I read a lot of quality content on substack. This one wins the prize for the day. I’m saving it for the archives. Your conclusion was best. I too have had to become comfortable with, “I don’t know.” Keeps your eyes peeled and your powder dry. Thank you Max.
Literally this morning, BBC TV (broadcast on PBS 3 times a day) did a whole 10 minute segment on the Rotherham grooming gangs. Why? Because Elon Musk tweeted about it.
They interviewed the former head of the National Child Trafficking Investigation Committee setup after the Rotherham events became too large to ignore (and a cynical person might say the committee was setup to whitewash them). She insisted that no additional investigation is necessary and that the recommendations her committee came up with just need to be fully implemented. Then there was another 6-7 minutes interviewing the BBC Westminster correspondent to discuss the the opinions of the political class about child sexual abuse and how the Labour PM also insists that no additional investigation is necessary and the Tories might get a bill voted on tomorrow to get a new investigation, a vote which they will surely lose, and that's the real story, since the rest is from 7 years ago.
It's great to see the BBC talking about this issue. It would have been even better if they'd ever said the words "Arab", "Muslim", immigrant", "refugee", or anything similar. They did make sure to say the girls were "mentally disabled". So if you watched the BBC (and this was the case 7 years ago when it happened too), you would think it a bunch of unemployed blokes from East Midlands who were down on their luck decided to take out their frustrations at life by raping a few not-so-bright schoolgirls. And we all know those unemployed lads are pretty sketchy, so really, there's nothing to see here.
Want to see a great example of this? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w69p2vz0lo Actual quote from the man who broke the story: "He admitted that he had had to balance his instinct to reveal the abuse with concerns that the story's publication would both stoke the reaction of the far-right and lead to accusations of racism." Because that's the real problem with Pakistani Muslims raping 1400 British schoolgirls for months... noticing might embolden bad people.
When your ruling class can't even accurately describe a problem, they have no chance of solving it.
Regarding Europe's collapse, anyone who hasn't read Michel Houllebecq's Submission should check it out from the library right now. It sounded absurd when he wrote it. Within a couple of years it sounded possibly prophetic. Now it sounds imminent.
The concern over the far-right has become infuriating. I hope history looks back at the post-WWII era as nearly a century-long moral panic. There's literally nothing they won't blame on the far-right, literally nothing worth doing out of fear of the far-right. If you've got Pakistani Muslims raping 1,400 British girls for months and the state does nothing about it, I DON'T THINK THE FAR-RIGHT IS ANYWHERE CLOSE TO BEING THE PROBLEM.
Europeans, even when opposed to mass immigration, still think of immigration as an overall positive thing. Also, when you ask them to elaborate, most aren't ready to say, "Send them back." Instead, most are still committed to somehow assimilating and integrating them. Until this foundational aspect of European attitudes towards immigration changes, there's no hope. Even if Europe finds that elusive "will" to resist, demographic change is permanent.
Americans also generally have a positive attitude towards immigration. But there's also much greater resistance to illegal immigration. I'm confident America will learn to control our borders again, but we've still got a ways to go before that all-important sense of urgency sets in.
In my lifetime, Britain will become the Lebanon of the West. We all know what eventually became of it. Given what kind of people the British have become, I find it hard to shed tears for them.
Literally twenty years ago, the writer, Theodore Dalrymple said something which I wish I had tried to google for, but Google doesn't appear to appreciate style, so I doubt I'd have found it.
Dalrymple was writing about England's underclass. He had been all over the world by then, and wrote that he was convinced that the English underclass was the most spiritually, morally, intellectually, emotionally bereft of them all.
The underclass. That was bad enough. Is it really true that the native English have ceased to think of themselves as a people, and that they lack the will to resist? Or does that will still exist? Hasn't Elon Musk just said he considers Nigel Farage a fraud, which is my impression, too?
Is Tommy Robinson really the first Englishman sentenced to prison for contempt of court because his conduct in the courtroom was too gorilla - like even for the English, who within their traditionally pent up souls have always seemed to secretly relish wildmen, or because he might actually be able to organize a resistance? Yesterday's Piers Morgan Uncensored was about Robinson and the grooming gangs, and though one of the young English panelists is a disgrace, the young American woman, whom I had never heard of, is a treasure.
What, really, they can't find a Cromwell? Perhaps they can't.
After reading about the sexual abuse of girls in Britain I realized that could have easily have been me. I grew up in a strict capital punishment Muslim country and was subjected to daily sexual advances by immigrants to that country. However the big difference between my host country and Britain was that rape was subjected to castration, murder to hanging, stealing to cutting off your left hand. So I was propositioned many times but never subjected to abuse. Heinous crimes require strict punishment.
Indeed, they do. Something like 4% of the population commits 60% of the crimes in Canada. It's bound to be a much more notable figure in the United States. An honorable society protects women. I can't see any rationale for not only the maintaining of the death penalty for murder, but the expansion of its use to deal with pedophiles, repeated rapists, and certainly with child traffickers. Thank God, you were spared.
Jack Symes is insufferable. The American woman at the end must be the person you're describing as a treasure. The Black British woman had it mostly right also, surprisingly.
I was talking to an X mutual today. We were discussing how the Ulsters of Northern Ireland are the most patriotic of Britons. These were the people who settled Appalachia and the inland areas of the South U.S. And yet, they're stuck between being forced to live in United Ireland and continuing to be part of a union that calls itself "Britain," but is most anti-British. If I feel for anyone, it's the Ulsters.
I read a lot of quality content on substack. This one wins the prize for the day. I’m saving it for the archives. Your conclusion was best. I too have had to become comfortable with, “I don’t know.” Keeps your eyes peeled and your powder dry. Thank you Max.
