An undocumented immigrant graduates from university. This, naturally, causes drama in r/wholesomememes.
49 2018-07-27 by Ghdust2
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1 BussyShillBot 2018-07-27
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1 cmakk1012 2018-07-27
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1 tgrandiflora 2018-07-27
Illegals are taxpayers in the same way that a jewel thief who steals the Hope Diamond from the Smithsonian and buys a snack from a vending machine on his way out is a paying customer.
No one gives a fuck if some lowlife who stole $200k from the public through welfare fraud paid $500 in taxes.
To no one's great surprise, illiterate vagrants with a 9th grade education (at best) tend to cost the system a fuckton more than they'll ever pay in taxes. America has enough homegrown low IQ retards without importing millions more from south of the border because the homegrown low IQ retards are getting uppity.
1 pitterpatterwater 2018-07-27
Illegals actually pay more invades than they take in welfare. HuffPo is normally shit but it's got a good explanation on this issue. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/no-undocumented-immigrants-arent-stealing-your-benefits_us_5a144263e4b010527d6780b0
1 pitterpatterwater 2018-07-27
Illegals pay 90 million in taxes and use 5 million in welfare. https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/addressing-common-questions-immigration
1 tgrandiflora 2018-07-27
Apropos of 9th grade educations, is it customary where you come from to cite a paper on an unrepresentative, cherry-picked subset of child refugees who are a subset of legal immigrants when the topic is border-crossing illegal immigrants?
That NBER study is a massive crock of shit, BTW.
Let's say a superbly-educated child refugee who speaks perfect English enters the US at age 13 ("refugees that enter the U.S. before age 14 graduate high school and enter college at the same rate as natives"). Let's say it only costs $16,000 per year to support this genius child refugee through high school and $20,000 per year through college (totaling $160,000). (In reality, independently-conducted studies have found that each refugee costs the UK $70,000 per year and the US $80,000 per year for the first 6+ years, putting the 6-year cost per refugee between $420,000 and $480,000.)
Now let's say our genius child refugee gets a $60,000 per year job immediately after graduating, stays single, and pays tax at one of the highest state + federal rates in the nation (CA). That's a net $15,000 per year in taxes under the highly unrealistic assumption of $0 benefit use after graduating college. Assume our erstwhile child genius stays single and consumes $0 in benefits for the next 11 years while paying $15,000 in taxes each year.
The NBER study claims "refugees pay $21,000 more in taxes than they receive in benefits over their first 20 years in the U.S." So how much more in taxes does our best case scenario genius refugee pay than they receive in benefits over their first 20 years in the U.S.? $5,000. NBER is full of shit.
1 pitterpatterwater 2018-07-27
So can you actually refute anything said in the study? Sorry but 10 minute ballpark hypotheticals mean jack shit if you don't refute the study's data or its methods.
1 pitterpatterwater 2018-07-27
So can you actually refute anything said in the study? Sorry but 10 minute ballpark hypotheticals mean jack shit if you don't refute the study's data or its methods.
1 tgrandiflora 2018-07-27
That's where you're wrong kiddo. 10 minute ballpark back of the envelope hypotheticals are more than enough to win swing votes, and at the end of the day, that's all that counts.
Nothing could be more mistaken than to thoroughly refute the academic. That is just what the academic wants. He can invent a new crock of shit every day for you to respond to, and the result is that you spends all your time thoroughly refuting bullshit.
1 shimmy_shimmy_ya 2018-07-27
lol are you trying to subvert Bertrand Russell's "you can't debate a fascist" thing? All you're doing is making yourself look like an anti-intellectual jackass.
1 pitterpatterwater 2018-07-27
This isn't an election, this is a debate. You need to provide good sources.
1 Boring_normie 2018-07-27
"An actual government funded study is a crock of shit, here's what I came up with with 5 minutes and a calculator and it's totally way more credible!"
