Great references. DJT was and remains right about a lot of things leftists deny as true. Wouldn't it be great to have a president with Trump policies without the personality disorders that distracted from his message and gave fuel to his enemies?
It won’t happen if you don’t take the whole package of President Trump, whoever embraces his policies will be eaten alive by the Democrats, MSM the Corporations etc. DJT is the only President who so far has actually stood up for Americans in fact not only Americans he told Germany “you guys are crazy to put all your eggs in Russia’s energy basket” and what do you see today, chaos, he told us that Brandon was going back to the green new deal and what’s happening now exactly that. He told us Brandon was going to raise taxes and .... I don’t have to go on you all understand (oh I forgot the crucial one mass flow of illegals across the southern border). So no give me President Trump all day any day it’s exactly what America needs🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Interesting how some seem to have Stockholm Syndrome and keep listening to their tormentors, their captors, the MSM no matter how often they have been proven, liars.
Sweden has been run by glassy eyed, drooling leftists for over 100 years and look where it has gotten them.
This is from the article:
"In response to Sweden’s increasing problems with gang violence and social unrest in immigrant suburbs, the government’s strategy for many years was to deny how serious the situation had become. In the meantime, those people who noticed the problem—many of whom were working class—and spoke out about their diminished safety were accused of racism by leading politicians, the mainstream press, and the cultural elites."
Sound familiar? Anyone in this country who criticizes the murders and crimes in the black neighborhoods is called a racist by our glassy eye, drooling morons.
"The Swedish criminologist Amir Rostami has described Sweden’s bomb epidemic as part of a cycle of violence among criminal gangs, going back some 15 years: “First they shot at legs and behinds, then they started shooting each other, then there were more shots, pure executions, and humiliation of the victims. Now we have extreme amounts of explosions,” he told the newspaper DN in 2019.
As this development picked up speed, it was considered bad taste to suggest that immigration and failed integration had led to severe problems with crime—or even that crime was a growing problem at all. "
It is considered "bad taste" to say their system of immigration has failed. These people are not only blindly self-destructive, they are nuts.
If you won't or can't identify and define the problem, you can never solve it and that is just what Sweden has done for decades.
I find the left disgusting. They care only about their loony ideologies and could care less about the populace. Like the Swedes they want to run this country into the ground.
Trump is a bit difficult but 99% of his conduct was in reaction to a full out attack by the media, etc. And do not think that they will stop once Trump is gone.
What they did to him is a warm up for what they will do to the next candidate.
Is she involved in his politics, which would make her fair game, or is she an innocent bystander, in which case attacking her given the cancer is a really depraved kind of evil. I have not read about such attacks on her, but I don't read everything.
Well in fact, they attacked DeSantis for spending a week with his wife over Christmas while she was being treated for cancer. "Look at him taking a super long vacation"
I don't know if they directly attacked her but it's basically the same thing. They are depraved and evil and the fact that people are not shocked and appalled, but just sneer and laugh along with them because it's the "enemy", that's what's so disgusting.
Of course it backfired and made Gov. DeSantis look even more heroic, and made the Democrats look even more scummy.
I think there's no way he will lose reelection now. Of course his opponent, Crist, literally told Republicans he didn't want their vote. Way to lose, moron.
I agree. But I also think he is a lightning rod and I wish he would put the interests of his constituents above his own and move on. He drew attention to the issues we face and I am grateful but he is far too easily baited to be effective at this point IMO. He would serve much better as a policy adviser.
He is a lightning rod and probably takes the bait too often. I disagree that he put his interests over ours, however. He at least tried some good things. The rest of the crew simply serve big donors.
He may be unafraid to speak his mind, and may be right about more than some people want to let on - including the joke that was the last election, and the existence of the Deep State and Shithole Countries.
But never forget, he has only three constituents. Me, myself and I.
It's led him to enormous wealth and the ability to trade up DNA partners for his three rounds of kids, but even if you love his politics, and you think they work for you... it always has been, and always will be, about him.
Trump was right about some things like illegal immigration and China but he is a repellant excuse for a human being, obsessed with himself and congenitally incapable of telling the truth. Would you invite him into your home with your teenage daughters present? If the Republicans came to their senses and produced a decent human being with decent impulses, he would run away with the 2024 elections. As it is, Trump and his toadies are repulsive to most voters, a gift to the Democrats.
Would you let Bill Clinton or Joe Biden into your house with your teenage daughter? Clinton got —-s under the desk in the oval office from a young White House intern, but he is a hero of the Democratic Party to this day. And Biden showered with his daughter but crickets…
Shall we start with pussy grabbing? Or just go straight to mocking disabled people? Or telling tens of thousands of lies over four years? The man is a sociopath.
I don’t disagree with your 99% but the euphemism about Trump being “a bit difficult” is worthy of CNN. Yes, causing the loss of the Senate to the Dems and probably delivering much better than expected results for the Dems in the upcoming mid-terms is “a bit difficult” for the American people. But it’s OK, we’ll put up with inflation, raising crime and school indoctrination as long as the “Big Steal” is a religious tenet.
While the media certainly deserves criticism, Trump got exactly the treatment he deserved. Anyone who has ever lived in NYC (as I have) or just glimpsed at Trump's shenanigans over the decades knows that Donald Trump is a GRIFTER who has nothing but contempt for you or anyone else who isn't named Trump. The plain and simple truth is that Donald Trump, like his father and grandfather before him, is a con man and if you don't know that by now then YOU are the mark. If he hadn't had daddy's $400 million to start his "career" with, Donny would have been a bouncer at a strip club in Queens—at best.
Read what Forbes, which leans right to center right, published
about the many ways Donald skimmed money from Eric Trump's charity golf tournament for a children's hospital:
How Donald Trump Shifted Kids-Cancer Charity Money Into His Business
If you won't believe that, just read the court documents related to the lawsuit against him over Trump University, the lawsuit he SETTLED for $25 million dollars, the same lawsuit he proclaimed he would NEVER settle!
Yip sometimes more than the above. But come Nov all of the above + all the personality disordered people are going to rise up and vote on mass, they/we have all been lying low waiting for the tight moment it’s coming 47 days out!
Europe is going to freeze in the dark this winter and people will be told it is Putin - not 30 years of progressive energy policies based on their quasi religious belief in global warming.
The progressives make citizens vulnerable to bad actors. Energy independence was squandered away in the U.S. in the same misguided way. We must realize that fossil fuels are needed to meet our energy needs, now and in the future. Why make yourself vulnerable by denying the truth - to make yourself feel good? Germans laughed at Trump when he warned them about dependence on Russia for energy at the UN. Not laughing now, though.
Here's the deal. They're used to this shit. Every 40 years or so, their incompetence and historically dumb geopolitical decision making forces them to live like medieval serfs.
In America and obviously Sweden the national dialogue is manufactured and controlled. (That's why we're at Substack.) The tactic used by criminal finance to maintain control, run cover for their seizure and exploitation of the worlds natural resources and stay in front of the adverse blowback they create in the lives of ordinary people, is to capture and control discussion of all legitimate social and environmental concerns. The blunders of the NGO, control of print and electronic media and their installation of the D.E.I. commissariat to destroy the lives of possible adversaries is reported here almost daily. Forced immigration as a means of destroying a nation's culture is just their cup of tea. (Wasn't it the Clinton machines destruction of Libya that opened the flood gates? Gaddafi died because he fk'd with criminal finance.)
War profiteering, the looting and economic destruction of national economies, international cartel/oligarchic money laundering, poisoning, assassination and murder, in America a compromised political leadership, are all the result of the manipulation of criminal finance. The Wall Street/IMF/WEF/CCP Davos boys and girls are behind most of the crisis to crisis no solutions allowed reality that has become our daily bread.
Global warming as a cover can be seen in the ongoing WEF backed assault on Dutch farmers with the ultimate goal of driving them off their land. Or, Bill Gates now owning half of America's arable farm land (which he has taken out of production). Consider the Bush family and their interest in controlling the worlds supply of fresh water. Or WEF Star Trek want to be Klaus Schwab applauding and designating J.Trudeau as one of their own. (How's your supply chain.)
The streets of Sweden, as in America, are unsafe because criminal finance wants it that way. The Biden White House (Kamala Harris) ran cover for criminal finance when she conflated the descent of America into addiction, crime, riots and homelessness as peaceful revolution. Unsafe in your home, your parks, taking a walk, going to work, your quality of life destroyed, is merely the beginning.
America and the World is under assault by venal and avaricious criminals.
I would say, Qaddafi died to make Obama and H. Clinton look good. They needed a foreign policy win, so Hillary met with some lying "democracy activists" from Libya who convinced her to kill Qaddafi. She did so. Obama was able to boast that his bombers killed him. Of course never mind that this opened the gate for ISIS and Al Nusra to come in and set up shop, destabilizing northern Africa and causing a humanitarian crisis.
Nothing good to say about Biden. He has ruined what was going well and found new ways to make things worse. The list of wrongheadedness is long and serves to tell all of us to get rid of his administration. Get out and VOTE.
Biden Derangement Syndrome is the new Trump Derangement Syndrome, I see.
Of course, the original "derangement syndrome" was Bush Derangement Syndrome; it's originally a trope of the old-guard GOP party line. But there was nothing deranged about the antipathy for George W. Bush at all; the Bush II administration really did wrong-foot the US at the outset of the 21st century. The rest of the world is still reeling from the second-order, third-order, etc. impacts of that.
The American Right continues to reel in a cognitive dissonance all its own on that score, of course.
The mainstream media's small-minded, myopic approach to its job and its disparagement of conservative and populist thought is a key contributor to our nation’s divisions, breeding resentment and polarization among even the politically disinclined by promoting content specifically intended to enrage, balkanize, and embitter—all for more clicks and views.
Batya Ungar Sargon has a great book out called Bad News. Basically it describes the process of major news media becoming populated with out of touch upper class people. The divide that is the most damaging is that these people and their elite cohort are no longer on a speaking familiar basis with those who pave roads, put bricks on top of one another, mow their yards, clean their houses or come when they call 911. THAT is the true divide that has destroyed our free press.
What do you mean by "international criminal finance"? Criminals don't play well with others, much less each other. After a period of "cooperation" they start trying to knock each other off; just look at the Mafia. The problems in Sweden started in 2015 when a huge number of single young males began surging in from Syria, north Africa and other countries in that region.
I swear, all Trump had to do was say the opposite of what he really meant, and the liberal press would all fall in line. (He has joked that he should have said he opposed a border wall, and then the Dems would have enthusiastically funded one.)
Do you feel all the reflexive Trump derangement is akin to mass formation psychosis? Put in a nutshell, MFP is essentially a traumatic event experienced in a certain population and then a single cause and/or solution becomes popular to deal with the trauma. I am amazed at the progressive democrats, otherwise capable of complex thought, that are reduced to making the hex sign and spitting on the ground whenever Trump is mentioned.
It's quite remarkable. I've been in conversations with friends & relatives where they start shouting about Trump. I don't shout; I try to stick to facts and figures. But they shout. Like 5-year-olds.
I'm convinced it's pathological. Megalomaniacal narcissism( the filthy rich) exploiting ideological utopianism (Marxist "woke"). The players in Nazi Germany, Russia and China were a little different but it's the same disease and the outcome was horror.
The cultural alchemists imagine that injecting "diversity" into working systems will work akin to the mutations in X-Men comics, with nearly every "mutant" having some sort of cool superpower to use in his stunning-and-brave fight against bigoted caricatures.
In the real world, the only significant human genetic mutations we ever see are disabilities. Meanwhile, the products of cultural alchemy are overwhelmingly conflict, animosity, and diminished social trust, and the "bigots" are the people with too much empathy and integrity to ignore the problems.
C.G.Jung to his dying day thought it was the fracture in the human psyche between the God image and empirical science and only the creation of a "third" to bind the two would bring about the necessary evolution in consciousness to heal and move Western culture forward.
As someone who spent over 8 years living in EU, this doesnt surprise me. European Politicians and Media have became experts in denial, all for sake of not being labeled racist or perceived antiimmigrant.
In Germany, where I lived, there are constant reports of rise in Antisemitic crime. Media and politicians would always (due to historical reasons) call the issues caused by "rise of right wing extremists and neo Nazis". Yes in some cases perpetrators have been right wing extremist, but they were small minority, antisemitism was booming in immigrant communities.
I being born in south Europe and being immigrant myself have due to financial reasons lived in those immigrant areas and have seen issues first hand. Anti-Semitism in many Muslim communities was not only seen as positive, but also encouraged in all aged groups. Not only that, members of those communities have actively resisted any kind of integration in main stream society, while at the same time milking welfare state to the extreme.
The issues with this have reached such extent, that it became quiet easy to identify who the real perpetrators of these acts were. In those few cases where perpetrators were native Germans, this would be reported in every newspapers and special accent would be put that it was "evil Neo Nazi Germans" who are doing bad stuff. But in majority of cases, media would just make small mention that the issue happened, suspects were arrested, mention was made that it was probably "right wing", in that case everyone knew that it was committed by immigrants, but media and politicans would just continue to gaslight its own population.
Long story short, by actively avoiding to report on what is actually happening, media and politicians in Europe are forcing its citizens to vote evermore right leaning parties in hope that the mounting issues will be finally dealt with. But as always, these issues are not affecting elites, but normal working people.
The same denial has been happening with energy policy. Many die from the denial of the problems of importing asocial people, many more may die from the cold this winter.
"This is a story of what happens when the people who run things want to avoid confronting the consequences of their actions."
A perfect distillation of the idiocy of the left - and not only the most extreme any more.
American media never reports the ethnicity or race of criminals. When they show a picture of a suspect arrested for a crime, those suspects are predominately minorities or illegal immigrants. The facts could not be clearer, but the message gets muddled by political correctness.
We've all been around long enough to understand that the cause, effect and consequences of bad political, financial and social policy is not a great mystery. Criminal finance isn't stupid, it just doesn't care. We take the blowback, they take the cash. The Martha's Vineyard spectacle was pure "theatre" but painted a clear picture of the dynamic in play.
They report it when the criminal is white and conservative. If the criminal is a minority, they quickly memory-hole the incident and don't talk about the perpetrator. Remember the guy in Wisconsin who drove over people in a Christmas parade?
Reporting surrounding crime has now become a political activity. If the context of a crime doesn't fit the currently favored narrative (for now that narrative is "white extremism is an existential threat to the country and is everywhere, and there are about 75 million white extremists in the US) it is not reported. If the context around a crime allows it to be fit into the narrative in any way, shape, or form it is "front page news" everywhere for as many days as it can be milked.
I think we can all agree that the whole mess is an unnecessary horror and waste of human lives and potential. We're at Substack because the entire American reality has been propagandized and compromised to serve and run cover for international criminal finance. Facts don't matter in a land of manufactured control, crisis and hysteria. Everything and nothing is true.
Break up the "big tech" and criminal billionaire corporate monopolies corrupting our political leadership and the blowback and disintegration we're witnessing will begin to subside and the possibility of rational solutions will appear.
Your last sentence describes what is evolving in world governance: fascism. It's not just criminal finance, it is criminal pharma, criminal tech, criminal judiciary, criminal government.
Same two things as always throughout history: money and power.
Perhaps I missed it, Linus, but I don't see any data showing the economic status of the criminals. The charts identify criminals only by race and ethnicity. So the charts don't prove poor people commit more crimes irrespective of race.
Not even among just violent crimes. Add millions of nonviolent crimes such as fraud and embezzlement, and the non-poor might commit the majority of crimes.
It's pretty easy to infer. The neighborhoods with they highest crime rates are almost always poor. What sucks is that nobody asks those LIVING there what they want. Liberals assume they don't want police and conservatives assume they're all criminals. Most are just stuck there trying to get by in life, just like the rest of us.
Liberals assume they don't want the police, because they assume they are all criminals. Why wouldn't they want the police, if they were obeying the law?
