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       Re: Western Democracy
   DIR By: guest98
       Date: August 11, 2023, 4:16 pm
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  HTML https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-most-powerful-democracies-were-built-on-the-suffering-of-others-208443
       The world’s most powerful democracies were built on the
       suffering of others
       It's OK for democracy to be "white", it's OK for hiding the
       truth to be "white"
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       > Democracy is supposed to base a state’s legitimacy in its
       accountability to its people. It supports people’s freedoms and
       human rights. What these ideals mean in practice and how to
       achieve them are difficult questions.
       >
       > Many countries in the West provide their citizens with the
       highest living standards and freedoms in the world. How they got
       there is something many conveniently forget.
       >
       > The western world’s tendency to see itself as the pinnacle of
       civilization and morality has been used to justify global
       domination and intervention in the rest of the world.
       >
       > The contemporary successes of some of the most powerful
       democracies are the result of the subjugation and exploitation
       of other people both within and beyond their borders. The U.S.
       was built on genocide and slavery.
       >
       > Canada is only starting to acknowledge its history of cultural
       genocide. Every European state that practised colonialism
       profited from that brutality.
       >
       > The British extracted more than $45 trillion of wealth from
       India between 1765 and 1938 and destroyed the country’s economy.
       >
       > The U.K.’s industrial revolution was financed by Indian
       plunder. Tens of millions of Indians died as the result of
       Britain’s economic policies. During the Second World War,
       Winston Churchill deliberately implemented policies that created
       and exacerbated the Bengal Famine that killed more than three
       million Indians.
       >
       > Western amnesia about its brutal history is deliberate. As the
       British Empire ended, it launched Operation Legacy, the
       destruction of millions of documents detailing the full extent
       of British atrocities in its colonies.
       >
       > Belgium hid the truth of King Leopold’s vicious exploitation
       of the Belgian Congo that involved the murder of 10 million
       people.
       >
       > In the U.S., the political right’s campaign against critical
       race theory stifles the historical reality and legacy of
       American racism.
       >
       > Democracy is not a cure-all for human misery and inequity. For
       impoverished states, democracy can actually exacerbate social
       divisions.
       >
       > Exactly what makes a democracy successful is unclear, though
       it seems to lie in “good governance.” What is clear is that
       democracies cannot simply be wished into existence. Most western
       states can only offer examples of democracy-building that have
       relied upon extreme military, political and social violence.
       >
       > The one existential threat the entire planet faces is climate
       change. Co-operation within the entire international community
       is more important than ever and will require global economic and
       political transformation.
       >
       > The American and western strategy of fomenting global division
       to maintain a harmful status quo is counterproductive at best.
       >
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       Re: Western Democracy
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: September 17, 2023, 5:36 pm
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       Our enemies explain how democracy favours their causes:
  HTML https://www.amren.com/news/2023/09/remembering-pim-fortuyn/
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       > It has now been 12 years since the assassination of Pim
       Fortuyn, the flamboyant Dutch politician who was one of the
       first to break the taboo and call attention to the deadly threat
       of Muslim immigration. He was one of very few critics of mass
       immigration who was able to reach a broad audience, and the
       success of his movement broke down barriers that have never been
       fully rebuilt.
       --- End Quote ---
       I am very aware of this, being one of those trying to rebuild
       the barriers!
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       > In 1997, he wrote a book, Against the Islamization of our
       Culture, which shocked the country and established him as a
       prominent critic of immigration policy. He began to appear on
       Dutch television and in the newspaper, where he relentlessly
       criticizing the government and Islam. He was soon notorious for
       saying he wanted a “cold war” with Islam, which he called “an
       extraordinary threat” and “a hostile religion.”
       > ...
       > His criticism of traditional parties, immigration,
       multiculturalism, and Islam had attracted a large new group of
       voters, and with the help of several property magnates, he
       founded the Lijst Pim Fortuyn (LPF).
       >
       > The LPF quickly started polling at rates better than any other
       party.
       > ...
       > The LPF continued to build a platform, with immigration
       control as its central plank. Fortuyn also argued that asylum
       seekers and war refugees should find shelter in their own part
       of their world rather than in the West.
       > ...