1 tgrandiflora 2018-07-27
Gotta hand it to you, you made me do a double take. Turns out the study was funded by Catholic Charities USA via LEO @ ND.
Okay, class, let's put on our critical thinking caps. Can anyone tell me why a non-peer reviewed working paper funded by Catholic Charities USA might not be a model of objectivity and academic rigor when it comes to the purported economic benefits of refugees?
Hint: Before Trump's travel ban the federal government was paying Catholic Charities USA 32 million dollars a year to help resettle the refugees it brought in.
Critical thinking exercise: can you think of a reason why Catholic Charities USA might want to oversell the economic benefits of refugees so the government keeps bringing them in?
Because I can think of 32 million reasons why. Now look at the date on the study. Does that sound like credible research to you? Because if it does, I've got some really great stuff from Philip Morris USA to show you.
1 Boring_normie 2018-07-27
I'm gonna need a source
1 tgrandiflora 2018-07-27
Have you tried looking at the part of the paper that says 'Acknowledgements' in big, bold letters?
1 youcanteatbullets 2018-07-27
This is the dumbest comment in the history of reddit. Congratulations.
1 tgrandiflora 2018-07-27
The competition is stiff but I give it my best.
1 shimmy_shimmy_ya 2018-07-27
lol what exactly are illegal immigrants stealing?
1 pitterpatterwater 2018-07-27
Welfare, aka what they pay for in the form of income tax and contributions to the workforce/economy.
1 Playertwo_002 2018-07-27
Okay, show me where it says that the girl in the picture, and her father, were paying taxes. I need all the information before making a claim, because for all we know they were being paid cash under the table somewhere.
1 pitterpatterwater 2018-07-27
That's irrelevant; I'm talking about migrants in general.
They likely have; migrants tend to pay taxes.
1 Playertwo_002 2018-07-27
Okay Iām not talking about migrants in general Iām talking about this specific case. You just keep saying ālikelyā or ātendā but canāt actually prove anything.
1 pitterpatterwater 2018-07-27
Got it, you're irrelevant to this discussion, which is about illegals in general.
1 Playertwo_002 2018-07-27
Um no, this started about a specific girl who was talking about losing her scholarship and in-state tuition because sheās here illegally. I spoke about her. You couldnāt let that go and made a whole new thread to āprove me wrongā, talking about stuff I wasnāt even defending. I never said all illegals donāt pay taxes. I said we donāt know if this girl does. Youāre just making up an argument to try to win, or prove something to yourself, or some irrelevant thing I donāt care about.
āYouāre irrelevant to this dissuasion.ā This isnāt a discussion dude, this is you stating arbitrary facts to me, which are actually informative, but donāt prove me wrong in anyway.
1 pitterpatterwater 2018-07-27
That's the thread in general, m8. This specific comment chain is about immigration in general.
1 Playertwo_002 2018-07-27
Okay I donāt wanna talk about specific immigration, I never did, I wanted to talk about the original post.
āMakes you look like a fagā. Glad to see you have no legitimate criticism so you divert to name-calling and personal attacks to get your point across.
Also, r/drama sounds like a collective circle-jerk for people that one to be apart of something that canāt IRL or are just looking to start trouble.
1 pitterpatterwater 2018-07-27
Yes, it does make you look like a fag.
Imagone expecting rational debate in /r/drama.
1 Playertwo_002 2018-07-27
Lol the fact that you had to go back and retrospectively change your comment pretty much proves your arguing no points nor saying anything worth anyoneās times anywhere
1 pitterpatterwater 2018-07-27
Changed 10 minutes before you replied lol, as you can from the lack of asterisk.
1 Playertwo_002 2018-07-27
āAs you can from the lack of asteriskā try forming a coherent sentence again
1 pitterpatterwater 2018-07-27
Can you read?
1 Playertwo_002 2018-07-27
Did you mean āAs you can tell from the lack of asteriskā?
1 pitterpatterwater 2018-07-27
Fag.
