Is France in the worst state compared to other White nations?

NeoRail · 2023-06-29T23:52:35+00:00

I disagree. But I suppose only time will tell how things will go.

NeoRail · 2023-06-29T21:43:24+00:00

You can't expect the average citizen to have a thorough political education and a character suited for politics. This will never happen, and can never happen. It has never been the case. And the same applies even for what we could call "the political vanguard". Most right wingers you see are still human beings who are just trying their best. And it should be noted that the right has faced a century of marginalisation and harsh suppression. I am impressed that right wingers today can even get anything done at all, and they are doing things despite the extraordinarily difficult circumstances. As for the comparison with leftists, the radicalism of leftists, particularly American leftists, is owed to them being psychologically unstable and often times straight up criminal individuals. They are forced to be radical because they are incapable of moderation, political or even mental or emotional. I would think that it is a good thing to differ from leftists in this regard. Not to mention that leftists have been completely ineffective in achieving any of their goals besides annoying right wingers and getting in the way of more effective and organic political forces. Electorally and on the streets, the left is a failure. They are good at being lapdogs for the liberals and little else. Look at what happened to the Sanders campaign, to the Antifa autonomous zone, to basically any leftist endeavour. It's all come to nothing, always. Are you really sure that these are the people you want to emulate?

If we are going to talk history, then let us at least be consistent - do you think that the Bolshevik revolution was not itself the result of unique, unrepeatable historical conditions? Here's a few vital preconditions without which the Bolshevik revolution would not have come to be: the events of 1905, the imperial government's response in the years following 1905, the unprecedented experience of the First World War and the February Revolution. A Bolshevik Revolution type of scenario is never going to happen in the modern West. The Bolsheviks relied especially on their hardened and well-entrenched power base in the cities of Moscow and St Petersburg. The major cities and the capitals today, on the other hand, are where the right wing movements are weakest. These are the strongholds of leftists and liberals. So, clearly, a Bolshevik-style strategy is completely impossible.

NeoRail · 2023-06-29T20:08:59+00:00

I have never met anyone who wasn't a leftist and had anything positive to say about the 2020 riots. It will be the same with these riots, and any other similar riots in the future. Believe it or not, normal people really don't like it when cities get torched and anarchy rules the streets. Who would've thought?

NeoRail · 2023-06-29T19:58:13+00:00

Sympathetic according to whom, exactly? You are aware that in the Twitter thread linked in the original post there is footage of hardened criminals throwing live grenades at police, throwing Molotovs, using firearms, torching cars, and trying to rob banks with specialised equipment, correct? This may come as a shock to you, but as a rule, when criminals and leftists riot, the only people who sympathise with them tend to be other criminals and leftists.

NeoRail · 2023-06-29T19:50:54+00:00

This is really absurd. I've seen some comparisons with the cartel situation in Latin America and it actually seems to check out. Crazy to think that just a few decades ago this was completely inconceivable. In light of this, the appeal of the French PM is almost funny. Apparently, the PM, Elisabeth Borne, made a public statement appealing to reason, telling the rioters that "destroying their own neighbourhoods won't solve anything". As if they identify with those neighbourhoods and as if they are the ones who are going to rebuild them and pay for them. What sheer farce. It makes you wonder if the French political class is cynically trying to paper over the real situation by pretending that they still govern a united civil society, or if they really are delusional enough to believe that.

I suppose it is also pretty funny that Macron, Mr. Jupiter, a self-identified enlightened liberal and populist hero, would have his political career characterised by the violent suppression of the various strata of French society. Life has a way with irony, it seems.

NeoRail · 2023-06-29T19:36:26+00:00

In the past couple of years, I don't think I've ever seen you say anything positive about white people or even any right winger. It's always just takes like this. If everyone is doing such a poor job of undermining liberalism, it should be be very easy to do better. So, where are your achievements? Don't you think you are being a bit unfair?

NeoRail · 2023-06-29T19:25:06+00:00

I can't say for sure. I suspect that the next 20 years will be decisive. If they can't achieve anything by 2045, I think they'd need to rely on an entirely different strategy.

NeoRail · 2023-06-29T18:32:49+00:00

My next point is how the French population cannot even elect Le Pen.

You have to understand that, following the collapse of the Third and Fourth republics, the current French system was literally designed to be as moderate, robust, static and unshakeable as possible. The French presidential election favours the victory of the least unpopular and least controversial candidate, not the victory of the most popular candidate. Zemmour and Le Pen actually had more support than Macron in the first round of the election, but the second round put all leftist and liberal forces against Le Pen. And France, of course, has a presidential political system as well.

NeoRail · 2023-03-09T06:14:50+00:00

I am still around, it's just that lately I am busy reading non-political stuff, so I check in less often.

NeoRail · 2023-03-04T23:13:41+00:00

If they want to, sure. I don't think there is much point in getting invested into a NATO-Russia conflict given the current political circumstances, however.