I'm a liberal, and I don't assume they don't want the police. Just the opposite--they DO want the police and they want peaceful neighborhoods, same as anyone else. They hate living in gangland as much as the rest of us, but they don't have the means to move out. What they don't want are brutal police, and I don't blame them ... none of us do. Fortunately, most cops are good people who have a very tough job policing crime-ridden 'hoods.
Agree with this. The sad irony is that the most violent criminals in the 'hood are not poor, because they got rich by robbing, killing, and impoverishing their neighbors.
I've a German friend - a big, beautiful forty-ish gal with the typical Teutonic pale skin, blonde hair, blue eyes. I was speaking with her the other night and she told me that twice within the past year she has been approached on the street - completely out of the blue - by swarthy men who told her in effect, "We are going to breed out of existence people who look like you."
And they're right. Native German fertility rates are well below replacement levels, whereas immigrants are having huge families as well as bringing in many relatives. I read an interview with a Kuwaiti man who had three wives with 8-10 children each; all of them qualified under German law for full welfare support.
If you are bored, do a little chart. One family of two adults has one child. Then do three children. ( I chose three because the numbers will go up beyond replacement.)
Now do one with four. Do one with five. Do the charts for four generations; that's all that is necessary. You will be horrified.
So what's your practical suggestion, based on this fantasy hypothetical projection 72 years into the future?
This is what an actual demographic chart looks like, for the years 2004-2020- I've chosen the country of Syria, and the metric of the birth rate, but Index Mundi works for nearly every nation in the world, and a dozen or so different metrics. https://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?v=25&c=sy&l=en
Spoiler alert: while the birth rate in Syria is currently double that of Sweden, it's also dropped by 20% over the previous 16 years. Because there's a difference between the way that these metrics have been working in the empirical reality of the 21st century and the logarithmic increase indicated by your idealized hypothetical projection.
As with Japan, if the native born Germans or Swedes want to increase their population, it's their call. For crying out loud, it isn't even your country.
It is blowback from exploited ignorance. But it's real. I can no longer believe that criminal finance isn't making it happen. It is a play for world dominion by by avaricious and venal megalomaniacal narcissism.
Yup. But there is a stored energy out here in flyover country - people who are well and truly fed up with these people coming at them from every direction, trying to bankrupt and enslave them and their families. It is a giant coil spring compressed to the limit. All that has to happen is for the right person to say, "Go!" and there will be, in my opinion of course, hell.
Chris Hedges observes (from experience) that mass revolt is often triggered by what would otherwise be a mundane event. A traffic stop. A brutal arrest etc. Nobody needs a firefight. But, we do need to get clear on the dynamics in play. I feel we've been guilty of believing that a reasonable response to the machinations of unreasonable people pushing an agenda detrimental to our culture would make a difference. We are indeed being bludgeoned by a well financed and entrenched machine" well financed" being the operative component. The entire airball is mercenary. From the annual 150K+ D.E.I. commissariat in boardrooms and universities to the compromised revolving door million dollar D.C. hog trough to the dozen other grifting pay us and we'll sell the people out vampires attached to our necks.
Our engine of survival is the Constitution. The only politic in play is International criminal finance and the toadies and propagandists who serve it. It is a rigged game happening on the world stage. Capitalism and communism killed themselves. It is time (and I'm for free enterprise) to break up all monopolies, tech and otherwise, while taxing billionaires and trillionaires until they squeal. We can no longer afford to be shocked and amazed at the antics of thugs.
Getting psyched out over thirdhand news is just another kind of weakness.
And grab some perspective; you have no idea what actual slavery is like. There are help wanted signs all over central Pennsylvania- which is neither horrendously expensive or hell on earth, as a housing market- for entry level jobs paying $16-$21/hr. So spare me the agitprop about civil insurrection.
I think the open assault on Western Democracy by criminal finance is real. Arrests for thought crimes in England and Canada are real. The assault on Dutch farmers is real. Bombings and hand grenades in Sweden and the attempt to cover them up is real. The homeless camp fentanyl junkie passed out in a park near you is real. It's coming from someplace.
I agree w/you about "psyched out". Clarity is our friend. A huge portion of the psyop is shock and knee jerk emotionalism. Our attempt here at creating a new national dialogue is already bearing fruit. Recognition of the damage America has sustained, the culprits responsible and sane solutions are coming.
I'm not even a fan of the UK's Official Secrets Act. But that doesn't mean that I view the UK as on par with the PRC. In any event, those are long-standing controversies found in other countries. Meanwhile, American 1st Amendment protections are so strong that it's all we can do to exact civil penalties from fake news charlatans who exploit their ownership of a microphone and a video studio to make millions by perpetrating fraudulent news events that defraud his audience and induce them to violently harass innocent victims of his lies https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/alex-jones-begins-testimony-sandy-150543211.html
While bombings and hand grenades in Sweden are under-reported in the US, claiming that they're being "covered up" is a bit of a stretch. If you want a thorough accounting of news stories country by country, I suggest you subscribe to Facts On File. US news reportage has never been particularly thorough about covering overseas news events. Not even 25 years ago, back when the largest US newspapers and TV networks had staffed bureaus in major cities on every continent.
If Western Democracy had enough sense and integrity to have an interest in suppressing "criminal finance", its leaders would look to history and stop lying to themselves about suppressing mind-altering substances through a blanket criminalization policy that confers a de facto monopoly over the trade in forbidden drugs to organized crime syndicates. It isn't as if large quantities of opium weren't legally imported into countries around the world in the 19th century. Everyone wants to pretend it was only sent to China. What a crock of shit. The only difference making that situation especially unique was the punitive trade arrangement coercively enforced by the British Empire on China.
But eventually Punitive Moralism just had to reign supreme, beginning in the 20th century. Which in turn eventually brought us the Drug Awareness Resistance Education program ignorance that spent most of its classroom time ranting about Schedule I "marijuana" while spending next to no time informing high school kids that mixing Schedule II, III, IV pills and alcohol was a fatal combination. Especially Schedule II. But the subtext of DARE was always that Legal drugs- even Schedule II- were by definition safer than Illegal ones like pot or mescaline; and that there was some drastic difference between Schedule II Oxycodone, Morphine, Dilaudid- and Fentanyl- and Heroin, the opiate that was until quite recently in a class by itself on Schedule I.
The Punitive Moralists are still holding the balance of power in drugs policy, notwithstanding occasional half-measures like making Narcan more easily available. The Punitive Moralists have had the whip hand in the US for around a century, ever since the Supreme Court ruled that all prescription addiction maintenance had to be unethical profiteering, taking a few bad examples as if they comprised the sole baseline model of what medical opioid maintenance could ever amount to.
I was talking to you, with your nonsense about "flyover country - people who are well and truly fed up with these people coming at them from every direction, trying to bankrupt and enslave them and their families. It is a giant coil spring compressed to the limit."
Go on, vent away. You sound like any leftwing PC snowflake or coddled Karen, given a few tweaks over what you're fainting about. I mean, what- are you fifteen? Does no one read history? The real shit, I mean. Not just Pop History's Greatest Hits & Factoids.
A rise is antisemitism often is a bellwether for more widespread problems. They’re a small group which too often is scapegoated by others when things are not going well. In Malmo, Sweden, it was a problem twenty years ago, with the Jews eventually driven out. Now it’s a cesspool for everyone. What starts with the Jews never ends just with them.
We’re seeing the same burgeoning antisemitism in other parts of Europe and now, in some parts of the US. In Europe, it’s mostly Muslim immigrants, supported by an underlying or residual antisemitism in some native Europeans. As in Sweden, the problem certainly won’t end with hatred towards the Jews.
In the US, the source and rise is a bit different, coming not so much from immigrants as from the left in the form of pro-Palestinian activism and intersectionality. As with in Europe, the left denies the problem, says all the hate comes from the right, and the problem continues to get worse.
The canaries are choking and the miners still are digging.
"In the US, the source and rise is a bit different, coming not so much from immigrants as from the left in the form of pro-Palestinian activism and intersectionality."
AND YET, AMERICAN JEWS KEEP VOTING LEFT....they might as well walk into an oven...
This a not a good omen for American Jews. I've heard many moderate and conservative supporters of Israel say that if American Jews support the party that's ruining America, that's hostile toward America, and hostile toward the existence of Israel, then why should they care about Israel. So much for "never again", when you support the Party that supports the groups that want to destroy you. Guilt and self loathing are not a good recipe for survival.
Not if they're in the country legally. Many European nations got caught up in the "oh you poor things, come live here and we'll take care of youuuuuu" mantra years ago, and let them move in en masse, complete with papers.
That kindness backfired spectacularly when the waves refused to assimilate and become British, Swedish, French, whatever, and instead formed their own tribal enclaves. The gangs within those tribes are brutal, and they're taking their wars to the host nations.
Absolutely, if you can. I don't know that works in Europe, but in the United States, politicians have made wholesale government change difficult, if not impossible, through gerrymandering and other protectionist schemes.
Even in this very well written column by Paulina Neuding, she fails to identify who these immigrants and criminal gangs are. They are overwhelmingly Muslim.
Your story about crime in Germany mirrors what is happening in the US. It's just a different offending group. Same reporting, same denials, same pattern.
Ever been accosted by a gang of minority people? I have. I "observed" a knife. My wife and her whole high school basketball team was assaulted by a gang of minority people because they lost a game. Ever been threatened by minorities in the majority for a brief moment? You don't know me or my experiences, and my opinions are still valid even if you disagree with them. So kindly redirect your sarcasm elsewhere.
Are you just a Russian troll or hate Ukraine only because the libs support it?
On the chance that you're an honest broker, because we both subscribe to Common Sense: the Azov Batallion is basically what conservatives stand for in the US. If I don't believe we conservatives are fascist, why do you believe that Azov is? Snap out of your partisanship and try not to apply our domestic problems to an international situation.
If you would care to learn: the Ukrainian Americans of the 90s wave in the US are overwhelmingly conservative, pro-gun, pro constitution, and pro-America. The Ukrainians in the actual Ukraine are also overwhelmingly conservative and live by traditional values. Yes, Ukraine had A LOT of corruption following the fall of the Soviet Union - the ugly heritage of that system. They are working their asses off to combat it. The part I'm sad and scared about is the system they are fighting for no longer exists either in Europe or in the US. And yes, I'm very afraid that the reliance on the US will import the US culture wars into Ukraine. I'm terrified of that.
Does that help at all? Can you find an honest person to talk to about Ukraine - instead of listening to Putin or Partick Lancaster?
A recent personal realization of mine is that the American Constitution and the Bill of Rights it contains is an evolved statement on human dignity and an attempt to create a system of checks and balances that allows for human fallibility and evil. It is our only engine of survival. "left"/"right", conservative/liberal, democrat/republican, capitalist/communist no longer have any meaning to our lives outside the mercenary propagandist attempts to impose them on us and make us impose them on one another.
agreed. I'm afraid both sides have been twisting/abusing it for their own end. On the View, Elie Mystal declared it "trash", while the conservatives practice selective amnesia/cherry picking when they want to leverage constitutional principles in service of their cause.
I've never seen any swastikas, but as far as other symbols are concerned - there's prob some kernel of truth there. But, that goes to the 30s and 40s when Ukrainian patriots were trying to throw off the communists. So there's a lot of history there if you care to learn. But again, Azov are not any more nazi than American conservatives. I'm actually flabbergasted that you're incensed by being called semi-fascist by Biden, then turn around and un-ironically hurl the same accusation toward the people of a different country where you've never been.
That's like saying, "Hitler is bad but what is with the AMERICAN BUND?"
Putin is a far, far, far greater evil than any Azov fighters could ever manage. Besides, Ukraine de-Nazified most of that battalion long ago, by moving its fighters into the national militia to deal exclusively with the breakaway provinces. There is no Fourth Reich budding in Ukraine.
Like all the rest of its propaganda, this is Russia's attempt to make the incorporation of a patriotic militia into Ukraine's National Guard, proof of the "nazification" of Ukraine, and therefore justify the invasion. The "Azovs" were labeled as nazis, not because they are nazis, but because the separatists wanted to discredit them in the eyes of the Ukrainian population. Leftists label conservatives as rapists, white supremacists, bigots, racists, and (pick your prefix)-phobes for the same reason. That is what is up!
I have no doubt that neo-Nazis exist in the Ukraine Army and in Ukraine society. But from everything I've read, it's not a large faction. Probably the same percentage as our own armed forces suffer gang bangers and white power idiots in the barracks.
This is what the end result of the Liberal policies provide. Did anyone think that you are letting the bottom of society immigrate and they have no sense of society? The reality of life is that you either squash crime and deport those who do it or you get this. We are facing the same thing on our border and the dumb ass liberal freaks blindly stumble along. Another killing by an illegal or gang activity well we must be accommodating. Well at least in your area. Dare not send them to us or we will get them sent away. See the liberals care about feeling good about themselves and not a care about you. Liberals just destroy by being stupid!
Well they hate the ideas of America but are unwilling to leave that which they detest. Simply because they are cowards and know they can't and won't defend themselves. So they hate what they must depend on. See those who would defend them are better human beings and would help others and they just can't understand that kind of people. So hate and name calling is what they have. If they weren't so damn destructive they could be pittied. But instead they truly need to be shut up.
Many liberals equate strict immigration policy with racism of one flavor or another and nothing more. Watch the latest Ken Burns doc on US immigration policy during the time of Hitler's Germany to get an idea of the narrative the average left-leaning liberal is still living in. I believe the leftish liberal's understanding of immigration policy goes only so deep as to think anti-immigration sentiment is all about, and only about, the fear that Americans will be replaced by the "other" (as it certainly was to some extent leading up to WWII when Jews were not allowed in). They do not understand that liberal immigration policy has consequences (ones they likely will not like). This isn't pre-WWII when Jews were turned away from our shores , but many seem to think it's the same thing. (I feel as though I have to add the caveat that I am not endorsing the US policy pre-WWII by any means, but that is a different analysis altogether.)
Suggest going back further, 1924 immigration act and the rhetoric surrounding it. Basically shut the door for Italians, Greeks, and other Southern European countries until 1965. Same rationale as complaints today. Go further back it was the Irish and Chinese. Go back further and unless your heritage arrived on the Mayflower (and let’s not forget why they left England to begin with) you’ll find your roots equally (mis)treated. The rationale and comments were the same, just swap out the ethnicity, religion, race, etc. immigration is messy, always has been, and as I’ve said several times here, let’s try to get at the problems instead of attacking each other….
Those earlier immigrants complied with whatever the laws were. That is far, far different from the modern open southern border where anyone - valid refugee or criminal - can stroll in.
nah, it was the pits for a few decades there in lower New York City at the turn of the 19th-20th century. They didn't call it Hell's Kitchen for nothing. Eventually, the solid citizens- including the elders of the immigrant communities- prevailed. But both the street crime and the corruption in NYC in the 1890s were worse than that of any American city of the previous 100 years- including the Prohibition era and the Crack era. The numbers quoted for street prostitutes were off the charts. I doubt anyone would have called those parts of NYC "the Shanghai of the West" unless it was at least as bad.
Recommended reading: The Heroic Gangster: Moe Eastman, From the Streets of New York to the Battlefields of World War One and Back. by Neil Hanson, which is where most of that detail comes from. Gangs of New York, by the always informative Herbert Asbury, makes for a good complement as a historical overview of the era.
Solve the problem? Politicians get donations by ramping up the issue, getting everyone fired up, only “we” (take your pick) can fix it. So, if you and I were in charge how would WE fix it? Yep, complicated, but I bet we could come up with a bunch of good ideas….. and I would bet this site’s other readers after calling each other names (that won’t work) would contribute insight and improve our ideas. Take the bet?
While I absolutely acknowledge the role of political contributions and the role of maintaining power of incumbents, in this country at this point in time the only way to implement policy is to hold political office. I have spent a lot of time on the internet discussing issues and potential solutions. But without the ability to hold office (which I am unwilling to do) or to influence those who do (which I attempt to do) it is just idle chatter. So my "solution" is to educate yourself before you vote and make your vote count, and failing that be very wary and very well-prepared to defend yourself.
