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Apr 27Liked by Michael Lindsey

Don't know about UK or Britain or England (we tend to use all the terms interchangeably over here) but I do know that when my nation was a /nation/ consisting of +95% actual swedish swedes, and those 5% being largely made up of finns, norwegians, danes and the odd german or romanian and such, there were no such signs.

"No parking", sure. "No smoking", sure. "Mind the gap"-signs in the underground. "Please give up your seat to elders or handicapped or pregnant women"-signs on the buses.

But no globohomo multikulti-stuff. Also, no assault on bus drivers. No assault on postal workers or ER-crew or firemen. No brown kids throwing stones from the tenth floor trying to hit the garbage man. No parents throwing their kids off of the tenth story balcony either, just because she dated the "wrong" guy.

Sure, correlation is not yadayadagabbagabbahey - but when you hear horses, you don't think zebras, no? And I'm old enough to be able to compare the beforetime with present, and modestly clever so I can project trends for what is coming on like the Evening Star.

To be blunt: I could put crows in the henhouse. Doesn't mean they'll start laying hens' eggs.

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I think it’s partially to do with this, sure, but at least in Britain I can assure you that the native underclass are no picnic either.

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I'm vaguely familiar with the concept of CHAVs, I take it that's the group in question?

We didn't have that here before the 1990s, native or not. Closest you could get were druggies and psychos, and until ca 1990, psychos were institutionalised - think hostel with limited freedom rather than Bedlam.

And we wouldn't have any problem with MENA-people and such if we'd stuck to one single principle of law: outlanders what came here and committed crimes were kicked out, no matter if they claimed refugee-status or not, and had they received citizenship it was revoked.

Soon as we joined the EU, we had to stop doing that and the rest is history.

But it's like my dad is fond of saying:

"If you don't have the Will, you won't have the ability". It works in reverse too, what someone claims to be unable to do is almost always something they are unwilling to do but don't want to own up to.

When I was a doorman in my early 20s, someone gave the girls on staff a roguh time, that someone got roughed up and shown the door. Somehow, we never needed a sign saying "Don't call the girls working the bar whores just 'cause you had to wait a minute to get your order".

Possibly, it was because the other doormen were four effing huge boneheads, DMs laced up to their knees almost.

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Problems with foreigners arise with numbers, and the unchangeable fact of nature that occurs when multiple groups of biological beings are interacting in the same sphere. Competition for resources always arise, albeit sometimes with good interactions. However, as their numbers rise, so too does the chance for more and more bad interactions.

It doesn't matter if they follow our laws; what matters is that we are letting them in at all. Collectively, we are are like a passive dog showing it's neck to a more aggressive dog, saying "share my food, just don't hurt me"

It reminds me of the older gentlemen of my nation when they say "so long as they come here legally" without thinking about what happens in nature when similar events occur. The rabbit can say "so long as the badger comes here legally" as it gets eaten. The squirrel can say "so long as the hawk follows the rules" as it gets eaten.

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This is exactly correct. We are awash with people who think bringing in a million aliens legally is different if they come illegally.

They do not share our customs or outlook on life. Some of the groups now embedded in Britain have radically different views about children, women and how a society operates. And they have repeatedly demonstrated they will never assimilate.

The Chinese view national homogeneity as a serious prize worth aiming for as it infers enormous benefits in terms of social cohesion and harmony. Western states have lost this. We must now retrieve it, which will mean a radical shift in thinking.

The posters are a precursor to our tribal future. The imports have absolutly no intention of sharing the UK with anyone, especially the indigenous British. They themselves reject multiculturalism and the chattering classes are in complete denial about the violence that is coming their way.

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No multiethnic, multicultural society has ever survived. "Not surviving" means violence. It is a recipe for disaster.

National borders emerged for a reason. We live in an arrogant age where the educated have aggressively attacked all that emerged in our past to protect us. I suspect it is them who will die first in the civil wars they have triggered.

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One can only hope.

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Apr 27·edited Apr 27Liked by Michael Lindsey

This is a really solid observation, see the exact same phenom in Canada (and Ontario where I live). Politicians make a habit of insulting certain cohorts of society with whom they have philosophical disagreements, then turn around and bemoan the increased incivility of the public towards elected officials. Go figure.

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And the most famous example of this is, of course, Hilary Clinton, and her basket of deplorables.

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"Why won't these b@stards vote for me?"

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Yeah. Someone like HRC has such contempt for 'little people' with different opinions, you gotta really wonder what's going on. For someone to have said what she said, that's a level of smug and moral certitude you don't see very often. Even Bill doesn't carry himself like that.

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Apr 27Liked by Michael Lindsey

This increasing disinterest in one’s work or one’s fellow human has been spawned by the fused powers of government and corporations become The Machine. The living soul has been increasingly cast as a mere cog in the tedious daily grind. Vitality has been sucked out of living. People are subliminally angry snd further degenerating into cynicism and morbidity.

