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"Colour doesn't matter, ideology does"


How can someone be that naïve? He's just being politically correct and trying to avoid being called a racist. Ideology will always correlate with race. If current immigration continues, within the next few elections, Republicans will never win national elections again

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I don't understand why so many people think the "flood the US with immigrants who will blindly vote democrat" is such a smart plan. Sure, some of them will be sure to just want to sit around and take money from the government. The majority though I suspect will be no different to all the immigrants that came decades ago to start a new life. No safety net, no government coddling, just the will to be prosperous.

I struggle to believe these types of immigrants will continue to vote democrat when their policies are hurting them in terms of taxation on their businesses etc.

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The way California has gone from a Republican to a stupidly soiled Dem state, kind of says otherwise.

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I think rigged elections has a lot to do with that. CA is considered a Democratic bastion now. It would be incredibly embarrassing for them to lose it so they play dirty.

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I think you are misunderstanding how indoctrinated people on the Left are, by the CONSTANT propaganda from media, pop culture and politicians. I wish that you were right, but I think you are being overly optimistic.

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cubans have been pretty receptive to republicans.
latino voters have trended democratic, but not overwhelmingly so. in florida, texas and other states they're close, almost an even split.

it is not ordained or determined that immigrants will prefer the democratic party.

if republicans are open to immigrants, welcoming, and speak for some basic, important things - free markets! school choice! - there's no reason to think they can't be a smashing success.

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Absolutely. I'm just saying it's a risky plan on the dem's part to expect an army of democratic voting immigrants as a result of their questionable handling of the border crisis.

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Lol! Replacement theory bullshit. Only American citizens are eligible to vote so immigration without naturalization is irrelevant. Nice talking point though.

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Something tells me this comment won't age well lol

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Answer me this:

Who do Cuban immigrants overwhelmingly vote for?

Keep believing in the Boogeyman breh.😒

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Answer me this: What percentage of immigrants are Cubans?

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Do you think democrats are allowing this mass illegal immigration without the end goal of acquiring an army of new democratic voters?

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It's not bullshit. Demographics clearly predict Whites to become minority in 2040. Immigrants are becoming citizens.

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Because they are promised free everything if they do. That's why they are coming here in the first place. The Dems know if they can get them here, they will vote Democrat.

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If I had nothing, I'd absolutely make my way to the US for free stuff if I was the right colour. However, after setting up a business and making money, I'd vote for whoever made my life as best as possible and part of that is reducing government and paying as little taxes as possible.

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True but they are very reliable Dem voters. Look at California. That was done through millions of illegal aliens who are today reliable Dem voters. They literally changed that state so they could win it. And it's now like a foreign country.

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The social environment is more important than race

A rich black person can have more interest in common with other rich white people than with another poor black

Say ideology is conditioned by your ADN is actually racist there's no proof of such a thing, that a racial group tend to have similar ideology is way more related to the social-economical situation they shared more than their race itself

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There are VERY deep cultural differences among White Americans and Hispanic Immigrants. Americans have more individualistic culture, while Latinos are more collectivist. That is why Latin America has always gravitated towards socialism the US had to intervene during the Cold War. Also according to mainstream science, political views are around 40% heritable meaning genetic. Hispanics have NEVER voted more than 35% Republican in American history and the burden of proof should be on those who claim they will.

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Of course, exist differences between race and cultures nobody denies that but such differences are more influenced by environment than ADN

Americans have more individualistic culture, while Latinos are more collectivist.


Rich nations, in general, have more individualistic cultures Japan, Germany, etc are good examples is a characteristic of economical wealth not genetic.

Latin America has always gravitated towards socialism


That is actually not true Cubans living in the USA are in their majority republicans and procapitalist, why? because they run away from socialism and communism their personal experiences define their political beliefs

Venezuelans living in the exterior are in their big majority pro-capitalism and even free market for the same reason

Poor nations and divided nations, in general, gravitated toward radicalism and charismatic leaders they can be religious or political leaders people who feel betrayed for traditionalism search for alternatives and in that climate thrive characters like Chavez, Trump, Noriega, and Pinochet, BTW Pinochet like Trump was a capitalist

And yes Trump definitely is a charismatic and populist politician he breaks with the traditional stereotype of American politician because he knows that is what his followers want he and Chavez are way more similar of what you believe, not in their political belief, but in their style (I'm not judging if he is an effective leader just his public person style)

political views are around 40% heritable meaning genetic


Religious beliefs are also heritable people who grow as Cristian would become in adult Christians same with muslins, Buddhist, etc, is also religious beliefs genetic? or is more logical to think are more cultural influenced?

There are way more factors than genetics to understand patron of behavior or belief in big groups of people

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"Rich nations, in general, have more individualistic cultures Japan, Germany,
etc are good examples is a characteristic of economical wealth not genetic."

