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       #Post#: 32652--------------------------------------------------
       The rise of Boromir Syndrome?
   DIR By: antizion
       Date: May 25, 2026, 4:51 pm
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       Something I've noticed is that the far-right is becoming more
       critical of Israel, superficially of-course.
       Antizionism is a left-wing thing, and they're stealing &
       corrupting our talking points.
       I hate how BS-Gentiles are outvoicing authentic anti-zionism.
       (I feel promoting Boromir Syndrome is a Zionist ploy to silence
       anti-zionist.)
       How do we combat this?
       Example of a BS-type pretending to promote unity (note this
       person used to harass Rashida Tlaib):
  HTML https://i.ibb.co/4gdNZ26K/rdh0nf6jswng1.webp
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       Re: The rise of Boromir Syndrome?
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: May 25, 2026, 7:55 pm
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       "they're stealing & corrupting our talking points."
       They're actually stealing False Left talking points, not ours.
       For example, in your posted tweet MTG says:
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       > we are now a nation divided between those who want to fight
       wars for Israel and those who just want peace and to be able to
       afford our bills and health insurance
       --- End Quote ---
       Our position, in contrast, is that we want to fight wars against
       Israel, even if it means less money for domestic projects. So
       no, there are three camps:
       1) Zionist interventionism;
       2) non-interventionism;
       3) anti-Zionist interventionism.
       We need to constantly emphasize that True Leftism is about 3),
       not 2).
       Also, rightist criticism of Israel is not criticism of Israel
       for being an ethnostate, as they themselves want ethnostates for
       non-Jewish "whites". We, in contrast, not only criticize Israel
       for being an ethnostate, but for we criticize all ethnostates
       simultaneously.
       We need to constantly emphasize policy similarity (e.g. on
       immigration) between rightist critics of Israel and Israel
       itself.
       #Post#: 32800--------------------------------------------------
       Re: The rise of Boromir Syndrome?
   DIR By: antizion
       Date: July 5, 2026, 6:51 am
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       More and more rightoids are disliking Israel.
       The Zionist Jew in the last reply said that he hates immigrants,
       yet Gentile rightoids still don't get it.  ::)
       #Post#: 32801--------------------------------------------------
       Re: The rise of Boromir Syndrome?
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: July 5, 2026, 5:12 pm
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       Some Zionist arguments can actually be used against BS types.
       For example, many Zionists accurately argue that what Israel is
       doing to Palestinians etc. is no worse than what was done by
       colonial-era "whites" to various indigenous peoples, so anyone
       calling for Israeli territory to be given back to Palestinians
       etc. should similarly call for territory in the US, Australia,
       Russia, etc. to be given back in order to be consistent. No BS
       does so, obviously. But this is precisely what we have always
       called for:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/russia-the-last-colonial-empire/msg13916/#msg13916
       As early as the OWNP days, one item in the manifesto explicitly
       stated that vast quantities of US territory would be returned to
       the descendants of their pre-colonial owners. As soon as the
       manifesto was released, this very item came under attack from
       supposed rightist "anti-Zionists". This event was what prompted
       me to coin the term "Boromir Syndrome" to begin with.
       Their main argument is that "whites" put the territory to better
       use (serving Western civilization) than the indigenous would
       have done (serving non-Western civilizations) had they been
       allowed to keep it. This is of course identical to the attitude
       of Israelis:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/leftists-against-progressivism/msg25940/#msg25940
       so the BS position is still inconsistent (if Western
       civilization is what they value, they should support Israel).
       But the False Left position (which admires Western machines,
       Western aesthetics, etc. while condemning Western colonialism)
       is even less consistent. The True Left position, on the other
       hand, is to reject that the territory was put to better use,
       which requires us criticizing Western civilization as a whole:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-sustainable-evil/
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-a-health-hazard/
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-ugly-48/
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/if-western-civilization-does-not-die-soon/
       It should be noted that we have no problem with empires which
       actually would put additional territory to better use:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/true-left-breakthrough-folkish-imperialism/
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       > a hypothetical vegan country would be justified in invading
       all non-vegan countries for the sake of eradicating cruelty to
       animals, and so on.
       --- End Quote ---
       We merely disagree on what is meant by "better":
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       > In contrast, wishing to bring progress to additional
       territories is an invalid reason for invasion. A non-industrial
       country does not prevent an industrial country from successful
       industry, therefore the industrial country is unjustified in
       invading the non-industrial country. A non-compulsory-schooling
       country does not prevent a compulsory-schooling country from
       successful compulsory schooling, therefore the
       compulsory-schooling country is unjustified in invading the
       non-compulsory-schooling country. And so on. (In fact it is the
       other way round: the
       non-industrial/non-compulsory-schooling/etc. countries should
       invade the industrial/compulsory-schooling/etc. countries in
       order to eradicate industry/compulsory schooling/etc.!)
