If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

#530

Is there are any difference between this thread and the main thread?

I agree with you here, especially when there is virtually no action on the main thread. But, some people preferred it to be separate, and I like to honour that.

I took a snide pot-shot at you because you come across as elitist, and seem more interested in fighting low hanging fruit. Everyone who doesn't immediately agree with your knowledgeable and well-written walls of brilliance are clearly stupid and can all be put into the same box. I expected you to take it with some humour or at least self awareness.

I posted my position clearly in this very thread. You responded a few times then thought it was more productive to fight with Brive. Silence, on my part, is not necessarily endorsement of anything another Pitter has posted. It could simply be I have no position, haven't thought about it enough or simply don't care enough to argue.

You also seem to have confused me with someone else. I welcome you to find a single post where I have said good things about Lauren Southern or Faith Goldy. I think the strongest support I've given Southern is that I thought her journalism had improved with her latest documentary ventures than anything that came before, and I've barely seen anything by Goldy. Not all Australians are the same you racist twat (* this is obviously a joke). That video with Dugin and Southern is the first and only time I've seen anything by him, as I didn't find him interesting enough to follow up any other work he's done. The only points I made regarding that was about freedom of association and that even terrible people can have good ideas. The person I most closely align with on this point is Douglas Murray. Him, you can tie me to.

Perhaps you should also reflect on how instinctively blaming "mass migration" and "civic nationalism" for the radicalization of American children because they're of a specific religion is just a teensy bit related to theories of identity as the base of society, instead of simply discussing matters of value. Would you just as instinctively blame "Kirb's civic nationalism" for a bunch of Russian-American Orthodox children being indoctrinated into extremism?

"Instinctively". I've said that I don't think immigration is the problem. The problem is cultural and theological. I was engaging in hyperbole to make a snide swipe at you. Yes, sometimes I'm small minded and mean.

#529

Is there are any difference between this thread and the main thread? All discussion is about the alleged evils of "civic nationalism" anyway.

#528

Keating wrote: ↑ An example of the kind of thing that's necessary to maintain a society:

Absolutely.

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/wp-con ... _small.jpg

#527

Brive1987 wrote: ↑ At least we have the tolerated (and yet intolerable) opinion metric well and truly covered.

Your Wecome

#526

Oh Buzzfeed.

#525

#524

At least we have the tolerated (and yet intolerable) opinion metric well and truly covered.

#523

A musical accompaniment to burning architecture?

#522

An example of the kind of thing that's necessary to maintain a society:

#521

https://quillette.com/2019/04/10/michel ... -or-troll/

#520

When the number of people leaving Australia for good was taken into account, the net annual immigration rate stood at a five-year high of 299,190, which includes international students.

In March, Mr Morrison vowed to slash Australia's net annual immigration rate from 190,000 to 160,000. This level, however, is still dramatically higher than the 20th century average of 70,000 per year.

Australia's net annual immigration pace climbed above 200,000 a year in 2012.

In the five years after that, Sydney's median house price surged by 68 per cent as Melbourne's equivalent values rose by 54 per cent, before a price correction took hold.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... 4-800.html

Let’s plot this “always a nation of immigrants” new data point which excludes students.

https://i.imgur.com/KWj1jWR.png

#519

Kirbmarc wrote: ↑
Brive1987 wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 11, 2019 12:11 am

CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ↑ https..://mobile.twitter.com/coldxman/status/1115460946519121920
I would be astounded if a foreign born child of Indian immigrants wasn’t arguing the merits of unrestrained cultural diversity.

It’s a half way pitch - that liberalism is now SJW intersectional identitarianism. But hey, there’s no need to defend anything.
Jindal was a Republican governor of Louisiana. Hardly a liberal, let alone a SJW.

But you seem to think that color-blind liberal democratic values are the exact same thing of the SocJus, so I understand your confusion.

You are confused. I know full well he is a republican. Probably a neo-con. The liberal=SJW is his pitch.

#518

Brive1987 wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 11, 2019 12:11 am

CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ↑
I would be astounded if a foreign born child of Indian immigrants wasn’t arguing the merits of unrestrained cultural diversity.

It’s a half way pitch - that liberalism is now SJW intersectional identitarianism. But hey, there’s no need to defend anything.

