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EU Migration Policy, Ireland, and Demographic Change as a Design
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The conversation broadens from UK specifics to the EU's supranational control of migration, with Ireland as the focal example: a country bound by EU policy that sets how many migrants must be admitted, leaving its citizens no democratic recourse. Dillon's key distinction is economic versus genuine refugees — elites in Brussels care about GDP growth and cheap labour, not the cultural landscape. He connects the dots from Western-backed coups and invasions (Libya, Syria, Iraq) that created the refugee crisis, to the guilt-narrative that then demands Europe absorb those refugees. 'We did that. You can't take Western powers out of it.' The design thesis: a small group focused on global economic control is deliberately using progressive empathy as a tool to override national sovereignty.
A large cohort of people Tim Dillon's age have never owned a home and never will — and no one in power is seriously trying to change that. He argues this is intentional: the people planning for AI's economic disruption have already written off the prospect of mass homeownership.