NeoRail · 2023-02-04T17:36:31+00:00

The bulk of your post doesn't really have anything to do with the title. Anyway, the answer to the question depends in large part on what kind of person the parent is and what kind of person the child is. Personally, I think you can't go wrong with teaching children principles, strong conviction, courtesy and social skills. As far as principles are concerned, I think a parent must take great care to ensure no question the child has lacks a satisfactory answer, but then again, not all children are all that interested in questioning things and not all parents share the same parenting style. As for everything else, the child should figure things out on its own through trial and error, and occasionally with the help of advice when the issue is important - this is how character is built.

NeoRail · 2023-01-30T02:11:22+00:00

Yes, but communism was more dangerous to the material existence and interests of the American elites. The Germans on the other hand, if I recall correctly, did not even seize American factories during the war. They limited themselves to simply taking control of them.

NeoRail · 2023-01-24T01:14:52+00:00

I think this has always been the reality and any ideological bent for the most part only really mattered domestically rather than in terms of foreign policy.

I think ideology does affect foreign policy when the people in charge take decisions ideologically. It is difficult, for example, to understand people like Zelensky and the Ukrainian political class without resorting to ideology - after all, from the perspective of power politics their interests are obviously tied to those of Russia. Similarly, I think it is difficult to explain World War 2 without making reference to ideology. Arguably, the Soviet Union was a more complete, or perhaps dangerous, antithesis to the American project than Germany, yet despite that America joined hands with the Soviets.

Ultimately I think that rhetoric will remain toothless as long as there are stakeholders within those countries that value wealth/comfort/access to the West over national dominance.

There's also the issue of it being an entirely negative policy. "We are against Western cultural imperialism and for autonomy." Autonomy for what, exactly? What is the use and purpose of autonomy? Russia and China have no real answer. Even Dugin, despite his desire to imbue politics with meaning and his ambition as a would-be ideologist, has no answer. Why is cultural autonomy and freedom valuable, why should we retain our natural differences? The Western liberal ideology may be disgusting, but it has conviction and goals. Its opponents have nothing - instead of mobilising for something, they mobilise against something. They derive their identity from the same liberalism that they are in conflict with.

I think the West will outlast Russia in that attrition but China is a wild card honestly.

I used to think the same, but to my shock, and probably to the shock of everyone else, Russia's advantage over the West turns out to be economic and not military. As to China, they have a lot of power and potential in quantitative terms, but ever since the end of the Cultural Revolution the country has been totally soulless. It remains to be seen whether they actually care about anything more besides making money and blustering.

NeoRail · 2023-01-23T17:54:35+00:00

Forget 2100, I would be much more impressed if anyone can accurately predict 2028. Thanks to the lockdowns and now the Ukraine conflict, the world system is teetering on the brink. I can't remember if it was Keith Woods or someone else who said this, but it does seem like we're heading for a new Cold War situation with different power blocs competing among each other. The issue is, on what basis will this be done? Communism is gone, so there can be no coherent ideological dispute to serve as justification. We are either going back to the vulgarity of pure power politics, or the world will descend into even deeper idiocy and the most simplistic 18th century liberal propaganda about the "fight against tyranny" will be considered a sufficient intellectual foundation. In theory, third worldism and "anti-imperialism" could also make a comeback, but Western governments are already much more hostile toward Western peoples than any third world government is, so if this issue does get assigned central importance, it would be in a one-sided manner from the perspective of the third world states.

NeoRail · 2022-12-09T17:22:35+00:00

The best counter-argument is to point out the totally dishonest nature of the claim. If there's no such thing as white people then how come everyone knows exactly who these white people are when it comes to affirmative action, state-enforced discrimination, critical race theory, postcolonialism etc? The people who argue this stuff are not even remotely interested in a serious examination of race, they just use arguments of this type for the purpose of gaslighting. That's all this is. You can argue with rational and courteous individuals, but you would be an utter fool to argue with someone trying to gaslight you.

NeoRail · 2022-12-07T08:05:17+00:00

I believe we already discussed this in another thread but I am hopeful that nuclear fusion will solve our energy needs. As for crucial materials, I can only trust that our scientists and engineers will figure things out. I can't comment on the likelihood of that, since I am no expert on the topic, however.

NeoRail · 2022-12-06T09:18:24+00:00

You didn't "touch a nerve", bro - I am simply telling it the way it is. You, with your eight day account, talking about the socks events from about a year ago, about "subversive gaslighting", about how DAR is in some manner representative of a movement, and implying that the mod team has been somehow subverted. Pure melodrama. You know you can just say they make low quality posts and argue your position on that ground, if that's what you believe, right? You don't need to go through the trouble of insinuating things about this place, the mod team etc.

NeoRail · 2022-12-06T01:14:54+00:00

Honestly, given your melodramatic tone, in my eyes you seem like way more of a schizo than radicalcentrist.

NeoRail · 2022-12-05T16:10:42+00:00

I don't consider this an argument at all, I am just expressing my opinion that the reason this sub is in a bad state is not due to radicalcentrist or any of the other posters. The real problem is different and if you want to solve it you will have to look for the solution elsewhere. That's my point.

