Canada's RCMP On Country's Inevitable Decline, The Scottish Enlightenment Is Over, The Gravediggers of UK Conservatism, Stopping the AfD, DNA Tests and Incest Secrets
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Germany's obedience to America is purely superstitious, they don't have to rely on the US, and lately, regarding their business interests around the globe, in Russia and China, what America is demanding is way worse than cracking down on "populists": stop getting cheap energy, and cut ties with the greatest emerging market.
Also, as always, but in the German case doubly so, American military presence, taken for granted, greatly atrophied local forces since the Cold War. Why waste money on playing soldier, if the global bully has a giant base over here?
This subservient status also saves the trouble of having to conduct a foreign policy, which is both unappealing to post-WWII German politicians, and almost always bad for business. Or was, because in this new paradigm, having the balls to stand up to the US is the only way to stay globally competitive.
There's clearly a contrafactual version of Canada where none of this is happening. For example, having stabilized the population at 30 million and investing heavily in nuclear power. To think this (or that we could do something similar and recover in a decade or two) is "crazy populism" and "disinformation".
Living in the KW/Guelph/Cambridge it is quite clear from the number of warehouses being built and roads to service them that we're all in restructuring the economy around shipping and cheap labour to make that happen. The demographic changes even in the last two and a half years since I moved here are stunning.
You have got to hand it to the Canadian authorities: they have no illusions and are fully resolved to stay in charge no matter what. But it is quite a gamble to rely on censorship as the central means of control.
Canada is pioneering new forms of governance suitable for a society in managed decline. It is all very chilling.
Thanks very much for this, esp the piece on Canada. Never understood why western elites don't co-opt "populist" ideas on immigration restriction. If they did, voters probably wouldn't be as restive, and they could even continue promiscuous foreign interventions and over financializing the economy!
"I’ll go one step further: if you want to blunt the rise of populism, it’s best to co-opt some of their key policies in order to deflate them. Believe it or not, but doing what the people want actually earns you votes."
What are you, some kind of Putin Hitler lover racist man?!
Niccolò Soldo, spokeszombie for the Liberal Party of Canada. Sad day Cultural Marxism soils the annals of FbF. Somehow inevitable. Comes of sharing a very long piece, weakly.
The UK led the West into the age of liberalism and is now leading the Anglosphere out of it and into a civilisational melt-down. The disease has gone way beyond anything that politicians - even if we actually had some effective ones - can now solve. The disease is right through the Civil Service, Education System, Legal System, Police and Military. To take just one bizarre example: this mind-boggling recent story about the experience of someone on a civil service ‘counter -terrorism training course’. What it reveals is basically that the very body set up by the government to COUNTER terrorism (Prevent) is full of people who think countering terrorism is 'RACIST'! https://fathomjournal.org/scandalous-indoctrination-inside-a-kings-college-counter-terrorism-course-for-uk-civil-servants What do you do about people who are THAT full of shit? https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/invasion-of-the-virtue-signallers
It sounds too unbelievable to be true, but it actually is true: Canada is readying itself to throw people into prison for what they say, and to put people under house arrest for “pre-crime”:
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Minority Report 2: Pre-Thought-Crime Unit Boogaloo.
The beauty of censorship is that it reveals the regime's fears and exposes the regime to pushback from below.
The danger for us is not censorship per se, but the possibility of the public simply accepting censorship as legitimate. The danger for the regime is that the imposition of censorship accelerates the collapse in public confidence and trust.
Thank you for another excellent survey of compelling think pieces, good sir.
They suggest to me that a main problem with the late baby boomer/early generation X leadership we have is that they have an appalling lack of vision or creativity. The “really big idea” they had was to liberalize trade, as noted. But that seems to have been born from the failure of the Soviet bloc, in which they had at best marginal roles. Sure they observed it. So, without any historical context, or thinking, they must’ve just thought managing world affairs was easy when they got to the helm.
And now, 30 years on, the developed world is literally facing bankruptcy—morally and economically. Here in the US, for instance, our Treasury markets are exploding, and the official narrative is that all is fine—it can be managed. Leaving the social/moral issues out bc they can get real testy. And the answers to these problems governments offer are surely worse—more gov’t intervention/less freedom, and more moral ambiguity/less human flourishing.
I keep asking, when will the 21st Century really start?
"Canadians tend to be a politically apathetic lot, but something broke the trance during COVID-19. This is not to say that Canadians have become overly political, but they certainly have become much more political than they were just a few years ago."
When Canadians start voting for Maxime Bernier in significant numbers, instead of status quo parties, then I'll believe that statement.
p.s. Canada has a ways to go before we see the kind of abject poverty on display in the streets in the US. But we're heading there.
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Germany's obedience to America is purely superstitious, they don't have to rely on the US, and lately, regarding their business interests around the globe, in Russia and China, what America is demanding is way worse than cracking down on "populists": stop getting cheap energy, and cut ties with the greatest emerging market.
