You Did This

~ Clarissa

A guy called BAH won the Internet with the following comment today:

You are a liberal. You’re concerned that the government has stifled a man’s speech over misinformation. Tomorrow you will wake up and buy your morning coffee, but your card gets declined. Bank of America says that you violated terms and conditions. There’s a grainy photograph of you from five years ago, huddled shoulder to shoulder with hundreds of racial justice protesters. This photo was published by the FBI, and someone recognized you. Likely someone you considered a friend.

You are a liberal. You’re concerned that the home of AOC was raided by the FBI. Several of her staffers and lawyers have been imprisoned. An open letter was signed by one hundred national security experts, stating that she is an agent of Venezuela. Signatories include Nick Fuentes, Bronze Age Pervert, and cumpumper1488.

You are a liberal. You’re concerned that your capital hill district was taken over by a right wing militia. They’ve erected blockades and patrol the perimeter with AR15’s. The government does not intervene, they surrender the nearest police station, they negotiate and request permission for EMT access. A young black man gets into a shootout with the militia. He’s given a trial. Right Wing shock troops gather outside the courthouse daily. He is found guilty. Later, one of his jurors gives an interview wearing a Proud Boys t-shirt.

You are a liberal. You’ve been sentenced to ten years in prison over a meme. You are a liberal. Your truck left skid marks on an American flag mural and you’re charged with a hate crime. You are a liberal. You trained your pug to do a communist salute and now the government has some questions for you. You are a liberal. You’ve been kicked out of school. Your kidney transplant was denied. You’re on a no fly list. You can’t get a bank account. You’ve been fired. Your friends are denouncing you. Protestors are at your front door. You are a liberal. And the right has gone bananas.

https://x.com/BAHMnotgay/status/1968749891259187520?t=TB7OuynHU9ikdPXDqI5TWA&s=19

I think he ran out of space because there are many more examples that could be added. But the point is that liberals live like this happened to them when in reality they did all this and so much more to everybody else.

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46 thoughts on “You Did This”

  1. On a separate note, this is huge. Hell yeah!

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    1. I’m still waiting to see if it’s real. This doesn’t seem real. Is there going to be some wacky carve-out that lets indian fraud companies do one “appointment” for twenty thousand applicants or something? Hiring company pays once for unlimited applicants?

      I hope it’s real.

      -ethyl

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      1. I know, right? There’s video. I think he’s doing this to pressure India re: Russian oil. I don’t care, just get this implemented!

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            1. I’m like you. This is too good to be true. Let’s get more details first. People on the h1b subreddit already saying this is a “Proclamation” not an Executive Order. Not sure what that means. I’m optimistic but cautious.

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          2. More details. It doesn’t go as far as I’d like. The student visa -> OPT -> job pipeline remains untouched.

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            1. Yeah, just saw that it only covers people not already in the country. There had to be a catch somewhere.

              It’s a start, though.

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  2. I think that what is more urgent is to take a deep breath and acknowledge that left and right are not immune to the same mistakes regarding freedom of speech, cancel culture, and violence. But no. This would be too civilized. Intellectual poverty has reached such a high level in the US, regardless of political convictions, that I am glad I stopped being interested in that country 10 years ago. I do not understand half of the references in the comment because of my lack of intellectual curiosity, of which I can also say I feel proud in some twisted, cynical way..

    Ol.

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    1. You’re canadian, right? How do you feel about your country importing 36% of its population in the last 10 years? Where do you live that these issues do not affect you or the future of your children?

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      1. I am interested in immigration, not in US domestic policy or debates. This is also why I read Clarissa’s blog without writing much, because I am genuinely lost when she talks US politics.

        I do not oppose immigration per se. Without immigration, my life would have never been that rich, culturally and economically. The vast majority of my friends are immigrants. Without immigration, Canada is even more insignificant than it is. I know so many Canadians on social welfare because they do not want to or can’t do jobs done by immigrants. This does not mean that I believe that immigration should be that massive, like it has been in the past decade. Neither does it mean that I believe immigration should be less controlled. It especially does not mean that I celebrate multiculturalism. My views on immigration stirred conflicting reactions. I was deemed racist (from the left) and woke (from the right) because of my opinions. Both condemnations bring absolutely nothing constructive to a complex issue.

