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Ok, I guess I understand why you are not (or I guess are no longer) a Rothbardian libertarian. BTW regarding the Roman dictator, according to my friend Mr. ChatGPT "You’re thinking of Gaius Poetelius Libo Visolus."
Im reading the first 10 books of Livy again this year. The Penguin Editions are garbage which is what I started with last year for 1-5, looking forward to reading from Oxford.
I edited out some of the more offensive language after a couple of comments about it, figuring that it isn't sensible to write something this long and well thought out and then have people not want to share it because I used some words that scare the hoes.
We already had the "centrist" post-racial technocrat government that tried to do a middle ground on immigration, healthcare, etc., appeal to Europeans, and not scare anyone. It was called "the Obama administration", and it wasn't fine. It led directly to the disasters we're dealing with right now.
The "Pantsuit Deportations" section is just delusional twee quirk chungus posting.
"There are strong humanitarian, environmentalist, and labor arguments against mass immigration that can work well if said by a woman who can appeal to the left wing, at least to the extent that they don’t wage Jihad against the government. I mean, people are dying in the oceans, they’re leaving garbage all over in sensitive wild areas, wages for native low-skill workers are driven down, and they’re separated from their families for decades. Crucially, since this doesn’t Scare the Hoes, you don’t end up with a pendulum swing between no border enforcement and Skullcrusher Deportations keeping the country in a state of ferment."
This does not happen. Everyone has made these arguments already. Women have made these arguments already. "Skullcrusher Deportations" are just actual deportations where the people are physically removed according to existing laws. If they can get away with it somewhere in Europe with the precious optics intact then great, but that doesn't change what you have to do to get people to actually leave.
I would not at all describe the Obama Administration like that. Certainly no one had that perception at the time. He was seen as a transformational leader who was going to solve our nation's biggest problems.
You would find that the point of those two sections was in fact that in many countries the immigration levels have reached such a point that it requires decisive measures instead of a moderate approach.
There was the First Black President angle, but that only played into it more for the half of the country that elected him twice. He won on "merit." He was a smart, educated Harvard guy. He was "articulate" (liberals masochistically punished themselves for saying this later.) He was broadly popular with lots of different demographics and considered the smart, competent person's choice.
Obamacare was sold as a middle ground between single payer and the existing system. Everything he did with the economy was the basic Keynesian business as usual stuff because that was what the Experts said. He fought the same middle east wars like a neocon and drone striked citizens, but people didn't care, and he got the Nobel Peace Prize. To this day people insist he "deported more people than Trump without all the theater" or something like that, which is dishonest, but it sounds a lot like your Pantsuit Deportations, where the public is actually happy when deportations happen as long as they aren't done in a scary way (ie. with a camera on them) and there's a safe non-white male there to present it.
It seems like what you really want is a right wing government with a media ecosystem that isn't hostile to it and giving it bad optics. That won't happen in the US like it will in a much smaller country.
He did deport a lot of people, though there is now some dispute about how these numbers are counted, regarding a bunch of them being caught very near the border and not processed or this and that. Regardless, his administration made a general effort to enforce immigration laws without the media backlash.
Obamacare was a perfect example of how Americans have a tendency of failing to compromise in such a way that gives us the worst of all worlds because neither side would acknowledge the reality of the situation so they basically agreed that the government would pay a bunch more for healthcare as long as it went to private corporations.
I made it clear throughout this that some of these things are simply outside of our national character as well as the size and importance of our country, but nevertheless it is certainly possible to make better decisions than we have been. Legacy media is rapidly collapsing though, and with the growth of technology, it's really hard to say what the information space will look like in 5 years.
Australia is a case where you can argue that despite practicing 'importing infinity immigrants against the wishes of the populace', they are still implementing basically fineism to the extent that it's possible;
1. Minimal refugees, very minimal illegal migration, and lions share 'skilled migration'. Yes the skilled migration pathways are obviously massively scammed, but there is still a very significant selection effect in even being able to cobble together the resources to execute the scam and this ends up mattering quite a bit in the long run. You don't end up with the same preponderance of Karim 20ans that seem to prevail in European cities.
