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@ChristianHeiens @AuronMacintyre Almost always you find supposed critics of Schmitt to be very ruthless and unscrupulous practitioners of friend/enemy distinctions. They can't help themselves.

Schmitt’s entire point was that Liberalism DIDN’T temper the friend/enemy distinction you absolute retard. Liberalism denies the existence of the friend/enemy distinction even as it ruthlessly practices that distinction against those who oppose its own attempt to pretend like existential differences between rival political factions can be treated like a technical puzzle to solve if one simply filters it through enough supposedly “neutral” procedural mechanisms while applying a sufficient amount of flowery rhetoric about pluralism in the process. Except, that doesn’t actually work. The only thing that happens is Liberal societies steadily lose the ability to deal with the possibility of existential conflict until it either blows up, or the least tolerant political faction within the polis destroys the more tolerant ones and monopolizes power in its own hands. You can tweet all you want about how much you hate Schmitt. None of that changes the fact that the Liberal system is dying by its own hands. It cannot say no to things like the dissolving of national borders, the mutilation of children in the name of transgenderism, the mass importation of third worldists and Islamists into Western countries, the systematic discrimination against White men by the state, and a host of other self-defeating policies that will inevitably destroy its own ideological framework. It’s only a matter of time until the acid of Liberalism dissolves its own container.

@AcademicAgent_X Although Israel did get some arms from America through smuggling with help from organised crime in the USA

@AcademicAgent_X Not read that book but in 1948 the chief arms supplier to Israel was Czechoslovakia. As the latter was a Soviet client state by then it's implausible they did this without Moscow's approval. US and GB had arms embargo against all the belligerents in that war.

In case anyone is interested, I suspect the book by Glubb mentioned here is this one. As I recall, there's a lot more Russian involvement in his analysis than I expected.

@AcademicAgent_X They're not alone in having that mentality but it is very third worldist for sure.

The inability to cede ground is a weakness and not a strength. It makes them brittle. Israelis are generally too stupid to understand the basic ideas of Lao Tzu. This comes from low IQ.

Being a good person is a sin to them btw

@AcademicAgent_X Populism just seems to give us a choice between Reform's embarrassing boomer Butlins entertainer charlatanism and the Green's embarrassing millennial gay AIDS shit.

I'm disappointed by this performance. Hannah Spencer couldn't think of anything better than "Oggy, oggy, oggy! Oi, oi, oi!"? Obscure reference but I am reminded of Run DMC at Wrestlemania V who just came out and said "WRESTLEMANIA" over and over again.

@eyepatchjack @AuronMacintyre youtu.be/KNxt4J7awL0?si… I prefer it where Chief O'Brien retires, teams up with James Bond in the London drugs business

@AuronMacintyre chief obrien had it coming i guess

Yes

@trussliz You have a knack for adopting causes when they've lost any vitality or relevance. From what I've seen the most recent CPAC event was a huge flop. The Greenland and now Iran larks has made American conservatism toxic abroad. British right needs own path separate from America.

“We are launching a British CPAC.” Tickets will go on sale next week.

@AcademicAgent_X Usually works about as well as it did for Father Ted

Whether you follow me from the right or the left, I'd just like to remind you that I disavow and discourage all placard activism as the least effective form of political action: 1. you must ask government permission ("please may we protest you"), 2. easy to infiltrate, 3. gives enemy control.

@BIDecomo @AcademicAgent_X Yes was aware our gvt handled the 30s better than USA at least in terms of the economy , still somewhat astonishing how well they did given the circumstances

@collapsingnew @AcademicAgent_X The national government's response to the great depression was by international standards highly successful (much more than FDRs in terms of figures). Economic historians are quite aware of this. Good currency police using the the sterling area.

Real-terms GDP per capita decade-on-decade growth for UK (i.e. when adjusting for inflation): 1910: +2.6% 1920: -1.4% 1930: +19.6% 1940: +26.0% 1950: +1.2% 1960: +24.6% 1970: +24.5% 1980: +20.1% 1990: +0.9% 2000: +10.1% 2010: +6.7% 2020: -21.8% 2026: -2.9% (6-year period)

@0donsbastard @AcademicAgent_X

@0donsbastard @AcademicAgent_X Low productivity growth + mass immigration + inability due to banking crash to keep increasing personal debt like they did in Blair years to paper over the cracks

UK GDP Per Capita in CONSTANT 1980 GBP: 1900 - £1,604 1910 - £1,646 1920 - £1,623 1930 - £1,942 1940 - £2,447 1950 - £2,477 1960 - £3,086 1970 - £3,843 1980 - £4,615 1990 - £4,656 2000 - £5,129 2010 - £5,472 2020 - £4,279 2026 - £4,155

@TheCrawlinSnake @AidanSimardone

@AidanSimardone it's Israel backed America America is an israeli proxy

Why is it always “Iran backed Houthis” and not “American backed Israel”?

@AcademicAgent_X x.com/i/status/19806…

@AcademicAgent_X x.com/i/status/19806… more nails in he coffin of the idea mass immigration was essential for the 'economy'. As for the peak in 2000s I wonder how much of that was due to personal debt peaking in those late Blair/Brown years just before the banking crisis

UK GDP Per Capita in CONSTANT 1980 USD 1980 - $10,032 1990 - $10,119 2000 - $11,144 2010 - $11,893 2020 - $9,300 2026 - $9,030

@AcademicAgent_X x.com/i/status/19806…

@clim8resistance x.com/i/status/20376…

Bit past its sell-by date, isn't it? Vote MAGA, get Neocon? She was quite fond of a bit of warplonkery. Maybe that's what she means.

@mehblehdontcare @AcademicAgent_X When I first saw all the older Bond films when I was 12/13 details like that usually went over my head. Revisiting them when older it's fascinating recognising these little things

@collapsingnew @AcademicAgent_X Ah! Now I feel dumb. I remember that too.

Looking back, stuff like James Bond, the British Invasion bands, Michael Caine films etc were some EXCEPTIONAL cope for the loss of empire and status.

@mehblehdontcare @AcademicAgent_X

@collapsingnew @AcademicAgent_X Interesting. I need to read the novel. I actually like the film even though a lot of people say it's "boring."