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by nhchris 4y ago
I've sourced my claims, so could you likewise show me this clearly stated goal? You mention Federalist 52 in your other comment, but wikipedia's summary says nothing about racial egalitarianism: https://en.wikipedia.org
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by nhchris 4y ago
From the other post: That's 29.4% of LA that's white [1], down from 70+% in the 60s [2]. I guess we have to somehow force whites not to flee from diversifying neighborhoods. Cutting funds to schools that are too white was a good s
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by nhchris 4y ago
> I've got the founders on my side of this argument. The limit citizenship to "free White persons of good character" founding fathers [1]? Or Thomas Jefferson, who considered that, when freed, Blacks should be "remove
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by nhchris 4y ago
I don't think it's fair to characterize the belief that the people living in a country have a large influence on how that country turns out, as thinking that outside forces have no effect.
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Self-derogation of children rising since 2011(twitter.com)
2 points by nhchris 4y ago|1 comments
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by nhchris 4y ago
Self derogation means agreement with statements such as "I feel I do not have much to be proud of" and "sometimes I think I am no good at all" I found it strikingly similar to psychological abuse and manipulation tactics
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by nhchris 4y ago
> 23. Well, you say, so what? Why shouldn’t civil society organizations and reporters work together to boycott “misinformation”? Isn’t that not just an exercise of free speech, but a particularly enlightened form of it? > 24. The di
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by nhchris 4y ago
There's nothing wrong with immigrants. What's wrong is the old population will disappear, or be put in the perilous position of being a minority in the only territory they can call their own. Look at Ukraine while it was part of t
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by nhchris 4y ago
Whether it's policy, technology, or medicine (I don't quite understand why medicine would reduce the metric we care about, number of surviving children) doesn't matter. There may be a solution a nation could take, but immig
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Discord will possibly record video and voice calls, channels, and screen shares(old.reddit.com)
32 points by nhchris 4y ago|7 comments
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by nhchris 4y ago
> but they should have to compete for their own at the very least. That I agree with. While it is entirely up to a country's discretion whether they permit immigration, leaving a country must not be prevented.
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by nhchris 4y ago
If by "any other consumer product" you mean a magic 8-ball, then I agree.
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by nhchris 4y ago
Ethiopia is an interesting example, but not of scarcity. While my country's population grew by a mere 40% since 1950 (and has been stagnant the last few decades), Ethiopia's grew by 534%, and shows no signs of slowing: https:&#x2
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by nhchris 4y ago
> If Section 230 or some new law shielded LLMs, it would mean that others, including society as a whole, would bear the costs of their new and barely tested technology, while tech companies reap the benefits. This is such a disingenuous
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by nhchris 4y ago
I was not aware so many people were trying to get into Nazi Germany that they needed strict measures to keep them out.
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by nhchris 4y ago
"Systems" as in those countries' social and economical systems. I don't know exactly what about those systems kills birthrates, but they are doubtless to blame, as other countries, and even those same countries some time
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by nhchris 4y ago
Successful mass immigration will allow them to persist in the systems that are causing those falling birthrates, ensuring their people dwindle towards nothing. Stopping immigration would force them to change to something sustainable.
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by nhchris 4y ago
It is not "coincidence" that Chinese are born in China and Polish in Poland. It is their inheritance, their birthright, the fruit of their ancestors' labors. To tear out all connection to one's history by calling it &quo
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by nhchris 4y ago
Governments don't come from the geography, but the people. Living in a small country myself, a place such as China, India, Indonesia, or Nigeria could send (and they would gladly come) enough people to outvote us on any issue 3x over,
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by nhchris 4y ago
Because this was so rare that the destination countries didn't see it as a problem. And when it did happen en masse, it was usually war.
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by nhchris 4y ago
> its ugly history Let me guess - denying minorities access to white people?
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by nhchris 4y ago
> borders artificially keep people apart GPS data shows how wolf packs carve out territory - https://bigthink.com/hard-science/wolf-gps/
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by nhchris 4y ago
The article is valid in speaking specifically about US states competing, but otherwise I find the idea of treating governments, and countries, as mere economic platforms, that compete like a business would, disturbing. They are representa
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by nhchris 4y ago
> Governments (at the behest of businesses) enforce borders so that labor cannot effectively organise. This is backwards, and I'm having trouble understanding how a more diverse, more transient population would find it easier to fin
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by nhchris 4y ago
When that change is predicated upon lying about our past, I suspect it is not to our benefit.
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by nhchris 4y ago
> Translation requires editorial discretion and necessarily changes the meaning from the original language. This is exactly the kind of excuse I was talking about. An honest translator tries to preserve meaning as much as possible. A dis
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by nhchris 4y ago
> I’m simply not convinced that a few edits to pop culture novels will lead to the downfall of free human society. Of course not. This is just one nudge, one of many, not towards downfall, but towards change, in whatever average directio
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by nhchris 4y ago
> What about non-sensitivity revisions, wouldn’t those also be Orwellian erasures of history? In as much as they change more than minor spelling or punctuation mistakes, absolutely yes. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by nhchris 4y ago
> haven't books been changing forever though? Let's not use the wiggle room for correcting typos or translating from middle to modern English as an excuse to change the meaning of the written words while passing it off as the s
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by nhchris 4y ago
> Source: am deeply involved in the writing and publishing community, and have had many friends go through the sensitivity reading process. What happens if an author disagrees with some or all of the sensitivity readers' corrections

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