Israel's Security Intelligence Blunder, Europe: "Whole and Free?", Germany's AfD Breaks the Cordon Sanitaire, "Combating Hate" Used For Censorship, The Man Who Would Be King
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Also note how Ash’s view is that it’s either his way or the highway. There is nothing permitted outside of liberal democracy. It’s either his system or its some sort of authoritarian dystopia. This is a testament to his arrogance."
Uh, yeah. "Liberal Democrats" would have zero problem sending any of us who disagree straight to a gas chamber of they could get away with it.
Most are also too civilized right now, meaning too comfortable and weak. If conditions worsen and hardships increase such that animal instincts become more pronounced then I would expect them to become much harsher as they seek outlets for their rage and coping for their frustrations.
Doesn't matter if they live in a suburb, have a master's, and pay into a 401K. I've never known one who underneath a layer or two, isn't a maniacal tyrant.
Very, very, real. Anyone watching the behavior of the Left since 2016 and who is also familiar with the run-up to the Bolshevik Revolution will instantly recognize the similarities which, since much of the underlying beliefs are the same, should deeply worry anyone concerned about our society and its future.
Yeah. Especially when the gimme-gimme-now-now-now generations assume positions of power. That they might maintain a shred of respect for due course of law is, to me, the height of fantasy. I think that's where we'll see our dictator come from, and God help us if he/she/zwe is a leftist.
Sorry, one additional thought. Dinesh D'Souza once came to my university and gave a talk. He remarked that a multi-ethnic country is possible, but it must be monocultural, based on what he saw as the dysfunctionality of India.
I was just driving south in Colorado Springs to a baseball game with my family. There was a bus load of migrants stopped at a rest stop, fresh up from the border. I see them all the time, and it enrages me (as a side note).
The Democrats are playing with fire with the demographics of this country, in my opinion. They are creating forces they can't be assured of controlling in the long term. To be a member of the ethnic group (White) that they are intent on dispossessing and disenfranchising is also enraging.
But having said that, their tyranny, their fierce desire to command and control, and to impose a form of national culture, no matter how stupid or debased, on all of us, may be accomplishing, inadvertently, the "multi-ethnic, mono-cultural" nation that Dinesh referred to those many years ago.
I think so. They were all standing there in the obligatory migrant garb of hoodie, with said hoodie drawn up, looking at their phones (so desperate!!). But from what I could tell, *probably* Latin American.
Well at least there's a chance of some form of assimilation with them given they are Christian and speak a European language.
What I am absolutely terrified of is the biblical scale of illegal immigration from Islamic Africa, Middle East, and South Asia that is sure to follow the Latin American one. The media is laying the groundwork for that with "climate refugees" and already thousands if not tens of thousands from those regions are crossing through the southern border.
Agreed. I'm scared and very angry about this, and my hope is frankly that we hit some kind of wall in general forcing everything to snap and grind to halt. Otherwise, as an Anglo American, we better start thinking who would make good allies in the coming tensions, because we're going to need them.
There was an interesting aside during Mike Benz's (great appearance on the Saturday commentary this week) interview on TimCast last week where one of the hosts noted that in the future, you'll be forced to eat the bugs (of course), but the Memory Link wired to your brain will project a nice, juicy steak hologram over the actual meal. It'll be just like the real thing.
I think of this during the recent round of international soccer fixtures, or the rugby world cup. There will be proper "outlets" for national pride, but they're just a neutered imitation of the real thing.
EDIT: I think, more than insecurity, it's a denial that evil exists that leads these types to their folly. By ignoring how evil manifests within the self and within society, they leave themselves open to all kinds of pernicious thinking that allows evil to grow within themselves. They have given up the concept of true, internal sin in favor of abstractions like "open societies" to all our detriment.
Insecure types like this Ash fellow can be very dangerous. The insecurity that underlies their presumptions can very easily turn to scorn and vicious hate as we have seen.
