Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "The New Culture Forum" channel.

  1. The Welfare State is actually the conservative position, now. (It won the Cold War, by the way -- a synthesis of Capitalism and Communism. Hegel would be proud, though not proud of Marx.) Right now the dialectic seems to be between liberalism and authoritarianism. I'm not sure there can be a synthesis between the two, but we may find a way.
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  2. "We don't want to be the 51st state" Of course not. "Airstrip One" is your traditional title. ;) That said, the United States is the best in the world at the logistics of moving millions of people from one place to another, often having to overcome opposition to do so. We'll get the Higgins Boats ready, and we can probably even scrounge up some Canadians to pilot them, this time to send all the invaders back to France, North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, or wherever it is they come from these days.
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  3. Amen!
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  4. "It should be up to the universities and students to decide [what kind of civil rights people should have on their campus]" Should it be up to universities and students to decide to exclude [insert minority here]? We'd never have integrated schools, with an attitude like that.
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  5. "Think of me as a male lesbian." - Eddie Izzard
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  6. Defeatist. Is the spirit of Churchill dead, in England?
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  7.  @pendarricrolynd7444  I'm pretty sure Churchill had an equity stake of his own
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  8. Has Ms. Burchill heard of Tim Pool, in America?
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  9. "Human rights" groups have become extremist hate groups, attempting to cancel any whisper that they might be wrong. Whittle, their destruction of the churches has led us to this -- everything you complain of, in the destruction of the West. Was it worth it?
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  10.  @thedude0000  Of course not -- the Gospel specifically deprecates jumping off of buildings. You've never chosen to believe any news report, when you had no way of independently verifying it?
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  11.  @thedude0000  I once witnessed a pigeon-murder. I was waiting at an intersection for the light to change. I noticed two pigeons fighting in midair, when one grabbed the other in its claws, swooped across my car's hood, and dropped it directly under the tire of a truck in the left-turn lane that had just started to roll because the light had turned. It was, as Carl Sagan might say, extraordinary. However, "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" is egotistical verging on solipsistic. (Not exactly a surprise, considering Sagan's overall personality.) The evidence I can provide for this is basically the words you have read. That degree of evidence does not affect the fact that it's true. You can choose to believe it, or not.
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  12.  @thedude0000  You're arguing semantics. "High bar" and "Extraordinary" are synonyms in this case. Your insistence that God doesn't exist (to the point of taking the time and trouble to engage in this debate) leads me to believe you've got a particular reason you don't want God to exist. What might that be?
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  13. "If you don't cover this up, our community will stop giving you political support" If you deport them, it won't matter whether they support you politically or not. Since Nixon resigned over the Watergate scandal, a lesson in American politics has been "the crime doesn't get you -- the cover-up does." Anyone in the UK who has covered up anything like this, is going to find out the hard way how true that is.
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  14. Is this an inevitable working-out of the cynical view that the Church is simply a means of control over the population, that needed to be reoriented away from English national unity and traditional values, and towards European unity and current fashionable values?
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  15. Is there any evidence of foreign agents active in this movement?
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  16. If you want a system that recognizes both the wonderful and the awful things that your countries have done, you should EXPLICITLY SUPPORT CHRISTIANITY. Without that, your country is doomed.
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  17. "The ayatollahs are not Persian, they are Arabs" What would it take to get the world behind pushing back Arab colonization?
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  18. "Advice rather than compulsion" -- Yes!
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  19. The Liberation of our Institutions -- sounds like a good cause. =)
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  20. "All speech is about power" That's sociopathy.
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  21.  @frankd2392  Are you Europeans still on about that? I thought that strain of Nietzschean thought went out of fashion in a bunker under Berlin in 1945, although I guess the Communists (who also believe the State to be uber alles) tried to keep up the pretense for another 44 years or so. You realize that your choice is between revived Christianity and Islam, right? Atheism isn't a real option. Look at the birth rates. Europe of 2100 will be less feminist, more heteronormative, and either vastly more Christian or vastly more Muslim. Choices you make today, will help determine which.
