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AEIOU's avatar

I think you’re right on all of your points from Elon’s distractive slopocracy to the pointlessly depressive (if not self-fulfilling) decline porn.

The bigger problem for Europe however is that the Americans are basically right about the core of the problem; about our – collectively speaking – deep fear of any dissent, any economic risk, any social inequality (unless to the benefit of the political class!), any act of creation without the proper permits (and permits are not being issued); any change at all. I deleted a long litany of deep and structural problems which we all know, so as not to take part in the rightly criticised doom-posting myself, but we all know what’s going on, or rather failing to go on.

If I read you right, you’re saying that a “politically viable European right” comes down to basically a nationalist (or, for the europhiles, “continentalist”) social democracy, and I tend to agree. But that means nothing about the actual issue would get fixed. Even if we could get rid of all net-consumer and unassimilable foreigners as if by magic (and hopefully keep the net-productive and assimilable ones – a bit of a tightrope ballet!), we’d get all the way out to “dying somewhat more slowly”.

“Redistribution, but based” isn’t creative or accretive.

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Paul Conway's avatar

"The website previously acted as an incubator of right wing thought by allowing people to develop ideas and then stress test them by bringing them into direct conflict with the political and cultural establishment, in public."

By this do you mean, immediately get banned?

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