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> Debate about immigration policy is a distraction designed to keep both you and immigrants themselves aggravated and ideally fighting each other instead of focusing on the real adversaries, people like Mr Altman.

There are plenty of things to not like about immigration implementation, and trying to steer everything towards your pet peeve seems mad.

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So hyperpowerful tech billionaires escaping accountability is a pet peeve, but immigration isn't?

I wish I could say it was just a conspiracy theory that culture war issues is used as distraction from class war issues. But it's just so undeniable, it would be comical if it weren't tragic.

Immigration is such a consistently used tool when a scapegoat is needed to distract from the economy. It's almost boring how typical the reaction is, and is a shame we still fall for it centuries later.

Pretty good video showing just a few of the examples through history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdAmhumeoLQ

Sure there are. That's the point. Squabbling about implementation details keeps us busy from talking about the architectural design.

I will remind you that this thread was initially about an oligarch getting away with things. Somehow, we're already being drawn into immigration. This thread itself is an in-vivo example of the point I'm making.

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