       >
       > In general, let X be an idea. If X is something that can
       succeed only if everyone practices it, invasion to impose X is
       justified. Whereas if X is something that can succeed with
       merely a fraction of people practicing it, invasion to spread X
       is unjustified (but invasion of practitioners by
       non-practitioners to eradicate X is justified!).
       >
       > Most fundamentally, consider reproduction. Reproducers are not
       justified in invading non-reproducers, because reproduction will
       succeed so long as some people reproduce (irrespective of the
       remainder not reproducing). On the other hand, non-reproducers
       are justified in invading reproducers, because non-reproduction
       will only succeed if everyone refrains from reproducing
       simultaneously.
       --- End Quote ---
       #Post#: 32815--------------------------------------------------
       Re: The rise of Boromir Syndrome?
   DIR By: Sunlight
       Date: July 7, 2026, 7:12 pm
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       > As early as the OWNP days, one item in the manifesto
       explicitly stated that vast quantities of US territory would be
       returned to the descendants of their pre-colonial owners. As
       soon as the manifesto was released, this very item came under
       attack from supposed rightist "anti-Zionists". This event was
       what prompted me to coin the term "Boromir Syndrome" to begin
       with.
       --- End Quote ---
       At the very least, the "reservations" in the US could easily
       have their borders significantly expanded, as a start. And it
       goes without saying that the original lands of each respective
       indigenous nation should be returned to them as well, even if
       the nation already has land allotted to them in a region where
       they don't originally come from. Namely, lands that belonged to
       these nations before they were expelled through the Trail of
       Tears:
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears
       Again, these re-established legacy "reservations" can begin with
       a modest size due to practical and ceremonial restraints, and
       regain more land  in timely manner.
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       > It should be noted that we have no problem with empires which
       actually would put additional territory to better use:
       --- End Quote ---
       I propose that it won't be issue for indigenous nations that go
       Vegan today to have their lands returned to them, even if they
       historically were not Vegan. But given the proliferation of
       latent Boromir Syndrome Rightists in the OWNP, how would you
       gauge the quality of the rest of the OWNP manifesto in
       retrospect?
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       Re: The rise of Boromir Syndrome?
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: July 7, 2026, 8:40 pm
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       "regain more land  in timely manner."
       One idea back then was that the current government apparatus
       could still continue to operate in returned lands, with the main
       difference being that taxes from those lands would be payable to
       the indigenous owners, who could then decide whether or not to
       allocate tax funding to public projects proposed by the
       governments, in effect giving the indigenous owners the final
       say over what projects do or do not go ahead.
       "proliferation of latent Boromir Syndrome Rightists in the OWNP"
       As far as I remember, they never joined the OWNP. They
       criticized it as outsiders, discouraging others from joining.
       #Post#: 32828--------------------------------------------------
       Re: The rise of Boromir Syndrome?
   DIR By: Sunlight
       Date: July 8, 2026, 10:07 pm
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       "One idea back then was that the current government apparatus
       could still continue to operate in returned lands, with the main
       difference being that taxes from those lands would be payable to
       the indigenous owners, who could then decide whether or not to
       allocate tax funding to public projects proposed by the
       governments, in effect giving the indigenous owners the final
       say over what projects do or do not go ahead."
       Not gonna lie, this is actually pretty smart in that its a
       simple solution that would easily fix a complicated problem with
       enough time. The forest doesn't necessarily have to be razed;
       just flow the Sunlight toward the more beautiful ecologies in
       them, allowing them to eventually dominate the entire ecosystem.
       "As far as I remember, they never joined the OWNP. They
       criticized it as outsiders, discouraging others from joining."
       Tell me a story. What started and ended the OWNP? You're really
       the only archivist of this bittersweet and hopeful project, so
       that makes you the prime bard extraordinaire. All I've heard is
       that it was something to do with Rightists.
       #Post#: 32829--------------------------------------------------
       Re: The rise of Boromir Syndrome?
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: July 9, 2026, 1:12 am
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       "What started and ended the OWNP?"
       The OWNP was started by those among post-9/11 anti-Zionists who
       rejected the notion of allowing WNs into the movement. The
       others thought it was a good idea to do so, either believing
       that letting in WNs would cause them to become more moderate, or
       believing that anti-Zionists needed to convert into WNs
       ourselves! JAM condemned the latter view and was dubious about
       the former, therefore set up the OWNP to gather the like-minded.
