Migrants Are r-strategists – Armani Edition

You couldn’t make it up:

Only Armani is Good Enough for the Migrants

Migrants demand Armani, Hugo Boss clothes and Pirelli shoes and complain about the food. While their accommodation cost is around $630 USD a month!

They started a protest at the hotel Byron di Malcontenta, where they are secretly staying at the expense of the Italian taxpayer.

It must be tough for these migrants. Back home, where most people wear kilts made out of palm fronds and tie bark to their feet for shoes, a raggedy T-shirt and some ripped genes would make you a player. Imagine arriving in Italy, in full rabbit mode, and seeing normal Italians all Gucci’d up, while the migrants look like they just jumped off a boat from Africa.

If you step into a martial arts club, the hierarchy is organized by raw ability. There may be a guy who spends 45 minutes a day on the speed bag, and his hands move like greased lightening. There may be the 6′ 4″ 230 lb monster who has the natural strength of an ox. There may even be an older guy who is just an OK fighter, but his real gift is knowledge as he calls up the most obscure techniques off the top of his head and demonstrates them with perfect technique. The guys who dominate the hierarchy all have abilities.

Rabbits are different. I was in a bar once where I saw somebody making fun of the 230lb monster, because he had a goofy smile and looked like a big oaf. They said he looked like an idiot, albeit they said it just out of his earshot. But even if he had heard it, he wasn’t about to tear up the bar over it, so in that r-environment, the snarky rabbit would have, to the observer, appeared superior.

Among rabbits, little bits of flash are the currency of sex appeal. PUAs call it peacocking, gays and metrosexuals call it fashion, and most male K-strategists call it gay. But to a rabbit, the way you establish your dominance is with something pretty that makes you stand out.

Since nobody ever fights in r-selection, standing upon a pile made up of the dead bodies of your adversaries is never going to happen, so a flashy shirt from Hugo Boss is how you establish your mate worth.

What is funny is seeing rabbitry being distilled to its purest form in this migrant crisis, and watching as all the rabbit traits, like expectation of the finest luxury being available in essentially free quantities, suddenly materialize in almost comical form.

Migrants are r-strategists.