zeke5123a
10hr ago
Sure. That’s all well and good. But importantly most of the grooming gangs weren’t full of white people. And yes, white people act terrible. But the rape gangs were specifically racially and religiously homogenous. We shouldn’t bury our heads to this.
zeke5123a
19hr ago
Allegedly, the origins of Cosa Nostra (though almost certainly untrue) was when a French sergeant tried to rape a young married Sicilian woman. Her husband killed the French and then the mafia protected the husband from the occupying French.
zeke5123a
19hr ago
A few thoughts:
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It is assumed that Rotherham is the most prolific. The report talks about London and how the mayor there has denied any such problem in London while more evidence is coming out. Is it possible that other areas were simply more tight lipped than Rotherham?
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It seems with larger populations, it would be easier to “hide.” Not sure how this cuts (ie maybe larger amount but smaller per capita or larger amounts and larger per capita because the police have other things to worry about like people tweeting).
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Who did the investigation I. Those other towns? Was it “I investigated myself and turns out I did okay?”
zeke5123a
23hr ago
I loathe immigration. When I first heard 250k, my reaction was “is that number real.” Why would someone’s first reaction be “Catholic schools murdered a bunch of native Americans?”
zeke5123a
23hr ago
Farage will welch. When push comes to shove, Nigel won’t do what’s necessary to re migrate the population. He is mOre cowardly (if possible) than Trump. I think Lowe actually would, notwithstanding media howling, affect real re migration. Hell a couple of Nigel’s key members are the architects of the migration replacement. Nigel is offended by people like Tommy Robinson. He backed off his rage comment re Henry Novak.
I’m hoping that restore beats out reform somehow in the Makersfield election at which point there would be preference cascade.
zeke5123a
23hr ago
The problem here isn’t this his office doesn’t think a position lacks support. The problem is that his office is prejudiced against certain outcomes and is using “error” as a backdoor to change those outcomes.
zeke5123a
1d ago
Farage seemingly still supports Muslims in the UK as a class. He is okay with a multi cultural society as long as it remains slightly British slightly longer.
zeke5123a
2d ago
We could look at things like terrorist attacks in the last fifty years. Or we could look at things like the UK where Muslims end up in large amounts.
zeke5123a
2d ago
None of that adds up to “more dangerous than Islam”. All you have done is shown a threat; not a relative threat.
zeke5123a
2d ago
If the argument is “he used more and therefore he should pay more for his use,” then that leads not to progressive tax but to benefits based tax. Take road capacity. Charge tolls for road usage. That’s almost certainly less than Elon’s taxes.
Re public education, the whole concept is to build skills. People have gotten compensated for those skills. Those laborers pay taxes (as does Elon). Why would you think Elon has taken out more from the system of tax dollars directed to higher education as opposed to given more back? Indeed, isn’t it the opposite? The person who uses that education and becomes a Redditor owes society a lot of money. Someone who richly employs a bunch of college graduates doesn’t owe society anything.
Re waste — we can do sinking funds.
zeke5123a
2d ago
Yes and they passed an amendment to make it constitutional. Good luck getting the wealth tax amendment passed.
zeke5123a
2d ago
I find this unreasonable. Yes, Musk benefited from a capitalist system. But so did literally everyone else. Nothing stopped you or your neighbor from doing what Musk did. The difference is he did it and you didn’t. And because of that, you want to punish him? Why are you envious?
Moreover, this “you didn’t build it” theory collapses of its own weight. The argument seems to be society enabled this collection of wealth and therefore society has an unconditional claim to the entirety of the wealth. But of course, society “didn’t build that” either. So now we have to split ownership and figure out how much society is owed.
And society is owed very little because Elon has already made society massively better off than simply 1.3 trillion. Besides the large taxes he has already paid, he has brought along a ton of American workers paying them handsomely and making thousands of millionaires and giving a comfortable life to many not millionaires. Also he makes a really cool car that millions love. There is consumer surplus there.
The whole concept behind a market economy is the belief that businesses make the world on net better for all. Sure the business leader may reap individually the most rewards from a business but that doesn’t mean they reap the most rewards in the aggregate.
This tall poppy syndrome is death.
zeke5123a
2d ago
The whole point of starship is to radically reduce the cost per ton of putting things into space. You are acting like the Falcon Heavy is the end result.
zeke5123a
2d ago
I think you aren’t being imaginative enough re Starlink.
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First you have airlines, remote worksites, cruises, and other uses. Those prices can increase over time once customers get used to and thus demand the good.
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You have areas without broadbrand. In the U.S., this is rural areas. But worldwide, it is a lot larger. Sure this market may not be the most lucrative but with a large enough vol becoming the ISP for the entire third world could be valuable.
zeke5123a
2d ago
Sure except there are a lot of companies in the most valuable in the world that are real world makers. Wal mart is worth about a trillion.
zeke5123a
2d ago
It’s called a margin loan. If you aren’t super poor, you can mortgage against your stocks.
So let’s say you are designing an immigration system. Let’s say you want some small amount of immigration but a lot of people are coming to your country.
Are you going to make decisions based on limited info and discriminate against the group who commit crimes at massive rates or will you “treat everyone like an individual?”
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