Atlanticist long ago abandoned any inquiry into the absolute for a sloppy materialism/physicalism - we're left with a nominalism which in practice is primarily thrasymachian
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Liberals like Ash remind me of a cargo cult that had a record player with one record dropped on their island 50 years ago—that record of course being John Lennon's "Imagine"—who have now constructed a fundamentalist religion around it. ("Imagine there's no countries/It isn't hard to do/Nothing to kill or die for/And no religion too/Imagine all the people/Living life in peace"—LOL as if people weren't massacring each other for centuries before the first country or religion were created.)
If there's a through-line here it's that borders are an "arbitrary" "Iron Curtain" that only fascists like Orban and Le Pen believe in, and thus there needs to be a cordon sanitaire erected around anyone who still believes in the nation-state —this cordon being the one border liberals can get behind!
The cargo cult story dates to the WW2 era, more than 70 years ago. This cargo cult story of yours is new to me. Could you give a link to substantiate it?
Between the CCDH article and the earlier “13 ways of looking at disinformation” article, Tablet has been doing some really great work on the censorship complex.
"The Israeli public is furious with Bibi over this attack."
If the Israeli Left (working hand-in-glove with the American and EU Left) hadn't spent the past decade engaged in non-stop "lawfare" against Bibi (and the IDF, Israel's nationalistic/religious institutions and organizations, their leaders and members)... not to forget its relentless "wokefare" against the rest of us, "this attack" might well not have happened... except it did.
2 million Gazan engineers and doctors will be arriving in Europe in the coming months bringing their delicious falafels and kebabs and they will finally eliminate the bland, disgusting, European "cuisine".
I sort of jest but one of the main arguments by normie white liberals in Anglosphere and Northern Europe for mass immigration is immigrants bringing their cuisine.
Also, conservatives constantly crying about anti-Israel bias in mainstream media has been hilarious to watch over the last week. New York Times is owned by a Jewish family and its Editor-in-Chief is Jewish. The leadership of CNN, NBC, MSNBC etc. are all disproportionatly Jewish. Anti-Israel bias, if it does exist, perhaps indicates a fight between Diaspora Jews and Israeli Jews rather than some bigger anti-semitic conspiracy.
I think your actually hitting the nail on the head. Over and over again the progressive project reconciles race riots with ethnic food. Every single time. It's a psychological feedback loop that should probably be studied
If the AfD had a different attitude towsrds the US Empire and its wars, they could feed migrant toddlers alive to piranhas and nobody in the German political class would raise so much as a peep.
The political class would even actively make excuses for them, as long as the alternative were opposed to continued American hegemony.
The Israel-Palestine conflict hit home for me recently. I'm from a third worlder Christian family which is divided into Orthodox/Anglicans and Pentecostals. And the debates between them are crazy. The non-Penti side ofc were supportive of the Palestinians saying that they were brown people getting genocided by white colonists, and that the media is biased toward white Jews. The pentis went off about the whole Christian zionism thing, end times, jews being God's chosen people, etc.. One crazy uncle brought up story about how Bill Clinton's home state was destroyed by a tornado because of his rudeness toward Israel's prime minister or something.
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This week's Saturday Review guided tour of the mental landscape of the 'liberal democracy' establishment clerisy (Ash and co.) reignites a dark thought I have been having for a while now: Up to now there have been no downsides to this pose (apart from needing to maintain the necessary level of cognitive dissonance of course but that's easy to work-around mentally if as Saul Bellow said "the need for illusion is deep").
But supposing it ever came to pass that being a smug virtue-signaller had painful costs to you personally (as opposed to everyone else)? Would all evaporate like the hot air that it truly is I would guess? I'm not saying I have any idea how this might come about; only that being full of s*** sems to have been a remarkably easy ticket in Western society over recent decades.
Another great edition. I wish I had more time to make intelligent comments, especially about the all-related middle three but "liberal democracy" read as "us, in power, forever, by any means necessary". There was an article I read early this week - which unfortunately I didn't keep - which basically said the lessons of the Israel attack was we have to put the secret police back in charge of Twitter, and keep going after white men. The usual Laurentian Liberal type here in Canada.
