[ExI] well, that stuff really is expensive

[John Clark]

*JD Vance recently said that the riots in France were caused by the
"importation of the Third World into France" but there is no evidence that
rioters were principally composed of immigrants. But this is the same guy
who claimed that in the US the increase in crime was caused by illegal
immigrants, but none of that is true. First of all, crime is NOT increasing
in the US, and the data clearly indicates that US-born citizens had more
than twice the felony arrest rate for violent crimes that undocumented
immigrants did, and 2.5 times the rate for drug felonies, and over 4 times
the rate for property felonies.*

*Getting back to France, large violent demonstrations over economic
conditions such as retirement ages and living costs are a long-standing
tradition of French political culture that has nothing to do
with immigration policies. It goes back long before the French Revolution. *

*John K Clark*




On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 3:51 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> They aren’t looting Walmart or Costco.  Clearly the looters have good
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