I am indeed quite disappointed that this sub has been declining in quality, but then again this is something that has been ongoing since the 2017 quarantine back on Reddit, five years ago, if I recall correctly. I was actively looking for intelligent people back then and I found a lot of fascinating posters both within DAR and outside it - I lost contact with the bulk of these people due to the Reddit purges. The real problem isn't radicalcentrist - it is deplatforming. The fact is that there's not much purpose in a debate forum if there's a shortage of debaters, and especially debaters with significant ideological differences. This is the real reason why the community is declining. A community of this size is no good for debating - small communities are much better suited for advanced theoretical discussion, but the perspectives of the posters here are far too different to have something like that, since we would not even be able to agree on the most basic premises like materialism vs antimaterialism. Consequently, the current sub has the following advantages:

It is a good place to get news, information and commentary.
There are a number of intelligent posters with specialised knowledge, such as for example - to list just a few - Ethnocrat with his knowledge of Veblen, economics, environmentalism, Caspar with his geopolitical knowledge, and Mark with his understanding of effective political principles and praxis. These are not people you can find just anywhere. There were others on Reddit as well, like Stennes with his ARPLAN project, who does really impressive research, and I could name many others like him still, whom I am no longer in contact with.
There's also a valuable potential advantage. If one day an opportunity opens up on some social media platform for a community of people with varied knowledge to have open discussion, the community could migrate there and experience a renaissance of sorts. I think that this is an idea worth exploring in the future, and alongside with the previous point I brought up, is the real source of value for this sub. Most of the discussion here is hardly worth anything, but there are many insightful posters here whose intelligence is certainly valuable.

NeoRail · 2022-12-05T14:57:05+00:00

At least they're making posts. If the low quality posts were drowning out good ones in a sea of white noise, it would be a different issue, but as things are right now I really do not see the problem.

NeoRail · 2022-12-05T14:52:48+00:00

When has this sub had any high quality content on Saidit? All content here is low effort, and consequently also low quality. Occasionally, there are good posts. I don't think that shills could possibly reduce the quality of the discourse here because it is already pretty low in the first place and also because it is infrequent. Currently, the benefit of this place is that it presents new information and has a number of insightful posters that can comment on it. There isn't any discourse occurring, and if we actually brought up some topic worthy of discourse - because there are just a handful of posters here - it is unlikely that we will find more than two or three people at most who agree on any given thing. Off the top of my mind, my last more serious conversation here was on natural law and it involved just me and two other posters, and if I recall correctly each of us had his own different views.

NeoRail · 2022-12-05T05:28:19+00:00

There's a difference between saying that people lost interest in the sub because of low quality discourse and saying they lost interest in the sub because of shills. The real reason people lost interest in coming here is because of the decline in both discourse and reach since the Reddit days, but that doesn't really have anything to do with shills.

NeoRail · 2022-12-03T06:21:04+00:00

I don't understand what conundrum or dilemma you are referring to. Is there a set of political principles that should be followed in a given state or no? If there is such a set of principles, then it is up to the political leaders to apply them. As to their application and how they should account for any complications, that is again the job of the political leaders. There is no dilemma that I can see at any level.

NeoRail · 2022-11-27T17:16:28+00:00

If Kanye runs for president, he will lose badly. Still, I think a Kanye campaign would result in considerable metapolitical benefits, and what is more, the lion's share of those benefits will probably not go to Kanye himself or even to America First.

NeoRail · 2022-11-20T03:07:52+00:00

So long as the community keeps checking this place, the sub remains valuable. That's what I think.

NeoRail · 2022-11-20T03:06:14+00:00

There are no agents here bro.

NeoRail · 2022-11-12T11:05:31+00:00

University is a great thing if you pick out a degree that fits your purposes, and if you go into it with a clear set of principles. If you have no sound principles or opinions and pick your degree foolishly, choosing, for example, something like sociology, then you are probably going to emerge much worse off from the experience, both intellectually and economically.

NeoRail · 2022-11-11T06:34:27+00:00

These are are all good questions, but as I said earlier, I am no engineer. Presumably there will need to be other ways to store electricity, if lithium is not a good solution.

NeoRail · 2022-11-10T20:30:58+00:00

My assumption would be that nuclear fusion power plants will power the grid and everything else will work off of that, like Tesla cars that can be charged directly with electricity etc. I am no engineer, however.

NeoRail · 2022-11-10T17:41:17+00:00

If fusion is as effective as its proponents claim, it could be possible to go fully electric, but obviously that's just speculation at this point.

NeoRail · 2022-11-10T06:07:00+00:00

I genuinely cannot understand this push for green energy when we have nuclear, and when work is actively being done on nuclear fusion technology. To my knowledge, nuclear energy is almost completely clean, so the preference for wind, solar etc seems really bizarre to me.

NeoRail · 2022-11-10T06:04:44+00:00

This sounds quite strange. In the first place, why would anyone compare the performance of different ethnic groups with language-based IQ tests? We already have pattern recognition IQ tests for that, which are accessible to everyone regardless of what language they speak. Language-based tests can be interesting and can say a lot about verbal intelligence, but when it comes to general intelligence, pattern recognition tests are preferred and are considered the standard, isn't that the case? I have not researched the literature on comparative IQ testing, but my impression was that pattern recognition tests already are the norm.

