American Duplicity

It's become more and more pervasive for some of the people in the first photo to decry the mere existence of the people in the second photo. Oddly, the people in the first photo that often, tacitly embrace nativism, tend to be the most likely to exploit the benefits of having the people in the second photo around. Often this coincides with efforts to break every safety and environmental rule that applies to our industry while incessantly complaining about wages.

You accusing me of being PC?

But what does any of that say about illegal immigration? Should I be pissed that millions of people sneaked in to the US without going through the legal/financial hassle that I did? Or should I be pissed that the US has a visa system that allows white men like me to get in relatively easily, while keeping brown people out?

Are my abilities as an editor more important to your economy than the physical labor of the brown guys in the second photo of the OP?

The US, along with most other first-world countries, needs to have a serious discussion of these questions, but, sadly, I don't see much chance of that happening.

Thank you for giving me a slap of reality! And to think, I was foolish enough to believe they did it out of love...

Empathy and Compassion = "Liberal Guilt" now.

I hate to make this observation,

Most of those Latino laborers will always wipe butt because they're generally uneducated savages. It's just a fact.

I like Ward because he actually legitimately believes what he’s posting

My tile contractor let his workers comp lapse for a month and I was on the hook to pay his comp bills for that month. She'll take my balls if someone isn't legit.

You libs OWN every politard thread on the Taco Stand.

Secondly, I simply mark-up labor and materials by 13%, so the more expensive the worker is the more money I make. Apparently your math and business knowledge is questionable but this thread is about duplicity so thanks again for keeping on target.

It don’t matter. There’s a strain of typhoid that is one minor mutation away from being totally untouchable by antibiotics.

Lituya

OMG

You libs OWN every politard thread on the Taco Stand. You turn each one into an absolute echo chamber because those of us that are not liberal (which does NOT imply that all of us are "right wing") quickly tire of trying to point out your vast cognitive dissonance, and you won't abide a rigorous discussion, as you retreat into plaintive bleats of "WoT! WoT!"

Don't you have enough threads on the front page already? Did you REALLY need to start up yet another echo chamber to rehash the same old crap you have echoed on dozens of other threads already? Why don't you pick just one, settle in there, and have one designated place to bask in your own righteousness?

It's so tiresome, and it's why after this post I'm basically retreating from the Taco Stand. You guys have become so relentless that this "climber's forum" has literally turned into a "liberal's forum."

You can have it, because, fortunately, I have no reason to think that your views are mainstream, so I feel no need to "win" in this increasingly pathetic context.

Bye bye now.