human ethics dont apply outside the human species, so that is an option

So many people be like "if aliens exist, they will bring us peace, just let them take over 😍 "

...? i dont think that many people seriously give a lot of thought to alien first contact

Most people don't believe in Aliens, (and I'm not so sure about them either), but in hypotheticals people tend to hope they are peaceful and will "enlighten us"

You don't have to believe something to give it consideration

How many people debate star wars? Star wars objectively doesn't exist, but yet people debate it

thats just absent minded larping, if it actually happened peoples visceral reactions would be very different

the world would collectively shit its pants

I will sleep with all the hot aliens until peace is achieved. It's basically the whole point of the Mass Effect games anyway 😉

I hope they are just larping

Can we trade our self hating leftists for aliens? Id be ok with that

No, humans are still humans

I heard mini mike is a lizard though

close, he's an interdimensional vampire

@Zephfyre I lost my virginity in a Burger King bathroom on Halloween while dressed as Master Chief. Does that count as LARPing?

I wouldn't mind trading self-hating leftists for hong kong-ians

@Kai Leng dank

Was it to an elite? @Kai Leng

Yeah that sounds good. The people of hong kong seem to value freedom a lot more

@Zephfyre the person wasn't, but she was dressed as Lara Croft, and she's a billionaire. So... maybe?

Close enough

@Cat-Related Mammal leftists get the """socialism""" that they want and hong kong gets the freedom that they want

win-win

the people of hong kong have not sworn an oath of citizenship to the united states though

(neither did the leftists but my point stands)

They fly our flag more than many americans

nah i wouldnt import more foreigners based on ideology or their domestic situation alone

I would trade all of California, Oregon and the western part of Washington for the Hong Kong ppl

there also has to be an economic justification

America has no culture besides ideology

We are different in that we are bound by common ideals

it absolutely does have a culture - the constitution and a land of laws not men

Other countries use ethnicity, we use ideals

we dont have ethnic nationalism, we have civic nationalism, i agree

but that doesnt mean the US doesnt have a culture, and moreover it doesnt mean that you import foreigners based only on that

Those people in hong kong show the same spirit we had during our independence

unless there's a sector of the economy which has not reached allocative efficiency and does not have americans ready to retrain for it, you don't have immigration

The States has a general culture, but the country is so big that a lot of stuff differs from region to region

well of course

we should let california leave tbh

im not saying i give a fuck whether you celebrate christmas or lunar new year