Comments by "jdg" (@jdg9999) on "UnHerd" channel.

  1. The idea that we need immigration "for the economy" is such a laughable lie, as is shown by the way immigration policy is formulated. For example we allow low wage unskilled immigrants to bring dependents who contribute nothing to the economy and actually drain public servants. Similarly the fact that we allow low wage immigrants at all, since anyone who earns below about £40k in the UK is a net drain on the economy and lowers our GDP per capita, making us a poorer country. How is any of that "helping the economy"? In fact it just helps big business by lowering the wages they have to pay, (privatizing the profits) while the public have to pay the taxes to fund the government services that low wage immigrants need to get by. (socializing the costs). If immigration was actually "for the economy" we would only allow permanent immigrants who would be net contributors to the public finances, we would allow them to bring no dependents, and any low wage immigration would be only via temporary work visas to fill skills shortages, with no access to public services and taxes paid to finance the services they receive purely by virtue of being in the country. The fact that it isn't done that way show that "it's for the economy" is a lie.
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  2. "how Iran runs its own internal domestic affairs is for the Iranian people alone" - And how spectacularly more productive and friendly would our relations be with other non Western countries if more of the British government shared this attitude.
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  3. "the reconquest of Kherson" - i.e. The Russians simply withdrawing across the Dniepr because they didn't want their forces to be encircled.
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  4. Maybe that's why they're doing it? Notice how every time there's internal dissent, it is externalized and blamed on the Russians or CHinese? (Trump, Brexit, Palestine debate etc)
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  5. Withdrawal from the state, formation of parallel institutions outside the control of the establishment. We need to build an alternative.
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  6. Senior Ukrainian diplomats have confirmed this story
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  7. Further shown by their conduct in Georgia (which even the EU admitted the Georgians provoked), where they made a show of force until the Georgians backed down and left the separatist regions alone, no annexation. (which they tried to do with Ukraine and Minsk, but the Kiev government spent years attacking the Eastern regions and rearming for a full invasion of them (as Merkel has now said was the secret plan all along)
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  8.  @davidmacaart953  Agreed. He seems to want it to be 1993 again (ironic given his dismissal of European voters' nostalgia for the 1950s). Unlike the rest of the establishment he seems to understand things are falling apart, but he seems not to be able to formulate a solution outside the postwar Western neoliberal/neocon hegemony consenus. "defending the empire" lol
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  9. Hierarchy is real and good. There, that's the fundamental insight of those thinkers.
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  10. "Gay people feel intimidated" Utterly laughable, that's the big criticism of Hungary you came up with?
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  11. "hurr hurr Putin is Stalin" - Kisin is a moron and is indeed controlled opposition. George Bernard Shaw was shown a controlled, fake view of Russia, whereas you can just search Youtube and see videos from all over Russia, and it's not just "the centre of Moscow", despite Kisin's lies.
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  12. Just like "threat to democracy" means "threat to our control".
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  13.  @harrymills2770  Yep, I love my country but British virtues (politeness, understatement, circumspection) can become vices when used as a shield for cowardice and inaction.
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  14. Funny that the more money a right wing group or individual receives from corporate or individual outside sources, the more likely they are to support Israel.
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  15. Yes, this is the distinction that the modern debate misses I remember being a small child in Britain not that many years ago and there being two women "friends" on our street that lived together. Everyone was friendly with them, they were welcome everywhere, and traditional British politeness meant that no one ever said what everyone knew they were. Traditional social norms were upheld, while people's private freedoms were respected. I don't recognise that as being some sort of terrible "right wing extremism" as such a society would be referred to as now.
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  16. Exactly, but the public isn't aware of any of this so completely bought the narrative that the couple of weeks in office where she never eneacted a single policy was to blame
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  17. That's why what we need is properly funded groups to catalogue track and expose every one of these groups, where their funding comes from and who runs them.
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  18. Yep, even here in the UK, which is supposed to be more pro liberty than the continent, the acceptance of government control runs pretty deep. In fact, freedom even has some negative connotations associated with America, so that "Wild West" is often used here as a pejorative for things that are insufficiently regulated, and individuals who don't follow the rules properly arw described as "cowboys"​@CLCL748
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  19. He's very smart, but I wouldn't trust him further than I could throw him. He's a neocon neolib servant of the American empire who does not have the best interests of Europe at heart. He wants Europe to remain a weak subordinate of the US and advocates policies (like open borders) designed to keep us that way.
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  20. British and Irish nationalists have been pretty united in their shared opposition to the migrant wave. A similar dynamic played out in Ireland before it did in the UK (the government taking over hotels and buildings in small and often poor Irish communities and bussing in groups of young third world migrant men during the middle of the night with no advance notice so that the local people couldn't organize against it, then the Irish media and elites calling ordinary people that opposed them "far right")
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  21. The big argument against Russia seems to be "but much of it is still poor" - guess what, that's what 80 years of communism does to a country. The point is that it's much less poor than it was. The fact that it just overtook Germany to become the largest economy in Europe by PPP shows the direction of travel.
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  22.  @jpevans01  How did Vietnam work out again?
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  23. We need a realist foreign policy that maintains Western strength while accepting the equal prominence of China and Russia and the emerging global powers like Iran, Indonesia etc etc. The "rules based liberal order" nonsense that is just a fig leaf for American global hegemony has to be consigned to the dustbin of history. A return to Westphalian sovereignty for all.
