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@rnc_1892 Would watch for sure.

Idee für Serie: "Hartzen im Harz" Der dynamische Endzwanziger Leon zieht aus dem Prenzlauer Berg nach Wernigerode. Überrascht stellt er fest, dass es dort gar keine Jobs für Cross-media Guerilla Marketing Consultants gibt. Er wird schwer alkoholkrank und legt sich einen [1/2]

@GanzeGeschichte Oldenburg to Nebraska on my moms side.

Weitermachen? Fördern: paypal.me/dieganzegeschi… Woher kommt Eure Familie? Harz oder Pfalz, Ostpreußen oder Ostfriesland, Bayern oder Mecklenburg, Berlin oder Schwabenland, Schlesien oder Westfalen - oder von ganz woanders?

@Ralph_L8 @FistedFoucault My guess is many of their descendants are now in New Jersey, Connecticut etc. like the NY Italians.

@Rob02909237 @FistedFoucault I was surprised to discover recently that NYC was 29% Jewish in the 1920s, I guess before many went to LA. TV would lead you to believe most were pre or post WW2 refugees.

I think Bari Weiss' mind is akin to that famous New Yorker cover where everything to the west of Manhattan is "There Be Dragons" emptiness...but instead is a variation where 33% of the USA is Jewish, 60% are growling/low IQ anti-semites, and the rest are The Righteous Bathhouse Attendees who are often from the UK

@SidKhurana3607 Actually surprised LA was that high.

Top cities (min. 25k) by Mexican-born % in 1920: El Paso, TX (39.7%) San Antonio, TX (17.7%) Phoenix, AZ (8.0%) Pueblo, CO (4.4%) Los Angeles, CA (3.8%) San Diego, CA (3.7%) Fort Worth, TX (3.6%) Galveston, TX (3.4%)

