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hydroacetylene
5d ago
How is Kiryas Joel, NY don't constantly fighting equal protection and/or discrimination cases?
This is not unique to them; there are FLDS owned towns that just blatantly violate the law all the time.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
I mean, I’m willing to believe this- but the Jewish lobby might not necessarily know that TikTok isn’t particularly antisemitic.
MadMonzer
Epstein Files must have done something really awful for so many libs to want him released.
5d ago
Balti, Chicken Tikka Masala, Vindaloo. No spices in British food, no sir.
[For Americans not aware of the history, all of these dishes originated in the UK and are largely consumed by white British people]
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
5d ago
It seems to me that occasional (over years or decades) medical expenses between the ages of 21 and 60 is a pretty realistic projection. In which case, why not have the money somewhere where it can both generate wealth and be spent tax-free?
MadMonzer
Epstein Files must have done something really awful for so many libs to want him released.
5d ago
The smaller irony is that we can look FURTHER back in history to compare what happens when Italians conquer a place vs. when Muslim Arabs conquer a place: the Roman and Ottoman empires, respectively.
The Ottoman Turks were not Arabs. Turkish immigration has caused its own interesting set of issues, what with Imam Gulem's network of dodgy charter schools, but they are profoundly different to the ones Arabs cause. Turkish Cypriot immigration to the UK has been trouble-free, though it isn't clear if it has been an economic net positive.
If we are keeping score, the Ottoman Empire was also rather less assiduous than the Romans when it comes to persecuting Christians.
2rafa
5d ago
Sports franchise revenue (4 of the top 10 games sold every year are EA sports games, pretty much every year) is probably predictable enough to make them comfortable. This will look stupid eventually for the Saudis and Silver Lake, but for now I don’t think it’s a comically bad loan.
Earendil
Then over Middle-Earth he passed
5d ago
I think that much depends upon the next few years, and upon whether this strategy of mine of lighting myself on fire in the hopes of screaming as loud as I can for attention manages to pay off at all.
Seriously, where is everybody? Did you all scoot off to some other planet while I wasn't looking? Where are all the men?!
2rafa
5d ago
For years, Andrew Wilson has been the most personally ambitious chief executive in the S&P 500. A self-made man, he went from small scale producer to CEO of EA, and then set about reverse-merging it into (or otherwise being acquired by) one of the major Hollywood conglomerates. From there, I imagine he would have gone for CEO of one of the FAANGs, or maybe the Magnificent 7 a few years later. Indeed he almost succeeded in becoming CEO of Disney, although Iger ultimately preferred a company man (and then latterly, of course, himself). He tried with several others.
That unachieved, he can at least facilitate (and make no mistake, this is all him) the largest LBO in history. I hope it makes him happy, though for men like him there is always another hill to climb.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5d ago
It’s the only basic, physiological need which has room for variety.
Since the Industrial Revolution, clothing has gotten into that territory, and since the Sexual Revolution…well.
But food has a head start measured in millennia.
2rafa
5d ago
Massive Catholic immigration irreparably changed the character, society, and government of the United States. America is lower trust because of it. The new predominantly Catholic voters in the Northeastern cities altered the political balance of the United States. One can go overboard with this (easy to say that Hart-Cellar wouldn’t have happened without major Catholic and Jewish immigration, but similar things happened in various other Northern European Protestant countries that had very little of either), but there is a limit to calling the impact overstated, too. The world of Anglo-America that existed before the 1880s is dead and buried. Old WASP Boston, old WASP New York, old WASP San Francisco, these places are as vanished as Christian Anatolia or Parsi Mumbai; whether through conflict or simple attrition they have ceased to exist. America is lower trust, more violent, more divided and more selfish than it would have been if the mass immigration of 1865-1920 hadn’t happened. For all the talk at how horrified many Founding Fathers would be at the America of 2025, they would have been horrified too at the America of 1925 and its ethnic character.
Nevertheless, Lovecraft’s shrieking aside, it is also fair to say that America is still extremely wealthy, that its greatest global outperformance followed that period, and that in the end those disparate populations still managed to come together and build a relatively well-functioning civilization, at least for a while.
urquan
Hold! What you are doing to us is wrong! Why do you do this thing?
