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Sell! Sell! Sell! Sell!🎵 Or else #CentralPlanning. Maybe even then. Husband, Soph Dad.

[Sales Is Between @JohnHMorris]

@ektrit Yikes! So the Greeks & Romans thought of #work as something #slaves did. Equivalent to #punishment. Not that work is instead the centre of #life & meaning. This disdain is the aristocratic ethos that bedevils us. (My profile includes the 🛠️ emoji in part as a paean to work.) #BPM

[Sales Is Between @JohnHMorris]

@spectator "Isn’t it striking how brutishly working-class women and girls have been excluded from MeToo?"

[MCC Brussels @MCC_Brussels]

full interview here https://t.co/rS2loebWh1

[MCC Brussels @MCC_Brussels]

Europe’s cultural elites are teaching children to see their own civilisation as a crime scene.

@Furedibyte says the West is told to despise its inheritance, flatter itself as morally superior, and start again from year zero.

Interviewed by @FernKartheiser.

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

Beatrice and Sidney Webb founded the London School of Economics. Their portraits still hang there.

In 1935 they published nearly 1,200 pages explaining that the USSR had built the most advanced democracy in history.

The execution chambers were already running. 🧵

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Peter Hitchens gloriously pushing back against the idea that 5-year-olds shouldn't be made to learn poetry by heart.

[Ashley Frawley @AshleyAFrawley]

It's not just "selectively interpreted," it's junk science and there's far too much of it.

[Sales Is Between @JohnHMorris]

@ESennesh "normalizing lumpen violence" 🤯 and in some quarters excusing, justifying, advocating, promoting and even institutionalizing the same. Nihilist, adventurist, Blanquist, lumpen and lumpen-wannabe "cadres" are found on both left and right. All start with the same eternal offence.

[Sales Is Between @JohnHMorris]

@AshleyAFrawley Shows up in schools, wretchedly. And support groups, sadly. Usually presented with an unselfconscious therapeutic absolutism.

[Ashley Frawley @AshleyAFrawley]

It's interesting how, in a culture that finds it very difficult to articulate what life is for, things that once would have seemed frivolous become ends in themselves.

Relationships!? Pssht! So shallow! I live my life for "wellness" and that's that!

https://t.co/ald6BO0Owl

[Sales Is Between @JohnHMorris]

@Noahpinion @ESennesh Up here in Canada we did manage to contribute to the American Civil Rights movement, at least once, in 1964, when Toronto hosted the annual international meeting of the Lions Club - guest speaker #GeorgeWallace! 1,000 protesters 💪 inc. my brother & me in the children's brigade.

[MCC Brussels @MCC_Brussels]

"Many Europeans forget that the American Revolution was not just an American event."

From the Irish rebels of 1798 to the Greeks, Poles, Hungarians and Belgians who fought for national independence in the 19th century, revolutionaries across Europe looked to 1776 for inspiration.

The Declaration of Independence became a model for peoples seeking self-government and national freedom says @Furedibyte

[Sohrab Ahmari @SohrabAhmari]

As a journalist, I embedded with multiple groups of migrants during 2015-16 "Syrian" wave (only about a third were fleeing the civil war in Syria, from my observation). I even lived in a smuggler's safe house in Istanbul, waiting for weather conditions to permit a dinghy crossing from Izmir to Lesbos.

I went into that experience basically an open-borders person and left a restrictionist. Merkel's flinging the gates to more than 1 million newcomers was madness, sheer madness.

Even if these were the most aspirational migrants imaginable --- and they weren't, gotta be honest --- the numbers, the cultural distance, and the conditions of European society should've prompted a rethink. But no. Wir schaffen das.

I tried to put myself in the shoes of native working classes in the transit countries (the Balkans, Hungary, etc.) and the recipients (Germany, Sweden, etc.). It was obvious that they would experience it as a cataclysm.

Even if most wouldn't become victims of crime, this many newcomers were bound to generate acute incohesion experienced at the street, social services, and housing levels, mostly burdening the native poor and those on the lower rungs of the labor market.

The engine of assimilation, not particularly robust in most of Europe to begin with, breaks down in the face of sheer numbers. In retrospect, I've come to believe that this was the single worst and most consequential decision taken by European leaders in the 21st century.

I don't understand it. I remember @DouglasKMurray telling me at the early stages that the best way to help was in-country, meaning humanitarian assitance in the Middle East and North Africa, not by bringing them over. He was 100% correct.

[Sam Haselby @samhaselby]

@AntonKhalski @jjkeller44 https://t.co/ZrCTmIkCMf

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

Here’s the problem. The liberal political class wants us to treat atrocities like Belfast as single, random, isolated incidents. “Yes, it’s horrific, but don’t overreact,” they say. “Let the police do their job. Justice will be delivered. Let’s remain united,” and so on.

But the public can see that such incidents *aren’t* random or isolated. They are, in fact, all the consequence of massive state failure in the area of asylum and immigration. All roads lead back there.

That’s why people are angry.. They are sick of the platitudes that get trotted out after each fresh incident. They don’t want to hear them anymore. They know that the decisions of establishment politicians have brought us to this current pass, and they don’t trust those same politicians to fix things, especially when some of them refuse to even recognise that the public’s anger is justified.

There has been a huge vibe shift in recent years. Imagine - God forbid - there were another 7/7. Does anyone think the public response would be anything like as restrained as it was then? We are in really dangerous territory.

The public don’t want flowers and candles and “Don’t let them divide us.” They want someone who says, “I recognise that the state has failed abjectly. We have allowed far too many people to settle in the country without knowing who they truly are. It has disrupted your communities. Your anger is justified. And I will do everything in my power to put things right.”

Any politician unwilling to articulate that message, fully and sincerely, is effectively sanctioning more years of growing social disharmony and discord. Things cannot heal until those in power recognise the extent of the problem and what it will take to fix it. And, on both counts, most of them don’t.

That’s why the next few years are going to be very, very turbulent.

[Sales Is Between @JohnHMorris]

@MCC_Brussels @JamesWHankins1 Reference?

[Mike Bird @Birdyword]

Slightly taken aback by the Guardian's Gordon Wood obituary. I can find one reference to Wood saying he'd read the opening essay of the 1619 Project and objected to it (not quite "I haven't read most of it"). What follows seems to me to be a guilt-by-association shoehorning.

[Walter Michaels @walterbenn]

@Birdyword Only the Guardian thinks that objecting to the 1619 project was mainly a conservative thing. Have they not noticed what the socialists thought of its reactionary race reductionism? https://t.co/xD3PY0vpCi

[Dad Saves America @DadSavesAmerica]

You can’t NOT be impressed by America - Gordon Wood

[Sales Is Between @JohnHMorris]

@JoniWagner It seems the deceased may have provided for his family as an Assistant Manager at a global retailer. A demanding role. Heartbreaking.

[Ralph Leonard @buffsoldier_96]

"The law should treat individuals as individuals and not as members of a “community.” Because the law is nothing less than the institutionalization of the general will of civil society."

My latest for @compactmag on Henry Nowak & bureaucratic anti-racism

https://t.co/etF5QH842N