1 TrailerParkBride 2018-07-27
I don't get this shit. Even from a social justice perspective it's flat-out unfair. I'm generally in favor of amnesty for assimilated illegal immigrants, but why should somebody who commits fraud to gain university admission and funding get prioritization, let alone support, for putting more weight onto an already overburdened system. Why the everliving fuck should they expect subsidized public secondary education when citizens in their 20s and 30s are often struggling to make ends meet while paying off the same degrees? Especially if said individual is a citizen of a country that offers free university. Fuck this shit. It's one thing to come here and work for a better life, but parasitizing an overburdened system that doesn't even work for the people it was built for is morally indefensible.
1 d-amazo 2018-07-27
why are people so incredibly against entering countries legally? why do some folks just think anyone should be allowed to walk across borders into any country they want?
1 mcslibbin 2018-07-27
because that's as big a strawman as "conservatives want to exterminate illegal immigrants"
1 d-amazo 2018-07-27
if there aren't people who actually think in those ways then what's all the fighting about?
1 mcslibbin 2018-07-27
people are retarded, what do you expect them to do
1 sevgee 2018-07-27
You've obviously never been to r/neoliberal
1 mcslibbin 2018-07-27
why would i
1 sevgee 2018-07-27
I mean I didn't say you should, but they're big on open borders shit over there
1 BigPriceToupee 2018-07-27
nothing says 'radical centrist' like toeing the far right party line on immigration
1 sevgee 2018-07-27
What
1 Folf_IRL 2018-07-27
This is a common strategy nowadays by some members of the left, where they will take a reasonable position of the right such as "People should be required to come into the country only by the legal immigration process," and then claim it's either the Nazi position or just fabricate a new position that is a far-right position and pretend that's what's being argued about.
1 froibo 2018-07-27
Sure that's reasonable, it's the foaming at the mouth about the issue that is strange.
1 Folf_IRL 2018-07-27
I mean, if you legitimately give a shit about the rights of the laborer, you tend to want to do all that you can to prevent people from getting into situations where they can be exploited.
If a person comes into the US illegally, they put themselves in a position where they will be exploited by companies who will pay them below a minimum wage and potentially blackmail them with deportation if they complain. All the while, they're driving down the price of manual labor by greatly increasing the supply of human bodies while simultaneously being willing to work for pennies on the dollar.
1 froibo 2018-07-27
We don't have the birthrate to not have immigrants. If we eliminated illegals to 0, we would have to accept more anyway. A lot of it is wasted effort.
Yeah, we would probably have a better quality people, but we would have to spend a shit ton of effort and money to do it. Bitching about an illegal graduating college is pointless, because that is the exact sort of person we want here.
1 Folf_IRL 2018-07-27
...are you trying to imply that everyone who immigrates to the United States is here illegally?
As long as they go through the channels to get here legally. Everyone should be treated equally, regardless of education level. Especially when, in the countries these people tend to come from, a decent education is something only the rich are able to afford.
1 froibo 2018-07-27
What.. How did you gather that implication. I am saying we have a certain quota of immigrants that we need. If we spend more effort reducing illegals, we need to also spend more resources vetting legal immigrants.
1 captainpriapism 2018-07-27
lol no it isnt otherwise people wouldnt be crying about illegals getting detained
1 mcslibbin 2018-07-27
i think it was the whole "children being separated from their parents" thing. Which is good, because the government is trying to put them pack together now.
1 captainpriapism 2018-07-27
omg i robbed a bank and im in jail now the government is taking my children away! theyre nazis!
and keeping them together now means put in the same cage or deported together
1 mcslibbin 2018-07-27
Counterpoint: Republicans lost the PR war on immigrants so now this is what we gotta do.
It's America. The president is from reality TV. the PR matters.
1 captainpriapism 2018-07-27
i think youll find its only stupid people being vocal and you cant gauge public opinion that easily
1 BigPriceToupee 2018-07-27
Orly?