Very interesting watching the reaction to Israel and Gaza unfold online. I'm seeing people (especially Jews) who are typically very reasonable get sucked in. And unlike Covid and Ukraine where, there was a very coordinated, united position being disseminated, reactions seem to be all over the place. It's still mostly in support of Israel, but nevertheless. The Harvard fracas was fascinating; especially after BLM jumped into the mix. I think the progressive coalition will press on as normal, but we are seeing fractures on the left
The problem for the right side of the aisle is it's basically the same situation. Scattered, with the exception of they seem to be the only side pushing for complete disengagement. So they can't possibly leverage themselves against the left.
I've chosen to stay out of it. Except on the beheaded babies story. Completely irresponsible to run with that. You can't even argue it was confusion or a half truth. It was total bullshit. Emotions are already high around the Kfar Aza killings. That made it worse. Journo/govt scumbags
Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't all of the EU'S achievements listed by Timothy Garton Ash not one was done via referendum?
Granted, the modern European populace is a zombified, propagandised fucking mess but if I were such a fan of "democracy" wouldn't such a glaring omission be an issue?
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The Liberal/Progressive arrogance is always remarkable to behold. When they fail and all they have tried to achieve collapses (and collapse it will), the main reason why will be a lack of imagination. They simply cannot conceive that people might not want what they want. In their eyes, all decent, intelligent and good people support what they support, and if you do not you are either not decent, not intelligent, not good or more likely all three of those things.
The leftist cope about the asinine Australian referendum that they lost is telling. Reading the Guardian's coverage of the referendum was pure content. They are not just upset that they lost. Most people who lose an election talk about the lost opportunity, how things could have been better etc. etc.. They are just sad. The leftists in Australia instead are livid that the hoi polloi in Australia had the sheer gall to not rubberstamp their good and enlightened constitutional change, which they would ofc have won had the evil RW not used "misinformation" to deceive the dumb but fundamentally progressive people who would have naturally voted Yes without the evil RW misinformation. They cannot imagine people disagreeing based on different sound principles. I recommend you read back the live coverage of the Guardian just to see the sheer seething rage they feel. Genuinely the highlight of my day.
I don't think that right wing should celebrate this result. ~40% voted yes for something that 10 years ago would have been dismissed by most as just some kind of insane right wing slippery slope. If they hold the referendum again in 10 years, I guarantee it would easily pass as older Australians die off, immigrant Australians increase even more(based right wing immigrants only exist in right wing fantasies), and younger Australians reach voting age.
Even then, the Australian left might implement what they want in all but name through some bureaucratic shenanigans, so they might not even have to wait for a referendum in 10 years.
I agree that they will probably just try again. It buys time I guess. It's still a good sign. But there definitely needs to be competent, goal oroented leadership to keep up the momentum.
Yep, there needs to be good leadership on our side. I know our side loathes the concept of "elites" but any "people's" movement without actual, intelligent leaders always fails. I would go so far as to say, converting one Harvard grad to our cause is better than having one hundred blue collar workers. For any ideology to succeed, you always need at least a portion of the elites to flip. But at the present, the elites are all united as one bloc.
As far as I know, Scott Greer is only one on the dissident right who recognizes this. Everyone else is like don't go to college, just go to trade school. That might be beneficial on an individual level but absolutely suicidal at a community/factional/political level.
Have not had time to digest the result but I would not assume that migrants backed the referendum. Sentimentality towards indigenous people is a very Anglo thing. I suspect that class may well be the best predictor of how people voted.
The ones who come at a young age as college students end up adopting the liberal Anglo viewpoint towards these issues. Older, working class, immigrants generally just want to get on with their lives. But the children of both groups end up holding an insane amount of a mix of resentment and disdain towards Anglos. And the funny thing is, the more well off an immigrant family is, the more resentment and disdain the second generation has towards Anglos.
Can't locate the precise reference, but many years ago a business journalist, Jude Wanniski, wrote that the class war of the 21st century would be between the demoralised, downwardly mobile middle classes of the West and the rising middle classes of the developing world. It was a brilliant insight. Migration compounded by identity politics ensures that this now has the character of a civil conflict, a hybrid ethnic/class struggle. Hard to see how this could end well.
