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Swipple is now a RACE.

GAME ON. Amen.

Fuck the Puritan meme. Who has time for that?

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Seems to me the big competitive disadvantage the US has is that it’s not consciously a nation-state, so there is no intellectual argument for keeping people out. The Russians can say, “We are RUSSIAN and this is RUSSIA. RUSSIANS FOR RUSSIA. And that has a certain sense to it. But Americans just can’t pull that off anymore — in part because the initial inhabitants were Mexican and Indian — and because most black people in the US pre-date most white people. So the US is at a unique disadvantage when it comes to stopping immigration.

As Ed West pointed out in his book, it’s almost like the last 70 years have been a mass delusion brought on by the Holocaust. European peoples were so guilt-ridden over the Holocaust that they couldn’t see fit to protect the integrity of their own nation-states. That period is clearly drawing to a close. So the best places will be those that didn’t see a huge mess of immigration during the delusional period. Finland is one example. ALL of Eastern Europe is pretty much untouched by heavy immigration, so that’s another idea.

But I don’t know … this is largely conceptual. I still haven’t been able to pull the trigger on permanently expat-ing from the US. Life is pretty easy there and the weather is nice. It’s just the spiritual reality of it that depresses me 24/7.

* The logical outcome is Elysium for 10% + semi-normality for 15% + twerking retardation for 75%.
* That is DEPRESSING even if you are in the Elysium portion. It’s not a fun way to live.
* We have ample historical examples of entire regions that have been decimated by importation of second-raters. Topping the list would be Greece and Southern Italy. And now of course France. Once those people come in, they’re never leaving.

I have been in Tokyo for the last week. I cannot TELL you how nice it is to be in a country that has not “caught the disease of progressivism.” I believe it was Max above who used that formulation — and it feels absolutely spot-on. This place is NOT progressive. It is like America 40 or 50 years ago. It feels incredibly normal. I am an INTJ and normally walk around all day in a judgmental rage. But here … all my judgments are positive! There is no rage!

If the entire reactionary worldview is really an INTJ quirk (which one could argue it is) then isn’t the easier path just for the INTJs just to GTFO while the getting is good? It seems to me the masses are not gonna be won over to any kind of change. And you can’t control even a SMALL piece of real estate in the U.S. without a fairly broad spectrum of political support. Or else they pull a Waco on you.

Here’s another way to think about it: Women don’t care about civilizational decline. Kids don’t care. Extraverts don’t care. SPs don’t care (i.e. Sensing-Perceivers). Minorities don’t care. So what does that leave you with? Maybe 4% of the population who doesn’t like the new reality?

What is the right rate at which to introduce learning experiences to students before administering a test? If you give them the final exam on the first day of class, you may end up flunking a lot of them. I would suspect a teacher who does this of having hidden motives.