Buffalo mass shooting - Great Replacement Theory & the long trail of blood

No one is being replaced (take the place of).

Can you give me an example of a single Irish person who has been replaced?

So 3 nutjobs in the span of 8 years, out of a population of about 7 billion.

Perhaps you are over-egging the pudding here?

Theres no outrage here - I'm just pointing out that you trying to semantically state there is no replacement is wrong. In order to buoy European populations we are importing people essentially from outside Europe. this is fine. However these people who come are replacing the population lost through death in the EU.

Again, there are more than 1 form of replacement. You can physically replace individual people, or at the macro level you can replace declining birthrates with immigrants to keep population up.

The main reason we do it is because no country wants a situation where the old outnumber the young, that kind of demographic invert will cause pensions to go unfunded and all hell to break loose. However it is by definition a replacement.

No you ate two granny smiths and you acquired two pink ladies they were not replaced.

If you have 5 apples and eat two you have three apples.

If you acquire two more apples you have five but the first two have not been replaced they have been eaten.

However if you had a bowl of apples and I took two Granny smiths and I replaced them with two pink lady apples. Then you could say Robbie replaced my granny smiths with 2 pink ladies, that would be a replacement.

If the European population reduces and the non European population increases, nobody is being replaced, the non EU population is just increasing and the EU population is reducing.

The EU population can still increase again. The two populations are not intrinsically connected. You don't lose 1 if you gain 1.

MEPs within the European Union for starters.

re·​place | \ ri-ˈplās  \

replaced; replacing; replaces

Definition of replace

transitive verb

1

: to restore to a former place or position

replace cards in a file

2

: to take the place of especially as a substitute or successor

3

: to put something new in the place of

replace a worn carpet

So we are putting new people in the place of the old people (who died, and were not already replaced by new births)

Dictionary definition was posted above

: to put something new in the place of

In order to stop EU countries populations from falling and having a demographic(pension) crisis, immigrants must take the place of the natural drop in population - i.e. immigrants need to replace the EU population that declined.

I dont know and I dont agree with the conspiracy, as I've said umpteen times. My point is that the replacement is real (for economic reasons), but certain people cant seem to agree on the definition of the word "replace".

Last week I cooked a lasagne for my family and we ate every bit of it.

If I cook a lasagne tonight is that replacing the lasagne I ate last week?

They're not 'replacing' anyone - their existence does not inhibit the existence of Europeans.

You have a job. Your boss decides to replace you with someone else. You now no longer have a job. Can you go back to that job? No, you have been replaced. Someone else has taken your role.

That is not the same situation as this population demographic. Nobody is 'taking' your European role.

We might be 'adding' immigrants to fill roles that are empty because of the European demographic decreasing, but that does not inhibit Europeans from increasing their number.

You might find that pedantic semantically, however it completely changes the nature of this conspiracy theory as it removes the feelings that Europeans are losing their position in their society and being 'replaced' by a non EU person. Which is factually incorrect. Nobody is losing anything.

Replacement does not by definition mean someone "loses" out - it means you fill the place of something with something else.

For every EU person that dies, some are replaced by new births. Of those that are not replaced by new births, we try to replace them through immigration into the union. Its by definition replacing something.

There is a reason we talk about "replacement birthrates" - the idea being that each new baby born replaces a person who dies. The same principle applies to immigration.

From the UN:

Even the UN use the term "replacement" to describe immigrants replacing the natural population decline. How is it that you cannot accept it as a valid use of the term "replace" when even the UN can?