In Austria 🇦🇹, Belgium 🇧🇪, Finland 🇫🇮, France 🇫🇷, Greece 🇬🇷, Ireland 🇮🇪, Italy 🇮🇹, and Sweden 🇸🇪, non-EU immigrants are a net fiscal drain. 🧵
Greece, Ireland, Italy, Sweden
This report also underestimates how deleterious to the economy immigration from low-trust, low-productivity countries is as it puts non-EU Westerners in the same category as Africans and Middle Easterners.
Why are leftists more depressed?
Negative thoughts about the self, the world, and the future are the cognitive causes of depression. Leftism promotes all three. 🧵
Examples:
The self: "I'm ashamed of being white."
The world: "We live in an oppressive patriarchy."
The future: "Climate change will kill us and our planet."
These cognitive distortions create a vicious circle: they make you more depressed, which in turn makes you believe them more.