NeoRail · 2022-11-08T19:29:27+00:00

In that case, I'd say try not to use your phone for a while, maybe a month or as long as you need or want - if that's not possible, buy one of those old phones that don't have internet connection since those can't be hacked. It will give you more peace of mind if nothing else, and it is better for privacy and information security. In fact, it might be good to go tech or internet free for a while, at least as much as you can manage. Get some good print books to fill in the time too. Obviously that wouldn't solve the problem you are describing, but it would definitely lower the stress. People tend to be most stressed when they feel that they can't control anything, so taking back some control should help you feel better. Then you can go from there and see how things go. Unfortunately, besides offering some advice, I can't offer any other help.

NeoRail · 2022-11-08T18:07:10+00:00

The quality of discourse was probably lower, but it was pretty fun.

NeoRail · 2022-11-08T18:00:42+00:00

I have heard stories like yours before. The first thing to consider is that you are probably extremely distressed right now. Even people who learn to cope with experiences like this and consider them "normal" are typically in a state of extreme distress. The most important thing to do is to calm down as much as you are able. When a person is in distress, it is more difficult to evaluate things correctly - it is easier to do so when you are calm. If you find it comforting, approach the issue logically - think about these experiences and try to see if they make sense. Why would anyone be stalking and tracking you specifically? What reasons are there to do so, when you are just a normal guy? Who would do such a thing, and how? I do not know how literal you are with this, but I should note that it is absolutely impossible for other people to monitor your thoughts and feelings. No one can see inside your mind, just like you cannot see inside the minds of others. Try and see if what you are experiencing sounds reasonable - I am sure that you see and hear these things with great clarity, but think and see if they also makes sense or not. Sometimes things we experience clearly turn out to be untrue, and even impossible in retrospect - like a mirage in the desert. Approaching things with this perspective may be helpful, because in my experience - and I have met a few people who have very similar stories to yours - even though the experiences these people have are very strong, none of them can really explain to me who is tracking them or how, or how it would be possible for anyone to monitor their minds or engage in other such impossible activities. I do not know you, and I do not know your circumstances, but it sounds to me like you are dealing with mental illness, possibly paranoid schizophrenia. Many people have this disease, and it is possible for them to lead wholesome, fulfilling lives if they receive the support they need - this is an illness like any other, and you should not feel afraid or ashamed to seek help. Life can be better, but I recommend that you seek out psychiatric help as soon as possible. Living like this must be extremely distressing for you, and unfortunately if left untreated, the symptoms will probably get worse over time, which is very taxing on the mind no matter how mentally resilient you are - such a thing will probably lead you to develop attachment to your experiences, and also various dysfunctional coping mechanisms in order to deal with them. That is why it is important for you to get the help you need. I do not know you, but whatever your situation may be, I hope you feel better soon, because what you have described must be very difficult to deal with. I do not know if any of my advice is of any help to you - if it is, then that is good, and if it is not, then I hope you discover the right way forward on your own. I wish you all the best.

NeoRail · 2022-11-08T13:14:39+00:00

I don't think we have ever spoken before and I do not know your circumstances, but going off of this post, you sound neurotic and need to develop a more relaxed mindset not just for now but also in the long term. No one can forcibly expose anything that you do not want to expose, and there is no reason why you should be afraid of something like that either even if it was possible, because it wouldn't be the end of the world. I don't know what you have read about psychological operations either, but there's lots of nonsense out there that's totally groundless. In the first place, the intelligence services do not care about random posters on fully legal forums - at best, you will only be able to find NGO shills. You should also remember that the law still exists, and that it not only provides basic protections to everyone, but also limits intrusions into the privacy of citizens and penalises any illegal violations.

Once you are relaxed and are no longer stressed by concerns like these, you will be able to reflect on politics and on your values with a clear head.

NeoRail · 2022-11-08T12:30:59+00:00

I am still around, I just don't have much to say. The vast majority of things that happen in mainstream politics don't really interest me anymore because I don't think mainstream politics has anything to do with my interests at all, and besides, I have never felt that engaging with leftists or their talking points is particularly pleasant or intriguing either. This means I don't really have much to say about current events. The stuff I am currently reading about isn't immediately political either, and I don't feel that there would be much point in me reading more political texts now, because I believe I have already arrived at sound ideas about principles and about political practice. Reading political texts would be useful if there was any specific task to solve, but currently the only task is to organise - policy on the other hand is up to the liberals, because they are in control.

I am not really concerned about activity and clicks - I agree with Mark that this type of stuff hasn't really mattered since we got deplatformed. I do hope that the regular posters stay here for at least another couple of years, though. There are many intelligent, knowledgeable people here, and it would be hard to find something like this anywhere else. It would be good to maintain this place. It's already a great pity that I have lost contact with a number of really smart and interesting guys throughout the years - particularly on Reddit, I remember an American NazBol, an American heterodox Trotskyist, that one DAR reactionary who used to have "Archaic Liberal" in his flair - I think we would have been able to have great conversations if we could speak today - among others, too. While we are on the topic of inactivity, I hope /u/Rakean93 is still around too - I do not want to lose contact with him as well, or with any of the other regulars.

