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pmc

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You think that's a small number? LOL Compare with how many Americans are undocumented doing menial labor in Mexico, then you'll see how big the number is. And Mexico doesn't stop Americans from coming in unlike the other way around.

A lot of Americans go to Mexico for tourism perhaps the largest any where in the world. I am not sure Mexico tracks American with menial work. I consider Mexico a competent country that can receive so much Air traffic. Hispanic are upto 40% of US Construction industry which has highest wages in the world. so not every thing is menial. If i take your logic that so many Mexican working in menial jobs in US and Mexico still has such large Tourism industry. than how come Mexico become US largest Trade partner surpassing much larger GDP Canada. This is called strong demographic.
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You have a funny imagination while asking others for proof and numbers. White farm owners, Mexican workers. Chinese restaurant owners, Mexican workers. Korean supermarket owners, Mexican workers. We all have family/historic connections with Mexicans LOLOL
upto 1.6m Americans reside in Mexico based on State Department and many more goes there for Tourism. even bad reputation of security cannot stop Americans from going there. This is called Soft Power of Mexico.

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No more exports to the US. It's not hard for Mexico to increase the value of its currency; its whether or not it was the correct choice for the economy and that remains to be seen.
Mexico exports are strong. You dont have any answer how come Mexico currency got strong when Mexico Population is growing when next door US supposed to have much higher GDP per capita. It should have drained Mexico of people and skills.
Your link gives absolutely no data about what percentage of people are from where. It's 100% your imagination that the majority of people entering the US through Mexico aren't Mexicans. You. Are. STUPID.
Read my answer above.
Also, it's not even the point. I just randomly selected a whole bunch of countries, Mexico being one, to represent nations where people usually desire to immigrate to America for better living conditions. Even if it's not Mexico, my point is still there. It's really not debatable that immigrants come to America for a better life. This debate is a total waste of time because of your lack of basic knowledge.
i am saying where you get data those Mexican are the one looking for comfortable office Jobs that pay enough to have decent housing. This what you started with Korea/Japan lacking that comfortable 9 to 5 jobs to afford decent housing and than blame it on lack of demographic strength. If Mexico can keep there Software developers inside Mexico than i would call it a success story and real developed country.
Are you really so stupid and ignorant that you thought it would be hard to find this information?
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No, they represent labor availability and cost.
There is the graph in your data look it closely. It is barely 5% of Mexico population after 2010. It can have many reason like hiding from law enforcement in Mexico. Any country next to US with 5% movement is understandable over a decade if that country domestic population practically doubled since 1980.

You are the stupidest person here; you think Musk isn't smart??? LOL The dude created Tesla from his own electrical engineering PhD. You're over here pretending Mexicans don't want to enter the US for a better life, but for soft power... from a country that hates Mexicans. You are stupid, not him.

