Is that blacks, cops, school shooters, and reckless drivers aren't multiplying every year.
If we consider school shooting a white preoccupation (which is dubious using a naive definition but accurate if we mean suicidal spree shooters who actually get attention) these populations are rapidly aging out of peak offending years/into their obsolescence. White people are ancient, even blacks are, iirc, at the upper end of their 30s for their median age.
Tanista
18hr ago
I don't think the population is the biggest problem here, though I grant that once the ratchet has been turned they're too squeamish (or easily distracted, thanks to Trump) about turning it back. If anything I think the complacency is a result of a belief that the immigration system is mostly sensible, and people don't want drama about it like they have down south (people also always underestimate how many migrants come in, though they felt it post-COVID).
It's clear that the ruining of the immigration system was a result of Liberal ideology and business lobbying post-COVID. Carney just baldly stated that he cannot do what the public is asking for and end temporary migrants because business is very concerned about losing that spigot.
I don't really think there's an easy political solution to the fact that businesses want cheap labour and are able to lobby Ottawa to get it, especially given the Liberals' entrenched power. There are benefits to being a vetocracy with neither party being able to dominate like in the US. Theoretically you could remove some programs and put everything under a points-based system but the next Parliament (likely Liberal) can just undo it at will.
There's some argument that the Liberals figured it was money on the ground and they would get to slam the CPC for being racist and maybe they've learned their lesson. I don't buy it though. I think you have to do to parties what happened to the UK Tories before people learn. The lesson here is that they destroyed the reputation of an immigration system that was well-regarded enough that Trump made noises about adopting it in 2016 and they had a couple of years of anxiety and then got right back to governing.
As someone with direct experience of the Canadian immigration system, this is not inherent to a points-based system: it's a product of deliberate choices, mostly by Trudeau.
The fraud problem, for example, became exponentially worse after COVID.
And a lot of this could be easily solved by things like a country cap. It's not that difficult to make it harder to coordinate fraud.
You're also vastly overstating how bad life is in the countries of origin especially for those with sufficient resources to make a multi-year refugee odyssey viable. There's a reason they frequently go back to visit on holiday
They go back because they maintain family links.
I was just talking to my dad and he said it was actually dead during Eid because everyone went back to the provinces. Those are poorer places than even what counts as a metropole in a tiny, sub-$1000 GDP per capita country. But they want to see their people.
Make no mistake though, they'll be back for work on Monday. And if they were told they couldn't come back after they left, they're having Eid right where they work.
And there's some obvious benefits that come with having foreign currency in these countries. But they're gonna have to come back and earn more. My mother is in this cycle of bouncing between Saudi Arabia (for the Hajj/Umrah) and then back home to see people and relax and then back to America for work or see the kids, depending on what her bank balance looks like.
There's no genteel way out of this. This idea that you're going to cut off a spigot here or there and it'll stop is the sort of bloodless wonkery that people like Starmer are driven by. If there was some solution like that it'd already be found. It's not going to happen.
It just wouldn't happen, "allowed" or not. The George Floyd riots are a sign of low in-group bias, which is what you'd need here. About half of whites were fine with the chaos that was going on and those people simply aren't going to be supporting the riots in favor of racial reactionaries.
Tanista
20hr ago
It's not war, it's low-level ethnic conflict (serious warfare risks drawing in state employees pushed to stop it who're probably going to be more competent than random Sudanese people)
The recent Southport riots have shown that a lot of people just aren't that competent at rioting, the downsides of a comfy life. There's some reports that the Irish are doing better but I wouldn't draw too much on Twitter reports yet.
Tanista
20hr ago
Which countries want to be those stepping stones?
And these people are not dumb. As far back as the Syrian refugee crisis they were picking their location. There's a reason there's a Channel issue at all and it's because the migrants want to move.
They therefore get deflected to an argument that does make sense to them. This is usually either economic (‘people scapegoat minorities when they’re feeling precarious’ is a common one) or media (‘social media presents a biased view of the world so they can’t see the truth that actually the important things are all fine’).
I don't think this is just a centrist thing. The socialists at Novara media play the same games and then call for eating the rich as their solution. It's just a standard anti-other-people's-radical-politics stance.
This is just wordplay. In that sense even Aella is not just a lover or a whore, she is partner of sorts for and powerful, intellectually stimulating them toward higher success.