2. High crime demographics exist, but are relatively isolated and small - refugee acceptance tends to occur in pulses and then stop (ie. Sudanese), limiting the 'damage'. Australian cities remain safer than the majority of Western European cities and immigrant crime rates are lower than natives due to aforementioned selection effects.
3. Historically strong track record of assimilation - of the 'new world' anglosphere Australia arguably has the mushiest and most unburdened cultural heritage and best record of assimilating migrants without ethnic conflict for the longest period, having run large-scale migration program since the 50s in pursuit of a 'big Australia'. With no deep history, and major cultural differentiators from the rest of the anglosphere including sports and not much else, Aus is well-positioned to 'bend, not break'. What Australian culture even 'is' is still up for debate - there is simply not much there.
4. Fairly pro-labour political culture without being too commie about it generally. While manufacturing is gutted like everywhere else, there are ample opportunities for blue-collar workers to make money without competing with illegal migrant labour.
5. Natural geographic advantages render Australia's 'easy mode' resource extraction based economy fairly successful almost regardless of politics. Boring centrism prevails on both sides of politics generally with political debates often focussed on fairly lame and inconsequential issues, with few to no long-standing blood-feud political dynamics.
The comparison to Canada is the most natural one, and like Canada the immigration issue is real, as the numbers are becoming truly huge - but the downstream issues are just generally less pressing for a variety of reasons. It is still a basically fine place to live if you aren't too precious about your 'right to culture' and don't have strong feelings on politics, which most people do not.
I would argue that between their insane covid policies, internet censorship, and land acknowledgements every time an airplane lands, Australia is clearly not fine at all.
That said, like Canada they are reducing foreign students because the public doesn't like it. That said, as I said in the article, the English system of government is over all great for this, yet for some reason those countries all went totally crazy.
Fair - I suppose I don't quite get what Basically Fineism is then. None of those affect people's day to day life much other than the covid stuff, which I suppose I don't view as indicative of anything deeper than the dosomethingism that other countries were also affected by.
Australia tends to pass really totalizing laws in general. I can’t actually think of any particular situation where Australia has followed a sensible moderate course.
Interesting perception, as a citizen I have the impression that Australian politicians consistently prove themselves entirely without courage on most issues, and when they do legislate, the follow-up is often lacking.
At the end of the day enforcement is where the rubber meets the road. For example Australia has similar 'hate speech' laws on the books to the UK, yet simply doesn't really enforce them anywhere near as much (order of mag. lower). It's still pretty lame, and I would rather true USA 1st amendment style free speech protection, but the reality of Australian netizenship is that all the laws are basically toothless and I personally feel I can poast with impunity, so... is that not 'basically fine' until this status quo changes?
It might just be my own disposition that means I don't care about a lot of this stuff. At the end of the day life is good, the sun is out, the govt is lame but basically competent despite their foibles, and I don't have a pressing need to engage in political activism that would put me in the crosshairs.
I suppose maybe it feels a lot different living there. Little about the presentation Australia puts to the world makes anything seem good there, though admittedly when one sees it on TV it always looks pleasant.
Then the subject turns to Canada and, though not absolutely wrong, I had to cringe repeatedly.
- the idea that Canada is peopled with 130+ IQ Anglos. Sorry, this is not a country of 130 IQ people. Not Anglos, not anyone.
- Canada’s often mocked national habit of apologizing for everything.
There is this weird popular internet trope that Canadians spend their time in mild-mannered apologies. Canadian history is full of riots against the French, the English, the Jews, Catholics, Blacks, Chinese, Israel, strikes, conscription, winning the Stanley Cup, losing the Stanly cup, G20, cancelled rock concerts, ICE...
- most battles between Quebec and Ottawa strengthened the provinces
Like federations I know of, like US or Germany, the canadian federal government has grown to become the dominant and legitimate government over the federated states, provinces, kingdoms in which people had their historical identities. Granted, Quebec nationalism has slowed down the process, occasionally launching a countre-strike, but since the Trudeaus, Ottawa has been slowily crushing the provinces, bringing them to heel, and Carney looks the most centralizing of all.
- Chrystia Freeland, being an unreconstructed Nazi.
