Originally Posted by
Colonel Frank Grimes
It's not surprising. People think of their own first and refugees are a financial burden. You can't expect people to be so altruistic towards foreigners when every nation has their own people in need.
The harsh reality of the cost behind taking care of asylum seekers > people's good intentions
"There are no gods in the universe, no nations, no money, no human rights, no laws, and no justice outside the common imagination of human beings." --Yuval Noah Hararri
There can be no peace in a global capitalist system that feeds on wars of acquisition. Earth has a limited amount of territory, forcing capitalists to war over who will dominate what patch of it. The stakes are high. Domination means profit, and profit becomes the power to dominate more territory and extract more profit.
Companies and wealthy individuals can legally keep money in tax havens, while avoiding higher taxes at home. And some tax havens are more popular than others.
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Here are the 20 financial jurisdictions ranked the worst.
https://www.newsweek.com/tax-havens-...states-1641152
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The Communists are further reproached with desiring to abolish countries and nationality.
The working men have no country. We cannot take from them what they have not got. Since the proletariat must first of all acquire political supremacy, must rise to be the leading class of the nation, must constitute itself the nation, it is, so far, itself national, though not in the bourgeois sense of the word.
National differences and antagonisms between peoples are daily more and more vanishing, owing to the development of the bourgeoisie, to freedom of commerce, to the world-market, to uniformity in the mode of production and in the conditions of life corresponding thereto.
The supremacy of the proletariat will cause them to vanish still faster. United action, of the leading civilised countries at least, is one of the first conditions for the emancipation of the proletariat.
In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another is put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another will also be put an end to. In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end.
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Originally Posted by
Colonel Frank Grimes
It's easier to convince people to be compassionate towards others who look similar to them but then people realize, "Oh, this is costly" and "Oh, these people who look similar to me speak a funny language and aren't like me."
Eastern European 'untermensch' ? LULZ
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