Well said, totally agree, and my commenting on things like this goes to your solution to not only educate myself, but to educate others who hopefully are better informed voters. If all a politician/candidate has to say is that the leftist socialist agenda supports open borders allowing rapists and murders and gang members to stroll across the border — so vote for me! Or, say the right wing neo-nazi white Christian Evangelical nut jobs want to put immigrant children in cages and ship them to wherever they come from — so vote for me! And neither in their campaigns is asked to say what would they do to fix the problem, or once in office at least attempt to find a solution, and rinse/repeat the campaign slogans again the next election, then we have failed as citizens to be not only be a more educated electorate but to hold our representatives to account. And likely given just these two possibilities when the election comes, I find people I talk to retreat into their bubbles, vote for “their person” and call anyone willing to vote for someone else names. These days, politicians thrive on us being at each other’s throats, rather than holding them accountable. That’s why Congress has a 15% approval rating or worse in a general poll, but MY/Your /whoever else’s congressperson has an 85% approval rating from their constituents …. It must be those other guys that are the problem. [Solutions: campaign finance reform, term limits, and a wish that campaigns can not do attack ads and candidate are required to stick to how they would solve issues or stop wasting our time]. Thanks Lynne, have an awesome day!
I agree with your assessment of the left's immigration policy (I do not draw the leftist liberal line because except for Henry Cuellar the Dems are in lock-step) but think the real problem is they are so dismissive of those deemed anti-immigrant they do not further assess the issue(s). It is foolish simplicity. I am by no means anti-immigrant. But I think it should be lawful and orderly. As a result I am vehemently anti-Biden and anti- Democrat. That will not change until I see some movement toward reason. I saw some of that in Joe Manchin but his treat.ent this week by his party tells me there is no reason to be found among them.
Agree. My spouse and many of my friends are immigrants. I'm all for it and honestly we do seem to have a labor shortage. What I object to is the lying and pretending it's not happening. That isn't good for anyone. The current administration pressured the FAA during the Haitian bridge fiasco to ground Fox New's drone over the border because they didn't want anyone to see. Jen Psaki argued the point of what time of night the migrant flights were landing in NY over a year ago. She got into spats about whether or not to call it a "crisis" over a year ago. We all have antidotal stories of migrants being dropped all over the place. And now, only after the Martha's Vineyard story, is KJP stating this is all a NEW problem? Are you fu#*ing kidding? Easily over a thousand a day for almost 2 years and you have the nerve to say this is a new problem? Now the administration calls Bill Melugin irritating for sharing the facts and criticizes his "new form of on the ground reporting"? You can't make this stuff up. I support immigrants but detest dishonesty and hypocrisy.
100%agree. This is a nation of immigrants. I know many recent immigrants who entered the country lawfully are outraged by the fiasco at the southern border.
So very well said. This is the problem with all “impassioned movements,” they ignore the entirety of the system for the sake of their singular cause.
It’s also more complicated than that. Countries like Norway that previously lead the world in immigration were VERY culturally elitist about how they went about it and that elitism was what made it work. Race has nothing to do with it, societal/cultural expectations have everything. You MUST learn the language, you MUST be employed, you MUST attend school… these items are critical to cultural integration and they create stability. Care not whether purple, brown, peach, gold, or green - you either contribute to society or you detract from it. There will always be detractors and decent people (NOT the state) should care for them, but if your immigration strategy is structured to literally encourage detractors than it will always fail.
This was true of the US at the height of our immigration as well. It was challenging, of course, but there were societal norms required of new immigrants (of which my family was one) that did not entrap my family but allowed it to succeed by setting clear boundaries on what was minimally required to be successful contributors to this culture.
Theodore Roosevelt captured it perfectly more than 100 years ago when he explained what it meant to be an American. Embrace our culture, our country, our language and our laws. If not. Go back to your squalid homeland.
The left cant stand great men of history. I think we need to build 10x more statues of great americans, of all creeds, colors, and achievements. Public architecture should exemplify our greatest accomplishments or heroes, and inspire patriotism in the populace.
The left hates both patriotism and those brave individuals who change the world, and they want to drag public art down to the lowest common denominator (or into amorphous metal pretzels). Its the Howard Zinn-ified mindset. Yes the people who worked in the Lowell factory were important but the man who built it is the one that truly changed history.
Edison, Lewis & Clark, Ford, Carnegie, Washington, Davy Crockett, Douglas MacArthur, all these great men the left today generally dislikes. Even contemporary great black americans get hit with Uncle Tom charges if theyre anything other than victim peddlers. Thomas Sowell and Kanye prime example. The modern left would even tear down a Helen Keller statue if they had the chance, bc she proves that opportunity outweighs disadvantage in this country, which they axiomatically cant accept
History is a living breathing reality that informs the fact of who we are. If you don't know your history, you don't know who you are. Its destruction leaves no reference point for ones personal reality outside whatever political reality the state imposes. Likewise it breaks the connection with the personal mythos of the nation and the people themselves. It destroys the national persona, disempowers the individual and creates a state of emotional anomie. Shaming the individual and the destruction of his history as a prelude to his criminalization is a long used tactic of Marxist ideologues. Unrestrained illegal and forced immigration against the best interest of a nation is a direct assault on the nations people and culture.
MY OPINION:Having compromised American political leadership, International criminal finance used mercenary pretend feminist/Marxist ideologues to create ideological chaos, disseminate propaganda while capturing the American national dialogue and American institutions. There are no "ism's". Only a venal and avaricious cartel of international criminal financiers, the American Constitution, the Bill of Rights it contains and US.
Egalitarian societies are only possible when >98% of the population shares the same values and priorities. A clash of cultures, not races, is the problem here. Sweden accepted over 110,000 young Middle Eastern men into their society in 2015. That’s roughly 1% of the population, imported from countries with a culture of war and instability. (Not interested in having a debate on the reasons for that, I’m well aware of the West’s role in it.) I’m really not sure how you fix this problem without mass deportations. Something tells me Swedes won’t have the stomach for that...
Yes. Come to our country learn and speak our language, learn and appreciate our culture and history, fly our flag. After a probationary period where you work and support yourself(and pay taxes) you may become a citizen. ANY legal infraction during that time and you are deported.
You leave out a culture of Islamic propaganda to establish a caliphate everywhere IN THE WORLD, and the vulnerability of liberal, social-welfare-oriented, and naive populations.
And I would suspect that of those 110K men that were accepted, most had a very dim view of women, tolerance outside of their myopic world view, and saw violence as a reasonable way to settle differences. And you're right, the Swedes won't ever have the stomach for mass deportations, residual affects of WWII. They also don't seem to have the stomach for labeling the problem what it is, or where it originated.
I have to wonder how many, and which neighborhood's inhabitants have to die before this becomes a national outrage along the lines of George Floyd.
I lean center/center left, but I will be the first to admit that the EU made a very large mistake in admitting as many migrants from the Middle East (primarily Syria) in 2015. Sweden and Germany especially both miscalculated badly in accepting so many. In doing so they revealed how misinformed they were of how their societies and respective cultures could possibly absorb and accept such an influx. They could not and have not. Thus they now have areas (we might call them ghettoes) where basically only migrants live and where crime thrives. Swedes hate the new arrivals and, of course, the new arrivals hate them back.
As I posted in the now-vanished comment section of the Atlantic magazine: "Angela Merkel, what were you thinking?"
It was obvious that most of the migrants were not families. They were single young males- that fraction of humans with a well-deserved reputation for being most inclined toward antisociality, criminality, and violence, and also the population most vulnerable to the appeal of political and religious extremism.
I'm not prejudiced against young single males. But in terms of social values, as a group they're a population that requires a lot of extra minding and supervision, or they're more trouble than they're worth. That isn't a statement of bias, it's a statement of fact.
By what turn of logic do you just randomly place an immigrant population that possesses no semblance of civility and is actually medieval in mindset into the middle of a liberal democracy that has taken nearly a thousand years to evolve? The left screamed bloody murder when then President Trump refused to take these people en mass, but I think it's now fair to say that he was on to something.
There’s an op ed in the New York Times entitled, “ Sweden is becoming unbearable,” and it’s all about the rise of the far-right party to power, but there is not one mention of the increase in gun violence and bombings that led to it! Journalistic malfeasance, which is what we can expect from the New York Times. The Washington Examiner is the only mainstream newspaper covering Sweden’s violence problems and the role that immigration has played. Le Monde is also covering it, plus of course Swedish newspapers.  Thanks for bringing this to the attention of your readers because people need to know what happens when you keep denying that a problem that people can perceive in their daily lives is real.
Came here to mention that exact same piece. NYT has printed three articles about Sweden over the last month. All three have painted this situation as an extremist, unreasonable, alt-right shift. Notably, the comments section remained closed on all three articles.
A couple of years back after seeing one false news story after another I researched journalistic accountability. There is none. Doctors, lawyers, dentists, and psychiatrists can be subjected to malpractice claims and have their licenses revoked. Plumbers, electricians and other tradesmen can be sued and have their licenses revoked. Teachers and nurses can have their licenses revoked. Journalists are not licensed and are subject to no boards of review. No liability, no accountability, no integrity required.
Journalists should not be licensed, and in fact cannot be licensed---freedom of the press and freedom of speech are Constitutional bedrocks. The antidote to lying journalists is the free market: if people don't like an outlet's approach, they quit subscribing.
The problem is that left-wingers don't believe the New York Times and CNN ever lie, and right-wingers believe the same about Fox and Breitbart. These media know their audiences and pander accordingly.
Real journalists play it straight. There used to be far more of us in the industry, but real reporting is far more expensive to produce than fear and rage, and media owners adjusted. What's left is a handful of truth-seekers and a whole lot of Tucker Carlsons.
Then journalism is nothing more than a mob, much as the 4th Estate became after the French Revolution, and have outlived their usefulness. I also take issue with your assumption that those on the right, of which at this time I am one, "believes that Fox, Breitbart, and OANN always tell the truth". I don't. I take very little at face value these days. And because I am that way I assume there are those on the left who feel the same about left wing sources. Perhaps we are the people who should band together.
I do largely agree with your last paragraph. I think there used to be journalistic integrity. In my lifetime if a misstatements was made it was acknowledged and retracted. As for profit-driven that renders journalism useless as it destroys objectivity and impartiality. I had read previously that the funding for investigative journalism had dried up. I guess that is why so much of what passes for news these days is picked up from a tweet and published over and over. I suppose we are witnessing the tabloidification of journalism.
Except for a relatively brief period from the 1960s to the rise of the Internet, journalism was always a mob. Back in the day when New York and Chicago had four, six, or eight newspapers, reporters posed as cops or undertakers to get into crime scenes. They wrote friendly stories about friendly politicians and shanked unfriendly ones. Advertisers paid to get fluff "reviews" of their products into business sections. In small papers, local bigshots could kill a story they didn't like by calling the publisher and threatening to cancel their ad buy.
Not everyone was that way, certainly, because some of the best newpapering ever done was in those crazy days. But then, like now, media owners did what was in their best financial interest, and spreading fear, rage, celebrities--and legitimate news stories--to the masses was always the smart play.
In that golden era, the number of newspapers shrank, so the ones that remained owned the advertising market, particularly the highly lucrative classified ads. They made tons of money, and could afford to be noble in the newsroom. Ethics standards were introduced, "pay for play" became verboten. In one Chicago newspaper, a publicist would pay five, ten, or twenty bucks to get his or her client into a local column, the price depending where in the column the client landed. At Christmas, trolleys of hams, liquor, and swag, courtesy publicists, rolled through the hallways, free to any newsy who wanted.
That was all deep-sixed. Reporters were forbidden to break into homes to steal photos of the deceased for the next edition, etc. News presentation became more thoughtful; double and triple sourcing was demanded by editors. Pay for play largely disappeared. Publishers paid big dough for big newsrooms that could handle daily news AND devote a year to reporting a sensational investigative expose.
Then the Internet rose, gobbled up ad revenue and eyeballs, and the newspaper industry collapsed. Cable, Internet, social media, and others picked over the carcass and went back to the old model: sell fear and rage, celebrity and the occasional legit story, to rake in cash. But owners love to short-staff, and so the few editorial people left have to pump out so many stories for the various digital and print publications there's little time left for actual journalism.
All that said, the Fourth Estate has not outlived its usefulness. Even with the wild excess of social and other media, crooks and politicians cannot be assured of operating in the darkness without being discovered. Without iPhones and social media, the George Floyd murder would never have been unearthed. And legitimate media still report the news, which helps keep government and corporate titans honest . . . or as honest as they ever were.
That's a good way of putting it: the tabloidization of all journalism. And Twitter-based news. Go read HuffPost if you can stomach it, and you will find a quarter of its stories are two paragraphs of news followed by: "And here's what Twitter had to say . . ." cue nineteen straight Tweets. If HuffPost had 500 staff reporters, News by Twitter would not exist. With maybe 20 percent of that number to cover the world, this is what they have to resort to in order to fill the space.
Sorry for TL;DL, but I'm passionate about the collapse of real journalism, because this new version is very bad for our society. I'm glad I was able to get 25 years in at the tail end of the golden years, and then it all went to hell.
Well I feel privileged to have witnessed the golden age of journalism and lament the loss. I guess you are right about smart phones and the internet - anybody can sell a story. I do think a free press should be a tool for good in a free society.
I feel privileged as well, to have participated in the newspaper end of it as well as the reader. You are absolutely right: a free press should be used for the good of a free society, not just to make a buck. Some of the best people I've ever known were reporters and editors---they loved this country, this way of life, this culture, and used every tool they had to expose the public and private officials who tried to destroy it or rip off everyday Americans. I was proud to be a small part of that tribe.
A scary thought. Freedom of the press is a cornerstone of Democracy, but it should come with accountability/accuracy in reporting. Opinion pieces are different and should be clearly labeled as such.
The lefty liberals of Sweden handed their country on a silver platter to immigrants who don’t like them. Oh the shock that these immigrants are now biting the hand that fed them. This story has been repeated all over the world. See—little Mogadishu in Minneapolis. And while Europeans don’t bother to reproduce, the immigrants have lots of kids. Mark Steyn was right, by 2050 Europe will be Europastan.
The left never learns. They mean well. They feel virtuous. And others suffer for their fantasies.
It is a clash of cultures. Europeans are generally polite, law-abiding, restrained, and sensitive to their impact on others. Middle Eastern societies put their women in burkas - because they expect the men to behave like animals. Saudi beheads their criminals in public to control crime. Is that coming to Sweden?
The US has the same problem. We used to brag about the 'melting pot' of shared values. No more. Now it's 'multi-cultural' crap, which is merely a cover-up for the acceptance of antisocial behavior.
I seem to have seen a mention of the suppression of news regarding the extent of Somali gang crime in Ilhan Omar’s district. Has anyone else seen or heard about that?
Saudis are a bad example because they are really an oppressive monarchy in cahoots with a really violent religious order. They are like the Branch Davidians of Islam who sit on a lot of oil!
The "Middle East" is not as uniform as you describe it. Cyprus, Israel, Turkey, Qatar, Oman, etc. also belong to this group and don't have the repressive and medieval cultures the Saudis enforce.
To my knowledge the Branch Davidians were not a violent religious group. They were a cult who believed the end-times were coming and prepared therefor by stockpiling weapons. The federal government took notice and took action. A search warrant was issued to search for automatic weapons. The Davidians resisted the search. NO AUTOMATIC WEAPONS WERE EVER FOUND. Perhaps the Davidizns were right. It certainly was the end of their time.
If you are interested in a dialogue with me you will have to refrain from the hateful rhetoric. Otherwise you will be added to my scroll on by and ignore category. Capisch?
That isn't an official affidavit; it's a 1996 article published in the Hamline Journal of Public Policy, a forum run by law students. I find some of language of those arguments to be disingenuous and weaselly. Others may perhaps have enough merit to be contestable claims. But they're hardly a slam-dunk refutation of the warrants that were issued.
However, that's beside the point. Nothing in that link supports your claim that "NO AUTOMATIC WEAPONS WERE EVER FOUND." Which makes your citation a misdirection, not a reference.
