cfhansen
3d ago
The reason for these deportations is that these people threaten the interests of American Jews. You prefer to focus on the word Jews, while I'm focusing on the fact that their interests are the interests of Americans.
cfhansen
3d ago
Why would it not be down? Salaries in London are flat, crime is rising, illegal immigration is unstoppable, the country is in a state of complete malaise, and most of all there's just not that much to recommend London relative to Vancouver, New York, Seattle, Sydney, Dublin, Zürich or even Berlin or Barcelona if you want to invest some money in property. If American blue states want to get there, well, just raise taxes and reduce quality of life as much as you can -- you'll get there eventually.
Perspective in English doesn't share the meaning [2] zeitlich: Zukunftsaussicht, Entwicklungsmöglichkeit (Wiktionary) that Perspektive has in German, just by the way.
cfhansen
3d ago
It's not really like that, although yeah, it's certainly better than in Greece or Britain.
cfhansen
3d ago
Maybe, or maybe you're of above average ability and so were in fact underpaid for the value you created.
cfhansen
15d ago
Yes, I view this as being an acceptable consequence of the policy I support.
cfhansen
16d ago
Great! American visa policy should be based on the principle that visa or permanent residency approvals are intended to further the interests of Americans and the United States. Removing people whose presence does not advance those goals should be normal and routine. Admittedly, I'm aware of the argument that this sort of thing just serves the interests of a particular ethnic group of Middle Eastern descent, rather than those of the United States more generally. Ultimately, I see the general principle as more important. Let's agree on this before fighting among ourselves over who exactly ought to profit the most from this way of doing things!
cfhansen
17d ago
It's not permanent. This isn't the 1920s anymore. People can cheaply and easily move to a country. They can also cheaply and easily leave. Even revoking citizenship is possible. We haven't done it before, but we also have never before seen the kinds of massive population movements we are currently seeing. Modern problems, modern solutions.
cfhansen
18d ago
Out of curiosity, why do you refer to him that way? His name was Curtis Lind.
cfhansen
18d ago
Alternate theory: Boomers are just bored and aimless. The devotion of transgenders to leftism doesn't need to be explained by me.
cfhansen
18d ago
It's not that hard to imagine that Trump is serious about this and would sincerely like to do it, but it will still never happen.
By way of comparison, I think he was serious about wanting to overturn the 2020 election results, but it didn't happen. To make something happen, you need to take the actions that lead to it occurring in the real world. Posting on Truth Social isn't adequate.
cfhansen
19d ago
The goal is to raise the next generation of adults. Ideally, so that they are happy, capable, virtuous and have the fundamentals for success in their lives. Typically the role of the father in all this is material support and some kind of practical and moral guidance. The traditional nuclear family works well in that regard for most normal men. That said, I don't see an issue with providing those things in another way if one has the resources to do so. Materially speaking, Musk's children are provided for. And he could easily hire highly moral, capable and intelligent people to give them personal guidance, or arrange for them to spend time with such people. That's also a "traditional" solution. I think with some care, he could easily give them a life at least 95% of Americans would envy. If he manages that, it would be hard to condemn him as irresponsible.
cfhansen
23d ago
What Musk is doing is actually quite "traditional". Historically, powerful men didn't invest much time in raising their children, particularly young ones.
cfhansen
1mo ago
Well, I don't agree that settling Afghans in the United States is a good policy or something we should be pursuing. The reasons why are numerous, but basically I'm an immigration skeptic, I'm sure you can fill in the details yourself.
cfhansen
1mo ago
I agree this is bad. (The Ukrainian thing, not the Afghans - they should all go). But no, it's not comparable. Most Ukrainian refugees live in other European countries. These ones could simply join them. Russia isn't going to invade the rest of Europe and start genociding people, as Germany did in WWII.
cfhansen
1mo ago
Why do people get angry at some people and at not at others? I don't know, I'm not a psychologist. Anger is a natural and universal human emotion. I believe it has some adaptive purpose, like all other emotions. The logic is presumably that the threat of anger induces others to treat you better. Accordingly, it makes little sense to get angry at others when you cannot possibly influence their behavior. I think this fits the pattern of how people actually behave. Few people get angry at wild animals or natural disasters.
