Caplan says that Puerto Rico having open borders with the USA has lead to a tremendous gain. Really Brain? For who? It sure hasn't been good for non-Puerto Rican Americans. And it could even be argued that it has been bad for Puerto Rico.
"As soon as the Hispanic category is broken down by group, what leaps out at anyone who takes even a casual look at the census data is that Puerto Ricans are the worst off ethnic group ..."
"Celebrating #diversity just take a lot of space. Even with a tome this immense, diversity awareness means that there isn't room in all 1277 pages to mention…the Wright brothers."
"Nation of Nations' section entitled "The Naval War in the Pacific," which covers the turning point years of 1942 and 1943, gets all of two pro forma paragraphs."
"In contrast, eight paragraphs are devoted to the internment of Japanese, seven to women and the war, and five to "Minorities on the Job."
Hilariously, the naval war gets the same amount of text as the 1943 Zoot Suit riot in East LA!"
Okay, I'm going to do a thread going over & critiquing Ryan Faulk's (The Alternative Hypothesis) & Sean Last's recent videos.
Starting with Ryan's
Ryan starts out with saying that whites aren't politically all that exceptional. He says this because people in Europe don't support freedom of speech as much as people in America. Yes, his argument really is this stupid.
At the request of the coolest chick on twitter, I am going to do a thread on the Roman military. In this case I am going to compare & contrast the Roman Legions with the Greek/Macedonian Phalanxes, & maybe at the end talk a bit about cavalry.
Both the Legion & Phalanx were heavy infantry units, which meant that they fought in heavy armor & carried large, sturdy shields. Both started out being manned by citizen-soldiers but when empires developed they started to be manned by full-time professional soldiers.
Since both Greek & Roman societies were settled, agricultural societies, it makes sense that their main military units would be infantry. Nomadic or semi-nomadic societies (like the Huns) tended to build their military around cavalry.
The fact that CV didn't know that phontypes dealt with behavior and not just looks was surprising. I guess it's time to educate CV.
@JFGariepy@HalseyEnglish@notcolloquial A phenotype is the composite of an organism's observable characteristics or traits, such as its morphology, development, biochemical or physiological properties, behavior, and products of behavior (such as a bird's nest).
The kind of civilization that Western Europeans build is a part of their phenotype. Detroit under white rule was part of white phenotype, and Detroit under black rule is part of black phenotype.
First I want to say I really liked @notcolloquial's debating style. Attack, attack, attack. Good stuff. I think @notcolloquial controlled most of the debate against @thealthype.