Fascism: the F-Word of Choice, Transgender Juggernaut in South Dakota, Houellebecq Tosses Another Grenade, Sick Man Britain, Ancient Roman Tourists and Globalization
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“Its lobbyists appeared at the state legislature to oppose legislative initiatives including conscience rights for medical practitioners who object to performing abortions and sex-change operations”
Interestingly enough this relates to the topic of the next section, the Great Replacement—notwithstanding the negative stereotypes, what Renaud Camus meant above all is nothing conspiratorial but a collection of highly impersonal forces flattening and homogenizing everything. To have a “free” globalized world, everything has to be the same everywhere, which would include the “right” of people to get specific “human right” medical treatments from any provider in any place. Thus you end up with a somewhat coherent, albeit utterly depraved, case for eliminating the individual conscience rights of physicians in service of the individual “human rights” of the protected class du jour.
I'm sorry to inform you that you're already a bit behind on the Houellebecq story:
-He published a response to the Great Mosque accusations...pleading guilty of being an islamophobe
-He then proceeded to meet with the Imam, and, after a few hours, came out with a revised version of his previous statement. The differences were thin, and mostly a way to reinforce the conditionality & hypothetical of his initial statement.
I learned about South Dakota corporate transgender movement from Ovarit; absolutely wild! The craziest part is that ACTIVE LOBBYISTS are being elected to office. While America has been (in my opinion) an oligarchy for most of its existence, they’re not even pretending to be a democracy anymore. Niccolo is right, money takes precedence over everything in America.
The small economies of red states leave them vulnerable to corporate wokeness because many of them have tied their fortunes to one or two companies. The shift in corporate America's stance in the culture war is a nationwide phenomenon, both from federal HR/civil rights laws and out-of-state money, meaning more of these corporations will be undermining local politics
The paradox is Republicans typically think of themselves as free market capitalists, but it’s the unfettered global capitalism that’s the worst enemy of the typical Republican conservative.
American social conservatives defending girls sports lmao. This is why this ideology is doomed to failure in the US. Social conservatives from your grandparents generation would have opposed girls sports but here you are defending it and still calling yourself "social conservative". And your "socially conservative" grandchildren will support everything you oppose today.
The English - notoriously lovely guests in other countries they migrate to for work/lifestyle - seem to have a lot to say about people seeking to enjoy the same benefits on their own shores. For every one the lands in England an English family disembarks in the gulf and proceeds to buy a Porsche, hire a live-in maid, and spend the rest of their time complaining about the lack of pork options in the grocery stores here, why alcohol is so much more expensive, and that the natives don’t seem to realize that ‘make the world England’ was not just a clever slogan. Hypocrisy is hardly an attractive quality.
Houellebecq stood alone and stands alone. It seems that his countrymen, the ones with a similar capability to voice opinions, don't envy him enough to follow.
You need an environment, kept up by a general national minimum that hard and soft power respects, where public intellectuals can stay honest without being individually destroyed for their opinions. Allah forgive me, they should be allowed to debate in public.
Without that, dishonesty, self-censorship and general cowardice rules.
You’re right and I find the whole discussion fascinating. ‘Natives’ make up less than 10% of the population here. Very little(none) discussion about how mass migration harms the society. Different systems protecting native citizens maybe? I don’t think migration as such is the issue. Privileged classes are the ones implementing laws - they are most certainly hypocrites. Just come out and say we don’t want poor people here. If you’re rich and you’re coming to London to shop at Selfridge’s: welcome, everyone else: fuck off. (England is just a placeholder here, it applies pretty much across the board)
- We know very clearly what racism is, and we also know what modern day, demoralised leftists mean when they say it (power & privilege) but, like Nazi and Fascist, it's been thrown around so gleefully and so obviously self-servingly, that no one takes it seriously anymore. That US Dem who said Republican house members who refuse to vote in McCarthy are doing so to shut down the gradual "browning" of the US is the perfect recent example (while also unwittingly confirming replacement theory lol).
- Even before the Brexit vote no one could truly say what impact it would have financially. It's just too messy to sit down and untangle. I find it both hilarious and actually pretty disgusting that leftoid press such as The Observer make all kinds of wild claims for the financial havoc caused by Brexit but apparently have no issue with shut downs and other ineffective and totalitarian covid interventions.
In fact, the West was apparently happy to endorse China until Putin Man Bad tipped over the cart and China failed to fall in line.
Will we be seeing Chinese Taipei at the Paris Olympics?