       The OWNP was ended by JAM replacing it with the Monarchist
       Party, which had a similar ideology but without references to
       National Socialism, thinking it would be better optics for a
       primarily American viewership. It made little difference. WNs
       continued to criticize us relentlessly, and unfortunately too
       many anti-Zionists listened to the critics. Worse, JAM himself
       eventually started to listen to the critics, placating them by
       adding implicit Islamophobia, reworked it into a racial theory
       that claimed general Semitic (Arab as well as Jewish) racial
       inferiority:
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  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/questions-debates/re-psychological-decolonization-323/msg28528/#msg28528
       as well as adding implicit patriarchy:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/questions-debates/re-psychological-decolonization-323/msg2457/#msg2457
       Basically he was sacrificing other issues hoping to retain at
       least rejection of hostility towards "blacks" among his viewers,
       which looking back was probably his main concern the whole time.
       Of course he failed (as I predicted). This was roughly when he
       and I ceased private correspondence.
       #Post#: 32830--------------------------------------------------
       Re: The rise of Boromir Syndrome?
   DIR By: Sunlight
       Date: July 9, 2026, 11:31 am
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       "The OWNP was ended by JAM replacing it with the Monarchist
       Party, which had a similar ideology but without references to
       National Socialism, thinking it would be better optics for a
       primarily American viewership. It made little difference. WNs
       continued to criticize us relentlessly, and unfortunately too
       many anti-Zionists listened to the critics. Worse, JAM himself
       eventually started to listen to the critics, placating them by
       adding implicit Islamophobia, reworked it into a racial theory
       that claimed general Semitic (Arab as well as Jewish) racial
       inferiority:"
       Give pinky, lose a hand. A shame that someone as bold and blunt
       as JAM didn't have the constitution to not play kiss-up to
       people who hated him. If you ask me, there felt like a cultural
       void in those times. As in, people didn't feel like they were
       Aryanist, or a part of a tangible Counterculture. Too many felt
       like WN adjacent watered-down Rightists, and I think that's a
       reason why the project slipped. Does that make sense?
       "Basically he was sacrificing other issues hoping to retain at
       least rejection of hostility towards "blacks" among his viewers,
       which looking back was probably his main concern the whole time.
       Of course he failed (as I predicted). This was roughly when he
       and I ceased private correspondence.
       Within the past few years there was a similar group called New
       Frontier that was theoretically non-racist, but its politics and
       general vibe was so Right-wing that it took exactly three and a
       half seconds for its membership to become de facto WNs. Group
       spirit and esprit d'corps are core. Groups that don't have their
       own are vulnerable to subversion.
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       Re: The rise of Boromir Syndrome?
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: July 9, 2026, 7:00 pm
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       "people didn't feel like they were Aryanist, or a part of a
       tangible Counterculture. Too many felt like WN adjacent
       watered-down Rightists, and I think that's a reason why the
       project slipped. Does that make sense?"
       Totally. Even within the Aryanist movement were members who had
       made rightist presumptions about the movement that I never
       intended (e.g. presuming that being anti-Jewish meant being
       homophobic, despite Judaism literally being the origin of
       homophobia). And this is not even to mention the confusion over
       the meaning of "Aryan". Even after the Aryan Diffusion series
       was published, some still presumed it was a series about
       prehistoric "white" migrations worldwide!
       Some even thought that I was merely a WN opposed to violence
       against "non-whites" currently alive, and that the reason why I
       talked about state control over reproduction every day was
       because my plan was to prohibit all "non-whites" from
       reproducing while allowing "whites" to reproduce, thus still
       ending up with the world that WNs want. The possibility that I
       would if anything first prohibit "whites" from reproducing never
       occurred to them in their wildest dreams..... until I finally
       started saying it explicitly.
       And when they at last understood this, some reacted by trying to
       turn my own values against my own strategy, such as arguing that
       if I wanted a vegan world (which indeed I do), I should want a
       "white" world since (according to them) only "whites" care about
       veganism. WTF?!
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/hitler-the-face-of-anti-tribalism/msg28854/#msg28854
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       > Germany was found to have the highest percentage of
       vegetarians (7.8 million, 10%) and vegans (900,000, 1.1%) in the
       modern West.
       > ...
       > the Africa/Middle East region (of which Egypt, Morocco, Saudi
       Arabia, South Africa, United Arab Emirates were surveyed), has
       16% vegetarians and 6% vegans, making it the second-most
       vegetarian region after Asia.[65]
       > ...
       > the Asia-Pacific region has the highest share of vegetarians
       (19%) and vegans (9%).[65]
       --- End Quote ---
       More broadly, I suspect that a major reason why many back then
       liked exposing the disproportionate Jewish influence on Western
       history was that they saw it as a way to shift blame for the
       horrors of the colonial era away from "whites" as a whole onto
       Jews only, when actually the point of the narrative was to
       include Jews among "whites" (and thus oppressors) contrary to
       the image of Jewish victimhood ("Holocaust survivors") that Jews
       have preferred.
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