Jindal was a Republican governor of Louisiana. Hardly a liberal, let alone a SJW.

But you seem to think that color-blind liberal democratic values are the exact same thing of the SocJus, so I understand your confusion.

#517

Brive1987 wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 11, 2019 12:11 am

CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ↑
I would be astounded if a foreign born child of Indian immigrants wasn’t arguing the merits of unrestrained cultural diversity.

It’s a half way pitch - that liberalism is now SJW intersectional identitarianism. But hey, there’s no need to defend anything.

Jindal was a Republican governor of Louisiana. Hardly a liberal, let alone a SJW.

But you seem to think that color-blind liberal democratic values are the exact same thing of the SocJus, so I understand your confusion.

#516

CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ↑

I would be astounded if a foreign born child of Indian immigrants wasn’t arguing the merits of unrestrained cultural diversity.

It’s a half way pitch - that liberalism is now SJW intersectional identitarianism. But hey, there’s no need to defend anything.

#515

#514

Ben Shapiro talks about the same underlying problem here:

Starts about 1 hour and 17 minutes.

#513

free thoughtpolice wrote: ↑ Odd that Faith never talks about her physician father and even dropped his name Bazos and goes by her mother's maiden name, Goldy. You would think that as someone that at least pretends to support the patriarchy she wouldn't pull a feminist stunt like dropping her proper surname before she even got married. And now that she is married, she still is using her mother's maiden name, although it's only a few months, she hasn't announced her pregnancy yet so it could be the marriage hasn't been consummated yet. :think:
Even Jenny McDermott, radical feminist, got married, knocked up, and adopted her husbands name (Kiss).
Why should we doubt that she told the story about praying away the cancer? Or shilling for naturopathy? She rebroadcast Alex Jones rant that vaccinating kids is poisoning them without putting in a note that she did not endorse his views on vaccines. Apparently when you said she did put in a statement distancing herself from the antivax thing you were just telling a goldy. It appears that watching her vile propaganda has poisoned your mind and damaged your intellectual honesty and character. :cry:

Not so fast Sonny Jim.

I replied to your vax slander in the main thread. :lol:

I wouldn’t be surprised if Goldy went by her married name outside the public gaze, though even there she might be trying to shield hubby from the crazy shit-flinging. What would surprise me is her dismantling her visible public propaganda brand.

Re baby-talk. We took a year to conceive (endless trying) though our second formed almost with the thought. So much so I secretly had her paternity tested. Go figure. ;)

I will leave it to you to troll-track Goldy’s relationship with her father. I am more interested in how her demographic argument breaks down. Not whether I find her choice of yoghurt offensive.

#512

Odd that Faith never talks about her physician father and even dropped his name Bazos and goes by her mother's maiden name, Goldy. You would think that as someone that at least pretends to support the patriarchy she wouldn't pull a feminist stunt like dropping her proper surname before she even got married. And now that she is married, she still is using her mother's maiden name, although it's only a few months, she hasn't announced her pregnancy yet so it could be the marriage hasn't been consummated yet. :think:
Even Jenny McDermott, radical feminist, got married, knocked up, and adopted her husbands name (Kiss).
Why should we doubt that she told the story about praying away the cancer? Or shilling for naturopathy? She rebroadcast Alex Jones rant that vaccinating kids is poisoning them without putting in a note that she did not endorse his views on vaccines. Apparently when you said she did put in a statement distancing herself from the antivax thing you were just telling a goldy. It appears that watching her vile propaganda has poisoned your mind and damaged your intellectual honesty and character. :cry:

#511

Congratulations. You found a bigger kook than the one you seek to pull down. And one who dislikes Goldy and is happy to strawman. I wasn’t aware Eastern Orthodox revered icons but I will now withdraw my membership application.

#510

It turns out Faith Goldy shouldn't be considered a Christian. Real Christians just hope3 she was an atheist, and then charity3.
http://allanruhl.com/the-decline-of-faith-goldy/

In 2014 she hosted a Catholic event in my city. She moderated a discussion with three local Priests and talked about how she came to faith. She mentioned that she came from a vague Christian background. One of her parents was Greek Orthodox, the other was Ukrainian Greek Catholic. She talked about how her mother was sick and on the brink of death. I can’t remember the specific illness but I believe it was throat cancer or something else to do with the throat. The doctors said that she had two weeks to live. Faith Goldy then found some icons, put them up against her moms throat and prayed over her. Her mom was cured and went on to live for six more years. What a beautiful story. I got to meet her in person at the end of the night.

