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So, questions you can use for your discussion, in no particular order:

US critter chiming in, because lists of questions are appealing to my brain at six in the morning.

Do you think migration (any form) is a problem?

About the only form that's a problem in and of it itself is invasion, insofar as I've noticed. Reactions to migrations (i.e. the natives being jackasses about it) tend to be an issue more than the migration itself, from everything I've actually seen. When the natives work to help mitigate whatever problems may crop up, instead of acerbating or creating them, things seem to go pretty smoothly. Who'da thunk, eh?

What nationality are most immigrants in your country?

General cultural perspective would definitely be some variety of central or south american. Looking at the numbers, about 2/3rds of the foreign born population back in 2010 was some sort of latin american, so said perspective's view is actually statistically accurate. Mind you, that means that roughly one in three foreign born folks in the US aren't from down south, so there's still a pretty significant population from other areas.

Are job opportunities threatened by refugees?

As a rule, no. More people means more jobs, not less. Last I checked immigration is almost always a net job provider when someone in the native population doesn't have their head stuck up their arse. More bodies mean more things needed and more things able to be done. If you're not getting more out of that than the alternative the problem probably isn't the immigrants.

Do you think/know they pose a safety issue?

No more than anyone in similar circumstances. Immigrants in general are also a diverse lot, so painting them with a universal brush in regards to that sort of thing is... inefficient.

If you have met any of them, what did they seem like?

M'in florida, of course I have. Both latin american and cross-ocean. They were people. Sometimes there was an accent. That was about it.

Are they integrating?

Sure. People adapt to their surroundings. Complete cultural assimilation, usually not, but we don't exactly have folks from down south building ziggurats or something going on.

Is emigration a problem in your country?

Outside some crazies wailing about brain drain (nevermind the US is massively benefited from that going towards us), nope. Interestingly enough, emigration is usually a net benefit for everyone involved, too, last I checked. Benefits all countries involved over the long run, providing one of them isn't an utter shithole (and sometimes, then, too). Turns out when you've got folks moving between countries and with connections and whatnot between both, things tend to turn out better on the net. It's almost like relatively free circulation of ideas and resources can have benefits :V

Where do people generally go if it is prevalent?

Wherever the opportunity's available and the applicable bigotry is sufficiently low. Same as pretty much anyone, really. Immigrants, even the refugees from down south or some of the worse island nations, aren't some kind of strange Other whose ways are mysterious and unfathomable. They're people, sometimes having a bit of trouble, sometimes not. Act like just about anyone, settle like anyone else would.

... I was intensely disappointed to check that link and find that the mentioned loli vampire grills were, in fact, not grills. Damn your cheeky misspelling, space. Damn it to the place that lacks tiny bloodsucking cookware.

This. One of those delightful speedruns that not only set a record, but also puts on a show. Helps that it's cutesy as hell doing it. Nineteen-ish minutes of my life I definitely don't regret.

Yeah, lots of separate people.

Just because paper ballets aren't perfect doesn't mean they aren't better than the alternatives.

Less people than you'd think, more often than not. It does not take a lot of people to thoroughly screw a paper ballot count, as we've seen multiple times throughout history. You just have to have the right people in the right places, which is less trouble than it should be in a lot of areas.

We should actually see about whether paper ballots are better than the alternatives before we start shitting on said alternatives. Still working through implementation for digital, so let's give it some time.

All I got out of that was that Boh wants Tim to counterbate Boh's mortis, whatever that means. I'm not sure I want to know, really.

Probably talking about getting folks on the other side of the "digital divide" (i.e., people who are tech illiterate and pretty much never use anything more advanced than a basic cellphone, if that) introduced to fancier stuff that's been normalized, and done so in a way that's notably more convenient than the non-digital equivalent (i.e. pencil and paper, usually). Gets people with no interaction with higher tech involved with higher tech in a relatively painless and fairly ubiquitous way, helping to bridge the metaphorical gap between the people who aren't familiar with today's amazing goddamn magic and the people who are.

Critter wants to make better wizards of everyone, instead of there being middling wizards and better ones. Has my support, it does.

As for the posts that came up while I was typing, a touchscreen is honestly more intuitive to folks that have zero interaction with a computer. I've seen plenty of people struggle with mouse use, but jabbing a button on a screen they catch on to pretty quick.

E: I would never recommend touchscreens for general purpose computing, as per your average library computer or something, though. The word "jab" was not used lightly, and normal computer monitors really aren't sufficiently reinforced to deal with that regularly

Xcom is the significantly sexier franchise, serg. MoO is perhaps more respected, but Xcom has more fanfiction. Basically.

Difference also in who's producing them, I do believe, plus most of the mainline (i.e. not enforcer, etc.) Xcom games being pretty decent, whereas MoO has MoO3, which was only good after being significantly modded, and is being produced by a company that has a dubious track record and developed by one no one has heard of before. The actual strategy games in the xcom line have not really burnt the player, yet, and it has a pretty clear pedigree. MoO does not have that, and so folks are more leery.