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“Its lobbyists appeared at the state legislature to oppose legislative initiatives including conscience rights for medical practitioners who object to performing abortions and sex-change operations”
Interestingly enough this relates to the topic of the next section, the Great Replacement—notwithstanding the negative stereotypes, what Renaud Camus meant above all is nothing conspiratorial but a collection of highly impersonal forces flattening and homogenizing everything. To have a “free” globalized world, everything has to be the same everywhere, which would include the “right” of people to get specific “human right” medical treatments from any provider in any place. Thus you end up with a somewhat coherent, albeit utterly depraved, case for eliminating the individual conscience rights of physicians in service of the individual “human rights” of the protected class du jour.
"A bunch of foreigners show up and you are not allowed to say certain things without fear of state prosecution/persecution."
Also now true of County Kerry, Ireland.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/11/07/people-afraid-to-walk-the-streets-as-one-fifth-of-town-now-migrants/
I'm sorry to inform you that you're already a bit behind on the Houellebecq story:
-He published a response to the Great Mosque accusations...pleading guilty of being an islamophobe
-He then proceeded to meet with the Imam, and, after a few hours, came out with a revised version of his previous statement. The differences were thin, and mostly a way to reinforce the conditionality & hypothetical of his initial statement.
Calling a Russian an Orc is racist? Or trendy?
I learned about South Dakota corporate transgender movement from Ovarit; absolutely wild! The craziest part is that ACTIVE LOBBYISTS are being elected to office. While America has been (in my opinion) an oligarchy for most of its existence, they’re not even pretending to be a democracy anymore. Niccolo is right, money takes precedence over everything in America.
The small economies of red states leave them vulnerable to corporate wokeness because many of them have tied their fortunes to one or two companies. The shift in corporate America's stance in the culture war is a nationwide phenomenon, both from federal HR/civil rights laws and out-of-state money, meaning more of these corporations will be undermining local politics
Niccolo can you write about Canadian politics sometime? They are important and would like your insight
Toward the middle of this link are historic racial demographics for the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_racial_and_ethnic_demographics_of_the_United_States
Readers, Do the various percentages show replacement? If not, What then is meant by "replacement"?
The paradox is Republicans typically think of themselves as free market capitalists, but it’s the unfettered global capitalism that’s the worst enemy of the typical Republican conservative.
American social conservatives defending girls sports lmao. This is why this ideology is doomed to failure in the US. Social conservatives from your grandparents generation would have opposed girls sports but here you are defending it and still calling yourself "social conservative". And your "socially conservative" grandchildren will support everything you oppose today.
The English - notoriously lovely guests in other countries they migrate to for work/lifestyle - seem to have a lot to say about people seeking to enjoy the same benefits on their own shores. For every one the lands in England an English family disembarks in the gulf and proceeds to buy a Porsche, hire a live-in maid, and spend the rest of their time complaining about the lack of pork options in the grocery stores here, why alcohol is so much more expensive, and that the natives don’t seem to realize that ‘make the world England’ was not just a clever slogan. Hypocrisy is hardly an attractive quality.
Houellebecq stood alone and stands alone. It seems that his countrymen, the ones with a similar capability to voice opinions, don't envy him enough to follow.
You need an environment, kept up by a general national minimum that hard and soft power respects, where public intellectuals can stay honest without being individually destroyed for their opinions. Allah forgive me, they should be allowed to debate in public.
Without that, dishonesty, self-censorship and general cowardice rules.
You’re right and I find the whole discussion fascinating. ‘Natives’ make up less than 10% of the population here. Very little(none) discussion about how mass migration harms the society. Different systems protecting native citizens maybe? I don’t think migration as such is the issue. Privileged classes are the ones implementing laws - they are most certainly hypocrites. Just come out and say we don’t want poor people here. If you’re rich and you’re coming to London to shop at Selfridge’s: welcome, everyone else: fuck off. (England is just a placeholder here, it applies pretty much across the board)
A couple of thoughts;
- We know very clearly what racism is, and we also know what modern day, demoralised leftists mean when they say it (power & privilege) but, like Nazi and Fascist, it's been thrown around so gleefully and so obviously self-servingly, that no one takes it seriously anymore. That US Dem who said Republican house members who refuse to vote in McCarthy are doing so to shut down the gradual "browning" of the US is the perfect recent example (while also unwittingly confirming replacement theory lol).
- Even before the Brexit vote no one could truly say what impact it would have financially. It's just too messy to sit down and untangle. I find it both hilarious and actually pretty disgusting that leftoid press such as The Observer make all kinds of wild claims for the financial havoc caused by Brexit but apparently have no issue with shut downs and other ineffective and totalitarian covid interventions.
In fact, the West was apparently happy to endorse China until Putin Man Bad tipped over the cart and China failed to fall in line.
Will we be seeing Chinese Taipei at the Paris Olympics?