Why the Online Right hates Hickman: Hickman is a folk hero of the bygone, frontier American days when pioneers roamed the earth and braved wild unknowns. American Historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued that “the universal disposition of Americans to emigrate to the western wilderness ... is the actual result of an expansive power which is inherent in them". This inner "power" lays dormant within Europeans; it explains the motive of European global conquests. We simply "cannot stop". Our "Faustian spirit" dares us to forever more reach beyond us. The American's inner power manifested into two distinct types — the pioneer (Hickman) and the industrialist (Anon Right). The confrontation between these extreme, opposite types has shaped the soul of America, since our first footsteps on the continent. The pioneer's "faustian spirit" is manifested through the integration and conquest of nature. He is not "LARPing". He is not "running away from Europe". He is not "denying the exceptionalism of Aryan civilization". He is deeply engaged in an ascetic warrior experience where he overcomes the near-insurmountable challenge of survival. He represents an ideal heroic character, a force of pure self-sufficiency. He is a legendary being whose adventures echo forever throughout the halls of history. Can Hickman be said to be the perfect embodiment of the "pioneer warrior"? No. I consistently ridicule him for his refusal to ride a horse into own, or, at the least, get a cart and a mule, or, perhaps a burro! An American adventurer cannot be said to be exceptional without a noble steed — this surely we can all agree upon. It is obvious that Hickman does authentically live some of our unique ritual rites of passage, especially for a Transcendentalist author like Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, or Ralph Waldo Emerson. He wanders through the wild unknowns of rural America, has a deep contemplative connection with nature, and documents his experience, like each writer within the American literary tradition. Perhaps if Hickman was some drug addled upstate New Yorker without ambition like so many are afflicted, we could ridicule him with greater ferocity. And yet, he is self-employed as a writer (something his online anime pfp critics likely dreams of), owns multiple properties, and has a family. Critics may degrade him as a "hobo", and yet he has generated clear wealth from his pioneer travels. To view him as "impoverished" would be incorrect, as he has a clear opportunity to scaffold his internet fame into a book deal or two that could put him several brackets of riches beyond us all. The online right hates Hickman, primarily, because he acts in real life with his face. He does not hide, nor protect his identity. He lives first and writes second. Regardless of your opinion of Hickman's morality, he himself is the embodiment of his ideals. As Marcus Aurelius wrote so eloquently: "Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one." In contrast, the Anon believes he embodies the great American industrialist who must "move to the city and retake positions of power". Anyone who denies this exact sentence is labeled a "LARPING grifter" and targeted for immediate destruction. Frederick Jackson Turner wrote of how the industrialists would come after the pioneer to order his land and produce capital surplus. "The men of capital and enterprise come. The settler is ready to sell out and take the advantage of the rise in property, push farther into the interior and become, himself, a man of capital and enterprise in turn. The small village rises to a spacious town or city; substantial edifices of brick, extensive fields, orchards, gardens, colleges, and churches are seen. Broad-cloths, silks, leghorns, crapes, and all the refinements, luxuries, elegancies, frivolities, and fashions are in vogue. Thus wave after wave is rolling westward; the real Eldorado is still farther on." The men of industry must overcome the primitivism of the environment and establish the foundation of civilization. Fundamentally, they are builders. Their herculean aim is to develop tall towers that touch the heavens and reach into the divine. They are magicians who take the raw materials of the Earth and order them in accordance with God's will to create beauty. Frankly, the pioneer and the men of enterprise loathe one another. The industrialist is repulsed by the pioneer's savagery, his total refusal to "play by the rules" and continue to advance European civilization. The pioneer is repulsed by the industrialist's incessant need to "box him in" with the orderliness of civilized life, the world of which he fundamentally rejects as decadent. Why restrict the freedom of the human spirit with all these laws and regulations, burden him down with material goods, and, god forbid, condemn him to such a peasant thing as a job? Disgusting. These contrasting types appear yet again between the "return to the land" vs the "retake positions of power" online right factions. The answer to which type is superior is irrelevant. We can see the debate is the literal foundation of the American identity. it is meant to be revived until the end of the American Empire. Rather than fight, we must simply accept our roles and seek to allow each type to manifest its own, unique superiority. However, I must assert that the Anon Right are not great industrialists, but rather frauds. They post an infinity of epithets all centered upon the notions of "Make America Great Again" and "America First". Yet, when they see a brother move to a rural environment instead of saying the magical words "move to the city and retake positions of power", they cheer for his demise. Any setback Hickman faces from the harsh New York winters to the clothing choice of his wife are immediately ridiculed online, as if to say "Yea, that's what you get for being poor, loser." — there is no virtue in such actions. Much like the Leftist, the Anon Right speaks all the ideals of their movement, and yet he absolutely refuses to see value in his own people. The Anon Right does not like Americans (unless it gets them ad revenue online). They like hiding online, posting pretty Pinterest pictures, and pretending they're winning, while they openly slander their countrymen for the audacity to act in real life. The lesser decry the greater for the crime of being to justify their personal inability. The Anon refuses to Manifest Destiny in real life. The Anon turns his back on tradition and divorces himself from the potential to become heroic. The Anon Right are shaped by daily trends; they have no basis in tradition, nor any responsibility to live with any real consequences of their beliefs. They can simply hide, delete their accounts, or make a new faceless name. There is no commitment, not in the same light as Hickman who must first himself adventure before he writes. The Anon lives a passive existence, vicariously through others. If Hickman didn't exist, the Anon would have nothing to write about. His being is dictated by whatever trend generates him clicks, an identity formed by the herd alone. The anon represents pure quantity a mass without unique character or value beyond the fleeting opinion of the day, whereas Hickman represents the quality of heroic pioneer who has consistently shaped the American identity.

@RajaKorman Christopher Clark's Sleepwalkers (2012) pays a great deal of attention to the pre-1914 Balkans and especially the Balkan Wars (which were sort of triggered by Italy's war against the Ottomans in 1911). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sleep…

@UpdatingOnRome Stolypin.

Tell me the one person in history who, if they had lived an additional one, five, or even ten years, could have significantly changed the world.

@Im_Winterwald @Chris_arnade In terms of South Korea or elsewhere as well?

@Chris_arnade It has already turned round, the reality on the ground is completely different from what you read in western media.

Being here in Korea, listening to everyone talk about it as the canary in the coalmine of declining global birthrates, and the end of a culture, I'm willing to bet that sometime within next twenty years this place will turn on a dime and there will be a baby boom. Not having kids is a current fad, and like all fads, it will fade and be replaced by a counter-fad. And nobody does fads with such intensity, and volatility, as the Koreans.

@avrilbradley23 Would be interesting to see a chart of whites only in similar counties as a means of measuring education level shifts.

Some of these are demographic shifts like the Atlanta suburban counties but you can see educational polarization symbolized by Los Alamos County.

@FischerKing64 How many Americans know what a riding is?

Canadians understand Americans through frequent cross-border travel, and watching American movies and tv series. Americans - if they think about Canadians at all - remember Degrassi Junior High.

@shagbark_hick Political stance on homeschooling might be a good litmus test for a Hickman voter?