Ok
He created Tesla but you dont see the consequences of his creating Tesla in Silicon valley. it is like sucking people away from other more important things in a overpriced location. I cannot think of any dumb manufacturing CEO than him. Not just his choice of expensive locations like Berlin and California but also state with among highest wage growth.
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He scouted many places for his investment and decided against Japan for demographic reasons. Soft power is not in sight.
It is Soft Power Influence that he made the decision.
$200B investment. Money = hard power.
$200B converted into Soft Power of FIFA broadcasting. It is all about Soft image building.
They have no leverage with the West. They can get banned if they piss off the West. That's it.
Sure those trillions wasted in Mideast no one else can repeat it.
Turkey+India=Arab leverage...? Your whole sentence makes no sense. I'm quite sure your "brain" is mashed potatos.
Arabs dont want those planes thats why they were relegated to second tier nations of Turkey and India. Arab are pressuring to get as much wide body Airplanes. but on there own modifications that may be deeper technically than we understand.
Yes? Why not? LOL No conflict, nobody cares. What can Qatar do that Kuwait cannot? Throwing money into and supporting Western events for favor is not soft power; it's submitting yourself to others.
The people travel to Mideast from many countries. and foot ball players they signed up are not all from Northern Europe. you are basically clue less.
Because the Germans went from "Master Race" inventing the best war machines in the world to being America's bitch talking about liberal values right after they got their asses beat.
Germans feel that Soft Power is more important than Hard Power. Its America that is digging its ground to power Europe. Germany ideologically going green. it never really wanted LNG terminals. Thats why it asked France for Pipeline from Spain.
What soft power? Taking US orders is the only thing Germany has been doing. Imposing? It hasn't done that since 1945.
you have evidence of they taking orders or its German soft power that set direction for western consensus.
It's bound by it's WWII commitment to never chase offensive military power. The only hard power it can chase is economic, and now that's crippled. Soft power? What soft power? It gets ordered around by the US and EU and can't even build its own country.
so how come they signed up for Fighter with France if they cannot chase offensive military power?.
Once again, you confused increase salaries with soft power. People go for the money. I have never heard of any Dubai soft power. What can it do and what is the proof?
salaries on those ranges are for top developers. they can have any other place and not deal with desert weather.
Extremely stupid and untrue comment. What level? People get paid hundreds of millions of dollars as CEO.
Money is money. Those driven by ideology/nationalism will work for their own country no matter what. Your soft power is useless to persuade them. Those driven by money sell themselves to the highest bidder. Only the hard power of money will persuade them. Soft power is useless as always.
so ideology is not Soft Power?.
To. create. a. sustainable. long. war???? Who wants that?? Countries want swift overwhelming victories. That is achieved by hard power. If, for some reason, you wanted to sustain a conflict, you also need the hard power to continuously supply your troops. There is no room or need soft power. That's like talking to your enemy while he's killing you. It's stupid.
First you need to understand swift victory is not desirable in every circumstance or the cost of swift victory can be enormous. we are dealing with 21st century demographics where every life is more premium than any time. Just adding body armor or some electronics to a human can deplete human physical stamina.
 

Eventine

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This is happening in China too btw, so I wouldn't break out the schadenfreude that quickly. Chinese birth rates in large cities are comparable to South Korea and Chinese feminists want exactly the same thing as Korean ones - no marriage, no children (unless through IVF with a white man's sperm).
China has an easier solution than Korea, however. Ban every one of those people from the social media platforms they use to spread their ideas.
 

luminary

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Interesting part is Levent. That means Israel has less faith in democracy than everyone in Middle East?
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Pretty much. It makes sense.

The Levant is the only place in the Middle East that has actual Western-style democracy, so they would be the ones suffering from it the most. Take for example Lebanon, which got all its gold reserves stolen by the US, economy is ruined beyond repair, and suffering a mass exodus as over half the population have fled the country and 100k more escape the country every month.


A practical solution in that spirit with today's technologies would be a program of mass IVF and surrogacy
SCMP today:

Screening technology can boost IVF live birth rate,
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  • Live birth rate went from less than 30% to 72% using method known as PIMS, according to researchers

 

Eventine

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Biologically speaking long-term monogamous relationships aren't that natural either Chimpanzees infact prefer a free loving community and killing of rival male's babies are common among mammals, Only under 5 percent of Mammals prefer long-term monogamous relationships, Our concept of family began to avoid infanticide within the community as numbers needed for mammoth hunting and long term child rearing associated with large headed primates necessitated it.
Sure, but saying chimpanzees practice it isn’t a great argument for why Chinese should, unless you think Chinese should become like chimpanzees? If we’re looking to learn from other cultures, at the minimum, pick ones that are worth learning from. 18th century Britain, 1950s US, Romans, Mongols, etc. that were the winners of their respective periods.

You’ll find out pretty quickly a common set of similarities regarding social cohesion, masculinity, family, etc. None of which involve women refusing to have children and preferring to be single.

Simply put, expanding cultures & empires are built on the backs of fertility and discipline; while declining cultures & empires tend towards the opposite - hedonism and decadence. A culture at war with itself cannot hope to conquer others, death cultures do not win against growth cultures.
 
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plawolf

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It is actually a genius form of governance. If you have no expectations for government performance, as long as they don’t do anything outrageously bad they will be tolerated, receiving the governance equivalent of participation rewards. In other words, the only way is up if your expectation is set low.

When the mask slips to reveal that western Liberal Democrat is not meant to benefit the plebeian masses but the aristocracy ruling elite.

In China, the rulers are oppressed and constantly in fear of the people, so must do everything in their power to make sure all the people’s needs are as well met as possible; their grievances addressed and even potential risks mitigated. I know from personal experience that the entire local government leadership of a small (by Chinese standards) city were in absolute fear for their jobs because of a major traffic accident that caused a number of fatalities.

