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There are four global trends that threaten major crises in our lifetime: birthrate collapse, US-China conflict, AI runaway, and the one singular continent whose population continues to double. The first three of these are discussed ad nauseum in popular di... posted 13mo ago with 40 replies received

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There is a large capability gap between Africa and South Asia. South Asia, for all of its issues, has capable subpopulations that have organized complex civilizations for thousands of years. India has a functioning space program.... 13mo ago received

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It's true that sub-Saharan official statistics are unreliable, but that doesn't mean we know nothing.... 13mo ago received

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This India hate is wildly overblown. "Existential threat to the human species"? Where in Pakistan are you from?... 13mo ago received

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Then you’ll have to substantiate your post. For now, it reads as mindless hate. Here's the truth about the Indian Question:... 13mo ago received

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Even when colonialism was in vogue, our success rate "giving the gift of civilization and good institutions" was poor. Humans are not computers that you can just flash different software onto. Importing Western social and institutional technologies to the ... 13mo ago received

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It's also fun to entertain the possibility that, in the long arc, the most based man to have ever lived may turn out to be none other than Mr Bill Gates, the man who, by sheer NIETZSCHEAN VRIL and under deep cover as a corpulent turbolib, took it upon hims... 13mo ago received

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Neither of them were able to achieve a healthy society, which is why I wrote "closest we've come". Importing people to build a functional economy next to the metastasizing megaslums from behind 10 foot razor wire walls is not much of a solution.... 13mo ago received

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I'll go further and say South Africa and Rhodesia failed precisely because did not understand the exponential. If you really internalize what these demographic trends mean, you see that "secure the border and ignore" is a hopeless strategy. Those two count... 13mo ago received

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Here's a lens to understand the Heart of Darkness more clearly. Look at the new "Alliance of Sahel States" with Russian and Chinese backing. All three countries, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have explosive birthrates and rock-bottom GDP. So what do we see... 10mo ago received

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OK, here's a point in favor of "nobody has any clue". A very interesting essay on how bad Africans are at counting. https://davidoks.blog/p/a-lot-of-population-numbers-are-fake... 9mo ago received

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