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My initial comment was that diversity and immigration are bad. Yes people in America vote against dense construction. People do NOT like living in diverse dense neighborhoods. They don’t like living next to black people.
Yet homogenous societies live in dense neighborhoods. Buenos Aires where they literally genocide blacks and Indians is dense and walkable. European cities are dense and walkable. Chinese cities are dense and walkable. Tokyo is dense and walkable.
So yes you prove my point. People do not like living in diverse societies. When people are in homogenous societies they suddenly choose to live close to each other.
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Drinking bleach leftist rant actually costs lives. Trump did butcher the science but what he was actually referring to were things like disinfecting nasal sprays which were very effective on Covid since Covid starts in your nasal system. Blasting yourself with non-toxic disinfectants gave your body significantly more time to build up antibodies to Covid where it causes real problems.
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I am rabid MAGA and would consider voting for Shapiro at the Governor level. I would never vote for him as a Senator though. A governor job is much different than a national politician. It seems like he’s doing a good as a governor.
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You have zero good sources for immigrants commit less crime. Because the US does not have good data. I believe it’s Sweden that has good data on immigrants. And they commit a lot more crime.
Harvard discriminated against Asians in admissions for a reason. I don’t make the rules but even the elites decided Asians kill the vibes of a place.
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That doesn’t mean anything in the US. Houston is the 4th largest city. Zero walkable neighborhoods. It’s one giant suburb.
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A big problem with USAID is it funds population groups that are not capable of sustaining advanced civilization on their own while having high reproductive rates. If you fund sub-Saharan Africa with USAID you get more Sub-Saharan Africans. Which means in 30x you need to send even more money to prevent deaths. They are humans that can sustain on their own hunger and gatherer communities at low population density.
By actually funding USAID you increase population density and in the future more Africans die because you saved lives today. No matter what you do people die.
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America is insanely wealthy. What you don’t realize is there are more than 1.58 million Americans with net worth >$10m. Think I saw a Twitter graphic that it was 2.5 m people. So finding 500 Obamas isn’t that hard.
Of course America is insanely rich because America’s federal government is insanely rich and USAID was a trivial amount of the budget. Since citizens fund the government USAID would likewise be a trivial amount of individuals.
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There was a meme or saying on the internet that conservatives struggle because when they just tell the truth the rest of society thinks they are lying and clowning.
But actually it turns out the entire USAID program is preventative medication for Africans doing sex not only spectacularly wrong but in a way Americans would find to be barbaric and inhumane.
Personally I don’t like that prep is required on US insurance because it’s like $20k a year and probably adds 300-1 dollars a year insurance costs to all of us not doing anal sex.
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Fair opinion.
But I am fine with like helping out Venezuela when they have an earthquake and they can’t help themselves.
But spending US money so Africans can do genital mutilation is much worse. HIV is a solved issue in Africa.
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Rodgers Park actually does have some really nice old apartments basically on the water. The demographics completely change as you get like 3 min away from the lake. Just old historical buildings that could be a great neighborhood.
River North wasn’t violence for a long time. I knew everyone in the club scene. There was a place called Cuvee that was high end. Then I guess it declined and I showed up one time and I still knew the doormen, but now they were bullet proof vest. There was a time when River North was just upper class kids from the North Shore.
Chicago had other issues leading to decline, but the violence making it into the wealthier neighborhoods and business drove a lot of people away. Chicago was two cities for a few decades. Post 2016 was a second White-Flight. I left the same reason Citadel left.
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I just don’t care about prepfar. AIDS in Africa ends if they quit having dry sex. The spread rate in heteros is too low to spread HIV in communities that just don’t do dry sex. The US responsibility is nothing more than handing out pamphlets saying don’t do dry sex and you will be safe. If a community of people can’t do modest behavioral modifications to eliminate a disease then it’s not my problem.
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The Loop and River North were safe from like 2006-2016. I don’t know when that area got safe but it very march declined after 2016. Having gun violence at my RN condo and a scary stolen car incident in River North told me to peace the fuck out. Rogers Park I agree has issues. Had stay there for a month with a friend a few years ago.
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You see a neighborhood with children, adults, old-people all living and enjoying an urban environment. People playing in the park.
Poor nomads left years ago. I have no idea how locals pay the bills but Argentina is not cheaper than the US anymore. Buenos Aires rent is maybe 30% lower than Miami when adjusted for unit quality. A few things are cheaper meat, Ubers, alcohol. Pizza is very weirdly the same. Groceries vary product type.
I would say there is no COL benefit versus living in Pittsburgh. People forget how cheap America can be. Status games are cheaper as locals don’t have expensive things. But status games don’t generate real benefits just relative benefits.
Not getting accosted by black homeless guy though is priceless.
