Bob Odenkirk on Franc Roddam's 'Quadrophenia' (1979):
"'Quadrophenia' (1979) is a movie that used all that French filmmaking coming out of the New Wave, but it’s a British film. Using the music of 'The Who' to tell the story of a youth who is rebelling, but he doesn’t know what he’s rebelling against. And it’s kind of got just an incredible vibe."
("Bob Odenkirk’s Closet Picks", Criterion, 2026)
After the Spanish Right won the 1933 elections, Communists in Asturias launched a revolution, killing thousands before the army was deployed to finally put an end to the chaos.
They did the same thing in Catalonia, and when that too was quelled, they engaged in a low-level terrorist campaign all over the country, planting bombs, sabotaging infrastructure, assassinating newspaper editors and political figures, and staging general strikes all over Spain.
They kept doing this until they finally won the 1936 election, at which point the Left went full mask-off and began unleashing thousands of criminals into the streets, ransacking businesses, dragging conservatives out of their homes to beat them, and going into the countryside to expropriate private property. The entire country descended into a state of near-total anarchy in a matter of months.
The Left spent years agitating for a Marxist revolution in Spain and refused to obey the legal system because they saw the Spanish Republic as a mechanism to achieve Leftism, not as a neutral system intended to uphold democracy, the constitution, or the rule of law.
And thus, any deviation from the march towards Leftism was seen as an illegitimate act of treason and proof of an imminent fascist takeover of the state. As a result, ANY electoral victory by the Right was inherently treated as illegal by the Left, and ANY attempt to actually govern in accordance with Right-wing principles was seen as just cause to engage in violent insurrection.
You cannot have a country like this for long. If one side treats the process as illegitimate unless it produces their desired ideological outcome, they will inevitably win unless they're physically stopped.
Scott Adams on the SPLC:
“So you can’t trust anybody who gets paid by the amount of hate they identify…they’re gonna find some hate.”
Boy is this man missed.
I will always push back against anyone who tries to handcuff the remigration issue to any other question, be it geopolitical, economic, or ideological.
Those people tend to start a purity spiral and exclude everyone who does not support their country of choice in a foreign war, or their preferred economic or ideological system, or their preferred answer to the decay of modernity from a broader remigration movement.
They focus their destructive energy not on the real opponent, but on other right-wingers. They claim that only once the right is “purified” of “traitors” and “deviants” can it be successful.
The opposite is true.
We need to form a broad coalition around the most important issue: our ethnocultural existence and continuity. If you agree with this, you are in.
But on board of the remigration train, you need to accept certain rules of decency and comradeship.
Dissens is ok. Discussions are important.
If you want to kick others out and call them traitors because they don’t agree with you on a certain issue, or don’t want to talk about a certain subject, then you should probably leave yourself.
You are becoming a tool of the anti-remigration movement splintering and distracting our coalition.