Protecting Trump’s enemies from prosecution just reinforces the idea of politics as retribution. Instead, Democrats should be defending his most vulnerable targets.

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    i get where youre coming from, really. but theyve also made it incredibly hard to immigrate to the US on purpose. they dont want legal immigrants.

    and its not quite the same thing as iceland… the US has an obscene amount of space and resources and is more than capable of incorporating a huge number of immigrants. this country was built on immigration, by immigrants.

    this is more about hating brown people than it is about ‘legal status’.

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      Iceland has nothing but space and resources yet it’s nearly impossible to immigrate there and I don’t see anyone complaining about it. This analogy can apply to all of Scandinavia really

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        There was someone on here that said that the US sucks compared to all these Scandinavian countries…where MOST people are white… so, you’re saying that those countries that have more white people, and less diverse cultures, thrive more? lol…

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          Yeah go to scandinavia and you will see that people are quite chilled out and content with life. I have family there and life in finland is easy mode compared to US lol

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            Again, as are most Scandinavian countries… they’re not dealing with 300 Million different people from all over the world… it’s just ridiculous to try and compare the US to any other country on the planet.

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        hahahaha it doesnt even have the population of a single major US city.

        california is the 5th largest economy on the planet, and its just a single state. its not even kind of the same situation.

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          Yeah it has a small population because nobody is allowed to move there lol. And I argue it’s one of the main reasons they have the highest quality of life on the planet