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Although this thread does not function under the same strict guidelines as the USPMT, it is still a general practice on TL to provide a source with an explanation on why it is relevant and what purpose it adds to the discussion. Failure to do so will result in a mod action.
SoSexy
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Italy3725 Posts
July 19 2016 12:03 GMT
#9901
Whitedog, I kinda like your posts, but marxist view of history is way too off in some cases and you do not seem to acknowledge this (as all other marxist historians). Some things cannot be explained in economical terms - and I do not see what's wrong with it. Humans are not only money and labour.
Dating thread on TL LUL
zatic
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Zurich15365 Posts
July 19 2016 12:15 GMT
#9902
On July 19 2016 20:20 SoSexy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 19 2016 20:13 RvB wrote:
On July 19 2016 18:24 iPlaY.NettleS wrote:
On July 19 2016 06:49 Dangermousecatdog wrote:
But seriously, stop with your insane comments about Muslim majority in Europe already. Quoting Anders Behring Breivik's manifesto is very very scary.

Bring in a million Islamic people per year (actually far more after family reunification) who have a far higher fertility rate than indigenous Europeans and one day the muslims will be a majority.In some places sooner than others, like Sweden for instance.What is "insane" about these comments?
These are facts.
Facts cannot be racist, sexist, homophobic.Either they are facts or they aren't.
I don't see what is hard for you to understand?

In reality fertility rates of immigrants go down to the average of the country they live in quite rapidly. The same reasons to keep families small apply to immigrants as well.

Not true - they have access to Welfare in a way that does not apply to natives.

Also you guys justifying everything make me sick. Do you even have respect for your country, the people who died for it, your grandparents? You would sell your soul for political correctness...

I have very little respect for the country my grandparents fought for, no.

But then I don't get how that is relevant at all when discussing immigration in the first place. Or what "political correctness" has to do with any of that. Seems to me that by this point this is just a blanket term for "things I don't agree with".
ModeratorI know Teamliquid is known as a massive building
SoSexy
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Italy3725 Posts
July 19 2016 12:17 GMT
#9903
On July 19 2016 21:15 zatic wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 19 2016 20:20 SoSexy wrote:
On July 19 2016 20:13 RvB wrote:
On July 19 2016 18:24 iPlaY.NettleS wrote:
On July 19 2016 06:49 Dangermousecatdog wrote:
But seriously, stop with your insane comments about Muslim majority in Europe already. Quoting Anders Behring Breivik's manifesto is very very scary.

Bring in a million Islamic people per year (actually far more after family reunification) who have a far higher fertility rate than indigenous Europeans and one day the muslims will be a majority.In some places sooner than others, like Sweden for instance.What is "insane" about these comments?
These are facts.
Facts cannot be racist, sexist, homophobic.Either they are facts or they aren't.
I don't see what is hard for you to understand?

In reality fertility rates of immigrants go down to the average of the country they live in quite rapidly. The same reasons to keep families small apply to immigrants as well.

Not true - they have access to Welfare in a way that does not apply to natives.

Also you guys justifying everything make me sick. Do you even have respect for your country, the people who died for it, your grandparents? You would sell your soul for political correctness...

I have very little respect for the country my grandparents fought for, no.

But then I don't get how that is relevant at all when discussing immigration in the first place. Or what "political correctness" has to do with any of that. Seems to me that by this point this is just a blanket term for "things I don't agree with".


How fascinating - exactly the definition created by the political spectrum you belong to
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RvB
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Netherlands6274 Posts
July 19 2016 12:51 GMT
#9904
On July 19 2016 20:20 SoSexy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 19 2016 20:13 RvB wrote:
On July 19 2016 18:24 iPlaY.NettleS wrote:
On July 19 2016 06:49 Dangermousecatdog wrote:
But seriously, stop with your insane comments about Muslim majority in Europe already. Quoting Anders Behring Breivik's manifesto is very very scary.

Bring in a million Islamic people per year (actually far more after family reunification) who have a far higher fertility rate than indigenous Europeans and one day the muslims will be a majority.In some places sooner than others, like Sweden for instance.What is "insane" about these comments?
These are facts.
Facts cannot be racist, sexist, homophobic.Either they are facts or they aren't.
I don't see what is hard for you to understand?

In reality fertility rates of immigrants go down to the average of the country they live in quite rapidly. The same reasons to keep families small apply to immigrants as well.


Not true - they have access to Welfare in a way that does not apply to natives.

Also you guys justifying everything make me sick. Do you even have respect for your country, the people who died for it, your grandparents? You would sell your soul for political correctness...

