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Libertarian instincts
Constructive critic of unionism

[REMember @REM11081992]

Encourage any of my few followers with an interest in NI politics to have a look at these turnout figures by polling station from 2017. Good benchmark for 5th May. ://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1VJYPEH9_mE7SkNgCi_IHC3oAa2w&ll=54.505018138635556%2C-6.028774553839189&z=9

[conduct|r @conductr_]

Probably the only real superpower you can learn right now is to become more confident. Do not believe the crowd when they say it’s extremely difficult to become more confident.

First and foremost, it’s a simple choice in your mind.

After that, you can use the Role Model Technique:

You are basically viewing yourself from a third-person perspective, like you're the main character of a video game.

Now, I want you to imagine all of the “perfect” traits being embodied by this character.

Whenever you are uncertain or insecure in real life, take a moment and just imagine what your role model would do. Be your role model. Imagine how good it feels to be confident. Imagine the success and how amazing life is.

All you have to do now is to act. By viewing yourself from a third-person perspective, you gain more control over every circumstance and avoid being controlled by your emotions and your weak identity.

Just try it out and tell me about your experience.

[Ameer Kotecha @Ameer_Kotecha]

The rehabilitation of Alastair Campbell is one of the most annoying things about British punditry. The less intelligent co-host of a popular podcast. The man who inspired Malcom Tucker - Westminster’s most notorious bully - and who now has the gall to play the nice guy and lecture us all about the importance of mental health. Of course it’s all unsurprising given his Centrist Dad shtick who espouses all the normal right-on opinions.

If he ever had anything interesting to say you could look past what an unappealing person he is - but he never does

[Roko 🐉 @RokoMijic]

Very few people know who Anthony Lester (né Raab) was, but it probably isn't much of an exaggeration to say that he single handedly orchestrated the ethnic genocide of Britain.

Runnymede Trust, Race Relations Act, Fabian Society, Society of Labour Lawyers, Institute of Race Relations, Campaign Against Racial Discrimination (C.A.R.D.), Paul Hamlyn Foundation...

While Nigel Farage fights a by election against Count Binface, the real powers who behind the scenes wrote the laws to make ethnonationalism illegal, curtail free speech and import tens of millions of hostile foreigners into the country remain obscure.

All the politics you see on TV and most of what's on the timeline is basically just a slideshow to distract you from real power.

After Britain lost WWII to America and the USSR, it basically got taken over by a cabal of communist NGOs, and they now basically run the entire government and deep state.

That's why politics doesn't work. That's why people vote for less immigrants and keep getting more of them.

[RAW EGG NATIONALIST @Babygravy9]

One of the great intellectual and strategic weaknesses of the right since the Second World War has been the adoption of leftist framing and terminology. The notion of indigeneity, like the notion of decolonisation, was specifically created to exclude white people. There is no way to repurpose these terms or appropriate them in a debate with our enemies, who simply don’t recognise the right of European people to exist and never will.

In any case, no people has a right to exist beyond their will to exist, and the struggle for European survival will not be won by calling for the adjudication of an abstract right in some neutral tribunal. No neutral tribunal exists. The combined weight of the entire world is against European civilisation. All that matters, ultimately, is the will to exist and the courage to dare our enemies to challenge us. We are not fighting for our right to be recognized as “indigenous,” nor are we fighting to “decolonise” our nations.

[Horatio Nelson @HoratioNelson0]

There's been a lot of commentary in recent days about the DUP in relation to the Donaldson story.

Do I believe anyone knew he was a paedophile and rapist? No.

Do I believe the top brass within the party knew he was a drunk, gay weirdo? Yes.

The second part is still serious enough to warrant resignations within the party. To have known this and still allowed him to become leader should have consequences.

[REMember @REM11081992]

@OrdinariateUSA @BDogNo1 Precisely. All these accounts bring up isolated examples of prominent converts to catholicism whereas the actual data (Pew 2023 for exa.) is clear that Catholics have one of the worst retention rates of any religious grouping in the US (worse than protestants).

[Cllr Gary Hynds @GaryHynds]

William Crawley here justifying journalists going to the homes of family members to make inquiries about their relatives. I assume he believes the same principle should apply equally to BBC journalists and presenters too. Interesting view indeed, isn't it?

