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> All they care about is the "Mexicans", abortion, guns, which bathroom a tiny number of people use, etc., You understand that people on both sides of the fence were acting hysteri…

Do you think Italian Catholics are as violent or as memetically aggressive as Muslims from the ME?

> The same exact things were said of the Italians, Jews, Poles, Irish and many others that poured into the US. First off, they were right about all these groups in one way or anoth…

Are you familiar with https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict... ? This is a good example of how relatively small populations can have huge cultural effects. A…

> Why not. Because Europe is liberal, secular, literate, and (consequently) scientifically, technologically, and economically advanced. Africa is none of those things. Whatever you…

No, which is exactly the sort of thing I'm talking about. "Free movement", to me , means that you are free to travel wherever you'd like on your own dime. It doesn't mean that you …

Obviously no one disagrees with "making the world better". The "ethical" qualifier is the tricky part.

I am, by most metrics, an ardent globalist; I advocate absolute free trade and absolute free movement. However, it's not very hard to recognize that many people's definition of glo…

I can't imagine how people have such an incorrect view of how insurance works. No, car insurance is not you subsidizing other people. Car insurance is you paying in proportion to y…

While I think health insurance shouldn't be attached to employers, I don't really have an objection to insurance companies using genetic testing. This is certainly an unpopular opi…

Many would argue that IP itself is inherently anti-capitalistic, because it imposes artificial scarcity where it would not otherwise exist and, relatedly, because IP "theft" doesn'…

I recommend that everyone use an extended-length PIN for your phone. Both Android and iPhone support it. Mine is 12 digits; a bit of extra time, but vastly more difficult to brute-…

Being more confident than average is not the same thing as being overconfident.

You realize there's actually a severe gender imbalance in who chooses to go into STEM fields in college, right? Privige has nothing to do with it; for whatever reasons, women don't…

This approach may work (I say "may" because most of the time it's not actually backed up by hard evidence free of confounding variables), but it's also lazy; there are vastly more …

It's interesting that in certain subcultures, including a large portion of the tech community, things that are non-racial are now considered racist. Not only do you have to be "rac…

The ADA is an example of a regulation that's entirely well-intentioned, but has tremendous second-order costs to society that very plausibly outweigh any benefit it's ever provided…

Stating that Germany only exists for the sake of Israel is controversial, however. (At least, I hope it is! I hope most Germans have enough self-interest to dislike the idea of bei…

> Claiming that European politicians give a shit (his words) about their citizens is not 'criticizing' anything. It's just hate speech against politicians This is probably the stro…

The whole "if you support Europe in any respect, you must be a white supremacist" meme is one of the most inane things I've heard in a long time. Europe isn't all white, and hundre…

Burg's comments put Schultz's ability to support pro-Israeli policies at risk; if he's known to be an ardent supporter of Israel for ideological reasons (to the exclusion of concer…

Maybe it could have, but it wasn't. Have you tried analyzing my arguments instead of just recognizing that it sort of reminds you of something you disagree with?

Yes, you're right; European politics has fallen victim to ridiculous notions of ancestral guilt. Is it any wonder that people who had no involvement in something that happened hund…

So what you're saying is that a direct claim from a high-ranking Israeli politician about a conversation he had, with no apparent benefit to lying about its contents, is not enough…