And how is this welfare going to make them more fertile?

People can come here to work from all over the world if they want. I don't care. All people are equal. Being born in a country doesn't give some god given right to get a job over someone else.
Sent.
Profile Joined June 2012
Poland9299 Posts
July 19 2016 13:15 GMT
#9905
It does give a human given right though
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GoTuNk!
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Chile4591 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-07-19 14:06:51
July 19 2016 14:02 GMT
#9906
On July 19 2016 21:51 RvB wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 19 2016 20:20 SoSexy wrote:
On July 19 2016 20:13 RvB wrote:
On July 19 2016 18:24 iPlaY.NettleS wrote:
On July 19 2016 06:49 Dangermousecatdog wrote:
But seriously, stop with your insane comments about Muslim majority in Europe already. Quoting Anders Behring Breivik's manifesto is very very scary.

Bring in a million Islamic people per year (actually far more after family reunification) who have a far higher fertility rate than indigenous Europeans and one day the muslims will be a majority.In some places sooner than others, like Sweden for instance.What is "insane" about these comments?
These are facts.
Facts cannot be racist, sexist, homophobic.Either they are facts or they aren't.
I don't see what is hard for you to understand?

In reality fertility rates of immigrants go down to the average of the country they live in quite rapidly. The same reasons to keep families small apply to immigrants as well.


Not true - they have access to Welfare in a way that does not apply to natives.

Also you guys justifying everything make me sick. Do you even have respect for your country, the people who died for it, your grandparents? You would sell your soul for political correctness...

And how is this welfare going to make them more fertile?

People can come here to work from all over the world if they want. I don't care. All people are equal. Being born in a country doesn't give some god given right to get a job over someone else.


Because economic constraints is the main factor in people having few children. Natives have very few to pay the high income tax necessary to sustain the welfare of the inmigrants, who have lots of children. State funded cuckold.
Velr
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Switzerland10884 Posts
July 19 2016 14:03 GMT
#9907
Wow, just wow.
By your logic rich People should drown in children, yet they have less than poor People.

Did you even think for a second before you wrote that?
LegalLord
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
United States13779 Posts
July 19 2016 14:16 GMT
#9908
The cost of a child is how much it costs to raise it to be competitive at the socioeconomic class you are a part of, both in terms of money and effort. The wealthier you are, the higher that cost, so everyone except those with more money than they could ever need (billionaires) tends to have fewer children. For the very poor, the effort is minimal so they can have more children without much trouble.
History will sooner or later sweep the European Union away without mercy.
RvB
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Netherlands6274 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-07-19 14:25:01
July 19 2016 14:23 GMT
#9909
His whole point makes no sense. Immigrants and people on welfare have less money available (the whole reason they receive welfare obviously). The amount of tax payers also outnumbers immigrants who need welfare by a lot.

Edit: @ legallord how are to costs minimal for poor people. They still have to feed kids and send them to school and all. Stuff like that is hardly easy to pay when you're having trouble making ends meet. It's a lot bigger percentage of their income.
GoTuNk!
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Chile4591 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-07-19 14:29:29
July 19 2016 14:29 GMT
#9910
On July 19 2016 23:23 RvB wrote:
His whole point makes no sense. Immigrants and people on welfare have less money available (the whole reason they receive welfare obviously). The amount of tax payers also outnumbers immigrants who need welfare by a lot.

Edit: @ legallord how are to costs minimal for poor people. They still have to feed kids and send them to school and all. Stuff like that is hardly easy to pay when you're having trouble making ends meet. It's a lot bigger percentage of their income.


Because they are less responsible than people with higher income and rely on the welfare state? They know children won't starve to death and kinda wing it from there.

The stats are pretty damn clear on this if one takes the time to search them (poorer people/inmigrants have more children than middle class).
farvacola
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States18857 Posts
July 19 2016 14:29 GMT
#9911
I can't speak for Europe, but here in the US, most states make welfare programs fairly difficult to apply for, contrary to what many would argue otherwise. Those people, inevitably, have little to no experience with how entitlements actually work.
"when the Dead Kennedys found out they had skinhead fans, they literally wrote a song titled 'Nazi Punks Fuck Off'"
RvB
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Netherlands6274 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-07-19 14:59:48
July 19 2016 14:46 GMT
#9912
On July 19 2016 23:29 GoTuNk! wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 19 2016 23:23 RvB wrote:
His whole point makes no sense. Immigrants and people on welfare have less money available (the whole reason they receive welfare obviously). The amount of tax payers also outnumbers immigrants who need welfare by a lot.