Also, as always, but in the German case doubly so, American military presence, taken for granted, greatly atrophied local forces since the Cold War. Why waste money on playing soldier, if the global bully has a giant base over here?
This subservient status also saves the trouble of having to conduct a foreign policy, which is both unappealing to post-WWII German politicians, and almost always bad for business. Or was, because in this new paradigm, having the balls to stand up to the US is the only way to stay globally competitive.
Two tweets capturing the sentiment of the British Right:
"1924: the Anglican Church is the Tory Party at prayer
2024: the Anglican Church is the Tory Party at prayer (both are full of insane Britain-hating pederasts)"
"W-w-where did all the British patriots go? Rule Britannia, britannia rules the waves? (Not the ones in the channel, apparently)"
There's clearly a contrafactual version of Canada where none of this is happening. For example, having stabilized the population at 30 million and investing heavily in nuclear power. To think this (or that we could do something similar and recover in a decade or two) is "crazy populism" and "disinformation".
Living in the KW/Guelph/Cambridge it is quite clear from the number of warehouses being built and roads to service them that we're all in restructuring the economy around shipping and cheap labour to make that happen. The demographic changes even in the last two and a half years since I moved here are stunning.
Canadaist.
You have got to hand it to the Canadian authorities: they have no illusions and are fully resolved to stay in charge no matter what. But it is quite a gamble to rely on censorship as the central means of control.
Canada is pioneering new forms of governance suitable for a society in managed decline. It is all very chilling.
Thanks very much for this, esp the piece on Canada. Never understood why western elites don't co-opt "populist" ideas on immigration restriction. If they did, voters probably wouldn't be as restive, and they could even continue promiscuous foreign interventions and over financializing the economy!
"I’ll go one step further: if you want to blunt the rise of populism, it’s best to co-opt some of their key policies in order to deflate them. Believe it or not, but doing what the people want actually earns you votes."
What are you, some kind of Putin Hitler lover racist man?!
*sigh*
It's really that simple, and yet.
Objecting to censorship is….wossname….liberal!
Niccolò Soldo, spokeszombie for the Liberal Party of Canada. Sad day Cultural Marxism soils the annals of FbF. Somehow inevitable. Comes of sharing a very long piece, weakly.
The UK led the West into the age of liberalism and is now leading the Anglosphere out of it and into a civilisational melt-down. The disease has gone way beyond anything that politicians - even if we actually had some effective ones - can now solve. The disease is right through the Civil Service, Education System, Legal System, Police and Military. To take just one bizarre example: this mind-boggling recent story about the experience of someone on a civil service ‘counter -terrorism training course’. What it reveals is basically that the very body set up by the government to COUNTER terrorism (Prevent) is full of people who think countering terrorism is 'RACIST'! https://fathomjournal.org/scandalous-indoctrination-inside-a-kings-college-counter-terrorism-course-for-uk-civil-servants What do you do about people who are THAT full of shit? https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/invasion-of-the-virtue-signallers
It sounds too unbelievable to be true, but it actually is true: Canada is readying itself to throw people into prison for what they say, and to put people under house arrest for “pre-crime”:
------------
Minority Report 2: Pre-Thought-Crime Unit Boogaloo.
Sic semper tyrannis
Kagan isn't as much of a "historian" as a neocon Washington swamp demon married to his forever war bride, Victoria Nuland.
The beauty of censorship is that it reveals the regime's fears and exposes the regime to pushback from below.
The danger for us is not censorship per se, but the possibility of the public simply accepting censorship as legitimate. The danger for the regime is that the imposition of censorship accelerates the collapse in public confidence and trust.
Thank you for another excellent survey of compelling think pieces, good sir.
They suggest to me that a main problem with the late baby boomer/early generation X leadership we have is that they have an appalling lack of vision or creativity. The “really big idea” they had was to liberalize trade, as noted. But that seems to have been born from the failure of the Soviet bloc, in which they had at best marginal roles. Sure they observed it. So, without any historical context, or thinking, they must’ve just thought managing world affairs was easy when they got to the helm.
And now, 30 years on, the developed world is literally facing bankruptcy—morally and economically. Here in the US, for instance, our Treasury markets are exploding, and the official narrative is that all is fine—it can be managed. Leaving the social/moral issues out bc they can get real testy. And the answers to these problems governments offer are surely worse—more gov’t intervention/less freedom, and more moral ambiguity/less human flourishing.
I keep asking, when will the 21st Century really start?
"Canadians tend to be a politically apathetic lot, but something broke the trance during COVID-19. This is not to say that Canadians have become overly political, but they certainly have become much more political than they were just a few years ago."
When Canadians start voting for Maxime Bernier in significant numbers, instead of status quo parties, then I'll believe that statement.
p.s. Canada has a ways to go before we see the kind of abject poverty on display in the streets in the US. But we're heading there.