       > Fortuyn had many friends who shared his beliefs. One was Theo
       van Gogh
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       Our enemies also point out the only effective countermeasure,
       which I have also frequently pointed out:
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       > On May 6, 2002 — just 11 days before the election — Fortuyn
       gave a radio interview in the city of Hilversum, in which he
       discussed polls that suggested he might be forming the next
       government. When he left the studio, a man approached him in the
       parking lot and shot him in the head, chest and neck. Fortuyn
       died soon after.
       > ...
       > It took just two years of infighting, financial mismanagement,
       and lackluster leaders to drive the party to just 1 percent
       support, and it disintegrated soon thereafter.
       >
       > In November 2004, Fortuyn’s ally Theo van Gogh was butchered
       on the streets of Amsterdam. Mohammed Bouyeri, a Dutch-Moroccan
       Muslim, shot him eight times and slit his throat. Mr. Bouyeri
       then drove a dagger into van Gogh’s chest with a note that
       threatened one of his film collaborators with death.
       --- End Quote ---
       My question is: why no more assassinations of rightist
       politicians since then? It is because of this that they are now
       in power in so many EU countries!
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       > The Dutch politician who now most closely resembles Fortuyn is
       Geert Wilders, whose Party for Freedom is now the fourth-largest
       party in parliament. He has famously said that the Koran
       “incites hatred and killing and therefore has no place in our
       legal order.” He believes there should be no more Muslim
       immigration, and that all Muslims in Holland should be paid to
       go home. If Muslim immigration continues, he says, “We are
       heading for the end of European and Dutch civilization.”
       --- End Quote ---
       Why no Wilders assassination, for example?
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       > Although Fortuyn is dead and his party disintegrated, many of
       his former supporters now vote for Mr. Wilders. Fortuyn was the
       first Dutchman to give voters a real alternative to the
       traditional parties and to give voice to that large part of the
       population that realizes immigration threatens our culture.
       Fortuyn broke the taboo on frank talk about immigration, an
       achievement he paid for with his life.
       --- End Quote ---
       Why have his ideological successors not been required to pay
       with their lives also?
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       > The success of Nigel Farage in Britain and the rise of Marine
       Le Pen in France — after she purged the National Front of
       “extremists” — are further proof of the deep yearning Europeans
       have for leaders who promise to protect and restore their
       nations. Someday, open racial appeals will take their legitimate
       place in the formation of public policy, but that day has not
       yet come.
       --- End Quote ---
       Will Farage and Le Pen be assassinated? If not, why not? Why is
       assassinating the most evil politicians in the world (who are
       popular precisely because of how evil they are) so taboo, but
       letting countless refugees drown in the Mediterranean (and
       countless more still invisibly starve to death before even
       having a chance to try to cross it) as a direct consequence of
       policies promoted by these same politicians so acceptable?
       False Leftists will lamely say the refugees have a "human right"
       to asylum, but there are no "rights" without duties. There will
       be no reliable asylum without first doing the duty of
       exterminating those who oppose asylum, because it is those who
       oppose asylum (for "non-whites only, of course) who will be
       winning more and more elections!
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       Re: Western Democracy
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: September 29, 2023, 4:01 am
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       Still supporting democracy, leftists?
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgf2epDy1iI
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       Re: Western Democracy
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: October 15, 2023, 9:16 pm
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       Still supporting democracy, environmentalists? Here is why our
       enemies like democracy:
  HTML https://gatesofvienna.net/2023/10/the-bloom-is-off-the-climate-change-rose/
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       > ARD survey: Only 1% of voters consider climate protection to
       be the most important issue
       > ...
       > The vast majority of respondents consider immigration pressure
       on Germany to be the most important current political issue: 44%
       are of this opinion.
       > ...
       > For three quarters of Germans (75%), the climate movement
       demonstrations have no influence at all on their personal
       attitude to climate and environmental issues.
       --- End Quote ---
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/china-the-ocean-is-not-japan's-trash-can/msg21146/#msg21146
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       Re: Western Democracy
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: October 20, 2023, 2:56 am
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       Still supporting democracy, leftists? Here is another reason why
       our enemies like democracy:
  HTML https://gatesofvienna.net/2023/10/refugees-not-so-welcome-anymore/
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       > Almost three-quarters of Germans consider immigration from
       Islamic countries to be a high security risk. This emerges from
       a survey conducted by the opinion research institute Insa for
       Bild.
