.@mattyglesias's book is misguided because 1 billion Americans is already achieved
they're just not evenly distributed, and mostly not within US borders
if he wants even more americans he should focus overseas where we are very good at making americans at low unit cost
like so many things we have profitably outsourced the manufacture of americans
if he really cares about americans in america Proper he might instead propose that we make domestic americans more american, a laudable goal and one sorely unattended for the past decade
"no you cant be american that way americans have to be subject to the direct control of the US government" im sorry but if you find yourself leaning toward THAT argument your missing the entire goddamn point of America and you should go back and make out with the Queen
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realistically there's no way to stop people from tacitly or explicitly allocating taxes and benefits on the basis of race and large portions of the country have interests in this happening or ideological commitments to doing so
the norms to which new immigrants are assimilating and young natives inculcated are immensely ethnically charged without any public and common ideal of transcending race for an american identity, an identity which frankly doesnt even exist anymore
the rheinweisenlager were a bunch of concentration camps in the original sense where surrendered wehrmacht soldiers were held for several months in 1945
the camps were run by the US, apparently, and that's important
my only yarvin story is that we met in a temporary teahouse and he spent an hour watching my kid while moon and i took a break, and he sent us off with advice on early reading for her
it's a small thing but it was a welcome kindness for us, bare acquaintances
no one except lord myles has "adventures" when they travel
you are staying at a hotel, paying large sums of money to have a far worse experience than you could have in your own home and a far softer experience than you could have by spending a weekend in jail
"i love to Travel" why have you failed to establish your home as a place of serenity and joy, to the extent that you feel psychically uncomfortable there and strive to get away from your life whenever you can, viewing it as the highest good?
you are not well
"i Travel" you can go wherever you like in the world but you will never escape yourself