Stupid People Being Vocal is the entire Trump demographic
1 froibo 2018-07-27
Says the Australian. Please tell us more about a county on the opposite side of the world.
1 captainpriapism 2018-07-27
let me tell you about a wild new invention called the internet that gives me access to the same information as you
1 froibo 2018-07-27
How the fuck would you know the difference between noise and actual public opinion if you aren't actually here?
1 captainpriapism 2018-07-27
lol are you for real
the louder the media yells about something the more theyre compensating for a lack of public consensus
all surveys have shown that something like 80% of americans at least staunchly oppose disbanding ice
most people couldnt give a shit about muh separated children, its only the same retards that wear pussy hats and protest against russian interference and their opinions dont mean anything even if theyre repeated ad nauseum in the media
1 froibo 2018-07-27
I don't support disbanding ICE and I also don't think illegal immigration is as big of a deal as the right is making it, so what is your point?
1 captainpriapism 2018-07-27
well tell your fellow democrats because theyre apparently in love with the idea of courting illegals and idiot twenty somethings
fucking occasio cortez, maxine waters and keith ellison lol cmon they gotta get real at some point
1 Boring_normie 2018-07-27
Robbing a bank isn't even remotely comparable to crossing a border.
1 BigPriceToupee 2018-07-27
It is if the person doing the crossing has skin pigmentation that makes Ofays nervous. Actualy it's worse. It's right up there with daring to put your country atop America's oil
1 BigPriceToupee 2018-07-27
Robbed a bank /=/ walking across an imaginary line
1 IFuckedZoeQuinn 2018-07-27
Well first it was "children in cages." Then it turned out that it was all a huge lie by the leftist media, using pictures that came from a random liberal protest and trying to pass them off as the real deal.
That's when they switched to "le children separated from le parents šš¢š" which they curiously had no issue with when it was happening under the Obama administration.
1 DrRockzosCocaine 2018-07-27
Were those the pictures that one "reporter" kept linking in her AMA where everyone on reddit was ripping her a new one? There's just too much shit to keep track of/even care about at this point lol
1 mcslibbin 2018-07-27
I think it's probably because Trump is a bad president
1 shimmy_shimmy_ya 2018-07-27
Why would the media want to end capitalism?
1 BigPriceToupee 2018-07-27
Because Alien Jews From a Corporate Galaxy
1 ioiidnsksi 2018-07-27
trump did absolutely nothing wrong separating criminals from their children
1 shanewater 2018-07-27
Personally I think kids should be kept together with their pedo parents. #loveconquersall
1 BigPriceToupee 2018-07-27
lol@"leftist media"
got any tooth-fairy pics, or a cool story about that time you and Sasquatch caught an antifa and made him eat a moose turd pie?
1 IFuckedZoeQuinn 2018-07-27
Lol dude there are highly upvoted comments in that very thread saying "no one is illegal" and demanding completely open borders. There is no strawman here. Just weak, pathetic liberal wimps whose fathers never taught them how to be men.
1 shimmy_shimmy_ya 2018-07-27
Why would you want to fuck Zoe Quinn?
1 shanewater 2018-07-27
To teach her that all men aren't rapists, just sexually underwhelming.
1 Brodo00095 2018-07-27
Yeah real men are afraid of outsiders and the thing they're most proud of in this world is their citizenship to the US
1 Redactor0 2018-07-27
Welcome to 2018, when everyone has become the strawmen they were accused of being.
1 captainpriapism 2018-07-27
they dont understand economies or due process or the fact that other people following the rules also want in
1 shimmy_shimmy_ya 2018-07-27
Milton Friedman actually argued that illegal immigration is a good thing for an economy. You get more consumers/taxpayers who aren't eligible for any kind of government benefits.
1 FTFallen 2018-07-27
Libertarian types are generally pro-open borders. Those open borders also must be accompanied by the end of the welfare state, though. It's one or the other.