There is an odd cognitive dissonance I've been noticing lately when dealing with people on the Left (which in America at this point means just about everyone to the left of Mitt Romney): they constantly talk about the urgency of "protecting our democracy" and "our freedoms" while at the same time they can't seem to conceive or accept that other people(s) have different beliefs and different values—and these are often well-educated people who are otherwise intelligent and sophisticated.
I think liberals for the most part are so self-segregated and live inside such epistemic hothouses, they've developed almost a form of blindness or brain damage: it just seems absolutely implausible to them that someone wouldn't share all their beliefs and sacred values, they are never not shocked and appalled, which is why they can only respond w anger and denunciations.
Our thinking classes have lost the ability to think!
Liberals, in their arrogance, are the ones who thrive in chaotic disorder because it gives them more power. Hungary and Poland are the two countries where citizens appear to be safer from crime and harassment than others in the open border EU anarchic countries.
Much of the scamdemic originated in the UK. Is the US a colony of Brittain and England' central bank? Rhetorical question, as the whole world seems to run on connected coordinated gears, including Israel with its well-timed violence from the Israeli created Hamas. What a mess.
We have to remember that each and every person suffering is a part of someone's family. The Machine has no sympathy for such details.
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I wasn’t
Also note how Ash’s view is that it’s either his way or the highway. There is nothing permitted outside of liberal democracy. It’s either his system or its some sort of authoritarian dystopia. This is a testament to his arrogance."
Uh, yeah. "Liberal Democrats" would have zero problem sending any of us who disagree straight to a gas chamber of they could get away with it.
They're content in un-personing citizens or de-banking them for now. Foreigners get bombs on their houses, of course.
Most are also too civilized right now, meaning too comfortable and weak. If conditions worsen and hardships increase such that animal instincts become more pronounced then I would expect them to become much harsher as they seek outlets for their rage and coping for their frustrations.
Doesn't matter if they live in a suburb, have a master's, and pay into a 401K. I've never known one who underneath a layer or two, isn't a maniacal tyrant.
I think this danger is very real.
Very, very, real. Anyone watching the behavior of the Left since 2016 and who is also familiar with the run-up to the Bolshevik Revolution will instantly recognize the similarities which, since much of the underlying beliefs are the same, should deeply worry anyone concerned about our society and its future.
Yeah. Especially when the gimme-gimme-now-now-now generations assume positions of power. That they might maintain a shred of respect for due course of law is, to me, the height of fantasy. I think that's where we'll see our dictator come from, and God help us if he/she/zwe is a leftist.
Sorry, one additional thought. Dinesh D'Souza once came to my university and gave a talk. He remarked that a multi-ethnic country is possible, but it must be monocultural, based on what he saw as the dysfunctionality of India.
I was just driving south in Colorado Springs to a baseball game with my family. There was a bus load of migrants stopped at a rest stop, fresh up from the border. I see them all the time, and it enrages me (as a side note).
The Democrats are playing with fire with the demographics of this country, in my opinion. They are creating forces they can't be assured of controlling in the long term. To be a member of the ethnic group (White) that they are intent on dispossessing and disenfranchising is also enraging.
But having said that, their tyranny, their fierce desire to command and control, and to impose a form of national culture, no matter how stupid or debased, on all of us, may be accomplishing, inadvertently, the "multi-ethnic, mono-cultural" nation that Dinesh referred to those many years ago.
Were these migrants from Latin America do you think or somewhere else?
I think so. They were all standing there in the obligatory migrant garb of hoodie, with said hoodie drawn up, looking at their phones (so desperate!!). But from what I could tell, *probably* Latin American.
Well at least there's a chance of some form of assimilation with them given they are Christian and speak a European language.
What I am absolutely terrified of is the biblical scale of illegal immigration from Islamic Africa, Middle East, and South Asia that is sure to follow the Latin American one. The media is laying the groundwork for that with "climate refugees" and already thousands if not tens of thousands from those regions are crossing through the southern border.
