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1) a man who writes “build, baby, build” can’t accept that the main driver of zoning regulations is the desire to keep out blacks and other trouble makers

2) since this was written in 2010, mass immigration occurred throughout the western world and its considered such a failure that nearly every government has fallen and Trump is initiating mass deportations

3) gay marriage is such a “niche market” that lbgtq2+ just dominated the last decade of culture and civil rights law.

Old Caplan posts from a decade ago are always great to look at because their predictions are always spectacularly wrong.

By contrast, Steve sailer is Nostradamus. Predicting things like world war transgender back when Obama was opposed to gay marriage.

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For the last 10 years or so I've seen nothing but a rise in advocacy for the right to segregate and free association - which is the right to exclude. If you live in an open borders world - which Libertarians seem to keep advocating everywhere - the former become absolutely meaningless. You do not have a country, let alone a nation. Individuals don't exist in Nature. So when you say silly things like, "It's my right to live in a borderless society as I have the freedom to associate," what you're really saying is "I assume that in-group preference doesn't exist despite all measurements we have to the contrary, that everyone's just gonna choose the most "ethical" and "moral" way of doing things - which is, somehow, meritocratic achievement which Whites - not Jews or Jewish Kalergis - but Whites - came up with as far as codifying it into law - and, eventually, the whole thing will collapse because of this. Factions really do exist, as Madison argued. One doesn't need an in-group majority to control factions. One simply needs the Whites to fight it out within their "meritocratic" societies where they've been coerced into acceptance of affirmative action for decades - and then one corrals those who have strong in-group preference into a coalition opposing the Whites and their society (which, ironically, provided all necessary for the achievement, such as it is, of the latter) and dominates over them.

What would one exclude anyone from, exactly? If you're a global minority (Native Europeans - Whites) living among a global majority everywhere you used to have your own nations as a global minority, especially if you're the group net subsidizing other groups, where's your sovereignty? Again, individuals do not exist in Nature. Anywhere. And biology, believe it or not, really does exist. It's relevant. Libertarians have this weird notion that their so-called "Higher Law" can be divorced from biological laws. I guess I keep reading to see what really stupid things prominent Libertarians keep saying. I can't decide whether such seemingly smart people really are this obtuse, or if it's deliberately duplicitous. After all, who is providing the funding and the leadership and the narrative for open borders? Is there a common denominator? What about modification of the standards of the in-group (Samuel Flowerman)? Joyce over at Occidental Observer would say he has the sources to definitively show - yes.

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