Saudi Arabia's Modernization and Liberalization, Germany's AfD Ascendant, Slow US Adoption of 5G Tech, We're All Bourgeois Now, Single Origin Theory Of Humans Dead?
May 27, 2023·edited May 27, 2023Liked by Niccolo Soldo
AfD, MAGA, and brexit must be crushed under the boot of the WEF Wehrmacht globalist “democracy”. EU/ESG/greens are the fourth reich. Here are a few modern German words that describe our clown world situation: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-speak-german
Where exactly are you quoting from regarding the AfD?
They’re not considered right-wing extremists, simply because they criticise migration. They are notorious for spouting, very vile, racist terminology, for dehumanising, dark skinned, foreigners (as in referring to them as crawling things on the floor in the dirt, et cetera, et cetera). Sadly, those of the sort of things that are not uncommon in speeches by prominent members. Additionally, their positions, towards for instance, disability, or disabled people are frankly horrendous. They may not have anything in the official party program, but they have been open calls to have disabled people forcibly institutionalised on principle.
Then there is the matter of climate change denialism.
I wholeheartedly agree that German mainstream media is appalling at best, and that they are also often hysterical regards to the AfD, and yes, you are right in that Germans support the idea because they do say a lot of things that people think and cover positions that are contrary to the very American style of liberalism that has become so popular in Germany . I do believe that the next election will give them much more power .nonetheless, they are right-wing extremists, and they are dangerous.
1990s Franjo Tudjman was like the exact opposite of the current center-leftist German position. "The WW2 fascist Croatian government (that I personally fought against) wasn't THAT awful, but even if it was, so what."
I'm not sure if Polansky's essay dealt with urbanization as a gateway to safetyism, but as someone who's lived in both urban and rural areas as an adult there is definitely a greater acceptance of danger in rural areas. Nature is a MFer.
To link two of the topics, note for instance how the AfD couches its opposition to mass immigration in terms of safety (crime, terrorism, etc) and economic loss (welfare and such), whereas the regime simply denies the former and insists that to the contrary, MENA migrants will be a boon to the public treasury. Both sets of concerns are quintessentially bourgeois.
However, the *opposition* to the AfD seems to emerge from something even more primal than WWII blood guilt. It is expressed in the syntax of extremism, terrorism, and violence - as though the AfD were an incipient horde of axe-wielding Germanic barbarians looking to string up brown people as sacrifices on Odin's tree. It's as though the real concern is that there might be a reversion to pre-bourgeois values.
In the end, it comes down to a debate over who is and is not bourgeois - the AfD says migrants aren't and will never be, while the left tries to exclude the AfD from the bourgeoisie. All while everyone pretends they aren't bourgeois in the first place. It's all rather comical once observed from outside the bourgeois framework.
I'm skeptical that authoritarian methods are effective at combating corruption. Without transparency, the political and ruling classes can fleece the state at any time of their choosing. A change in leadership, management, or even a change in heart can allow corruption to come roaring back. And in any authoritarian system, there are no checks and balances to halt it.
Xi, Putin, and MBS will not remain in power forever. Eventually, these nations are headed for bad times.
MbS has a long way to go before it can be said that he’s been ‘successful’. Most of the reforms (particularly wrt women) are hugely overhyped - and western expatriates are still hesitant to leave the UAE for Saudi whatever the policy requirements (or financial incentives). He certainly didn’t make any friends by routing out “corruption” (his own excepting of course), the large majority of the Saudi population are not tech investors, they’re regular middle and lower-middle class families currently being told that every cultural and religious value they hold is essentially worthless. Many cities in the Gulf are attempting to replicate the ‘Dubai model’ without taking into account that the 91% of the population that make the Dubai model possible aren’t Emiratis or even Arab. And I’ve yet to hear another living person say - “Hey, weekend in Riyadh?” Maybe they’ll put them at the Ritz...
“ Germany’s Der Spiegel (the country’s version of the USA’s Time Magazine) is a horrible, horrible publication. Objectivity is at most an afterthought, if thought of at all.”
