# What were you THINKING?

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532 "2023-10-13T19:36:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5730 "2025-10-01T19:00:07Z")

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> [@If you lived in the late 1930s in Germany when would you decide it is time to leave the country?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-lived-in-the-late-1930s-in-germany-when-would-you-decide-it-is-time-to-leave-the-country/1023507/43):
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> What does “net benefit” mean in your language?
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> Sounds like xenophobia to me. Keep everyone out. You got yours. No more. Trump-101.

> [@If you lived in the late 1930s in Germany when would you decide it is time to leave the country?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-lived-in-the-late-1930s-in-germany-when-would-you-decide-it-is-time-to-leave-the-country/1023507/47):
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> Fair enough. EXACTLY what MAGA says about people trying to move to the US. Or they just outright say the racist crap. This just plays better on TV.
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> Get your red hat at the door.

> [@If you lived in the late 1930s in Germany when would you decide it is time to leave the country?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-lived-in-the-late-1930s-in-germany-when-would-you-decide-it-is-time-to-leave-the-country/1023507/59):
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> Naw…it’s not naive. It is politics. If I moved to New Zealand and wrote a check to the government for more than a New Zealand citizen would have paid in a lifetime how am I being the bad guy moving there? If the government does not use that new money to help a New Zealander that’s on them. Not seeing how I am the bad guy in this.
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> And really…are you opposed to immigrants

Jesus Christ, you are a monumentally impenetrable simpleton and all around disagreeable clodpoll.

That is all.

Stranger

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