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Sun Belt respecter, anti-marcionite, anti-dysgenics, anti-anti-fascist
Joined December 2020
They don't want a technocracy. Keir Starmer or Kamala Harris are not technocrats. They don't have technical skill and don't base their legitimacy on hard metrics. They base their authority on knowing correct morality instead, like the Iranian clergy.
Yeah, libs haven’t been hiding the ball at all on this. They want managed democracy run by a technocracy where the only thing you get to vote on is small differences in the marginal tax rate and bureaucrats and experts *acting in your best interests* make political decisions
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Every country in the world should do this. Australia had 7 million people in 1945, now 28m. It could have had Norway's living standards, as all its productive industries are purely extractive. Ironically, the raison d'être of "populate of perish" was originally to keep out Asia.
Interesting development. Looks like they will put a population cap to a referendum Direct democracy Anything is possible when you give power to the people
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10 years ago, Republican leaders would’ve praised the ‘65 Immigration Act. Now it’s mainstream to want to repeal it. The discourse is far better today than it was before Trump came down the escalator
Should we repeal the Hart-Celler Immigration Act? The Hart-Celler Act scrapped the highly effective national-origins quota system and replaced it with an immigration regime built to favor third-world migration. It opened America’s doors to mass inflows from the developing
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When the Irish reached sufficient numbers in Boston, Irish mayor James Curley and the Irish ethnic political machine systematically purged all Englishmen from the city government and used predatory economic policies to impoverish, drive out, and dispossess the English families
When they came to America, impoverished Italian and Irish grandparents did not recreate the societies they just escaped. Neither did Jews, Cubans, Chinese, Mexicans, Indians....
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Mass migration is theft of the American Dream. It has always been this way, and every position paper, think tank piece, and econometric study suggesting otherwise is paid for by the people getting rich off of the old system.
Construction company owner says he is seeing a difference ever since ICE has been in Louisiana. “No immigrants want to go to work … and it is so amazing. I’ve gotten more calls in the last week than I’ve gotten in the last 3 months.”
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Just found this out: Apparently, UK citizens were banned from the green card lottery system until this year. The Trump Administration just changed that. In other words, the diversity visa program has intentionally discriminated against the least problematic immigrants since its
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The poetry of “nature-nurture” makes us think the other 50% is “modern progressive education” or “discussing the arts over dinner.” So the libs be like “well, we can get 50% of the way to USAID turning every Somali into Einstein.” When it’s actually like “placental blood flow”
@gen0m1cs It's almost as if I've been saying for decades that the nature-nurture split on IQ is probably most likely somewhere around 50-50 and I've been constantly denounced as being EVIL for imagining such an unrealistic possibility when it must really be 0% Nature-100% nurture!
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Obvious compromise: immigration bureaucrats can admit people if and only if they spend 5000 hours with them to get to know them as individuals, plus accept responsibility for problems they may cause, rather than the current system where admission is based on ~zero info.
Immigrants are individuals, not avatars of the average characteristics of their home country, and they absolutely do not mechanically reproduce the conditions of where they came from. https://t.co/eVShLu8jEn
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Another factor: sometimes they do get deported for committing crimes, meaning they can't commit more. Since the large majority of crimes are committed by repeat offenders, this reduces first-gen crime rates.
@AlexNowrasteh 1st generation immigrants are usually lower crime rate, I guess because they fear getting deported. Same thing in Nordics. You will want to look at 2+ generation.
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There are 4,000 Somali children in Minnesota public schools. Minnesota spends $18,600 per student. The cost to educate Somali children is $74,400,000/year. The whole of Somali-paid annual taxes does not cover the cost of their own children in public schools.
Somali Minnesotans generate at least $500 million in income annually and pay about $67 million in state and local taxes.
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Always thought this about Tucker’s penchant for hating on drywall. Yeah, wood paneling is nicer than drywall. But not all of us are multimillionaires who can furnish our Maine vacation homes with wood paneling. We’re blessed to be able to afford 1 decent single family home.
Tucker says he now opposes the GOP because they back strip malls. It's easy to hate these store fronts, but it's much harder to offer an alternative to replace them. The people like them, despite their ugliness, because they're convenient and practical. Whether we like it or not,
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If Kamala Harris had won last year, we’d be battling amnesty and a pathway to citizenship for 20 million illegals at the same time that millions more pour into our country. Instead, the Overton Window has shifted to whether or not Somalis should be in this country at all. Don’t
TRUMP: "Our country's at a tipping point. We could go bad.. We're going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country." "Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren't people that work. These aren't people that say, 'let's go,
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I wish Elon would purge the reddit from his soul and lean into the fact that he's one of the 5 most important people in the world.
You are sitting next to Elon Musk, what do you ask?
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America should flat out tell Europe that they need to choose between the ECHR and NATO. Abolish it within 5 years or their defense in their own problem. They are nothing but a liability as allies if they can’t het their act together
I decided to do a deep dive to figure out what it would take for European voters to change the law to allow them to deport migrants. For instance, say the voters of Italy wanted to deport Syrian terrorists to Syria. What would they need to do, legally to get that outcome? 🧵
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Reminds me
I was at the Holocaust Museum yesterday. The parallels to Trump are undeniable. He is a fascist.
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Hobbes remarked 400 years ago that “might makes right” sounds cruel, but when the winning side makes up stupid imaginary rules to retroactively justify itself, they cause more suffering in the long run. Nothing has proved his point more eloquently than the postwar period
The laws of war are not designed to protect: 1. Regular criminals 2. Extraordinary criminals (pirates, terrorists) 3. Weaker militaries It's not there to level the playing field or make the stronger side fight with one hand behind its back
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Remember - "America isn't a people, it's an idea" so it's *wrong* to exclude people ...also, you're not allowed to screen them on the basis of their ideas - that's wrong and you're not allowed to check if Americans benefit from importing hostile foreigners It's all just word
This sounds a lot like they’re going to start trying to cancel green cards and denaturalize large numbers of non-white people who came here legally based purely on ideological and religious tests.
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The layoffs... Are the productivity gains. Anti-automation politics is just the politics of avoiding productivity gains.
We need smart regulation to protect 3.5 million truck drivers & 2 million long haul drivers. AI should not be used for mass layoffs that drive up short term profits w/ no productivity gains. Drivers are needed for safety, oversight, edge cases, & maintenance. I stand with
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Justice William O. Douglas was the longest-serving Supreme Court justice and one of its most important liberals in history. He was also a despicable serial liar and drunk who divorced three times, said he’d had polio (no) but overcame it (no) to join the Army for WW1 (no) and
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We are going to do things to you that have deeply established historical and legal precedents
We are saying nothing extreme or unreasonable. We are wanting nothing that is unprecedented or unpopular.
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