conservatives: we don't want them to change our culture or tip the balance (further) to socialism progs: there's lots of room tho!https://twitter.com/NMamatas/status/1009482535347240966 …
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Replying to @MorlockP
Make sure your culture is better than theirs and they will adapt and assimilate. Just like your forebears, and mine, did. There's an odd combination of triumphalism and fear of extinction here.
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Replying to @ngvrnd
"Make sure your culture is better than theirs and they will adapt and assimilate. " {{citation needed}} "odd fear of extinction here." what's odd about it? fear of extinction is an evolved trait; those who have it sometimes survive; those who don't never do
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Replying to @MorlockP
"Odd combination of ..." Careful with that cut and paste, Eugene.
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Replying to @ngvrnd
I specifically edited out "triumphalism" because I was not responding to that point ; if you prefer I can cut and paste the entire tweet next time and let you guess which portion I'm responding to
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Replying to @MorlockP
Except that "combination" was central to the observation.
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Replying to @ngvrnd
ah, didn't realize that ok, then - what triumphalism did you perceive?
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Replying to @MorlockP
Well, you and i both agree that western culture is best, right? And from a certain perspective, this could be seen as triumphalism. So if it is best, then it should win over the less good alternatives. So why worry about immigrants?
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yes, agree W culture best "So if it is best, then it should win over the less good alternatives." unproven path dependence, tribal buy in, etc. make it possible that defection is a winning strategy too long to type into twitter Talk some time (maybe f2f - lunch?)
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Replying to @MorlockP
It is our great task then, gentlemen, to weed out the defectors.
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