Agreed. I'm scared and very angry about this, and my hope is frankly that we hit some kind of wall in general forcing everything to snap and grind to halt. Otherwise, as an Anglo American, we better start thinking who would make good allies in the coming tensions, because we're going to need them.
Don’t worry Gaza will come here, or Europe.
No Arab country will take them.
And they say the nation state is dead
There was an interesting aside during Mike Benz's (great appearance on the Saturday commentary this week) interview on TimCast last week where one of the hosts noted that in the future, you'll be forced to eat the bugs (of course), but the Memory Link wired to your brain will project a nice, juicy steak hologram over the actual meal. It'll be just like the real thing.
I think of this during the recent round of international soccer fixtures, or the rugby world cup. There will be proper "outlets" for national pride, but they're just a neutered imitation of the real thing.
Whether this is a sign of insecurity or strength is left as an exercise for the reader.
EDIT: I think, more than insecurity, it's a denial that evil exists that leads these types to their folly. By ignoring how evil manifests within the self and within society, they leave themselves open to all kinds of pernicious thinking that allows evil to grow within themselves. They have given up the concept of true, internal sin in favor of abstractions like "open societies" to all our detriment.
Insecure types like this Ash fellow can be very dangerous. The insecurity that underlies their presumptions can very easily turn to scorn and vicious hate as we have seen.
Atlanticist long ago abandoned any inquiry into the absolute for a sloppy materialism/physicalism - we're left with a nominalism which in practice is primarily thrasymachian
Nah, they’re evil too.
The Evil of Banalities
These liberal bureaucrats are a pest, bootlickers enjoying power a little too much
Just ask yourself.... where would they be in the Hitler-Stalin-Mao regimes?
Yep, just "following orders" or "weee are juuust implementing the 5 year plan"
The west has fallen and can’t get up...
Lmao
Liberals like Ash remind me of a cargo cult that had a record player with one record dropped on their island 50 years ago—that record of course being John Lennon's "Imagine"—who have now constructed a fundamentalist religion around it. ("Imagine there's no countries/It isn't hard to do/Nothing to kill or die for/And no religion too/Imagine all the people/Living life in peace"—LOL as if people weren't massacring each other for centuries before the first country or religion were created.)
If there's a through-line here it's that borders are an "arbitrary" "Iron Curtain" that only fascists like Orban and Le Pen believe in, and thus there needs to be a cordon sanitaire erected around anyone who still believes in the nation-state —this cordon being the one border liberals can get behind!
Modern leftism is like if the song Imagine by John Lennon became the basis of a fundamentalist religion
Lol what a great image. You’re spot on.
lol thx!
The cargo cult story dates to the WW2 era, more than 70 years ago. This cargo cult story of yours is new to me. Could you give a link to substantiate it?
ha! it was a metaphor (unless it was an analogy?)
no link, i made it up myself
Irl the record dropped but they tried to eat it 😂
CB we’re fucking living in the Cargo Cult, is that substantial enough?
Between the CCDH article and the earlier “13 ways of looking at disinformation” article, Tablet has been doing some really great work on the censorship complex.
Definitely.
They’ve become a trusted source for me, bringing the list to three!
"The Israeli public is furious with Bibi over this attack."
If the Israeli Left (working hand-in-glove with the American and EU Left) hadn't spent the past decade engaged in non-stop "lawfare" against Bibi (and the IDF, Israel's nationalistic/religious institutions and organizations, their leaders and members)... not to forget its relentless "wokefare" against the rest of us, "this attack" might well not have happened... except it did.
2 million Gazan engineers and doctors will be arriving in Europe in the coming months bringing their delicious falafels and kebabs and they will finally eliminate the bland, disgusting, European "cuisine".
I sort of jest but one of the main arguments by normie white liberals in Anglosphere and Northern Europe for mass immigration is immigrants bringing their cuisine.
Also, conservatives constantly crying about anti-Israel bias in mainstream media has been hilarious to watch over the last week. New York Times is owned by a Jewish family and its Editor-in-Chief is Jewish. The leadership of CNN, NBC, MSNBC etc. are all disproportionatly Jewish. Anti-Israel bias, if it does exist, perhaps indicates a fight between Diaspora Jews and Israeli Jews rather than some bigger anti-semitic conspiracy.
