BurdensomeCount
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The neighborhood of Hampstead is just at present exercised with a series of events which seem to run on lines parallel to those of what was known to the writers of headlines and "The Kensington Horror," or "The Stabbing Woman," or "The Woman in Black." During the past two or three days several cases have occurred of young children straying from home or neglecting to return from their playing on the Heath. In all these cases the children were too young to give any properly intelligible account of themselves, but the consensus of their excuses is that they had been with a "bloofer lady." It has always been late in the evening when they have been missed, and on two occasions the children have not been found until early in the following morning. It is generally supposed in the neighborhood that, as the first child missed gave as his reason for being away that a "bloofer lady" had asked him to come for a walk, the others had picked up the phrase and used it as occasion served. This is the more natural as the favorite game of the little ones at present is luring each other away by wiles. A correspondent writes us that to see some of the tiny tots pretending to be the"bloofer lady" is supremely funny. Some of our caricaturists might, he says, take a lesson in the irony of grotesque by comparing the reality and the picture. It is only in accordance with general principles of human nature that the "bloofer lady" should be the popular role at these al fresco performances.
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BurdensomeCount
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3hr ago
I love visiting Britain, but you would have to pay me to make me live in London.
Oh boy yes absolutely. I'm British and if it were not for my highly paid job that requires me to be in London I'd be off to some mid size place like Letchworth Garden City (or, shock horror, Milton Keynes) which is basically like American suburbs but done right (never been a fan of the anti-suburb crowd, the US messes up in certain respects with how they do them but the basic idea is very sound).
Fair enough. Yes there are many good things to like about the US like its (imperfect, but still, extant) meritocracy. Now if only the people of the country would stop trying to prevent others from moving there to achieve the exact same goals and wishes the current population also wants. Regardless, the country still remains genuinely welcoming to others in a way (continental) Europeans are not and have never been.
In anticipation of the 4th of July 250th anniversary I was going to change my flair here to "Benedict Arnold did nothing wrong!", but then I took another look at the current state of the UK and what the US, despite it's flaws, is still like and thought better of it...
BurdensomeCount
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7hr ago
I'm not sure latino dregs would necessarily behave worse than western dregs. Yes they have cartel problems right now; the UK also used to have highwayman problems in the past but that went away as society developed and conditions improved. See Ireland for example: back when it was poor people thought average IQ there was genetically 90, now they think it's genetically 100 because it has developed and it turns out there's no significant cognitive difference between the Irish and Brits; cross country IQ studies are highly highly confounded.
Yes I am not a fan of western degeneracy. My job actually does exist outside the UK and exists more and more outside the UK each year (gulf countries, singapore, hong kong etc.). I just don't move for other reasons, like I said, I like the UK, except the people and the consenquences these people then impose on me (like crazy high tax). If things were to go above a tipping point then yes I'd consider moving.
I'd also say the gulf countries have managed to build and maintain high civilisation. Yes, that's because they basically got a money printer in the form of oil to allow them to do it but they have shown that provided enough money they can do it.
Yes, Singapore is 75% Han Chinese but it's 25% Malay+Indian as well, which is well more than the 13% Black the US is and Singapore managed to actually integrate its three main ethnic groups in a way the US never even got close to doing with blacks. LKY really was a great man here but the reason eh was able to do so was because he pushed and enforced policies upon the country that led to this happening in a way that would never ever have been accepted by individualistic western citizens: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FkYEFeHUGPw
Productivity isn't just about how much effort the person puts in for what objectively comes out, it's a lot to do with the situation of society outside as well. A lazy barista is the west making a mediocre cup of coffee in 5 mins which sells for £4 will register as more productive than a highly skilled and experienced coffee guru barista in Istanbul selling premium coffee which he also makes in 5 mins for 50 TRY (around £0.8). The fact that objectively the second cup of coffee tastes better and is a better overall experience for the drinker for the same amount of effort by the barista doesn't change the fact that on productivity stats the first cup of coffee will show as 5x the level of productivity.