[xadran @xadrani]

your aim in life is to be unemployable.

every aspect of a job is carefully designed to break you the same way a slave master breaks in an unruly slave.

think of the ridiculous hurdles you need to jump just to be given permission to earn minimum wage:

- Must have a college degree with a 3.7+ GPA
- Must have 5+ recommendations
- Must have at least 5+ years of experience
- Must have good social skills
- Must be prompt and be able to handle criticisms.
- Must be willing to work overtime and on weekends occasionally without pay.
- Must understand that I will give bad and false reviews to his future employers so that s/he doesn't move to other companies

it's literally nothing but a humiliation ritual.

the bitter, patronising, jaded, interviewer in his late 50s just wants some energetic young guy to go through the same torture he did.

making you sing and dance like a performing monkey gives him catharsis.

if you "fail" to meet society's standards for employment,

you're probably doing pretty well as a human being.

[Máiría Cahill @cahillbooks]

Here is Gerry Adams in 2010 telling the Nolan show that he couldn't put Liam Adams out of working in youth clubs because "the guy denies the allegations against him."

He wasn't saying then that in 2009 his brother Liam - far from denying allegations - had instead admitted to Gerry during a walk in the rain in 2000 that he was an abuser.

Sinn Fein never sanctioned Gerry Adams for his failure in child safeguarding - or for lying about this case.

[Silenced on Site @77_steeze]

Liberals are such cheap dates and suckers for vibes. If someone has a shaved head and a tight shirt, they’re a “rough dudebro” even if they’re cerebral and thoughtful. If they present as a “feminist”, they goo-goo gaga about what a sweetie that guy is, even if he’s a baby-eating sociopath. If a guy has a three day beard and looks hungover and says he hates “oligarchs” then he’s working class. The problem isn’t that they’re dumb though. It’s that they collectively want to have their biases flattered constantly and can’t resist being seduced

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

if you genuinely believe like Hasan said he does that you have to forgive everyone for their past actions, that's the only truly leftist and moral thing to do, we can't hold it against them, that's "ultra wrecker" behavior, then you should demand Platner stay in the race now. First of all he's denying the rape, so why are you not believing him? You believed him when he gave some bullshit vague "uuhh I guess being a Blackwater merc was sort of not wise, but I loved it so much" answer and laundered it as him showing contrition when he didn't at all. But even if he acknowledged the rape, admitted to it, and says he's now a better person, he now respects women, he now has changed, by your own standard for him mass-murdering and raping Iraqis and Afghans you should accept that at face value and say he's a good person and we should all embrace him to become a Senator, right?

That was your own standard. The only actual difference is that the media and political class could not give less of a shit about him mass murdering the browns, and in fact sees that as an asset which is why Morris Katz the genocidal Zionist PR agent loved him so much and recruited him, whereas him raping an American white woman is of course unacceptable and disqualifying.

So you're not guided by any actual principles, you're solely guided by what the US media and political class allows you to get away with in terms of still being "electable", while pretending to be guided by principles and lying. Well that makes you a degenerate scumfuck piece of shit.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

can someone who supported Graham Platner, like Hasan, explain why him mass murdering and raping Iraqis and Afghans as a volunteer rape-soldier and Blackwater mercenary was totally fine and forgivable and we have to now accept him as a Good Person because that's the really "leftist" and moral thing to do, but him raping an American woman is beyond the pale and he has to drop out we can't ever accept this?

What standard are you using to evaluate politics aside from "the US media and political class doesn't give a shit about him mass murdering and raping brown people abroad so we also shouldn't care and just forgive him because having basic principles doesn't matter, but OMG HE RAPED A WHITE AMERICAN WOMAN?!?! NO THATS HEADLINE NEWS HE HAS TO DROP OUT NOW EVEN IF HE ACKNOWLEDGES IT AND BEGS FORGIVENESS A MILLION TIMES".

That is the standard isn't it. And that is why everyone outside your depraved clique despises you, because you will defend anything as long as you think it advances your cunt pseudo-radical soc dem treatlerite politics.

[Hugh Anthony @TheHughAnthony]

Eerling Haaland was born in Leeds, yet no one calls him English, we all know that he is Norwegian.