This is characteristic of most of, if not all the big and globally important countries, but it is not like that every where in the world. I live in South America. People are so kind and so human. We shake hands and say good morning or afternoon. Even texts begin with such a greeting. I sat at a cafe the other day next to a government office for handicapped children and watched the young security guard (who likely makes max $25 day wage), voluntarily go to the cars of the arriving clients helping them with wheel chairs or assisting those without while administering a warm compassionate smile from the heart. I could tell many such stories. Each day my heart is filled with small joys of polite encounters and sunbright human exchanges. The machine is here- the bureaucracy is a nightmare. The government is pure evil. But Humanity is felt everywhere, in nearly every interaction from waiter to bank teller and most especially medical services.

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Apr 27Liked by Michael Lindsey

“Our staff”? What arrogance. Aren’t they supposed to be working for us, for our benefit?

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It's insightful to characterize public servants (time for a change in terminology) and retail works in this way. In recent years the state has sought to crystallize their privileged status in law by, for example, making assault of "emergency services workers" an aggravating factor in sentencing, or (just this month) bringing forward legislation to make assaulting a "retail worker" a specific criminal offence. what else but a separate "estate" characterizes a group defined by its legal privileges distinguishing it from the plebs, even where those privileges are merely declaratory sops to the narcissism of the group, rather than conferring any substantive benefits?

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Apr 27Liked by Michael Lindsey

Without a shared set of external rules (in the case of western civilisation the Ten Commandments) that most agree to uphold that civilisation will disintegrate. What is left to control the masses is Might is Right but of course who gets to say that has the most force to use. (Communism/Fascism)

Lord Kenneth Clark in his magisterial 1969 TV series “Civilisation” said that personally he thought that Courtesy above all other things was what defined and held a civilisation together. Jesus distilled the Ten Commandments down to two - Love God and Love your neighbour as yourself, that second one is courtesy - consideration for others over your own selfishness. It’s like an oil that lubricates an engine and without it the engine seized up. The first is that supreme power lies external to any man and puts each one of us high and low under the ultimate arbiter of what is right and wrong - God not a fallible human being so easily corrupted by the writing of power.

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Apr 30Liked by Michael Lindsey

Corporations, including publicly funded corporations like the NHS, tend to develop a sense of corporate interest and identity. When this happens the taxpayer customer becomes just a source of revenue.

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Apr 28Liked by Michael Lindsey

Nothing of value will ultimately be lost. The hope will be with the tight-knit communities of contrarians/reactionaries who will have the mentality and capital to weather such a collapse. Or, in forming them.

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Apr 28Liked by Michael Lindsey

The attitude of the more politicised civil servants and NHS staff reminds me of the Janissaries in the Ottoman Empire. Went from effective elite troops to a pampered castle demanding priileges and exemptions.

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Apr 27Liked by Michael Lindsey

USA: “Hold my craft beer”

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What’s it like there by comparison?

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There are only two things holding our elected reprobates back:

1. The 1st Amendment of the US Constitution (barely)

2. A heavily armed, pissed off population.

They actually arrested and charged a guy for memes and jokes about Hillary Clinton.

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Pretty much, the 1st and 2nd Amendments (rights to express yourself and defend yourself) are the only levees holding back anarcho-tyranny here in the metropole, and even then, they've sprung leaks. You've provided one example, a story I heard about a Walmart ending self-checkout lanes due to crime/theft is another example.

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May 6·edited May 6Liked by Michael Lindsey

The ubiquitous MSM "overworked staff" meme needs some interrogation. The reality of course is that any bureaucracy will have a complex mixture of overworked staff and underworked staff. The British have been schooled (by half a century of BBC-type leftist sentimentality) into a thoroughly counter-productive mythology about our public services and how all roads to redemption must be paved with "more resource"...of " the ticking of endless boxes for something or other; the “we are receiving an unusually large volume of calls just now”; the computer that says no; the efficiency drive resulting in (wouldn’t you just know it) more staff employed to deliver a poorer service....." https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/take-me-to-your-experts

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May 6Liked by Michael Lindsey

🎯🎯🎯

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Apr 28Liked by Michael Lindsey

Excellent examination of the trajectory of the unraveling. I’m seeing more signs and forms reminding patients and customers of the demands of a ‘safe space’ for workers, and in are now banning those who fail some vague test of proper behavior.

Lock people up for a couple years and they come out traumatized and feral. What a surprise.

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This article resonated with me immediately as this is the attitude Canada Revenue Agency has with Canadians. The banks do it too. Tough talking "zero tolerance" for abuse as if the pretentious, lazy clerks (many of them foreign), don't deserve it.

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As the government sets an example of lying, cheating, abusing, stealing, the idea the public won’t mimic that gov is childish.

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The stress, distrust, incompetence and negligence is growing exponentially around the world. The plan is working.

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