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>> The people who don't live next to immigrants are generally much more angry then those that do.

Lol. Ask people in Crowborough and Piddington if that's true.

Using individual example instead of overall statistics is an indication that you are not actually seriously engaging with the topic.

Individual examples are results of specific circumstances and not indication of a universal trend.

They very much are.

There are literally millions of examples against your position.

Yes, that's why Reform, Restore, Conservatives are surging in popularity.

It's funny how you can jump around between ideas, without ever letting the same standards be applied by anyone else. What are you trying to gain out of these discussions?

Because to me, it sure looks like you're only here to spread your agenda, and not to have any meaningful conversations.

It's not "an agenda", it's a policy position.

I'm not sure why you think I'm jumping around between ideas.

Because as soon as someone applies your standards equally, you don't engage with their response, and instead jump to another idea. I don't know how you don't see this, maybe spend some time reading your own comments?

> It's not "an agenda", it's a policy position.

No, it's not a policy position, it's an agenda you push. And it's one I've been seeing you push for months, if not years. You never really engage with critical responses, you just keep jumping to the next idea so you can keep pushing your agenda.

>>Because as soon as someone applies your standards equally, you don't engage with their response, and instead jump to another idea. I don't know how you don't see this, maybe spend some time reading your own comments?

Yeah, ok bro.

>>No, it's not a policy position, it's an agenda you push.

I'm not sure how you define the difference. Is it an agenda if you disagree with it?

It is an agenda when you show zero interest in actually discussing the arguments for your policy position. You just jump to the next argument, because you're here to advertise your policy position.

Doubly so when every argument you regurgitate boils down to the exact same talking points being disseminated through far-right media outlets. What can anyone learn from your comments, that they couldn't get by e.g. opening Breitbart?

Just so you don't feel shouting into the void: I completely agree with your assessment.

It's also notable that there are several accounts in this thread doing the exact same thing.

Thank you! :)

Through fear and little actual contact with "the others" though.

> Lol. Ask people in Crowborough and Piddington

Awww, you guys have stopped citing Luton then?

‘I feel perfectly safe’: white Lutonians on the town’s supposed no-go zones - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/08/luton-white-...

that's the way, just move onto another UK backwater and claim that as the new hotbed of brown people plotting against the King.

>>Through fear and little actual contact with "the others" though.

I have a rape gang enquiry report you should read.

>>Awww, you guys have stopped citing Luton then?

Not sure what "guys" you are referring to. I'm referring to the fact that dropping 1,250 male asylum seekers from countries with a completely different culture (such that need to be given brochures saying women need to consent to sex) next to a village with a population of 350 is one of the most appalling ideas ever.

How come you get to argue by assertion but your opponents don't?

Because its a well known pattern that anybody who spends 5min looking at the data knows. Most immigrants live in cities that mostly vote left. The places that vote right are rural places that barley have immigrants.

Hence you have places like Fox news run coverage about cities all the time, telling you how they are lawless places full of crime. Scaring rural people about what all these immigrants will do once they final start to move to bum-fuck nowhere.

You seem the same pattern in most democracies.

There is no correlation between contact with immigrants and anti-immigrant voting.

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