• protist@mander.xyz
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    3 months ago

    The US, for example, has a very stable population.

    The demographic situation in China really doesn’t have an analog anywhere else in the world.

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      3 months ago

      The US is only stable because of immigration. And since that’s been attacked nonstop the US will be in trouble soon too

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            3 months ago

            You might notice whenever they have power Republicans take little to no substantive action on this issue, because it’s only campaign rhetoric

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              3 months ago

              I knew someone who used to say this about the Republicans and abortion, that they used the issue for fundraising from evangelicals and they weren’t actually going to overturn Roe v Wade. I didn’t think she’s saying that anymore.

              (Although immigration is very much a different topic, the oligarchs in charge mostly seem to realize that undocumented immigrants and H1B visa workers are much easier to exploit and abuse, so it’s in their best interest to not fuck with those programs too much. But DeSantis did and fucked up the citrus industry in Florida for a while…)

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                3 months ago

                A huge difference being the constant actual legislative attempts and executive orders over the past 40 years to undermine abortion rights, whereas immigration remains a topic that only inspires grandstanding. Hell, even the grandstanding isn’t even about immigration as a whole, it’s only about undocumented immigrants crossing the Mexican border, building a wall on the Mexican border, or sending troops to the Mexican border.

                Ron Desantis, like you pointed out, seems to be the only person out there with an appetite to curb legal immigration and work visas, and he’s become much less popular since he did all that