No, this is the wordplay. Comparing a person in a monogamous marriage for more than a decade through your hard times and providing material support to a whore you rented for thousands an hour after you already became rich is not really credible. We've been allowing whores to make this argument in public without laughing them out of the room for too long.
I come from an Islamic society, I have no problem with the idea that women's upside in divorce should be capped. But those are polygamous societies.
But that's not the sort of society Bezos got married in. In the one he did, monogamy is the law and women are considered partners in a more substantial sense by both the feminists and Christians, even if they manage it differently. It's doubtful that Western civilization has suffered from treating the one wife as more important and precious, even if the idea of giving away half your earnings to someone now incentivized to take it is galling.
The point stands. Golddiging under various circumstances is highly profitable for women, even an utter bimbo without any hard skills outside of seduction can amass huge wealth and power that way. That is in fact vast majority of cases how women do it all around the world.
Yes, sure? First off: a lot of men do that to themselves. Men chase these women like they chase them. Bezos chose to abandon the wife of his youth for a sexpot despite knowing the costs.
Second, I said this was the best case argument precisely because that's just not Mackenzie Scott's bio.
Tanista
1d ago
Europeans democratically vote for politicians who pursue pro-immigration policies.
Of the major European states I think the UK has the best case that large masses of the public have been voting against mass migration via the Tories and Brexit just for that to...never happen for years, followed by the Boriswave from the same people who campaigned to exploit these feelings.
Now that it's failed with traditional parties, they're seeking alternatives. The Tories have suffered a pretty steep fall after their actions and Farage barely got to enjoy his front-runner status before he was being attacked from his right.
There are men in the right wing that should probably be running white civilization who post on X from the Bahamas instead because white people insist on cultural communism instead where the lowest, dumbest, most immature whites get a vote equal to classicist philosophers and race scientists.
Antiracism is probably positively correlated with IQ, and lower class people are likely less antiracist in part because they're less likely to go to college.
Tanista
1d ago
Eh, there is a certain level of jumping where one can fear for their lives.
In any case, these people are like defense attorneys: they have the client they have. The lies told - he was jumped, he knew them as bullies - were the best fig leaves they had. Surely it would have been better if they could claim Metcalf and his friends inflicted some grievous injury but, well, we saw his mugshot.
To me the rapidity and totality of the lying happened precisely because the case as it stood was just indefensible and incredibly stereotypical (it seems demented but the mindset of a tribalist seems to be "we need to get there with our own story first", similar to the Digwa case* even though it shouldn't make any difference in the long run). In the Rick Chow situation people could at least try to argue that he should never have chased the kid or that Chow was lying as a way to say it was still an injustice. Here, you have to make shit up.
* Though there are reports that the police tried to downplay the Nowak situation so maybe it's more rational than I give it credit for.
I simply cannot conceive of a situation where I'd consider Karmelo's behavior legitimate.
I think the specific lies that people online were spreading in the immediate aftermath - e.g. that Austin Metcalf and other players jumped Karmelo - are a pretty clear sign of a guilty mind. Even with the massive, obvious in-group bias it seems a lot of people understand that you need something like that.
Some people are just stupid/antisocial enough to believe that "touch me and see what happens" constitutes a legal/moral defense for murder but it's telling that wasn't the line at the start.
I see no reason why streaming antisocial behavior like Johnny Somali didn't shouldn't count as an aggravating factor that gets you more time. Antisociality is contagious, mainstreaming it (potentially to kids) shouldn't be treated as the same act without the exhibitionist element. Just tack on a 20% bonus.
Moral of story seems to be: don't bother doing the wifely bit, enhance your assets with surgery, find a rich sucker going through a midlife crisis, get him to dump the wife and kids, and reap the benefit of all that massive profitability without having to be there for the rough patches and backing him and his dreams.
This is a bad lesson to take, but I wouldn't be surprised if people are ruining their lives this way. This was basically the seething resentment at the heart of FemaleDatingStrategy. There's no point since men can cheat so let's be hyper-transactional and demanding upfront. There's no consideration they have the leverage to behave this way (or what they lose when they do)
First of all, the system worked: Mackenzie Scott supported her husband, made a family and when that family broke down for reasons not of her own choosing, the state rewarded her with her share of the community property. It's a better deal than many people get in breakups.