No it is not an official affidavit, nor did I say it was. Nor is it a writ as you originally stated prior to your edit. Thanks for clarifying that it is a legal article as opposed to mere journalism. Given that, I was unsure you would have the wherewithal to read it. While published in a law review run by students it was written by an established attorney specializing in gun advocacy. As one very familar with legal writing I found his writing stellar - thorough but succinct given the issues and recognizing the opposing point of view (always a positive). Like many legal motions (filed when seeking a court's action) it provides factual background. My original comment was based on my recollection of the local reportage of the event at the time. I posted my link in part because it provided a good analysis of the law regarding automatic weapons. It also provided facts regarding the political climate surrounding the ATF and the business activities of the BDs regarding guns.Your link references reportage that the ATF issued a blanket statement that 44 automatic weapons were found 4 months after the fire. Found 4 months after the fire, not reported 4 months after the fire. As explained in my link at the time automatic weapons were not necessarily illegal to possess they just had to be registered and a $200 tax paid. So 44 automatic weapons being found is misleading since that they may have been possessed completely lawfully (registered and tax paid) or unlawfully (unregistered and tax paid). But the media just regurgitated what the ATF said. Perhaps that was the origin of the assault on the 2nd amendment. In the aftermath of the fire (in which dozens of men, women and children died after the ATF inserted inflammatory devices into a structure insulated with hay bales) 12 survivors were tried and all were acquitted for the deaths of 4 ATF agents when the raid was initiated. 8 were convicted of weapons violations but I do not know specifically what. I do find the acquittals on charges related to the deaths telling.
I have seen your subsequent comment already. The lurker comment got you added. Best of luck to you.
Some peoples are many generations away from being ready to live in the first world. Sorry not sorry.
Also, it is becoming clearer to me that a common thread among lefties worldwide is an addiction to fantasy and a gullibility to the point of denial of plain reality. Not just this sad story about Sweden - this idea that you can import thousands of young aggressive people from primitive societies who are openly contemptuous of your values and customs and just want freebies you’re handing out and they’re magically going to become like you, and then when you’re punched in the face by reality you compound your fantastical thinking by denying the obvious - but all the other weird wrong shit many lefties believe. Vaccines and masks work, Teslas are going to save the world, Trump is a scary boogeyman working for Russia, abortion is great and liberating, Ukraine is a noble state and Zelenskyy a hero, cutting off their genitals will make confused teenagers happy, the nuclear family is oppressive, a spoils system based on race will bring about racial harmony, on and on and on. I am beginning to think lefties are just literally insane.
"Beginning to think lefties are just literally insane?"
What was your first clue, lol?
Even just a decade ago, many of the things they now hold dear would have gotten you locked up in a lunatic asylum. Lefties are nothing but demented lemmings. The Park Slope Panthers article was a brilliant expose of their utter madness.
For real. I haven't been a leftist for a long, long time; after I stopped being one generally my attitude toward them was 'they look at the world through very different lenses than I do and I don't agree with their assumptions but they're generally well meaning and good people can disagree.'
Now I think that there is a 10% cadre who knows exactly what is going on and is engineering this stuff, and a 90% foot soldier army whose brains have been broken to the point where they endorse, exactly as you say, that which would have gotten them correctly labeled as completely disconnected from reality a few short years ago.
While zelenskyy may not be a hero, the Ukrainian people are noble and do not deserve the horrific murders of children that Putin is aggressively doing to them.
The Ukrainian people do not deserve that, they are suffering as a result of Putins ego and aggression. He does not intend to stop with Ukraine & Georgia. He intends to invade and conquer other lands, killing innocent people.
Nobody "deserves" to be murdered or invaded or mistreated in any way. However Ukrainians as a *whole* aren't "noble" because they are just people like anyone else. The elevation of the entire country into a fetish object is very weird and I disagree with it, and I also don't know how otherwise bright people are not grasping that it is a fig leaf for massive theft and corruption involving international aid.
Ukraine's "nobility" is not worth the $50 billion or so of US taxpayer dollars to me our political "leaders" seem to be willing to spend propping it up. This conflict will go on for another 5 or 10 years, bleeding everyone dry. The 20-year war in Afghanistan wasn't enough, neither was the 12+ years in Iraq. Given the problems here in the US, our politicians' benevolence certainly looks suspect to me and at some point we have to realize that we are simply debasing the US dollar with all this useless, never-ending spending.
The sooner we as a society learn to 'handle the truth' the better for all involved, including the immigrants, legal and illegal, who need to re-learn to accept and adjust to the country they chose - or in case of some, were sent - to live in.
oh, brother - Ukraine is just a state, not noble or ignoble. It's a sovereign freaking country - who I ASSURE you have a lot in common with your beliefs. I, a Ukrainian, share in everything you stated above. Get your head out of your a** where Ukraine is concerned just because the left supports us in this war. Everything I read in these threads tells me what we want to preserve the Western values - well, Ukraine wants it too! it wants what America was barely 30 years ago. I don't understand who somebody who subscribes to Bari Weiss can be that dense!
You're right. You're just a state. I'm sorry for what is happening to you but your state, as a state, does not merit the fawning worship being visited upon you and neither does your president.
This might surprise you, but I agree with you. I think the Zelensky worship is bizarre. But the admiration of the ordinary Ukrainian people is deserved. And Ukraine does merit the support of the west because it is trying to live under the values that you and I believe in. Besides, there's the little matter of the Budapest memorandum.
Let me put it to you like this: do you think it's appalling when immigrants come to the US and refuse to learn English and assimilate? Well, that's how Russians behave in Ukraine. And they spit in your face when you try to enforce Ukrainian laws and customs. Don't hate Ukraine because you hate the left here in the US. This is not the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" kind of situation.
Honestly I don't have any opinion on Ukraine one way or another. I don't have enough information to know and I don't trust anyone's account because they all have an agenda. As I fellow human, I want war and killing to stop, regardless of who is doing it, and I want you and everyone else in the world who is experiencing war and unrest to be able to live peacefully and safely in their homes.
My criticism is of the weird lefty worship of Ukraine. I tried to buy socks at an online retailer the other day and the site was festooned with Ukranian flags; what in the hell does a complicated war on the other side of the world have to do with selling socks online? Why do Americans who know nothing about anything get blue and yellow manicures and put flags on their cars? It's just a country with good people and bad people and very little of it has anything to do with us, except for disruptions in worldwide markets, etc. I'm sorry but why should I, as an American taxpayer, pay for hundreds of millions of dollars in weaponry and aid to disappear into the great maw of corrupt Ukraine when my own costs for taking care of MY family are going through the roof? This is OBVIOUS to anyone not completely in thrall to a weird unreality mental state.
Look, I don't disagree with the fact that there's a bit of hysteria out there. I can't explain it. I went to visit my family in Ukraine in May - there's not even that kind of hysteria in Ukraine itself.
However, Ukraine is fundamentally a victim of decades of international policies - under one of which it gave up its massive nuclear arsenal at the urging of US and UK. US and UK signed the agreement guaranteeing its territorial sovereignty of Ukraine in exchange. Obama crapped his pants on enforcing it in 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea. And now, here we are. And hence, the billions. I empathize with the "why should we pay our money" for Ukraine. Well, I can only say that money is a small price to pay to prevent genocide and foster global stability. It's also a Christian thing to do to help fellow human beings. In the end, that I'm immeasurably grateful and don't take it for granted. I don't know what else to say.
The word 'racist' gets thrown about too recklessly. Multi-culturalism is an American thing. But European countries should be entitled to retain their native culture and identity without being labeled "far right" or "Nazi." This is a false analogy because the Jews in early 20th century Europe weren't blowing shit up and peeing on people, for crying out loud. No country should be guilted into absorbing people who don't see their hosts as human, and who leach off social services, never to assimilate into their level of civility.
It's not Sweden's responsibility to fix Syria. This is what Progressives fail to understand. This is hubris. We're so good, they will be good too, even though they come from chaos. No. There's chaos in these places because of the people there -- and those people need to fix their own problems. If it's "far right" to feel entitled to the peace and civility one knew prior to importing literal barbarians, then we should all sign up.
There is a growing spiritual force that insists, demands even, that European-Christian cultures be eradicated.
It has already convinced most Westerners of the necessity and moral superiority of destroying the West, now it only seeks the power to keep the stranglehold while, as the article says, "they are bred out of existence."
But remember, everyone, White Replacement is a horrific and intolerable conspiracy theory with no basis at all, and European cultures must be eradicated because white men have too much privilege.
(btw, I have discussed for years with friends how the attacks on white men are a way of crippling the nation's defenders first by seducing the women first)
Exactly. The people who espouse this sort of thing believe that simple exposure to their enlightenment and magnimity will bring the exposed into their utopia. BS of the first magnitude.
It does not take a rocket scientist to know why this is happening.
Well-documented what happens to second-generation Moslem immigrants in Sweden and in all countries : confusion about identity, absence of a clear identity, mosque indoctrination to take over large parts of the country in order to set up a caliphate, and easy availability of social benefits without responsibilities to the state.
Stating the fasts is NOT racism.
Liberal irresponsibility, social benefits, and denial of reality will destroy Europe, and I dare say, the US.
I would like to share this column with everyone I know, but I know the venom that would be turned on me if I did. The gang influence in our cities keeps me awake at night. Does anyone really believe that progressive politicians and unrestricted immigration is the ticket to a stable community? We need a national discussion that respects all ideas to deal with this attack on everything that makes this country promising. Substack is a good beginning, but it is only that--a beginning. I urge everyone who reads this column to send it on to everyone you know.
Why is this happening? Hell, your article answers it: “It may be shocking for Americans to learn that in Sweden—the land of .... Greta Thunberg—all of this is going on”.
Not at all. Any society that worships an autistic teen as a climate wizard has lost common sense.
Plus, IKEA is Pretty much composite sawdust junk.
Nice people, Even physically attractive folks. But you lost your way thinking the rest of the world is just like you.
I have not stepped foot into an Ikea for a long time (maybe 15 years ago)? But the last time I did, was a store in the SF Bay area near my then-office, and I specifically went for the meatballs (for lunch) because I remembered them as being good from the 80s or 90s - whenever those stores became a thing. My "nasty" rating may be unfair since based on a single visit to a single store, but they were nasty, and I'm never back to their stores (if they still have them? Are they just on-line now?)
The stores still exist. Recall how, like the good socialists they are, there is only one way through the store - you are forced to see everything before you can purchase anything. Gack!
In the mid 90s those Saab 900 Turbo S from the suburbs would invade Uptown Mpls on the weekend and swallow up all the limited parking. Not sure what I think of the cars. I am sure about the drivers. Now that 240DL? There's a car I loved.
And absolutely no recognition, much less regard, for what the poor folks in Laredo, Eagle Pass, El Paso and other towns in Texas have dealt with for 20 months now
That's just it. These f-cking plutocrats drone on about how you're a racist if you're concerned about crime, but it's never their rotten spawn that are getting kidnapped and pissed on, is it?
File under “Things you’ll never hear about on CNN.”
You’ll hear it from CNN only when they are busted for their lies, hypocrisy.
CNN Used "Islamic no Go Zones" Several Times, Caught Lying About It: http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/01/21/washington-post-catches-cnn-red-handed-reporting-on-muslim-no-go-zones/
Three Times The Mainstream Media Has Denied The Existence of No-Go Zones In Europe http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/03/03/three-times-mainstream-media-denied-existence-no-go-zones-europe/
Delivery Drivers Reveal London ‘No-Go Zones’ Made ‘Too Dangerous to Work’ by Acid Attacks and Knife Crimes http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/12/29/london-no-go-zones-acid-revealed/
Left wing media is the same world-over; they lie!
Great references. DJT was and remains right about a lot of things leftists deny as true. Wouldn't it be great to have a president with Trump policies without the personality disorders that distracted from his message and gave fuel to his enemies?
It won’t happen if you don’t take the whole package of President Trump, whoever embraces his policies will be eaten alive by the Democrats, MSM the Corporations etc. DJT is the only President who so far has actually stood up for Americans in fact not only Americans he told Germany “you guys are crazy to put all your eggs in Russia’s energy basket” and what do you see today, chaos, he told us that Brandon was going back to the green new deal and what’s happening now exactly that. He told us Brandon was going to raise taxes and .... I don’t have to go on you all understand (oh I forgot the crucial one mass flow of illegals across the southern border). So no give me President Trump all day any day it’s exactly what America needs🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Interesting how some seem to have Stockholm Syndrome and keep listening to their tormentors, their captors, the MSM no matter how often they have been proven, liars.
I agree with you and Penny.
Sweden has been run by glassy eyed, drooling leftists for over 100 years and look where it has gotten them.
This is from the article:
"In response to Sweden’s increasing problems with gang violence and social unrest in immigrant suburbs, the government’s strategy for many years was to deny how serious the situation had become. In the meantime, those people who noticed the problem—many of whom were working class—and spoke out about their diminished safety were accused of racism by leading politicians, the mainstream press, and the cultural elites."
Sound familiar? Anyone in this country who criticizes the murders and crimes in the black neighborhoods is called a racist by our glassy eye, drooling morons.
"The Swedish criminologist Amir Rostami has described Sweden’s bomb epidemic as part of a cycle of violence among criminal gangs, going back some 15 years: “First they shot at legs and behinds, then they started shooting each other, then there were more shots, pure executions, and humiliation of the victims. Now we have extreme amounts of explosions,” he told the newspaper DN in 2019.
As this development picked up speed, it was considered bad taste to suggest that immigration and failed integration had led to severe problems with crime—or even that crime was a growing problem at all. "
It is considered "bad taste" to say their system of immigration has failed. These people are not only blindly self-destructive, they are nuts.
If you won't or can't identify and define the problem, you can never solve it and that is just what Sweden has done for decades.
I find the left disgusting. They care only about their loony ideologies and could care less about the populace. Like the Swedes they want to run this country into the ground.
Here's my slogan:
Don't turn Texas into California.
Vote the Democrats/Socialist out of office.
There’s a rat in democrat.
Trump is a bit difficult but 99% of his conduct was in reaction to a full out attack by the media, etc. And do not think that they will stop once Trump is gone.
What they did to him is a warm up for what they will do to the next candidate.
Their ugly attacks on Ron DeSantis' wife who suffers from cancer are a prelude to what's to come, should he run for higher office.
Is she involved in his politics, which would make her fair game, or is she an innocent bystander, in which case attacking her given the cancer is a really depraved kind of evil. I have not read about such attacks on her, but I don't read everything.
Well in fact, they attacked DeSantis for spending a week with his wife over Christmas while she was being treated for cancer. "Look at him taking a super long vacation"
I don't know if they directly attacked her but it's basically the same thing. They are depraved and evil and the fact that people are not shocked and appalled, but just sneer and laugh along with them because it's the "enemy", that's what's so disgusting.
Of course it backfired and made Gov. DeSantis look even more heroic, and made the Democrats look even more scummy.
I think there's no way he will lose reelection now. Of course his opponent, Crist, literally told Republicans he didn't want their vote. Way to lose, moron.
I agree. But I also think he is a lightning rod and I wish he would put the interests of his constituents above his own and move on. He drew attention to the issues we face and I am grateful but he is far too easily baited to be effective at this point IMO. He would serve much better as a policy adviser.
He is a lightning rod and probably takes the bait too often. I disagree that he put his interests over ours, however. He at least tried some good things. The rest of the crew simply serve big donors.
Oh I am not talking about when he was President. I thought he was spot on. I think he really does love America and the American people.
He may be unafraid to speak his mind, and may be right about more than some people want to let on - including the joke that was the last election, and the existence of the Deep State and Shithole Countries.
But never forget, he has only three constituents. Me, myself and I.
It's led him to enormous wealth and the ability to trade up DNA partners for his three rounds of kids, but even if you love his politics, and you think they work for you... it always has been, and always will be, about him.
I agree. It is also true of the current one. Without the love of America.
And with the other “leaders” it is not just about them?
