People should be free to come and go and work and play anywhere they want, anywhere on the planet.

So, for example in a neighborhood, everyone is free to live in whichever house they please, with no obligations for maintenance or utilities (i.e. the duties and responsibilities of citizenship). How would that work out?

First, naturally, people would head to the nicest house on the block. Eventually, it would get too full and too dilapidated so people would move to the next nicest house, and so on until the “niceness” of each house reaches an equilibrium point where there is no longer incentive to move because the next house is just as nice (or not) as the one you’re living in.

Should anyone try to “fix up” a house and succeed, theirs will become the nicest house on the block, attracting everyone to move in. Very quickly, their effort will be negated and everyone will move back out since it isn’t nice anymore.

The only stable equilibrium for this system is one in which all houses are equally miserable, and getting even worse. That’s why houses have locks, and that’s why countries have borders.

But on what basis do people support illegal immigration?

Sure, the average Mexican citizen would probably live a better life as an American citizen, but so too would the average American citizen live a far better life as a Swiss or Monegasque citizen. Do all Americans have the right to move to Switzerland and enjoy the privileges of citizenship?

Should NGOs be flying Americans to Monaco and putting them up in the Hotel de Paris? Where does it end?

Far better to bloom where you’re planted, in my humble opinion.

A surprising number of people switched to Trump after the DNC and DWS stabbed Bernie in the back.

How do you equate the view that

Some people are American citizens and some people are not. American citizens decide who becomes an American citizen. People who “break into” America without permission will be removed from America.

with

American citizens believe that non-American citizens are not people

?

borders are dehumanizing

Could you expand on this?

Without prejudice for or against the research in question (most may be worthy, but some could be spurious), this is 100% in keeping with his promises to the American people.

Everyone is shocked you’re get exactly what it says on the tin.

Apple-FBI encryption dispute

My recollection was erroneous, as I can’t (easily) find evidence of them rolling over. But the devices in question still got unlocked, so in the end it didn’t matter whether Apple (openly or surreptitiously) cooperated.

American citizenship is not a universal Human Right. At least that’s what most Americans believe.

As long as the country purports to be democratic, their views ought to be respected, however fringe they may seem by some standards.

It’s a good thing Musk wasn’t elected.

Say what you will about Trump’s implementations, but solving illegal immigration has been acknowledged as an important goal on both sides of the aisle for decades.

He hasn’t shied from the challenge, and for better or worse he’s certainly not lacking in earnestness.

Troubling precedent, but I expect no one used this anyways. Anybody who needs this would be smart enough to know not to trust so proprietary a device and service.

Given how readily Apple has rolled over for law enforcement in the past loudly Apple has opposed working with law enforcement in the past, only for devices to be magically unlocked anyways, this is (probably) just security theater.