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Jul 25 2017 06:40am
Quote (Black XistenZ @ 25 Jul 2017 13:10)
I think the "masterplan" is... or was, that italy holds still until after the german federal election, and that merkel then allows a significant portion of italy's ""refugees"" to come to germany.

dunno if that is still feasible though, with the mediterranean refugee crisis escalating each day and with german public opinion on refugees having soured substantially since 2015.


i dont see that happening tbh ^^
however the moratorium for many asylum seekers to bring their families will be over not too long after the election....could possibly even worse

Quote (Black XistenZ @ 25 Jul 2017 13:22)
getting on a boat to europe costs a lot by the standards of those african would-be migrants. if the attempt has too low a chance of resulting in success (= entry to the european social security system), they will stop trying. this is exactly what happened with boat migration in australia: since it became clear that the australians mean business with their "NO WAY" campaign, almost no one tries anymore.


it does cost a lot by the standards of dozends of millions europeans as well
thats one of the reasons why eastern europeans are resisting to take in migrants, when you tell them that some fake syrian paid more money than they earn a year to make a living of their tax money :lol:
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Why should Italy care? More able bodied people to work and the risk is on the EU. They can just default like Greece did and get Germany to bail them out. Think about why the UK left.
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Jul 25 2017 07:43am
Another example of the failure of the EU as an organization. Brexit is the beginning, the organization is going to fall apart as nations get out to protect their sovereignty.
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Why should Italy care? More able bodied people to work and the risk is on the EU. They can just default like Greece did and get Germany to bail them out. Think about why the UK left.


that would be racism xenophobia homophobia misogyny islamaphobia londonphobia educationphobia England and Wales
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Jul 25 2017 07:57am


Africa is 3 times bigger than the EU.

If the folks in Africa don't like what's happening in Africa, then they should do something about what's happening in Africa.

Same with the Middle East for that matter.



It's OK for the other countries in the world to fight and die for THEIR own

This refugee crap is getting seriously out of hand.way of life, but Africa and the Middle East are ....exempt? BS!



This refugee crap is getting seriously out of hand.
It's like the parable about the grasshopper and the ant. It seems it's ok for all the OTHER countries to be... "ants"...aka do all the work and fighting to make their own countries nice places to live.

So now the "grasshoppers" want a free ride...aka, the benefits of all the hard work.... w/o all the hard work. WTF ?!?







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Africa is 3 times bigger than the EU.

If the folks in Africa don't like what's happening in Africa, then they should do something about what's happening in Africa.

Same with the Middle East for that matter.



It's OK for the other countries in the world to fight and die for THEIR own

This refugee crap is getting seriously out of hand.way of life, but Africa and the Middle East are ....exempt? BS!



This refugee crap is getting seriously out of hand.
It's like the parable about the grasshopper and the ant. It seems it's ok for all the OTHER countries to be... "ants"...aka do all the work and fighting to make their own countries nice places to live.

So now the "grasshoppers" want a free ride...aka, the benefits of all the hard work.... w/o all the hard work. WTF ?!?


After the evil "imperials" left one of the first things that the Africans did was rip up irrigation pipes to sell the copper.
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Jul 25 2017 08:05am
Quote (Ghot @ Jul 25 2017 07:57am)
Africa is 3 times bigger than the EU.

If the folks in Africa don't like what's happening in Africa, then they should do something about what's happening in Africa.

Same with the Middle East for that matter.



It's OK for the other countries in the world to fight and die for THEIR own

This refugee crap is getting seriously out of hand.way of life, but Africa and the Middle East are ....exempt? BS!



This refugee crap is getting seriously out of hand.
It's like the parable about the grasshopper and the ant. It seems it's ok for all the OTHER countries to be... "ants"...aka do all the work and fighting to make their own countries nice places to live.

So now the "grasshoppers" want a free ride...aka, the benefits of all the hard work.... w/o all the hard work. WTF ?!?


Neither Africa nor the middle east are one entity, saying they should take care of their own is nonsensical and portrays a fundamental ignorance of the region.
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Jul 25 2017 08:06am
Yep, yep....



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The mineral industry of Africa is the largest mineral industries in the world. Africa is the second largest continent, with 30 million kmĀ² of land, which implies large quantities of resources. For many African countries, mineral exploration and production constitute significant parts of their economies and remain keys to economic growth. Africa is richly endowed with mineral reserves and ranks first or second in quantity of world reserves of bauxite, cobalt, industrial diamond, phosphate rock, platinum-group metals (PGM), vermiculite, and zirconium.[1] Gold mining is Africa's main mining resource.






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Quote (Thor123422 @ Jul 25 2017 09:05am)
Neither Africa nor the middle east are one entity, saying they should take care of their own is nonsensical and portrays a fundamental ignorance of the region.



Countries (borders) are made by people...they didn't come pre-installed with the Earth. Ignoring this fact is just plain stoopid.

If Africa can not be successful in the global economy with their internal borders the way they are...then move them. Ya know...just like every one else had to do.

This post was edited by Ghot on Jul 25 2017 08:11am
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Quote (Ghot @ Jul 25 2017 08:06am)
Yep, yep....



Countries (borders) are made by people...they didn't come pre-installed with the Earth. Ignoring this fact is just plain stoopid.

If Africa can not be successful in the global economy with their internal borders the way they are...then move them. Ya know...just like every one else had to do.


You say this while saying they shouldn't come here. Borders are artificial. If we can't take care of everybody let's just move the borders.

Your argument is contradictory.
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Jul 25 2017 08:31am
Quote (Thor123422 @ Jul 25 2017 09:14am)
You say this while saying they shouldn't come here. Borders are artificial. If we can't take care of everybody let's just move the borders.

Your argument is contradictory.




Now you're just being argumentative.

The continents are just about the only borders that came with the Earth...and even they change, albeit over geological time scales.

Throughout history there has been "fighting for territory". This isn't new. I believe that the Romans once held England. England didn't like that, so they did something about it.




The solution you SEEM to be upholding, is that anyone who doesn't like their lot in life can just (without any effort on their part)... pack up and move to some other country...en masse.
In my day, 100,000 people showing up on some countries borders and wanting in, was called an invasion.

Look at India for example. They have some serious overcrowding problems. Do they send boatloads of 100K Indians to the EU or the US etc...and say: We're just too darn lazy to take our own lives in hand, so we want you to do it. No they don't.
They work hard, the get educated or rich and do like everyone else that worked hard....they move where they want.
They DON'T come in 100K lots with ....NOTHING and expect to just be.... taken in.



I don't know what planet YOU live on...but, things just don't work that way.
You want to get hired (taken in) by some company...you don't just appear one day and say it's your duty to take me in. No, you first gain the things (knowledge and experience) you will need to make (taking you in) worth it, to that company.
Countries work the same way.

If we don't do things this way...what we will have is what the Middle East and Africa, have now....a bunch of folks running around in tribes (with nothing anyone wants), fighting with each other all the time for table scraps.



/e Like it or not, we ALL live in a capitalist world. Each country has certain things they can export, and they work very hard to BUY their own place, under the sun.
I seriously doubt that the Far East really wants to do the cheap manufacturing for the world. But that is what they CAN do...so they do it.

I seriously doubt that the US really wanted to spend 12-16 hours a day farming or manufacturing...to buy their place in the world...but...that's what we had....so we did it.

Etc., etc., etc, for any country or continent anywhere. It's called civilization.

This post was edited by Ghot on Jul 25 2017 08:41am
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