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DMS's avatar

We all emigrated from Africa....

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DMS's avatar

Just some more recently than others.

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JDinTX's avatar

Yep, and werenтАЩt the latecomers such losers. We ainтАЩt seen nothing yet. Just wait til climate change uproots millions. I guess the Uber rich will hole up in their New Zealand compounds

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D4N's avatar

A good deal of what we're already seeing is effects of climate change as it all sort of snowballs across disciplines and gets hazy. Most mass migrations in human history owed to climate changes, and diseases, or so I've read. Plants and animals react to such events as well. Take the potato blight and Ireland for instance (English policy added into it, but that's another story yet part of the whole).

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JDinTX's avatar

So true, but the right nuts seem to think we can all zip borders and keep out the latter comers. Maybe they can blast off to Mars with Elon

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J L Graham's avatar

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff

My impression is that a lots of US immigrants had a history of objecting to newcomers once they themselves got a leg up. Especially newcomers who were visibly different.

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JDinTX's avatar

Yep, it was their тАШpie,тАЭ more or less. But the newest groups always had the тАЬdirty jobs.тАЭ Except for the brothel owner Drumpf, who left Germany to avoid military service and found a soft place to land, by using women

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JDinTX's avatar

Guess those who stayed behind had no idea how тАЬsuperiorтАЭ those who went first would be to those who went right behind.

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