Those that support mass immigration are the furthest away from living with it.
Those that support Palestine are the furthest away from visiting it.
Those that support war with Russia will be the furthest away from fighting in it.
Pattern recognition, much?
I don't want Australia to lose its identity and resemble an Asian nation.
I don't want our society to transform into another India.
I don't want to feel like I'm in living in a Middle Eastern country.
I just want Australia to remain Australia.
If the USA fell today, there would be no other sponsor to subsidize Africa. Asians and Middle Easterners have zero guilt or emotional ties to Africa. Their civilizations are not undergirded by Christian moral frameworks, so they are much more transactional.
Liberals: “We don’t have to worry about the US diversifying Potash supplies from Canada. Belarus is too far away. It’s too expensive to ship. We have an ocean between us.”
Also the Liberals: “We will be joining the EU to diversify away from the US.”
They don’t even see it.
Reminder to everyone who thinks that cosmopolitan multiculturalism is a core Canadian value that our prime ministers once rejected a free Caribbean island because they correctly understood that racial particularism was politically axiomatic.
This is a hot take now.
In many places it used to be third generation for neighbouring peoples, tenth generation or never for the rest.
First generation is a failed modern experiment.
Indians have no inherent right to be anywhere in the world except the Indian subcontinent.
Visas & immigration are not rights.
They are privileges.
The Anglosphere owes India, & arrogant Indians nothing.
It is past time to start closing doors to them & send the ones here, home.
Rishi Sunak Dad was born in Kenya, 2 generations of his family lived there for over 30 years
Why does he call himself a British Indian and not a British Kenyan?
It´s because his Dad did not identify as Kenyan, despite being born there.......
This is just silly.
I’m sure Rishi feels something looking at the Bayeux tapestry.
He enjoys cricket, supports the England team and like myself, he enjoys scenic Autumn walks in a Barbour jacket.
All good but that doesn’t magically make Rishi ethnically English.
Reading about the 70m Bayeux Tapestry coming back to the country it depicts for the first time in 1000 years, and then finding out the French had nearly cut it up in 1794 to decorate a carnival float makes me so ANGRY.
You mean to tell me they were this close to draping a medieval textile of Harold taking an arrow in the eye around some actress in a toga playing the Goddess of Reason?
At this time, the Cult of Reason was at its peak; Notre Dame had been turned into a Temple of Reason. So you have this fragile, stunning, miraculous textile from history - horses, ships, oaths, guts in the margins - and some committee in Year II looks at it and goes, "perfect. Let’s chop it into ribbons so a woman in oak leaves can bounce down the street while we clap for Reason." wtf
I am far more offended that it was almost turned into bunting than by whatever Napoleon or the Nazis intended for it. However vile their purposes, they at least recognized the tapestry as an intricate object of significance and an almost impossible feat of skill and effort. They saw its greatness and valued it as a sacred and durable expression of the human spirit.
The Revolutionary mind was different; its instinct was to destroy. A thousand-year record of ships, oaths, and the unpretty scenes of conquest was to become trim for a civic entertainment, because the calendar had been reset to Year 0 and the old world was obsolete.
An honest reckoning with the Enlightenment has to admit this reflex alongside its genuine liberations. Inquiry, criticism, the rejection of superstition and magical thinking - these are not small inheritances.
But there is a shadow that travels with them, a conviction that once the sacred has been abolished, what remains is only matter, and matter may be rearranged for the festival of the present. It leads to horror, in the name of enlightened rationalism, and it would play out disastrously later.
A reminder that the habit is still with us, and it still misfires.
Wild watching the propaganda wave building for conscripting British men to fight Russia, on behalf of some nebulous "Western" coalition, by a government that refuses to let those men lift a finger to defend the borders of their own homeland WHICH IS LITERALLY AN ISLAND
Remember that when Enoch Powell gave his Birmingham Speech in 1968, 74% of the British public agreed with what he had said.
93% said they wanted a drastic reduction in further immigration, while 64% - rising to 74% that November - were in favour of voluntary repatriation.
Look at how the British establishment responded to the will of the people. Britain is in no meaningful sense a democracy.
The reason this conversation has to happen is that the people denying the English our ethnicity look us dead in the face and tell us Somalis like this are English too.
No one believes it. No one ever did. We were just too polite to say and it wasn't worth the trouble before.
It is now.
Yet further, the 1924 Immigration Act wasn’t just a pause, but a law that enabled the mass deportation of the worst elements, including the denaturalization and deportation of "citizens" who were subversives
So the communists, anarchists, socialists, and so on were thrown out in their thousands. Not enough, of course, as shown by such sorts being quite involved with the FDR regime
But enough that America survived, and at least wasn't the observably "foreign"/stranger in a strange land type place across the country in the way that America now is
We need such a law again, along with denaturalizations and deportations on an even larger scale