NeoRail · 2022-10-23T16:34:31+00:00

Things are going well for me. I have had more time for my interests and for reading lately, which is nice. Unfortunately, reading seems to become less and less rewarding.

NeoRail · 2022-10-22T12:43:50+00:00

Yes. If you are approaching the conversation with a constructive goal, you should never debate. You can debate for fun, if you'd like. For constructive purposes, you should only ever have neutral discussions.

NeoRail · 2022-10-20T19:44:44+00:00

The perpetrators were military men and aristocrats, but I don't think they were specifically aiming at the restoration of an aristocratic or monarchic regime. My understanding is that it was just a power grab and an extremely naive attempt at negotiated surrender. I would call them foolish opportunists, if anything.

NeoRail · 2022-10-20T18:25:34+00:00

I think in the future we will be seeing more and more local level organising precisely because so many of the national level organisations are just bad.

NeoRail · 2022-10-20T18:22:44+00:00

I would describe them as opportunists rather than reactionaries. I don't think their actions were in the interests of the German aristocracy either.

NeoRail · 2022-10-19T15:51:41+00:00

They are not really trying to justify anything, it is just a cynical tactic.

NeoRail · 2022-10-17T17:07:16+00:00

This is just a stream of lies and hatred dressed up as an article. It is a bit amusing to note that people like this seem to believe that whites are essentially supernatural being - only instead of being divine Hvperboreans or something like that, they see white people as omnipotent dark forces, which control whole aspects of life and can even possess non-white people. This guy for instance plainly equates whiteness with power itself. The sophistry is obvious, but it's also a bit hilarious. I guess every European man is an incarnation of Ares.

NeoRail · 2022-10-13T22:48:48+00:00

That is incredible. Beyond belief.

NeoRail · 2022-10-13T18:47:38+00:00

In related news Kanye West has had his bank account closed

They closed Kanye West's bank account? Really?

NeoRail · 2022-10-13T07:45:06+00:00

The argument is that Italian fascism is better because that wasn't as unstable as Nazism.

It would seem the opposite is true, because the Italian state tore itself apart in a civil war upon being subjected to external pressure, whereas the German state endured until the very end. The fact that Italian fascism was older than the National Socialist government is a point against its stability rather than a point for it, because it collapsed more easily despite the additional time of solidification and consolidation in comparison with Germany.

NeoRail · 2022-10-13T07:31:13+00:00

Just one billion dollars, no big deal, right? I genuinely wonder if the courts have ever asked big money to pay such a sum. It is pretty clear that they are trying to crush Jones, in fact to my recollection they said he can't file for bankruptcy either.

NeoRail · 2022-10-13T07:28:43+00:00

/u/Markimus what's the position of the mod team on this guy?

NeoRail · 2022-10-08T22:55:46+00:00

If I recall correctly, the theme of the 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony was the history of Britain - my assumption is that the hospital beds are a reference to the advent of modern medicine and, possibly, the Influenza crisis, which cost many lives in Europe.

NeoRail · 2022-10-08T22:53:42+00:00

So he still hasn't bought it, but he will?

NeoRail · 2022-10-08T20:02:53+00:00

Did Elon Musk end up buying Twitter in the end or did he give up?

NeoRail · 2022-09-27T02:46:55+00:00

In the first place, "liberal democracy" is an oxymoron. Liberalism is rule by the rich and democracy is - at least in theory - rule by everyone. Serious liberals have never liked democracy and only really grudgingly accept it, precisely on the terms you describe - democracy is when liberals get their way, and the more liberals get their way, the more democratic it is.

NeoRail · 2022-09-27T02:35:41+00:00

What are you referring to? The new Italian government should have a strong enough majority to change the constitution without the need for a referendum.

NeoRail · 2022-09-26T16:12:15+00:00

That does not sound satisfactory to me. I hope activists and the Italian public do their best to put pressure on this new government to pass meaningful, effective, long term reform.

NeoRail · 2022-09-26T11:20:51+00:00

What a waste. They should certainly enshrine immigration and citizenship law reforms into the constitution, at the very least. There is no point in electoral victories if they are not put to use.

NeoRail · 2022-09-26T10:04:28+00:00

They are even able to change the constitution without a referendum even with 0 support from the opposition.

I wonder if they will actually make use of that ability or if they'll just let it pass them by. Pro-right Italians should definitely protest demanding this.

NeoRail · 2022-09-26T09:49:51+00:00

Purely as a thought experiment, I suppose the simplest way would have been for the German Bund to somehow take control of the US, join the Second World War on the side of Germany, and then form a political union with it afterwards. Any other immediately conceivable scenario would require at least one more additional world war.

NeoRail · 2022-09-26T08:12:08+00:00

No it isn't. You have been making dumb posts like this for a long time now. You're either trolling or you're some kind of schizoposter.

NeoRail · 2022-09-26T07:25:26+00:00

This shitpost is unironically a better sales pitch for CPAC than anything American conservatives could possibly come up with.

