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  • Garibaldee@lemm.eeOPtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Democrats Ignored Pleas To Address Price of ‘Eggs and Gas’, Campaigners SayEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I agree, but that’s a different issue than changing people’s consumption. Ignoring that things people consume have increased in price and not doing anything about it is effectively just a lower standard of living. It would be received very poorly if any political party tried to get rid of subsidies for fuel/animal products, you would need levels of state control comparable to the Soviet Union or another socialist country to get people to change their consumption to that degree. In capitalism consumption is many people’s primary identity and it would take a lot of deprogramming to change that. This is to an extent going on and many climate groups are doing a good job getting people more comfortable with the idea of veganism/shifting away from fossil fuels, but saying you have less money in your bank account and that’s a good thing because maybe you’ll change your habits to avoid climate change would have resulted in a 50 state blow out, you will never get people on your side operating like that.

  • Garibaldee@lemm.eeOPtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•The plot against birthright citizenshipEnglish
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    14 days ago

    What good is it for these days besides for exploitation?

    I don’t know what type of exploitation you are referring to.

    I couldn’t imagine going to another country with my wife and then just because we had a baby there, that the baby is a citizen of that country.

    I think that the general idea would be that a lot of people doing that probably want their child to have the option to come to the USA, primarily to earn a massive wage on the world scale. You and your wife most like earn a lot more money than most people in the world, and that is the case even for minimum wage workers too. Not at all saying minimum wage workers have it good here, most states, you can’t afford a two bedroom apartment on minimum wage and have to work more than one job. But if you’re coming from some place very poor, that minimum wage salary can be a life changing amount of money for your family at home. Which is where the majority of children born in the US to non citizens come from, poor countries where their parents come to work. And those parents aren’t and shouldn’t be expected to delay starting a family and raising kids while they are working.

    There is also the concept of birthplace tourism which would entail having a lot more money than crossing the border because you need to have a passport and to fly into the country and stay for long enough to give birth. People probably do this for a variety of reasons including political instability in their own countries. Although that child which is sometimes called an anchor baby pejoratively would have to at least file and possibly pay taxes to the US for the rest of their life depending on where and how they work, which would probably not be worth it to anyone, but rich people if they didn’t intend to live in the US.

    https://www.npr.org/2023/02/23/1159072741/russians-argentina-birth-tourism-passports

    Here is a recent example in another country

    Shortly after Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, Alla Prigolovkina and her husband, Andrei Ushakov, decided they had to flee their Sochi, Russia, home.

    Ushakov had been detained for holding up a sign that read “Peace,” and Prigolovkina, a pregnant ski instructor, feared he would soon be drafted and potentially killed, leaving their baby fatherless.

    The original plan was to stay in Europe, but anti-Russian sentiment discouraged them.

    “We chose Argentina because it has everything we needed: Fantastic nature, a large country, beautiful mountains,” Prigolovkina, 34, told The Associated Press inside the home her family is renting in Argentina’s western Mendoza province. “We felt it would be ideal for us.”