@realmikolson Communists pretend they can threaten everybody and that the killing fields are a one-way street.
The communists will seize us the rope with which we will hang them
@king_mike_01@Alex_Oloyede2 Fair enough on domestic PPP, but that's my point: high nominal wealth gives you geographic optionality. Earning in a high-nominal economy lets you accumulate portable capital that you can arbitrage globally. High PPP in a low-nominal country gives you local, locked in comfort
@Steve_Sailer@BrentScher A bit of a puzzle; what is wealth? Safety, high educational attainment, fresher produce, more property, more freedom, health, fewer years of full time indentured labor - this is wealth.
Russia may have education, fresh produce, more property - but it's missing the rest.
@MaMoMVPY PPP is a worse metric. A person with a lousy quality of life from the UK can relocate to Russia... But they don't because it's better to live in a rented london flat eating ramen than a house you own in Russia eating local produce - because purchasing power makes it a oneway trip
@DanielJHannan Would England look more or less like England today had he won, do you think? You'd still keep your "arrest people for wrongthink", not to worry about that
@be_immortal1@BowTiedRanger The Romans imported and were later conquered by the savage orc-like Germanic tribes. You'd never think a graecoroman smarter than a German today
Hopefully the savage, orc-like imports that we've invited and which are ravaging us will have the same endgame. Doubtful, though
@be_immortal1@BowTiedRanger It wasn't just technological advancements, of course - that didn't happen in a vacuum.
"Lacked socioeconomic or technological opportunities" is just a polite way of saying "you are dumb, your parents are dumb, all of your friends are dumb, and so were their parents"
@be_immortal1@BowTiedRanger Right, all of the financialization, coalescence into mercantilist nation-states, and military and trade hardware that grew on trees and was mined from caves in Europe. If Africans had found that advantage, they would have plucked and used it, surely
@be_immortal1@BowTiedRanger I wonder what obvious advantage Europeans had over Africans if it wasn't physical strength? I guess we'll never know, some things are just lost to history like Greek Fire.
@RadioGenoa "French" "student" protest. They will only ever use words that specifically do not apply to what's going on. We invited Orcs into the shire. We will suffer for it until their desolation is complete
@MRFIXTHEM Kid who assaulted the kid just prior should go to prison for manslaughter for 5-15, to be spent in juvenile rehab facility while he is a minor
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