1 shimmy_shimmy_ya 2018-07-27
That's true for legal immigration, though, not for illegal immigration. If you're here illegally, you're not eligible for welfare.
1 CulturalYogurt 2018-07-27
There are plenty of taxpayer funded social programs in Cali that don't "discriminate" against unlawful residency
1 Brodo00095 2018-07-27
Put a wall around the welfare state
1 captainpriapism 2018-07-27
provided they pay which they dont
1 shimmy_shimmy_ya 2018-07-27
They do pay. Sales tax. Property tax through rent payments.
1 pitterpatterwater 2018-07-27
Also actual income tax through ITINs, as my linked studies show.
1 JoeFalchetto 2018-07-27
Friedman also said you can either have unchecked immigration or a welfare state.
1 youcanteatbullets 2018-07-27
Something about not punishing children for the wrongdoing of their parents might enter into it as well.
1 d-amazo 2018-07-27
okay but i'm not talking about children, i'm talking about adults that knowingly, willingly enter countries without properly immigrating
1 Boring_normie 2018-07-27
The girl in the post likely came here as a child.
1 d-amazo 2018-07-27
1 GIANT_BLEEDING_ANUS 2018-07-27
The absolute state of first worlder cucks
1 RambleOff 2018-07-27
In awe at the state of these cucks
1 d-amazo 2018-07-27
this is all that keeps reality from becoming Team America: World Police
1 Tricitiesdrama 2018-07-27
The jews really got to you lol
1 Boring_normie 2018-07-27
Because she most likely came to the country as a child, and as such couldn't have just been like "no mommy coming to America is ILLEGAL, I'm styaing back in Mexico!".
1 DistortedLines 2018-07-27
These people are mostly retarded Americans who have a hard time understanding why countries need borders, and why resources tend to be finite.
1 froibo 2018-07-27
Oh shit are illegals taking our resources back to their countries?
1 JoeFalchetto 2018-07-27
Yes. Remittances are a thing. I think Moldovaās and Lesothoās economies, for example, is hugely dependent on them.
1 froibo 2018-07-27
That's a fair point. Immigrants have strong bonds with large families. That tends to die over time though.
1 DistortedLines 2018-07-27
No you retard, when you have an increasing population that's already at 0.3+ billion, it pays off to be selective with immigration, so that you can use your resources on your people for a little bit longer. This is exactly what I was talking about earlier.
1 froibo 2018-07-27
Hey retard, if we didn't have a surplus of resources, people wouldn't want to be coming here. Our economy is based on immigration right now because we have too many old people and not high enough of a birthrate.
1 DistortedLines 2018-07-27
How much of a retarded capitalist bootlicker do you have to be to not understand that continuous growth is highly insustainable and will fuck us all in the future? By 2100, the world will have 10 billion people, 4+ of which from developing (read: poor) nations in Africa. Keeping this in mind, and the fact that the human population is set to exceed 10 Billion, please tell me why you think its a good idea to have unrestricted immigration.
1 froibo 2018-07-27
I didn't realize I was dealing with a genius Nostradamus that knows the exact immigration policy we need today for almost a century in the future.
1 DistortedLines 2018-07-27
Yeah you're right its better to ignore problems until they become too big to manage. Why even think of the future at all if you ask me?
Did I ever say otherwise? I don't think you should deport non-violent criminals, especially the ones brought over as children. That being said, pretending like all illegal immigration is positive and resources are infinite sets up a really dangerous precedent for the future, which we should be careful about.
1 froibo 2018-07-27
We can't predict what we will need that far, and it isn't like we can't adapt policies to what we can foresee. That said it doesn't sound like we really disagree, so I'm just going to call you a faggot.
1 DistortedLines 2018-07-27
Uh yes, we can. You sound like rightiods who think global warming isn't an issue because "it snowed here in April!!!", along with the age old excuse of us not being able to predict the future. If the depletion of resources unsustainably is bad today, chances are it'll be bad in 100 years when our population sky rockets, it doesn't take a genius to figure that out.
