JacobusMinimus

No one of importance

[JacobusMinimus @m76164707]

I'm a practicing Catholic. I'm not very good at it, which is why I keep practicing. I also believe in other things that most people believed until about 15 minutes ago, which, I am reliably told, makes me "far right."

[JacobusMinimus @m76164707]

If any Western head of government could move even slightly in the direction of actual immigration restrictionism – not just smoke and mirrors stuff – and do so unapologetically, their party would probably win and hold power for a decade or more.

[JacobusMinimus @m76164707]

And people ask me why I unironically hate airplanes and consider them a net negative for civilization.

[John Carter @martianwyrdlord]

A political system in which open floodgates are only ever one election away is not viable in the jet age: we have to win every time, they only have to win once. The technological context makes mass immigration a permanent threat, which demands a permanent solution that takes immigration out of the hands of politicians entirely.

[JacobusMinimus @m76164707]

@FortySacks I had a very similar experience recently after returning from Europe. I was honestly caught off guard.

[JacobusMinimus @m76164707]

@disparutoo I understand the loan part — but if the companies who took the loans ultimately lost money, the likelihood of repayment would decrease, yes?

[JacobusMinimus @m76164707]

This is the question I've never seen adequately answered: what exactly do the ESG financial management companies get out of backing movies that flop? They didn't get so wealthy in the first place by not caring about the bottom line.

[Disparu @disparutoo]

This gets brought up for most movies, but even if true it makes no sense.

If the fans have such power they can make your movie flop, you better give them what they want.

If you hate them so much you can't, you should all be fired and replaced with people who can.

[JacobusMinimus @m76164707]

One of the primary virtues of the Westminster model over other systems of government is that it pretty much guarantees that any PM who is not defeated in a general election will end his career in disgrace.

[JacobusMinimus @m76164707]

@TheBlackHorse65 In charity, our entire civilization depends on forgetting that we're biological organisms and not disembodied consciousnesses, so I can't wholly blame her.

[JacobusMinimus @m76164707]

Went to the movies yesterday and all the trailers were about homosexual relationships. I wish I were joking.

[JacobusMinimus @m76164707]

@kalezelden I am an admirer of Augustine and feel a lot of the anti-Augustine stuff is over the top, but I don't think it's mere coincidence that so many of the worst crises in Church history involve the interpretation of his theology.

[JacobusMinimus @m76164707]

This is why "voting harder next time" is not the solution to our present predicament.

[John Carter @martianwyrdlord]

Politicians are just ablative heat shields for the actual power structure.

[JacobusMinimus @m76164707]

@upstatefederlst "Death of the author" only applies when I say it does.

[JacobusMinimus @m76164707]

This is probably related to why we're ruled by a succession of interchangeable non-entities.

[eugyppius @eugyppius1]

In the postwar west, for a good long while, politicians took up issues pragmatically – to draft voters for their candidacies, triangulate against rivals, build coalitions. They mostly don't do that anymore. Merkel was the last person to behave this way in German politics.

[JacobusMinimus @m76164707]

@AuronMacintyre Imagine still watching MLB in 2026.

[JacobusMinimus @m76164707]

I can think of no better indication of the sad state of Canada these days than hearing someone who performatively hates and fears America most days mention to me that today is "Juneteenth," as if that made-up holiday has any bearing here.

[JacobusMinimus @m76164707]

Here's a good case in point of exactly what I mean. There is no "waking up the normies." Until either our masters switch their allegiances or a new group of masters with different commitments emerges to replace them, there is no escaping our current predicament.

[Morgoth @MorgothsReview]

Two weeks after the Henry Nowak story, one week after Belfast, a day after the rape gang inquiry - and Labour can still trounce it in an overwhelmingly white northern area…

[JacobusMinimus @m76164707]

"Waking up the normies" is just another version of voting your way out of a bad situation and has the same track record of success.

[eugyppius @eugyppius1]

Been reading a lot of commentary recently about how we need to ‘wake up the normies’ to achieve political utopia. Has that ever happened before, can anyone cite for me an instance of political change that happened because a bunch of normies suddenly woke up.

[Fortissax @FortySacks]

You cannot claim to work for the working class and support the same immigrants willingly being used as class weapons by capital. You cannot put the interests of foreigners before that of the proletarian Canadian, or you betray every one of your supposed principles.

[JacobusMinimus @m76164707]

This is probably even more true in Canada than the USA — and is no more likely to be reversed.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

Mass deportations fix everything

Housing costs, healthcare costs, education, public transportation, crime

All we need is the will to do the one thing that fixes it all

[JacobusMinimus @m76164707]

@canadaisfukt @TristinHopper Indeed. The most immigration restrictionist people I know are themselves immigrants who came here in the '50s or '60s.

[JacobusMinimus @m76164707]

The profound mediocrity of people in positions of power and authority worldwide speaks very poorly of our age.