NeoRail · 2022-09-26T07:23:56+00:00

Why are you still here? You've been trolling in this manner for many months now, and you are not accomplishing anything. You are not even interesting. Honest question - why bother?

NeoRail · 2022-09-25T20:41:37+00:00

Yeah it was some red light device, if I recall correctly. I'd say try to look it up on YouTube, it's a one minute clip. It's so weird.

NeoRail · 2022-09-25T19:58:54+00:00

The demoralisation angle isn't the most interesting in my opinion, it's rather the weird attempt at distortion/warping of discourse. Guys like this deliberately act as if the people they are addressing hold a weirder version of their own views than they do. Take for example being isolationist or pro-Russia in regard to the Russia issue - I've never seen anyone even on the pro-Russian side suggest that the world is lost without Russia and that a lack of sympathy for Russia among Western right wingers is some sort of cosmic tragedy. We are talking about Russia - a nominally independent, anti-NATO liberal democracy - not some kind of Hyperborean Imperivm or anything like that. Trolls like these basically take a reasonable opinion they see in dissident discourse, create an artificial, bad version of it, then try to peddle it to dissidents in order to polarise people and make them either embrace the opposite view or the artificially bad version of the original view.

I might be schizoposting here, but it feels like I have been seeing this phenomenon a lot lately. It's a kind of trolling where the troll LARPs as a dumb version of the dissident he is addressing in order to affect the perception of various dissident positions both on the individual and collective level, to discredit certain dissident positions, and to increase polarisation among dissidents. I don't know how effective this type of trolling is, but it is definitely very annoying.

NeoRail · 2022-09-25T19:41:14+00:00

Wow, what a bargain. Based. If you need anyone to contribute plagiarised, third rate interpretations of Indo-European history and spirituality, give me a call - I can supply as much pseudomystical nonsense as you need to build a complete Chaddism curriculum.

Speaking of ball sunning - never thought I'd say that - did you see that clip Tucker Carlson commissioned for his show? It is so ridiculous. I genuinely do not know who greenlit it. I can only imagine how confused his boomer audience must have been at their first, indirect encounter with weirdo grifter Twitter.

NeoRail · 2022-09-25T19:31:34+00:00

Sounds like bullshit, but it doesn't concern me anyway so I don't care 😎

NeoRail · 2022-09-25T19:28:51+00:00

Ideally, it would be best to have Europe, Russia and America form a single polity on the basis of genuine, organic European principles. There is not much point in discussing that now, though, because without major changes in circumstances that would be very unlikely and utopian.

NeoRail · 2022-09-25T19:26:39+00:00

You've posted a bunch of nonsense.

NeoRail · 2022-09-25T19:25:56+00:00

The Europe issue is complicated in Russia because, politically and historically, being "pro-Europe" basically means supporting liberalism and anti-Russian geopolitical goals. It would be a lot easier to see shifts in Russian attitudes to Europe if and when Europe stops being liberal.

NeoRail · 2022-09-25T19:22:51+00:00

Is there a term for "false flag" posts that aim to discredit their own position and the people who hold that position by method of association? This posts seems like a textbook example - the Courbeaux NazBol alt guy does the same thing. It would be convenient to have a single term to describe this phenomenon. Perhaps you can help, /u/Markimus? Have you seen any useful term for this before?

NeoRail · 2022-09-25T19:19:30+00:00

It should be noted that it is strange and unprecedented to expect everyone to be politically literate. It is an understandable expectation, given that we live in nominal "liberal democracies", where the "informed choice" and "agency" of voters is indispensable for political health, but historically I doubt you could find mass political literacy in any normal era. Ultimately, the Spanish-American war is irrelevant even to most historians, put aside the general public taken as a whole - it is the same with politics. People's lives rarely revolve around politics, it is just not something they have an interest in. The problem is that under the current system, each citizen faces the choice of either being a political expert or being exploited by one. Not to mention that the sheer volume of information necessary for a voter to make a fully informed choice in a modern state probably exceeds the mental capacity of any single given individual. The kind of data point based choice which liberal democracy affirms as its ideal and mandates for every single person is probably unattainable even for a highly dedicated, educated genius.

NeoRail · 2022-09-24T22:41:01+00:00

I trust that you are up to the industry standard. A subscription grants access to recycled fitness programmes/PUA theory, "business advice", an essay collection on the topic of seed oils, and a rambling book that has never been proofread, correct? If we are talking DIY Chaddism coaching, you ought to provide the full package.

NeoRail · 2022-09-24T22:31:32+00:00

Your constant whining about the rich has almost made me like them, which is quite the achievement.

NeoRail · 2022-09-24T00:39:42+00:00

Pretty weird how in a "systemically racist" state where race and wealth are tied, the household income for whites is sixty thousand dollars whereas for certain immigrant communities it is over twice that.

