A Diary in the West

There is absolutely no excuse for giving modern Hollywood a cent of your money.

@aubin613 @solrenette Unless you can buy a multimillion euro apartment in a rich enclave it is just no longer possible to escape the Nons anywhere in Paris

@diaryinthewest @solrenette Move

Found picture of my French pre school. They are 14 kids in this picture. Only 6 are ethnic French. This was in 2003. How could they do this to us?

@RadicalLib @Kingbingo_ @spandrell4 I don’t think this isn’t an issue, but I think you can dodge the bullet bringing the whole thing back to Israel, which besides being obviously correct (Trump’s extemporising now just being death row nerves) is also the only discussion worth having in the wake of this.

I just said something along these lines to @Kingbingo_ on his show. Time to update our assessment of politics with the long-running impact of the Iran War. The stink of this is going to stick. [Shared with permission from @spandrell4.]

@ChubbyTrekka Hope you're keeping notes to write a book

I’m Walking from the UK to Vietnam. At the end of each day i mark my camping spot or hotel on the map. Each day it might not feel like Ive made much progress, but if you zoom out, it shows just how far I’ve come since starting this epic journey. Over 7000km done, 10,000km to go!

@husafell_stone Was just listening to his Images last night. Spectacular. youtube.com/watch?v=v9cn-N…

Aristocratic Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli plays Clementi, variation VIII from last movement Allegretto: Theme and Variations, Sonata in B-flat major Op. 12 No. 1

@youyoubisent @farglory88 D'ailleurs .... ici, une vrai, vrai mine de l'historie de la propagande racialse, au le plus haut niveau. Je pensais toujours que cette genre d'analyse ferrait un trés bon Substack en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO_st…

@farglory88 @diaryinthewest Je ne sais pas qui a pris le relai depuis Alt Hype, Sean Last et cie.

J'ai la très grande joie de vous annoncer que mon tout nouveau vidéon n'a pas été financé par le CNC. 🙏

@farglory88 @youyoubisent Sur les réseaux sociaux, je ne trouve rien qui résume tout les études et l'histoire aussi bien que ça

@diaryinthewest @youyoubisent Les anglophones ont déjà plein de gens qui parlent de la question raciale.

Would the Roman Empire have fallen if the people could have watched a moving picture proving things were better 50 years ago? We have no excuse for believing in the myth of progress, only own own cowardice laid bare

@SteveFranssen You will. They will all be testifying before Congress during the impeachment trial that Trump has now made inevitable.

Would be interesting to hear these peoples' side of the story.

@husafell_stone What a find!

Things will get worse. The opinion-havers will do their thing. Enjoy some nice French music.

The audience of the Harlem Cultural Festival booed the moon landing when it was announced from the stage in real time. “We were watching the footage and I was like, wait, was that boos? … Pretty much everyone just expressed disdain for it.” cbsnews.com/amp/news/summe…

In South Africa I went on a hike in Cape Town to a beautiful lookout, Signal Hill. At the top there was a wine tasting. I then walked down a trail that goes by a military base, to a rich suburb. I was very seriously warned by a local, wealthy, brown-skinned man that multiple hikers had been murdered for their wallets and that I should take a taxi home. Sure enough, when I passed by the military base some black men who clearly didn't belong there were watching me from rooftops. So I got out of there as quickly as possible. At the bottom I continued to walk to my quite nice hotel... and got followed for multiple blocks by a physically aggressive black panhandler who wouldn't take no for an answer. Following that I went on another hike, up Table Mountain under the gondola. Again, it's a highly developed tourist destination. And again, multiple locals warned me that I really shouldn't go alone because there was a good chance I'd be mugged, or worse. Hell, there's official signs up warning hikers to hike in groups of at least three (four if they're women). Following that I visited Johannesburg. Or at least, I would have. Except a South African friend of mine who lives near there said I really shouldn't go to the downtown area by myself least I get murdered. So I skipped that and did more hiking. Again with warnings that travelling solo was a bad idea. ...and don't get me started about how that trip, I saw more rolling power outages in peacetime South Africa then I did at my next destination, wartime Kyiv, while Russia was actively trying to destroy the electricity grid. When I was recently in Kramatorsk, Eastern Ukraine, I had half a day off. So I asked a soldier friend of mine where I could safely walk. He said I could go anywhere safely: military checkpoints would keep me from going too far east. Russians might kill you (just the other day a 13 year old boy was killed by a Russian attack on a market). But even after over a decade of war and poverty the locals won't. And yes, even in Kramatorsk you see young teen girls, by themselves, walking around at night. You do _not_ see that in Cape Town. The problem with Africa isn't just "underdeveloped parts". The problem is the stupid, violent, black population who make even the developed parts shit.

They know they're a plague.

My guess is 2027 is going to feature a lot of this guy speaking into a microphone in front of Congress.

I was in favour of Trump - and still am in favour of Vance - to the limited extent that they will keep the lights on at X and the ability of us to keep talking to each other for a period of time. But the idea that in 50 years' time the history of the US or Europe is "And they voted their way out" is so patently absurd people will ask how any sane person could believe in it

For better or worse, Trump is single-handedly delegitimizing voting as a political solution in the United States

@ElectionMapsIF @AuronMacintyre And what were the demographics of Germany in 1933 hmmmmm?

@diaryinthewest @AuronMacintyre Hitler did not win by violent takeover (he tried and failed, badly) He won by PARTICIPATING in politics, amassing small victories, and building momentum until he had a winning coalition He did not vote for the KPD to make things worse

People love to ratchet up the tensions by discussing the point of no return but at some point you actually hit it I don't know if this is it, but it can't be too far away We have to to start taking this seriously, we must win, the future depends on it