Magisterial, frightening, and darkly comic all at once. I also replaced US, American, America etc. with Canada, Canadian etc. and essentially arrived at the same destination.
The whole let anyone in as long as they work hard fallacy implodes when you start doing the math as you did that most of these hard working small business owners from other countries are being funneled tons of tax payer cash for those ventures. The same way the moron factory owners get on the news and whine after a deportation raid about how hard working those people are and doing the jobs Americans won’t do while completely ignoring the massive investment in housing, welfare, and various other tax payer funded goodies that allow that foreign worker to work for lower wages doing those jobs that actual Americans can’t afford to do at those wages without the government going in 50/50 with the factory owner to fund their existence! Excellent but thoroughly depressing piece! I do have hopes though that more and more people are seeing the reality you put forward and pushing back.
Excellent piece. I can't imagine showing it to any Boomer or Gen X'er unfortunately, I guarantee their eyes would glaze over and every thing said here would simply bounce off. Wonder how you fix that besides waiting for them to die off
Well, this GenX'er devoured it and learned so much from it. Thank you to the author for writing it. And now I will share it with all my GenX friends and family. There are more of us clued into all of this than you know because many of us have GenZ kids about whom we care deeply and desire for them to have fulfilling lives.
Thank you for taking the time to write this - I really appreciated all the quotes, speeches and tweets. Ever since I read 'Darkness At Noon' I've been haunted and fascinated by the Soviet era. Lucky me, I get to experience a flavour of it today!
Wow. Great essay. Thank you for writing this. I have a deeper insight into the decay and ultimate dissolution of the Soviet Union.
The US has always amused - the complexity of litigation and forceful cultural movements have no parallel. We live in an era where we have become the slave to systems of our own design. How remarkable it is to watch survival trump all else - dignity and fairness. I get it but by God dying in ditch because you were told to is very different to being there because you felt like you were defending something moral.
This article is a lot of undeniable truths mixed with a lot of bollocks. I can't decide if I love it or hate it.
I get that you needed a strong metaphor to point out the failings of current USA, but your information on a Soviet Union is lacking at best. Selection bias maybe? You can't get a full plethora of sources if you never lived in that territory, it's only the emigrants who're most loud.
Most of what's said about SU pre-WWII is right, especially your stance on Stalin's purges. What comes next is... puzzling. Being born to parents who were Soviet citizens and researching the past heavily with spoken interviews, I know some peculiar things. I don't think you can paint a full picture by reading Soviet propaganda, nor Western propaganda, nor dissident books, nor hyper-patriotic books.
I would say that's how any comparison or metaphor functions. We contrast 2 unrelated things and try to point to some deeper pattern or truth. There are limits to this approach and I think it's fair to acknowledge that, as you correctly pointed out.
That's a good description of what a metaphor is, but your metaphor sounded more like "look, this flax seed is as brown and small as a grown apple", while the apple itself is not brown nor small, only its seed was
its just the "Civil Rights Regime"? But the deep economic, political, scientific, governmental, and educational centralizations and their attendant centralized bureaucratizations and governmental and economic central plannings had already begun to get up and running in the early or mid 1960s and they had about a 20 year build out time before that
Remember the famous observation; if something is unsustainable it will stop.
Endless population shifts, promoting based on quotas, abusing the demographic that build the first world. Their ideas are unworkable. The accumulated capital keeps the show on the road for a while, but the replacements can't generate new capital as we now see. So they are running out of steam.
I see balkanization in the future, along with a dramatic shift in perception. I suspect white ethnic awareness will emerge and at that point all bets are off.
To simply return to the status quo ante, before white-haters (Jews, blacks, Marxists, etc.) took over the country is impossible. A more radical vision is needed than the Hobbit-like ambitions that the English settlers of America had. One of forging a new people, of selective breeding, of conquering the galaxy, great deeds achieved collectively.
