drop_and_run

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[–] drop_and_run@sh.itjust.works -5 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

People should be free to come and go and work and play anywhere they want, anywhere on the planet.

So, for example in a neighborhood, everyone is free to live in whichever house they please, with no obligations for maintenance or utilities (i.e. the duties and responsibilities of citizenship). How would that work out?

First, naturally, people would head to the nicest house on the block. Eventually, it would get too full and too dilapidated so people would move to the next nicest house, and so on until the "niceness" of each house reaches an equilibrium point where there is no longer incentive to move because the next house is just as nice (or not) as the one you're living in.

Should anyone try to "fix up" a house and succeed, theirs will become the nicest house on the block, attracting everyone to move in. Very quickly, their effort will be negated and everyone will move back out since it isn't nice anymore.

The only stable equilibrium for this system is one in which all houses are equally miserable, and getting even worse. That's why houses have locks, and that's why countries have borders.

[–] drop_and_run@sh.itjust.works 8 points 17 hours ago

Then you'll love this one: I saw a post with a map of the Gaza Strip overlaid with the Buc-ee's logo. Someone replied:

From the River to the Sea, Buc-ee's Buy One Get One Free

[–] drop_and_run@sh.itjust.works -3 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

But on what basis do people support illegal immigration?

Sure, the average Mexican citizen would probably live a better life as an American citizen, but so too would the average American citizen live a far better life as a Swiss or Monegasque citizen. Do all Americans have the right to move to Switzerland and enjoy the privileges of citizenship?

Should NGOs be flying Americans to Monaco and putting them up in the Hotel de Paris? Where does it end?

Far better to bloom where you're planted, in my humble opinion.

[–] drop_and_run@sh.itjust.works 4 points 17 hours ago

All the old consumer goods would fall apart because they're built to fail and non-repairable, so you'd need to buy new ones anyways.

Take that, Communists!

/s

[–] drop_and_run@sh.itjust.works 40 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

It may seem cruel, but this is the price we have to pay for a Disneyland in the Middle East.

/s, in case it wasn't achingly obvious

[–] drop_and_run@sh.itjust.works 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Nissan has manufacturing plants in Tennessee and Mississippi that Tesla may want to get ahold of. In exchange Nissan gets enough cash to survive a while longer until they decide how to waste it.

(DAE remember the Leaf? Shit was dope. What the hell happened?)

[–] drop_and_run@sh.itjust.works 7 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

A surprising number of people switched to Trump after the DNC and DWS stabbed Bernie in the back.

[–] drop_and_run@sh.itjust.works -2 points 18 hours ago (7 children)

How do you equate the view that

Some people are American citizens and some people are not. American citizens decide who becomes an American citizen. People who "break into" America without permission will be removed from America.

with

American citizens believe that non-American citizens are not people

?

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