That’s not how a lot of the colonisation of the Americas happened. Most of it was civilian.

At what point does immigration constitute an invasion?

They’ve been there and from less further away far longer than Europeans have been in the americas

Yep, so it’s important there’s a line that’s drawn

If the native americans controlled immigration and had the means to do so, they’d probably be in a better position.

I’d rather if we’d stop drying to be disingenuous and bring race into the argument. If anything, the major factor is religion. Immigration between european societies isn’t such a big deal as they all generally follow or were at least raised in some flavour of Christianity. Meanwhile Islamic societies and Islam itself have different values when it comes to things such as the treatment of women, polygamy, etc, that there’s some form of integration that needs to happen for the two religions to coexist with each other. Same can go for any other religion essentially.

I live in Northern Ireland. If I go back far enough, my ancestors are in Scotland. If I go back even further, they’re back in Ireland. It’s quite interesting.

I have no issue with migrants, my issue is generally with people who try and bypass the immigration system for their own advantage. Often they tar the good name of legal migrants. We have a load of useful idiots here who seriously think that the only reason someone would attempt to enter Europe is because of war or danger. That isn’t the case.

Don’t you lot kidnap non whites off the street and if you’re wrong about their legality, punish them anyway for “resisting arrest”

It depends how you look at it. Generally people respect the autonomy of native americans. I think racial purity is stupid, but different cultures do have different social systems, more diverse than what we realise. Generally, integration is a good thing rather than a free-for-all.

People dripping in from the continent over hundreds of years isn’t the same as a sudden influx hopping a continent and causing smallpox to wipe out the locals

Give your land back to the native Americans

The difference is, most Americans themselves are descended from immigrants. We also don’t really laugh at the prevention of illegal immigration either when it is done sensibly.

This trick also works

I believe the Chinese do have a form of democracy on local levels. They do believe in a form of democracy due to it being part of one of their twelve core socialist values (the second iirc).

Calling the Chinese “evil” for not following western democracy is borderline white supremacy. We have no reason or motivation to justify ordering them to adopt such a practice. I support the system we have in the UK for the most part, but it works for the UK. What China has right now works for China. I only care that the good people of China are in good health and well looked after, which definitely seems to be the case.

My only concern, to which maybe they could be called “evil” is that children are prohibited from publicly participating in Christian worship, but at least for adults there is a satisfactory level of religious freedom. I believe it was Bishop K. H. Ting who wrote that the “revolutionaries” (sic) didn’t do so out of malice, but a misunderstanding of the Christian faith, which is understandable due to China’s history. Although the Communist Party of China still adheres to Atheism which is mandatory for it’s members.

A bloke bought me a drink at my sister’s wedding. Can’t remember his name or face. I don’t go to pubs so that was the only time that happened

Production? That’s just our pool of thousands of testers who pay for the privilege!

More than half of Parliament are Lords. The lords spiritual only takes up 26 seats.

Don’t.

Try another GP, there are some you can see one-off for around £20-30 I believe

You’re supposed to reciprocate? Nobody told me that…

Such a view is stupid. If people thought they’d needed to use Gen AI and they had permission for various tools, they’d use it. Nobody needs to push AI.