ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
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1hr ago
Deterrence doesn't work if your threat was already carried out before you even made it.
ArjinFerman
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3hr ago
A position like "more smart prosocial immigrants, but fewer stupid violent ones" will be ejected by the former camp because the "fewer" part just diluted and muddles immigrants-good sentiment; likewise, the latter camp will eject it for the "more" part having the same effect on immigrants-bad sentiment
Executive function doesn't enter into it. The issue is that the two tribes have no reason to trust each other, and that there are too many people with the "accept compromise, but keep fighting" mentality, so the only rational strategy is to swing the status quo as extremely to your side as possible (even beyond what you might actually want), and then fortify it as best as you can.
ArjinFerman
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3hr ago
This might be true in the sense that there might have been a lot old shacks that have fallen into disrepair, but if something was well-built, it wasn't ugly by design the way things are now. Even 16th century social housing projects are reasonable to look at.
I still think the problem of 'how to get good immigrants' is easier than 'how do we fix our industrial policy' or 'how do we make our people have more kids'.
I don't think there's enough good immigrants to go between Europe, the US, Japan, Korea, and if China ever joins that club, you can forget about it. I'm also pretty sure that deindustrialization and depopulation are deliberate policy, rather than innocent bumbling around by the bureaucrats.
Could be. Happened with Trump 2016, Brexit and Modi 2014.
Nothing quite so drastic, but an educated urbanite won't be caught dead sharing no-no opinions in public, so even their relatively low numbers just won't become apparent in conversation. Though funnily enough it might come up with parents fretting over the political opinions of their kids, their sons in particular.
I really don’t think there’s an equivalent on the right. The idea is preserving order through continuity, in principle.
Eh, there's plenty of people, even semi-organized groups, that share the fears of being genocided and that fantasize about the Boogaloo, there were even lone wolves that actually killed people. What you don't get is the sort of "no one is in favor of political assasinations, Chud, but teehee isn't it great that someone rid us of that turbulent priest" reactions that you could see on the left.
ArjinFerman
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14hr ago
Europeans are proud. Trump has taken a sneer-and-condescend approach towards European politics. It's a bad strategy towards any institution. But, it's catastrophic towards Europe. I visit Europe every couple of months. Yes, urban educated circles aren't a representative sample.
"Aren't representative" isn't even the half of it. Educated urban circles aren't even representative of educated urban circles, anyone with 2 braincells to rub together is in full Havel's Greengrocer mode, and the ones that do actually side with the regime are having palpitation over populist parties getting more and more mainstream.
They need immigrants.
Any country that bothered publishing statistics on the subject showed that non-European immigrants cost more money than they bring. The whole idea of solving our financial issue with them was ridiculous from the start.
ArjinFerman
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14hr ago
What exactly were you expecting, given the marking scheme for this assignment? Why are you still looking for ways to shit on the student, now that it's abundantly clear the issue is with this professor / this university / the absolute state of academia in general?
I guess I'm not sure we're much of a compound organism anymore.
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