Today’s task is also to reclaim and reassert democratic control over the economic, digital and geopolitical system that nationalists are challenging.
Near complete list of the things I’m against. “Democratic control” means the lanyards get to tell everyone what to do. This is lovely for the lanyards and a disaster for everyone else.
In short, I insist that the fuckers don’t control the economy, digital…..
Clearly for the Left, rather than trying to appeal to the native majority population, importing hostile foreigners to vote for you, as Sanchez has done in Spain, is the solution.
The other part of the playbook is to ban or make too expensive everything the native population enjoy.
Which indicates a particularly stupid form of malice. The Romans figured out bread and circuses as a means to placate the plebs, but these twats are too eager to rub their enemies’ noses in defeat. They’ll take everything away until there’s nothing left to enjoy except hoisting their twitching bodies up the lamp posts. God help them when the money runs out, ‘cos I won’t.
Not just clear, but openly stated. If they weren’t so thick, they might realise that the hostile foreigner vote is extremely unreliable. Look at Britain, where Labour is losing the Muslim block vote in rotten boroughs all over the country.
They always seem to think that: ‘ it’ll be different this time’.
Eleven years now they have been trying. They seem stupid. Einstein says they are insane.
Lefties are not serious people and it was a failure on our part to take them seriously as a political option rather than as the antisocial personality disorder they represent. We have no use for a system where five of the main options are “let’s destroy the country and impoverish its inhabitants because stupid people don’t care about maths”, clearly that’s not working.
And, IMHO, the answer is vote Reform! The next GE is our last – our final! – opportunity to halt immigration and begin the process of re-migration. After the next GE, the electorate will change radically as conservative/Brexiteer voters die off and immigrant and younger indoctrinated voters call the tune…
begin the process of re-migration
Don’t do that. Announce that anyone caught in UK without authorization will get a year on Mingulay. Make “re-migration” their job, not yours.
Are you planning on piling them twenty deep or eighty deep? Mingulay isn’t anywhere near big enough for them to stand shoulder-to-shoulder.
No…
Indeed…
Indeed. Yet note Labour’s deep attraction to China, which, I fear, many Labourites/socialists/commies see as a potentially workable model…
What does he mean by “democratic control”? Obviously not control by governments elected by a majority of voters.
Oh, sorry, he does mean that – but the special case where the UK economic system is controlled by the governments of Brazil and Spain
From America, it looks like Spain has gone commie nuts.
We’ve got a government that’s shortly destined to lose an election bigly. So they’re pursuing a scorched earth policy.
Personally, I think they’re playing with fire. This isn’t a natural democracy. It’s already had two civil wars & the wounds of the last one are still fresh. And that’s if you don’t count the unpleasantness up in Pays Vasco. There’s still plenty of Francoists about, resent having their noses rubbed in the shit. There’s also a lot of guns here.
I’ve always thought that spending power was a kind of indirect form of democracy. Everyone has a certain amount of control over various happenings by deciding what to buy and what not to buy. I don’t mean boycotts, although they can have an effect as well, I’m thinking more of just general buying decisions that retailers and manufacturers respond to.
This is of course why the lanyards want more control over that spending.
The real irony is that the people who say “democratic” when they really mean “my” or “our” don’t realise that in a fight, numbers matter. You may think that because you’re as rich as Croesus you can control everything, but as people in the UK will shortly find out, having control of the courts and the police and having a trillion pounds at your disposal won’t help you against a few million people who want to kill you because their God tells them to…
They won’t be in the firing line though…
Commie speak. They use ‘democratic’ not because they believe in it, rather because YOU believe in it.
There are no such systems. Commie delusion. If there are ‘systems,’ they are controllable.
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*re*claim? He mean *claim*.
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