As a Catholic I think her critique of Catholicism on US political institutions is a fair take. Why did Peronism, Franco, or Mussolini rise up in their respective Catholic countries but no such characters in English countries except for FDR after a lot of Catholic migration.
The main difference between Jews and Catholics is your allowed to criticize the Catholics and notice how their institutions and influence always seem to have certain characteristics but you are not allowed to do this with the Jews.
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Argentina also semi did genocide to eliminate black and brown populations so they are tiny today.
“ Argentina because mass Italian immigration in the 19th century made it whiter and more culturally European than its Latin American neighbors”
Correct they imported the right people. And got rid of the bad people. That is the entire right-wing argument that Countries are people not creeds. Argentina has cultural cachet because Italians always have cultural cachet. Along with Italians always seeming to have a failure point of funny money.
Agree on Chicago’s declining not being related to recent immigrant. The woke mind virus killed Chicago. The city was always super racists which allowed Chicago to be heavily black but also safe in many parts of the city.
“ So many American voters want the NIMBYism”
- this occurred post WW2 after a great migration and what was termed as “White Flight”. It’s basically impossible at this point to discern whether it occurred because of technology or crime. The urban schools became ghettoized which meant you have to pay private school tuition which meant making a lot of money. Cheap urban living became non-existent.
Is Charlotte a big city? I haven’t lived there in 20 years but I thought it was car-centric sprawl.
Chicago also wasn’t a shithole until posts 2016. They did effective segregation before then so the bulk of the crime was contained to neighborhoods avoided.
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Because America “Akshually” sucks to live in now. And I can say that because I’ve been living in Argentina. Immigrants actually are kind of awful. We’ve been essentially ethnically cleansed out of NYC. I’m sick and tired of being exposed to gun violence in Chicago. San Francisco is a boring Asian town now which use to be like the people from Full House. Besides the quality and safety of our cities declining we’ve made it worse by not building housing in our cities and also subsidizing immigrants so that you either need to make 7-figures or live on welfare to live in a big city. The fact that the American Dream of living in a big city doesn’t exists anymore Akshually does mean immigration sucks and black crime killed neighborhoods. So sure America is great if you want to live in a 5k sq foot house with a giant truck far enough away from any immigrants to not deal with them, but if you actually want to live in an community then the American Dream dead.
It just better not living around immigrants in ways not captured by GDP goes up. The social contract was broken in America and people realize that now.
So sure quote Reagan. The issue with Reagan is he was wrong. The Italians successfully became Americans but that’s it. Of course the Italians invented Western society so perhaps it’s never should have been surprising they eventually assimilate.
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I think that’s easy to get by “to have jurisdiction you must be able to enforce jurisdiction” - if your not able to deport perhaps because you don’t know they are even here then you don’t effectively have jurisdiction. If you refuse to deport them but are able to deport them then you do have jurisdiction.
I think Catholicism even to Roman times was a slave religion and Universal Church. I don’t believe you need say their helping out compatriots today in the third world to find the reasoning for why Catholics have a lot of trouble denying immigrants.
Things like HBD or if you just want to call it racism is just very hard to square with Catholicism. It’s probably not even easy to square with Christianity and other sects but American Christianity does seem to have evolved immune responses that is more difficult for Catholicism to pick up. There is too much theological baggage that just can’t be repudiated and still maintaining their the original and true Church because Christianity is fundamentally a slave religion. Which I think was perfectly fine for Europe when they just dealt with Europeans or war with Muslims. There is just a huge parallelism with turning away a migrant and baby Jesus being turned away from the Inn in the nativity scene. Catholics were useful for abortion battles but the same thing probably going to be bad for immigration.
Maybe is just doing copium but I think at a minimum there is a 50% chance or more that within 20 years birth rate is changed. The Trump administration didn’t build this case the way the judges like. It’s better to take small steps than the whole thing at once. Just keep working exceptions and yes you probably have to quit appointing Catholics to the Court.
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You only need 50 Senate votes. And yes it’s time to get rid of the filibuster. The legislature should doing more legislating and the courts less.
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I think Robert killed any chance the texturalism will be a future legal theory. Robert’s declared birthright isn’t texturally therefore unless GOP drops birthright (I believe it’s doubtful) then we will likely see a litmus test on Birthright for future GOP judges and it’s tough to swap a recent precedence so they will be likely adopting new legal theories to justify their views.
Hong Kong has like 100 km^2 of land according to your own article that isn’t turned into condo towers. Yes cities still like to have some parks. Plus the article explains there are property right issues.
“Europe now has NIMBY”
I will agree urbanism has multi-factor analysis. People don’t want to live in Coruscant style cities. But diversity seems to be a very good predictor of a countries urbanism.
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