God, that person is such a fucking shithead.

[conuly]

Why would people want to immigrate en mass from Norway to the USA? Putting aside the enormous fucking racist implications of that statement, people immigrate to improve their situation. The USA isn't that great compared to other developed nations, and also we have a demagogue in the White House who is bound and determined to make things worse. So, uh, no?

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[peoriapeoriawhereart]

This is called Living in the Past.

You know, when the USA was the biggest hucksters on the planet convincing people to sell their featherbeds and come to be cheap labor.

[conuly]

When all those other countries weren't any better off than we were, and often much worse off?

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

When the wretched, tired and poor were welcome because someone had to work six day weeks on dangerous machines. Farmers clinging to scraps of land owners had pushed them onto because they still needed their labor on the other land. People making soup from oil.

Not that America was always that welcoming when confronted with the immigrants, so very poor. A few generations straightened that up, because they came and came in droves. And we're stronger for their contributions.

[conuly]

America's never been welcoming to immigrants. We just occasionally put on a good face.