The greatest accomplishment of the AfD, from a Hungarian standpoint, is the erosion of any illusion that Germany is a democracy so pristine, that they have any credibility to lecture us.
This Deutsche Welle report from 2021 is notorious, it has Jews fleeing the castle district out of fear. For those who are unaware, that’s the touristy bit in Budapest where people take selfies.
May 27, 2023·edited May 27, 2023Liked by Niccolo Soldo
I think bourgeois is kinda old fashioned, ain’t. Yes Bill Gates still wears a Shetland pullover, but perhaps Nike sneakers. Maybe they became in some moment bourgers eaters.
It maybe due to the fact that I've been terminally online in schizo spaces, but I thought the Single Origin has been dead for awhile now? For years people have been talking about how "Out Africa" is debunked and the multi-regional hypothesis was the up and coming theory.
The “Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution” is the most blatant manifestation of Teutonic character I’ve seen since the Mannaschaft beat the Brazilians like a drum in a World Cup semifinal lol.
Rarely see him discussed but Filmer v. Hobbes arguably shaped what Britain and, by extension. Atlanticism became – Filmer traditionalism seemingly lost out due to the overpowering rise of the commercial oligarchy (facilitated - unintentionally or not - by Cromwell and completed with the importation of William of Orange fulfilling the weak executive Italian city state model)
Of note with the Saudis: they appear to be negotiating with Yemen in open defiance of American wishes on the subject. I assume America doesn't want to help Iran ever since they went Russia drones. MBS continues to stun me, though I know better than to assume these changes are secure
I met a German who kept using American language for Trump voters and the alt-right to describe the AfD to us Americans. Thought it was really funny he wouldn't just call them Nazis but maybe he knew here in America no one that gets called a Nazi is really a Nazi. Also beyond the Rosa Luxemburg reference, Linke is directly descended from the ruling East German parties. Journos are quick to note when, say, the Swedish Democrats can be traced back to Nazis, but of course it never goes the other way
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AfD, MAGA, and brexit must be crushed under the boot of the WEF Wehrmacht globalist “democracy”. EU/ESG/greens are the fourth reich. Here are a few modern German words that describe our clown world situation: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-speak-german
Where exactly are you quoting from regarding the AfD?
They’re not considered right-wing extremists, simply because they criticise migration. They are notorious for spouting, very vile, racist terminology, for dehumanising, dark skinned, foreigners (as in referring to them as crawling things on the floor in the dirt, et cetera, et cetera). Sadly, those of the sort of things that are not uncommon in speeches by prominent members. Additionally, their positions, towards for instance, disability, or disabled people are frankly horrendous. They may not have anything in the official party program, but they have been open calls to have disabled people forcibly institutionalised on principle.
Then there is the matter of climate change denialism.
I wholeheartedly agree that German mainstream media is appalling at best, and that they are also often hysterical regards to the AfD, and yes, you are right in that Germans support the idea because they do say a lot of things that people think and cover positions that are contrary to the very American style of liberalism that has become so popular in Germany . I do believe that the next election will give them much more power .nonetheless, they are right-wing extremists, and they are dangerous.
1990s Franjo Tudjman was like the exact opposite of the current center-leftist German position. "The WW2 fascist Croatian government (that I personally fought against) wasn't THAT awful, but even if it was, so what."
I'm not sure if Polansky's essay dealt with urbanization as a gateway to safetyism, but as someone who's lived in both urban and rural areas as an adult there is definitely a greater acceptance of danger in rural areas. Nature is a MFer.
To link two of the topics, note for instance how the AfD couches its opposition to mass immigration in terms of safety (crime, terrorism, etc) and economic loss (welfare and such), whereas the regime simply denies the former and insists that to the contrary, MENA migrants will be a boon to the public treasury. Both sets of concerns are quintessentially bourgeois.
