Amerika-in-Exile (the Tulio Baars Homepage)

Over at Quora , one poster tries to make sense of why ordinary people oppose immigration, and discovers something about countries: One aspect is that a policy may be potentially Pareto optimal - meaning that you cannot make anyone better off without making someone else worse off presuming that the winners were to compensate the losers - but that's of slim comfort to you, your family, town, county, or state if you lose and the winners don't actually compensate you as the welfare economics standard suggests would be possible. Well, wait a second... that sounds like zero-sum conditions, where no one can win without someone else losing. How can we explain this? Simply put, borders exist for a reason: for anyone in a society to have anyone else comes in means a loss of what they had before, which was an ethnically-consistent society in which their group had self-determination. Each person arriving gradually chips away at their culture, values, hierarchy, and future. The w...

Tommy Robinson is in jail for civil disobedience. He acted in defiance of a media blackout against reporting the gangs that were grooming and prostituting young girls, and the taboo against mentioning that the people doing this were not ethnically indigenous Britons; they were "Asians," or people from places like Pakistan who tended to be of the Muslim faith. He knew they were going to arrest him. The courts reacted predictably and jailed Robinson, but he knew that was coming; he realized that his only way to keep the English courts from making this issue slide out of public view was to legally martyr himself: English Defence League founder Tommy Robinson has been jailed for 13 months after being arrested outside Leeds Crown Court last week, court officials have confirmed. He was arrested on Friday for contempt of court after using social media to broadcast details of an ongoing trial which is subject to blanket reporting restrictions. Reporting restrictions were ...