Then things got dark.

#509

Damned Africa, pipping us at the post. Those billion extra people in Asia ... need a home.

The stubbornly self-identified “Chinese-Australian” community are busy getting both Labor and Liberal to kiss their ring during election season. This one is so ethnically aware that she lambasts one team for including a Taiwanese.

It’s worrying how she rejects racist tokenism from the whites while vigorously maintaining her people’s seperate identity.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal ... 5191w.html

#508

https://i.redd.it/bk0otmc9a1511.png

#507

Keating wrote: ↑
Brive1987 wrote: ↑
Wed Mar 27, 2019 11:01 pm
Reward those people who do not hold dual citizenship
I hold dual citizenship, but I agree it's a really bad idea. I'm not going to cut my nose to spite my face, but it does enable a dual loyalty which isn't good. It's really good that Section 44 of the Constitution has been interpreted in the way it has.

I have dual citizenship too, and think that it is a great idea. My wife has three (British, NZ, and Oz). One of my reasons to get Oz citizenship was to legitimise my bitching about the Government (i.e. having voting rights along with my tax paying rights). My loyalties are only split when the All Blacks are playing the Wallabies and when Australia claims pavlova, Phar Lap, Crowded House etc etc as Ocker.

The Australian psyche is harsher on the common person than the NZ psyche, in my observation. So I claim to be Australian if I am being a bastard, and a Kiwi if I am being compassionate, empathic, educated, capable, etc.

#506

MarcusAu wrote: ↑Also, Don Bradman!

i think the important think is to set principles and then work down to the pragmatic. It provides a vision or strategy for more tactical action. So I don’t believe “thinking big” or impracticality is, in itself, a problem.

Other observations
+ Government can influence institutions without obvious enforced policy.
+ With the right culture, the flag (or our relatively functional government) wouldn’t be a point of contention.
+ the extent of our freedom of speech (aka the Overton window) is already narrow - in favour of progressivism.
+ I’m not adverse to a counter culture that reverses that situation somewhat. In my day bagging the country wasn’t an option

Right now I’d settle for a dramatic slowdown in immigration and family friendly policies.

#505

Also, Don Bradman!

#504

Keating wrote: ↑
Brive1987 wrote: ↑
Wed Mar 27, 2019 11:01 pm
Reward those people who do not hold dual citizenship
I hold dual citizenship, but I agree it's a really bad idea. I'm not going to cut my nose to spite my face, but it does enable a dual loyalty which isn't good. It's really good that Section 44 of the Constitution has been interpreted in the way it has.

I am a septic and a limey. However, I would certainly be willing to relinquish my right to vote, etc, in the UK, if I could retain right of entry, work, and employment - essentially a green card for the UK. I haven't voted there since I moved permanently to the UK since I never intend to return permanently.

#503

Brive1987 wrote: ↑ Pragmatic solutions?

Institute functional language and culture tests - if you can’t communicate you can’t be part of society
Establish English as the official national language
Teach a non black-armband history and celebrate national holidays
Put in place measures to celebrate and promote the family and child rearing
Cut social welfare in favour of return to work
Reward those people who do not hold dual citizenship
Limit or ban most foreign ownership of property - especially infrastructure and residential
Drop state sponsored SJW aligned programs and initiatives
Reject on principle parallel cultural special rights for Islam and other ethnic minorities
Retain the current flag and democratic system
Try to develop strategies that encourages amateur sport
Don’t reward elite institutions who spaz out when cultural emblematic Christianity is occasionally invoked ...
Offer “return to homeland” assistance for those unwilling to play along.

If I could add my 2d worth in (partial) response...though with inflation it might be questionable if it's worth that much.

These seem to be points for a conservative party to raise - I'm not so sure there would be major buy-in from the other side of the spectrum...or somewhere over the rainbow.

Many of them could be argued ad nauseam - for example to define 'SJW aligned programs and initiatives'. At which point half the population might decide that they quite like these things after all. The conservative / libertarian principled position might be to "Shrink government so small we can drown it in a bathtub" as Grover Norquist wrote, but most people in the end accept that politics is the art of compromise and that they will get some of the things they want.