Trump was right about some things like illegal immigration and China but he is a repellant excuse for a human being, obsessed with himself and congenitally incapable of telling the truth. Would you invite him into your home with your teenage daughters present? If the Republicans came to their senses and produced a decent human being with decent impulses, he would run away with the 2024 elections. As it is, Trump and his toadies are repulsive to most voters, a gift to the Democrats.
Would you let Bill Clinton or Joe Biden into your house with your teenage daughter? Clinton got —-s under the desk in the oval office from a young White House intern, but he is a hero of the Democratic Party to this day. And Biden showered with his daughter but crickets…
Kindly provide an example of his repulsive behavior, that illustrates your point.
Up until now, all I've noticed about Donald Trump is that he has no filter and says whatever's in his head.
Shall we start with pussy grabbing? Or just go straight to mocking disabled people? Or telling tens of thousands of lies over four years? The man is a sociopath.
I don’t disagree with your 99% but the euphemism about Trump being “a bit difficult” is worthy of CNN. Yes, causing the loss of the Senate to the Dems and probably delivering much better than expected results for the Dems in the upcoming mid-terms is “a bit difficult” for the American people. But it’s OK, we’ll put up with inflation, raising crime and school indoctrination as long as the “Big Steal” is a religious tenet.
While the media certainly deserves criticism, Trump got exactly the treatment he deserved. Anyone who has ever lived in NYC (as I have) or just glimpsed at Trump's shenanigans over the decades knows that Donald Trump is a GRIFTER who has nothing but contempt for you or anyone else who isn't named Trump. The plain and simple truth is that Donald Trump, like his father and grandfather before him, is a con man and if you don't know that by now then YOU are the mark. If he hadn't had daddy's $400 million to start his "career" with, Donny would have been a bouncer at a strip club in Queens—at best.
Read what Forbes, which leans right to center right, published
about the many ways Donald skimmed money from Eric Trump's charity golf tournament for a children's hospital:
How Donald Trump Shifted Kids-Cancer Charity Money Into His Business
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/06/06/how-donald-trump-shifted-kids-cancer-charity-money-into-his-business/?sh=668135836b4a
If you won't believe that, just read the court documents related to the lawsuit against him over Trump University, the lawsuit he SETTLED for $25 million dollars, the same lawsuit he proclaimed he would NEVER settle!
https://nypost.com/2016/06/01/trump-universitys-playbook-belittled-students-documents/
Anyone who tells the truth will have a personality disorders as far as the Left is concerned, you rapist white supremacist Nazi bigot!
Yip sometimes more than the above. But come Nov all of the above + all the personality disordered people are going to rise up and vote on mass, they/we have all been lying low waiting for the tight moment it’s coming 47 days out!
Don't forget Cisgender. :)
even worse: straight.
Europe is going to freeze in the dark this winter and people will be told it is Putin - not 30 years of progressive energy policies based on their quasi religious belief in global warming.
The progressives make citizens vulnerable to bad actors. Energy independence was squandered away in the U.S. in the same misguided way. We must realize that fossil fuels are needed to meet our energy needs, now and in the future. Why make yourself vulnerable by denying the truth - to make yourself feel good? Germans laughed at Trump when he warned them about dependence on Russia for energy at the UN. Not laughing now, though.
Here's the deal. They're used to this shit. Every 40 years or so, their incompetence and historically dumb geopolitical decision making forces them to live like medieval serfs.
Kaiser
Fuhrer
Stasi
Greens
I have zero sympathy.
My opinion and continual rant.
In America and obviously Sweden the national dialogue is manufactured and controlled. (That's why we're at Substack.) The tactic used by criminal finance to maintain control, run cover for their seizure and exploitation of the worlds natural resources and stay in front of the adverse blowback they create in the lives of ordinary people, is to capture and control discussion of all legitimate social and environmental concerns. The blunders of the NGO, control of print and electronic media and their installation of the D.E.I. commissariat to destroy the lives of possible adversaries is reported here almost daily. Forced immigration as a means of destroying a nation's culture is just their cup of tea. (Wasn't it the Clinton machines destruction of Libya that opened the flood gates? Gaddafi died because he fk'd with criminal finance.)
War profiteering, the looting and economic destruction of national economies, international cartel/oligarchic money laundering, poisoning, assassination and murder, in America a compromised political leadership, are all the result of the manipulation of criminal finance. The Wall Street/IMF/WEF/CCP Davos boys and girls are behind most of the crisis to crisis no solutions allowed reality that has become our daily bread.
Global warming as a cover can be seen in the ongoing WEF backed assault on Dutch farmers with the ultimate goal of driving them off their land. Or, Bill Gates now owning half of America's arable farm land (which he has taken out of production). Consider the Bush family and their interest in controlling the worlds supply of fresh water. Or WEF Star Trek want to be Klaus Schwab applauding and designating J.Trudeau as one of their own. (How's your supply chain.)
The streets of Sweden, as in America, are unsafe because criminal finance wants it that way. The Biden White House (Kamala Harris) ran cover for criminal finance when she conflated the descent of America into addiction, crime, riots and homelessness as peaceful revolution. Unsafe in your home, your parks, taking a walk, going to work, your quality of life destroyed, is merely the beginning.
America and the World is under assault by venal and avaricious criminals.
I would say, Qaddafi died to make Obama and H. Clinton look good. They needed a foreign policy win, so Hillary met with some lying "democracy activists" from Libya who convinced her to kill Qaddafi. She did so. Obama was able to boast that his bombers killed him. Of course never mind that this opened the gate for ISIS and Al Nusra to come in and set up shop, destabilizing northern Africa and causing a humanitarian crisis.
I also heard that Qaddafi was trying to introduce a new African currency that would reorder finance on the Continent.
Global warming doesn't give a shit whether or not you believe in its existence.
The leftists made Trump out to be worse than he actually is.
THIS! Every bit of this! We need someone with the same policies and more focused approach. Not every battle is worth fighting.
That would be DeSantis
Yes but letting the MSM take focus off results and focus on the petty plays to the weak minded.
And what about Biden? Trump worked his ass off for us!
Nothing good to say about Biden. He has ruined what was going well and found new ways to make things worse. The list of wrongheadedness is long and serves to tell all of us to get rid of his administration. Get out and VOTE.
Yes please!
A little bit better? Seriously?
I know, that's like saying "Things were a little bit better before the Black Plague hit Europe".
Biden Derangement Syndrome is the new Trump Derangement Syndrome, I see.
Of course, the original "derangement syndrome" was Bush Derangement Syndrome; it's originally a trope of the old-guard GOP party line. But there was nothing deranged about the antipathy for George W. Bush at all; the Bush II administration really did wrong-foot the US at the outset of the 21st century. The rest of the world is still reeling from the second-order, third-order, etc. impacts of that.
The American Right continues to reel in a cognitive dissonance all its own on that score, of course.
I know! Wow!
You have expressed my feelings exactly
The mainstream media's small-minded, myopic approach to its job and its disparagement of conservative and populist thought is a key contributor to our nation’s divisions, breeding resentment and polarization among even the politically disinclined by promoting content specifically intended to enrage, balkanize, and embitter—all for more clicks and views.
https://euphoricrecall.substack.com/p/how-the-mainstream-media-traded-trust
Batya Ungar Sargon has a great book out called Bad News. Basically it describes the process of major news media becoming populated with out of touch upper class people. The divide that is the most damaging is that these people and their elite cohort are no longer on a speaking familiar basis with those who pave roads, put bricks on top of one another, mow their yards, clean their houses or come when they call 911. THAT is the true divide that has destroyed our free press.
My Man!! Likewise Shoshanna Zuboff and the rise of "surveillance capitalism".
The enemy is international criminal finance and our compromised D.C. political leadership. I'm no Republican but the Democratic Party must go.
What do you mean by "international criminal finance"? Criminals don't play well with others, much less each other. After a period of "cooperation" they start trying to knock each other off; just look at the Mafia. The problems in Sweden started in 2015 when a huge number of single young males began surging in from Syria, north Africa and other countries in that region.
I remember when CNN told us there were no problems in Sweden after Trump said there were problems in Sweden.
Reflexive Trump opposition is not thinking.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/19/politics/trump-rally-sweden/index.html
I swear, all Trump had to do was say the opposite of what he really meant, and the liberal press would all fall in line. (He has joked that he should have said he opposed a border wall, and then the Dems would have enthusiastically funded one.)
I have said this so many times.
Do you feel all the reflexive Trump derangement is akin to mass formation psychosis? Put in a nutshell, MFP is essentially a traumatic event experienced in a certain population and then a single cause and/or solution becomes popular to deal with the trauma. I am amazed at the progressive democrats, otherwise capable of complex thought, that are reduced to making the hex sign and spitting on the ground whenever Trump is mentioned.
It's quite remarkable. I've been in conversations with friends & relatives where they start shouting about Trump. I don't shout; I try to stick to facts and figures. But they shout. Like 5-year-olds.
I'm convinced it's pathological. Megalomaniacal narcissism( the filthy rich) exploiting ideological utopianism (Marxist "woke"). The players in Nazi Germany, Russia and China were a little different but it's the same disease and the outcome was horror.
I never listen to Trump; I ALWAYS listen to Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali with Bari Weiss: Islam, Immigration and Women's Rights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9sn7jFTxBU
The cultural alchemists imagine that injecting "diversity" into working systems will work akin to the mutations in X-Men comics, with nearly every "mutant" having some sort of cool superpower to use in his stunning-and-brave fight against bigoted caricatures.
In the real world, the only significant human genetic mutations we ever see are disabilities. Meanwhile, the products of cultural alchemy are overwhelmingly conflict, animosity, and diminished social trust, and the "bigots" are the people with too much empathy and integrity to ignore the problems.
C.G.Jung to his dying day thought it was the fracture in the human psyche between the God image and empirical science and only the creation of a "third" to bind the two would bring about the necessary evolution in consciousness to heal and move Western culture forward.
But it's in Politico, Stephen..
As someone who spent over 8 years living in EU, this doesnt surprise me. European Politicians and Media have became experts in denial, all for sake of not being labeled racist or perceived antiimmigrant.
In Germany, where I lived, there are constant reports of rise in Antisemitic crime. Media and politicians would always (due to historical reasons) call the issues caused by "rise of right wing extremists and neo Nazis". Yes in some cases perpetrators have been right wing extremist, but they were small minority, antisemitism was booming in immigrant communities.
I being born in south Europe and being immigrant myself have due to financial reasons lived in those immigrant areas and have seen issues first hand. Anti-Semitism in many Muslim communities was not only seen as positive, but also encouraged in all aged groups. Not only that, members of those communities have actively resisted any kind of integration in main stream society, while at the same time milking welfare state to the extreme.
The issues with this have reached such extent, that it became quiet easy to identify who the real perpetrators of these acts were. In those few cases where perpetrators were native Germans, this would be reported in every newspapers and special accent would be put that it was "evil Neo Nazi Germans" who are doing bad stuff. But in majority of cases, media would just make small mention that the issue happened, suspects were arrested, mention was made that it was probably "right wing", in that case everyone knew that it was committed by immigrants, but media and politicans would just continue to gaslight its own population.
Long story short, by actively avoiding to report on what is actually happening, media and politicians in Europe are forcing its citizens to vote evermore right leaning parties in hope that the mounting issues will be finally dealt with. But as always, these issues are not affecting elites, but normal working people.
The same denial has been happening with energy policy. Many die from the denial of the problems of importing asocial people, many more may die from the cold this winter.
"This is a story of what happens when the people who run things want to avoid confronting the consequences of their actions."
A perfect distillation of the idiocy of the left - and not only the most extreme any more.
I believe it is intentional "denial" being cover for criminal financial exploitation and manipulation.
American media never reports the ethnicity or race of criminals. When they show a picture of a suspect arrested for a crime, those suspects are predominately minorities or illegal immigrants. The facts could not be clearer, but the message gets muddled by political correctness.
except when they are white and conservative...
That’s quite a talent. You can discern someone’s political views from a photo?
And I can also discern ones critical thinking skills from a single statement!
LOL
It can be easier than you think.
We've all been around long enough to understand that the cause, effect and consequences of bad political, financial and social policy is not a great mystery. Criminal finance isn't stupid, it just doesn't care. We take the blowback, they take the cash. The Martha's Vineyard spectacle was pure "theatre" but painted a clear picture of the dynamic in play.
They report it when the criminal is white and conservative. If the criminal is a minority, they quickly memory-hole the incident and don't talk about the perpetrator. Remember the guy in Wisconsin who drove over people in a Christmas parade?
He had years worth of social media posts clearly stating his hatred of white people as well as a lengthy history of violently harming people.
obviously an oppressive SUV
It was a car who drove over people.
And men commit 97% of all violent crimes and 99.99% of ALL mass shootings regardless of race but you'd never know it by listening to news reports.
If you read https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/revcoa18.pdf, it'll come down to simply that poor people commit more crimes irrespective of race.
But, politicians, in the pocket of donor, would rather have you believe people who don't look like us are the perpetrators.
Reporting surrounding crime has now become a political activity. If the context of a crime doesn't fit the currently favored narrative (for now that narrative is "white extremism is an existential threat to the country and is everywhere, and there are about 75 million white extremists in the US) it is not reported. If the context around a crime allows it to be fit into the narrative in any way, shape, or form it is "front page news" everywhere for as many days as it can be milked.
I think we can all agree that the whole mess is an unnecessary horror and waste of human lives and potential. We're at Substack because the entire American reality has been propagandized and compromised to serve and run cover for international criminal finance. Facts don't matter in a land of manufactured control, crisis and hysteria. Everything and nothing is true.
Break up the "big tech" and criminal billionaire corporate monopolies corrupting our political leadership and the blowback and disintegration we're witnessing will begin to subside and the possibility of rational solutions will appear.
Your last sentence describes what is evolving in world governance: fascism. It's not just criminal finance, it is criminal pharma, criminal tech, criminal judiciary, criminal government.
Same two things as always throughout history: money and power.
That may be true of crime in general but this article is about bombings committed by an identifiable group.
Yep.
And also in Sweden, whereas the BJS data applies only to the United States.
Thst would be my educated guess.
Perhaps I missed it, Linus, but I don't see any data showing the economic status of the criminals. The charts identify criminals only by race and ethnicity. So the charts don't prove poor people commit more crimes irrespective of race.
Not even among just violent crimes. Add millions of nonviolent crimes such as fraud and embezzlement, and the non-poor might commit the majority of crimes.
It's pretty easy to infer. The neighborhoods with they highest crime rates are almost always poor. What sucks is that nobody asks those LIVING there what they want. Liberals assume they don't want police and conservatives assume they're all criminals. Most are just stuck there trying to get by in life, just like the rest of us.
Liberals assume they don't want the police, because they assume they are all criminals. Why wouldn't they want the police, if they were obeying the law?
I'm a liberal, and I don't assume they don't want the police. Just the opposite--they DO want the police and they want peaceful neighborhoods, same as anyone else. They hate living in gangland as much as the rest of us, but they don't have the means to move out. What they don't want are brutal police, and I don't blame them ... none of us do. Fortunately, most cops are good people who have a very tough job policing crime-ridden 'hoods.
Agree with this. The sad irony is that the most violent criminals in the 'hood are not poor, because they got rich by robbing, killing, and impoverishing their neighbors.
no, they sell drugs to the poor, and rob the rich - and kill anyone who wants a piece of the action.
I've a German friend - a big, beautiful forty-ish gal with the typical Teutonic pale skin, blonde hair, blue eyes. I was speaking with her the other night and she told me that twice within the past year she has been approached on the street - completely out of the blue - by swarthy men who told her in effect, "We are going to breed out of existence people who look like you."
What an odd turn of phrase.
And they're right. Native German fertility rates are well below replacement levels, whereas immigrants are having huge families as well as bringing in many relatives. I read an interview with a Kuwaiti man who had three wives with 8-10 children each; all of them qualified under German law for full welfare support.
If you are bored, do a little chart. One family of two adults has one child. Then do three children. ( I chose three because the numbers will go up beyond replacement.)