Nobody disputes that, no one argues about that. They accept it as biological reality.

Yet if we say the same thing about a black player not being English, everyone gets mad.

[REMember @REM11081992]

@hoyer_kat the AfD should commit to removing all monuments and memorials to the Red Army- an army of murderers and rapists.

[Collingwood 🇬🇧 @admcollingwood]

This is sort of funny, and Brazil have definitely got worse, but it misdiagnoses the problem. In fact, this is a story of what has happened to society and with our economies, and the ideology of our ruling elites.

The first point to accept is that *all* football nations have lost their particular style: there has been a flattening of the way in which teams play. I first started watching football as a very young boy in the late eighties, and through until the early 2000s, most of the big nations maintained a distinct way of playing. The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Brazil and England all spring to mind. But two things have happened -- the first connected to the latter.

First, the Champions League (and later the Europa League) means that the best teams in Europe play each other almost every week during the season. That provides a consistently present interface for an accelerated exchange of ideas, formations, and tactics. But it also acts as a kind of gain of function research for football: there is now an extremely rapid cycle of tactical, transfer policy/player selection, and fitness innovation, response and counter response. The football OODA loop has never been tighter.

Second, and connected to this, there has been an extreme version of the Pareto Principle income inequality that has happened among western societies as a whole. Wealth, partly due to the Champions League, and partly due to the Premier League, has accrued to a smaller and smaller number of teams, even as the size of the pie, due to the massive increase in TV revenue in Europe, has expanded beyond all recognition. This means that all the best players in the world end up in the same handful of clubs. We can name them: Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Juventus, Bayern Munich, PSG, Real Madrid and Barcelona. Furthermore, with the advent of global scouting networks and post-Moneyball databases, this means the best players from anywhere in the world, often at young ages. Remember when an unknown player would have a great World Cup and find himself playing for, say, Tottenham or Monaco or wherever? Those days are gone. We know about every player in the most minute detail. There is no mystery. The good players are already in Europe.

The first time I noticed this process of wealth accumulation was with the great Ajax team of 1995. I was only just a teenager, and that team was like a revelation for me in terms of the way football could be played. All of them (bar Danny Blind and Frank Rijkaard, who were an earlier generation) came up through the Ajax academy system and blossomed at the same time. They played in the Ajax/Dutch style (4-3-3, with two wingers that stayed very wide, and a centre back pushing into midfield when they had the ball, holding possession playing in the opponent's final third). But within two seasons, the entire team was broken up: Davids, Seedorf, Klijvert, Ovremars, Rijzeger, Kanu, Litmanen, even Van Gaal, the young manager -- they'd all gone to richer clubs elsewhere. In the 1960s or 70s, they'd have stayed together and won multiple European trophies. In England, we saw a similar thing with Southampton. Newcastle are suffering the same now.

All this means that players don't stay in their home environments and countries, with their clubs, and the process of mimesis breaks down. Add that to the first point, related to the way intra-European football forces a flattening through various mechanisms, and you have what we see now.

A couple of World Cups ago, the Netherlands played a 3-5-2, to my absolute horror. The Netherlands playing without proper wingers! Now we have a Brazilian team that has two Arsenal players, two Man U players, one Newcastle player -- even a Bournemouth player, for goodness sake. And they'll all have had the majority of their careers outside Brazil. Some will have left when they were 15 or 16, scouted by Shaktar Donetsk (famous for bringing in young Brazilian players) or Real Madrid. Why are we therefore surprised that they play like any other European team?

The Netherlands style lives on -- but through Barcelona and therefore the Spain national team (via Cruyff, and thence Guardiola), not in the Netherlands national team. But the Brazil style (a languid slow, slow, slow, punctuated by sudden bursts of incredible skill, raking passes, speed, and crackerjack long shots) is dead. When better Brazilian players emerge in future, and maybe they return to winning World Cups, they'll do so as Europeans would, not Brazilians. The German and Italian styles are also dead. The English style is also pretty much dead, although that was an evolutionary dead end in terms of International Football, so we do not lament it.

This, rather than boozing or religion, is the reason for what we see with the Brazil national team. I find it deeply sad. But no doubt the neoliberal progressives who run our countries will view it as a great success.

