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My point is that many Americans, self included, never heard of FGM until immigrants brought it into to our country.

> you seem to think that everyone in these countries is the same

Your words, not mine. Everyone is an individual. I think many of these individuals should fix their own countries before fleeing to mine. They are not the meek and downtrodden. Every one at the university has blown through at least $125K on immigration attorneys for the student visa alone.

> smart, well-educated, and generally "good" people

There is more to being good than calculus and not murdering people. Given the immense purchasing power they would have in their own countries, why aren't they raising up their own instead of fleeing? So many brahmins blowing through half a mil on a 3rd-rate US compsci degree, while people back home don't even have clean water.

$10,045.99 industrial grade pillow

be careful what you wish for. per GBS: "all professions are conspiracies against the laity"

He's talking about you people. So many others have reached the same conclusion.

So you don’t see the organized crime tie-in when there’s obstacle after obstacle in billing and revenue, high bandwidth and storage expenses, a product that is in such oversupply as to be practically worthless, in a space that is mostly opaque and privately held, and has ties to organized crime all the way back to the Betamax days?

I’m not claiming AstroTurf here. I’m claiming “track record.”

For nearly every time I’ve been accused of bullshit, vindication is right around the corner.

No. I think the typical HN commenter participates in a debate where the boundaries are narrowly and firmly defined by officialdom, and that any discussion outside of those boundaries will be treated as heresy.

But hey, nice job putting words in my mouth.

As for evidence, you also have bing and google. There’s no shortage of it.

If you keep tabs on the history of organized crime, the general unwillingness of payment processors to deal with the porn industry, the quality of advertisers on porn sites, and the logistics of the porn business in general, it is a very obvious conclusion.

But I'm not a journalist, and I'm not going to scrounge through all of my books for a post that's probably going to get flagged and removed anyway. I'm sure the good journalists will eventually pick up the slack. There's bound to be another Robert Caro out there for this generation. We just have to wait and see.