Oceans Yet to Burn

diarrheaworldstarhiphop

Anonymous asked:

whats wrong with apartheid

what’s right about it? If it were such a beneficial, sustainable and lauded system of civic management, you’d think it’d result in stability and mutual flourishment rather than misery and insurrection.

mitigatedchaos

If you’re gonna do “no ethnic groups allowed to mix” (not rate-limited mixing or frictional mixing or some-characteristics-but-not-others mixing, etc), then the way to do it is to give each group their own sovereign polity. Then they don’t have to fight you for control of “your” polity.

Of course, if one is planning to conquer stuff this isn’t really a suitable approach, but that conquest thing is not exactly a whole basket of ethics, itself.

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argumate

Anonymous asked:

I don't understand why people would threaten to never return to a store that is closing due to bankruptcy.

argumate answered:

yes, this is a good Brexit analogy.

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argumate

Anonymous asked:

but like. i am american. i live in america. my experiences with american cops have all been rather pleasant. its just... odd to see such discrepancy between my experiences and the experiences of others with the police.

argumate answered:

Google suggests that there are some 1 million law enforcement personnel in the US, so even if only 10% were total assholes that’s still 100,000 assholes that you might never meet, depending on where you live and how they are distributed.

In practice the assholish behaviour is more likely to be structural than personal, making the distribution even less balanced; so you would expect that some people will meet only asshole cops and others would meet hardly any.

mitigatedchaos

Quality and aggressiveness of law enforcement varies significantly within the United States, and I don’t just mean state-by-state, I mean town-by-town.

I lived in a professional suburb growing up, the kind of place professionals move to when they want to raise children. We didn’t have the shootings, framings, etc. We also didn’t have much in the way of crime, and town revenues were not a problem.

But then you have other places where the town is running out of money as density collapses and decides to loot the population to stay afloat. Or places in the inner cities where structural problems lead to severe cyclical poverty and no one with power cares about the police not being terrible.

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mutant-aesthetic

I’m actually really curious what environmentally-minded lefties plan on doing about the fact that people in Africa are having way too many goddamn babies

Like Macron just recently pointed out that this was a huge problem and a lot of lefties went bonkers and got really mad but the African population boom and all the resulting effects are going to be more or less catastrophic for the planet

mitigatedchaos

The plan is to migrate them all here, because developed nations have infinite money and structural reinforcement. Or there is no plan. Just cross your fingers and hope it all works out.

Hitler is the Satan figure of modern progressivism/liberalism. Anything that even has the slightest whiff of something he might maybe have once possibly considered doing for a few seconds is tainted by association. On top of that, there have been previous racist actions in the developed nations. On top of that, it has been decided that the majority whites of the developed nations bear the original sin for racism.

Telling people to have fewer kids is worth celebrating by progressivism, but only if you’re telling white people. Telling anyone else is vile racism. (Even, of course, if it would lead to terrible conditions in majority-PoC countries.)

For the progressives that actually notice that you can only consume what is produced, and that while the wealthy have a pretty good-sized amount of money it isn’t anywhere near unlimited, embracing any discouragement of population growth is considered too dangerous, a slippery slope to eugenics and baby licenses.

…even to the ones that “jokingly” suggested swapping everyone’s babies to end “genetic chauvinism”, I would imagine.

Of course the Conservatives keep trying to kill abortion in those areas with their controls on American government aid funding, so mostly they don’t really care, either. Catholics I’ve encountered seem to believe that God Will Provide or something, one of them talking about the Earth supporting a potential population of 100 billion.

Only a few villains see this as an issue, like you, me, and Emmanuel Macron.

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collapsedsquid

I see economcis stuff about birthrates in western countries every once in a while from economists (In addition to the white genocide types of course), and I do wonder what a state would do that took seriously issued of birthrate. For right now it’s not a critical problem, but I wonder what policies you would need. Universal childcare? Paid Surrogacy?

I do wonder about that last one sometimes actually, would it be possible to raise entire generations as basically wards of the state? Is that going to be the future? At some point hopefully, the world will be industrialized, so the current solution won’t last forever.

mitigatedchaos

It depends on how serious they really are, and what the dominant ideology is.

Liberalism’s answer is to import immigrants, but if that weren’t feasible they’d begin running out of options before they’d have to switch to another ideology.

Someone like me would be willing to take more drastic measures as total collapse loomed, including having the state raise children on its own if necessary.

I don’t think really any state is serious about this. Not Japan, not even Singapore.

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I will say, rattumb migrationists have the virtue to believe that gentrification, too, is a necessary tradeoff in favor of freedom of movement/commerce, and thus are more ideologically consistent than a number of left politicals.

And therefore we don’t get the double-bind where the ethnic majority either leaving or entering the city is considered problematic in both directions at once, acting as a cover for what are actually class concerns. (And also rattumb has greater awareness of what might actually sort out housing prices.)

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argumate

A good example of political correctness is the party line on Joss Whedon shifting over time.

argumate

One can try and stay ahead of the curve, hence the stern admonitions about the new Doctor Who being problematic because the lady is white.

argumate

But one can be politically incorrect by being too far ahead of the curve; much like trading the market one must be careful not to be too early or too late.

quasi-normalcy

The trick is to never show enthusiasm for anything until you know whether it is problematic or not.

argumate

And be prepared to instantly disavow or recontextualise past opinions every time the winds shift; for this is in fact what political correctness means.

mitigatedchaos

Political Correctness Limit Hypothesis: For any given item X, the odds of being declared problematic approach 1 as the time t goes to infinity.

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