aeqno
1yr ago
Step 1, just start rounding up Palestinians and putting them on boats
Usually the "and then a miracle happens" step is in the middle of a proposal, not at the very beginning.
aeqno
1yr ago
Some of the footage from Ukraine was really grim, especially the videos of drones finishing off wounded soldiers.
aeqno
1yr ago
The first to get to AGI will most likely be Bay Area tech nerds, and they'll ensure their values dominate the future of the human species.
So the question is, what are those values?
aeqno
1yr ago
Some people work for fun
These are also the same people pushing for return-to-office.
aeqno
1yr ago
In 1992, Meloni joined the Youth Front, the youth wing of the Italian Social Movement (MSI), a neo-fascist political party founded in 1946 by former followers of Italian fascism. She later became the national leader of Student Action, the student movement of the National Alliance (AN), a post-fascist party that became the MSI's legal successor in 1995 and moved towards national conservatism.
If it's a continuum, she's a little further along it than those who don't happen to find themselves in fascist movements.
You could even just move Taiwan to Italy
While we're engaging in this level of fantasy, why not just import a bunch Numenoreans instead? They're importing Africans because they're the ones with excess population to spare and high fertility rates.
Again, I'll ask why you think a right-wing, nativist government isn't considering all these alternatives you guys are coming up with.
aeqno
1yr ago
Having a two-tiered society where the ones shut out of everything are much younger and increasingly more numerous is a recipe for disaster. You ironically need the Roman model, where the peoples subsumed by Rome came to view themselves as Roman.
aeqno
1yr ago
Ok, but that's not answering the question of what Meloni's course of action should be. If Africa is the only place with a booming population, then that's where the immigrants are going to come from.
If even a quasi-fascist like her did the numbers and saw this as the only option, what alternatives do you recommend?
aeqno
1yr ago
Coz Meloni recognizes she's looking at extinction-tier fertility rates in the native Italian population.
What is she supposed to do? Who's going to pay for the upkeep of all these aging Italians?
aeqno
1yr ago
I wonder how hard it is to predict who will marry interracially.
I ran into an old acquaintance the other day and was surprised to find out he married a black woman. Not surprised because he was a raging racist or something. It's just that in our social circles it's still a bit of an unusual thing to do. Looking back, there was nothing about this guy that said "yes, this is precisely the kind of dude who would marry a black woman."
Maybe the big ML models used by dating services are able to identify people more likely to "marry out" than the average user. Either way, it's clear some humans do, and some absolutely never would. What's behind it? Is it genetic? A particular upbringing?
I'm not even sure why I'm so interested in this question, but I am.
aeqno
1yr ago
It's also funny that after years of him lambasting people for apologizing to the mob, he's now in full, grovelling apology mode, and more grovelling than any of the other cancellation victims he mocked.
I mean, did he not realize this stuff would come out one day?
At some point? They've been leveling buildings by the dozen. You can be pretty sure innocent civilians have already been caught up in this.
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