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The Americans are once again treating an event in a European vassal as though it happened in China or Russia.

You are the masters here. You could easily force Ghent to reverse its anti-free speech decision.

[U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Bill White @USAmbToBelgium]

The United States Mission to Belgium condemns, in the strongest terms, Ghent University’s retaliation against an American scholar following his accurate whistleblower reporting on academic fraud.

The United States government regularly funds and supports research, academic exchanges, and other engagements with overseas universities. Dishonest, corrupt institutions that engage in, or reward, scapegoating mob behavior are not desirable partners for us. This is particularly true where the purpose and effect of the scapegoating is to punish accurate journalism unearthing academic dishonesty. We are therefore reviewing any relationships we have with Ghent University.

Bad-faith idealogues will try to make this a referendum on the content of Cofnas’s scholarship – or polemical distortions of it. That’s wrong. Free speech means that controversial views are protected. And Cofnas’s views were known to Ghent University when he was hired.

The ultimate purpose of freedom of speech is to overturn lies, fraud, and false ideologies. This is precisely what Cofnas was doing, and precisely the reason his home institution wants to silence him.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[Jardine Matheson Internationalist @emergenteffects]

Pretty much the one potential good outcome of the Great War and we flubbed it. A real shame!

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@nativistconcern None of them are autists. They're manipulative in their own way (except Gunther who's a Mitteleuropa hegemonist driven insane by Atlanticism).

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@PaddyRy65586397 Nope. I've hated them since 2004.

But my opinion did soften a bit after visiting Poland. I realised Poles had sent their equivalent of chavs.

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@sundaynightpoop @WarMonitorClips It's larger than a clay and it's hovering.
The first soldier could've fired off some rounds whilst it was distracted with his comrade. Even if it's low, there's a chance he might disable the drone.

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@NationalReilly Allow them to work below the minimum wage and use AI to assign them jobs (e.g. nature management jobs for autists/depressed).

But obviously the government would need to improve the jobs market by removing 10 million people from the country first.

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@BohunkSupremacy They could threaten to throw Ukraine to the Russian wolves if Ukraine doesn't behave, especially if the current war ends only with a ceasefire.

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@EdwardEGibbon Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater on this one.

Eastern bloc (pre-university) schooling was good at providing a rounded education. I've noticed Soviet boomers are more practical and better read than our boomers.

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@HistoriaJack Northern Europeans would have been better off with Islam than Christianity.

Remaining pagan would've been ideal, but if forced to choose, Islam with its practical ethics is better. Only Meds can practise Christianity without it becoming self-destructive.

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@hector_drummond I find Hitchens is only good on foreign policy. Maybe chronicling Britain's decline as well. He's a bit like Powell in that respect.

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@Steve_Sailer It's possible. Autists are usually fantasists. But it tends to be maladaptive daydreaming, not self-aggrandising claims.

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@cornu__copia Doesn't really apply to Britain.

South Asians (majority of our browns) are seen as arrogant, despite their success at gaming Britain's political oligarchy.

They have little cultural influence, especially when compared to blacks (whom Anglo-Saxons do have a soft spot for).

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@PaulSkallas It depends what the book is.
If it's a padded out novel written by a hack writer, then he's wasting his time.

If it's Homer in the original Greek, then he's doing something useful, and potentially transferable.

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@BBDaybreakEU There are some murmurs over the LGBT stuff, but that's it. Hard right-wing Christians seem to exist only online.

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@HCH_Hill And if they had converted to Protestantism, language would be one of the few things left that would separate the Irish from the English, as it does with the Welsh.

[Καλός @realKalos]

Anti-pagan posting is a coping mechanism that gives e-Catholics a sense of power that they lack irl, since their Church today is just another leftist organization participating in the destruction of their countries. It is an outlet that allows for an illusion of "basedness" contrary to reality. Not healthy imo. I will pray for you.

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@SaladBarFan Agree with most, but Brexit was sabotaged and 2 is just silly. Britain is already severely overpopulated. The country doesn't need to further resemble a supermarket car park.

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@WomanDefiner The American government was good at concealing that, at least from my foreign perspective.

It's interesting it has started to adopt the cruder European model of open oppression.