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justinian

Bernie definitely isn’t a nativist… He correctly points out that the wealthy use immigrants to reduce the value of labor, an injustice to immigrants (who get paid less) and people born here (who are replaced from their jobs) Btw Marx also said this.
Bernie sanders just sucks when it comes to immigration, nativist who makes a simple lump of labor fallacy constantly
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Anonymous 4w

how is that not nativism?

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Anonymous 4w

Hi Justinian

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Anonymous 4w

also if you are some sort of techno-capitalist that thinks using immigrants to cheapen labor makes the country work better overall, please understand this could happen to YOUR job someday!

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 4w

hi 😸

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Anonymous replying to -> justinian 4w

Not how immigration works, immigrants are just extra people. By that logic countries with more people would have a worse job market. Does Iceland have a better job market than the U.S.? Lmao

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4w

The difference between Immigrant labor is the skill level if your only importing low skilled workers then yes you are hurting all workers if your bringing in skilled workers to fill caps then your actively growing your economy

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 4w

skilled workers like the HB1 visas hurt other workers too, perhaps even more

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 4w

I found the techno-capitalist

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Anonymous replying to -> justinian 4w

Theoretically tho theirs both a cap for number of true skilled workers to even immigrate and b especially certain fields medical technical their is a legitimate base need for more staffing

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Anonymous replying to -> justinian 4w

No this is a left wing critic of mass unskilled immigrant in a modern post industrial economy

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 4w

oh ok sorry for misrepresenting you. BUT- if there is a shortage of skilled workers in a field, maybe employers should pay higher wages 😏 😏

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Anonymous replying to -> justinian 4w

workers do not lower the wages of other workers, because workers are not the ones who exchange the wage. capitalists exploit migrant workers by exchanging them lower wages, and tell white workers that migrant and nonwhite workers drive wages down. all of these arguments around who has a right to stay on occupied land are still anti-worker and inherently white supremacist in their origin

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Anonymous replying to -> _orangutan 4w

hence why Bernie Sanders is still a nativist, and why social democracy will never be enough, because they do not address the exploitation at its origin, which is the white capitalist system that presides over this present moment in human history

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Anonymous replying to -> justinian 4w

Theoretically yes every job could be filled with someone here but the reality of the medical field for example means if not enough doctors lab techs radiologists etc are not available to work every open position then you have to supplement the gaps. I’d also make the point that especially for elite careers compensation is not the issue it’s the number of skilled workers within thoose fields

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 4w

maybe they should pay nurses more then 🤷 I don’t feel bad for the CEOs, I feel bad for the nurses who studied for years and took on student debt and still are underpaid by wealthy hospital owners.

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Anonymous replying to -> justinian 4w

you will never catch me siding with a CEO over an underpaid worker

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Anonymous replying to -> justinian 4w

I don’t disagree but like again I wouldn’t consider an rn or ln a position where the manpower is the issues. Their are roles where the miners just don’t add up to fill roles

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Anonymous replying to -> justinian 4w

yet you literally are when you defend nativist immigration policies. migrant workers are among the most exploited and most underpaid, and the focus on their presence in the US, and not the class of people who exploit their marginalized position, directly serves that owning and exploiting class

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