2/ First, our population would be perhaps 10% smaller - around 300 million Americans instead of 330 million.
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3/ With 10% of our population (30 million African Americans) missing from our shores, our murder rate would be 50% lower. Instead of 160,000 people being murdered per year, it'd be closer to 80,000, catapulting us into the top ranks of safe societies.
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4/ Likewise, there would be 60,000 fewer violent rapes.
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5/ There'd be a 50% decline in aggravated assault, meaning 372,000 fewer people per year sent to hospitals after being attacked.
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6/ Even though the population would only be 10% smaller, the prison population would be 40% smaller, saving us $35 billion per year.
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7/ Aww, heck, I can't continue this thread. A calm recital of documented statistics just brings one too close to full on thought crime. Anyway, the NYT really
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8/ I have this recurring dream: I live in a small Italian villa, all limestone, marble, red clay roof, balustrades, and planters. ...except it's wrapped around the surface of a small (~1 acre surface area) asteroid with a small blackhole or something in the center to provide 1g.
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9/ And there are no members of the public around. At all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awhGI0_o90s …
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10/ Billennium is a story about people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billennium_(short_story) …
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11/ Lower labor supply leading to higher wages for Scots Irish ?https://twitter.com/Cererean/status/1163787506065846272 …
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12/ ...but, to return to a pessimistic note, that'd just mean that they could afford triple wide trailers instead of double wides, and could snort even more oxy.
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14/ But then again, the Harvard progs would have found some other pretext to conquer America and exercise their dominion.
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