I think your actually hitting the nail on the head. Over and over again the progressive project reconciles race riots with ethnic food. Every single time. It's a psychological feedback loop that should probably be studied
True Antisemitism requires Jewish Blood.
Frankly they are the Antisemitic conspiracy.
Hitler was just overworked and had a famously nasty temper.
If the AfD had a different attitude towsrds the US Empire and its wars, they could feed migrant toddlers alive to piranhas and nobody in the German political class would raise so much as a peep.
The political class would even actively make excuses for them, as long as the alternative were opposed to continued American hegemony.
The Israel-Palestine conflict hit home for me recently. I'm from a third worlder Christian family which is divided into Orthodox/Anglicans and Pentecostals. And the debates between them are crazy. The non-Penti side ofc were supportive of the Palestinians saying that they were brown people getting genocided by white colonists, and that the media is biased toward white Jews. The pentis went off about the whole Christian zionism thing, end times, jews being God's chosen people, etc.. One crazy uncle brought up story about how Bill Clinton's home state was destroyed by a tornado because of his rudeness toward Israel's prime minister or something.
i just want this stop for my sanity.
This week's Saturday Review guided tour of the mental landscape of the 'liberal democracy' establishment clerisy (Ash and co.) reignites a dark thought I have been having for a while now: Up to now there have been no downsides to this pose (apart from needing to maintain the necessary level of cognitive dissonance of course but that's easy to work-around mentally if as Saul Bellow said "the need for illusion is deep").
But supposing it ever came to pass that being a smug virtue-signaller had painful costs to you personally (as opposed to everyone else)? Would all evaporate like the hot air that it truly is I would guess? I'm not saying I have any idea how this might come about; only that being full of s*** sems to have been a remarkably easy ticket in Western society over recent decades.
This is what Rob Henderson (Cambridge) calls luxury beliefs. Very interesting and now taken up by Matthew Goodwin (Uni of Kent).
Another great edition. I wish I had more time to make intelligent comments, especially about the all-related middle three but "liberal democracy" read as "us, in power, forever, by any means necessary". There was an article I read early this week - which unfortunately I didn't keep - which basically said the lessons of the Israel attack was we have to put the secret police back in charge of Twitter, and keep going after white men. The usual Laurentian Liberal type here in Canada.
Very interesting watching the reaction to Israel and Gaza unfold online. I'm seeing people (especially Jews) who are typically very reasonable get sucked in. And unlike Covid and Ukraine where, there was a very coordinated, united position being disseminated, reactions seem to be all over the place. It's still mostly in support of Israel, but nevertheless. The Harvard fracas was fascinating; especially after BLM jumped into the mix. I think the progressive coalition will press on as normal, but we are seeing fractures on the left
The problem for the right side of the aisle is it's basically the same situation. Scattered, with the exception of they seem to be the only side pushing for complete disengagement. So they can't possibly leverage themselves against the left.
I've chosen to stay out of it. Except on the beheaded babies story. Completely irresponsible to run with that. You can't even argue it was confusion or a half truth. It was total bullshit. Emotions are already high around the Kfar Aza killings. That made it worse. Journo/govt scumbags
Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't all of the EU'S achievements listed by Timothy Garton Ash not one was done via referendum?
Granted, the modern European populace is a zombified, propagandised fucking mess but if I were such a fan of "democracy" wouldn't such a glaring omission be an issue?
Tfw no libtard-free island to rule as king
The Liberal/Progressive arrogance is always remarkable to behold. When they fail and all they have tried to achieve collapses (and collapse it will), the main reason why will be a lack of imagination. They simply cannot conceive that people might not want what they want. In their eyes, all decent, intelligent and good people support what they support, and if you do not you are either not decent, not intelligent, not good or more likely all three of those things.