       >
       > According to this, 71.1% of those surveyed are of the opinion
       that the immigration of people from heavily Muslim countries
       represents a “high security risk for Germany”. Only 9.1% say no.
       19.8% did not provide any information.
       > ...
       > Most of those who are not afraid of Islamic social change vote
       for the Greens. Only the majority of their supporters did not
       say that immigrants from Muslim countries pose a high security
       risk.
       > ...
       > 62.5% also demand that people who cheer Hamas’ terror against
       Israel on German streets should be “punished”. 20.2% reject
       this. 17.3% have no opinion on this.
       --- End Quote ---
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       Re: Western Democracy
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: October 24, 2023, 2:40 pm
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       Still supporting democracy, leftists? Here is what is happening
       in the most democratic country in the world:
  HTML https://rmx.news/switzerland/immigration-trumps-the-environment-as-right-wing-populists-win-swiss-federal-elections/
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       > Federal elections held in Switzerland on Sunday saw the
       right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP) increase its vote share as
       the country’s largest party as voters endorsed the party’s calls
       to further control immigration.
       >
       > The SVP won 29 percent of the vote — up from 25.6 percent four
       years earlier — and increased its representation in the Swiss
       parliament from 53 to 62 seats.
       > ...
       > The election was dominated by Switzerland’s two mainstream
       parties, the SVP and the left-wing Social Democrats (SP), which
       also saw its number of parliamentary seats increase by two. This
       was primarily at the expense of the Green Party, which lost five
       seats, and the Green Liberal Party of Switzerland (GLP) — a
       group that splintered from the Greens back in 2007 — which lost
       six as worries over immigration trumped environmental concerns.
       > ...
       > “The consequence of this election will be a tougher
       immigration and asylum policy,” SVP parliamentary group leader
       Thomas Aeschi told the SRF broadcaster.
       > ...
       > The gradual shift towards right-wing politics has been a
       staple of European elections in the past two years, following
       the election of Giorgia Meloni in Italy; conservative
       governments in Estonia, Greece, and Sweden; and the rise of the
       Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) and the Alternative for Germany
       (AfD), which sit first and second in their respective national
       polls.
       --- End Quote ---
       This is democracy working as intended. When will leftists
       understand this and stop being democrats?
       See also:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/re-eu-2306/
  HTML http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/support-nancy-holten/
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       Re: Western Democracy
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: October 30, 2023, 8:23 pm
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       Remember, the reason why many False Leftists support Israel is
       because it is "the only democracy in the Middle East":
       [img]
  HTML https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F9s-0d1W0AAtEoP?format=jpg&name=medium[/img]
       This is democracy working as it was designed to work.
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       Re: Western Democracy
   DIR By: rp
       Date: October 30, 2023, 8:27 pm
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       And you have many politically retarded "anti-Zionist" False
       Leftists who will say "Israel is not a democracy, it is an
       ethnostate!", as though the two are mutually exclusive.
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       Re: Western Democracy
   DIR By: MutilatingCorpses
       Date: November 12, 2023, 1:59 pm
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       Malcolm X Speech "Democracy is Hypocrisy"
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNfAFfu6VD0
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       Re: Western Democracy
   DIR By: antihellenistic
       Date: November 21, 2023, 7:41 am
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       Democracy cannot work properly on people with low intelligence
       and low ability to sustain their economy
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       > Prof. Vanhanen proposes that high IQ per se is necessary for
       democracy because “people in countries with low national IQs are
       not as able to organize themselves, to take part in national
       politics, and to defend their rights against those in power as
       people in countries with higher national IQs” (p.270). The
       peoples of low-IQ countries may want democracy, but they cannot
       establish and maintain it.
       >
       > ...
       >
       > Prof. Vanhanen concludes otherwise: A high average, rather
       than a tight distribution of IQs is what creates the middle
       class. More intelligent people are better able to defend and
       further their interests and to acquire education, which prevents
       the concentration of power resources. This distribution of
       political power supports the emergence of market economies,
       which help distribute power resources more widely. Standard
       deviation in IQ is probably similar for most countries, but
       those with high averages are more equal and more democratic.
       --- End Quote ---
       Source :
       Who is Capable of Democracy? Posted on August 22, 2020
  HTML https://www.amren.com/news/2020/08/who-is-capable-of-democracy/
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