I can't think of a better way to create an organised (or disorganised, I suppose) opposition to something than creating a government policy to enforce it. (Though not everything in the list gives that as the solution). It's a list of things to create / promote a sense of community or national identity...but at some point does it not come into conflict with other principles eg Freedom of Speech? The NZ government might argue 'no' - ie that society must be protected from bad or harmful ideas if it is to flourish.

re the Australian flag (or the NZ one, or the Union one, I suppose) - if enough people wanted to change it - would there be a democratic path to do so? Same with getting rid of the queen.

I'm all for 'spazzing' out for anyone that wants to do so. I'll take on a case by case basis what reward (or punishment) should be given. To what extent people are institutions I don't know. (Though I think my dad considered Dawn Fraser to be one).

#502

Brive1987 wrote: ↑ We sold the fucking port of Darwin. Not cool.

Yes - if the 'You Broke it You Bought It' principle applies - it should be the Japanese.

#501

https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/861 ... ?width=650

Interesting. And a bit sad eh? Most leaving Sydney are established residents

I’m not trying to effect change via the Slymepit. I am testing my thinking against the liberal worldview.

Dole = unemployment benefits.
SJW programs include shit like safe schools and SBS. -not Unis which are commercial for profits focused on foreign revenue.
History should look at the national narrative from a positive perspective. Founding, development and institutions.
Benign institutional Christianity has a natural rather than a required role.
I’d reward non dual nationalities by punishing dual citizens holders. Tax, voting, ability to hold office. Stuff like that.
We sold the fucking port of Darwin. Not cool. You don’t sell the silverware.

http://theconversation.com/darwin-ports ... ion-108254

#500

Brive1987 wrote: ↑
Wed Mar 27, 2019 11:01 pm
Reward those people who do not hold dual citizenship

I hold dual citizenship, but I agree it's a really bad idea. I'm not going to cut my nose to spite my face, but it does enable a dual loyalty which isn't good. It's really good that Section 44 of the Constitution has been interpreted in the way it has.

#499

Brive1987 wrote: ↑ Ie ditch the dole (which encourages the embrace of victimhood) in favour of proactive measures geared at self esteem and personal productivity.

The devil is the details here. What exactly are these measures you're proposing? "The dole" is a term with many connotations. Maternity leave, family checks, or access to childcare, have been described as "the dole", even if they're actually very much what you need to give more incentives to motherhood.

#498

Brive1987 wrote: ↑Limit immigration to 70k pa

Theoretically not impossible, but in order to convince people to support this reform, you need to appeal to a vast number of voters, far beyond those who can stomach the identity politics of the alt-right.

Institute functional language and culture tests - if you can’t communicate you can’t be part of society
Establish English as the official national language

If properly implemented, this doesn't sound too bad. It also doesn't require the "cultural replacement" rhetoric.

Teach a non black-armband history and celebrate national holidays

Again, the trick is how you set this up, but nothing too awful, at least on those terms. History is complex and hardly ever morally black or white, but some public recognition of important moments of the past is not a bad idea. As long as it's not used to promote alienation of a part of the population, and instead inspired by messages of unity along the lines of the institutions of the country, I see nothing wrong with this.

I actually think that the simplistic SocJus rhetoric turns some academic arguments over history into banal platitudes ("oppressed/oppressors") that do not actually help anyone.

Reward those people who do not hold dual citizenship

How so? The devil seems to be in the details with this one.

Limit or ban most foreign ownership of property - especially infrastructure and residential

This will severely limit trade, and have very bad effects on your economy. It's also quite illiberal, at least on those terms.

Drop state sponsored SJW aligned programs and initiatives

It depends on how this is implemented. Done badly it could severely impact academic freedom. It's better to put rules to limit ideological dogpiling by limiting the power of people to fire or "deplatform" people for their political views, and let academia sort itself out.

Reject on principle parallel cultural special rights for Islam and other ethnic minorities

Nothing to object here.

Retain the current flag and democratic system

Perfectly doable without any negative consequence.

Try to develop strategies that encourages amateur sport

I'd add in strategies to encourage civic engagement over shared projects. Sport is definitely an avenue for community building, but not the only one.

