Part of me thinks they actually, truly, believe that making the distinction at all is immoral.

I don't really get it either* but Occam's Razor and all.

*I have a conjecture though: it's rich kids who do this, and it's because in their entire lives, they've been surrounded by immigrants who are either their peers or their servants. The concept of dysfunction existing abroad and sticking to many who come here unfiltered is just alien to them.

It's over.

Immigration that is happening today in context of North America is largely, predominantly about economic migration. People from less prosperous and less stable countries want to move to a better country and do not care that such move has negative effect on the country they are migrating to. You are trying to weave pseudo-historical narrative about colonial oppression by the West is divorced from history. That narrative was concocted by Soviet propagandists to sabotage West.

Slashdot is a US site. You have freedom of speech here. You can say Trump is a piece of shit.

It's the same in Europe. You can go online and say Trump is a piece of shit, too!

I thought the US was under a tourism boycott already. Remember those German prostitutes who got deported from Hawaii to Japan?

America is closed. Don't come. Tourism economies suck. You don't tip, either, which is why you get spit in your food and poor service.

Tell all your friends America is closed, too. Stay home. We built a Disneyland in Paris for this exact reason.

I don't know why you call it political system when it is culture, but other than terms you used - fully agree. More so, failure to assimilate is more likely with the higher migration levels. Newcomers join ethnic enclaves and continue operating as if it was their home country.

You identified the issue, but misdiagnosed it. Globalism is falling apart, not capitalism. By this point everyone realized that exporting manufacturing jobs elsewhere or importing mass cheap labor benefits nobody but globalist elite that have no allegiance to any country or any people.

This really isn't any different than requiring advertisements to disclose the use of paid actors. I can see it running into a few problems with internet advertisements though. I'm not sure it really matters though. Some people will buy stupid crap regardless of what kind of labels or warnings are put on something.

Joining organically? There is nothing organic about what is happening right now. No Western population wants such high level of migration; you had Brexit, you have far-right parties coming to power in France, Trump 2 in US, etc. It is universally opposed, unpopular, top-down globalist policy that is going to destabilize established world order. The real question is why force it on the unwilling population and risk inevitable chaos, unless causing chaos is the goal?

Smearing your political opponents as racist is so passe.

Most of these places always high level of crime, poverty, corruption, and never knew any other form of government but dictatorships.These endemic issues also predate colonialism. These don't cause exodus, having an accessible alternative in the West is what cause exodus. Yes when these migrants arrive to the west, they continue destructive behaviors that led their home countries to be drowned in crime, poverty and corruption.

Because before modern era border guards would shoot at would-be migrants if they approached border.

I dunno. They make decent enough output for shitposting on social media. While there is a certain amount of delight to be had in coming up with a clever limerick about someone's mother, some people really aren't worth the effort. The AI can do it well enough in a few seconds though.

I'm not sure I'd use it for any productive work though. Of course not everything has to be for work though either.

The ideal number of hallucinations is zero unless they are specifically requested for whatever reason. If someone told you they were going to kick you in the nuts 38% fewer times this week, you're still getting kicked in the nuts.

I'm not sure a person who's hallucinating could be convinced by another person that what they observe isn't really happening. I think a person has to come to that realization themselves in order to be able to not lose their shit.

The dumbest part of the entire thing is - a college campus is one place where it should be like super easy to find some folks to wager with. Maybe like I dunno talk to some of the guys in your hall, activity lounge, wherever.

Setup some squares - everyone can photo the board with their phones so there isn't any funny business. You could even like socialize and watch some of the sporting events, maybe find girls like sports to watch as well get a couple bags of chips and some sodas and actually have a good time?

Oh the best part some of these people you call 'friends' win and maybe you win next time. There is no house taking a cut...

i don't think a little friendly gambling with people know is to likely to get anyone into addiction or encourage people to take risks they can't really afford but commercial gambling be it on sports, prediction markets, or stocks is down right predatory. The pattern-day-trading rule exists for good reason - its to prevent Etrade from turning into Draft Kings, and it has worked. We probably need something like it for Sports/Prediction market betting. If you can't find 25k worth of assets to park in an account, then you should be limited to handful of bets/plays a week. That way people don't get hooked, and hopefully you don't get people playing with money they can't afford to lose as often because, by virtue of the fact if you can keep it on account for x days you don't urgently need it.

Not really. Gambling (legal or otherwise) has been around for a long time.

What's changed is the ease of access. Today making a bet is a few taps away on a phone, whereas in the past you had to go to a bookie at the very least.

I'm not sure to what extent this can be fixed. I have a sneaking suspicion that even if all of these students were made to take a course that shows them how badly a casino, etc. will screw them out of their money that a few would just want to gamble even more because they think they can spot the tricks now.

Making it illegal won't really work either. Organized crime will just fill in for legal businesses. The internet makes it virtually impossible to stop unless a country is willing to implement levels of control similar to China and most people will not put up with that even if it would stop the gambling problem.

Yes, it is going away from Swissness.

Why leave out crime, corruption, and dictatorships made by their own people?