professorgerm
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professorgerm
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28m ago
As the saying goes, civilization is not a suicide pact.
War is bloody and awful, but it's honest. Letting your better principles be the knife used to bleed you dry is not.
professorgerm
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34m ago
Rawls is right up there near Rousseau on the list of Most Destructive Philosophers of History.
Of course, Rawls being downstream of Rousseau means the frog retains the top rank.
professorgerm
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36m ago
A US citizens who decides to emigrate to the Taliban, Belarus, North Korea, Saudi Arabia is arguably betraying the ideals on which the US is built.
Likewise, DSA candidates should all be convicted of treason.
Anyone loyal to the good ideals of the US can by necessity only be loyal to the US as it exists in reality if the US does a good job of upholding these ideals.
"Men did not love Rome because she was great; Rome was great because men loved her."
professorgerm
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40m ago
Unfortunately The Motte didn't exist back in 1920.
We probably talk about the R1b expansion an unusual amount relative to The Motte not exist 14Kish years ago either, though.
professorgerm
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51m ago
How is this any better, just because it's done behind closed doors?
TBF that is exactly the argument people make about much more important topics like jawboning, corruption versus fraud, etc. If you do it the right way (and let's be honest, with the correct letter behind your name), you can get away with anything.
professorgerm
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53m ago
Fair enough, Hanania is probably right about more than one thing.
professorgerm
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4d ago
there should be mass desire for movement somewhere if we're fucking something up in a significant way and we just don't see it
Where?
If you're already living on the golden goose, you have nowhere else to go. And while the goose is hardy, it is not invincible, and democratic systems are apparently helpless against the influx of ~infinite people that want to live on the goose until it suffocates and gets smeared into what a Pakistani bricklayer considers wealth.
There's gotta be some explanation for why no one can get things right and also be a country that people want to be in.
Easy, liberalism only really works when it believes in itself, and being at least a little bit arrogant about it. You have to retain the ability to say "I'll tolerate your backwards idiocy, but my culture is better."
Once people start to consider racism as a worse crime than rape and murder, because liberalism no longer seems capable of saying "fuck you my culture is better," you're coasting on the works of better men with real souls.
professorgerm
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4d ago
But if that's the case then the response is if you can't bother yourself with gathering real evidence then don't make allegations.
Leftists have never bothered gathering evidence for anything, they just shout people down. Much more effective and conveniently doesn't rely on reality!
But yeah Hanania's right about precisely one thing, and it's that the right is too lazy.
professorgerm
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5d ago
in a contrast to other groups historically, this seems more far more imposed from within the minority than from the majority.
professorgerm
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5d ago
John Alexander Adams
Nice.
That I don't want to suggests I don't really believe the vote is fake.
It is unfortunate the right lacks the left's organized supply of underemployed, politically-obsessed weirdos to do things like trawl through California's voter registration databases and hunt down every homeless person in the state to question them.
professorgerm
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5d ago
If a large fraction do resist and co-opt many natives, how else can they be deported?
Eyeballing the by-country numbers, something like 700K that people would probably want to deport. A bunch of Polish plumbers aren't generally the point of concern.
Except by a powerful and cold-hearted deportation force, which especially after the deportations are over, threatens the rest of Sweden's culture (which unrestricted immigration also threatens, but still, is there no middle solution?).
What of Sweden's culture is threatened by removing people that want to replace Swedish culture?
Approximately no Western country is interested in enforcing assimilation, which is the closest thing to a middle solution.
professorgerm
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5d ago
The gist of it is that right now, the ECHR considers (dubiously, but so it is) refoulment to be akin torture.
Which is an excellent argument in favor of colonialism, if the ECHR actually had principles other than slow suicide.
professorgerm
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5d ago
why?
Do you mean for Sweden or the UK?
That the UK left the EU but is still subject to the much dumber ECHR seems silly to begin with.
professorgerm
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5d ago
many with deep ties to their community
Most of them have been there less than 12 years, and have minimal ties to the Swedish community. Loading up the emotional affect does not a good argument make.
Now, if some UK guy is talking about remigrating Windrush, you'd have a point. Sweden, not so much.
Edit:
Inevitably they will resist.
I expect less than you might think, kind of like Trump's little bit of shock and awe enforcement caused US migration to plummet. They have no ties to the land or the people, they like being showered with free money, but the times would not have to get very hard before they pull up shop and find the next host to bleed.
professorgerm
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5d ago
The post office also has its own police. the obscure federal police are sometimes considered more competent than the famous ones, because they're obsessed with a much smaller purview.
whether or not they're from the same city, i don't know.
professorgerm
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5d ago
they are politically active enough that they would help in an active cover up and pretend to have actually voted if questioned
"Yeah maaaan I got $10 to sign some form, leave me alone" is not exactly a Rube Goldberg coverup.
professorgerm
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5d ago
their name and other registration information and know what city they're in
As far as I can tell having read California's laws, they do virtually no verification on any of this.
Basically they trust whoever fills it out to pinky-swear they're eligible to vote, California might check in some way that the information connects to a person that plausibly exists, but they do not have to have any connection to the address to which they are registered.
professorgerm
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5d ago
probably less true in California than most places, and while I don't know Brenda Lee Armstrong's religious beliefs we can be quite confident she was doing fishy things with homeless voting.
professorgerm
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5d ago
Everything I learn about the California elections process seems to be explicitly designed to allow as much fraudulent voting as possible
correct
professorgerm
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5d ago
I don't think Yglesias personally is engaging in tactical lying about his political views.
Matt Yglesias has said, historically, that lying for political reasons is good. Article on the topic with a few extra links.
professorgerm
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7d ago
ask refugees what they want and think would be a good system
lol. The sheep asked the wolf what he wanted for dinner.
professorgerm
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7d ago
How would you get rid of immigrants if Somalia etc. won't accept them?
Send them anyways. Or depose the government of Australia and send them all there, as was traditional.
What if it's too expensive?
There's no way it's more expensive than keeping them.
What if it's dangerous for them?
As the saying goes, "remigration is the moderate solution."
not only morally
Why? What is the foundation of a secular morality that says Europe has infinite debts to the world?
If God is dead, then there is no morality in sacrificing yourself to save people that are only treating you as a paypig to be replaced.
making LLMs more diverse, further improving translation tools and incentivizing ethnic stores to include more cultural nuance
ah, starting to think someone's having a fun bit of trolling.
professorgerm
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11d ago
I've always thought of it is a certain contrarian approach to questions and attempting to think through things from first principles, which makes it more glaring when you do hit an unquestionable topic. Reading the Sequences and Scott is part of that, but not necessarily required.
Then again I only ever considered myself "rationalist-adjacent" because of the other weird sex stuff that seemed to be a cultural signifier. Rather like EA, I like rationalism as an idea, not as a movement or culture.
professorgerm
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11d ago
It's disguised in a wordy way to appear sophisticated
How dare you, my prose is meant to be playfully purple, not sophisticated!
Fine, this particular instantiation of word games was the final straw to a portion of the rationalist-adjacent crowd that had never bothered with Yud's masturbatory sequences, and proved that the considerations of the Bay Arean Social Influence were more important than anything a normal person would call rationalism or utilitarianism for the greatest good of the greatest number of people, and virtually stamped approval of utility monsters- so long as they are utility monsters approved by the Bay Arean Society.
Let's try again: redefining the categories of "man" and "woman" to be useless circular referents makes people less economically efficient and dismantles a functional society that broadly continues to find significant moral, ethical, and economic value in having some legal separation of the sexes.
Better?
Some are more equal than others, around here.
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