They just follow the money. What’s interesting is during that VJ day parade, all the media showed Xi meeting Putin. Little of it showed Xi meeting with the Serbian (EU) President who was also there, or the Slovakian (EU and NATO) Prime Minister who was there as well. Representatives from the UK and USA were also there.

Wonder why he doesn’t just change his name at this point

But he’d cry if someone did it to him or his base

Not saying either are correct, but still. What a tool.

Families having more influence is based. Voting ages should be removed.

You talk about resettlement programs and how they’re a good way of doing things. How about the countries who destabilised these nations, takes on those seeking asylum? In which case Turkey should bear zero Afghan or Iraqi immigrants, and the western world should bear all of them. Or does it only work one way, in your mind?

Fair point. I’m just talking about border security here.

The rest of the points you make are fair, too. Ideally we shouldn’t have destabilised the middle east to begin with. Can we blame the USA on this one? 😂

There is no limitations on how many safe countries you can travel THROUGH before applying for asylum status. As long as you apply for asylum status.

There should be a limit. This convention is an issue and should either be rewritten or completely disregarded. People are using the veneer of asylum seeking to migrate to countries they want to go to, someone in their right mind genuinely fleeing a war for the sake of their lives isn’t going to risk their life and families further than necessary getting on a dodgy dinghy. The only people who do that are grifters with no regards for the law.

Asylum spending is 0.25% of the budget. Oil subsidies are 2%. Priorities?

This Lemmy post has nothing to do with oil subsidies. 0.25% of the national budget of one of the largest economies in the world is still a lot of money and could go elsewhere.

which used to be 2 years, they were considering upping it to 5 years. Which is dumb.

Better yet, if you have arrived via a safe country, deportation. The Rwanda policy was a good answer to this issue.

The best thing we to do in caring for refugees is having settlement programmes to relieve our European neighbours such as the Mediterranean countries and Turkiye. Like what we did with Ukraine. I’d argue that debate even then is completely different from the small boats debate. Which in itself is completely different from the wider immigration debate as a whole.

Being anti people crossing the Irish Border, or the English channel on a small boat, is not an anti immigration or even anti asylum seeker sentiment. It’s a sake of national and even international security (in terms of crime gangs).

Most immigration isn’t done by paying criminal gangs to help you skirt past immigration controls by throwing you on a dodgy inflatable dinghy and sailing across the English channel so you can enter the country unvetted and pretend to be a refugee in order to claim and take advantage of British government assistance, at the expense of the UK taxpayer, that is there for other people who actually need it.

What I said was largely pro immigration. I’m critical of the home office policies.

Being married to a British or Irish citizen should just be an automatic right of abode imho

That, and she has a dependent who is presumably a British citizen as well.

But if they came over from France on a rubber dinghy on the other hand…

Also the seal of confession. Paedo priests would confess their abuse to all of their colleagues using it. Thus they can’t do anything or they’d be accused of breaking said seal

Some shoes like the air force type shoes when it’s the same colour feel more subtle because it only looks like a logo if you recognise it. But most nike stuff it just doesn’t incorporate well at all

That would still be a country to some extent. For example, the East India Company was a thing.

There is no way we ever won’t have nations before the second coming of Christ.

Who is NickSawRickShaw and why is that a message link to him

Originated from this thread lol

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/27936196

Can’t you just reboot it? Android has a “lockdown” feature which does this without a reboot

@WongKaKui@piefed.ca

Are you still around? And do you know an answer?

Is that what a “beer belly” is?

This triggered me because I am a stinky conservative, but actually, I think you have a point. I can’t argue against this, except for the same thing as nuclear weapons “it’s impossible to convince everyone to dismantle their intelligence services”

Although internal domestic intelligence such as MI5 is helpful and a good idea.

And the USA isn’t?