sonori

sonori , vor einem Monat

Functionally, probably? Given most states are sovereign instead of being divided up into zones by security checkpoints managed by a foreign power and which requires citizenship in said foreign power to cross. Between how much influence Isreal has in the government of the West Bank archipelago and the requirement that Palestinians possess a lower tier of Israeli citizenship in order to move from town to town, I don’t think a strong case can be made that the Isrealis have allowed the Palestinians have sovereignty over their own territory.

As such the Palestinian people of the West Bank have been and unfortunately practically remain part of the Israeli state, albeit a horribly discriminated and abused part of it with very good reason to splinter off into their own state. If Isreal had actually followed the UN mandate in the first place there might be a stronger argument that the West Bank and Gaza have always had a sovereign Palestinian government, but they functionally annexed them instead, and as such the West Bank and Gaza are now hopefully splintering off from the government they have been largely barred from participating in on racial grounds.

sonori , vor einem Monat

You mean free trade policies might result in foreign companies coming in and outcompeting local ones here instead of just allowing our companies to go into, take over, and outcompete their ones? How could this happen? Who could have possibly predicted this turn of events? How could anyone else’s companies come in and do unto us exactly what we’ve been doing to them for the last half century?

Why, next your going to tell me that in a free market a company with lower labor costs that is willing to slash profit margins might actually gain market share over a collection of companies that collectively decided not to compete with each other on margins./s

sonori , vor 2 Monaten

Cracking down on “illegal” immigration, exclusively targets legal immigrants showing for appointments at government offices, sounds about Right.

Surely randomly deporting legal immigrants can only going to lead to higher illegal imagination as people decide to not present themselves at the border in favor of banking on the shear impossibility of effectively survaling the entire country. But I imagine that is kind of the point, we need to manufacture a illegal imagination crisis but all we have is legal asylum seekers, so we better do something about that and bet that our electorate is too dumb to understand.