I dislike Freeland and the LPC bunch, but this is going way overboard. She had a grandfather who was a Nazi-allied Ukrainian nationalist.
- sparsely populated semi-Arctic wasteland
Hmm. This is going by land mass not by population. If you pick a random square mile in Canada, yes, chances are it is a semi-Arctic wasteland. But if you pick a random Canadian, chances are he's living in a large city, in the densely populated St-Lawrence valley, Ontario peninsula or Southwest BC, not semi-arctic wasteland.
But I guess the rest is flawless! Let's hear it for Gell-Mann Amnesia!
- The 130 IQ Anglos thing is kind of a race science joke/meme but regardless the English system worked well at the time when people chose to actually put smart people in charge of the government
- Canadians do apologize all the time, at least the Anglo ones, I have known very few French Canadians. It is true that being French, the French Canadians riot. I didn't really think about Vancouver having the same anti-Chinese panic as Seattle and San Francisco, though it stands to reason they would have, so that is a good point.
- The upshot of Quebec's battles with the federal government have historically been that every province ends up with the same rights as Quebec, though the government has greatly centralized in the time that Canada has become a Total Mess.
- Freeland also worked on the newsletter celebrating Nazi heritage in Canada, along with the rest of Parliament clapped for an SS member, and remains a maniacal Ukraine partisan
- Yes, I believe the stat is that 2/3rds of Canadians live within 150 miles of the St Lawrence River. The average population density of the country is very low though and plenty of its economy comes from the natural resources in the parts of the country no one lives in. That is a funny thing about mass immigration though, is that Canada and Australia are the only countries that accepted mass immigration that could be plausibly said to be underpopulated, but the migrants are not busting out new farms in Alberta or ranching in the outback, they're moving into populous cities with a really high cost of living, which is what I was getting at with saying the last time this much of Canada was foreign born the people were more or less pioneers
- Regarding Chrystia Freeland, I think you are confusing her with her grandfather Michael Chomiak, who was indeed an editor for a nazi-adjacent newspaper, but that was in Krakow in 1940. There is no doubt that Chrystia is a pro-Ukraine hawk. And that moment in the House of Commons was embarrassing but I'm sure that seal-clapping was entirely due to them thinking they were applauding for Ukraine or whatever
- I believe the figure is > 80% living within 100 miles of the US border, leading to the witticism that inhabited Canada is a horizontal Chile. And I completely agree with the exasperation with immigrants who claim they built Canada when most of them and certainly all recent immigrants just landed in a large existing city and possibly got a job. Indeed if they settled in the Slave River valley or upper Mauricie, starting from a hamlet and growing it over generations to a major city, then sure they could say they built the country.
- Regarding rioting, I am almost flattered that you consider us French-Canadians as red-blooded, but you can look up the 1840 burning of the Montreal Parliament (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_the_Parliament_Buildings_in_Montreal), which was an English anti-French riot: "Anglo-Saxons! you must live for the future. Your blood and race will now be supreme, if true to yourselves. A Mass Meeting will be held on the Place d'Armes this evening at 8 o'clock. Anglo-Saxons to the struggle, now is your time."; the Shelburne race riots in Nova Scotia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelburne_riots): "Attacks continued for another month against Black Loyalists"; the Vancouver anti-Chinese riots of 1886 or 1907 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1907_Vancouver_anti-Asian_riots): "angry mobs stormed through Powell Street in Vancouver's Chinatown, breaking windows and assaulting Chinese people in the streets", the Christie Pits riot of 1933 at the Christie Pits in Toronto, the Gavazzi Riots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavazzi_Riots with Irish Catholics protesters being fired upon by the army, the 1875 Jubilee riots (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_riots) with Orange Order Protestants attacking Catholics marching in Toronto; the 1918 conscription riots (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_Crisis_of_1917#Quebec_Easter_riots_and_the_end_of_the_war); the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnipeg_general_strike): "After the Mayor read the Riot Act, the Mounties entered the fray again, this time discharging their .45 revolvers in three separate volleys. "; the 1935 Regina Riots "the police charged the crowd with batons from all four sides. They fought back with sticks, stones, and anything at hand. Mounted RCMP officers then started to use tear gas and fired guns. The battle continued in the surrounding streets for six hours. Police fired revolvers above and into groups of people"; the 1945 Halifax riot "This rapidly evolved into a rampage by several thousand servicemen, merchant seamen, and civilians, who looted the City of Halifax", the 1955 Richard riot with French Canadians rioting over the suspension of a hockey idol; the 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Vancouver_Stanley_Cup_riot) "Nearly 150 people were injured during the incident, including four by stabbing"; and maybe agree that there is more to Canadians in general, and non-French Canadian more specifically, than meek apologizing.
