Tim

Recently returned from 15 years in Japan and Singapore. Once a physicist.

[Tim @TimfromSing]

@SeanMagee @FraserNelson @grok Cheaper workers reduces productivity *per capita*, unsurprisingly as immigrants are often less educated. While it is true that further mechanisation instead could be better still, this is still far from saying that GDP per capita is measure we should look at.

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@free_democrat @tomhfh Thee was the small matter of Covid. By the time that was over, his credibility was in tatters. This is not to say he would have done better if given a proper chance, but the fact is that he wasn’t.

[Tim @TimfromSing]

@SeanMagee @FraserNelson Does it? Don’t employers benefit from cheaper labour, and everyone else benefit from their greater spending power and lower prices? Like when factories got mechanised. We didn’t start working out GDP per capita or engine.

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@owenjonesjourno I’m so old I remember a time when it was considered progressive not to tell people whom to have sex with.

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NBER considered several weightings of other countries and they gave widely different answers. Their most sophisticated “synthetic control” model gave the US a 61% weighting, and major EU economies zero. So, ingenuously, the vast overperformance of the US compared to the major EU countries became ….. an argument to rejoin the EU!

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@TomPowell6742 @tomwhx @afneil Did Remain predict that we would grow faster than Italy, France and Germany post-Brexit? I must have missed that.

Britain did not grow consistently faster than these economies pre-Brexit. What changed?

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@sfmcguire79 Fear of a cover-up like this happening is exactly why so many people wrote so much about Arday at the time.

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@DennisCromptom @deialltheway @ArchRose90 Yes, it was absurd for Remain to complain about expats being denied a vote in the Brexit referendum.

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So the League of Militant Atheists was a misnomer? Whom had the 100,000 Orthodox clergy they helped shoot in 1937-38 sided with? The White Russian army was long gone. The Orthodox Church in Russia had declared loyalty to the Soviet regime in 1927, and broken with overseas Orthodox churches over the issue.

What would you think of someone who jumped through similar hoops to argue that the Spanish Inquisition’s “main motivation” was political.

I’m not even sure what that means. Presumably for some Spanish people, consolidating royal power and expelling perceived 5th columnists was primary. For others (the majority?) religion.

[Tim @TimfromSing]

@Ggxtq7 @NCMvmt The claim was “no one has ever been killed in the name of atheism”. That is not true. It is very far from being true.

This is not difficult to understand except by a fanatic.

[Tim @TimfromSing]

@Ggxtq7 @NCMvmt Never heard of the League of Militant Atheists, which ran the Soviet anti-religious campaigns? These were the results. https://t.co/xp66luuBub

[Grok @grok]

Estimates vary due to incomplete records, but a 1995 Russian government commission found ~200,000 clergy killed under Soviet rule (mainly Orthodox Christians) and 500,000 religious figures persecuted. 40,000 churches, half the mosques, and over half the synagogues were destroyed. In 1937-38 alone, over 100,000 Orthodox clergy were shot. Thousands of Muslim mullahs were executed or imprisoned amid near-total mosque closures. Jewish rabbis and synagogues faced parallel suppression.

[Tim @TimfromSing]

@WolfheadUK @Zimzam @NCMvmt @grok Have you heard of “the League of Militant Atheists” which coordinated with the police in making these attacks?

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@PoliPlatypus @JustLEAVEeu Financial services pay 12.3% of U.K. tax, and London pays 26.5% of U.K. income tax.

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@winstan9871 @andrew_lilico Those are the exceptional cases I mentioned.

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@winstan9871 @andrew_lilico To make the individuals who did it rich. How many criminals are trying to enrich their descendants 12 generations later?

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@winstan9871 @andrew_lilico Many studies have shown that 90% of wealth is lost within 3 generations. 300 years is about 12 generations, so one would estimate that .01% is probably left.

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A counter is that the slave industry was known to the U.K. government who sponsored the empire and taxed profits. I’m no expert in international law but my understanding is the UK, and therefore taxpayers, are liable if it negligently licences an unseaworthy ship which causes damage abroad.

Of course, the 300 year point is unanswerable.

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@winstan9871 @andrew_lilico How many assets survive 300 years of spending and inheritance tax without the owners having some other source of income in the meantime? There are no doubt some cases, but I doubt their total value is very significant.

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@andrew_lilico I struggle to see why, if I bear collective guilt for the crime other British people committed by buying slaves, black people do not bear collective guilt for the crime other black people committed by selling slaves to us. In which case, why should there be compensation?