Jeremy Johnson

It's gone from "We need immigrants for our economy" to "We need immigrants so we can give them benefits"

@anglofuturist It was so bad that Carney had to go for net netrual migration. This is a reminder at how easy this is btw.

Can we get an update on this, please?

@AcademicAgent_X Lib Dems winning here?

Can esoteric Q-level types into "Trump tie astrology" explain what the yellow tie means?

@giantgio @scorpioblxck A certain kind of striver does still exist but theyconly desire is to exit the system no join the "elites." I suppose this is either the systen failing or working as intended.

@giantgio @scorpioblxck Wouldn't call people who have been upper middle class for a decade plus strivers anymore, at least in my view. But I'm sure it does varry, I'm british and our sitution is flipped, most of the youth is either 2010s style leftists, checked out, or on this side of things.

This is a very poorly written piece that relies too heavily on personal anecdote and high-level stats. It could have been a Substack. That said, it’s hard to deny the writer is talking about something real. The biggest hole in the article is not focusing enough on what it means that white peoples have adopted this identity. “Diner Goth” is the new Cookie Monster pajama pants. The writer mostly skips over the implications of anime, weed and colored hair being coded as downwardly mobile and white, and how this will impact urban elite culture and those who aspire to such. The other side of this dialectic — where strivers and elites flee anything associated with provincial crackers — is arguably the more important story. “The Walgreens cashier is non-binary and has pink hair.” Ok, so what? The most important part of this kind of cultural analysis is actually analyzing, which this piece fails to do.

@scorpioblxck @giantgio Was going to say the only way for someone to mimic from cultureless elites would be to spend like then, but then I realised that's hat does happen. They're is no other signifer left other than material wealth.

@pugvsstuff @giantgio They don't have a culture, they're downstream from elites.

@giantgio @scorpioblxck Perhaps the striver class is now too small to have culture? I'm not sute if this is true but with less and less ways to enter the upper middle class (I know a lot of people with "safe" degrees who are unemployed) they might just not be a striver class anymore

@scorpioblxck What trends are strivers adopting now? I don’t see them abandoning left liberalism or “rainbow neoliberalism” in all but dress and aesthetics

@JackHadders @AcademicAgent_X I disagree with you but I wish you the best, poltics brings out the worse in people. Keep up the hard work!

@JackHadders @AcademicAgent_X I've read most of them! But most people are going to see the tweet, the gaf, or what ever is most emotionally reactive. A rule of poltics sadly. It didn't help it wasn't very funny either. Thanks for the reply though, I do want to say don't let any of this get you down

I’ve taken the time to respond to the criticisms of my thoughts on the Reform vs Restore conflict from @AcademicAgent_X. To put it simply, I find his rebuttal and accusations of “bad faith” debate lacking! Give it a read here: open.substack.com/pub/jackhadfie…

@JackHadders @AcademicAgent_X I say mostly because twitter isn't a format where I can respond well(and I'm out at the moment) and it is something so stupid, so 2017 Sargon, it shouldn't have been posted. Reform X came off looking childish and stupid instead of sensible and calm, which how they should've done

@JackHadders @AcademicAgent_X They are a couple points I disagree with here. But the most important thing I want tp highlight from J’Accuse's post the other day did you see desire to engage on debate or low quallity trolling? Everyone from the recent drama has come off badly, the reform group more so.

@FerroEgo I know some people like this, a lot of people actually do have a strong attachment to the Tories. It why it's so important to kill the party, it's actually an abussive relationship and you to force these people out of it.

Look we all know Reform have peaked and the slow decline till the next election will go on. BUT Who the hell are the 18% of population voting for conservatives? Breaks my mind.

@HardenedRegards Wish I had the second one at uni

High Street shopping spree.

>Crassus is the wealthiest man to ever enter republican politics >never served in the military despite significant conflicts when young >obsessed with image/legacy and appearing strong >did military adventures in Persia to cement legitimacy despite already having power and status >really hopes the Persians run out of arrows soon

If a this operation does create a more stable middle east then it's a complete failure.

the current Iranian government doesn't mean a pro-American collation is waiting in the wings. An outcome could just be a different flavour of Islamism. Worse case for America is the whole ethnic house cards in Iran comes down.

Regime change being a condition for victory us what dooms it. Even if a pro-American/Israeli regime takes power their is no guarantee it can hold. Judging what people actually think is hard even in a democary, but thinking just because a large number of people don't like-

This exchange between Zoomer Historian and Sean Spicer shows how dramatically the political landscape has shifted. Ten years ago, the United States and the MAGA movement were the only forms of nationalism that sat inside the Overton window. Red state nationalism, rooted in populism, American right liberalism, civic nationalism, a desire to wind down the empire, and a revived political Christianity, was projected outward both deliberately and indirectly. It was meant to rally support across the American sphere of influence and to legitimize itself globally. At the same time, the cultural dominance of the United States, amplified by the internet and global communication, spread that ideology without formal coordination. That wave directly fuelled UKIP, the AfD, Geert Wilders, Maxime Bernier and the PPC, Viktor Orbán, and Marine Le Pen. It pulled Canadian figures such as Lauren Southern, Jordan Peterson, Mikhaila Peterson, Gavin McInnes, and Stephen Crowder into the United States. The dissident or online right was far more unified during Donald Trump’s ascent, with domestic and international supporters overwhelming the media ecosystem with memes, arguments, and effective propaganda. What is happening now marks a clear rupture. Rupert Lowe of Restore Britain openly discusses ejecting American troops and bases and rejects participation in regime change efforts in Iran. In France, the National Rally under Jordan Bardella is openly considering a harder nationalist line, a return to Gaullism, and correctly placing blame on liberal governments for weakness and subordination to American imperial power. This is not a minor disagreement but an emerging split on the right as more openly illiberal right-wing nationalist movements assert themselves against American dominance. The same fracture is visible in Canada. Illiberal right wing intellectual and activist circles are no longer aligning with American right liberal MAGA populism. They are turning against it. They see American ideological expansion and annexation rhetoric as dismissive of Canadian history, contemptuous of Canadians’ legitimacy as a people, and, at times, openly denialist about their very existence. The online political space is no longer dominated by MAGA, American nationalist politicians, or the wider American influencer ecosystem. Each major Western country now has an online presence capable of agitating effectively, applying pressure, and engaging in information warfare and moral warfare against rivals abroad. We used to joke that the online right was a nationalist internationale. That is no longer true. It has fractured into competing national blocs, each pursuing its own interests and willing to attack the others when those interests collide.

@ChristinaTasty All accents in Britian are hot

There's like a hundred within any twenty mile radius in the UK, be specific.

We have lost the curling. Trump can now invade Canada with Britian's support