Drowsy Emperor

Sure but now that its a problem, everyone is frothing at the mouth at the mere mention of a crackdown on immigration. Its crossed over from pragmatism (if it ever was truly pragmatic) to religious fervor in the span of a single generation. And because no one is willing to give way the keg of powder remains lit. I used to be a thorough leftist once but the way today's left (which isn't really left anymore, more of a centre liberalism with a few remnants of welfare state) solves problems by throwing money at them - I don't think its going to work I know its not going to work. Serbia is not a target for immigration due to low job opportunities but we get the worst of both worlds as a transit route. We intercept the illegal immigrants, but can't deport them back (because certain EU states are wringing arms on this issue and because their home countries don't want them back) - and they're piling up in the single center we have for this purposes. A couple of thousand of them... in a town of two thousand inhabitants. Loitering around without a job around street corners, in a country with an above 30% unemployment rate without any prospects for a job.

Nah, its all in the game.

Yes, for disaster, if I take Sister Miriam and we start on the same continent. We should play a multiplayer game some time, against the AI or something.

I think CoD is dead in the next gen. That franchise is so already so spent its not even funny.

And all that just so you can then play a game that's boring compared to AC :/ Well, considering I paid about 3$ for it I won't be sticking around in an attempt to get my money's worth out of it if its as boring as you say it is. I will, however nag them until I get the game I paid for Currently I'm really itching to play XCOM, not Civ V, but I need to study for exams - can't exactly bull**** my way through professors with my amazing gaming-fu.

...Waiting for 2K support to send me the proper cdkey. The bundle I bought on amazon activated Civ V instead of Civ V Gold. Amazon support sent me to 2K, and now 2K is having me send in screenshots of this correspondence while not making any promises to solve the problem.

The obvious question that presents itself is why so many unqualified workers were let in in the first place. Every government has all the relevant statistics for the job market, and knows approximately how many low income workers can be absorbed and what its needs are. Somewhere in all that someone must have seen how this was going to end up.

The stigma associated with genocide goes far beyond reparations. Fifty years after WWII and Germany still can't wash out the blame for Nazism. The Turks will fight tooth and nail not to accept responsibility for it, its practically been the state policy of every government Turkey's had. Turkey, like Croatia in WWII, got off easily because the focus was elsewhere in both post-war situations.

^That was helpful, I could have read a dozen articles and I'd still know less about what was going on. The inability of politicians to admit they're wrong will be our undoing.

Wouldn't put it past them, the bastards.

It'll be telling when everyone receives advertisements for lube.

I wouldn't say so and I'm an immigrant. There are some real ****heads that should be deported asap. Instead we decide to deport people that actually want to work. Three friends of mine were deported. They all had crap jobs, working 10-12 hour shifts just to be able to live here. Good enough? Nope. Let's bring in people that only get here because they know they'll get money even if they don't work. I was of course, being sarcastic. I know. The funny thing that there are people blaming them. They're a convenient scapegoat. Its easier to lay down the blame on a dozen skinheads (whom everyone hates and is apt to believe anything that they're blamed for) than admit every single policy and the entire ideology behind it - for god knows how many years was wrong and misguided.

I haven't read the thread, but I felt that I had to respond to this. I have nothing against Muslims in general. I have Muslim friends, I work with Muslim kids and I like them. But, I will always have a problem with Muslims like these. I come from a village that was almost wiped out by Muslims on several occasions. I guess you have read about what the Turks did with the Armenians and Assyrians? We migrated to Sweden because we simply couldn't live in our country simply for not being Muslims. Both countries we lived in had the same problem. When I see stuff like this, it reminds me of my family's past. We came to Sweden with barely nothing. My parents had to work their asses of to make it over here. I can tell you from personal experience that what you saw there is a regular thing in the Middle East. My friends' cousin was beheaded because he's not a Muslim. His head was delivered to his parents house. Tell me that isn't ****ed up. We got away from that **** and now it is following us to Europe. I don't mind living with Muslims, what scares me are the fundamentalists that want US to change. When I condemn these people and the way I do it, I think I have some God damn valid ground to do so. Yeah I always say that Serbia got the short end of the stick but what the Turks did to the Armenians at the beginning of the twentieth century and during WW1 is unspeakable holocaust level mass extermination: mass burnings, drownings, poisonings, deliberate typhoid infection, deportations, death marches, extermination camps - there was no crime that wasn't committed. And its rarely spoken of because Turkey is an important NATO member and has strong lobbying groups systematically quashing the issue at every turn.

I wouldn't say so and I'm an immigrant. There are some real ****heads that should be deported asap. Instead we decide to deport people that actually want to work. Three friends of mine were deported. They all had crap jobs, working 10-12 hour shifts just to be able to live here. Good enough? Nope. Let's bring in people that only get here because they know they'll get money even if they don't work. I was of course, being sarcastic.

Its been hard times since the BG2 cameo Drudanae. Unemployment, crack...

No, the evil far right nationalists are to blame. Right?

The media are partly to blame, they've been covering the story too aggressively. If you don't want to provoke a reaction don't post it all over the news all day long. No comment on the RAF thing. Its so stupid I don't know what to make of it.

BBW too?

Greylord you've upgraded this thread to epic level trolololo.

Immigrants from the ghetto? I read that they're getting 2000+ euros (welfare benefits) per month for a family of four, free education + healthcare. What are they rioting about? Families in Serbia live subsist on 400 euros per month earned money - (no benefits or meagre ones). Granted everything is more expensive in Sweden, but I don't think its that much.

Who's actually rioting?

I wonder how the reporters get so good at finding the greatest of idiots in any group of people.

I've read both, I've taken theology classes on both, and I've engaged in discourse with both imams and priests about both religions. So I'm pretty comfortable saying you are showing a clear bias towards one group over another. That is bad history. The only history I mention is events from Mohammad's life and they're generally considered to be a documented historical fact. Everything else is quoted directly from the book itself, which is sitting on a shelf near me. You could argue that I'm drawing bad conclusions from the facts, but not the fact themselves.