cjet79
Anarcho Capitalist on moral grounds
Libertarian Minarchist on economic grounds
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cjet79
29d ago
The lack of convergence to similar outcomes is the evidence for a failure to assimilate.
The lack of convergence can be better explained by genetics than culture. Especially if you have black children of well off parents (who would be raised in a different culture) still reverting to the average of their race on a bunch of life outcomes.
If anything American culture as a whole has assimilated into black culture. Black athletes, pop stars, comedians, and actors have outsized representation.
People get culturally assimilated in the US, but not necessarily genetically assimilated.
cjet79
29d ago
I don't understand what causes so many people to abandon what seem like their important principles when it comes to Israel.
It's because Israel is the ultimate pragmatic hard situation.
Anytime any country wants to kill a bunch of people and steal their stuff the Jews look like an appetizing target.
I don't find ethnostates great, but realistically if the arabs got control of Israel they'd probably end up killing a bunch of the Jews living there and chasing the rest out. Especially now after what has happened. This is what is slowly happening in South Africa.
I think Israel is going to be a ethno-state no matter what, the option is either a Jewish ethnostates or an Arab one. I think this will probably be the case for a lot of countries and places.
I wish there was more America for them to move to. The way to break up these conflicts seems to be having both people move as far away from the context as possible, wait three or four generations and then the only people that cared are dead or too old to fight and their children get to move on.
cjet79
29d ago
America has already integrated a bunch of different nationalities and ethnicities into one country. We have done it successfully for 250 years. Successfully enough that we just lump "white" people into a single category. Europe has dozens of bloody and heated rivalries that were plenty active up until 50 ish years ago.
There is an argument to be made that we are no longer doing the things that allow for successful integration, but saying integration is impossible seems clearly wrong.
Apparently it's not the only story like it! That's crazy, never knew salvia was like that. I took a hit in college and definitely felt like it messed with my depth and time perception. But not nearly as crazy as this guy
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