Immigration: good or bad?

The country with the largest percentage of immigrants is....Israel. By far most of its inhabitants are (children of) immigrants. From Russia, Poland, USA...

Currently a lot of Israelis want to return to their homelands because the sane world doesn't believe propaganda ('Hasbara') anymore. If I were a zionist, I would not proudly state that I am. 

If your countrymen left in hopes of a better life in a country where they welcome racists, pedophiles, rapists and other criminals, would you let them back in?

For argument's sake, let's say conspiracists are right and the ever mysterious 'they' really want to destroy 'our country!' That could mean many countries because wappies don't only exist in the United States of America. If I were 'they', I would convince people to get their leaders to close the borders.

In many countries there are racists who are lead to believe that closing the borders is the best solution for all of their problems. Especially in the US that movement is bigly.

So let's take that country as an example.

What do you think will happen if Donald Trump and all those millions of other ((grand)children of) immigrants get their way and the US is soon a zero-migration country?

Don't worry using your brain to think, someone has already done that for you:

In 2025 the fertility rate in the US is around 1.7. For comparison: in Europe it's around 1.5. To make sure a population doesn't die out, the birth rate has to be at least 2.1: two to replace the two parents and a bit extra to make up for those who don't procreate for whatever reason. 

Many people in 'the west' don't want to become parents 'because I will lose my freedom and kids are expensive'. It's why governments of civilised countries (partially) pay parents child support, parental leave (for both parents) and suppress the costs of day care. Like in The Netherlands:

In order to make sure the country still exists in a few hundred year, western countries better let in more immigrants. "Yes, but what if immigrants come here and impose their habits and religion upon the original inhabitants?" Fair question. And the answer is simple: they already have. Some 55% of alle US citizens are (descendants of) European immigrants.

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It's true because it's written in ancient Hebrew!

Some (looking at you, evangelicals and zionists) believe that the older a text is, the more 'truth' it holds.

Which is nonsense. In both modern and ancient times writers lied, were wrong, fantasized, wrote while on drugs, wrote parabels and fairy tales...

Believing 'It must be true because someone once wrote it down!' just means you're probably in a cult.

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Storytelling has always been the number one means of changing people's minds towards a certain goal. Fairy tales were originally quite grim warning tales. Told to children so they wouldn't wander away in the forest and 'get their souls snatched by the forest spirits', 'get eaten by the big bad wolf' and so on.

Unfortunately people greedy for power, land, money noticed people believed everything they were told. As long as the story is repeated often enough. With the invention of writing, books, newspapers, radio, television and social media demagogues had more tools to control the masses. Succesfully.

Just look at how many millions of people believe anything as long as they are convinced their sources are reliable. "I can trust this podcaster because he told me so!" is not different from: "Everything in the Bible is true because it says so in the Bible!" 

When people use the Bible as justification for bigotry, I ask them which translation, which version and which verse. Fake christians can never answer Bible questions. Because they never actually read the Bible but simply repeat dumb right wing talking points. 

Go on, try it: ask a christo-fascist to name five christian values.

Fake christians don't know simple facts. Like that the Catholic Bible consists of 73, Orthodox Catholics have a book collection ('Biblio'->'Bible') of 76  books but the Protestant one only holds 66. Which is still a lot of books full of cautionary tales, fiction and contradictions. But the Ethiopian Orthodox Church wins with a total number of 81 Bible Books their leaders decided not to withold from their flock.

If you were to count all the 'sacred' pieced of texts that were found in the Levant, you could form a Bible that contains 263 books.

Why do you think church leaders withold information from their flock?

Because sheeple are easier to control if they believe in a certain narrative.

Because fascists...pardon...zionists might change their minds if they were to find out their form of zionism was invented late 19th century, has little to do with Judaism and the actual early Jews would hate them for using an invented language they call 'Hebrew'. Ancient Hebrew was only used for sacred texts, not to scold muslims, christians and homosexuals. And not to laugh: "Ha, that shot felt good!" when you shoot a child through the head. 

What do you know about the Bible?

The Loss of Innocence (a #CirclePoem: the first and last line are identical)

The loss of innocence

reminds us of the time

we thought the world was ours

as we were taught

But reality struck

hard

and all we can do

is comfort eachother

and try to do good

while we mourn

the loss of innocence

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