1/ As 2019 is the 400th anniversary of the first importation of African slaves to the US, it's important to ponder the counterfactual of what would America be like today if we hadn't done so?
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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
#MadeMeThink with their#1619Project ; envisioning a better world where slavery never happened on American soil.Show this thread -
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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