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I didn't say anything about a "brown majority" and even if I did it would be a mere hypothetical. The America I want wasn't built and created on the basis of being "88% white" the America I want was built was built and created on the basis of being 88% Christian.
Mexico is 88% + Christian. Zambia, DR Congo, Rwanda, Republic of Congo are all 88% + Christian. Gary, Indian is 88% black and doesn’t have electricity. Plenty of shithole countries that have your beliefs but the wrong demographics.
Meanwhile I can just go chill in leftist havens in New England with the right demographics that are heaven.
By yesterday the number of remaining customers without power was down to 863 from the peak of 374,500; when I check today it's at 113.
Two weeks of major outages (including a full week for the majority of Gary) is pretty awful, and some population factors did contribute a little to that, but I think the main culprit was clearly the "at least three (3) confirmed tornadoes, severe thunderstorms, extreme straight-line winds, and flooding". When "Straight-linewind speeds reached up to ninety-nine (99) miles per hour near Gary, Indiana", that was effectively the peak wind force of a Category 2 Hurricane.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the last instance I can find of a Cat 2 hurricane making landfall in a majority-white area (super-majority white, as it happened) was the (ironically named in this context?) Hurricane Juan. In addition to the 8 dead and $200M of damage, Wiki recalls that "Nova Scotia power reported that they had restored power to the last of their affected customers by October 12, 2 weeks after the storm had passed."
The March 2024 tornado outbreak is probably more illustrative as a comparison. It did recover faster than Gary Indiana, and given the 'worked delayed by gunshots' bit, there's a pretty plausible partial casual contributor (though not one with a counterargument given Kentucky), but it's not quite the vast gap you'd expect from the news reports.
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You want to talk about "shitholes"? Louisiana is over 30% black and still manages to have a higher GDP per Capita than most of Europe.
You say you're "anti-immigration of bad genetic fits."
I am both anti-immigration and pro-deportation of anyone who isn't going to join me in standing for the national anthem at a baseball game.
We are not the same.
I completely agree we are not the same.
I assume it’s because of mistake theory and you just have a wrong mental model of how the world operates.
People who are NOT Anglo do not have children who support Anglo institutions. Only whiten people in polling have majority support for capitalism, liberalism, and freedom. The most prominent example being that black vote which after all these years votes 85% for the party that supports giving them the most free stuff. It’s less severe with other races but they ALL do the same voting pattern.
The people you won’t deport will have CHILDREN that will vote against your interests. So your children will live in a worse society than you yourself. Your opinion will end up destroying the OUR shire.
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