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  24. "all the Russians speakers I spoke to are totally anti Russian now" - they would say that lol, have you seen what they do to ethnic Russians seen as "insufficiently Ukrainian"? I've even seen them forced to acknowledge on Sky News when reporting from the East the civilian population often just wants the Ukrainian army to leave.
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  25. "White is a completely arbitrary category invented by American bureaucrats" White is a synonym for European. This guy is a leftist.
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  26. Remember he's a neocon at heart. He was a big Iraq war shill.
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  27. "ah but the fall of Putin would bring about the disintegration of Russia" - funny how the Western media simultaneously ridiculues Russian "paranoia" at the idea that the West wants to destroy Russia, while in point-of-fact the entire Western policy is oriented around achieving exactly that, and "intelligent" people openly say it.
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  28. So not wanting to be made into an ethnic minority in the lands of your ancestors is "false consciousness imposed on you by the capitalist class" is it? Funny that those capitalists are the biggest supporters of open borders so they can import cheap workers then. Communist dickhead.
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  29. As long as you exist as an ethnically identifiably different from the native population, then you aren't ethnically British lol. Leftists want to be able to get rid of any real ethnic British identity by saying that people of for example Jamaican heritage, as long as they're born here, are ethnically British, but they aren't are they, because they're still identifiable as distinct from the native ethnic British population. As Aris says, it took generations for even the very similar culturally and ethnically Huegenots to assimilate. As long as you have an "other" identity, then you can't be ethnically British.
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  30. Just search "Tehran metro" for videos by Western travellers to Iran, it's a much more free society than many of our supposed "allies" like Saudi Arabia. When you see the cross section of Iranian society, all the teenage girls aren't wearing headscarves, younger women wear them round their shoulders or barely covering the back of their heads and with their hair showing, and older and more conservative women women wear full headscarves. No one wears burkas or niqabs of the like you can often see in British northern towns. None of the men care or are bothered by this. And then we're given a story in our media about how women in Iran are afraid to leave their homes without a full face veil and a male guardian, or they'll be beaten by the religious police. That's far more likely to happened in our allied gulf monarchies, yet our media is curiously silent about their treatment of women, or religious minorities.
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  31. Trying to make people think they're crazy for seeing that the West, being the most powerful political bloc in the world, is willing to do almost anything to maintain its power, including violating its supposed principles. That's not a "conspiracy theory" lol.
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  32.  @Ryan-kv7yt  He actually is wrong. If it were really about the economy then we wouldn't be shipping in millions of low IQ, high crime, unskilled workers from hostile cultures. For example the kind of immigration Sweden has enacted has been a massive net drain on their economy.
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  33. Exactly. People saying "hurr durr the poorest American state is 6x richer than Russia" are actually making the point, that Russian cities are vastly more clean and orderly with vastly less money.
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  34. Amazing that the Ukrainians think they have a right to tell the people of Crimea what to do.
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  35. Sounds like you're describing Britain and America. But since the mafia in those countries is run by liberal globalists you don't care.
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  36. Yes Freddie, nationalists and neoliberals are not the same thing. Farage's weakness is that he's stuck in the 1980s as far as economic policy.
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  37. Whatever you think of her (overall a mediocrity), anyone who isn't a total moron can see the way she was taken out by the media/Tory establishment/Labour and the Bank of England working together. And the idea that her couple of weeks in office in any way are the cause of our economic problems is patently ridiculous and obvious capegoating by the people actually to blame (the PMs before and after her and the Bank of England)
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  38. Exactly, while he may pose as a bit of an iconoclast, he's is very much "one of them"
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  39. 29:57 - I've seen people suggest that Tommy Robinson is a Mossad asset. Hearing what Aris says, makes it seem like that might actually be true.
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  40. ​ @aaronmichael21 Classical liberalism led us to gender transitions for kids.
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  41. Maybe because he's actually right wing? Unlike the supposed right in Britain and America.
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  42. "the wokification of the right" "blindness to reality" - no you shitlib clown, what the right is seeing happening to Western societies is not imaginary. Nice try attempting to gaslight us into thinking it's not happening.
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  43. You're right to some degree, but it's more complex than you make out. For example in Northern Ireland it IS an ethnicity, Nothern Irish unionists identify only as British, not as Irish or English. Similarly for many mainland British people it functions as a sort of "2nd layer ethnicity" above their English/Scottish/Welsh/Irish ethnicity.
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  44.  @dt6822  Funny how that standard is never applied to leftists. The same people who say the truckers weren't a "legitimate protest movement" because they blocked a bridge don't seem to think BLM was discredited by rioting and burning cities and murdering dozens of people.
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  45. So Britain is far right for leaving the EU?
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  46. A mirror image of the self serving, unprincipled upper class cabal that controls the Tory party and that is in no meaningful way "conservative" outside of their desire to conserve their own power.
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  47. Pretty extreme position. Better than extinction, but not a preferred outcome. The neocon/neoliberal hegemony is collapsing anywy, the current Western elites being humiliated by Russia and China would probably delegitimize them and allow nationalists to break out.
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  48. "the vast majority of Ukraine will now be fully independent and pro-Western" - lol, you mean "fully under Western control".
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  49. Why is there never any outrage from liberals when the government and judiciary and academia is stuffed with left wing ideologues, but somehow it's an attack on democracy when the right does the same? It's hilarious that under a Tory government, there are more Labour party members appointed to run quangos than Tories. Meanwhile when Labour are in government nearly 100% of people appointed are Labour or other left wingers.
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  50. We're so past Martin Luther King lol, any white person with an ounce of self respect is realising that no one else is playing the "content of your character" game, they just want to take what we have.
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