Now do one with four. Do one with five. Do the charts for four generations; that's all that is necessary. You will be horrified.
and now you understand why Covid was invented in a lab...
how diabolical of the Chinese Conspiracy, to intentionally release it in the very same Chinese city where the virology lab was located!
So what's your practical suggestion, based on this fantasy hypothetical projection 72 years into the future?
This is what an actual demographic chart looks like, for the years 2004-2020- I've chosen the country of Syria, and the metric of the birth rate, but Index Mundi works for nearly every nation in the world, and a dozen or so different metrics. https://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?v=25&c=sy&l=en
Spoiler alert: while the birth rate in Syria is currently double that of Sweden, it's also dropped by 20% over the previous 16 years. Because there's a difference between the way that these metrics have been working in the empirical reality of the 21st century and the logarithmic increase indicated by your idealized hypothetical projection.
As with Japan, if the native born Germans or Swedes want to increase their population, it's their call. For crying out loud, it isn't even your country.
Here, have a look at US birthrates: they've declined steeply for ALL of the major ethnic categories measured- to "below replacement" levels: https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-2189badb0eec9e55fc984444e794d784
What envy these foreigners have - so palpable!
Not envy. Hate.
both can be true at once
It is blowback from exploited ignorance. But it's real. I can no longer believe that criminal finance isn't making it happen. It is a play for world dominion by by avaricious and venal megalomaniacal narcissism.
Yup. But there is a stored energy out here in flyover country - people who are well and truly fed up with these people coming at them from every direction, trying to bankrupt and enslave them and their families. It is a giant coil spring compressed to the limit. All that has to happen is for the right person to say, "Go!" and there will be, in my opinion of course, hell.
Chris Hedges observes (from experience) that mass revolt is often triggered by what would otherwise be a mundane event. A traffic stop. A brutal arrest etc. Nobody needs a firefight. But, we do need to get clear on the dynamics in play. I feel we've been guilty of believing that a reasonable response to the machinations of unreasonable people pushing an agenda detrimental to our culture would make a difference. We are indeed being bludgeoned by a well financed and entrenched machine" well financed" being the operative component. The entire airball is mercenary. From the annual 150K+ D.E.I. commissariat in boardrooms and universities to the compromised revolving door million dollar D.C. hog trough to the dozen other grifting pay us and we'll sell the people out vampires attached to our necks.
Our engine of survival is the Constitution. The only politic in play is International criminal finance and the toadies and propagandists who serve it. It is a rigged game happening on the world stage. Capitalism and communism killed themselves. It is time (and I'm for free enterprise) to break up all monopolies, tech and otherwise, while taxing billionaires and trillionaires until they squeal. We can no longer afford to be shocked and amazed at the antics of thugs.
Getting psyched out over thirdhand news is just another kind of weakness.
And grab some perspective; you have no idea what actual slavery is like. There are help wanted signs all over central Pennsylvania- which is neither horrendously expensive or hell on earth, as a housing market- for entry level jobs paying $16-$21/hr. So spare me the agitprop about civil insurrection.
I think the open assault on Western Democracy by criminal finance is real. Arrests for thought crimes in England and Canada are real. The assault on Dutch farmers is real. Bombings and hand grenades in Sweden and the attempt to cover them up is real. The homeless camp fentanyl junkie passed out in a park near you is real. It's coming from someplace.
I agree w/you about "psyched out". Clarity is our friend. A huge portion of the psyop is shock and knee jerk emotionalism. Our attempt here at creating a new national dialogue is already bearing fruit. Recognition of the damage America has sustained, the culprits responsible and sane solutions are coming.
"The homeless camp fentanyl junkie passed out in a park near you is real. It's coming from someplace.."
You're what a bleeding heart Right Winger sounds like. The only thing missing is a scapegoat population to be targeted explicitly by mob hysteria.
You're also going to need reference links for your charges about countries outside the US, because otherwise readers are left to infer what you're on about- perhaps you mean this https://www.wired.com/1995/03/canada/ or this https://news.yahoo.com/law-where-clicking-terrorist-propaganda-033625094.html
I'm not even a fan of the UK's Official Secrets Act. But that doesn't mean that I view the UK as on par with the PRC. In any event, those are long-standing controversies found in other countries. Meanwhile, American 1st Amendment protections are so strong that it's all we can do to exact civil penalties from fake news charlatans who exploit their ownership of a microphone and a video studio to make millions by perpetrating fraudulent news events that defraud his audience and induce them to violently harass innocent victims of his lies https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/alex-jones-begins-testimony-sandy-150543211.html
While bombings and hand grenades in Sweden are under-reported in the US, claiming that they're being "covered up" is a bit of a stretch. If you want a thorough accounting of news stories country by country, I suggest you subscribe to Facts On File. US news reportage has never been particularly thorough about covering overseas news events. Not even 25 years ago, back when the largest US newspapers and TV networks had staffed bureaus in major cities on every continent.
If Western Democracy had enough sense and integrity to have an interest in suppressing "criminal finance", its leaders would look to history and stop lying to themselves about suppressing mind-altering substances through a blanket criminalization policy that confers a de facto monopoly over the trade in forbidden drugs to organized crime syndicates. It isn't as if large quantities of opium weren't legally imported into countries around the world in the 19th century. Everyone wants to pretend it was only sent to China. What a crock of shit. The only difference making that situation especially unique was the punitive trade arrangement coercively enforced by the British Empire on China.
But eventually Punitive Moralism just had to reign supreme, beginning in the 20th century. Which in turn eventually brought us the Drug Awareness Resistance Education program ignorance that spent most of its classroom time ranting about Schedule I "marijuana" while spending next to no time informing high school kids that mixing Schedule II, III, IV pills and alcohol was a fatal combination. Especially Schedule II. But the subtext of DARE was always that Legal drugs- even Schedule II- were by definition safer than Illegal ones like pot or mescaline; and that there was some drastic difference between Schedule II Oxycodone, Morphine, Dilaudid- and Fentanyl- and Heroin, the opiate that was until quite recently in a class by itself on Schedule I.
The Punitive Moralists are still holding the balance of power in drugs policy, notwithstanding occasional half-measures like making Narcan more easily available. The Punitive Moralists have had the whip hand in the US for around a century, ever since the Supreme Court ruled that all prescription addiction maintenance had to be unethical profiteering, taking a few bad examples as if they comprised the sole baseline model of what medical opioid maintenance could ever amount to.
So, how'd that work out for you all?
Say what? Are you responding to my post or something else?
I was talking to you, with your nonsense about "flyover country - people who are well and truly fed up with these people coming at them from every direction, trying to bankrupt and enslave them and their families. It is a giant coil spring compressed to the limit."
Go on, vent away. You sound like any leftwing PC snowflake or coddled Karen, given a few tweaks over what you're fainting about. I mean, what- are you fifteen? Does no one read history? The real shit, I mean. Not just Pop History's Greatest Hits & Factoids.
My own regrets will be aesthetic.
well, just because somebody says something doesn't mean it's going to happen.
It IS an odd thing for the men to say, but unfortunately, they're correct.
A rise is antisemitism often is a bellwether for more widespread problems. They’re a small group which too often is scapegoated by others when things are not going well. In Malmo, Sweden, it was a problem twenty years ago, with the Jews eventually driven out. Now it’s a cesspool for everyone. What starts with the Jews never ends just with them.
We’re seeing the same burgeoning antisemitism in other parts of Europe and now, in some parts of the US. In Europe, it’s mostly Muslim immigrants, supported by an underlying or residual antisemitism in some native Europeans. As in Sweden, the problem certainly won’t end with hatred towards the Jews.
In the US, the source and rise is a bit different, coming not so much from immigrants as from the left in the form of pro-Palestinian activism and intersectionality. As with in Europe, the left denies the problem, says all the hate comes from the right, and the problem continues to get worse.
The canaries are choking and the miners still are digging.
"In the US, the source and rise is a bit different, coming not so much from immigrants as from the left in the form of pro-Palestinian activism and intersectionality."
AND YET, AMERICAN JEWS KEEP VOTING LEFT....they might as well walk into an oven...
I was talking to a friend who is Jewish and he in aghast how Jewish are voting for people against them. BLM being the main example.
This a not a good omen for American Jews. I've heard many moderate and conservative supporters of Israel say that if American Jews support the party that's ruining America, that's hostile toward America, and hostile toward the existence of Israel, then why should they care about Israel. So much for "never again", when you support the Party that supports the groups that want to destroy you. Guilt and self loathing are not a good recipe for survival.
Ouch.
Not THIS Jew and not my adult sons.
All singing from the same demonic hymnal written by the globalist scum.
Also, as you touched on, a culture in which conflicts are often resolved by violence.
Can these foreigners be deported when caught?
Not if they're in the country legally. Many European nations got caught up in the "oh you poor things, come live here and we'll take care of youuuuuu" mantra years ago, and let them move in en masse, complete with papers.
That kindness backfired spectacularly when the waves refused to assimilate and become British, Swedish, French, whatever, and instead formed their own tribal enclaves. The gangs within those tribes are brutal, and they're taking their wars to the host nations.
which is why you vote in new governments, to change the rules.
Absolutely, if you can. I don't know that works in Europe, but in the United States, politicians have made wholesale government change difficult, if not impossible, through gerrymandering and other protectionist schemes.
Certainly should be some sort of policy on that. Maybe 3 strikes and you're out. Same for citizens, only 3 strikes and you're in jail.
Even in this very well written column by Paulina Neuding, she fails to identify who these immigrants and criminal gangs are. They are overwhelmingly Muslim.
Yes. When people tell you they intend to kill or enslave you, you should probably believe them until proven otherwise.
Thankful that you are active here, Raziel.
Your story about crime in Germany mirrors what is happening in the US. It's just a different offending group. Same reporting, same denials, same pattern.
The code word in Germany us "Männer", i.e. men. Whenever you read that a man or men committed a crime, you know who the perps are.
So it's like when the British media says crimes were committed by "youths".
Yup.
Thank you for sharing these observations from your personal experience. 
Ever been accosted by a gang of minority people? I have. I "observed" a knife. My wife and her whole high school basketball team was assaulted by a gang of minority people because they lost a game. Ever been threatened by minorities in the majority for a brief moment? You don't know me or my experiences, and my opinions are still valid even if you disagree with them. So kindly redirect your sarcasm elsewhere.
Exactly!
Are you just a Russian troll or hate Ukraine only because the libs support it?
On the chance that you're an honest broker, because we both subscribe to Common Sense: the Azov Batallion is basically what conservatives stand for in the US. If I don't believe we conservatives are fascist, why do you believe that Azov is? Snap out of your partisanship and try not to apply our domestic problems to an international situation.
If you would care to learn: the Ukrainian Americans of the 90s wave in the US are overwhelmingly conservative, pro-gun, pro constitution, and pro-America. The Ukrainians in the actual Ukraine are also overwhelmingly conservative and live by traditional values. Yes, Ukraine had A LOT of corruption following the fall of the Soviet Union - the ugly heritage of that system. They are working their asses off to combat it. The part I'm sad and scared about is the system they are fighting for no longer exists either in Europe or in the US. And yes, I'm very afraid that the reliance on the US will import the US culture wars into Ukraine. I'm terrified of that.
Does that help at all? Can you find an honest person to talk to about Ukraine - instead of listening to Putin or Partick Lancaster?
A recent personal realization of mine is that the American Constitution and the Bill of Rights it contains is an evolved statement on human dignity and an attempt to create a system of checks and balances that allows for human fallibility and evil. It is our only engine of survival. "left"/"right", conservative/liberal, democrat/republican, capitalist/communist no longer have any meaning to our lives outside the mercenary propagandist attempts to impose them on us and make us impose them on one another.
agreed. I'm afraid both sides have been twisting/abusing it for their own end. On the View, Elie Mystal declared it "trash", while the conservatives practice selective amnesia/cherry picking when they want to leverage constitutional principles in service of their cause.
I'm so sad to see America in this state :(
Yep.
I've never seen any swastikas, but as far as other symbols are concerned - there's prob some kernel of truth there. But, that goes to the 30s and 40s when Ukrainian patriots were trying to throw off the communists. So there's a lot of history there if you care to learn. But again, Azov are not any more nazi than American conservatives. I'm actually flabbergasted that you're incensed by being called semi-fascist by Biden, then turn around and un-ironically hurl the same accusation toward the people of a different country where you've never been.
That's like saying, "Hitler is bad but what is with the AMERICAN BUND?"
Putin is a far, far, far greater evil than any Azov fighters could ever manage. Besides, Ukraine de-Nazified most of that battalion long ago, by moving its fighters into the national militia to deal exclusively with the breakaway provinces. There is no Fourth Reich budding in Ukraine.
Consider the source.
Like all the rest of its propaganda, this is Russia's attempt to make the incorporation of a patriotic militia into Ukraine's National Guard, proof of the "nazification" of Ukraine, and therefore justify the invasion. The "Azovs" were labeled as nazis, not because they are nazis, but because the separatists wanted to discredit them in the eyes of the Ukrainian population. Leftists label conservatives as rapists, white supremacists, bigots, racists, and (pick your prefix)-phobes for the same reason. That is what is up!
Weird yes!
I have no doubt that neo-Nazis exist in the Ukraine Army and in Ukraine society. But from everything I've read, it's not a large faction. Probably the same percentage as our own armed forces suffer gang bangers and white power idiots in the barracks.
This is what the end result of the Liberal policies provide. Did anyone think that you are letting the bottom of society immigrate and they have no sense of society? The reality of life is that you either squash crime and deport those who do it or you get this. We are facing the same thing on our border and the dumb ass liberal freaks blindly stumble along. Another killing by an illegal or gang activity well we must be accommodating. Well at least in your area. Dare not send them to us or we will get them sent away. See the liberals care about feeling good about themselves and not a care about you. Liberals just destroy by being stupid!
I think it is worse then that. They hate America and Americans. They are actively malicious.
Well they hate the ideas of America but are unwilling to leave that which they detest. Simply because they are cowards and know they can't and won't defend themselves. So they hate what they must depend on. See those who would defend them are better human beings and would help others and they just can't understand that kind of people. So hate and name calling is what they have. If they weren't so damn destructive they could be pittied. But instead they truly need to be shut up.
I think they hate the "idea" (their internal thought) of what America is...
Many liberals equate strict immigration policy with racism of one flavor or another and nothing more. Watch the latest Ken Burns doc on US immigration policy during the time of Hitler's Germany to get an idea of the narrative the average left-leaning liberal is still living in. I believe the leftish liberal's understanding of immigration policy goes only so deep as to think anti-immigration sentiment is all about, and only about, the fear that Americans will be replaced by the "other" (as it certainly was to some extent leading up to WWII when Jews were not allowed in). They do not understand that liberal immigration policy has consequences (ones they likely will not like). This isn't pre-WWII when Jews were turned away from our shores , but many seem to think it's the same thing. (I feel as though I have to add the caveat that I am not endorsing the US policy pre-WWII by any means, but that is a different analysis altogether.)
Suggest going back further, 1924 immigration act and the rhetoric surrounding it. Basically shut the door for Italians, Greeks, and other Southern European countries until 1965. Same rationale as complaints today. Go further back it was the Irish and Chinese. Go back further and unless your heritage arrived on the Mayflower (and let’s not forget why they left England to begin with) you’ll find your roots equally (mis)treated. The rationale and comments were the same, just swap out the ethnicity, religion, race, etc. immigration is messy, always has been, and as I’ve said several times here, let’s try to get at the problems instead of attacking each other….
Those earlier immigrants complied with whatever the laws were. That is far, far different from the modern open southern border where anyone - valid refugee or criminal - can stroll in.
nah, it was the pits for a few decades there in lower New York City at the turn of the 19th-20th century. They didn't call it Hell's Kitchen for nothing. Eventually, the solid citizens- including the elders of the immigrant communities- prevailed. But both the street crime and the corruption in NYC in the 1890s were worse than that of any American city of the previous 100 years- including the Prohibition era and the Crack era. The numbers quoted for street prostitutes were off the charts. I doubt anyone would have called those parts of NYC "the Shanghai of the West" unless it was at least as bad.