Edit: @ legallord how are to costs minimal for poor people. They still have to feed kids and send them to school and all. Stuff like that is hardly easy to pay when you're having trouble making ends meet. It's a lot bigger percentage of their income.


Because they are less responsible than people with higher income and rely on the welfare state? They know children won't starve to death and kinda wing it from there.

The stats are pretty damn clear on this if one takes the time to search them (poorer people/inmigrants have more children than middle class).

There is a difference yes. The difference rapidly decreases though. Basically the first generation has more kids and then the higher fertility already stops. You could make the point that poorer have mlre children because they are less able to oversee the consequences of their actions (I don't know if this is true) but then welfare and money has nothing to do with it (which was the point made).

Like the birth rate, the TFR of immigrants has declined more rapidly than the TFR for natives since 2008. In 2008, immigrant women had a TFR of 2.75 children; by 2013 it had fallen to 2.22 — a .53 child decline. For natives it declined from 2.07 to 1.79 — a .28 child decline.


If present trends continue, the TFR of immigrants may drop below 2.1 in the next few years, the level necessary to replace the existing population. An immigrant TFR of less than 2.1 would mean that, in the long run, immigration would add to the aging of American society.

cis.org

The native-born have a 19% higher total fertility rate, while immigrants have 62% higher fertility.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Sent.
Profile Joined June 2012
Poland9299 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-07-19 16:19:14
July 19 2016 15:06 GMT
#9913
Some time ago I read that Polish women in the UK have much more kids than Polish women in Poland (~2.1 per woman vs ~1.3 per woman). That lead me to believe that there has to be something with welfare or living conditions of lower class in the UK that makes the immigrants more likely to have multiple children. Turns out that statistic was false/manipulation. Polish women have more or less the same amount of kids everywhere but since most of the emigrants are 25-35 year old, naturally their fertility rate is higher than average.

Now I believe it's mostly a cultural thing. It doesn't change much but at least now I know high welfare doesn't help in increasing fertility rates.

edit: by "it" I mean high fertility rate of first generation non-European immigrants
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Velr
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Switzerland10884 Posts
July 19 2016 15:58 GMT
#9914
Would that be the case sweden/norway would be really crowded
{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
July 19 2016 19:07 GMT
#9915
It now seems to be happening everyday in Europe:

"Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules."
Reaps
Profile Joined June 2012
United Kingdom1280 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-07-19 19:16:18
July 19 2016 19:15 GMT
#9916
On July 20 2016 04:07 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
It now seems to be happening everyday in Europe:

https://twitter.com/NeilTurner_/status/755459250814611456


"An eight-year-old girl is fighting for her life after a mum and her three daughters were reportedly stabbed in a French holiday resort for being 'scantily dressed'.

Horrific :/

Also ISIS has released a video of the asylum seeker that carried out the German train axe attack.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36832909
iPlaY.NettleS
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Australia4416 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-07-20 12:41:05
July 20 2016 12:35 GMT
#9917
Civil war in France soon, it is inevitable.
Things are very bad there.

Anyway new Austrian election set for Oct 2nd after the vote rigging scandal that saw the green candidate win on postal votes was exposed.

So now in October we have Austrian election where the "far right" anti-immigration candidate is likely winner and we also have the Hungarian referendum on accepting refugees which will certainly be rejected.

October will be a tough month for the Eurocrat fat cats in Brussels!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7PvoI6gvQs
WhiteDog
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France8650 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-07-20 12:54:35
July 20 2016 12:49 GMT
#9918
Bullshit, civil war will never happen. Revolution maybe. You see any important desire for regional secession in France ? Any party that defend actually radical ideas ? Or even muslim parties ?
"every time WhiteDog overuses the word "seriously" in a comment I can make an observation on his fragile emotional state." MoltkeWarding
Gorsameth
Profile Joined April 2010
Netherlands22373 Posts
July 20 2016 12:52 GMT
#9919
On July 20 2016 21:49 WhiteDog wrote:
Bullshit, civil war will never happen. Revolution maybe. You see any important desire for regional secession in France ? Any party that defend radical ideas ? Or even muslim parties ?

Remember who your responding to, don't expect anything resembling reality
It ignores such insignificant forces as time, entropy, and death
Sent.
Profile Joined June 2012
Poland9299 Posts
July 20 2016 13:00 GMT
#9920
Based Nettles telling it like it is, love that time of the day when hes goes on a posting rampage.

Now seriously: Nettles can you clarify who you think is going to start a real civil war with the French government?
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