Obviously, that doesn't mean that his anger was, in this case, actually useful or sensible. He was simply executing an adaption.
cfhansen
1mo ago
I believe his motive was anger and resentment, because, as I said, there is really no other reason to carry out a random killing of this sort. And the most common reason for anger and resentment is simply being a loser; i.e., not having achieved the status you want or feel entitled to within your particular social circle. You could call that "mental illness" if you like. Of course, maybe he had some other reason. The news articles I read didn't give much useful information.
To the rest of your comment, I find it bizarre to suggest that being killed randomly by a mentally ill loser makes you a "worthless failure". Sometimes good people die for stupid reasons. Here is a story about someone who was killed by a bed falling on her. Does that make her a "worthless failure"? Obviously not. Things like this happen every day.
cfhansen
1mo ago
Killing a bunch of random people is not really a good way to achieve any goal, unless your goal is just that: to hurt and kill others. The reason to want to do that is typically anger and resentment.
The reason for the anger and resentment of the Magdeburg attacker is fairly clear. He was in contact with numerous people from his region of origin and felt that they were, in some specific cases, not treated fairly by German society. In the case of Alexander S., I'm not sure what to think. He appears to have simply been a loser.
As far as the nature of the attacks, there is clearly a copycat element. As I said, this is not really purposeful, goal-directed behavior. It's likely the perpetrators simply copy whatever they see on the news. Using a car is also, to some extent, a rational method in a society where firearms are harder to obtain.
Apart from that, modern Germany is, like the rest of the West, a fairly atomized and unideological society. In the past, people who simply wanted to hurt and kill others could join a group like the Revolutionäre Zellen. Nowadays, that seems to be harder. There's little real appetite for groups like that, so resentful and mentally ill people act out on their own instead.
cfhansen
1mo ago
If I were you, I'd be proud of myself. You put yourself out there, found someone you were into, and took your shot.
Unfortunately, it seems like she just wasn't that into you. After she sobered up she realized that and broke it off. That's not uncommon. I hope another time you find someone who feels differently.
cfhansen
1mo ago
Europeans are older than Americans are. Europe is literally "the old continent". The people here are older than anywhere in the world.
Younger people are more driven to improve their material and social status. They are optimistic about the success of their plans and ideas. For very young people, there is nowhere to go but up.
Older people are risk-averse. They focus on conserving what they already have. For very old people, there is nowhere to go but down.
cfhansen
1mo ago
I think the extreme lengths Indians are willing to go to to gain entry to the United States puts normal Americans in a difficult position.
On the one hand, I don't think many Americans actually want very large numbers of Indians to immigrate to the United States. Probably a minority does, many are largely indifferent, and a sizeable proportion does not.
In many cases this goes even for the ones who, like this poster, are obviously intelligent and have marketable skills. Frankly, we don't really need them. We're already doing fine.
On the other hand, Americans like to think of ourselves as being easygoing, tolerant and well-meaning people. This is an important part of our self-image. We would like to prevent very large numbers of Indians from moving to the United States, many of whom will do literally anything to do so, but this requires us to say 'no' over and over again and to erect ever higher barriers to filter them out. This forces us to admit that we aren't as nice and altruistic as we like to let on. This is psychologically exhausting.
It's actually similar to Scott's experiences dealing with street beggars in India, which he blogged about. I don't mean that the situations are identical, just that the psychological difficulty is similar.
As the poster mentions, one solution to this would be to auction off residence spots. The EB-5 visa can be seen as a step in this direction. I would actually support a system that just replaces all visas of any kind with a single auctioned visa. I don't think this is morally unreasonable. Residency in the US is extremely valuable. It is also more economically efficient to put a price on scarce and valuable goods.
If this system were implemented, it would reduce demand while allowing American citizens to collect more of the proceeds from immigration. This would be psychologically less unpleasant (for us). But if we needed to salve our consciences further, we could spend some or all of the proceeds on poverty relief in the third world.
However, I wouldn't demand the price be paid up front; it would be possible to pay an additional tax on your earnings in the US instead. This might actually allow entrance to many people who are denied under the current system.
Zegler is a form of the common surname Ziegler, coming from German "Ziegel" (brick) and typically meaning "brickmaker"; it could be Jewish, but such surnames relating to common unskilled jobs were more common among ethnic Germans.
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