I’m not that optimistic anymore especially with a comment like that. Even if you know nothing about the immigration experience I think you’d have to ignore a lot for that to even be a question. Nobody goes through that much hardship to get to a place like the US and then goes like “k bye! I’m vacationing in Europe and doing it all over again” I hope they were enlightened at some point but I’ve also ran into well traveled people with the same mindset.

I used to think this. Then some girl in Poland asked me “so are you like, illegal?” When I told her I was Mexican. I’ve ran into other assholes while traveling but I still remember her.

Lemmy, reddit is more active and has more content but Lemmy will get there. The front page is awful now. It’s full of ads and suggested crap. I subscribed to things for a reason. I liked seeing posts I cared about. This shoving content down my throat approach curiously made me get off the site sooner.

The black Panthers tried that. Not saying it shouldn’t be done again but let’s learn from what happened to them.