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Thank you. You've provided an excellent frame of reference. I'll reread it but it's MANA for me, and it needn't fall from heaven.

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Rikhard Ravindra Tanskanen's avatar

My great-grandfather fought the Soviets in the Winter and Continuation Wars, and I do NOT like people giving David Horowitz and Ayaan Hirsi Ali a cookie for basic decency: to quote a palaeoconservative, "It has always struck me as odd, even perverse, that former Marxists have been permitted, yes invited, to play such a leading role in the Conservative movement of the twentieth century. It is splendid when the town whore gets religion and joins the church. Now and then she makes a good choir director, but when she begins to tell the minister what he ought to say in his Sunday sermons, matters have been carried too far. I often contemplate that if Trotsky had lived, he would have become a regular contributor to the National Interest."

I never knew my great-grandfather, but he suffered from PTSD. Horowitz says "Inside every liberal is a totalitarian screaming to get out" despite the fact he was a Trotskyist and "liberal" refers to CLASSICAL LIBERALISM (or more accurately to the CULTURALLY LIBERAL practices of the Romans combined with the Caesars having a strong welfare state, which is in reality akin to Nordic capitalism, otherwise known as the TORYISM of absolutists who viewed them and the people as one and the same), and he is just a moderate who uses realpolitik, just like Geert Wilders. Horowitz whines about Islam forcing women to wear stupid hats and kills non-heteronormatives despite the fact rightist Christians agree, and he NEVER went to war himself or did any security work. Horowitz worked with the Black Panthers, a group based on a COMIC BOOK, which goes to show how stupid he is.

Will Horowitz bring my great-grandfather back, or the Finns lost in the war, or the eastern Europeans who suffered under the Communists since 1917 and Putin since the 1990s, when Putin was Yeltsin's mastermind? If Horowitz is anti-Islam, then how come neoconservatives supported the terrorists in Afghanistan? Horowitz is, hypocritically, a Russian shill who spreads Putin's propaganda, implying he was working for Russia the whole time as a fake defector. Ayaan Hirsi Ali's beef with Islam is just that she can't have feeling during sex because of infibulation, making her a de facto incel.

Al saying "I have lost all faith in Allah" sounds like she was still Muslim all along: sure enough, she is a Christian now. Ali supported the banning of the Muslim Brotherhood despite the fact there is no evidence she ever resigned from it, and she certainly has no wish to go to jail.

Anyways, all ideologies are used by people with victim mentality: "The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true desserts. He ascribes all his failure to get on in the world, all of his congenital incapacity and damnfoolishness, to the machinations of werewolves assembled in Wall Street, or some other such den of infamy. If these villains could be put down, he holds, he would at once become rich, powerful and eminent. Nine politicians out of every ten, of whatever party, live and have their being by promising to perform

this putting down. In brief, they are knaves who maintain themselves by preying on the idiotic vanities and pathetic hopes of half-wits."

I support the sovereign citizens, and I think there should be no criminal laws. I would also say traditional Europeans and Canadians HATE Americans for being uncultured.

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