NeoRail · 2022-09-23T21:19:38+00:00

NeoRail · 2022-09-23T17:05:19+00:00

>tfw you can't locate a quarter of the globe on the map

NeoRail · 2022-09-22T02:25:34+00:00

You are too focused on the problems and are not being fair. Think of it this way. Fixing the world is not your job. That is the job of the ruling elite. That they have been making a mess of it for decades and continue to make a mess of it now is their problem, not yours. If you volunteer your political efforts to help address the problems of modernity, that is out of your good will - no one could ask for more, and you are certainly not under obligation to do anything. As for the ruling elites, their decadence, disunity, malice and utter incompetence mean that they simply cannot win. It is not possible. I do not know who will win, but the current status quo is unsustainable and will inevitably end before long. At that point, there will be new opportunities, new people, new movements and new actors. The important part now is to prepare the preconditions for the future. Nothing can bear fruit unless the preconditions are met, and if they are met, then when the time for change comes, they will make a difference. Retaining composure, patience and a sense of measure is one of those preconditions on the individual level. Bettering the world is not something that can be done in one day, or done alone.

Consider also that an era without virtues is a great testing ground for what men of character can build, no less so than the time of Romulus. Don't get too caught up in the tragic and global elements of our time. This is our era as well, after all. Enjoy it, and the possibilities it offers, for what they are. As for the future, we do not yet know what it will bring, but whatever it is, it will be influenced by how we live in the present.

Perhaps I overdid it a bit with this post, but you get my point.

NeoRail · 2022-09-21T22:42:30+00:00

A significant chunk of people in Russia already believe that they are in World War 3 against NATO, given the level of support Ukraine has received. I don't know what's going to happen now though. As many Western analysts say, Russia has "no viable exit strategy", but neither do the Ukrainians, nor the Americans. I am guessing that the American leadership may end up doing what they usually do and pour a ton of resources into this conflict, turn it into a gruesome quagmire, then years later just abandon the satellite government to its inevitable demise as they did with Afghanistan, Vietnam etc. That seems a bit weird to me, as the stakes are quite a bit higher this time given that they are dealing with Russia, but maybe they are negligent enough to do something like that.

NeoRail · 2022-09-21T22:36:27+00:00

Watching you go from the Archeofuturism guy to the environmental collapse guy to the "I actually want Putin to nuke the entire planet" guy has been an experience. Come on, man. You should be more optimistic. Browsing some whitepills might help.

NeoRail · 2022-09-21T18:16:10+00:00

Unfortunately, I think the war will probably stretch on for at least another year and will likely result in tremendous destruction in Ukraine, unless something unexpected happens. It is really quite lamentable, especially because there's no real reason for this war. All of the destruction in Ukraine and the costs to the rest of Europe are basically needless.

NeoRail · 2022-09-21T14:04:35+00:00

I don't think they will use nukes either, but I wouldn't completely rule it out - tactical nuclear weapons could possibly be deployed against Ukrainian units, and in an extreme scenario they may even target Western Ukraine or Kiev. I don't think that's likely though. Still, it should be noted that there is no threat of mutually assured destruction in Ukraine at all - even the most insane NATO hawks seem to be limiting their rhetoric to "ensuring consequences" if Putin uses nukes, rather than threatening nuclear retaliation. This manoeuvre could be an attempt by Putin to paralyse Ukrainian decision making - it might be interesting to see how that goes.

NeoRail · 2022-09-20T02:50:07+00:00

Don't worry about it dude, half the people here are schizophrenic and they don't hesitate posting their bullshit at all, so why should you? If anything, I'd just say that it's possible to distinguish between the drug addicted far left types etc and the sort of apolitical degeneracy that keeps people down but does not cause them to lash out at anyone. I don't consider the latter to be opposed to anyone or going in any direction, really.

Moreover, rich whites have their own class problems that are discussed fairly frequently - these are conformism, superficiality and philistinism. Discussing the state of the poorer classes too is not at all an example of mean spirited classism, except in the cases of certain libertarian and neoreactionary currents which advertise their disdain for the poor quite openly.

NeoRail · 2022-09-20T02:04:51+00:00

You shouldn't have deleted the comments at all. Even if you have practical concerns, this is a small forum - no matter what you say, you are very unlikely to cause real political problems.

NeoRail · 2022-09-19T23:26:07+00:00

I don't think that Woods and Davis are correct on this issue. Obviously, nationalism is very important today, but historically it emerged as a modern, antitraditional phenomenon. Ethnic loyalty, on the other hand, predates history itself, and served as the premodern, but also more cohesive, basis for modern nationalism.

NeoRail · 2022-09-19T16:25:29+00:00

Ethnic unity, ethnic identity and ethnic solidarity have always existed, but nationalism itself as an ideology is indeed purely a modern development, and to be honest, it does not really have much to do with the traditional conceptions of ethnic unity. Hence why historically nationalism has seen such extensive use by left wing movements, and why it is so deformed today, what with civic nationalism, "Western values" etc.

NeoRail · 2022-09-19T13:07:48+00:00

The best there was to be found was stuff like Rod Dreher.

I think Dreher did convert to Orthodoxy eventually, didn't he? I rarely run into any information about him, but last I heard he was some kind of "alt lite" Orthodox conservative guy.

One thing I definitely wouldn’t have expected was the Groypers. Traditional Catholicism is a more reasonable way to synthesize these ideas but I still wouldn’t have expected it to have had any success as a brand.