No true. There are deep differences in individualism vs collectivism within Europe and within countries that are rich. Here is a map: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2_2eHwCIAAnAvV.jpg

"That is actually not true Cubans living in the USA are in their majority republicans and procapitalist, why? because they run away from socialism and communism their personal experiences define their political beliefs"

Wrong. Cubans in US are capitalist, because the ones who are socialist stay and the ones who are capitalist flee to the US. Self selection. If Cubans are so naturally capitalist, how come Cuba is still socialist despite the fact socialism collapsed in most of the world 30 years ago?

"Religious beliefs are also heritable people who grow as Cristian would become in adult Christians same with muslins, Buddhist, etc, is also religious beliefs genetic? or is more logical to think are more cultural influenced?"

Yes, weather or not someone is religious is heavily heritable.

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Ok, for some reason you are obsessed with oversimplification and want complex problems to have just one factor or explanation

Individualism and collectivism can have multiple factors without necessary be ADN one of them

No true. There are deep differences in individualism vs collectivism within Europe and within countries that are rich


But in general, Individualism is a trade of wealthy society because is a luxury, poor people need cooperation they can't afford everybody to have their own home they need to cooperate to take care of their elders, and even sometimes need to depend on the other to survive, to search for help, to find a job, etc

Self selection


This kinda proves my point, isn't it? different persons with different experiences will have different points of view shape by those experiences and not for their ADN like they were drive to think in one particular way

If Cubans are so naturally capitalist, how come Cuba is still socialist despite the fact socialism collapsed in most of the world 30 years ago?


I never say Cubans are naturally capitalist that is like my whole point THEY ARE NOT naturally capitalist or communist, their personal experiences shape their behavior and beliefs, the personal experiences of ones who fleed the country make them reject socialism and socialist ideas.

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BTW I notice you see everything from a first-world person perspective, People don't choose to live in a dictatorship that is why is a dictatorship because people don't have the right to vote. People don't always choose collectivism over individualism sometimes people are collectivist out of need, sometimes you don't have choice

And I'm going to jump and respond to you with something you have not say yet

"if Cubans don't like communism why they don't revolt against the government? the outnumbered the politicians that are proof they choose communism "

That is like saying slaves choose to be slaves and the proof is that in many cases they outnumbered their owners, you don't need to outnumber a group of people to subject them.

Neither are north Korean naturally drive to be oppressed and starve to death BTW but tradition and even self-preservation can mold someone behavior and make you make peace with a terrible situation to not risk your life and the life of your family, when something becomes the natural order you accept it as such, meaning the environment make you see something unnatural as natural

Not your ADN the environment, and the environment can be a lot of factors from family to everything surround you

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I do not deny there are personal experience reasons for why people vote the way they do, I am just saying that on a holistic level which what are talking about, there are very deep reasons they tend to vote Democrat and it's not likely to change any time soon. There could even be genetic reasons, as I've said political views are about 40% heritable. Hispanics have never net voted Republican in history. The Republican strategy of inviting millions of Hispanics into America and hope they will one day start voting for them is naïve and self destructive to the Republican party. And it is the burden of proof on those that think they will change their vote, not mine.

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"political views are around 40 percent heritable meaning genetic"

The most stupid thing I'm likely to read for quite a while.

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And also Hispanics have an average IQ of round 90 meaning they will always be disproportionately working class hence more likely to vote Democrat.

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Oh boy..


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I don't know what you mean by that, if you dispute this fact or you think it's irrelevant. In either case, you are wrong.

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I'm not even entering into a debate about that, there are studies that prove the earth is flat, that every white person is racist and mansplaining is a real thing, in the right circumstances I can make a study with the same results about Americans, french, germans and Japanese

But what are the particular circumstances of every person who was part of that study, were immigrant, poor, are part of a particular religious minority, are in one particular city or trough an entire nation? can be a lot of factors explaining those results without jump to scream ADN that is just bad science, correlation does not imply causality, and if you like name studies you should know that basic fact

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What are you talking about? IQ. Hispanic IQ is 90, it's not result of poverty or a small sample. And IQ does measure intelligence, is highly predictive of life success and is the most scientifically valid psychometric. I do not base my argument on Hispanic tendency to vote Democrat only on IQ (as Asians are a high IQ group), yet still vote Democrat, but it's one of the factors. Different groups vote for the same parties for different reasons. Culture is the main reason that Hispanics vote Democrat and the burden of proof is on hose that say their votes will change.

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Culture is the main reason that Hispanics vote Democrat


You see what you did there? you just change your original statement and admit I'm right

Let's see how this debate start

My first comment

Say ideology is conditioned by your ADN is actually racist there's no proof of such a thing, that a racial group tend to have similar ideology is way more related to the social-economical situation they shared more than their race itself


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Also according to mainstream science, political views are around 40% heritable meaning genetic.


I'm debating this argument that political views are determined by genetics

From the beginning, I'm saying the behavior is more influenced by environment and personal experiences while you insist Hispanics are genetic drive to vote in certain way

People can heritage beliefs and behavior by culture and environment and of course personal experiences, not necessarily genetics, and say someone is genetically predisposed to vote a certain way is a racist statement, people are not destined to vote and think in a certain way no matter what, people change and evolve

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Nothing I said is contradictory. I said political views are 40% heritable according to mainstream science. That is not majority. So me saying that culture is the main reason a group votes a certain way does not contradict my previous statement that 40% of political views are heritable.

