Immigration - a Rant

Immigration - a Rant

Not too long after posts on immigration by myself [https://thelastredoubt.com/2017/01/immigration.html], and a followup on it and “skin in the game” in “Fixing the Magic Dirt Problem [http://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2017/01/fixing-magic-dirt-problem.html]” by the Didact, here’s a rant by the inimitable Razorfist. I largely agree with it, and though I’d likely be more restrictive on even legal immigration numbers than he is, I think every point he makes here is pure gold. While I agree that it’…

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Germans, Being Germans.

Germans, Being Germans.

The topic is serious, but perhaps one of the best illustrations of the mentality I’m going to discuss is nonetheless funny. As has been observed, Eurpoeans are very, very nice. Until they, very suddenly, are very *not. *The video below is a gag, where the husband of a typical german couple, in a typical german house, with their typical garden, decides to do something about cars that have been driving through the neighborhood too fast. Note their appearance and behavior – mildly neurotic. Slight…

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Immigration

Immigration

Men of the West recently published a piece that proposes an interesting solution to dealing with illegals and giving them a “path to citizenship.” [https://menofthewest.net/over-the-wall-and-far-away/]Think a US Foreign Legion, roughly modeled on the French one. So what are my thoughts? I’ll admit, it’s been difficult to shake a lifetime of programming regarding “we’re a nation of immigrants.” – you can see it everywhere, down to repeated lines in the music for Hamilton about how he’s “an immi…

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An Aside on Failure Scopes...

An Aside on Failure Scopes...

In my post on failure scopes [https://thelastredoubt.com/2016/09/failure-scopes-continuation.html] I said the following: > Yes, there’s some handwaving about private entities – which in practice become de-facto small – scale governments of limited power and scope.  But if the US suddenly became a libertarian paradise, something would still have to act as a de-facto state to deal with the threat of invasion from places that were not. And immigration on a large scale, by people who are not willin…

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