I remember being pretty impressed with what the Groypers achieved with the pressure they were putting on conservative youth groups, but ultimately I think Catholicism is just an aesthetic for these people.

I agree none of this truly has to do with Dugin, more Western spinned “Duginism.” It’s been a decade since I read Fourth Political Theory but I don’t recall him saying half the thing people try to tack on him, including this stuff.

I don't think Dugin is even Orthodox lol, last I checked he was a member of the Old Believers. My experience has been the same as yours in regard to discussion of "Duginism" - I have read very little of Dugin's work, but it has basically nothing to do with the accusations levied against him, some of which are particularly outlandish.

NeoRail · 2022-09-19T03:16:06+00:00

I don't know anything about an Orthodox boom in 2010, but there definitely has been one in recent years, at least as far as memes are concerned. I don't think that has anything to do with Dugin though. Rather, it seems to me that the more important factors have been dissatisfaction with Catholicism, the works of Seraphim Rose, the works of Guenon and finally the existence of a small subculture of people who are extremely obsessed with traditional Christian theology and express interest in the mystical tradition of Orthodoxy.

NeoRail · 2022-09-18T22:38:34+00:00

Thanks for wasting my time with this disinfo garbage. Your sources plainly and simply do not state what you claim they state.

NeoRail · 2022-09-18T13:09:27+00:00

The party itself is not important, what is important is that the election demonstrates the potential for nativist politics in Sweden. If the SD introduce some policy changes in regard to immigration, that could be very major, too.

NeoRail · 2022-09-16T22:33:08+00:00

Not to my knowledge. I believe the process of forming a government is moderately long in Sweden.

NeoRail · 2022-09-16T16:16:35+00:00

What I meant was that there was no thread for the election results.

NeoRail · 2022-09-15T20:58:15+00:00

Yeah, the fact that it is the youth who support the SD also means that other parties like the AfS etc are more likely to pose a credible challenge in the future, since unlike boomers, young people tend to be more politically aware and less likely to vote by inertia.

I am surprised that Nyans is an Islamic traditionalist party. I would have thought that they would be a "secular", left-oriented minority party that nevertheless maintains its autonomy from white leftists. Interesting.

NeoRail · 2022-09-12T12:15:32+00:00

That's how it looks to me as well. It seems that they assumed the Ukrainian military-political apparatus would collapse quickly without much resistance, so they approached the conflict with the idea of using limited force and causing limited damage in order to make the post-war situation more stable and more profitable for themselves. Obviously, that wasn't a very good idea - state collapse is not something that just happens. If they wanted to win quickly, they should have used the maximum amount of force possible. Now they are probably in for another year or two of warfare - maybe longer, if they continue to not take things seriously, and even then, I don't think that Russia will necessarily win. As the war drags on, the Ukrainians will not only get more desperate, but also more competent, and then there are also the Western subsidies too. Frankly, at this point the weak link might actually be the West, rather than Ukraine itself - if the energy crisis can bring an end to Western support, Russia will probably win even without mobilising. That does not seem very likely, though.

NeoRail · 2022-09-11T15:34:43+00:00

You don't understand the status of the monarchy in Britain or the political situation there. The monarchy is barely tolerated even by the conservative politicians, and is only grudgingly accepted as an aesthetic symbol. If you want to see what happens when a figure within the establishment tries to oppose it, you can take a look at the case of Enoch Powell - he was very popular, had political connections, and the people were with him, but he was nevertheless completely isolated by his own party and failed to accomplish anything.

NeoRail · 2022-09-10T18:12:25+00:00

The main issue is that if the Russians are forced to abandon all of their gains on the Izyum front, they will in all likelihood need to mobilise in order to retake them. They have been waging a slow, methodical campaign, relying on a small, professional force - it looks very unlikely that they will be able to regain everything with their numerically inferior force in any good time frame, if at all. They will need to mobilise, and that seems to be something Putin simply does not want to do.

NeoRail · 2022-09-10T14:17:24+00:00

How do you suppose Paul would have reacted if someone questioned him and his authority, and rejected his claim to represent God and distinguish good from evil?

NeoRail · 2022-09-10T14:13:41+00:00

Didn't you say that the Russian government has been training and mobilising reserves for months now, preparing them for a future escalation? What happened to that?

I don't think Putin is stupid, but it definitely appears that he and the Russian ruling class are being very cautious, to the point where it may be counter-productive. If Russia had gone full force from the start, it is possible that the conflict may have already been over by now, before military aid, sanctions and Ukrainian recruitment could make much of a difference. Instead, it seems that even now they are waging a limited war and multiplying all of the costs of the conflict not only for themselves, but also for the rest of the world too.

NeoRail · 2022-09-10T14:04:38+00:00

I don't think that the Russian war effort is collapsing at all, but it does appear that there have been major setbacks in the area of Izyum. The Russian military have retreated a good distance now, and there is speculation that they will need to retreat even more. I am not sure what is going on, but if Caspar is right about the difference in numbers, it would certainly explain the problem - especially on such a wide front, being massively outnumbered is not a good idea. It is strange to think that currently Russia seems to be handling the economic side of the conflict much better than the military side.

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