The first cup of coffee is selling for more for the same amount of effort (and thus shows as being more productive in the stats) not because of how hard people work, but also because of the surrounding circumstances.
Vis a vis: A lazy guy with a digger will be far more productive digging holes than an efficient guy with a shovel in terms of dirt moved per hour. Productivity is usually more about levels of historical capital investment and the environment surrounding a person rather than anything else. The fact that the first person is more productive than the second is an accident of birth where the first guy got to be born in a rich western country and the second guy in a poor developing countery even though if the situation were swapped total holes dug per hour overall would go up massively. My proposal is simple: bring the second guy over to the high historical capital investment zone and watch humanity flourish.
BurdensomeCount
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21hr ago
If the charge is that I prefer competent productive members of society to unproductive people who take out more than they put in or those who would support values and systems that seek to give such people more power and control over society to such people rather than competent people (compared to current baseline, which is already strongly in favour of unproductive vs productive on the basis of raw numbers alone), then yes, I plead guilty.
I don't care whether you are white, black, yellow, green or purple. I care that you are productive and contribute to society and don't try and prevent other productive people form reaching their potential through setting up artificial barriers; and at least if you are a drain on society (nothing inherently wrong in that, people can become disabled through no fault of their own), then at least you express some gratitude for the hand that feeds you instead of complaining it isn't feeding you enough and passing laws and regulations forcing it to feed you even more.
BurdensomeCount
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21hr ago
To wit, this is another video by the same channel that recorded the arrest OP is talking about; pick a random start point and watch this for a collage of how these sorts of people behave: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XOWLnLNWKAw
And now realize that I, a well adjusted, highly productive member of society gets taxed close to 50% to subsidize these people so they can continue to behave in the way they do right now. Any reasonable person would develop a dislike.
This is just about the lower classes, but other justifiable reasons also exist for those above these people on the social stratum.
BurdensomeCount
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1d ago
I didn't out and about start harping on about that from nowhere. Someone accused me of hating the west first and I just corrected the record. I like many many aspects of the west, lets be clear here.
BurdensomeCount
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1d ago
Yes, exactly! I feel 100% like you just say. Almost like one of those documentaries where you get to observe the bong chav in its native habitat. It's all fun and games as long as we observe the No. 1 cardinal rule which is to never interfere and let nature take its course.
BurdensomeCount
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1d ago
Yes, that's true. There's much I like about the west. For example the institutions are great in theory but the people around them lead to them rotting and withering from inside.
Singapore for instance basically copied British Insitutitons on Independence and has done really really well over the last 70 years while the UK has just declined. The institutions are the same in both places, the only difference is the people, and that's where the divergence in fortunes comes from.
I was just stating a fact, not trying to wage culture war.
BurdensomeCount
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1d ago
Yeah, were I on the jury here I would acquit, and if the law said that I must convict based on the facts we've found I would let the other jury members know about jury nullification (or jury equity as we call it here) and try and convince them all to stick up a middle finger to the law in this particular instance.
BurdensomeCount
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1d ago
I agree this is waging the culture war.
BurdensomeCount
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1d ago
I watched like 15 mins of this video. I think this video is very instructive in teaching people just why I dislike the lower classes. People should watch this and see if they are not immediately revulsed themselves by what they see across many different scenes and different groups of these "nightlife enjoyers"; it's not something particular to any one individual or small group; it's all pervasive amongst this class of people.
Still think white dude in OP's comment was unjustifiably arrested.
BurdensomeCount
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1d ago
Man even I admit that this looks bad...
Completely unjustifiable; the police officers should be disciplined. It's this sort of action that leads to community tensions being (rightfully, I'd add) inflamed.
BurdensomeCount
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3d ago
Indeed, this is Papal Territory. What more apt thing can I or the US Supreme Court say to the vanquised MAGA losers other than "Begone Thot Prot!".