And if you don't break up (like Zuckerberg hasn't) then you just won.
Also: this is pretty arrogant. Who said you're beating the Lauren Sanchezes of the world in a head-to-head matchup if your man really wants a sycophant-sexpot? Charisma is a skill. You can watch some videos of a younger Sanchez and see that she's put her reps in in the gym and she has the right career to put her in contact with these men. Not everyone is so practiced, not everyone has a talent for ball and some people even find the whole thing unpalatable.
And she still got lucky.
It's pretty strange to argue that Aella has a sample with a certain bias and then assume that all other research is deliberately "massaged" as opposed to them not having that particular problem.
(Not to mention that some research, e.g. evopsych-inspired research, is offensive to the orthodoxy as well yet still gets done)
Bezos' wife was paid because she wasn't a whore or a lover. She was a real partner. If anyone "deserves" to get such a large share of their spouse's earnings it's probably her.
It really is the best case scenario for the feminist divorce laws at this level of wealth. It wasn't like he married a model who counted the hours until she could get the biggest payoff.
Tanista
2d ago
Anyway, all of this recent discourse combined is making me feel more and more like a retarded schmuck for working a 'real job,' as opposed to just leeching off the government, doing some sort of NGO/media grift, or even just getting a random remote job and going to live cheap in Thailand or some other extremely cheap country. And this is someone who has a pretty chill office job where I don't have to work too hard, and get to work from home a few days a week. I can't imagine how people who actually bust their asses in physical labor and make less than me feel!
I imagine this sort of life would become markedly less cute in your old age compared to being a wageslave and taking the contribution match for a couple of decades.
Tanista
3d ago
I remember when she actually used to be the token good one, until she gave it away and became even better.
Then she had to open her mouth.
Tanista
3d ago
I mean I don't think it's possible to be an ethical billionaire in the same it's not possible to be ethical in general - someone is always going to be upset
This is precisely why the focus is on billionaires. The left-wing claim that "there is no just consumption under capitalism" does too much: it breeds either neuroticism or Hasan Piker-style hypocrisy where you justify buying $10,000 watch as if it's the same thing as needing to buy a house or consuming unethically sourced products from some company with monopoly power.
I take it more as scapegoating than anything.
Tanista
3d ago
I know JK Rowling has taken steps to force Warner's to source ethical products for their Harry Potter theme parks so she at least made an effort, and I'm inclined to think an artist selling books is likely pretty low on the totem pole of evil moneymakers in the first place.
The first historical pagan reference to Christianity is from ~112 CE by Pliny the Younger, governor of northern Turkey, asking the Emperor his advice on dealing with recalcitrant Christians.
Notice in this story that he didn't already know what to do and, iirc, was basically told by Trajan to not go looking for problems just handle them when they came up.
But you're right. I was thinking that the systematic persecutions came much later under Diocletian which long postdates the Gospel's likely dates (and that at the time of their writing the Romans were just hostile towards Jews in general and had no reason to pick apart their endless ideological debates*), which is true. But forgot about Nero's opportunistic behavior. That shows they were at least known and/or distrusted by pagans as well.
* Which explains some of their conciliatory gestures.
Tanista
3d ago
In the time of Christ and the early Church, the key neighbors in question were the Romans who tried and failed across the next >350 years to torture, rape and murder Christianity out of existence. It wasn't be nice to your immediate neighbors, everybody does that, it was show love to the men leading you to the pyre. If purely for reasons of history and epistemic hygiene, should your primary understanding of Christianity have come from American Scripturalists and the modern atheism they spawned, you are lacking 1800 years of empirical record.
There are verses that call for cooperation with and forgiveness of state authorities, though they may be oppressive.
But, in the time of Jesus or at least the writing of the Gospels, it's just as if not more likely that it meant Jews, actual neighbors who persecuted Christians who tried to stay in the same communities. Paul admits he tried to destroy the Church and he likely wasn't the only one. It's dubious if the Romans recognized it as anything other than a cult led by a rabble rouser.
Ability to avoid being arrested with trivial effort by not doing things like getting recorded or incriminating yourself via public posted video.
There's rumors that the NI protestors were "suggesting" people turn off their cameras, leave phones at home and so on. Basic opsec but better in comparison.
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