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Is it more important for America to fund foreign wars or to secure our southern border?
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Do you trust your iPhone?
It has been made in China since 2004.
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I use a Samsung Galaxy A54 (Korean company) made in India, but I see your point. My point is that Chinese owned social media can easily be influenced by the Chinese government, while a phone designed by a non-Chinese company is not as big as a security risk by China. However, Edward Snowden did say that we are all tracked online by the US government. By the way, the Apple iPhone first released in 2007, not 2004 (but you were close): Apple Reinvents the Phone with iPhoneDo you trust your iPhone?
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The TikTok video is just Marjorie Taylor Greene doing her thing.
If you're a pacifist, taking the position that we shouldn't participate in any war ever, I respect that.
If not, the question is which country is currently in the greater danger: Ukraine, being militarily invaded by Russia; or the US, with large waves of immigrants arriving. The answer is pretty clear to me. Large waves of immigrants are a challenge for the US, but the immigrants aren't actually bombing us.
Of course, Congress could do two things at once, maybe...
If you're a pacifist, taking the position that we shouldn't participate in any war ever, I respect that.
If not, the question is which country is currently in the greater danger: Ukraine, being militarily invaded by Russia; or the US, with large waves of immigrants arriving. The answer is pretty clear to me. Large waves of immigrants are a challenge for the US, but the immigrants aren't actually bombing us.
Of course, Congress could do two things at once, maybe...
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For broader reporting on this story, the PBS NewsHour did a good job covering it tonight: House leaders work together to push aid for Ukraine and allies over key hurdle
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Representative Greene apparently thinks that the House of Representatives is a parliament.
She’s trying to blame Democrats for joining on a Republican led bill that doesn’t have the funding that she wants “to secure the southern border”.
I’m sure that she’s free to write such a funding bill but would rather jump on to SM and complain loudly.
I hope her district re-elects her.
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Can we have "neither" as a choice? I think it is impossible to "secure" the southern border. It is simply too long to secure. Current segments of the wall are breached every day. At its best, the wall slows folks down and its sensing devices gives Border Patrol longer to get there. While Border Patrol is busy in one location, the wall is breached somewhere else. Border Patrol can't be everywhere. So, the wall keeps some from getting through and slows the tide, but others breach it anyway. So, let's not kid ourselves that it will be secure. But we can be satisfied that we tried to do something. And, then there is the matter of funding wars. I'm rather tired of seeing our tax dollars going to aid others rather than aiding our own citizens. How about we invest in ourselves? Universal health care anyone?
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Economic development is better than a wall. Per capita income in Mexico is now about $10,500 a year. And that is why Mexican immigration has slowed.
People don't upend their lives if they are doing ok where they are.
People don't upend their lives if they are doing ok where they are.
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False choice.
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Also, economic migrants don’t migrate to where they can’t find work. If we actually cracked down on employers using illegal labor or had a secure system for verification of identity the economic motivation ends. That’s not going to happen so…
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The Russian could just withdraw.
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Are you suggesting that the richest country in the world can only do one of those things? Is MTG asking that? Next time you see her, tell her from me that it's an exceptionally dumb question but that I don't expect any better from her.
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Why didn’t you phrase it “Russia could forfeit?”
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Because I was mainly focused on Ukraine? The other user forfeited on Russia, I wanna know why he didn’t say “Russia could just forfeit.”
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