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Director of Intake, Clinton Foundation dba Comet Ping Pong. “When I die, I want no part of heaven I would not do heaven’s work well I pray the devil comes and takes me to stand in the fiery juvenile dependency status review hearings of hell.”

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Beecher Bibles and Broadswords @beecherbibles56.bsky.social · 12h

But that’s kind of my point, if we can recognize that certain things are reasonably off the table in nominally democratic societies - genocide, for example - then that should extend to trade and migration controls as well.

If limits exist at all, they should apply here.

Beecher Bibles and Broadswords @beecherbibles56.bsky.social · 12h

I don’t know that I buy that the evolution of the concept of international personality in re: states is sufficient to justify the extension of democratic controls to migration and trade. Do limits on democratic control exist?

Beecher Bibles and Broadswords @beecherbibles56.bsky.social · 12h

Citing Westphalia as the basis of democratic controls on immigration is odd since none of the states involved were nominally democratic. Why should citizens get a say over what other citizens do in regards to interacting with, selling or renting property to, or otherwise engaging with noncitizens?

Beecher Bibles and Broadswords @beecherbibles56.bsky.social · 12h

Why should non-contributing locals get a say on anything though

Beecher Bibles and Broadswords @beecherbibles56.bsky.social · 13h

I used to be super libertarian and in some ways still am, but it’s insane to think that we can improve child welfare by spending less on it and removing resources from the system.

Beecher Bibles and Broadswords @beecherbibles56.bsky.social · 13h

Also, like… a lot of adoptions are subsidized by taxpayers. so the whole “wonderful for taxpayers” thing isn’t mathing the way he thinks it does.

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Beecher Bibles and Broadswords @beecherbibles56.bsky.social · 13h

…at least it’s an attempt at a solution, rather than just pretending the problem is the opposite of what it actually is.

Beecher Bibles and Broadswords @beecherbibles56.bsky.social · 13h

Like, it’s really hard to find adoptive homes for the kids who need them the most, because those kids tend to need extra support that *most people can’t even get in their bio families.* Which is why so many of them end up in the system.

My solution is also optically horrible (orphanages) but…

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Beecher Bibles and Broadswords @beecherbibles56.bsky.social · 13h

I feel like he thinks the issue is the lack of adoptable babies when in reality there is a massive number of children who need homes in the child welfare system who can’t get them because we have a huge shortage of adoption resources.

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Beecher Bibles and Broadswords @beecherbibles56.bsky.social · 13h

Without the welfare state, adoption is a natural response to this harsh dilemma. Often sad for the birth mothers, but fantastic for the baby and whoever adopts the baby. Not to mention taxpayers.“

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Beecher Bibles and Broadswords @beecherbibles56.bsky.social · 13h

“For domestic adoption, there is a similarly obvious fix: drastically curtail or abolish the welfare state. Even in the First World, it is very hard for a poor single mother to simultaneously work and support a baby. […]

Beecher Bibles and Broadswords @beecherbibles56.bsky.social · 16h

Thank you, being honest is important since people don’t trust liars.

Beecher Bibles and Broadswords @beecherbibles56.bsky.social · 17h

So I kind of think that one side reneging was inevitable (I actually would advocate for Israel to reneg now that the hostages are back, no real reason not to finish Hamas off which is why I was surprised Hamas released the hostages, which strikes me as dumb for them).

So yeah we’re invading Gaza.

Beecher Bibles and Broadswords @beecherbibles56.bsky.social · 18h

The other thing is… is it worse? Like, Jay Jones’ texts were incendiary sure, but like… how wrong were they? Generally speaking, personal tragedy is the most reliable way to generate change on gun issues (I say this as someone relatively pro-gun for bluesky). Being mean isn’t being wrong.

Beecher Bibles and Broadswords @beecherbibles56.bsky.social · 18h

To me, that suggests we should find some way to limit their voting but that’s a tangent and a half.

Beecher Bibles and Broadswords @beecherbibles56.bsky.social · 18h

This isn’t going to be solved overnight, but messaging needs to take into account what the goal is, and work towards building a consensus on that over a generation or two. Only the right is doing that, and it’s to sell a line to surplus population whites to get their votes.

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Beecher Bibles and Broadswords @beecherbibles56.bsky.social · 18h

The thing is, on migration, open borders is basically an optimal policy *but for* the backlash among native voters it creates. It’s good economically and culturally, and while it isn’t without its complications, those pale in comparison to the losses associated with immigration restrictions.

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Beecher Bibles and Broadswords @beecherbibles56.bsky.social · 19h

I had to exclude scare quotes around “people” for character limit purposes by the way but I’m all in on dehumanizing them with the goal of strategic hamlets ala Malaya as the long term COIN intervention against MAGA.

Beecher Bibles and Broadswords @beecherbibles56.bsky.social · 19h

“If you’re not willing to move to make your own life better, are you really American? Should you get a say on who gets to be American when your choices show that you hate America and the very concept of an American?” is, again, a winning message. These people hate America, we should say that.

Beecher Bibles and Broadswords @beecherbibles56.bsky.social · 19h

I agree we do need rural population controls to curtail the dynamic of surplus whites having eighteen kids to be “quiverfull” and living off of cash assistance and fraudulent disability… wait you’re talking about immigration control, I’m against that because it’s dumb policy that makes America weak.

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Beecher Bibles and Broadswords @beecherbibles56.bsky.social · 19h

The wordplay in the title doesn’t work if you pronounce her name correctly (two zs in Italian is a ts sound, so it’s Nootzi phonetically with the oo being kind of soft).

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Tony🫘 @mcdeathbruger.bsky.social · 1d

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 fat lazy fucks

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Beecher Bibles and Broadswords @beecherbibles56.bsky.social · 19h

Which is strategically disastrous, Sun Tzu etc. It also speaks to how the candidate swap was done over the summer before the election, which was executed basically as poorly as possibly because of the same logical flaw. We don’t need to keep losing, though.

Beecher Bibles and Broadswords @beecherbibles56.bsky.social · 19h

I think that there’s a latent amount of anger that can be mobilized among the urban and suburban voters who fund rural and surplus white largess to buttress a coalition against the MAGA base, while still preserving nominally progressive policy outcomes.