Oh sorry, youre right, Freeland wrote for an Encylopedia associated with a Galicia Division member. Also though its more or less fair to call anyone who is in a party that wants to euthanize the disabled a Nazi, if we're being honest.
Anyway, yes exciting things do happen in any country's history, besides Costa Rica and Uruguay it would seem, but nevertheless Canada's history is overall quite calm compared to most countries
Kudos for doing leg work on Basically Fineism. I was not aware of much lore owing to ephemeral design of Twitter. Kunley could easily have his own Moldbuggian sized crown if he wanted to write more. Maybe that Basically Fineism does not require endless essays as a ("so-called") political philosophy is part of its allure.
Based on how we currently interpret and coast off of the 20th century, its institutions, ideology, and its consequences, I suspect Americans are generations away from anything like this. America might not ever achieve such great heights as Basically Fine+ governance. We are not like Denmark, we can not decide to Wake Up, flip a switch, and do sensible policy. My prediction is post-ideological governance would be something America learns from the world. We are unfortunately afforded, for the time being, policy detached from outcomes. I do think "migroid" detracts from an otherwise mature essay and explanation. But to each their own, etc.
migroid is explained in the glossary and also this mature essay explains a political concept titled "Scaring the hoes"
Anyway, thank you, America is for many reasons one of the countries the least prone to Basically Fineism, due to it's size, history, ambition, and the very nature of its people. Nevertheless, we could learn much from it.
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This is magnificent and something that one can share to explain all the deep basically fineism lore to normies.
A positive contribution to the discourse.
Ok, I guess I understand why you are not (or I guess are no longer) a Rothbardian libertarian. BTW regarding the Roman dictator, according to my friend Mr. ChatGPT "You’re thinking of Gaius Poetelius Libo Visolus."
Im reading the first 10 books of Livy again this year. The Penguin Editions are garbage which is what I started with last year for 1-5, looking forward to reading from Oxford.
I edited out some of the more offensive language after a couple of comments about it, figuring that it isn't sensible to write something this long and well thought out and then have people not want to share it because I used some words that scare the hoes.
We already had the "centrist" post-racial technocrat government that tried to do a middle ground on immigration, healthcare, etc., appeal to Europeans, and not scare anyone. It was called "the Obama administration", and it wasn't fine. It led directly to the disasters we're dealing with right now.
The "Pantsuit Deportations" section is just delusional twee quirk chungus posting.
"There are strong humanitarian, environmentalist, and labor arguments against mass immigration that can work well if said by a woman who can appeal to the left wing, at least to the extent that they don’t wage Jihad against the government. I mean, people are dying in the oceans, they’re leaving garbage all over in sensitive wild areas, wages for native low-skill workers are driven down, and they’re separated from their families for decades. Crucially, since this doesn’t Scare the Hoes, you don’t end up with a pendulum swing between no border enforcement and Skullcrusher Deportations keeping the country in a state of ferment."
This does not happen. Everyone has made these arguments already. Women have made these arguments already. "Skullcrusher Deportations" are just actual deportations where the people are physically removed according to existing laws. If they can get away with it somewhere in Europe with the precious optics intact then great, but that doesn't change what you have to do to get people to actually leave.
I would not at all describe the Obama Administration like that. Certainly no one had that perception at the time. He was seen as a transformational leader who was going to solve our nation's biggest problems.
You would find that the point of those two sections was in fact that in many countries the immigration levels have reached such a point that it requires decisive measures instead of a moderate approach.
There was the First Black President angle, but that only played into it more for the half of the country that elected him twice. He won on "merit." He was a smart, educated Harvard guy. He was "articulate" (liberals masochistically punished themselves for saying this later.) He was broadly popular with lots of different demographics and considered the smart, competent person's choice.
