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by ddd00001 3y ago
Lee Kuan Yew's whole thesis re: Singapore was that multicultural societies need strict laws and punishments for those that step out of line because people don't naturally look out for each other. He learned this from going back to
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by ddd00001 3y ago
Once adjusted for demographics I meant - d'oh.
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by ddd00001 3y ago
I don't have a dog in this fight, but you just said "not impossible", then admitted that culture would change with influx of migrants.
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by ddd00001 3y ago
"This is one major reason why BART boarded up their restrooms in downtown SF." We live in a society where we can't have public restrooms and progressives (including virtually half the commenters here!) think that we're b
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by ddd00001 3y ago
"disproportionately likely to be brutalized or killed by law enforcement" Hi woodruffw - what group is disproportionaly likely to kill or brutalize law enforcement? What happens when you correct for that?
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by ddd00001 3y ago
Your reply is a complete and utter non-sequitur. Conservatives are not why homeless drug addicts are given free reign to camp out and harass every day, hard working tax payers in San Francisco. That's entirely due to a single veto poin
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by ddd00001 3y ago
If you've seen government intervention in markets be absolutely destructive then it makes sense to vote for the party that is more pro-market. Not to mention that national Dems are significantly to the left of the median Hispanic Ameri
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by ddd00001 3y ago
Ah the old "people only disagree with my politics because they are tricked". You would utterly faily an ideological turing test.
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by ddd00001 3y ago
Democrats are in a weird position where they're relatively moderate in terms of economics, but arguably the furthest left major party in the world in terms of social issues. The latter is turning off non-college educated of all ethnici
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by ddd00001 3y ago
Not sure what you're talking about re: "criminal justice reform" - we've had an experiment on that in the last decade that has led to absolute disaster. Low level crime has increased, and now violent crime is increasing.
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by ddd00001 3y ago
For an opposite story, my family emigrated from the Mid East to Europe then USA and it was by far the best thing that could have ever happened. My QOL would have been so much worse in Mid East, and even in Europe (developed, Northern Europe
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by ddd00001 3y ago
Suggest reading some Garett Jones. Hive Mind is a great book.
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by ddd00001 3y ago
We have decades of hard evidence that only a certain type of immigrant is successful and increases overall productivity. You want to ignore the wealth of data because "America was bad in the past". Simple game theory: we have two
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by ddd00001 3y ago
Your argument is "America did bad things in the past therefore we should adopt hard leftist policies even if its not in our best interest". That is the logic of unwashed, tattooed community college dropouts. A question dctoedt - I
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by ddd00001 3y ago
Wow you convinced me, there is no difference between any group of people and we should just take in the entire population of Central America. There will be no negative effects whatsoever. In fact you could swap the population of Beijing wit
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by ddd00001 3y ago
By the way, I'm totally fine with allowing some number of people that we know are going to be fiscal negatives (likely into perpetuity) come to the country. There does need to be some aspect of empathy in the immigration system. That b
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by ddd00001 3y ago
"As a group they tend to be great Americans" There is not a single group of Central Americans that have positive fiscal impact over their lifetime. Their kids are also not becoming doctors and engineers.
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by ddd00001 3y ago
Are Americans allowed to choose which kind of immigrants they want? I know those on the left think merit-based immigration is "condescending" (Pelosi's exact words), but can we at least not pretend all immigrants come from im
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by ddd00001 3y ago
Suppressing bad instincts is good and all, but don't overdo it. Central American farmers are not interchangeable for Chinese physicists. It's really amusing how much of leftism relies on discredited 1960's blank slate ideolog
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by ddd00001 3y ago
There's a simple hard truth that intelligence is largely heritable and intelligence has a significant correlation to an individual's fiscal net effect (not only that individual, but his/her children, and the children's c
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by ddd00001 3y ago
I think the much worse failure is assuming all immigrants come from "immigrantland". The impact of a Chinese physicist (and his children, and his children's children) will be much different than a Guatemalan farmer. Until tho
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by ddd00001 3y ago
Well, also schizophrenia. Hope you like insane people wandering urban areas and harassing normal people, because you're going to get a lot more of that!
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by ddd00001 3y ago
Nah I don't think it's a conspiracy. I think they genuinely believe race is the most important thing ever and that focusing every facet of public discourse on race is good.
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by ddd00001 3y ago
Incredible. You believe that all different groups have exactly the same human capital, but that we should still have a system of racial spoils. These types of comments make me concerned about democracy. What does "racial and gender mak
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by ddd00001 3y ago
https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/2017/06/22/no-us-school-f... Being a progressive and seeing real-world data crush your entire world view time after time must be a strange feeling.
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by ddd00001 3y ago
I don't understand how you can read that and think that the issue is spending. The answer is (and always will be) human capital. You could airdrop TJHSST kids into a literal warzone and they would do well. Smart kids are smart because
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by ddd00001 3y ago
The point of the convo is that Americans are much richer than Europeans. Which is true.
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by ddd00001 3y ago
American government spending has an extremely low multiplier because of onerous environmental regulations (primarily NEPA). A mural in San Francisco cost $600k (!) to cover up due to environmental impact reports and legal fees. Asking for m
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by ddd00001 3y ago
99.999% of people will never be in this situation and they don't care. Ask people if they want Singapore's safety and they will take it.
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by ddd00001 3y ago
Since ~2012 disposable income for Americans has lapped that of Europeans. See for yourself. https://dart.lisdatacenter.org/dart

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