        Ol.

        Ol.

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        1. Immigration was just one example. Canada is not immune to woke nonsense, cancel culture, and yes violence (how many churches have been burned over absolute lies? isn’t that number in the hundreds now?). It’s all related.

          IF after all this your response is “both sides” I honestly don’t know what to say except that whatever the solutions to the problems of our time may be, they’re definitely not coming from the “both sides” camp. So, enjoy the irrelevancy I guess.

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          1. I gave you my take on immigration in Canada, as asked.

            Help me understand, please, before I embrace my irrelevancy. What is a “both side” camp?

            Ol.

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            1. O1.

              That was a suggestion that you are incapable of making a moral decision. And as a fellow Canuck, that is not a positive thing, nor is suggesting that Canada is insignificant. Despite our numbers, we tend to fight above our weight, and not only in war ;-D

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  3. OK, but a moral decision on what? I thought it was rather clear that I dislike cancel culture and that I defend freedom of speech, regardless of where it comes from. I also thought it was rather obvious that I like immigration, yet I think it should be more controlled that it has been in recent years. That is in Canada. In the US, I could not say, because let me embrace my irrelevancy here: have not been interested in the US for the last 10 years at least.

    Ol.

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    1. O1.

      “Without immigration, Canada is even more insignificant than it is. I know so many Canadians on social welfare because they do not want to or can’t do jobs done by immigrants.”

      We have a responsibility to not only current fellow citizens but also the past. We have already discussed how insulting the first sentence is to those that actually built this country. Although I give you some space because our education system has largely replaced history with various feel good “studies” pap.

      But the second sentence insults not only some of your current fellow citizens, but your own knowledge of current events. Do you not realize that there are companies such as Tim Hortons, Boston pizza, Montana’s, Kelsey’s etc. hiring only foreigners under the various F’ing Liberal’s “Temporary Workers/Student Visa scams? Why? Because Canadians such as both you and myself would not work for the salary and work conditions that has developed. And this horseshit is not restricted to the restaurant business. Tolerating the importation of cheap labour that will harm the opportunities of your fellow citizens is most definitely a matter of morality.

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      1. It’s actually true that native Canadians, especially the under thirties reject job offers in favor of welfare. In QC it’s definitely a thing. The daughter of my friend who is almost thirty works the absolute minimum she needs to get the welfare and quits. No matter how much the employer likes her and wants her to stay. No children, no husband, just wants to do nothing all day. Stunningly beautiful but zero interest in any form of achievement. We should not hide from reality. My sister was a recruiter for many years, and this is a real and persistent problem.

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        1. “reject job offers in favor of welfare”

          I think this is partly (not entirely but partly) because of working stigma….

          It’s long been known that when women enter a particular field men tend to disengage from it, a phenomenon called ‘gender flight’ by some.

          Similarly when a developed country starts using immigrants on a large scale to cut pay…. natives disengage (native flight?).

          IIRC this young woman is the daughter of an immigrant – staying out of the job market might be here way of rejecting the parent’s immigration status.

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        2. Kid, I am a mere retired scientist, not an economist nor a psychologist. But I know that the currency is being deliberately debased in both your country and my own as econmists try to hold the countries together. And mass migration may increase the GDP, but it not only impoverishes the average working class family, it will absolutely destroy the hope of the youth. I don’t know why somebody would simply give up, but as my wife would say, “there for the grace…

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            1. I will reiterate: yes for more restriction on immigration. Then, we will see who among the Canadians I grew up with will go working at daycare centres or retirement homes.

              I will also reiterate: my life in this country would have never been that great without immigration.

              Ol.

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              1. I recommend that people read the Twitter account of @shagbark_hick There’s absolutely nothing there about immigration. But it’s extremely instructive in the sky-high level of self-pity and aimless pouting people address to the guy who is simply setting goals and achieving them.

