I grew up in Chicago and saw the same sort of thing. neighborhoods went through cycles-nice neighborhoods turned bad and some bad neighborhood gentrified and turned around. Chicago might be the one off though. Detroit is the other extreme

I specifically remember my father one day telling me that I'm not allowed to wear red or blue shirts anymore, because I might accidentally catch the attention of the opposite 'gang' and they might think I'm part of their enemy's tribe.

Out of nowhere.

It was an uncommon thing *not* to hear gunshots in the middle of the night where I grew up.

Halsey is on purple dragon

and

Uh oh. lol

it's now OK with ethno nationalism on some level

it's really strange

It's funny how that keeps happening.

I never heard gunshots in the neighborhood I lived in but 2 miles west in the neighborhood that I went to school in there were alot of gangs and they were not shy in making their presence known

I've listened to all sorts of folks argue it

and I never buy into it

Now both neighborhoods are in the upper income/upper real estate priced areas of Chicago

Not sure why Halsey is willing to bend over to it

Because there's nothing to 'buy into', it works.

Just about every country on the planet before 1965 was an ethnostate, including the US, be it through function or active enforcement of it.

Not the US really, heavy majority, sure; but it depends on where you bend the leaf as to who falls into what section

i.e. hatred of the irish, scottish, krauts

etc

Before the immigration reform of 1965, the immigration policy specifically named white people. You can't really get more outright 'ethnostate' than that.

italians

Sure, but, everyone always finds some difference on some level.

If were were to inherently say that ethnostates work, why are there so many examples of countries with homogeneous genetics that enter into civil wars?

Do we draw some IQ line and say, ok, here ethnostates work, below here they do not?

money only gives people the power to do what they want, it doesent make what they want to do any better. throwing money at foreign countrys without having power to influince the direction those countrys take that money in simply makes that countys problems more expensive. there were good happy communitys during the neolithic. i should also point out that nontransparent control offered along side subsides only works in specific ways, what america does when it controls south american countrys via the cia doesent classify as the kind of direction needed to go along side subsides, at best what it does is protect moneyed intrests

I'm trying to understand what you mean.
"Civil war exists, therefore ethnostates don't work"?

civil wars occure when communication breaks down and segragation isint an option. so id argue that civil war exists where ethnostates dont

For sure, yeah, but like I said, I'm trying to even wrap my head around his argument in the first place.

The civil war part seemed to come out of left field. lol

well consitering my paragraph was in responce to comments 50+ ago im probably behind the loop 😛

I mean there is a direct correlation between the average IQ of a state's population and the functionality of that state.

im not sure i agree

does the usa to you seem like the bastion of high functionality?

Compared to the other countries of the world, especially non-westernized ones, then yes.

which other countries?

Iran, Brazil, Egypt, etc.

There does come an exception when a country is rich in a single resource, but most of these countries are often under the control of a tyrannical government which controls that resource.

Like Saudi Arabia. Aside from their oil reserves they don't have much else going on for them.

Which country was it that had a sharp increase in slavery? Libya? Liberia? One of those.

swedan, uk, france, spain, and china have higher listed iq than the uk