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‘The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.’

Adolf Hitler on how he would resolve the pollution of India’s rivers, 1942:

John Obi Mikel describes the ‘black tax’:

Elspeth Huxley remarked in 1954 that in Africa, boys are investments, and families chip in for their education. Once the investment matures, demands from relatives for favours, typically financial, are unending. To meet these obligations, the man is easily corrupted:

Redditors rate various commanders of the Napoleonic period by their skill and impact on history. What would you change?

‘Drinking is bad; for wine means banging at doors, hitting people and having to pay for it, and a headache.’ – Aristophanes, Athenian comic playwright

Napoleon on physiognomy

One thing to note is that in non-totalitarian states, the ‘stick’ is typically ignored. In interwar France, single men had to pay a 25% surtax; 10% if married and childless. Abortions and contraception were outlawed. Not even jailtime could prise people from their comforts.

There isn't a historical precedent for this. In Japan, boomers (65+) outnumber children under five by over *nine* to one. How do you resolve this?

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By the early 1930s, foreigners represented 9.2% of Paris’ population, yet one quarter of those arrested by police. The great immigration experiment was abruptly abandoned, but the foreigners stayed, the births never came, and the resentment only grew...

Immigrants also brought their homeland loyalties and hatreds. Political murders, typically involving foreign fascists or communists, soared at a time when murder was still shocking to native Frenchmen.

Even wholly foreign couples soon adopted these ideas. Foreign women, particularly Spanish women, were said to schedule abortions at a particularly prolific rate, at a time and place when the number of births were not estimated to have exceeded abortions.

But the very “dominant influence” of French women also corrupted their partners with one fatal idea: that large families were impracticable, even cruel. Some feminists openly celebrated the coming depopulation of the French race:

Considered to be less civilised, their comparative barbarity was prized; it was hoped to translate to higher fertility. French women were tasked with marrying and civilising these men, before raising their children with French Republican values.

After the Great War, women outnumbered men by eleven to ten. For those in their early 20s, it was twelve to ten. To replace those that dared to die, the government sought ‘good’ immigrants, preferably belonging belonging to the Latin race (Spaniards, Italians etc.)...

In the 1920s, France admitted more immigrants than any other European in a desperate bid to reverse demographic decline. It backfired massively: 🧵

Abortions are often supposed to be a cruel quirk of post-modernity, but consider that in 1935, abortions were estimated to have exceeded births in France, despite the act being illegal. Some women had several abortions per year, in a “casual manner that verged on recklessness”.