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Re:Governments Should Compete for Residents, Not Businesses by tptacek on Thursday March 09, 2023 @09:02PM (#35089545)
I honestly don't care what foreigners think about our fidelity to the ideas of the founders; I'm making a simple positive argument about the clearly stated goal of the founders.
Re:Governments Should Compete for Residents, Not Businesses by nhchris on Thursday March 09, 2023 @10:39PM (#35090103)
I've sourced my claims, so could you likewise show me this clearly stated goal? You mention Federalist 52 in your other comment, but wikipedia's summary says nothing about racial egalitarianism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_No._52

Re:Governments Should Compete for Residents, Not Businesses by tptacek on Thursday March 09, 2023 @11:53PM (#35090536)
I don't know what you're talking about, and I don't care about the premise of your question, so there's not much for us to productively discuss here. I've been careful about the concepts I'm talking about ("culture" and "religion", both being Rayiner-provided examples of legitimate forms of discrimination). I'm not interested in doing comparative studies on this between different countries; that discussion will be a total mess.
Re:Governments Should Compete for Residents, Not Businesses by nhchris on Friday March 10, 2023 @12:22AM (#35090695)
> I don't know what you're talking about

Sure, I'll try to be clearer. You wrote "I'm making a simple positive argument about the clearly stated goal of the founders."

Which goal, and where was it stated?

Re:Governments Should Compete for Residents, Not Businesses by tptacek on Friday March 10, 2023 @12:23AM (#35090707)
Again, I don't think you and I are having the same conversation Rayiner and I are, and I don't think it's worth the effort for us to sync up at this point.