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I am generally anti-immigrant to the USA but I am also more or less an immigrant to Japan, where my "alien-ness" is more impactful. The irony is not lost on me.

@sun Do you go to Japan and act like a total nigger and chimp out when they don't simply accept it? Do you demand that they adapt to you?

@echo I am a guest and I am doing my best to be respectful and fit in. It's hard but I'm trying.

@sun

That is the fundamental difference. Even most of us anti-immigrant people aren’t really that against immigration. We’re mostly against coming here to not assimilate and against doing it unlawfully.

@echo

@Leyonhjelm @echo I think that people that assimilate can be as american as white anglos tbh.

@sun @Leyonhjelm @echo a pretty good percentage of the rightoids I’ve known personally seem to believe this, not saying you’re a rightoid, just taking the slight tangent

@clawfulneutral @Leyonhjelm @echo i'm kind of a fellow traveler with some ideas but i don't identify as right wing. not left wing either. i don't know what i am. i think a lot of people don't fit that paradigm anymore.

@sun @Leyonhjelm @echo I’m a leftoid by biology (I max out the Openness scale on the Five Factor personality inventory) but I grew up in a red state and have some appreciation for nuance, I guess. along with having seen conservative adjacent people be good for the right reasons with my own two eyes. I also have been extremely wary of groupthink almost my whole life, and there’s a whole lot of it happening in what passes for the American left.