5d ago
My understanding is they're still a market leader in sports games, like the yearly basketball or football tie-in game. Those don't have a great reputation among hardcore gamers, but the gaming market as a whole snatches them up.
Given the Saudis' love for buying up sports franchises, it's likely this had to do mostly with those titles and not a newfound passion for Mass Effect.
4bpp
Now I am become a Helpful, Honest and Harmless Assistant, the destroyer of jobs
5d ago
As with teetotaler drug dealers, gay fashion designers or eunuch harem overseers, it can be advantageous to be immune to the temptations of your own supply.
Wohlfe
5d ago
I've found occasional use of the "Not interested" and "Don't recommend channel" options to be sufficient to curate my YouTube recommendations. If I watch one random video on a topic I don't really care about it may show similar videos but only for a few days before giving up or I click "Not interested" and it's gone forever.
Bleep
5d ago
the point is specifically about national id
if in a year or two, with vast resources or whatever you're implying, and the removable aliens haven't been removed, are you really trying to imply the reason is because there is no national id?
that's silly so I'm going to assume you were trying to make another point
what is it?
birb_cromble
5d ago
My experience with rabid animals is that they don't really stop doing whatever they start doing until they get a new thought in their head.
I once had a rabid groundhog continue to violently attack an archery target for a solid 30 seconds after I put a .38 round into its neck. It only stopped because it bled out.
Lewis2
5d ago
I agree with most of your comment, but this:
Even for non-catholic groups, they were still Christian
is kind of a funny framing, given that America was a mostly Protestant nation that begrudgingly accepted Roman Catholics. It would have been more accurate to say, “Even for non-Protestant groups, they were still Christian,” though not all Protestants would have accepted that designation.
anon_
5d ago
Well there ya go -- now we're at the point of tradeoffs with respect to the functions that are absolutely necessary.
It would be kinda silly if we both had government as a necessary evil and it was too disempowered to actually accomplish those ends.
zeke5123a
5d ago
I’m not saying technology necessarily makes assimilation harder. I’m saying it easily could and thus citing historic immigration assimilation is irrelevant unless you can strongly make the case that tech doesn’t matter or makes it better.
anon_
5d ago
We should revisit this in a year or two to assess whether Trump's ICE, plus all the funding it got from the OBB, was able to accomplish this easy task.
2rafa
5d ago
I don’t think Matt Yglesias has a particularly coherent worldview. He certainly has read Sailer, Murray, Yarvin and others. So has Scott, of course, who is also still a liberal if a less confident one than Yglesias.
My guess is that Yglesias accepts that some form of HBD is true but thinks it can be mediated by rapid economic growth, the flynn effect, affirmative action and deciding not to speak about it ever. This isn’t even an uncommon opinion, it was the default view of a large proportion of the American progressive elite between the 1950s and early 1990s.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5d ago
Because Twitter encourages sloppy arguments? You could even say they’re not sending their best.
Speaking of which, a folk argument with no authoritative reference sounds like the exact opposite of “catechism.” But I’ll leave it to the Catholics to litigate that one.
Ceteris paribus, I agree that international travel and communication makes it easier to avoid assimilating. How about intranational? The interstate highways have to be more appealing than riding the rails if you want to get to Chicago or California. Immigrant communities don’t have to be as concentrated, and cheap labor can get where it wants with less friction. I would expect this to boost assimilation but also increase immigrant visibility, both cultural and economic.
faceh
5d ago
It also enables the people in their home countries to exercise some level of control over them that would otherwise not be possible.
The other big thing that comes up is Remittances back home, where the home country's denizens are actually dependent on their American relatives for a lot of support.
(didn't realize they were almost a full TEN PERCENT of Pakistani GDP!!!)
Which... that certainly adds a major incentive for the home country to keep the immigrants loyal so they continue to care enough to send the kickbacks, doesn't it?
My tongue is mostly in cheek when I say this, but those items are generally not on the menu when I venture into an English Pub (here in America, to be clear).
Also Irish food is quite tasty, maybe owing to the need to get extremely creative when potatoes make up 80% of the diet, so I do respect UK food if we include that as well.
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