I've said it before: If Dems gave up their abhorrent and morally indefensible attachment to abortion and homosexuality, I'd likely be a normal Democrat. I like unions, environmental protections, tastefully unkempt lawns, Cab Franc, oysters, train transit.. etc. But I'm just not ever going to go the other way on the teachings of the Church, ever. If that puts me in a tense, reluctant union with the mostly wretched and uncivilized bunch that pass for "conservatives" these days, so be it, I guess. (and in a contest between the soda-swilling MAGA "People of Wal-Mart" or the botoxed suburbanite variety of conservative, flip a coin, I fit in with neither type). Lord knows if I try to go where the liberals are at, of course I'll relish the great bulk of how they live and think -- until I inevitably hear they're "transing" their 3-year-olds and donating to Planned Parenthood. I dream of the day when "the good life," the civilized life is once again synonymous with the pro-life, pro-family values that built Western Civilization rather than the demonic grostequeries that are now common amongst our liberals. Until then, I'm destined to be a kind of politically homeless pariah -- Upstate NY's own analogue to Ignatius Reilly. C'est la vie...

@eurofounder Once again I have to ask, do your wife’s boyfriends approve of all this EU hob knobbing you seem to be engaging in?

I have recently attended a tech conference in Eindhoven, Netherlands The innovation happening in the EU is extraordinary Opening keynote was held by an 71-year-old artificial intelligence officer from the European Commission Then, a disruptive panel: "AI: Threat or Opportunity?" The main event though was a fireside chat with "Serbia's first unicorn founder" His company was recently valued at 1 billion Serbian dinar (around $8 million) Conference after-party was also pretty crazy Let me just say this - German women really know how to move their voluptuous bodies Flew home incredibly inspired Silicon Valley doesn't know what's coming for them

@BorealBaron We also need more discussion about Bethmann Hollwegs peace talk offer in December 1916.

Germany was so bellicose and martial at the outbreak of WWI that the last major war it had fought was the Franco-Prussian War 44 years earlier, something only old men like Hindenburg could remember, while its enemies had been waging wars and conquering throughout those years

@avrilbradley23 1948 Israel backers Henry Wallace and Klement Gottwald. How many know this today.

Dewey did worse in New York in 1948 than in 1944-Truman lost the state because of left wing 3rd candidate Henry Wallace, who did well with Jewish voters. Wallace was staunchly pro Israel and attacked Truman on the arms embargo, even claiming the admin was controlled by Big Oil!

@avrilbradley23 Why do we see this phenomenon in NYC and not elsewhere?

A lot of its just literally low income seniors who aren't eligible for Social Security and don't have IRAs.

@szilagyipal @IlvesToomas Have you found many former Fidesz supporters who now might vote for Tisza?

@IlvesToomas 3. People actually support them more. I don't do politics but I have an urge to correct people who don't live here and have zero clue about the popularity of the governing party.

Not to worry. In two weeks we will see one of two outcomes: 1. Fidesz and Orban are out of office. 2. They "win" using the old Russian bag of tricks: ballot stuffing, intimidation, titushki beating people. If #2, they will be suspended from the EU. And something Maidan-like. Either way, in the end, the top leadership will have fled to Moscow and the Fidesz apparatchiks will face trial.

@moveincircles @FischerKing64 I wonder if this pro Czech advocacy helped get Wilson supportive of the idea of a new Czech state being allowed to keep German speaking majority areas in the newly created Czechoslovakia

@FischerKing64 It goes further back than NORAID too. Czech-heritage lobbyists in America played a critical role in fomenting Czech nationalism around the time of the First World War. You can see here they were engaged in an information war with German-Americans too: academia.edu/11351686/CZECH…

The Irish in America helped fund IRA terrorism. Every group that comes to America in large numbers, congregates together, winds up trying to use American power and $$ for things that Americans don’t care about or benefit from. It’s human nature - and a lesson on immigration.

@Peter_Nimitz I still remember how the “women and minorities” hostages were released early during the hostage crisis in 1980.

There is an interesting convergence between USian civil rights mythology & Shia Islam - tyrant Umayyads/Jim Crow, holy battle Karbala/Selma, chosen hero martyred Hussein/King - but the eschatology is critically different. For Shia, evil triumphed. For USians, good always wins.

@G_ShugiSha @Peter_Nimitz @ScottMGreer Dont forget the Holocaust revisionist conference held in Iran with toleration by the government back in the 2000s.

@Peter_Nimitz @ScottMGreer having read this I think, Hitlerite/Neo-Nazi mythology however small and impotent it is, more aligns with the Shia mythology; Tyrant- Jewish International Finance and Judeo Bolshevism Holy Battle - all of WWII (I guess) or the battle for Berlin eschatology - evil triumphed