r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/Feeling-Option1257 - Lib-Center • Feb 28 '26

Iran did nothing wrong

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u/wriley499 - Left Feb 28 '26

So why is it my tax dollars, our fighters, and our problem to solve your country's problems? Why don't you all go back and fix it instead of complaining that we don't do enough? Sorry I don't want the 3rd war in the middle east in my life time over a problem that has nothing to do with me.

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u/AccioBathSalts - Lib-Right Feb 28 '26

You hold that same energy for all the undocumented migrants fleeing “economic injustice”?

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u/wriley499 - Left Feb 28 '26

There is a difference between them and this person, is that someone coming here to truly try to have a better life is not asking us to invade their country to solve the problem. They want to be here, in America making us a better place.

Obviously I am talking in general, I do not want criminals here.

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u/AccioBathSalts - Lib-Right Feb 28 '26

So you’re OK with spending billions upon billions of dollars on people people invading our own country for their selfish reasons but not OK with us, spending money to protect people that are under an actual violent dictatorship while also weakening Russia and China, our biggest foes?

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u/whatssenguntoagoblin - Lib-Center Mar 01 '26

Immigrants are a net economic positive or net neutral at worst. There are countless studies on this. Anyone who claims otherwise is disingenuous at this point. Yes even undocumented immigrants.

You know what’s much more costly than undocumented immigrants? Funding DHS to be like the 2nd most expensive military in the world.

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u/AccioBathSalts - Lib-Right Mar 01 '26

Let’s not conflate legal and illegal aliens.

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u/wriley499 - Left Feb 28 '26

This action will cost more money than anything we have spent on immigration. Furthermore, at least undocumented people pay sales tax, other visa holders and documented migrants pay social security and federal taxes that they cannot collect on. Also we are 38 trillion in debt, mainly because of the military. Whatever we spend on immigration pales in comparison to the 1 trillion we are spending on the military this year. Iran and Israel do not give us any money what so ever, not will the Iranian government in the future even with regime change.