Recommended reading: The Heroic Gangster: Moe Eastman, From the Streets of New York to the Battlefields of World War One and Back. by Neil Hanson, which is where most of that detail comes from. Gangs of New York, by the always informative Herbert Asbury, makes for a good complement as a historical overview of the era.
Solve the problem? Politicians get donations by ramping up the issue, getting everyone fired up, only “we” (take your pick) can fix it. So, if you and I were in charge how would WE fix it? Yep, complicated, but I bet we could come up with a bunch of good ideas….. and I would bet this site’s other readers after calling each other names (that won’t work) would contribute insight and improve our ideas. Take the bet?
While I absolutely acknowledge the role of political contributions and the role of maintaining power of incumbents, in this country at this point in time the only way to implement policy is to hold political office. I have spent a lot of time on the internet discussing issues and potential solutions. But without the ability to hold office (which I am unwilling to do) or to influence those who do (which I attempt to do) it is just idle chatter. So my "solution" is to educate yourself before you vote and make your vote count, and failing that be very wary and very well-prepared to defend yourself.
Well said, totally agree, and my commenting on things like this goes to your solution to not only educate myself, but to educate others who hopefully are better informed voters. If all a politician/candidate has to say is that the leftist socialist agenda supports open borders allowing rapists and murders and gang members to stroll across the border — so vote for me! Or, say the right wing neo-nazi white Christian Evangelical nut jobs want to put immigrant children in cages and ship them to wherever they come from — so vote for me! And neither in their campaigns is asked to say what would they do to fix the problem, or once in office at least attempt to find a solution, and rinse/repeat the campaign slogans again the next election, then we have failed as citizens to be not only be a more educated electorate but to hold our representatives to account. And likely given just these two possibilities when the election comes, I find people I talk to retreat into their bubbles, vote for “their person” and call anyone willing to vote for someone else names. These days, politicians thrive on us being at each other’s throats, rather than holding them accountable. That’s why Congress has a 15% approval rating or worse in a general poll, but MY/Your /whoever else’s congressperson has an 85% approval rating from their constituents …. It must be those other guys that are the problem. [Solutions: campaign finance reform, term limits, and a wish that campaigns can not do attack ads and candidate are required to stick to how they would solve issues or stop wasting our time]. Thanks Lynne, have an awesome day!
I agree with your assessment of the left's immigration policy (I do not draw the leftist liberal line because except for Henry Cuellar the Dems are in lock-step) but think the real problem is they are so dismissive of those deemed anti-immigrant they do not further assess the issue(s). It is foolish simplicity. I am by no means anti-immigrant. But I think it should be lawful and orderly. As a result I am vehemently anti-Biden and anti- Democrat. That will not change until I see some movement toward reason. I saw some of that in Joe Manchin but his treat.ent this week by his party tells me there is no reason to be found among them.
Agree. My spouse and many of my friends are immigrants. I'm all for it and honestly we do seem to have a labor shortage. What I object to is the lying and pretending it's not happening. That isn't good for anyone. The current administration pressured the FAA during the Haitian bridge fiasco to ground Fox New's drone over the border because they didn't want anyone to see. Jen Psaki argued the point of what time of night the migrant flights were landing in NY over a year ago. She got into spats about whether or not to call it a "crisis" over a year ago. We all have antidotal stories of migrants being dropped all over the place. And now, only after the Martha's Vineyard story, is KJP stating this is all a NEW problem? Are you fu#*ing kidding? Easily over a thousand a day for almost 2 years and you have the nerve to say this is a new problem? Now the administration calls Bill Melugin irritating for sharing the facts and criticizes his "new form of on the ground reporting"? You can't make this stuff up. I support immigrants but detest dishonesty and hypocrisy.
100%agree. This is a nation of immigrants. I know many recent immigrants who entered the country lawfully are outraged by the fiasco at the southern border.
Exactly.
You can either have a social welfare state or open borders but not both.
So very well said. This is the problem with all “impassioned movements,” they ignore the entirety of the system for the sake of their singular cause.
It’s also more complicated than that. Countries like Norway that previously lead the world in immigration were VERY culturally elitist about how they went about it and that elitism was what made it work. Race has nothing to do with it, societal/cultural expectations have everything. You MUST learn the language, you MUST be employed, you MUST attend school… these items are critical to cultural integration and they create stability. Care not whether purple, brown, peach, gold, or green - you either contribute to society or you detract from it. There will always be detractors and decent people (NOT the state) should care for them, but if your immigration strategy is structured to literally encourage detractors than it will always fail.
This was true of the US at the height of our immigration as well. It was challenging, of course, but there were societal norms required of new immigrants (of which my family was one) that did not entrap my family but allowed it to succeed by setting clear boundaries on what was minimally required to be successful contributors to this culture.
Theodore Roosevelt captured it perfectly more than 100 years ago when he explained what it meant to be an American. Embrace our culture, our country, our language and our laws. If not. Go back to your squalid homeland.
The left cant stand great men of history. I think we need to build 10x more statues of great americans, of all creeds, colors, and achievements. Public architecture should exemplify our greatest accomplishments or heroes, and inspire patriotism in the populace.
The left hates both patriotism and those brave individuals who change the world, and they want to drag public art down to the lowest common denominator (or into amorphous metal pretzels). Its the Howard Zinn-ified mindset. Yes the people who worked in the Lowell factory were important but the man who built it is the one that truly changed history.
Edison, Lewis & Clark, Ford, Carnegie, Washington, Davy Crockett, Douglas MacArthur, all these great men the left today generally dislikes. Even contemporary great black americans get hit with Uncle Tom charges if theyre anything other than victim peddlers. Thomas Sowell and Kanye prime example. The modern left would even tear down a Helen Keller statue if they had the chance, bc she proves that opportunity outweighs disadvantage in this country, which they axiomatically cant accept
History is a living breathing reality that informs the fact of who we are. If you don't know your history, you don't know who you are. Its destruction leaves no reference point for ones personal reality outside whatever political reality the state imposes. Likewise it breaks the connection with the personal mythos of the nation and the people themselves. It destroys the national persona, disempowers the individual and creates a state of emotional anomie. Shaming the individual and the destruction of his history as a prelude to his criminalization is a long used tactic of Marxist ideologues. Unrestrained illegal and forced immigration against the best interest of a nation is a direct assault on the nations people and culture.
MY OPINION:Having compromised American political leadership, International criminal finance used mercenary pretend feminist/Marxist ideologues to create ideological chaos, disseminate propaganda while capturing the American national dialogue and American institutions. There are no "ism's". Only a venal and avaricious cartel of international criminal financiers, the American Constitution, the Bill of Rights it contains and US.
John Q Liberty, I believe that point was first made by Milton Friedman
Egalitarian societies are only possible when >98% of the population shares the same values and priorities. A clash of cultures, not races, is the problem here. Sweden accepted over 110,000 young Middle Eastern men into their society in 2015. That’s roughly 1% of the population, imported from countries with a culture of war and instability. (Not interested in having a debate on the reasons for that, I’m well aware of the West’s role in it.) I’m really not sure how you fix this problem without mass deportations. Something tells me Swedes won’t have the stomach for that...
Yes. Come to our country learn and speak our language, learn and appreciate our culture and history, fly our flag. After a probationary period where you work and support yourself(and pay taxes) you may become a citizen. ANY legal infraction during that time and you are deported.
Madjack- That is clearly the basis and program for successful immigration. Leftists refuse to accept it.
omg that makes you a racist xenophobe lol.
Exactly. This is literally the ONLY way.
Brilliant!
You leave out a culture of Islamic propaganda to establish a caliphate everywhere IN THE WORLD, and the vulnerability of liberal, social-welfare-oriented, and naive populations.
And I would suspect that of those 110K men that were accepted, most had a very dim view of women, tolerance outside of their myopic world view, and saw violence as a reasonable way to settle differences. And you're right, the Swedes won't ever have the stomach for mass deportations, residual affects of WWII. They also don't seem to have the stomach for labeling the problem what it is, or where it originated.
I have to wonder how many, and which neighborhood's inhabitants have to die before this becomes a national outrage along the lines of George Floyd.
Oh what a good question you pose Cotton.
I agree with you, Mel.
I lean center/center left, but I will be the first to admit that the EU made a very large mistake in admitting as many migrants from the Middle East (primarily Syria) in 2015. Sweden and Germany especially both miscalculated badly in accepting so many. In doing so they revealed how misinformed they were of how their societies and respective cultures could possibly absorb and accept such an influx. They could not and have not. Thus they now have areas (we might call them ghettoes) where basically only migrants live and where crime thrives. Swedes hate the new arrivals and, of course, the new arrivals hate them back.
As I posted in the now-vanished comment section of the Atlantic magazine: "Angela Merkel, what were you thinking?"
It was obvious that most of the migrants were not families. They were single young males- that fraction of humans with a well-deserved reputation for being most inclined toward antisociality, criminality, and violence, and also the population most vulnerable to the appeal of political and religious extremism.
I'm not prejudiced against young single males. But in terms of social values, as a group they're a population that requires a lot of extra minding and supervision, or they're more trouble than they're worth. That isn't a statement of bias, it's a statement of fact.
Get them jobs in the lumber industry in north central Sweden. Tell them this, or gtfo.
By what turn of logic do you just randomly place an immigrant population that possesses no semblance of civility and is actually medieval in mindset into the middle of a liberal democracy that has taken nearly a thousand years to evolve? The left screamed bloody murder when then President Trump refused to take these people en mass, but I think it's now fair to say that he was on to something.
Turn of logic? The same stupid logic during the Bush years that US policy (i.e. wars) would turn the Arab states into democracies.
No argument. It is the same stupid logic in both instances. Back home its called putting lipstick on a pig.
So true.
There’s an op ed in the New York Times entitled, “ Sweden is becoming unbearable,” and it’s all about the rise of the far-right party to power, but there is not one mention of the increase in gun violence and bombings that led to it! Journalistic malfeasance, which is what we can expect from the New York Times. The Washington Examiner is the only mainstream newspaper covering Sweden’s violence problems and the role that immigration has played. Le Monde is also covering it, plus of course Swedish newspapers.  Thanks for bringing this to the attention of your readers because people need to know what happens when you keep denying that a problem that people can perceive in their daily lives is real.
Came here to mention that exact same piece. NYT has printed three articles about Sweden over the last month. All three have painted this situation as an extremist, unreasonable, alt-right shift. Notably, the comments section remained closed on all three articles.
Yeah, they don't want people from Sweden correcting their totally inaccurate depiction of Swedish politics~
The New York Times has been lying and stupid since the days of Walter Duranty. No sentient being believes a word they print.
The world would be a better place if your last sentence was correct.
if only it were that simple.
Sweden has imported an underclass.
Which illustrates the Swedish dilemma - Sweden does not recognize the concept of an underclass.
America did it first!
A couple of years back after seeing one false news story after another I researched journalistic accountability. There is none. Doctors, lawyers, dentists, and psychiatrists can be subjected to malpractice claims and have their licenses revoked. Plumbers, electricians and other tradesmen can be sued and have their licenses revoked. Teachers and nurses can have their licenses revoked. Journalists are not licensed and are subject to no boards of review. No liability, no accountability, no integrity required.
Journalists should not be licensed, and in fact cannot be licensed---freedom of the press and freedom of speech are Constitutional bedrocks. The antidote to lying journalists is the free market: if people don't like an outlet's approach, they quit subscribing.
The problem is that left-wingers don't believe the New York Times and CNN ever lie, and right-wingers believe the same about Fox and Breitbart. These media know their audiences and pander accordingly.
Real journalists play it straight. There used to be far more of us in the industry, but real reporting is far more expensive to produce than fear and rage, and media owners adjusted. What's left is a handful of truth-seekers and a whole lot of Tucker Carlsons.
Then journalism is nothing more than a mob, much as the 4th Estate became after the French Revolution, and have outlived their usefulness. I also take issue with your assumption that those on the right, of which at this time I am one, "believes that Fox, Breitbart, and OANN always tell the truth". I don't. I take very little at face value these days. And because I am that way I assume there are those on the left who feel the same about left wing sources. Perhaps we are the people who should band together.
I do largely agree with your last paragraph. I think there used to be journalistic integrity. In my lifetime if a misstatements was made it was acknowledged and retracted. As for profit-driven that renders journalism useless as it destroys objectivity and impartiality. I had read previously that the funding for investigative journalism had dried up. I guess that is why so much of what passes for news these days is picked up from a tweet and published over and over. I suppose we are witnessing the tabloidification of journalism.
Except for a relatively brief period from the 1960s to the rise of the Internet, journalism was always a mob. Back in the day when New York and Chicago had four, six, or eight newspapers, reporters posed as cops or undertakers to get into crime scenes. They wrote friendly stories about friendly politicians and shanked unfriendly ones. Advertisers paid to get fluff "reviews" of their products into business sections. In small papers, local bigshots could kill a story they didn't like by calling the publisher and threatening to cancel their ad buy.
Not everyone was that way, certainly, because some of the best newpapering ever done was in those crazy days. But then, like now, media owners did what was in their best financial interest, and spreading fear, rage, celebrities--and legitimate news stories--to the masses was always the smart play.
In that golden era, the number of newspapers shrank, so the ones that remained owned the advertising market, particularly the highly lucrative classified ads. They made tons of money, and could afford to be noble in the newsroom. Ethics standards were introduced, "pay for play" became verboten. In one Chicago newspaper, a publicist would pay five, ten, or twenty bucks to get his or her client into a local column, the price depending where in the column the client landed. At Christmas, trolleys of hams, liquor, and swag, courtesy publicists, rolled through the hallways, free to any newsy who wanted.
That was all deep-sixed. Reporters were forbidden to break into homes to steal photos of the deceased for the next edition, etc. News presentation became more thoughtful; double and triple sourcing was demanded by editors. Pay for play largely disappeared. Publishers paid big dough for big newsrooms that could handle daily news AND devote a year to reporting a sensational investigative expose.
Then the Internet rose, gobbled up ad revenue and eyeballs, and the newspaper industry collapsed. Cable, Internet, social media, and others picked over the carcass and went back to the old model: sell fear and rage, celebrity and the occasional legit story, to rake in cash. But owners love to short-staff, and so the few editorial people left have to pump out so many stories for the various digital and print publications there's little time left for actual journalism.
All that said, the Fourth Estate has not outlived its usefulness. Even with the wild excess of social and other media, crooks and politicians cannot be assured of operating in the darkness without being discovered. Without iPhones and social media, the George Floyd murder would never have been unearthed. And legitimate media still report the news, which helps keep government and corporate titans honest . . . or as honest as they ever were.
That's a good way of putting it: the tabloidization of all journalism. And Twitter-based news. Go read HuffPost if you can stomach it, and you will find a quarter of its stories are two paragraphs of news followed by: "And here's what Twitter had to say . . ." cue nineteen straight Tweets. If HuffPost had 500 staff reporters, News by Twitter would not exist. With maybe 20 percent of that number to cover the world, this is what they have to resort to in order to fill the space.
Sorry for TL;DL, but I'm passionate about the collapse of real journalism, because this new version is very bad for our society. I'm glad I was able to get 25 years in at the tail end of the golden years, and then it all went to hell.
Well I feel privileged to have witnessed the golden age of journalism and lament the loss. I guess you are right about smart phones and the internet - anybody can sell a story. I do think a free press should be a tool for good in a free society.
I feel privileged as well, to have participated in the newspaper end of it as well as the reader. You are absolutely right: a free press should be used for the good of a free society, not just to make a buck. Some of the best people I've ever known were reporters and editors---they loved this country, this way of life, this culture, and used every tool they had to expose the public and private officials who tried to destroy it or rip off everyday Americans. I was proud to be a small part of that tribe.
A scary thought. Freedom of the press is a cornerstone of Democracy, but it should come with accountability/accuracy in reporting. Opinion pieces are different and should be clearly labeled as such.
Truth Lynne.
Lets hope this article is shared far and wide.