The leftist cope about the asinine Australian referendum that they lost is telling. Reading the Guardian's coverage of the referendum was pure content. They are not just upset that they lost. Most people who lose an election talk about the lost opportunity, how things could have been better etc. etc.. They are just sad. The leftists in Australia instead are livid that the hoi polloi in Australia had the sheer gall to not rubberstamp their good and enlightened constitutional change, which they would ofc have won had the evil RW not used "misinformation" to deceive the dumb but fundamentally progressive people who would have naturally voted Yes without the evil RW misinformation. They cannot imagine people disagreeing based on different sound principles. I recommend you read back the live coverage of the Guardian just to see the sheer seething rage they feel. Genuinely the highlight of my day.
I don't think that right wing should celebrate this result. ~40% voted yes for something that 10 years ago would have been dismissed by most as just some kind of insane right wing slippery slope. If they hold the referendum again in 10 years, I guarantee it would easily pass as older Australians die off, immigrant Australians increase even more(based right wing immigrants only exist in right wing fantasies), and younger Australians reach voting age.
Even then, the Australian left might implement what they want in all but name through some bureaucratic shenanigans, so they might not even have to wait for a referendum in 10 years.
I agree that they will probably just try again. It buys time I guess. It's still a good sign. But there definitely needs to be competent, goal oroented leadership to keep up the momentum.
Yep, there needs to be good leadership on our side. I know our side loathes the concept of "elites" but any "people's" movement without actual, intelligent leaders always fails. I would go so far as to say, converting one Harvard grad to our cause is better than having one hundred blue collar workers. For any ideology to succeed, you always need at least a portion of the elites to flip. But at the present, the elites are all united as one bloc.
As far as I know, Scott Greer is only one on the dissident right who recognizes this. Everyone else is like don't go to college, just go to trade school. That might be beneficial on an individual level but absolutely suicidal at a community/factional/political level.
The elites aren’t united, just most are cowed. This isn’t the same thing
Have not had time to digest the result but I would not assume that migrants backed the referendum. Sentimentality towards indigenous people is a very Anglo thing. I suspect that class may well be the best predictor of how people voted.
The ones who come at a young age as college students end up adopting the liberal Anglo viewpoint towards these issues. Older, working class, immigrants generally just want to get on with their lives. But the children of both groups end up holding an insane amount of a mix of resentment and disdain towards Anglos. And the funny thing is, the more well off an immigrant family is, the more resentment and disdain the second generation has towards Anglos.
They can’t ever be white, just affluent parvenus.
No money changes this...
.... I have just described Vivek and probably the entire sub continent abroad.
Who hate US , and it seems the Aussies for what the British did 🤣
Can't locate the precise reference, but many years ago a business journalist, Jude Wanniski, wrote that the class war of the 21st century would be between the demoralised, downwardly mobile middle classes of the West and the rising middle classes of the developing world. It was a brilliant insight. Migration compounded by identity politics ensures that this now has the character of a civil conflict, a hybrid ethnic/class struggle. Hard to see how this could end well.
There is an odd cognitive dissonance I've been noticing lately when dealing with people on the Left (which in America at this point means just about everyone to the left of Mitt Romney): they constantly talk about the urgency of "protecting our democracy" and "our freedoms" while at the same time they can't seem to conceive or accept that other people(s) have different beliefs and different values—and these are often well-educated people who are otherwise intelligent and sophisticated.
I think liberals for the most part are so self-segregated and live inside such epistemic hothouses, they've developed almost a form of blindness or brain damage: it just seems absolutely implausible to them that someone wouldn't share all their beliefs and sacred values, they are never not shocked and appalled, which is why they can only respond w anger and denunciations.
Our thinking classes have lost the ability to think!
Liberals, in their arrogance, are the ones who thrive in chaotic disorder because it gives them more power. Hungary and Poland are the two countries where citizens appear to be safer from crime and harassment than others in the open border EU anarchic countries.
Much of the scamdemic originated in the UK. Is the US a colony of Brittain and England' central bank? Rhetorical question, as the whole world seems to run on connected coordinated gears, including Israel with its well-timed violence from the Israeli created Hamas. What a mess.
We have to remember that each and every person suffering is a part of someone's family. The Machine has no sympathy for such details.