Regime Change in Italy Then and Now, Nikole Hannah-Jones and the Power of Narrative, Berlin LGBT Daycare, Are Americans a 'People'?, Blue-Eyed Anti-British Irish Monk of 1901 Rangoon
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Oct 8, 2022·edited Oct 8, 2022Liked by Niccolo Soldo
I resent your January post claiming the alternatives would be ''liberal democracy'' and ''autocracy''. What even are those in the end? Liberal democracy today is anything except a democracy. You correctly coined the NGO-state term. Power is elsewhere, elections are meaningless and parliaments a scam. It's a supranational plutocratic kleptocracy. I look at Italy, Italian oligarchs are hardly Italian anymore. They have double-citizenship (American, Dutch, Swiss, British are popular) for tax purposes and do not spend more than the necessary time in Italy anymore. Speaking of Italy, if you really want something spicy maybe look up Enrico Mattei. The one that created the Italian energy monopoly, secured non-American controlled resources and was able to balance well socialists and Christian Democrats to avoid turning Italy into a vassal of the Soviet Union or the US. He died ''in an accident''.
Back to my main criticism, it is mainly towards a conservative tendency to accept liberal premises, languages and narrative. This has been particularly catastrophic with the Wuhan Coronavirus and the NATO occupation of Ukraine. You accept the liberal narrative, their rules and then wonder why you keep losing. WTF is autocracy anyway? Is Hungary an autocracy? It's far more democratic than any so called liberal democracy. It's just not liberal and it does just fine.
Founding fathers of the U.S talked about Americans as a separate and new people. I prefer Roman history to American mostly because huge amounts of American history are fake/propaganda, but I vaguely recall that the overwhelming focus on the individual over all else is a product of the late 19th century progressives rather than the founders. Although maybe that’s fake too?
After reading the bit on German orphans, I’m Surprised Germany doesn’t have its own gary plauche.
Rather disagree re the UK remaining a liberal democracy simply because our country is its home.
It was a product of the English culture, of the English people being masters in their own land, and of that specific flavour of Christianity that combined the dissenting churches - Methodists and Baptists and Quakers demanding better of and for their coreligionists - and the established Church of England, buttressing and sacralising a constitutional monarchy and hereditary class system that nonetheless allowed avenues for meritocracy, gradually blending a residual Norman elite with an upstart Anglo-Saxon bourgeoisie, and that rejected continental tyranny in favour of individual liberty. The Englishman's home was both castle and church.
But our demographic destiny and post-christian present suggest democracy will eventually prove ill-suited to a more chaotic, not to mention illiterate future.
Thanks, Niccolo. In my view , the term "liberal democracy" is just shorthand for "loyal vassal state of the GAE". So, in regard to Britain, it will stay a liberal democracy. The British ruling class are obsessed with making Britain a part of something larger so that we may "have influence". Influence upon whom and for what end is never mentioned or discussed. Now that we are no longer part of the EU, our rulers will cleave ever more loyally and closely to Washington. It's the one thing that everyone in the UK agrees upon.
If the USA can be characterised as a spoiled, rich high-school 'mean girl', then Britain is her little yappy dog.
By chance in earliesh 2019, I bought a book called "Slavery and Social Death" by Orlando Patterson. As I later found out, it may be the finest synoptic study of slavery there is. What fascinated me were the pages and pages of meticulously documented tables showing where slavery has existed......the African tables were especially eye-opening.
In August of 2019, I opened the NYTimes and started reading the lead essay of something called the "1619 Project" with anticipation. But a few sentences in, I started to sense something wrong. Mellifluously written, that lead essay, for which Hannah-Jones would win the Pulitzer for commentary (not history), described a ship coming into an American port. The passage seemed insular and the ship itself reminded me of the ship in Wagner's "Flying Dutchman". And yes, I got suspicious.
A bit further down in the same essay was a sentence about who first got the franchise when the US was established. As I remember from high school history, it was land owning white males. But Hannah-Jones wrote the sentence in a way to erase the fact that non-land owning white males could not vote. It was as if she could not attribute "victimhood" to white men as it would sully her intersectional antipodes. At that point, in my mind, I sensed we were in Pravda land.
The critique of "1619" was vast and, to me, finer than the "1619 Project" itself. The "right-wing" backlash was critically minor. The main repository became the extraordinary commentary and interviews carried out by the Worldwide Socialist Website, which clearly understood that identity was burying class:
Repeatedly being cancelled by my Gen z kids for saying that you can only call yourself a woman if you menstruate/can conceive and give birth to a child. And they aren’t being raised in the west/with western values - American cultural hegemony is dangerous to every culture, identity, and belief system in the world
Just signed up for the yearly subscription a first for me I don’t Twitter so I’m commenting here. Your articles are very well written and I feel smarter for reading them I do feel bad for John Carter though for he is the one that recommended your Substack and I only have his on the free( loader) subscription program but that could change ( I’m on a fixed income) sorry John.
Don’t feel bad this will mean I’ll be reading John’s work with renewed enthusiasm and you both inspire me to read more and think more about the world than we inhabit! Great job both of you!
