• positiveWHAT@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    I think it’s a tribal reactive feeling of “my people need to live”. Remember that conservatives are more fear driven.

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      19 days ago

      This. The honest answer is some degree of “We’ve been generous, but they will kill us once they outnumber us.”

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        19 days ago

        Inb4 literal centuries of literature, film, games, etc. in which the primary theme is “we were the real ‘savages’ all along”

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        18 days ago

        Yes, you and I feel that way. Actually there’s a neat test of values. Ask people to rank the following in terms of personal importance, what do they value the most, to the least?

        world / country / state / town / friends / family

        Or any slight variation of the above. I would put country in last place, for sure. What about you? Many people would put the world last.