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>You keep using that word.

Yes, because it's apt.

>I don't think it means what you think it means.

We both know exactly what it means and it's clear that its aptness bugs you.

>But I'm not really interested in tugging on this thread because it's extremely tedious to argue definitions of words in a language where the dictionaries are descriptive, not proscriptive.

I'm not interested in it either, but it's clear: the definition and proscriptive usage doesn't suit your narrative.

>You can't replace a culture via immigration that has, as a cornerstone, "Come join us."

Yes you absolutely can. If you replace the "come join us" leftist people with ISIS, surprise surprise, you've been replaced. QED.

>That's like saying the population of a school has been "replaced" because it graduated an entire generation of students and a new generation is there now.

This is a hilariously not well thought out example because it actually proves my point. Yes, if you replace the population of a school with a different ethnic group, you're replacing the original ethnic group. This is like saying if the trout population in a stream goes down, and you replace the dwindling population with salmon, "the relevant continuity [of fish] is unchanged." You've kept the fish population the same, but you replaced the trout with salmon (who are not native there). Thanks for proving my point. QED.

>One way out for Japan would be to shift their cornerstones.

Or maybe Japan doesn't need "a way out".

>If that's not on the table, if a younger generation unserved by the status quo can't find a way to put it on the table... Good luck.

Homogenous nations will do fine, even if they upset your IMMIGRATION and unlimited capitalism pyramid scheme Gods.




It seems like they aren’t doing fine, actually. Meanwhile those nations that embrace newcomers of all kinds are doing significantly better.


>It seems like they aren’t doing fine, actually.

Not to unlimited growth capitalist, no. Culturally and as a people they're doing fine.

>Meanwhile those nations that embrace newcomers of all kinds are doing significantly better.

No they are not. Japan is perfectly fine without trucks of peace, grenade attacks, and gang assaults on women.


Good luck ensuring quality of life for your citizens with an inverted population pyramid and weakening economy. It’s not a matter of unlimited growth capitalism, it’s just basic economics.




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