Oh, and it’s the right that’s extreme, huh?
The lefty liberals of Sweden handed their country on a silver platter to immigrants who don’t like them. Oh the shock that these immigrants are now biting the hand that fed them. This story has been repeated all over the world. See—little Mogadishu in Minneapolis. And while Europeans don’t bother to reproduce, the immigrants have lots of kids. Mark Steyn was right, by 2050 Europe will be Europastan.
The left never learns. They mean well. They feel virtuous. And others suffer for their fantasies.
Linear thought matters.
It is a clash of cultures. Europeans are generally polite, law-abiding, restrained, and sensitive to their impact on others. Middle Eastern societies put their women in burkas - because they expect the men to behave like animals. Saudi beheads their criminals in public to control crime. Is that coming to Sweden?
The US has the same problem. We used to brag about the 'melting pot' of shared values. No more. Now it's 'multi-cultural' crap, which is merely a cover-up for the acceptance of antisocial behavior.
“Saudi beheads their criminals in public to control crime. Is that coming to Sweden?”
Wait long enough, and it will!
And they hang homosexuals
Defenestration is also common.
I seem to have seen a mention of the suppression of news regarding the extent of Somali gang crime in Ilhan Omar’s district. Has anyone else seen or heard about that?
Saudis are a bad example because they are really an oppressive monarchy in cahoots with a really violent religious order. They are like the Branch Davidians of Islam who sit on a lot of oil!
The "Middle East" is not as uniform as you describe it. Cyprus, Israel, Turkey, Qatar, Oman, etc. also belong to this group and don't have the repressive and medieval cultures the Saudis enforce.
To my knowledge the Branch Davidians were not a violent religious group. They were a cult who believed the end-times were coming and prepared therefor by stockpiling weapons. The federal government took notice and took action. A search warrant was issued to search for automatic weapons. The Davidians resisted the search. NO AUTOMATIC WEAPONS WERE EVER FOUND. Perhaps the Davidizns were right. It certainly was the end of their time.
" A search warrant was issued to search for automatic weapons. The Davidians resisted the search. NO AUTOMATIC WEAPONS WERE EVER FOUND."
They weren't? You have link references for that?
Mine say they were found:
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2018/02/27/breaking-through-the-myths-surrounding-the-1993-branch-davidian-raid/
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jul-07-mn-49078-story.html
So, were you taken in by the con, or one of the people knowingly running it?
If you are interested in a dialogue with me you will have to refrain from the hateful rhetoric. Otherwise you will be added to my scroll on by and ignore category. Capisch?
My last sentence was not a rhetorical question. Given the facts found in my references, it was a logical inquiry.
I'm fine with posting my comments exclusively for the benefit of the lurkers. Obviously, lol.
https://davekopel.org/Waco/LawRev/warrant.htm
That isn't an official affidavit; it's a 1996 article published in the Hamline Journal of Public Policy, a forum run by law students. I find some of language of those arguments to be disingenuous and weaselly. Others may perhaps have enough merit to be contestable claims. But they're hardly a slam-dunk refutation of the warrants that were issued.
However, that's beside the point. Nothing in that link supports your claim that "NO AUTOMATIC WEAPONS WERE EVER FOUND." Which makes your citation a misdirection, not a reference.
No it is not an official affidavit, nor did I say it was. Nor is it a writ as you originally stated prior to your edit. Thanks for clarifying that it is a legal article as opposed to mere journalism. Given that, I was unsure you would have the wherewithal to read it. While published in a law review run by students it was written by an established attorney specializing in gun advocacy. As one very familar with legal writing I found his writing stellar - thorough but succinct given the issues and recognizing the opposing point of view (always a positive). Like many legal motions (filed when seeking a court's action) it provides factual background. My original comment was based on my recollection of the local reportage of the event at the time. I posted my link in part because it provided a good analysis of the law regarding automatic weapons. It also provided facts regarding the political climate surrounding the ATF and the business activities of the BDs regarding guns.Your link references reportage that the ATF issued a blanket statement that 44 automatic weapons were found 4 months after the fire. Found 4 months after the fire, not reported 4 months after the fire. As explained in my link at the time automatic weapons were not necessarily illegal to possess they just had to be registered and a $200 tax paid. So 44 automatic weapons being found is misleading since that they may have been possessed completely lawfully (registered and tax paid) or unlawfully (unregistered and tax paid). But the media just regurgitated what the ATF said. Perhaps that was the origin of the assault on the 2nd amendment. In the aftermath of the fire (in which dozens of men, women and children died after the ATF inserted inflammatory devices into a structure insulated with hay bales) 12 survivors were tried and all were acquitted for the deaths of 4 ATF agents when the raid was initiated. 8 were convicted of weapons violations but I do not know specifically what. I do find the acquittals on charges related to the deaths telling.
I have seen your subsequent comment already. The lurker comment got you added. Best of luck to you.
Dilbert gets canceled but Sunny can step in it a 100 times with no consequences.
Some peoples are many generations away from being ready to live in the first world. Sorry not sorry.
Also, it is becoming clearer to me that a common thread among lefties worldwide is an addiction to fantasy and a gullibility to the point of denial of plain reality. Not just this sad story about Sweden - this idea that you can import thousands of young aggressive people from primitive societies who are openly contemptuous of your values and customs and just want freebies you’re handing out and they’re magically going to become like you, and then when you’re punched in the face by reality you compound your fantastical thinking by denying the obvious - but all the other weird wrong shit many lefties believe. Vaccines and masks work, Teslas are going to save the world, Trump is a scary boogeyman working for Russia, abortion is great and liberating, Ukraine is a noble state and Zelenskyy a hero, cutting off their genitals will make confused teenagers happy, the nuclear family is oppressive, a spoils system based on race will bring about racial harmony, on and on and on. I am beginning to think lefties are just literally insane.
This is what happens when people believe they can be their own gods.
That is the left. They decide what is true and good. Forget reality, it’s just a “construct”
“We are gods, and we will create utopia!”
Except history shows catastrophes every time they have tried. Oh, but next time, they will get it right. Right?
"Beginning to think lefties are just literally insane?"
What was your first clue, lol?
Even just a decade ago, many of the things they now hold dear would have gotten you locked up in a lunatic asylum. Lefties are nothing but demented lemmings. The Park Slope Panthers article was a brilliant expose of their utter madness.
For real. I haven't been a leftist for a long, long time; after I stopped being one generally my attitude toward them was 'they look at the world through very different lenses than I do and I don't agree with their assumptions but they're generally well meaning and good people can disagree.'
Now I think that there is a 10% cadre who knows exactly what is going on and is engineering this stuff, and a 90% foot soldier army whose brains have been broken to the point where they endorse, exactly as you say, that which would have gotten them correctly labeled as completely disconnected from reality a few short years ago.
The question now is: What are we as a society willing to do to pull ourselves back from the insane precipice we find ourselves standing?
Vote in November and if that does not work, be very wary and very well-prepared to defend yourself.
Agree with all points except
While zelenskyy may not be a hero, the Ukrainian people are noble and do not deserve the horrific murders of children that Putin is aggressively doing to them.
The Ukrainian people do not deserve that, they are suffering as a result of Putins ego and aggression. He does not intend to stop with Ukraine & Georgia. He intends to invade and conquer other lands, killing innocent people.
Nobody "deserves" to be murdered or invaded or mistreated in any way. However Ukrainians as a *whole* aren't "noble" because they are just people like anyone else. The elevation of the entire country into a fetish object is very weird and I disagree with it, and I also don't know how otherwise bright people are not grasping that it is a fig leaf for massive theft and corruption involving international aid.
Ukraine's "nobility" is not worth the $50 billion or so of US taxpayer dollars to me our political "leaders" seem to be willing to spend propping it up. This conflict will go on for another 5 or 10 years, bleeding everyone dry. The 20-year war in Afghanistan wasn't enough, neither was the 12+ years in Iraq. Given the problems here in the US, our politicians' benevolence certainly looks suspect to me and at some point we have to realize that we are simply debasing the US dollar with all this useless, never-ending spending.
Dear Mr. Airily Reeks, right on the money!
The sooner we as a society learn to 'handle the truth' the better for all involved, including the immigrants, legal and illegal, who need to re-learn to accept and adjust to the country they chose - or in case of some, were sent - to live in.
oh, brother - Ukraine is just a state, not noble or ignoble. It's a sovereign freaking country - who I ASSURE you have a lot in common with your beliefs. I, a Ukrainian, share in everything you stated above. Get your head out of your a** where Ukraine is concerned just because the left supports us in this war. Everything I read in these threads tells me what we want to preserve the Western values - well, Ukraine wants it too! it wants what America was barely 30 years ago. I don't understand who somebody who subscribes to Bari Weiss can be that dense!
You're right. You're just a state. I'm sorry for what is happening to you but your state, as a state, does not merit the fawning worship being visited upon you and neither does your president.
This might surprise you, but I agree with you. I think the Zelensky worship is bizarre. But the admiration of the ordinary Ukrainian people is deserved. And Ukraine does merit the support of the west because it is trying to live under the values that you and I believe in. Besides, there's the little matter of the Budapest memorandum.
Let me put it to you like this: do you think it's appalling when immigrants come to the US and refuse to learn English and assimilate? Well, that's how Russians behave in Ukraine. And they spit in your face when you try to enforce Ukrainian laws and customs. Don't hate Ukraine because you hate the left here in the US. This is not the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" kind of situation.
Honestly I don't have any opinion on Ukraine one way or another. I don't have enough information to know and I don't trust anyone's account because they all have an agenda. As I fellow human, I want war and killing to stop, regardless of who is doing it, and I want you and everyone else in the world who is experiencing war and unrest to be able to live peacefully and safely in their homes.
My criticism is of the weird lefty worship of Ukraine. I tried to buy socks at an online retailer the other day and the site was festooned with Ukranian flags; what in the hell does a complicated war on the other side of the world have to do with selling socks online? Why do Americans who know nothing about anything get blue and yellow manicures and put flags on their cars? It's just a country with good people and bad people and very little of it has anything to do with us, except for disruptions in worldwide markets, etc. I'm sorry but why should I, as an American taxpayer, pay for hundreds of millions of dollars in weaponry and aid to disappear into the great maw of corrupt Ukraine when my own costs for taking care of MY family are going through the roof? This is OBVIOUS to anyone not completely in thrall to a weird unreality mental state.
Look, I don't disagree with the fact that there's a bit of hysteria out there. I can't explain it. I went to visit my family in Ukraine in May - there's not even that kind of hysteria in Ukraine itself.
However, Ukraine is fundamentally a victim of decades of international policies - under one of which it gave up its massive nuclear arsenal at the urging of US and UK. US and UK signed the agreement guaranteeing its territorial sovereignty of Ukraine in exchange. Obama crapped his pants on enforcing it in 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea. And now, here we are. And hence, the billions. I empathize with the "why should we pay our money" for Ukraine. Well, I can only say that money is a small price to pay to prevent genocide and foster global stability. It's also a Christian thing to do to help fellow human beings. In the end, that I'm immeasurably grateful and don't take it for granted. I don't know what else to say.
We'll just have to agree to disagree as I don't think the money has that effect. But I wish you and your family and country well.
The word 'racist' gets thrown about too recklessly. Multi-culturalism is an American thing. But European countries should be entitled to retain their native culture and identity without being labeled "far right" or "Nazi." This is a false analogy because the Jews in early 20th century Europe weren't blowing shit up and peeing on people, for crying out loud. No country should be guilted into absorbing people who don't see their hosts as human, and who leach off social services, never to assimilate into their level of civility.
It's not Sweden's responsibility to fix Syria. This is what Progressives fail to understand. This is hubris. We're so good, they will be good too, even though they come from chaos. No. There's chaos in these places because of the people there -- and those people need to fix their own problems. If it's "far right" to feel entitled to the peace and civility one knew prior to importing literal barbarians, then we should all sign up.
And last I checked, Jews haven’t been flying passenger planes into buildings either.
Or beheading folks for that matter.
There is a growing spiritual force that insists, demands even, that European-Christian cultures be eradicated.
It has already convinced most Westerners of the necessity and moral superiority of destroying the West, now it only seeks the power to keep the stranglehold while, as the article says, "they are bred out of existence."
But remember, everyone, White Replacement is a horrific and intolerable conspiracy theory with no basis at all, and European cultures must be eradicated because white men have too much privilege.
(btw, I have discussed for years with friends how the attacks on white men are a way of crippling the nation's defenders first by seducing the women first)
Exactly. The people who espouse this sort of thing believe that simple exposure to their enlightenment and magnimity will bring the exposed into their utopia. BS of the first magnitude.
Like the fable of the frog and the scorpion .
Fables are racist - written, or more properly written down, by oppressors.
It does not take a rocket scientist to know why this is happening.
Well-documented what happens to second-generation Moslem immigrants in Sweden and in all countries : confusion about identity, absence of a clear identity, mosque indoctrination to take over large parts of the country in order to set up a caliphate, and easy availability of social benefits without responsibilities to the state.
Stating the fasts is NOT racism.
Liberal irresponsibility, social benefits, and denial of reality will destroy Europe, and I dare say, the US.
Defending your country and its culture is now racist.
Not to me, and I am willing to tell anyone who disputes that so.
I would like to share this column with everyone I know, but I know the venom that would be turned on me if I did. The gang influence in our cities keeps me awake at night. Does anyone really believe that progressive politicians and unrestricted immigration is the ticket to a stable community? We need a national discussion that respects all ideas to deal with this attack on everything that makes this country promising. Substack is a good beginning, but it is only that--a beginning. I urge everyone who reads this column to send it on to everyone you know.
Me too Jane!
Why is this happening? Hell, your article answers it: “It may be shocking for Americans to learn that in Sweden—the land of .... Greta Thunberg—all of this is going on”.
Not at all. Any society that worships an autistic teen as a climate wizard has lost common sense.
Plus, IKEA is Pretty much composite sawdust junk.
Nice people, Even physically attractive folks. But you lost your way thinking the rest of the world is just like you.
"Plus, IKEA is Pretty much composite sawdust junk."
As long as we are piling on, those IKEA meatballs are nasty ...
They changed something in them. They used to be awesome. Have been complete crap since before covid.
I have not stepped foot into an Ikea for a long time (maybe 15 years ago)? But the last time I did, was a store in the SF Bay area near my then-office, and I specifically went for the meatballs (for lunch) because I remembered them as being good from the 80s or 90s - whenever those stores became a thing. My "nasty" rating may be unfair since based on a single visit to a single store, but they were nasty, and I'm never back to their stores (if they still have them? Are they just on-line now?)
Not sure. Haven't been out to IKEA for a few years!
The stores still exist. Recall how, like the good socialists they are, there is only one way through the store - you are forced to see everything before you can purchase anything. Gack!
Oh yes. I drive by one all the time. I just don’t stop.
Sadly longboats and conquest are a distant past for these pacifist poseurs.
But their mid sixties Volvos were awesome..
(Never liked the Saabs though)
In the mid 90s those Saab 900 Turbo S from the suburbs would invade Uptown Mpls on the weekend and swallow up all the limited parking. Not sure what I think of the cars. I am sure about the drivers. Now that 240DL? There's a car I loved.
Language matters. You label the one side the “extreme” right(how scary!!) and the other “progressives”(progress is good). Your bias is ingrained.
Now repeat after me: Diversity is our strength!!(as long as it is not in my community)
"Diversity" lasted a bit over 24 hours in Martha’s Vineyard.
poor folks in MV, didn't have the infrastructure to deal with 50 Venezuelans
And absolutely no recognition, much less regard, for what the poor folks in Laredo, Eagle Pass, El Paso and other towns in Texas have dealt with for 20 months now
*Del Rio...possibly has it worse than the other towns you mentioned.
True. I am on a border group. It is stunning.
There’s a border group?
None. Zero. Nada.
That's just it. These f-cking plutocrats drone on about how you're a racist if you're concerned about crime, but it's never their rotten spawn that are getting kidnapped and pissed on, is it?
Cancer's progressive. . .