And I have no idea what you mean by saying that a claim people are genetically predisposed to vote a certain way is "racist". What I said was a scientific claim about the reality. Not a value judgement of what society should be. This claim can be either true or not true, but it cannot be "racist" no more it can be "heretical". Either dispute this scientific claim or accept it. Calling it "racist" is not an argument.

And remember we are talking about predispositions, not pre determinations. Those two are not the same. Of course people can change their mind, but if the 40% of the variance is genetically predisposed, they are less likely to do so giving legitimacy to my original point that it's naïve and self destructive for Republican party to hope Hispanics will one day vote Republican and continue to bring them into the country.

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What many people don't get is what in one single man is predisposition, in a group of men it becomes predetermination.

That has been debated before. There's even a quote in a Sherlock Holmes story referencing this topic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Winwood_Reade#References_in_literature

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"Hispanics have an average IQ of round 90"

you are just full of facts arnt you !?

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You just have problem accepting inconvenient facts, don't you?

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hey goy shut up and listen to this smart man! he knows what is good for you goy!!

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Race is just a bunch of physical attributes. Beliefs, culture - these things really matter.

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No, it's not. Extent to which race is important is actively being covered up by all institutions in our society. It is very important when building a society.

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What? Why? How does skin or hair color affect building of a society?

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Skin colour correlates with genes influencing human psychology and thus behaviour. Theoretically it ultimately does not matter, since you could in theory "breed" a very intelligent population out of any race if you had control over people's reproductive choices, but in practice it will never happen so race matters.

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There are not such genes. This is absolute rubbish.

I mean, xenophobia (as in fear of otherness) is an evolutionary survival trait and racism is the easiest way to process it but that doesn't mean anything. An adult self-aware individual is fully capable of overcoming\integrating that crap just like we do with other stuff we inherited from earlier epochs. At least in a safe, civilized society.

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There absolutely are. The evidence is overwhelming if only you are willing to be open minded.

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There are not such genes.

Different races have different genetic traits. IQ is just one example, but it's not the only one. That's a fact. For example, adopted black kids in similar environments than adopted white ones have about 10 points less in IQ on average.

You could argue whether that's a racial trait or an evolutionary one. While it takes generations, social rules can shape the genetics of an ethnic group. For example, one of the known consequences of feminism is to decrease average IQ. That's not a joke, there was a research about it. Most intelligent women are giving up motherhood to have a career, which causes high IQ women to offspring an smaller percentage of the next generation, which leads to a decrease of the average IQ.

However, at the end of the day, what causes the genetic differences is irrelevant. What matters is that they exist.

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Race is important to racists.

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No, it's important to everyone weather you are willing to believe it or not. The egalitarian disposition towards race is a logical fallacy. They believe since race isn't important on an individual level therefore it's not important at all. Well, just because it might not be important when we're talking about an individual doesn't mean it's not important on a collective level. A country made up of 5 million Gypsies is going to be radically different than a country made up of 5 million Ashkenazi Jews.

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Keep rationalizing your racism. Don’t be a racist. Get educated instead. Outside of modern academe’s left wing racist propaganda.

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I am educated. This is why I am a so called "racist". True education (as opposed to indoctrination) leads to developing racial awareness. Why do you think big tech has to censor free speech for so called "hatred"? Because the truth isn't on their side. If it was, they wouldn't need to censor it. They could just debunk it.

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>> Outside of modern academe’s left wing racist propaganda.

You know, that is a dead accurate tell of a right wing nut.

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He's too afraid of crossing the line of what's politically correct and being destroyed. Don't believe for a moment he's safe. If wokes decide to destroy him, they'll do. And he knows it.

And yeah, you're right. Ethnic background is linked to culture, and culture shapes ideology. Of course, it's not a 100% rule, but it applies to most people, and society thrives or collapses depending on averages. South-America is a shithole because most of the people have a similar mindset. So what about exceptions? Sure, there's people in South-America who have a more North-European mindset, but the majority doesn't, and that's what matters.

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They don't now. When you look at the dirty tricks they play all over the place ( read Thom Hartmann's Secret History Of The War on Voting - man it is an eye-opener ) Republicans have been working to prevent democracy and limit it as much as they can, and combine that with the fact they can't seem to wing the popular vote, they have to use all the racist inspired tricks in our system to disqualify hundreds of thousands of people in all our elections , Republicans do not deserve to win elections.

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That is nothing compared to the most treacherous kind of cheating - Importing votes which is what the Democrats are doing. They can't appeal to the American public so they simply import voters by keeping the borders open.

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That's utter nonsense.

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What's nonsense? The fact that Democrats keep the borders open because they know they will get more votes from immigrants?

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Exactly.

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And how is it nonsense?

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