Busy day and I’ll be on the road for the next week, so posting will be shorter and perhaps a bit sparse.

Riffing off one of the items in Mister Mix’s last post. Tom Emmer, the Republican Majority Whip in the House (the 3rd ranking House Member) says it out loud:

BTW, here’s Emmer in 2016:

And then there’s Katie Miller, Mrs. Vile, and the spouse of Mr. Vile, Stephen Miller:

Finally, as Mister Mix mentioned, there’s Samuel Alito and the “conservatives” in SCOTUS basically ruling that if you’re a person of color, you can’t apply for asylum in this country. Somehow, they tried to say that ending TPS status for Haitians and Somalis wasn’t about race. But Justice Kagan had the goods:

Pretty much every ethnic/national/religious group has assimilated after immigrating to the U.S., although sometimes it takes a couple of generations. And pretty much every group was deemed un-assimilatable (is this a word?!) when they first arrived. Seems to me that white nationalists are actually de-assimilating from what historically was deemed the melting pot of the world (and the source of much of our economic and cultural success).

Hillary’s use of “deplorable” wasn’t strong enough…

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Kay W.4 months ago

The assimilation question is huge in Denmark. The Nordics won't function as a model without conformity, and that means workplace and social. So Denmark requires Danish language classes for both immigrants and refugees, there is no accommodation at all in Danish schools for foreign language speakers and (most controversial) they specifically ban any religious evangelical or religious dress requirements in schools. The Nordic countries are very secular, but the culture is basically Lutheran Protestant - it prizes conformity and rule following and not sticking out. It would never go in the US, the 1st Amendment would bar it for one thing, but what is essentially coerced assimilation definitely works. Copenhagen has a huge immigrant population and the children of those immigrants are tripping along like all the other kids, chattering away in Danish and celebrating obscure Pagan-origin Danish holidays.

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Joe is Wypoxic4 months ago

interesting!

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mister mixAuthor4 months ago

Emmer is representing Michele Bachman's old district. That's a really bad part of Minnesota, apparently -- the northwest Twin Cities suburbs and outlying rural areas.

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Busted Knee4 months ago

It usually takes a generation or so but it does happen. What happens is the kids grow up with other kids and that's the secret sauce. Even in the DC area we have hardcore areas where the adults, outside of those we served with in combat (another issue with this admin) never assimilated. Their kids always did. Nobody is really freaked out or mad about the little whatevers' you have all over the place. If anything they are loved. The food's great and cheap! In fact during COVID they made it a point to point out they had goods in their stores and were enforcing safety measures which lead to a high spike in their profits.

The big problem, and calling it a problem gives away the game, is hilarious lawn/condo decorating and signs in all sorts of languages. The first is laughed off the second is... well I can't read Vietnamese and my Arabic is shit but if you're in the store the prices are in dollars and honestly nobody here cares.

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Busted Knee4 months ago

You also get used to ordering off a menu by pointing out what you want on it rather than trying to say it. I don't speak Spanish so for me this is a frequent issue but it always works! I can't order in Vietnamese either but never had problem with that one either. Everyone sort of navigates it on their own.

All the younger generations, and my family is not from here either, are fluent in English and rather American and lean into helping their elders. If you run into someone we didn't assimilate like the borg someone will show up and help you out or you know.... just yolo it and you figure it out.

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TBone Dinosaur4 months ago

I have not assimilated either and I never will.

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Joe is Wypoxic4 months ago

Exactly. Perhaps the kids will s ave us...

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TBone Dinosaur4 months ago

Ilhan Omar to Emmer:

"I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from."

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TBone Dinosaur4 months ago

Thirteen more C-words per the WaPo

"Thirteen Democratic House members and candidates announced their support for a centrist initiative aimed at pushing back against the party’s tilt toward democratic socialism."

What? Centrists!

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C P4 months ago

Can you fucking imagine if these people put one tenth the energy into fighting fascism that they put into fighting New Deal liberalism.

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TBone Dinosaur4 months ago

I'm gonna do like what got Popehat a ban, just a little more politely. Hahahahaha Delco polite:

It's a consolation that these racist cunts are mortal.