Magisterial, frightening, and darkly comic all at once. I also replaced US, American, America etc. with Canada, Canadian etc. and essentially arrived at the same destination.
thanks bro
Fantastic
thanks Roy, very kind of you
The whole let anyone in as long as they work hard fallacy implodes when you start doing the math as you did that most of these hard working small business owners from other countries are being funneled tons of tax payer cash for those ventures. The same way the moron factory owners get on the news and whine after a deportation raid about how hard working those people are and doing the jobs Americans won’t do while completely ignoring the massive investment in housing, welfare, and various other tax payer funded goodies that allow that foreign worker to work for lower wages doing those jobs that actual Americans can’t afford to do at those wages without the government going in 50/50 with the factory owner to fund their existence! Excellent but thoroughly depressing piece! I do have hopes though that more and more people are seeing the reality you put forward and pushing back.
Really excellent piece. Almost too powerful, the overview of calamities nearly overpowered the white pill.
thanks brother, admire your writing
Excellent piece. I can't imagine showing it to any Boomer or Gen X'er unfortunately, I guarantee their eyes would glaze over and every thing said here would simply bounce off. Wonder how you fix that besides waiting for them to die off
yes it’s a dilemma
Well, this GenX'er devoured it and learned so much from it. Thank you to the author for writing it. And now I will share it with all my GenX friends and family. There are more of us clued into all of this than you know because many of us have GenZ kids about whom we care deeply and desire for them to have fulfilling lives.
Thank you for taking the time to write this - I really appreciated all the quotes, speeches and tweets. Ever since I read 'Darkness At Noon' I've been haunted and fascinated by the Soviet era. Lucky me, I get to experience a flavour of it today!
kek!
That book is on my list. I've got to move it up.
Amazing read!
thanks bro
Wow. Great essay. Thank you for writing this. I have a deeper insight into the decay and ultimate dissolution of the Soviet Union.
The US has always amused - the complexity of litigation and forceful cultural movements have no parallel. We live in an era where we have become the slave to systems of our own design. How remarkable it is to watch survival trump all else - dignity and fairness. I get it but by God dying in ditch because you were told to is very different to being there because you felt like you were defending something moral.
thanks bro I appreciate it
This article is a lot of undeniable truths mixed with a lot of bollocks. I can't decide if I love it or hate it.
I get that you needed a strong metaphor to point out the failings of current USA, but your information on a Soviet Union is lacking at best. Selection bias maybe? You can't get a full plethora of sources if you never lived in that territory, it's only the emigrants who're most loud.
Most of what's said about SU pre-WWII is right, especially your stance on Stalin's purges. What comes next is... puzzling. Being born to parents who were Soviet citizens and researching the past heavily with spoken interviews, I know some peculiar things. I don't think you can paint a full picture by reading Soviet propaganda, nor Western propaganda, nor dissident books, nor hyper-patriotic books.
Do you?
Good criticism that my comparison only works from a certain level of abstraction, and the more you zoom into the specifics the less it makes sense.
I would say that's how any comparison or metaphor functions. We contrast 2 unrelated things and try to point to some deeper pattern or truth. There are limits to this approach and I think it's fair to acknowledge that, as you correctly pointed out.
That's a good description of what a metaphor is, but your metaphor sounded more like "look, this flax seed is as brown and small as a grown apple", while the apple itself is not brown nor small, only its seed was
disagree
btw if you want a shitshow to pinpoint, look into a black streamer who desecrated the Latvia's main monument
my friends just forwarded me the video and it's nuts
seems that Latvia has precisely 0 self-respect and sovereignity they cry so loud about
irrelevant
it's not relevant to this specific article, it's very relevant to the cuckoldism of the Western world
its just the "Civil Rights Regime"? But the deep economic, political, scientific, governmental, and educational centralizations and their attendant centralized bureaucratizations and governmental and economic central plannings had already begun to get up and running in the early or mid 1960s and they had about a 20 year build out time before that
it started around 1880s-1930s with American bureaucracy
Remember the famous observation; if something is unsustainable it will stop.
Endless population shifts, promoting based on quotas, abusing the demographic that build the first world. Their ideas are unworkable. The accumulated capital keeps the show on the road for a while, but the replacements can't generate new capital as we now see. So they are running out of steam.
I see balkanization in the future, along with a dramatic shift in perception. I suspect white ethnic awareness will emerge and at that point all bets are off.
To simply return to the status quo ante, before white-haters (Jews, blacks, Marxists, etc.) took over the country is impossible. A more radical vision is needed than the Hobbit-like ambitions that the English settlers of America had. One of forging a new people, of selective breeding, of conquering the galaxy, great deeds achieved collectively.