What kind of self respecting silver-spooned blue-blood princeling/princess wants that kind of pressure? The sheer oppressiveness of it! Think of how that might impact their mental health and quality of life!

The western model is far superior where you are free to do anything you want and even the most egregious criminal behaviour can be brushed under the carpet and the very worst thing that could happen is you get put on the naughty step for an election cycle or two, and then when the mass sheeple with the collective memory of brain damaged goldfish have forgotten all about your past transgressions, you can come right back into government again.

This, ladies and gentle-plebs, is why you should fear the horrible oppression a meritocracy would impose on your betters, and choose for us to live free and consequences free lives where we can fuck you all over as much as we like without ever fearing facing anything remotely like consequences. Your fucking welcome and get the fuck back to work and stop complaining about how you have no food to eat. Be creative and eat cake you morons.
 

emblem21

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When the mask slips to reveal that western Liberal Democrat is not meant to benefit the plebeian masses but the aristocracy ruling elite.

In China, the rulers are oppressed and constantly in fear of the people, so must do everything in their power to make sure all the people’s needs are as well met as possible; their grievances addressed and even potential risks mitigated. I know from personal experience that the entire local government leadership of a small (by Chinese standards) city were in absolute fear for their jobs because of a major traffic accident that caused a number of fatalities.

What kind of self respecting silver-spooned blue-blood princeling/princess wants that kind of pressure? The sheer oppressiveness of it! Think of how that might impact their mental health and quality of life!

The western model is far superior where you are free to do anything you want and even the most egregious criminal behaviour can be brushed under the carpet and the very worst thing that could happen is you get put on the naughty step for an election cycle or two, and then when the mass sheeple with the collective memory of brain damaged goldfish have forgotten all about your past transgressions, you can come right back into government again.

This, ladies and gentle-plebs, is why you should fear the horrible oppression a meritocracy would impose on your betters, and choose for us to live free and consequences free lives where we can fuck you all over as much as we like without ever fearing facing anything remotely like consequences. Your fucking welcome and get the fuck back to work and stop complaining about how you have no food to eat. Be creative and eat cake you morons.
Sadly enough, this lack of accountability in the west is going to be the literal death of it, what with much of the policies that any normal person should bulk at, is let through after a period of gas lighting and even worse, the people have all the tools to stop this madness, yet this keeps on happening, why and how are the people of the USA ok with living and dying in tent cities without amounting to anything
 

gelgoog

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gas prices in Europe are falling even below what they were before the Russian invasion of Ukraine...
Those are spring gas prices. So what.

Remember that all imports of Russian oil derivatives in the EU have a limit (price cap). Of course that applies to any country that sells it in the EU serving as a springboard to Russia.
I see you do not even know how the oil price cap works. The EU has banned all sea borne oil & oil products imports coming from Russia.

As for the "price cap" the way it is supposed to work is any shipping companies which use G7 insurance are forbidden from carrying Russian oil (i.e. to other markets outside the G7) except if it is shipped below a price cap of $60 USD per barrel. In response the Russian government put a law into place where Russian oil cannot be shipped by anyone complying with the price cap. Period. While there was a crunch on the oil shipping industry because of these EU and G7 policies, Russian oil sold in Asia like ESPO and Sokol has been trading consistently above the supposed price cap, and even Urals oil typically sold in Europe was priced above the price cap even just two weeks ago. A lot of oil trading in Europe was made by EU companies, and those shipping companies have been selling ships they now no longer use to companies registered outside the EU and not using their insurance. Russia and other countries have setup alternatives to G7 insurance. So in the long term the market will adjust to the trade barriers.

What you ignore is that this G7 policy does not just lower the price of the oil Russia sells, but also increases the price of oil the G7 countries import. Thus making their economies less competitive versus rising economies like India, China, Vietnam, or Indonesia.

This means that Russia must sell oil, gas and derivatives at an unsustainable discount for its economy, which is highly dependent on oil and derivatives...
You say Russia sells at a "discount", but the G7 countries are buying at a "surcharge". So both are losing.

