Notices by ryan (ryan@bemrose.social)

I’ve been accused of being Republican, and I want to set the record straight.

I criticize Democrats far more often than I criticize Republicans. But there is a reason. As you may know, most politics are local. In my local state and region, the following is true:

• Every politician is corrupt

• Every politician is a Democrat

There are no Republicans here on the left coast; only Democrats spanning from full-on communist to somewhat-moderate (meaning they still like taxing the middle class into poverty, but might have an objection to one or two spending projects)

So, in my defense, the simple reason that I don’t criticize Republican politicians as often is that I’m not sure I’ve ever actually seen one.

My state has been ruined by overtaxation, overregulation, and overspending of government, and there’s only one party available to take the blame. It is very very difficult not to assume causation.

Q: Should the government create a new program to fund … ?

A: No

Q: What about $(new thing) that an activist says we need?

A: No

Q: But surely we need more …

A: No

This message brought to you by the people who are unwillingly paying for all of the crap the government already funds

Q: BuT wHo wIlL BuILd tHE rOaDS!?

A: https://mises.org/mises-wire/who-will-build-roads-anyone-who-stands-benefit-them

When you see the skyrocketing price of eggs today, you will be told that it’s because of the bird flu. This is fake news.

The egg prices you’re seeing today is indeed because hundreds of thousands of chickens have died, but NOT due to the bird flu. The flu has killed less than 100 chickens across the country.

Instead, hundreds of thousands of chickens have been culled - murdered by their owners and by the government for no reason - because of people overreacting to the hysterical bird flu stories.

The vast majority of people who claim to be “atheist” merely don’t realize that what they worship - be it rocks and minerals, or The Universe, or Climate Change, or Karl Marx - are religions in all but name. The most vocal atheists are the most fiercely religious zealots you will ever meet.

Immigration is a positive force when immigrants are obliged to assimilate into their new host culture. This includes things like following the new cultural norms and leaving behind practices that are abhorrent to the host culture, while still bringing new ideas and perspectives. It also includes learning the local language, which is critical for assimilation.

This melding of new and old is what creates the good kind of diversity that makes a culture stronger through evolution. Like every evolutionary process, it is necessarily slow, as people take time to adjust to new norms.

Immigration without assimilation, on the other hand, creates enclaves of a foreign culture within the original. This is the bad kind of diversity. These incompatible cultures, in proximity with no geographic boundaries, lead to strife, crime, violence, and eventually cultural breakdown.

Importing too many immigrants in a short period of time - or worse, actively pandering to the foreign culture in these enclaves - removes the incentive to assimilate, virtually guaranteeing this result.