Obamacare was sold as a middle ground between single payer and the existing system. Everything he did with the economy was the basic Keynesian business as usual stuff because that was what the Experts said. He fought the same middle east wars like a neocon and drone striked citizens, but people didn't care, and he got the Nobel Peace Prize. To this day people insist he "deported more people than Trump without all the theater" or something like that, which is dishonest, but it sounds a lot like your Pantsuit Deportations, where the public is actually happy when deportations happen as long as they aren't done in a scary way (ie. with a camera on them) and there's a safe non-white male there to present it.
It seems like what you really want is a right wing government with a media ecosystem that isn't hostile to it and giving it bad optics. That won't happen in the US like it will in a much smaller country.
He did deport a lot of people, though there is now some dispute about how these numbers are counted, regarding a bunch of them being caught very near the border and not processed or this and that. Regardless, his administration made a general effort to enforce immigration laws without the media backlash.
Obamacare was a perfect example of how Americans have a tendency of failing to compromise in such a way that gives us the worst of all worlds because neither side would acknowledge the reality of the situation so they basically agreed that the government would pay a bunch more for healthcare as long as it went to private corporations.
I made it clear throughout this that some of these things are simply outside of our national character as well as the size and importance of our country, but nevertheless it is certainly possible to make better decisions than we have been. Legacy media is rapidly collapsing though, and with the growth of technology, it's really hard to say what the information space will look like in 5 years.
Australia is a case where you can argue that despite practicing 'importing infinity immigrants against the wishes of the populace', they are still implementing basically fineism to the extent that it's possible;
1. Minimal refugees, very minimal illegal migration, and lions share 'skilled migration'. Yes the skilled migration pathways are obviously massively scammed, but there is still a very significant selection effect in even being able to cobble together the resources to execute the scam and this ends up mattering quite a bit in the long run. You don't end up with the same preponderance of Karim 20ans that seem to prevail in European cities.
2. High crime demographics exist, but are relatively isolated and small - refugee acceptance tends to occur in pulses and then stop (ie. Sudanese), limiting the 'damage'. Australian cities remain safer than the majority of Western European cities and immigrant crime rates are lower than natives due to aforementioned selection effects.
3. Historically strong track record of assimilation - of the 'new world' anglosphere Australia arguably has the mushiest and most unburdened cultural heritage and best record of assimilating migrants without ethnic conflict for the longest period, having run large-scale migration program since the 50s in pursuit of a 'big Australia'. With no deep history, and major cultural differentiators from the rest of the anglosphere including sports and not much else, Aus is well-positioned to 'bend, not break'. What Australian culture even 'is' is still up for debate - there is simply not much there.
4. Fairly pro-labour political culture without being too commie about it generally. While manufacturing is gutted like everywhere else, there are ample opportunities for blue-collar workers to make money without competing with illegal migrant labour.
5. Natural geographic advantages render Australia's 'easy mode' resource extraction based economy fairly successful almost regardless of politics. Boring centrism prevails on both sides of politics generally with political debates often focussed on fairly lame and inconsequential issues, with few to no long-standing blood-feud political dynamics.
The comparison to Canada is the most natural one, and like Canada the immigration issue is real, as the numbers are becoming truly huge - but the downstream issues are just generally less pressing for a variety of reasons. It is still a basically fine place to live if you aren't too precious about your 'right to culture' and don't have strong feelings on politics, which most people do not.
I would argue that between their insane covid policies, internet censorship, and land acknowledgements every time an airplane lands, Australia is clearly not fine at all.
That said, like Canada they are reducing foreign students because the public doesn't like it. That said, as I said in the article, the English system of government is over all great for this, yet for some reason those countries all went totally crazy.
Fair - I suppose I don't quite get what Basically Fineism is then. None of those affect people's day to day life much other than the covid stuff, which I suppose I don't view as indicative of anything deeper than the dosomethingism that other countries were also affected by.
Australia tends to pass really totalizing laws in general. I can’t actually think of any particular situation where Australia has followed a sensible moderate course.