                I also want to mention the example I brought up only yesterday of a young man who chose to push away all the help I was offering for a chance to feel like a victim.

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              3. O1.

                Few are argue against immigration, everybody here including native Indians are descendants of immigrants. The problem is mass immigration, particularly those that have absolutely no intention of fully integrating and assimilating i.e., as in intermarrying. We have enough examples of serious problems in Europe to clearly understand which groups that should never be invited.

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              4. “who among the Canadians I grew up with will go working at daycare centres or retirement homes”

                See? that’s the point… once a job is coded as “immigrant job” it loses status (and pay). Immigrants hustle more, because they’re more often in sink or swim positions. People born into a rich country are usually willing and able to work but don’t want to sleep six to a room for years while competing with people whose main qualification is willingness to work for less.

                Why do Canadians disrespect daycare and retirement workers so much that the positions are only taken by people with no choice (and often from different cultures and who feel no special connection with those from an alien culture)?

                The optimal amount of immigration differs from country to country and differs at different times…. turning the tap on full blast all the time is a shortcut to the devaluation of work itself (a situation that can only be patched by even more immigration as you need people fresh off the boat to do the grunt work that Canadians don’t want to pay for).

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          2. My sister tried for over 15 years to hire a secretary. She hired one person after another. Patriotically, she was dedicated to hiring Canadians. After 15 years of trying, she gave up and hired a Ukrainian secretary to work remotely. Now finally everything works.

            Can anybody explain what she should have done differently? Kept trying until retirement? I hate it when people offshore jobs. Hate hate hate it. But to pretend that there’s not a problem here when I’ve seen it with my own eyes, what’s the point of that? We need to be honest about what’s happening and why.

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          3. O1.

             “And immigration is not to blame.”

            DATA?

            We all have anecdotes, there always were people that did not pack their own weight. Some are completely teats useless like Bernie Sanders, who was actually thrown off a 70’s commune for not working ;-D

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  5. “once a job is coded as “immigrant job” it loses status (and pay). Immigrants hustle more, because they’re more often in sink or swim positions.”

    Well, those job never had a prestigious status to begin with, and not because they were coded as immigrant jobs, but because they are coded as low-qualification woman jobs.

    The same could be said for other jobs traditionally done by women, of course.

    I think that gender has priority of immigration when we talk about professional status and paychecks.

    Ol.

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    1. Actually at one time motherhood usually had a high status, unless it was a paid position, as in a nanny in the upper classes, and sometimes even then. Mind you communists, especially Second-Wave feminists, have always tried to bugger that up.

      “No woman should be authorised to stay at home and raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one.” -Simone de Beauvoir, 1975, in an interview with Betty Friedan. No comment necessary ;-D

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    2. OK, but here in the US, probably a quarter of the girls I went to school with went for those jobs: daycare, nursing, classroom paras. Nobody dissed them for it. It’s a job. I worked briefly as a home health aide myself. It was better than working food service, and it was a good stepping-stone for moving up into other jobs in medical or education… or eventually running your own daycare.

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      1. “Nobody dissed them for it. It’s a job”

        Lots of formerly respectable jobs acquired loser stigma in the 1980s (part of the neoliberal ‘winners and losers’ worldview).

        Immigrant entry level jobs are usually perceived as ‘loser’ jobs.

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            1. cliff arroyo

              “It takes a while for the system to settle…”

              Settle what, I really don’t remember a great deal of immigration problems in the 80’s?

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              1. “Settle what”

                the trend to separate jobs into jobs for winners and jobs for losers began in the early 1980s…. (a separate issue from immigration)

                as time has gone on, more fields tend to be labelled as loser jobs (and hiring non-citizens to save money lowers the prestige of a job meaning it’s more likely to become a loser job).

                They’re separate, but interacting trends.

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              2. Actually I would suggest that the loser job was created by both the hiring of non-citizens lowering the wages of citizens and the sudden increase in married females returning to work following the OPEC oil embargo. With the latter including the feminist insistence upon access to preferential positions AKA affirmative action.

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