However, the *opposition* to the AfD seems to emerge from something even more primal than WWII blood guilt. It is expressed in the syntax of extremism, terrorism, and violence - as though the AfD were an incipient horde of axe-wielding Germanic barbarians looking to string up brown people as sacrifices on Odin's tree. It's as though the real concern is that there might be a reversion to pre-bourgeois values.
In the end, it comes down to a debate over who is and is not bourgeois - the AfD says migrants aren't and will never be, while the left tries to exclude the AfD from the bourgeoisie. All while everyone pretends they aren't bourgeois in the first place. It's all rather comical once observed from outside the bourgeois framework.
I'm skeptical that authoritarian methods are effective at combating corruption. Without transparency, the political and ruling classes can fleece the state at any time of their choosing. A change in leadership, management, or even a change in heart can allow corruption to come roaring back. And in any authoritarian system, there are no checks and balances to halt it.
Xi, Putin, and MBS will not remain in power forever. Eventually, these nations are headed for bad times.
MbS has a long way to go before it can be said that he’s been ‘successful’. Most of the reforms (particularly wrt women) are hugely overhyped - and western expatriates are still hesitant to leave the UAE for Saudi whatever the policy requirements (or financial incentives). He certainly didn’t make any friends by routing out “corruption” (his own excepting of course), the large majority of the Saudi population are not tech investors, they’re regular middle and lower-middle class families currently being told that every cultural and religious value they hold is essentially worthless. Many cities in the Gulf are attempting to replicate the ‘Dubai model’ without taking into account that the 91% of the population that make the Dubai model possible aren’t Emiratis or even Arab. And I’ve yet to hear another living person say - “Hey, weekend in Riyadh?” Maybe they’ll put them at the Ritz...
“ Germany’s Der Spiegel (the country’s version of the USA’s Time Magazine) is a horrible, horrible publication. Objectivity is at most an afterthought, if thought of at all.”
Someone burned himself sourcing Spiegel
The greatest accomplishment of the AfD, from a Hungarian standpoint, is the erosion of any illusion that Germany is a democracy so pristine, that they have any credibility to lecture us.
They still do.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HNbRlnNC3Fs
This Deutsche Welle report from 2021 is notorious, it has Jews fleeing the castle district out of fear. For those who are unaware, that’s the touristy bit in Budapest where people take selfies.
Check the comments!
I think bourgeois is kinda old fashioned, ain’t. Yes Bill Gates still wears a Shetland pullover, but perhaps Nike sneakers. Maybe they became in some moment bourgers eaters.
How would the Taliban stack up in the era of bourgeoisism?
It maybe due to the fact that I've been terminally online in schizo spaces, but I thought the Single Origin has been dead for awhile now? For years people have been talking about how "Out Africa" is debunked and the multi-regional hypothesis was the up and coming theory.
The “Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution” is the most blatant manifestation of Teutonic character I’ve seen since the Mannaschaft beat the Brazilians like a drum in a World Cup semifinal lol.
Great work as always on the commentary!
Rarely see him discussed but Filmer v. Hobbes arguably shaped what Britain and, by extension. Atlanticism became – Filmer traditionalism seemingly lost out due to the overpowering rise of the commercial oligarchy (facilitated - unintentionally or not - by Cromwell and completed with the importation of William of Orange fulfilling the weak executive Italian city state model)
Of note with the Saudis: they appear to be negotiating with Yemen in open defiance of American wishes on the subject. I assume America doesn't want to help Iran ever since they went Russia drones. MBS continues to stun me, though I know better than to assume these changes are secure
https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/south-yemen-intensifies-push-for-secession-as-biden-eyes-a-continuation-of-the-war/
I met a German who kept using American language for Trump voters and the alt-right to describe the AfD to us Americans. Thought it was really funny he wouldn't just call them Nazis but maybe he knew here in America no one that gets called a Nazi is really a Nazi. Also beyond the Rosa Luxemburg reference, Linke is directly descended from the ruling East German parties. Journos are quick to note when, say, the Swedish Democrats can be traced back to Nazis, but of course it never goes the other way