Interesting perception, as a citizen I have the impression that Australian politicians consistently prove themselves entirely without courage on most issues, and when they do legislate, the follow-up is often lacking.
At the end of the day enforcement is where the rubber meets the road. For example Australia has similar 'hate speech' laws on the books to the UK, yet simply doesn't really enforce them anywhere near as much (order of mag. lower). It's still pretty lame, and I would rather true USA 1st amendment style free speech protection, but the reality of Australian netizenship is that all the laws are basically toothless and I personally feel I can poast with impunity, so... is that not 'basically fine' until this status quo changes?
It might just be my own disposition that means I don't care about a lot of this stuff. At the end of the day life is good, the sun is out, the govt is lame but basically competent despite their foibles, and I don't have a pressing need to engage in political activism that would put me in the crosshairs.
I suppose maybe it feels a lot different living there. Little about the presentation Australia puts to the world makes anything seem good there, though admittedly when one sees it on TV it always looks pleasant.
I read this and think: great post!
Then the subject turns to Canada and, though not absolutely wrong, I had to cringe repeatedly.
- the idea that Canada is peopled with 130+ IQ Anglos. Sorry, this is not a country of 130 IQ people. Not Anglos, not anyone.
- Canada’s often mocked national habit of apologizing for everything.
There is this weird popular internet trope that Canadians spend their time in mild-mannered apologies. Canadian history is full of riots against the French, the English, the Jews, Catholics, Blacks, Chinese, Israel, strikes, conscription, winning the Stanley Cup, losing the Stanly cup, G20, cancelled rock concerts, ICE...
- most battles between Quebec and Ottawa strengthened the provinces
Like federations I know of, like US or Germany, the canadian federal government has grown to become the dominant and legitimate government over the federated states, provinces, kingdoms in which people had their historical identities. Granted, Quebec nationalism has slowed down the process, occasionally launching a countre-strike, but since the Trudeaus, Ottawa has been slowily crushing the provinces, bringing them to heel, and Carney looks the most centralizing of all.
- Chrystia Freeland, being an unreconstructed Nazi.
I dislike Freeland and the LPC bunch, but this is going way overboard. She had a grandfather who was a Nazi-allied Ukrainian nationalist.
- sparsely populated semi-Arctic wasteland
Hmm. This is going by land mass not by population. If you pick a random square mile in Canada, yes, chances are it is a semi-Arctic wasteland. But if you pick a random Canadian, chances are he's living in a large city, in the densely populated St-Lawrence valley, Ontario peninsula or Southwest BC, not semi-arctic wasteland.
But I guess the rest is flawless! Let's hear it for Gell-Mann Amnesia!
Ok, well
- The 130 IQ Anglos thing is kind of a race science joke/meme but regardless the English system worked well at the time when people chose to actually put smart people in charge of the government
- Canadians do apologize all the time, at least the Anglo ones, I have known very few French Canadians. It is true that being French, the French Canadians riot. I didn't really think about Vancouver having the same anti-Chinese panic as Seattle and San Francisco, though it stands to reason they would have, so that is a good point.
- The upshot of Quebec's battles with the federal government have historically been that every province ends up with the same rights as Quebec, though the government has greatly centralized in the time that Canada has become a Total Mess.
- Freeland also worked on the newsletter celebrating Nazi heritage in Canada, along with the rest of Parliament clapped for an SS member, and remains a maniacal Ukraine partisan
- Yes, I believe the stat is that 2/3rds of Canadians live within 150 miles of the St Lawrence River. The average population density of the country is very low though and plenty of its economy comes from the natural resources in the parts of the country no one lives in. That is a funny thing about mass immigration though, is that Canada and Australia are the only countries that accepted mass immigration that could be plausibly said to be underpopulated, but the migrants are not busting out new farms in Alberta or ranching in the outback, they're moving into populous cities with a really high cost of living, which is what I was getting at with saying the last time this much of Canada was foreign born the people were more or less pioneers
- Regarding Chrystia Freeland, I think you are confusing her with her grandfather Michael Chomiak, who was indeed an editor for a nazi-adjacent newspaper, but that was in Krakow in 1940. There is no doubt that Chrystia is a pro-Ukraine hawk. And that moment in the House of Commons was embarrassing but I'm sure that seal-clapping was entirely due to them thinking they were applauding for Ukraine or whatever
- I believe the figure is > 80% living within 100 miles of the US border, leading to the witticism that inhabited Canada is a horizontal Chile. And I completely agree with the exasperation with immigrants who claim they built Canada when most of them and certainly all recent immigrants just landed in a large existing city and possibly got a job. Indeed if they settled in the Slave River valley or upper Mauricie, starting from a hamlet and growing it over generations to a major city, then sure they could say they built the country.
