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Quality Contributions Report for August 2026

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Contributions for the week of August 3, 2026

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@FtttG:

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@georgioz:

@JeSuisCharlie:

Contributions for the week of August 17, 2026

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@Shakes:

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@faceh:

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@netstack:

@FtttG:

Contributions for the week of August 31, 2026

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But why? What’s in it for me?

You don't have to take migrants at all. I don't think there's anything immoral about being Japan. Maybe things would be a bit slower (though recent events in Canada and UK have proven problematic for the Max Immigration == Growth thesis so there're clearly diminishing returns) but that's a tradeoff a reasonable person can prefer. Practically, I don't think it's likely to happen but you can want that.

Even if you did close down the borders now though, something has to be done to digest the large numbers that have already been taken.

A lot of the pro-immigration people act like it is a moral thing so I respect that you don’t think it’s moral.

I guess I’m an urbanist. Which is sort of a blue tribe personality trait. Demographically and where I grew up I would be predicted to be very red tribe but my preferences are very blue tribe.-

I do think one of the strongest arguments against immigration is Americas inability to build middle class urban environments. Americas preference for building suburbs in my view is based on a strong preference not to live in diverse environments. I guess one could say blacks are special and prone to having unacceptable levels of violence and new immigrants are fine. That is kind of a justifiable view. But while we just had a huge immigration wave our biggest cities didn’t build more housing and make it work but instead had out migration of natives. So my opinion is if blue tribe wants me to accept mass migration then they need to show me they can run a multicultural city that doesn’t result in mass out migration of natives.

A lot of my anti-immigration views can boil down why doesn’t America have cities. Because I like living in cities.

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