@AaronBastani @WilliamClouston @georgegalloway @jj_bull

[Shehu Gazali Sadiq @Rejoice_inlife]

Egyptian Christians are never allowed to play football for the Egyptian football team.

But muslim apologists will tell you islam is tolerant.

Ordinary football. You may imagine the kind of discrimination the Christians are facing in other sectors of Egypt.

[REMember @REM11081992]

I never thought the 'Those protestants up to no good as usual' line would be deployed as the root cause of Brazil's shit performance in the world cup...

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

The decline of the Brazilian national team is mirrored by the decline of Catholicism in the country. This team lacks joy, replaced by dour Protestant work ethic that is alien to their culture.

[Sensurround @ShamashAran]

I have now read this highlighted sentence seventeen times because I assumed I wan't actually reading what was written. Surely my eyes didn't actually read this. Maybe someone accidentally pasted in dialogue from "The Onion." back when it was funny. But no.

She is saying that she delayed reporting a rape because she agreed with the accused, politically.

This is one of those moments where, if your IQ is over 85, your brain quietly excuses itself from the room.

We have apparently reached a point where politics has become the emotional-support animal for basic human survival instincts. "Yes, this person committed one of the worst crimes imaginable against me, but we both liked the same tax policy. Awkward."

If your political identity has become so central that it can outweigh reporting your own rape, congratulations: you hve joined a cult. Cults are famous for making people subordinate reality, morality, and self-preservation to the interests of the group.

I hate cults. I hate them a lot.
They don't ask you to ignore facts all at once: they ask for one tiny compromise after another until one day you discover you're explaining away things that should be absolutely indefensible.

What's sad isnt just that people end up there. It's that many of them don't even realize it. They sincerely believe they're making a principled decision when, from the outside, everyone else is wondering why the obvious isn't obvious anymore.

At least religious cults usually promise enlightenment, salvation, eternal life, or an alien spaceship hiding behind a comet. Political cults dont even offer that. They ask you to sacrifice your judgment, your relationships, sometimes even your own well-being in exchange for cable-news talking points, in favor of a politician who will sell you out for a pack of gum.

That's a spectacularly bad trade.

At some point, "my team" has to lose to "the person who committed a violent felony against me." That's not supposed to be a close game.

[Redcoat and Kilt. @ScotForUnity]

Thread backfired. Lots of praise for Scots intellectuals, engineers and soldier for constructing the British Empire.

Reminds me of an old joke - something along the lines of:

The Englishman says to the Scotsman, you couldnt build an empire until we paid for it, the Scotsman replies you couldnt build an empire until we showed you how to fight.

It was basically something along the lines of two peoples (made of a variety of older peoples) spent a few centuries fighting on their island, and accidentally sharpened each others skills and spurred each other on - bonded by their original Celtic faith, languages and identities of Celtic Briton. Then the additions of Roman, Angle, Saxon, Scandinavian and Norman peoples and cultures, and then the slow grind to relative homogenisation.

And once the Kingdoms in the North slowly unified to form "Scotland" and likewise in the South to form "England"..they got a few centuries of "sparring" in, then unified and went out into the world with REMARKABLE consequences.

The British built the modern world that we knew, invented all the relevant technology of the medical and industrial revolutions, and it was almost exclusively Scottish, English, Welsh and the odd Irish leading the way.

When the imperial wars raged across Europe, and confronted by & competing against the likes of France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, The Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, etc - the British won. This wee island nation crafted over a millennia against itself, went on to construct the most widespread, stable, powerful, wealthy and civilised empire the world has ever known.

And for almost two centuries.

What the USA achieved from 1776 to 2025 is incredible....but what Britain achieved from 1707-1945 was a marvel that will never be repeated in the course of human history.

Brits should be protected and replicated at all costs.

[Ellie Rofe @eliotranch]

I remember lying on a beach in California about 4 days into my first trip to America, and five 30-somethings were batting a volleyball around. I can't remember the exact wording, but it was something like:

"I'm really no good at volleyball."
"Ohmigod, Shauna. You're great!"
"Thanks Bryce! Appreciate you!"
"Brad, that's awesome!"
"Yay, this is fun!"

When this went on for five minutes and nobody had called someone a useless cunt or tried to smash the ball into their best mate's face, I realised there really is a vast gulf between our cultures.