- Regarding rioting, I am almost flattered that you consider us French-Canadians as red-blooded, but you can look up the 1840 burning of the Montreal Parliament (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_the_Parliament_Buildings_in_Montreal), which was an English anti-French riot: "Anglo-Saxons! you must live for the future. Your blood and race will now be supreme, if true to yourselves. A Mass Meeting will be held on the Place d'Armes this evening at 8 o'clock. Anglo-Saxons to the struggle, now is your time."; the Shelburne race riots in Nova Scotia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelburne_riots): "Attacks continued for another month against Black Loyalists"; the Vancouver anti-Chinese riots of 1886 or 1907 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1907_Vancouver_anti-Asian_riots): "angry mobs stormed through Powell Street in Vancouver's Chinatown, breaking windows and assaulting Chinese people in the streets", the Christie Pits riot of 1933 at the Christie Pits in Toronto, the Gavazzi Riots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavazzi_Riots with Irish Catholics protesters being fired upon by the army, the 1875 Jubilee riots (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_riots) with Orange Order Protestants attacking Catholics marching in Toronto; the 1918 conscription riots (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_Crisis_of_1917#Quebec_Easter_riots_and_the_end_of_the_war); the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnipeg_general_strike): "After the Mayor read the Riot Act, the Mounties entered the fray again, this time discharging their .45 revolvers in three separate volleys. "; the 1935 Regina Riots "the police charged the crowd with batons from all four sides. They fought back with sticks, stones, and anything at hand. Mounted RCMP officers then started to use tear gas and fired guns. The battle continued in the surrounding streets for six hours. Police fired revolvers above and into groups of people"; the 1945 Halifax riot "This rapidly evolved into a rampage by several thousand servicemen, merchant seamen, and civilians, who looted the City of Halifax", the 1955 Richard riot with French Canadians rioting over the suspension of a hockey idol; the 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Vancouver_Stanley_Cup_riot) "Nearly 150 people were injured during the incident, including four by stabbing"; and maybe agree that there is more to Canadians in general, and non-French Canadian more specifically, than meek apologizing.
Oh sorry, youre right, Freeland wrote for an Encylopedia associated with a Galicia Division member. Also though its more or less fair to call anyone who is in a party that wants to euthanize the disabled a Nazi, if we're being honest.
Anyway, yes exciting things do happen in any country's history, besides Costa Rica and Uruguay it would seem, but nevertheless Canada's history is overall quite calm compared to most countries
Also my wife is half Canadian and is from a border town I am fairly familiar with what Canadians are like lol
Kudos for doing leg work on Basically Fineism. I was not aware of much lore owing to ephemeral design of Twitter. Kunley could easily have his own Moldbuggian sized crown if he wanted to write more. Maybe that Basically Fineism does not require endless essays as a ("so-called") political philosophy is part of its allure.
Based on how we currently interpret and coast off of the 20th century, its institutions, ideology, and its consequences, I suspect Americans are generations away from anything like this. America might not ever achieve such great heights as Basically Fine+ governance. We are not like Denmark, we can not decide to Wake Up, flip a switch, and do sensible policy. My prediction is post-ideological governance would be something America learns from the world. We are unfortunately afforded, for the time being, policy detached from outcomes. I do think "migroid" detracts from an otherwise mature essay and explanation. But to each their own, etc.
migroid is explained in the glossary and also this mature essay explains a political concept titled "Scaring the hoes"
Anyway, thank you, America is for many reasons one of the countries the least prone to Basically Fineism, due to it's size, history, ambition, and the very nature of its people. Nevertheless, we could learn much from it.