Don’t reward elite institutions who spaz out when cultural emblematic Christianity is occasionally invoked ...

I don't think Christianity needs to have a special institutional place in order for your plan to function.

Offer “return to homeland” assistance for those unwilling to play along.

This is very unlikely to happen, at least voluntarily.

These seem to be a pretty reasonable set of club house rules.

Some are more reasonable than others. However even some of the most reasonable ones probably require you to win elections to be implemented. And in order to do that, the overly "ethnic" focus of your favorite Youtube pundits very likely needs to go. Looking at Australian elections, there doesn't seem to be much room for an identitarian, ethnic-based far-right movement anyway.

Bitching online on a small forum won't help you to get anything done. And promoting grifters like Goldy or Southern is even less likely to get you where you want.

#497

Ie ditch the dole (which encourages the embrace of victimhood) in favour of proactive measures geared at self esteem and personal productivity.

#496

Kirbmarc wrote: ↑
Put in place measures to celebrate and promote the family and child rearing
Cut social welfare in favour of return to work
Those two measures are incompatible. Two of the biggest reasons why people make less children is that a) they cannot afford them, especially not if they don't have a stable income and/or access to child-care services and b) they have to work and so have less time to take care of them, especially if child care services are non-existent/too expensive.

Part of celebrating the family is engineering an environment where women have the economic option of bing mothers.
This is not incompatible with replacing social welfare safety nets with employment opportunity and training.

#495

This is a pretty good article about the underlying morality that's going on:
https://quillette.com/2019/03/27/the-ex ... -morality/

It would be useful for Haidt's work to be more widely read. It really explains shitloads about what's going on.

#494

MarcusAu wrote: ↑
Kirbmarc wrote: ↑ Those two measures are incompatible. Two of the biggest reasons why people make less children is that a) they cannot afford them, especially not if they don't have a stable income and/or access to child-care services and b) they have to work and so have less time to take care of them, especially if child care services are non-existent/too expensive.
Which is the conservative criticism of capitalism. Ie that it disrupts traditional communities.

Some sort of safety net/network of access to services that encourages people to invest in their children is an idea I can get behind, even as someone who's definitely not a conservative.

#493

Kirbmarc wrote: ↑ Those two measures are incompatible. Two of the biggest reasons why people make less children is that a) they cannot afford them, especially not if they don't have a stable income and/or access to child-care services and b) they have to work and so have less time to take care of them, especially if child care services are non-existent/too expensive.

Which is the conservative criticism of capitalism. Ie that it disrupts traditional communities.

#492

Put in place measures to celebrate and promote the family and child rearing
Cut social welfare in favour of return to work

Those two measures are incompatible. Two of the biggest reasons why people make less children is that a) they cannot afford them, especially not if they don't have a stable income and/or access to child-care services and b) they have to work and so have less time to take care of them, especially if child care services are non-existent/too expensive.

#491

I see The Goldern One has just spawned his first cub. Brittany is engaged but waiting to see if Hubby is carted off in the back of a paddy wagon. Blonde has just gotten married, moved away from Progressive Seattle to Nebraska (or Utah?) and is “getting on with it”. Lauren is the only outlier. At 23 she’s got a year or two before the ticking starts.

#490

free thoughtpolice wrote: ↑
I'm either lucky or good, or a mix of those. Four kids, solid thinkers. No SJW, no Alt-Right
You have achieved far more than the most rabid white supremacist. I'm guessing you and your wife are white and by a consistent read have raised 4 well adjusted white kids. Maybe I'm out of touch with the cool alt right types but I want to give you more white supremacist cred than the hate mongering great replacement types like Faith and Southern that put their attention whoring "careers" ahead of their stated beliefs and aren't willing to put the effort to raising the kids that will "be replaced".
Better still I'm guessing you have had your family based on better motives than saving the white race.
:clap:

:lol: :lol: :mrgreen:

Has Faith been married a full 9 months yet?

The real trad-righter of course was wife with a purpose. She who issued a birthing challenge, and got piled on for her trouble.

#489

CFB:

Brive's vision of a community of like- minded folks is a fantasy on par with Steersman's population transfers. 'taint gonna happen. Just serves to rile folks up and generate Paetron bux.

You have a ridiculous habit of straw-personing which hints at lazy thinking.

