Entick

Agreed. You can’t Learn to drive until you’re 16, can’t buy cigarettes or alcohol until you’re 18. Age restrictions on items already exist today, there’s no reason why something like this can’t introduced to phones. Smartphones are an incredible tool with all the knowledge of the universe on them, however that can be dangerous if in negligent hands. Smartphones should simply be restricted until a certain age, that’s a much better solution than jumping through hoops and rings trying to come up with all these nonsense controls and bans. In the meantime I propose a “dumbpone” for simple calls and texts so teenagers can keep In touch with family and friends

We do not what others can't, but what others won't.

One reason why conservatives (and right wingers) hate Hegel is that the entire conservative intellectual sphere is all about one-upping each other with increasingly absurd and obscure points in history where everything supposedly went wrong. The rightoids love this stuff because it LOOKS like an explanation for where everything comes from, it's comforting and demystifies the world for them, so the cattle are very impressed when Dyer blames it all on nominalism, Peterson on postmodernism, Prager U on Marxism, Irvin Babbitt on Rousseau, etc. But seeing ideas as necessary answers to problems and contradictions of their time, as part of the historical development of thought, as Hegel did, makes it impossible to participate in this absurd race to the bottom. Nominalism was simply an attempt to answer the problem of universals, which was a real problem which needed a real answer. You cannot expect people to just stop thinking or to stop looking for answers at some arbitrary moment I'm time because you don't like what they come up with to solve contradictions or problems. A proper right winger is someone like Otto von Bismarck. Did he like German nationalism? No. But he made it subservient to Prussian interests and tamed it. Did he like liberalism? No, but he knew he couldn't pretend it wasn't an important force in society and managed them through parliament and mass enfranchisement. Did he like socialism? No, but he knew it responded to the misery of the working classes so he introduced social welfare, etc. He was successful because he recognised that these ideas have their necessary existence. Rather than try to fight them as these aberrations that shouldn't, he mastered them.

The abandonment of Eros is a big culture war gun left on the table. Fighting neurotic Puritanism with more of it is probably a stalemate dead end. Politics inherently involves sex fetishes that end up imposed by the state. The question is which ones and how, not if. If your political ideology doesn't make you horny enough to masturbate to it, it will probably lose. This is not even necessarily opposed to religion inspired views on sexuality, which must be built on harnessing, nurturing, or even encouraging favored sex fetishes. There's a cryptic horseshoe alliance of sex negativity emerging between woke and trad that are both representative of female triumph in neutralizing male libidinous energy, among other pathologies. The asexual predators stalk the t.l. as they do these streets. You can't let 'em win. If they do, it's the end of life as we know it.

A man gets into a car with a stick, drives hundreds of miles to brutally murder the beloved elderly matriarch of Reform UK. The authorities offer no information, but if you ask questions they admonish you for “speculating”. Reform MPs demanding security from the state are told to shut up and be grateful that “the police know where their house is” and the “direct telephone number to the police” to call if someone tries to murder them. Reveal that the Speaker of the House has totally ignored letters from Reform MPs about their safety and he briefs the press that he’s “furious”, while failing to deny this. If you go to lay flowers in memory of your friend you are “politicising” her murder. If you push back against any of this, you are hounded to the ends of the earth by the Times, the Telegraph, the Daily Mail, the Guardian, the Mirror, and hundreds of crazed leftists online. These, apparently, are the new rules for Nigel, for Reform MPs and all those in our movement. None of it will deter us. We will fight on. For Ann. For our country. 🇬🇧