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I'm just wondering why you speak with such casual conclusiveness that smaller population size is even worth mentioning, when all evidence says that population size has little to nothing to do with political trends that lead to authoritarian fascism (being that the subject is NZ not being as right wing as USA). I'm trying to argue the fact that there's zero anthropological data suggesting that population sizes, even climate environments, have any correlation with certain cultures leaning more in a certain direction. You however seem to think it's worth bringing up, or that there are "many other things that having a smaller population affects" I just want to know where you get that idea from, again, when all evidence points to the contrary.

Give that line to a holocaust survivor and see what they say.

It's good that he's not taking his ESL for granite.

Guess not. Maybe people other than your so called "tankies" can see the writing on the walls.

By my metrics the majority of people are fascists, and it's a terrifying world to live in. When I think about that £36 trillion I'm reminded of those old legends about things like a "Well of Souls" and ugly beasts hoarding and guarding food from the villages. It's almost like these types of people have cautionary tales about them for a reason, and that we've been here before. Humans have always had one common monster - inhumans. Money is the religious monarchy of our day, we wonder how people could believe in witches yet people think food, science, and trade comes from money. "How can the world work without ~~God~~ Money?" is the dogma of our times.

Or when you don't realize that it already is directly affecting you because "They pay me well enough to keep me in a comfy box, I don't have time to do anything or read or risk losing my job" while the ones they love are picked off one by one. Then when they come out the other side they go "How did all this happen? It was equally the fault of the radicals on both sides." Thus the unenlightened centrist cycle will continue.

Musk already did a Nazi salute to a cheering crowd a couple days ago, check back on what exactly?

Anyone who knows anything about the Native Americans, the Indigenous Critique, and their ideas of freedom's profound influence on the European Enlightenment, should boil with hatred at what European Americans did to them.

Why point it out? In admiration?

Ok so it's something tankies say, why is that a problem? If they said the sky was blue would you say everyone who thinks the sky is blue is a tankie?

EDIT - Just to add, you know who else reacted negatively to communists? You know why the Nazis targetted jews? Or is the irony of using "tankie" as a pejorative and being a fascist lost on you?

That was before WW2, no less. Funny how after all that happened, people saw that and went, "Yeah that was a good idea."

Smaller population simply means each person’s vote counts for more.

What about the smaller tribes who live under strict patriarchies that can't vote? Plenty examples of those in history and today (cults for instance). There are also examples of massive cities with egalitarian urban planning with no centralized temples or food storage. So again I ask, what makes you think population size has anything to do with their politics?