Australia never had a fantasy of like minded folks. The differences simply didn’t have the current huge cultural chasms between them.

Pragmatic solutions?

Limit immigration to 70k pa
Institute functional language and culture tests - if you can’t communicate you can’t be part of society
Establish English as the official national language
Teach a non black-armband history and celebrate national holidays
Put in place measures to celebrate and promote the family and child rearing
Cut social welfare in favour of return to work
Reward those people who do not hold dual citizenship
Limit or ban most foreign ownership of property - especially infrastructure and residential
Drop state sponsored SJW aligned programs and initiatives
Reject on principle parallel cultural special rights for Islam and other ethnic minorities
Retain the current flag and democratic system
Try to develop strategies that encourages amateur sport
Don’t reward elite institutions who spaz out when cultural emblematic Christianity is occasionally invoked ...
Offer “return to homeland” assistance for those unwilling to play along.

These seem to be a pretty reasonable set of club house rules.

#488

CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ↑
Wed Mar 27, 2019 7:22 pm
The idea of group cohesion may be noble, in a narrow sense, but is it practical?

Probably not, but I suspect the alternative is continued escalation of violence until the entire system collapses.

This is what you're working with. You might not like Kirb's message of enlightenment values, but tell me what else is gonna work.

If that was the baseline, I wouldn't be nearly as worried. But, as you just agreed above this, the academy itself is churning out communists because of over-privileged children who have never experienced hardship.

[quite]You're stuck with the immigrants you already have, you're stuck with the white kids you already have, and most traditional values are simply a trope on the internet. I understand your message, but I fail utterly to understand how you hope to work that into a coherent society with shared goals. Sans that enlightenment message, what do you hope to pass on to the next generation?[/quote]

My point is that we should stop making the problem worse while we try to get back to that enlightenment message. I don't think we can keep doing what we're doing and not expect increased division and eventual collapse. I'd argue the problem is very analogous to climate change. Very hard to work out exactly what needs to be done, and very hard to get every one to agree, but some things are so obviously working against ourselves, that they should be fairly easy to do something about. In the end, though, we already may be too far gone.

#487

I'm either lucky or good, or a mix of those. Four kids, solid thinkers. No SJW, no Alt-Right

You have achieved far more than the most rabid white supremacist. I'm guessing you and your wife are white and by a consistent read have raised 4 well adjusted white kids. Maybe I'm out of touch with the cool alt right types but I want to give you more white supremacist cred than the hate mongering great replacement types like Faith and Southern that put their attention whoring "careers" ahead of their stated beliefs and aren't willing to put the effort to raising the kids that will "be replaced".
Better still I'm guessing you have had your family based on better motives than saving the white race.
:clap:

#486

#485

Keating- I had a longer post that somehow dropped in the cracks, here's a quicker, dirtier, somewhat inebriated version-
The idea of group cohesion may be noble, in a narrow sense, but is it practical? You talk about a shared narrative and sense of identity, but society as a whole can't even communicate or spread this to our own native ethnic groups. Marriage and family is being delayed or abandoned by increasing numbers of whites. They're embracing socialism or communism and failing to integrate into their own families, let alone broader society and civic values. Brive's vision of a community of like- minded folks is a fantasy on par with Steersman's population transfers. 'taint gonna happen. Just serves to rile folks up and generate Paetron bux.

I'm either lucky or good, or a mix of those. Four kids, solid thinkers. No SJW, no Alt-Right. They know how to shoot a rifle, start a fire and change a tire. Guessing far more trad than most folk going on about trad values. I'm comfortable that they share my values. Most of my peers aren't so lucky. Their kids are basically nihilists or simply too vapid to form opinions. You go to colleges or universities anywhere in the English-speaking world and you'll see a pampered, sheltered class of snowflakes. Even the conservative kids will "screeee" if they're challenged.

This is what you're working with. You might not like Kirb's message of enlightenment values, but tell me what else is gonna work. You're stuck with the immigrants you already have, you're stuck with the white kids you already have, and most traditional values are simply a trope on the internet. I understand your message, but I fail utterly to understand how you hope to work that into a coherent society with shared goals. Sans that enlightenment message, what do you hope to pass on to the next generation?

#484

https://dailystormer.name/i-wish-donald ... insurance/

#483

I just thought she was a dear old duck - who was pleasant enough to listen to - even if she did not have that much to say in the allotted TV time.

