the time I got stopped was 3am and it was the last thing I wanted.
Of
course
looking back I’d give anything to be in that border control in France at 3am rather than back home pissed off at my job...
"Chinny Raccoon" (chinnyraccoon)
10/16/2017 at 06:03, STARS: 0
One thing I’d like to do is visit all of the Tri Points, although some aren’t really accessible.
"Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street." (demon-xanth)
10/16/2017 at 07:43, STARS: 2
The single biggest reason for the US border restrictions is for import/tariffs. People gotta make sure they get paid. And keep those evil R34s out.
"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
10/16/2017 at 07:53, STARS: 2
Legally speaking, traveling around the EU is much more like the US states and not the US vs Mexico or Canada (Switzerland is Canada, lol). Imagine how different things would be if Germany was physically adjacent to Turkey, for example.
I’m totally against the optics of a Mexico border wall. We can’t fix our failure to enforce the law for 50 years by putting up a physical barrier. Where’s the discussion about the low birth rate necessitating immigration? The need for labor is pretty predictable. If natives dont fill it, immigrants do. That’s fine with me...if they do it legally.
"TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts." (thebloody)
10/16/2017 at 08:57, STARS: 1
When I visit my cousins in Basel we normally head into Germany to buy groceries
"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
10/16/2017 at 09:14, STARS: 0
Interesting that the Rhine actually belongs to France, all the way up to where it hits the German shoreline. I just learned this and, well, this is the front line of WWIII once Germany learns this. MAKE DAS RHEINLAND GREAT AGAIN
"Eric @ opposite-lock.com" (theyrerolling)
10/16/2017 at 09:35, STARS: 2
You’re right, people make too much of the “country” title in the EU. US states are basically countries (hence “states”) by any other measure unified under a common government not unlike the EU (aside from the military).
Immigration to make up for a low birth rate is a bad solution to a manufactured problem. That “problem” is a belief that you need ever-expanding population for growth, which you don’t. All you really need is productivity gains, which are far more effective than immigration, especially after the industrial revolution. It isn’t 1850 anymore, with a nearly-uninhabited frontier and almost unlimited demand for unskilled labor. Successful countries in the modern era produce surplus under-skilled labor that migrates out of the country, while failed countries produce skilled labor that must migrate to acquire employment.
Our culture is so screwed up that the last time the population produced children above replacement level was in the 1960s. Most of the countries of origin of immigrants are just as screwed up as ours and their offspring end up just like the children of people that grew up here, so you lose all the bonus birth rate within a single generation. If leadership in developed countries wasn’t so short-sighted and simply focused on maintaining maximum equality, families in developed nations would be producing children well above replacement level, but instead they’re treading water and producing fewer (mostly to maintain a decent lifestyle). When your only answer to a low birth rate is importing people accustomed to poverty to supplement your existing impoverished population, you are a miserable failure.
Poaching some top talent is different, but a truly competitive country should be producing an outsized amount of it to begin with.