In the medium or long term, the Russian economy will continue to worsen, and its blackmail of war (gas prices for the EU) ended up becoming a double-edged sword, and in the long run Europe will continue to buy gas, at normal prices, while Russia will have to sell it cheap, which will benefit third countries more than Russia itself ... Europe was not going to freeze over from Putin's outbursts and infamous invasion, and time has only shown how weak Russia is economically.
Europe had to shut down all energy consuming industries like glassworks, brickworks, fertilizer production, steel production, etc to be able to survive this winter. And that was when they still had Russian gas for most of the year. Europe will de-industrialize. There simply is not enough LNG or ships to transport the LNG in the whole world to replace the Russian gas they consumed. And it will take a decade to build the infrastructure if it does get built. In the meantime those businesses will go bankrupt.

Russia does not have the infrastructure to store all the gas it sent to Europe, it must put it on the Asian market at agreed prices, only for part of it to end up arriving in Europe with price caps imposed by the EU... Zero benefit for Russia
The modern Russian gas fields can be throttled so they can pump less gas if they want to. Russia also has gargantuan gas storage capability which dwarfs the whole EU's. Russia can keep several months' worth of its own consumption of gas, which is huge, in their storage. And if necessary they can flare off the remainder gas. So who cares. Russia has 69 bcm of gas storage capacity, while Germany (largest storage in the EU) has 23 bcm of gas storage capacity. And the UK has zero.

remember that it was Russia that reduced the supply of natural gas through its pipelines to the EU, as a blackmail tool in its infamous invasion, and not the other way around, since Europe is interested in buying cheap gas... however, blackmail It has been a shot in the foot for Russia
Who was it that blocked Yamal pipeline with reverse flows from Germany to Poland, not allowing usage of Yamal for gas imports for much of the year, expropriated Yamal pipeline from Gazprom, failed to supply necessary gas turbine maintenance to Nord Stream, and bombed Nord Stream 1 & 2? Not Russia. It was an EU member (Poland), and other EU "allies".
 
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ZeEa5KPul

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When the mask slips to reveal that western Liberal Democrat is not meant to benefit the plebeian masses but the aristocracy ruling elite.

In China, the rulers are oppressed and constantly in fear of the people, so must do everything in their power to make sure all the people’s needs are as well met as possible; their grievances addressed and even potential risks mitigated. I know from personal experience that the entire local government leadership of a small (by Chinese standards) city were in absolute fear for their jobs because of a major traffic accident that caused a number of fatalities.

What kind of self respecting silver-spooned blue-blood princeling/princess wants that kind of pressure? The sheer oppressiveness of it! Think of how that might impact their mental health and quality of life!

The western model is far superior where you are free to do anything you want and even the most egregious criminal behaviour can be brushed under the carpet and the very worst thing that could happen is you get put on the naughty step for an election cycle or two, and then when the mass sheeple with the collective memory of brain damaged goldfish have forgotten all about your past transgressions, you can come right back into government again.

This, ladies and gentle-plebs, is why you should fear the horrible oppression a meritocracy would impose on your betters, and choose for us to live free and consequences free lives where we can fuck you all over as much as we like without ever fearing facing anything remotely like consequences. Your fucking welcome and get the fuck back to work and stop complaining about how you have no food to eat. Be creative and eat cake you morons.
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eprash

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Sure, but saying chimpanzees practice it isn’t a great argument for why Chinese should, unless you think Chinese should become like chimpanzees? If we’re looking to learn from other cultures, at the minimum, pick ones that are worth learning from. 18th century Britain, 1950s US, Romans, Mongols, etc. that were the winners of their respective periods.

You’ll find out pretty quickly a common set of similarities regarding social cohesion, masculinity, family, etc. None of which involve women refusing to have children and preferring to be single.

Simply put, expanding cultures & empires are built on the backs of fertility and discipline; while declining cultures & empires tend towards the opposite - hedonism and decadence. A culture at war with itself cannot hope to conquer others, death cultures do not win against growth cultures.
No I just pointed out mongamous relationship like marriage and family was adopted by us in favour of community and if factors become favorable we would revert back to our more natural inclination all of those empires were mighty during their ascend and once prosperity for masses achieved it all turned to hedonism China would eventually turn the same it's just human nature and making use of technology to counter it isn't something to be ashamed of.
 
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