And of course as an student of history - you must appreciate primary sources.

#482

MarcusAu wrote: ↑ This seems an appropriate place to post this...

[BBvideo=560,315]https...://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4FZkXvAY94[/BBvideo]

Interesting stuff. Thanks.

The trick of course is not to return via Tardis to the past. Rather, to identify, defend and scaffold the peculiar and valuable cultural pieces which defined the group as unique.

Though aspiration never hurts ...

http://i.imgur.com/xxfxRtI.jpg

#481

This seems an appropriate place to post this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4FZkXvAY94

#480

#479

CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ↑I'd like some proof that racial diviseness can't be solved before I'd remotely consider that to be a valid position. What we're in now is a tiny blip in history, maybe even just growing pains.

I didn't mean to imply that racial divisiveness couldn't ever be solved; I don't believe that. However, where I think there is a problem is if the new arrivals don't have to integrate because there are so many of them that they can continue their previous culture without any need to mix with the existing population. The larger those conclaves grow, the bigger the problem precisely because there is no exchange of culture. I think there is reasonable evidence for this, the most prominent being Putnam's work. (Of course, this is not strictly an immigration problem, as I have maintained, we also have a problem that the existing population doesn't mix with each other either. This has been a problem since the invention of television, and it's only gotten worse.)

People throughout history have had little to no say in events. We're actually at a time when the common person has the most say in events at any time in recorded history. The idea that we don't is a pernicious illusion usually wrought by those selling something.

We also haven't had population transfers on this scale, or where we have, they have completely destroyed the existing population (Americas and Australia). People in the UK still discuss the cultural implications in 50,000 Huguenots coming to the UK three hundred years ago. That's not even a year's worth of immigration today.

#478

Seems relevant.

#477

Keating wrote: ↑
CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ↑We do need a better narrative, but retreating into enclaves of homogeneous cultures isn't going to make a better narrative. The racial divisiveness of identitarian politics on both sides are stirring up animosity and hate. That won't end well.
The point isn't to retreat, but an acknowledgement that the racial divisiveness cannot be solved while we simultaneously increase the size of ethnic-conclaves and also produce students who actively hate the existing citizens who have to deal with the results of the growing conclaves.

The anywheres versus somewheres framing is very useful here. Even in Canberra, most people die within 100 km of where they were born. However, almost all of the power in the conversation is held by those who probably won't. It's the speed of the change, and the feeling that you have no say at all that breeds radicalisation.

I'd like some proof that racial diviseness can't be solved before I'd remotely consider that to be a valid position. What we're in now is a tiny blip in history, maybe even just growing pains.

People throughout history have had little to no say in events. We're actually at a time when the common person has the most say in events at any time in recorded history. The idea that we don't is a pernicious illusion usually wrought by those selling something.

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free thoughtpolice wrote: ↑ I hope this doesn't poison the discourse here.

https...://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrxUbbyjN-w

Fuck off troll.

:)

Starts at 1 min. Hear the succubus demolish Christchurch conspiracy theories, enjoin white males to productive advocacy and promise to run as PM. :dance:

One day. :(

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I hope this doesn't poison the discourse here.

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:think:

Hopefully UN endorsed “replacement migration” is startlingly distinct from a (or “the”) Replacement Theory.

If so, the UN needs a new phrase.

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Keating has centred his POV on:

The legitimacy of “culture” as a social framework.
The need for an inclusive identifiable narrative owned by geo-groups (nations) distinctive across different nations
An argument against ethnic enclaves.
Concern over observed rapid and unplanned demographic change in Sydney
Institutions based on “cultural traditions”
The illegitimacy of the existing immigration process and procedure
A moratorium on more immigration until we get this shit under control

I am happy to concur with this sane and reasoned approach. Motion seconded. And I (obviously) couldn’t have said it better myself. :mrgreen:

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Lsuoma wrote: ↑ I hate so say this, because he's Strine, but Keating is basically the only sane, reasoned voice I'm seeing in these threads. Everyone else is trolling, stupid, ungenerous, disingenuous, obtuse, or any mixture of the above.

The important thing in a forum is to actually express an opinion - which can be tested and challenged. I find the strong silent types to be useless in that process.

YMMV.

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