People are really puzzled that no one wants roving foreign rape gangs in their countries? Like, to you that’s a real mystery why people don’t want that?
You’ve got to be playing, right, if you don’t understand why that’d turn people against immigration? Come the fuck on.
Noah is terrible at economics, but this I agree with this completely. Without nation-states and border enforcement, liberalism is done. That’s even ignoring the feral third world rapist problem. The basic function of a nation is controlling who is a member of that nation so as to not break the polity therein apart completely.
And, mostly, we are failing at that now. Just because something hurts your tiny little feelings doesn’t make it untrue. It just means there are tradeoffs. As there are everywhere and always.
Yeah, that dude is a fucking clown. She was just trying not to be short at the end of the night.
An extremely common scam is for someone to give you too much money, and then to attempt to confuse you about change. Cashiers get this all the time. I have complete sympathy for that poor woman and want to kick this douche in the kneecaps.
That was a very different world, but it was absolutely not mostly middle-aged men. It was largely male, sure, but most people were in their 20s and early 30s with a pretty large smattering of teens too.
I was there, though I didn’t spend much time on those areas of the internet then. Mostly, I was in stock/trading forums, car forums and in various PC enthusiast ones in 1999.
My aunt is in the end of life care, I saw her today walking down the street.
Years ago in Charlotte, NC, a friend of mine saw “me” walking down the street downtown and started talking to this person.
After a bit of confusion, my friend realized it was not in fact me and apologized. She said the resemblance was close enough that even from a few feet away she could not tell. We’d known each other for more than five years at that point, and hung out fairly frequently.
Apparently I have a clone out there somewhere.
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