BurdensomeCount
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4d ago
Agreed and honestly I'd wager for most babies born on travel visas their parents would rather they didn't get US citizenship, US tax reporting and being a US persion is a severe burden due to FATCA in pretty much all the rest of the world (banks may well refuse to serve you for example). If you're a successful businessman in Italy the last thing you want is the IRS coming for its cut even though you've never visited the US since childhood and don't even have a US passport. Sure some anchor babies benefit from the current ruling but for others it's really just extra hassle they didn't sign up for.
BurdensomeCount
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4d ago
We all know England are going to make it to the semis and then flop in the worst possible way imaginable.
BurdensomeCount
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4d ago
Eh, I'd take good old Leo as leader of the free world over Trump.
BurdensomeCount
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4d ago
Not quite, it's possible to be a foreigner but not an alien, e.g. a US citizen who also has German citizenship. It's also possible to be an alien but not a foreigner, e.g. a native American back before they were all given citizenship; and it's definitely possible to be an ambassador/foreign minister without being either a foreigner or an alien and you use this language specifically to ensure that it doesn't apply to US ambassadors or foreign ministers who are also US citizens for instance in their own right separately.
The UK actually does something like this. If you're just a random migrant spending time on almost any "residnence" visa category in the UK after 10 years you'll be eligible for ILR (permanent residence basically). However if you're specifically in the UK as an exercise of being part of a foreign nation's retinue to it's mission in the UK there are additional issues and you can't just apply for ILR or naturalisation until you are no longer not subject to immigration control (basically not until your formal status as a diplomat has ended).
It would make perfect sense for children of ambassadors and foreign ministers while they are serving in their capacity as an ambassador/foreign minister to be carved out of US citizenship as a way to not create direct US ties and jurisdiction (like e.g. family law jurisdiction) over a family member of a serving diplomat of the other country, which the other country almost certainly would not be happy about.
BurdensomeCount
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4d ago
Other parse: this will not include person born in the United state who are foreigners AND aliens AND belong to (the families of ambassdors OR foreign ministers). So to be exempt you'd have to be a foreigner and an alien and be born to an ambassador or minister accredited to the USA.
BurdensomeCount
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4d ago
Fair point. But it'll be a more inclusive "white" which I'll take.
BurdensomeCount
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4d ago
Wrong. I think there's a lot good about western countries and their history and everything. It's the people I mostly have an issue with, not the countries themselves. The USA for example I think has it in it to become the shining city on a hill it aspires to be, the geographic expanse, the natural beauty, the resources, it's the people and more specifically the mindset of these people that irks me.
BurdensomeCount
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4d ago
50 years/60 years are also good enough for me. By then the makeup of the US will be so different to right now it'll be effectively a different country regardless!
BurdensomeCount
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5d ago
Important thing is that 5 justices agreed to the main majority ruling which means this issue is hopefully settled and dead for another 130 years. The right is free to try to change the constitution if they don't like the consequences.
I'm halfway through Alito's dissent and man is that dude a hack. Same level of bad as Sotomayor.
BurdensomeCount
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8d ago
I don't see why Watson v RNC is even controversial at all to the point of being a Supreme Court case. In the UK postal votes must be recevied by the close of polling which is absolutely the correct way to do things otherwise even 2 days after polls have closed and counts and recounts have been done if the race is very close it would be possible for a new batch of votes to suddenly turn up because the mail service has been slow and flip the result. Voters and candidates need certainty quickly after polling is concluded about who has won and where we all go from here as a result, the process shouldn't be held hostage by the possibility of some votes turning up 5 days later.
It's not like this is particularly prejudicial to postal voters either, they normally get their ballots many weeks in advance and it's not hard to fill it out (takes minutes) and get it sent off many many weeks before the election. If you delay until the last few days to send off your vote and it gets delayed and doesn't arrive in time then sorry, that's on you.
I am, in England. NHS care is basically unavailable except for emergencies (and even then, expect 6+ hour waits) unless you want your problem looked at in 2028.
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