42 Comments
author

Please hit the like button and use the share button to share this across social media. Leave a comment if the mood strikes you. And don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already.

Apologies for the length this week, but too much good stuff to leave out.

Expand full comment

Feminism all men are rapists incest pedo etc;

Having seen the spawn of Esau at close range over time including personal “relationships” be assured the cousins are like inclined.

IOW this is not our Drama, and never was. Tribes always did this, tribes always do this, North American tribes did this, South American tribes still do as Trump alluded to- so this is added to the tab for Diversity.

That’s it. It wasn’t politics, it wasn’t the 70s. It’s thousands of years and its right now.

The personal became political to justify or condemn what was and is long practice- aberrant only to Western culture and Eastern Orthodox. To the rest a matter of course.

Put it on Diversity’s Tab.

Expand full comment

Enjoyed the article as usual but just had one comment. Is the co-optation of right wing populism just another form of neocon commandeering of the right in America. Ensuring that any right wing policy becomes some watered down version acceptable to the left. Again, just satiating enough to pander to the elites who don't seem to be on board with the hope of just waiting out for the populists to lose steam. The left and the center left / neoliberal consensus is well trained in policing any rightward views and making sure to discipline anything that may resemble anything that is not a softened version. I suppose since leftism is an elitist philosophy that this is inevitable (Cthulu always swims left)

Expand full comment

I don't want any political leader that wants to end "separatism" even when worn as a right wing mask.

Without "separatism" in my country, I would have ended up in a school with the Rroma children. Without "separatism", I'd have to live near them and hear their music and occasionally witness the sword fights and other common, rudimentary behaviors, drooling children and smelly moustached dudes.

France with its universalism is the very definition of misguided.

Expand full comment
Feb 6, 2022·edited Feb 6, 2022Liked by Niccolo Soldo

Your line distinguishing the Catholic Church’s scandal from that of the 1970s French intellectual’s (i.e. at least the Catholic’s knew it was evil and hid it) was pretty profound.

Expand full comment
founding
Feb 6, 2022Liked by Niccolo Soldo

The open pedo advocacy of the French elite has always fascinated me. Always felt it was a huge case of saying the silent part out loud in the face of the elite elsewhere, who while engaged in similar acts put on a facade of normalcy. Never understood why the French just went mask off for however a short span.

Expand full comment
Feb 6, 2022Liked by Niccolo Soldo

The 10 Point Industrialization Plan article by Nagle was quite good. Although the history is obviously quite different from Ireland, Croatia, Greece, etc., might Israel offer an interesting model of development for similar size countries?

Also, what country has done the best job of repatriating its diaspora? Again, Israel offers a good model in my opinion but the history and people are clearly different (an understatement). Not sure if any other countries have done a good job at this that could offer good models to follow.

Expand full comment
Feb 6, 2022Liked by Niccolo Soldo

On Zemmour’s sincerity: I have read all of Zemmour’s books in the last 15 years, ready many of his weekly books reviews in Le Figaro, watched him debating on TV for hundreds of hours of various topics. I have no doubt regarding his sincerity, none at all. He is probably even more rightwing that he lets on, but aren’t we all?

Expand full comment

Poyais - I have been through Croatia, I know it's real.

Expand full comment

Why the fuck did you make me read about a French pervert doing that to a girl. Also, having read about these people before, I’m shocked by France’s “shock” when the stories come out: what were you expecting? You read this guy’s stories!?! And liked them!

Expand full comment
Feb 6, 2022Liked by Niccolo Soldo

France (and other European countries) have a bigger problem than immigration that is seldom touched upon even by the biggest of right wing zealots (except Russian ones) and it's the outgoing immigration of locals combined with a below replacement fertility rate. Zemmour has a lot of ideas on the easier questions of how to kick out immigrants and deal with muslims, but I have yet to see him offer a solution to the problem Frances brightest minds leaving the country. And he probably won't because he is, as independant a candidate as one can be, backed by some members of the local elite who want France to start thriving again, but without them having to lose their positions of power and privilege - which we all know is not how social progression and economic development works (the new has to discard of the old).

So you end up trying to fix the symptoms of the underlying issue, but most of the time the solutions are so misguided that you end up with a kind of situation best described by a South Park quote, where a Texan border patrol officer protests: "When we asked Obama to stop illegal immigrants, we didn't mean to make the US so shitty they wouldn't want to come anymore"

Expand full comment
Feb 6, 2022·edited Feb 6, 2022Liked by Niccolo Soldo

Re: #1 - Why is it only taboo for western countries to care about their cultural sovereignty?

Expand full comment
Feb 6, 2022·edited Feb 6, 2022

Funny, so do our Democrat leaders like the young boys and girls.....

Expand full comment
Feb 6, 2022Liked by Niccolo Soldo

Great poast. Having recently read a few sections of Jane Jacobs’ Economy of Cities, I was particularly interested in import replacement r.e. Ireland and Russia

Expand full comment
Feb 6, 2022Liked by Niccolo Soldo

There is a hilarious part in Robert Kaplan's book "The Good American," a biography of Bob Gersony. Gersony was the US establishment's go-to guy when it came to finding out what was going on at various hotspots, including post-Dayton Bosnia. His method involved conducting dozens if not hundreds of interviews with local people affected by the stuff.

An international relations professor at Tufts brings Gersony in to talk to his class every year and the students don't know what to make of it. They think Gersony's Ponce de Leon or Richard Francis Burton or something. IR to them is sitting around an oak table in DC drinking double lattes.

Expand full comment

.

Expand full comment