Britain—Like France and Spain—Is Poorer than Mississippi Mises Wire - Ryan McMaken Is Britain poorer than Mississippi? Taking into account welfare benefits and taxes, the answer appears to be yes, and it's yes for many other European countries as well.
I am happy to present Harry Elmer Barnes' Genesis of the World War: An Introduction to the Problem of War Guilt. This is a WW1 revisionist classic that has long been unavailable. Todd Lewis at the Praise of Folly podcast collaborated with me and produced a foreword for this volume. It is currently only available in cloth. https://shorturl.at/wS9xp
I’d say there’s a choice to improve or continue, but given the nature of the problem, framing it as a choice is ill-fitting. Since everything is vibes and impulses and reaction, this trajectory will continue until something rips it apart or another thing overtakes it (or both). It’ll take a while for this to bear out, but ceding the field of consistently believing in something will have consequences that can’t be wished away when they hit. Until then, it’ll be a continual cycle of narratives and truths shifting like sand, while every spoken sentence condenses into two meanings: “approve” or “disapprove”.
It’s way past time to move past vibes-based and aesthetics-based judgments being the main driver of beliefs and thus being the lens of interpreting the world.
I looked for mentions of "immigration" in Douglas Murray's new book On Democracies and Death Cults
It's mentioned once to praise philosemitic second generation immigrants like Rishi Sunak, and once to talk about the unfairness of Jewish immigrants being questioned by immigration authorities before entering Britain
13.04.202502:45
Since a bunch of people of varying quality are talking about the state of the right, it’s probably a good idea to revisit this and understand trajectories.
It’s almost undeniable that the right’s memes and ideas are worse than they were a few years ago. Most people with platforms who haven’t abandoned ship or switched sides mostly rely on feelings. They think, say, and act on what just feels right. Barely anyone reads anymore. One position taken on one given week is liable to totally change the next week depending on who is on other side or depending on what needs to be true for whatever the narrative will be later. Others seem to believe things because at that time they want that belief to be true, regardless of whether it’s actually true.
03.04.202506:00
Tariffs are fun and all as a topic, but double digit interest rates would be cooler.
🍀👨💻⚠️ — Over the past hours, many netizens have erroneously shared this image, claiming to be the "numbers of posts of 4Chan's /pol/ per flag"
However this is a Manipulated image/data.
The screenshot is from 4plebs.org, an unofficial website that tracks and archives 4chan posts, unrelated to the forum per se directly, much less to the recent breach
4plebs.org stopped tracking country statistics in 2021.
Per the final archive of the country statistics webpage in December 2020, Israel only had a total of 936363 posts:
4chan has been hacked and the top countries by total posts on /pol/ has been revealed
13.04.202502:52
I’d say there’s a choice to improve or continue, but given the nature of the problem, framing it as a choice is ill-fitting. Since everything is vibes and impulses and reaction, this trajectory will continue until something rips it apart or another thing overtakes it (or both). It’ll take a while for this to bear out, but ceding the field of consistently believing in something will have consequences that can’t be wished away when they hit. Until then, it’ll be a continual cycle of narratives and truths shifting like sand, while every spoken sentence condenses into two meanings: “approve” or “disapprove”.
13.04.202502:45
Since a bunch of people of varying quality are talking about the state of the right, it’s probably a good idea to revisit this and understand trajectories.
It’s almost undeniable that the right’s memes and ideas are worse than they were a few years ago. Most people with platforms who haven’t abandoned ship or switched sides mostly rely on feelings. They think, say, and act on what just feels right. Barely anyone reads anymore. One position taken on one given week is liable to totally change the next week depending on who is on other side or depending on what needs to be true for whatever the narrative will be later. Others seem to believe things because at that time they want that belief to be true, regardless of whether it’s actually true.
It’s way past time to move past vibes-based and aesthetics-based judgments being the main driver of beliefs and thus being the lens of interpreting the world.
I looked for mentions of "immigration" in Douglas Murray's new book On Democracies and Death Cults
It's mentioned once to praise philosemitic second generation immigrants like Rishi Sunak, and once to talk about the unfairness of Jewish immigrants being questioned by immigration authorities before entering Britain
It has been an honor to be able to write the forward to a book that has had such a positive impact on my life, giving one of my heroes the send off he deserves. Special thanks to @GBagby
I am happy to present Harry Elmer Barnes' Genesis of the World War: An Introduction to the Problem of War Guilt. This is a WW1 revisionist classic that has long been unavailable. Todd Lewis at the Praise of Folly podcast collaborated with me and produced a foreword for this volume. It is currently only available in cloth. https://shorturl.at/wS9xp