If Rasmussen's poll can be trusted, 2/3 of Ivy League graduates want to ban air conditioning, SUVs, and non-essential travel. 4/5 want to ban ICE vehicles and gas stoves. Elite Human Capital.
1Disagree. 85.9 to 77.4 is like going from Argentina to Kenya. This is one reason why getting some sort of racist or nativist political consensus is so urgent from a "keep the power on" perspective. If half the political spectrum is pro-Open Borders when Africa's pop doubles...
Even ignoring absolutely everything else, the default future of the rich world without severe immigration restriction is like 3/4 African + (unselected) South Asian. That's civilization-ending. We need a consensus for restriction on *some* basis ASAP.
This in turn is the single biggest reason mass skilled immigration is fatal: skilled immigrants tend to see themselves as *immigrants* (rather than Americans, or civilized, high IQ individuals, or some other identity that could oppose this) and oppose restrictions on that basis.
Destroy your society with welfare-parasite-rapists vs with welfare-parasite-rapists aligned with intelligent foreign subversives who can take over. Not as though Britain has actually benefitted from nonwhite immigration, "we're going to have a civil war" is now mainstream.
I'm sure everyone who follows me has seen the "Britain immigration charts" a few times, but I'll post them again here. Severe 21st century economic dysfunction, declining physical capital stock per person.
The Usual Suspects are criminal in Britain as they are in the rest of Europe, Tories quadrupled Pakistani immigration, British industrial economy is collapsing, the % of net fiscal burdens keeps going up.
Smarter people learn to cooperate more in Prisoner's Dilemmas over iterations (blue: higher Raven's Matrices score, red: lower Raven's Matrices score). This is plausibly one of the reasons for the "Hive Mind" effect (national IQ being more important than personal IQ).
Apropos of nothing: immigration lowers national IQ almost everywhere.
Thread with excerpts from "Fall of the Double Eagle: The Battle for Galicia and the Demise of Austria-Hungary."
The multiethnic nature of Austria-Hungary meant that it could not separate domestic and foreign policy; every foreign issue had a domestic lobby and vice-versa.
The military was a complex, highly-bureaucratic, inefficient, and unwieldy behemoth, the natural result of a dozen ethnic groups and countless dialects. The army was bound together by dynastic loyalty, and Franz Joseph saw it more as a domestic than a foreign instrument.
It's true that Mamdani's politics are not confined to a single race, but his sort of postcolonial/anti-white Fabian socialism has dominated Indian elites since the 30s and Asians in general, and Indians in particular, are the most ideologically* New Left race in the country.
I think race (and ethnicity/LGBT - Mamdani's white support is probably ~50% Jewish and very gay) are much more salient to why Millennial socialism is a major political force than downwards mobility among elite.
*I specify ideologically because ofc blacks vote (D) more. But blacks are voting more for gibs and racial patronage.
This is just silly. Between Lend-Lease and the Marshall Plan, Britain got about 300B (net, accounting for "reverse Lend Lease") dollars worth of free aid in WWII. This is almost exactly the same as the total aid Israel has received from the US in its entire history.
This does not count things like the extremely generous terms of the Anglo-American loan (long repayment schedule, below-inflation interest rate, the ability to suspend payments up to six times if it couldn't be afforded) or destroyers-for-bases as "aid."
Britain was far less ruined by WWII than any other major participant except the US, and poor British economic and financial performance is because Attlee was an actual true-believing Fabian socialist, and his continental equivalents were mostly Communists kept out of govt.