Just as a word of advice, don’t use slurs from another cultures. You know the slurs you shouldn’t say in your culture, and I promise you sound just as ignorant and bigoted using the slurs you don’t understand. The “I’m not racist but” introduction did not help here.

I get what you’re doing, I just don’t get why you chose to astrik the burger part instead of the other part.

Moving past the obvious slurs in your comment, those migrants might actually get more of a red carpet treatment - sorry to spoil your vengeful dreams. In part because they are who they are, but also because of the spoken language making it easier to get higher paid jobs, probably at multinational corporations too (English is pretty commonly spoken as a foreign language, so it’s not so well paid and sought as other foreign languages, but if that’s your native language you’re definitely getting an edge over the locals).

Patriots (also called sovreignists here in Romania) will do what they do the best: label them as sexo-marxists invading our country and too snowflake to stay with Trump. But outside those pricks, people here are very open towards migrants.

We have an ongoing collective memory of us taking the road to the West after the fall of communism, along with all the hardships we faced, and the fair treatment of migrants is, from my experience, pretty well promoted publicly (at least so far).

If the far right gets in power in two years from now, which is highly likely given the current political situation, things might take a turn to the worse. But until then, the orchestra is singing on the Titanic.

And as a personal opinion, I think it’s wrong to put all the American migrants in the same pot. I think the people leaving the US behind are exactly those who saw the things coming, who understood what Project 2025 was about and did all they could to prevent this from happening. Throwing them in concentration camps similar to those in El Salvador, degrading them or being xenophobic to them in any way will teach them no lesson and will definitely teach the usual MAGA supporter no lesson, or at least not the lesson you’re looking for. I’m rather pro treating these people well, especially since (despite all the shortcomings), during these whole decades when America was truly free, it represented a safe haven for people looking to escape prosecution in their homeland, especially due to their etnicity or religion. So taking these people as they themselves flee from political prosecution is more of an acknowledgement of the role the free America had on making the world a better place, sometimes even helping make entire countries free and independent from other countries.

Technically correct, but not really:

The desire among Americans to move abroad is reaching record numbers: One in five say that, ideally, they would like to emigrate if given an opportunity, according to a 2025 Gallup poll

If they’d used “expat” or some shit, you’d have a point.

@calm_bomb yeah, I added a title to it, so Mastodon treated my post as being an article in itself. Here’s the actual link: edition.cnn.com/travel/central…