Thank you, that's mighty kind of you to say! It makes me feel like I'm really contributing to the discourse.
Literally this morning, BBC TV (broadcast on PBS 3 times a day) did a whole 10 minute segment on the Rotherham grooming gangs. Why? Because Elon Musk tweeted about it.
They interviewed the former head of the National Child Trafficking Investigation Committee setup after the Rotherham events became too large to ignore (and a cynical person might say the committee was setup to whitewash them). She insisted that no additional investigation is necessary and that the recommendations her committee came up with just need to be fully implemented. Then there was another 6-7 minutes interviewing the BBC Westminster correspondent to discuss the the opinions of the political class about child sexual abuse and how the Labour PM also insists that no additional investigation is necessary and the Tories might get a bill voted on tomorrow to get a new investigation, a vote which they will surely lose, and that's the real story, since the rest is from 7 years ago.
It's great to see the BBC talking about this issue. It would have been even better if they'd ever said the words "Arab", "Muslim", immigrant", "refugee", or anything similar. They did make sure to say the girls were "mentally disabled". So if you watched the BBC (and this was the case 7 years ago when it happened too), you would think it a bunch of unemployed blokes from East Midlands who were down on their luck decided to take out their frustrations at life by raping a few not-so-bright schoolgirls. And we all know those unemployed lads are pretty sketchy, so really, there's nothing to see here.
Want to see a great example of this? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w69p2vz0lo Actual quote from the man who broke the story: "He admitted that he had had to balance his instinct to reveal the abuse with concerns that the story's publication would both stoke the reaction of the far-right and lead to accusations of racism." Because that's the real problem with Pakistani Muslims raping 1400 British schoolgirls for months... noticing might embolden bad people.
When your ruling class can't even accurately describe a problem, they have no chance of solving it.
Regarding Europe's collapse, anyone who hasn't read Michel Houllebecq's Submission should check it out from the library right now. It sounded absurd when he wrote it. Within a couple of years it sounded possibly prophetic. Now it sounds imminent.
The concern over the far-right has become infuriating. I hope history looks back at the post-WWII era as nearly a century-long moral panic. There's literally nothing they won't blame on the far-right, literally nothing worth doing out of fear of the far-right. If you've got Pakistani Muslims raping 1,400 British girls for months and the state does nothing about it, I DON'T THINK THE FAR-RIGHT IS ANYWHERE CLOSE TO BEING THE PROBLEM.
Europeans, even when opposed to mass immigration, still think of immigration as an overall positive thing. Also, when you ask them to elaborate, most aren't ready to say, "Send them back." Instead, most are still committed to somehow assimilating and integrating them. Until this foundational aspect of European attitudes towards immigration changes, there's no hope. Even if Europe finds that elusive "will" to resist, demographic change is permanent.
Americans also generally have a positive attitude towards immigration. But there's also much greater resistance to illegal immigration. I'm confident America will learn to control our borders again, but we've still got a ways to go before that all-important sense of urgency sets in.
In my lifetime, Britain will become the Lebanon of the West. We all know what eventually became of it. Given what kind of people the British have become, I find it hard to shed tears for them.
Literally twenty years ago, the writer, Theodore Dalrymple said something which I wish I had tried to google for, but Google doesn't appear to appreciate style, so I doubt I'd have found it.
Dalrymple was writing about England's underclass. He had been all over the world by then, and wrote that he was convinced that the English underclass was the most spiritually, morally, intellectually, emotionally bereft of them all.
The underclass. That was bad enough. Is it really true that the native English have ceased to think of themselves as a people, and that they lack the will to resist? Or does that will still exist? Hasn't Elon Musk just said he considers Nigel Farage a fraud, which is my impression, too?
Is Tommy Robinson really the first Englishman sentenced to prison for contempt of court because his conduct in the courtroom was too gorilla - like even for the English, who within their traditionally pent up souls have always seemed to secretly relish wildmen, or because he might actually be able to organize a resistance? Yesterday's Piers Morgan Uncensored was about Robinson and the grooming gangs, and though one of the young English panelists is a disgrace, the young American woman, whom I had never heard of, is a treasure.
What, really, they can't find a Cromwell? Perhaps they can't.
After reading about the sexual abuse of girls in Britain I realized that could have easily have been me. I grew up in a strict capital punishment Muslim country and was subjected to daily sexual advances by immigrants to that country. However the big difference between my host country and Britain was that rape was subjected to castration, murder to hanging, stealing to cutting off your left hand. So I was propositioned many times but never subjected to abuse. Heinous crimes require strict punishment.
Indeed, they do. Something like 4% of the population commits 60% of the crimes in Canada. It's bound to be a much more notable figure in the United States. An honorable society protects women. I can't see any rationale for not only the maintaining of the death penalty for murder, but the expansion of its use to deal with pedophiles, repeated rapists, and certainly with child traffickers. Thank God, you were spared.
Are you talking about this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKCB-MhBP7I
Jack Symes is insufferable. The American woman at the end must be the person you're describing as a treasure. The Black British woman had it mostly right also, surprisingly.
I was talking to an X mutual today. We were discussing how the Ulsters of Northern Ireland are the most patriotic of Britons. These were the people who settled Appalachia and the inland areas of the South U.S. And yet, they're stuck between being forced to live in United Ireland and continuing to be part of a union that calls itself "Britain," but is most anti-British. If I feel for anyone, it's the Ulsters.
No! I hadn't known about it. Thank you. It's late where I am, so I'll look at it after I sleep.