No u
1 froibo 2018-07-27
Global warming isn't the same as population control dumb dumb. Worst comes to worst we are actually in need to lock the country down or start a pointless war to balance the numbers. Fact of the matter is, we need more people now or else we will have a strong enough country to worry about a hundred years in the future.
1 DistortedLines 2018-07-27
No, but both issues have retards arguing about them that don't see any benefit in looking at future consequences. I figured that implication was pretty clear from my comment but I guess it wasn't.
More capitalist talking points lol. Look id love it if my kids and their children could enjoy a similar standard of living as the one I have right now, which is why I care about sustainability. Even if you're a /r/childfree retard, chances are you'll still be around by 2070 and this shit will affect you as well. My point being we should always plan ahead otherwise we're setting ourselves up for failure. The fact that this won't be a massive issue until half a century from now doesn't mean we shouldn't discuss it and actively try to prevent it.
1 froibo 2018-07-27
Climate change is a run away train, population is that silly thing that two people need to seesaw up and down. Not enough population can be just as bad as too much population.
Stop thinking you know what to do today to solve a problem in 80 years.
1 DistortedLines 2018-07-27
Capitalist systems need unlimited growth, which is disasterous for the environment in the long term. This problem is only made worse when you bring in millions of immigrants (hundreds of millions in the future) without accounting for resource depletion. Not to mention other issues such as integration, internal conflict, and other cultural problems that tend to occur due to mass immigration.
Agreed, but a 1.7-1.8 fertility rate doesn't mean you should allow unlimited immigration. I do believe that immigration is useful, but it must be limited and controlled.
"don't even think about planning for the future, only idiots do that" lol ok š. Also imagine thinking neoliberal capitalism is the only acceptable system and that anything else is automatically wrong.
1 froibo 2018-07-27
Dude, American immigration policy is not going to have a huge effect on global population, which is pretty much where your argument has headed.
1 DistortedLines 2018-07-27
What are you smoking lmao? Yea no shit it won't stop people from having more and more children elsewhere, but the massive increase in population and therefore in illegal immigration will affect the US. Have you been reading my replies or just the first two sentences? I care a lot more about America's resources than I do about the Congo's.
1 froibo 2018-07-27
No, I get your point, but my point is we can react accordingly instead of thinking policy we set today is set in stone until the year 2100. Again, I really don't think we are disagreeing much, but feel free to keep it up.
1 DistortedLines 2018-07-27
Oh I know we have almost the same opinion, but we're in r/drama so might as well keep it dramatic.
I never said we should do that. If the birth rate drops to 0.5 in the future then obviously the policy would need changes.
1 BigPriceToupee 2018-07-27
Why are people who will gladly condemn "the violence" of "gang culture" the same ones who get all rabid and territorial about "muh borders"?
1 sevgee 2018-07-27
That post actually made me unsub from there lol. It used to be a half decent sub about actual wholesome memes but now it's just facebook tier feelgood shit like this
1 IFuckedZoeQuinn 2018-07-27
If you ever need a direct example of how spineless your typical leftist male is (as if there aren't enough examples out there already), just take a look at that thread. These cuckolds are so weak, cowardly and afraid of confrontation that they literally want completely open borders with no vetting process whatsoever. My god libshits are despicable. They have lost any semblance of masculinity.
1 brianpv 2018-07-27
Superman doesnāt dodge bullets. He just stands there and takes it like a man because it really isnāt that big of a deal to him.
1 BaguetteFetish 2018-07-27
1 dogDroolsCatsRules 2018-07-27
You are right and so is your fetish.
1 froibo 2018-07-27
Lol attacking.
1 sordfysh 2018-07-27
Does the school that graduated her allow students to graduate who didn't get accepted? Does the school let the general public take classes? Does the school let any student attend as long as they pay tuition?
1 Tobans 2018-07-27
I hope she rapes soybois if Trump was right. it So not a high chance, sadly. :(