Oct 8, 2022·edited Oct 8, 2022Liked by Niccolo Soldo
Why is it for this author to report news of this nature: an honest explication of events? (For more check out Leighton Woodhouse’s substack.)
Why does mainstream media never come close to this level of content? Why does our ruling class through the auspices of MSM work so assiduouslyagainst the wishes of the electorate? Why: what conclusion shall we derive from this state of deception, this, the indisputable evidence of coercion?
What does this portend? 
Soldo said no civil war until a meaningful number of elites join the dispossessed. Soldo, further said the American polity is badly atrophied and getting worse but that the American empire is thriving: “turbo America”.
What shall come of this? Does history have any lessons as regards elite abandonment of their peoples self interest?
I suspect the second amendment will have significant implications as we wrestle with these increasingly urgent questions. Or maybe I’m wrong, there’s no urgency, they will simply turn America into Venezuela. 
And the Italian job referenced - its likely enough PCI would have as so many other Communist parties had before bought in the Hard Left as muscle ala Spain, Cuba, etc. In any case the Italians decided otherwise- and The Red Brigades started shooting. Young men waiting their chances to shoot are going to shoot. Regardless. Having a compromised government in power at the time doesn’t help.
Those who don’t remember it are getting a refresher now, mind you its NATO playing at aggression.
The Soviets were as serious about war in Europe then as we are now - its ideologues getting off the leash and being indulged by Brezhnev types who see it as the lesser danger- in the present that would be the Biden Clinton Obama types pointing the American Left and NeoTrots at THE RUSSIANS! In short a dangerous game to point dangerous people in a safer direction.
There was good reason to fear the Communists of the PCI once in power would make the same choices or mistakes made in Spain, Cuba, Chile etc.
Now that in 2022 we have a DC government making similar mistakes with deadly consequences perhaps the Cold War comes into focus? At present we have Putin playing Nixon you know- a cool customer. That was the real Nixon.
Competitive Narratives the driving force in America today...
only if you live on the Internet.
But Elite Theory says...
They live in a cut off bubble world. In her world this is important.
In Constantinople of 1453 the Intellectuals were furiously debating the gender of Angels.
Ms Jones comes from a class of people defined by their apartness from the rest, above all physical separation. She claimed as of 2016 to live in Bed-Stuy, I really would have to see this to believe it, lol. She’s a hustler at the end of someone else’s con game.
I suspect the Intellectuals of Constantinople had a more impressive case.
100!!!!!!
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The Shwedagon Pagoda is amazing. I want to go back to Burma. Too unstable though now. I gotta read their book.
Can I get some discount cigarettes?
I resent your January post claiming the alternatives would be ''liberal democracy'' and ''autocracy''. What even are those in the end? Liberal democracy today is anything except a democracy. You correctly coined the NGO-state term. Power is elsewhere, elections are meaningless and parliaments a scam. It's a supranational plutocratic kleptocracy. I look at Italy, Italian oligarchs are hardly Italian anymore. They have double-citizenship (American, Dutch, Swiss, British are popular) for tax purposes and do not spend more than the necessary time in Italy anymore. Speaking of Italy, if you really want something spicy maybe look up Enrico Mattei. The one that created the Italian energy monopoly, secured non-American controlled resources and was able to balance well socialists and Christian Democrats to avoid turning Italy into a vassal of the Soviet Union or the US. He died ''in an accident''.
Back to my main criticism, it is mainly towards a conservative tendency to accept liberal premises, languages and narrative. This has been particularly catastrophic with the Wuhan Coronavirus and the NATO occupation of Ukraine. You accept the liberal narrative, their rules and then wonder why you keep losing. WTF is autocracy anyway? Is Hungary an autocracy? It's far more democratic than any so called liberal democracy. It's just not liberal and it does just fine.
Founding fathers of the U.S talked about Americans as a separate and new people. I prefer Roman history to American mostly because huge amounts of American history are fake/propaganda, but I vaguely recall that the overwhelming focus on the individual over all else is a product of the late 19th century progressives rather than the founders. Although maybe that’s fake too?
After reading the bit on German orphans, I’m Surprised Germany doesn’t have its own gary plauche.
Excellent as always. Thank you.
Rather disagree re the UK remaining a liberal democracy simply because our country is its home.
It was a product of the English culture, of the English people being masters in their own land, and of that specific flavour of Christianity that combined the dissenting churches - Methodists and Baptists and Quakers demanding better of and for their coreligionists - and the established Church of England, buttressing and sacralising a constitutional monarchy and hereditary class system that nonetheless allowed avenues for meritocracy, gradually blending a residual Norman elite with an upstart Anglo-Saxon bourgeoisie, and that rejected continental tyranny in favour of individual liberty. The Englishman's home was both castle and church.
But our demographic destiny and post-christian present suggest democracy will eventually prove ill-suited to a more chaotic, not to mention illiterate future.
Forzo Niccolo - Good stuff bruv
Thanks, Niccolo. In my view , the term "liberal democracy" is just shorthand for "loyal vassal state of the GAE". So, in regard to Britain, it will stay a liberal democracy. The British ruling class are obsessed with making Britain a part of something larger so that we may "have influence". Influence upon whom and for what end is never mentioned or discussed. Now that we are no longer part of the EU, our rulers will cleave ever more loyally and closely to Washington. It's the one thing that everyone in the UK agrees upon.
