Morley wrote: ↑Sat Sep 24, 2022 9:12 pm
What's your beef with construction workers?
However, you're changing the subject again. Why does it bother you that a worker will take money back to Mexico?
doubtingthomas wrote: ↑Sat Sep 24, 2022 9:31 pm
Undocumented construction workers and roofers paid child sex trafficking organizations,
We don't know that any given construction worker paid any "child sex trafficking organizations." Again, you're changing the subject. What's your beef with construction workers?
see: Huckelberry's post above. They pay gas, sales, property, and payroll taxes.
doubtingthomas wrote: ↑Sat Sep 24, 2022 9:31 pm
and take thousands of US dollars to Mexico.
Again, what's your problem with folks taking money to Mexico? You've never answered this question.
doubtingthomas wrote: ↑Sat Sep 24, 2022 9:31 pm
Would you agree illegal immigration hurts low-skilled workers?
No, I wouldn't. Besides, construction workers are far from what would be called "unskilled."
doubtingthomas wrote: ↑Sat Sep 24, 2022 9:31 pm
Should there be a punishment for people who paid criminal organizations?
We don't know that any given person paid any given criminal organization for anything. You're making assumptions. Many people come here on their own.
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DT: You seem to have an agenda that you're not willing to talk about. If I'm reading it right, it's something about construction workers and roofers taking money back to Mexico to their young wives. You won't explain it, but instead go off on tangents that no one can make heads nor tails of.
Good faith efforts to respectfully engage you go nowhere.
I think Res Ipsa said it best
Res Ipsa wrote: ↑Sat Sep 24, 2022 7:31 pm
Based on my many experience discussing/debating with you, I disagree. in my opinion, you latch onto narrow issues with complete tunnel vision, refusing to consider context or any countervailing issues. Most appear to stem from some experience in your life that is also divorced from the context in which it arose. A good example is your claim that nobody is willing to talk about the issue you want to talk about, while citing an article that not only talks about, but offers a solution, to the very problem you claim no one is willing to address.
And I don’t think you understand how offputting your tactic to try and make people talk about what you want to talk about is. It sure looks like you are trying to shame people to make them address the topic you want to talk about by badgering them with the same or similar questions over and over, implying that being willing to engage with you is somehow immoral. I doubt you perceive it this way, but it is a very manipulative tactic. Everybody here is an adult and gets to talk about whatever they choose to talk about. I’ve posted about topics I find really interesting or important, only to find no one else sees them that way. And that’s perfectly okay. People get to talk about what they want to talk about. No has an obligation to engage on any given topic.
Good luck to you in your troubles, Thomas.