"while conservative leaders tend to favour high levels of skilled/economically motivated immigration while deliberately indulging in right-wing populism and fear-mongering about immigrants as a diversion from that"

That is a bunch of horseshit - conservatives only care about "immigrants" becoming permanent dependents upon the American Taxpayer. Come on in and come in legally...then get a job and nobody will bother you.
Actually Conservatives really want to reduce the dependent class which is a totally different thing from Immigration. Besides that the flood of people crossing US southern border is NOT immigration - it is by any definition of the word an Invasion.

"most progressives want to favour humanitarian immigration,"
again - bunch of horseshit. the Democrats under Obama gave plenty of lip service to "securing the border" - they also built the "cages" that they claim are now a grossly inhumane treatment of those poor brown skinned people - aren't conservative just evil...
What you call "progressives" don't give 2 pesos about the humanitarian aspect of the illegal invasion. They are motivated purely by politics and they are going full bore with the tactic of using identity politics (Race mostly) in order to build the biggest possible coalition of self-perceived underclass, under privileged, maltreated people" they can muster.

Furthermore, none of what you typed here has much if anything to do with the topic of the post.

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@iThink Keep getting an error trying to upload a pic.

EDIT: finally found one of his bald noggin that works

@iThink

@Crikey @Naomi
What does this have to do with the content of the video?

@iThink Nothing whatsoever. Naomi was wondering if he was bald under the hat. I do intend to comment on the video, which I have watched.

Sorted. Thanks, Crikey.

He didn't come up with the terminology "left over women" - go watch the whole video. It is only 12 minutes and 40 seconds in length.
Pay particular attention to the part where he references the work "The Decline of the West" by Oswald Spengler...his book was written around 1917.

I would be very interested to hear what you have to say after you watch the video - formulate some ideas based on its content and get back to us - if you please.

I did watch the video, though. He does say "left over" and he assumes those single women are "lonely". He also says they're resigned to stay lonely or something along those lines.

I see a conflict in the video. In my opinion, one cannot advocate for individual liberty and choice (which obviously includes women's liberty and choice and which we all support) and endorse Spengler's view of women (the quote in the video) at the same time.

What he is saying is that many women regret it. Because their lives aren’t fulfilled with purpose. Many also do not regret it having found something else to substitute the basic human need for fulfillment by greater purposes. Usually by voting Green party.

@Naomi the "conflict" as you describe it is in women themselves. It is they who DO choose what it is to be woman. The future, the potential future and survival of the culture relies entirely upon how women decide to define themselves. No one really can do that for women.
The facts are in - Western civilization is clearly in decline. Prbably the most obvious indicator of this fact is the all but completely irretrievable negative growth in population.
The fact is that the biological time clock itself, the finite number of years and ova are the ONLY thing that stands between the myth and the reality of "women having it all".
Of course women past their reproductive prime are going to argue that they are "happy" - at least in public they will behave that way.
When the reproductive works have run out - what else can they do but to take the sour grapes position. "Just well - those grapes are probably sour anyhow"

Not all, you will argue. Then comes anecdotal tales about someone you know. Everyone always seems to know someone who is the proverbial exception.

True enough - not all - and who can have the final say as to whether or not someone else is "happy".

All of this notwithstanding, I repeat - Western Civilization is declining more rapidly with each passing generation - fewer and fewer live births and it is on the brink of irretrievably. No one can honestly say that women don't have a choice in the matter because it IS the choices of woman that set this downward spiral in motion.

Thanks iThink, for your decent argument - I appreciate it.

I still think it is too broad a claim that Western civilisation is in decline because there are many leftover women, especially Black Pigeon's generalisation of single women being "left over" (I find implying "on the shelf" is derogatory) and assumption that they're lonely and miserable based on his anecdotal evidence is a little too subjective a view for me to go along with; my anecdotal evidence says otherwise. Plus, if he is trying to connect the decline of Western civilisation with decreasing birth rates in the West, there are various reasons; inflexible work options, high childcare costs, for example, in fact, concerning married mothers and not necessarily the increasing number of leftover women.

In any event, we agree to disagree on this one. I rest my case.

Hello Local93bc. Not sure what Green Party has got to with anything....
Anyway, I see Black Pigeon's attempt to associate his view with Spengler's view of womanliness far-fetched. Spengler arrived at his view of womanliness in 1918 (that's when The Decline of the West was published). The social climate was very very different then.

Hello MaskedRiderChris.
"You're Japanese, correct?"
Keep guessing!
I believe that Black Pigeon once lived in Japan (don't know how long), so maybe he feels he is qualified enough to talk about Japanese society. Meanwhile, I have friends in Japan, and my knowledge about their country is mainly based on their personal experiences and views (hence anecdotal evidence).

By the way, when I watch Tim Pool, I can't help wondering what he's hiding under his woolly hat. Do you think he is bald...?

@MaskedRiderChris It's not always a bad idea to heed unpleasant warnings. Cicero and Kasandra come to mind.

"There's also something smug about his delivery..." Ha! Agreed!

definitely