If the USA can be characterised as a spoiled, rich high-school 'mean girl', then Britain is her little yappy dog.
By chance in earliesh 2019, I bought a book called "Slavery and Social Death" by Orlando Patterson. As I later found out, it may be the finest synoptic study of slavery there is. What fascinated me were the pages and pages of meticulously documented tables showing where slavery has existed......the African tables were especially eye-opening.
In August of 2019, I opened the NYTimes and started reading the lead essay of something called the "1619 Project" with anticipation. But a few sentences in, I started to sense something wrong. Mellifluously written, that lead essay, for which Hannah-Jones would win the Pulitzer for commentary (not history), described a ship coming into an American port. The passage seemed insular and the ship itself reminded me of the ship in Wagner's "Flying Dutchman". And yes, I got suspicious.
A bit further down in the same essay was a sentence about who first got the franchise when the US was established. As I remember from high school history, it was land owning white males. But Hannah-Jones wrote the sentence in a way to erase the fact that non-land owning white males could not vote. It was as if she could not attribute "victimhood" to white men as it would sully her intersectional antipodes. At that point, in my mind, I sensed we were in Pravda land.
The critique of "1619" was vast and, to me, finer than the "1619 Project" itself. The "right-wing" backlash was critically minor. The main repository became the extraordinary commentary and interviews carried out by the Worldwide Socialist Website, which clearly understood that identity was burying class:
https://www.wsws.org/en/topics/event/1619
There were also, to choose a couple, great critiques such as these:
https://www.opera-historica.com/artkey/oph-202101-0005_the-1619-project-and-living-in-truth.php
https://catalyst-journal.com/2021/12/what-the-1619-project-got-wrong
And also, the cataloguing of its editorial mischief and lying:
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/06/1619-project-new-york-times-mistake-122248
500 - and 500 more Inshallah.
Repeatedly being cancelled by my Gen z kids for saying that you can only call yourself a woman if you menstruate/can conceive and give birth to a child. And they aren’t being raised in the west/with western values - American cultural hegemony is dangerous to every culture, identity, and belief system in the world
Just signed up for the yearly subscription a first for me I don’t Twitter so I’m commenting here. Your articles are very well written and I feel smarter for reading them I do feel bad for John Carter though for he is the one that recommended your Substack and I only have his on the free( loader) subscription program but that could change ( I’m on a fixed income) sorry John.
Don’t feel bad this will mean I’ll be reading John’s work with renewed enthusiasm and you both inspire me to read more and think more about the world than we inhabit! Great job both of you!
Why is it for this author to report news of this nature: an honest explication of events? (For more check out Leighton Woodhouse’s substack.)
Why does mainstream media never come close to this level of content? Why does our ruling class through the auspices of MSM work so assiduouslyagainst the wishes of the electorate? Why: what conclusion shall we derive from this state of deception, this, the indisputable evidence of coercion?
What does this portend? 
Soldo said no civil war until a meaningful number of elites join the dispossessed. Soldo, further said the American polity is badly atrophied and getting worse but that the American empire is thriving: “turbo America”.
What shall come of this? Does history have any lessons as regards elite abandonment of their peoples self interest?
I suspect the second amendment will have significant implications as we wrestle with these increasingly urgent questions. Or maybe I’m wrong, there’s no urgency, they will simply turn America into Venezuela. 
With regard to the Cold War.
And the Italian job referenced - its likely enough PCI would have as so many other Communist parties had before bought in the Hard Left as muscle ala Spain, Cuba, etc. In any case the Italians decided otherwise- and The Red Brigades started shooting. Young men waiting their chances to shoot are going to shoot. Regardless. Having a compromised government in power at the time doesn’t help.
Those who don’t remember it are getting a refresher now, mind you its NATO playing at aggression.
The Soviets were as serious about war in Europe then as we are now - its ideologues getting off the leash and being indulged by Brezhnev types who see it as the lesser danger- in the present that would be the Biden Clinton Obama types pointing the American Left and NeoTrots at THE RUSSIANS! In short a dangerous game to point dangerous people in a safer direction.
There was good reason to fear the Communists of the PCI once in power would make the same choices or mistakes made in Spain, Cuba, Chile etc.
Now that in 2022 we have a DC government making similar mistakes with deadly consequences perhaps the Cold War comes into focus? At present we have Putin playing Nixon you know- a cool customer. That was the real Nixon.
Competitive Narratives the driving force in America today...
only if you live on the Internet.
But Elite Theory says...
They live in a cut off bubble world. In her world this is important.
In Constantinople of 1453 the Intellectuals were furiously debating the gender of Angels.
Ms Jones comes from a class of people defined by their apartness from the rest, above all physical separation. She claimed as of 2016 to live in Bed-Stuy, I really would have to see this to believe it, lol. She’s a hustler at the end of someone else’s con game.
I suspect the Intellectuals of Constantinople had a more impressive case.
LMAO.