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  22.  @frankd2392  Congregations are only dwindling in denominations that have drifted leftwards -- denominations that have remained conservative are growing. Leftward Europe is also dying. Countries that have seen their birthrates turn around are consciously pursuing re-Christianization policies. As for the rest? Their populations aged 0-18 are predominantly Muslim. The choice is clear: Christian revival, or Sharia law. Doesn't seem like all that hard a choice, to my mind.
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  23. "I am inherently optimistic" HA! I knew he couldn't possibly be a Russian!
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  24.  @tenniskinsella7768  All of those are good things, that Conservatives have to preserve.
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  25. Because Leftism attracts all the envious, less-attractive women.
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  26. Someone is supposedly worried about Free Speech, and his solution is to force someone to withdraw a comment? I don't think he knows what Free Speech is.
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  27. Socialism and communism are far more efficient -- they're simply anti-human.
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  28.  @julianskinner3697  There used to be a lot less tax overall.
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  29. I think that Eurocentrism in the Church of England is wrong. Europe, and the European governance of the Church of England, has lost its faith (and apparently its mind), as Calvin Robinson is presenting here. Anglican churches in Africa are closer to Scripture than the Archbishop of Canterbury and the church leadership quoted here. They should, in all humility, listen to those devout Africans and come back to Biblical faith.
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  30. @Evop Fx It may just be a conspiracy of incompetence. If so, they are reaching new heights.
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  31. You forgot to mention Gustav Holst, despite his music playing throughout! Honestly, I think you should have wrapped up with Jupiter, rather than Venus.
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  32. To be fair, not having a uterus does mean that certain human issues are alien to you. I think that the only people who should discuss the abortion issue are people who have a uterus, and people who once were babies. Anyone who has neither been a baby or has a uterus really has anything to say on the subject.
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  33. "Beauty is fascist" Aren't these people supposed to be against fascism? Why are they trying to make fascism look good?
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  34. If Douglas Murray were told that, to do his bit to save Western Civilization, he would have to find a nice girl to settle down and raise a family with, and encourage others to do the same, would he do it?
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  35. The BBC has been taken over by depraved, nihilistic individuals who are okay with watching the world burn, because Christianity teaches that a thriving world is better off without those depravities.
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  36.  @HairExplosion  No kidding. Don't they know how pathetic they sound? "I'm rejecting every solution we've ever had, so I don't have any solutions". Yeah, I wonder how that happened. Yeesh.
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  37. During the Albigensian crusade, the bodies of dead heretics were exhumed, and dragged through the streets.
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  38. Pakistan's persecution of any non-Muslim is probably a function of how much we push things like "Postmodern Gender theory" there.
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  39. Why the West isn't having children? Well, they are taught to try very hard not to. Humanity is selectively breeding people resistant to all forms of birth control.
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  40. There's a young aspect and an old aspect of toxic femininity, just like there's a young aspect and an old aspect of toxic masculinity (the tyrant and the bandit). What we're seeing now in the Nanny State is the old aspect of toxic femininity, the Devouring Mother. What we're seeing more in the current culture, not unknown but not well recognized, is the youthful version of toxic femininity -- the Spoiled Princess. Just as the two aspects of toxic masculinity are corruptions of constructive masculininty (the wise lawgiver and the warrior) the two aspects of toxic femininity are corruptions of motherhood -- nurturing motherhood, and the nesting mother-to-be. If you were wondering why the new strain of feminism of is severely entitled (both materially and from a status point of view), obsessed with ejecting any threat from their environment, this is why. If you're wondering why this is coming up nowadays, a promising place to start looking is research that indicates pregnant women prefer emasculated men. Pile on top of this the fact that the birth control pill basically mimics pregnancy and the percentage of the female population that is on "the pill", and you've got a credible answer right there to what is going on, and why.
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  41.  @sirrathersplendid4825  Isn't pronouncing things exactly as spelled something the English do to the French, to make fun of them?
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  42.  @khar12d8  English signs are an inexact (but on the main, reliable) measure of whether people know English, or know someone who can help them navigate English signage as they picked up English (and benefited from what finite resources there were, to help them learn.) In a healthy English society where immigrants are being properly assimilated, everyone would be able to get by this way without any problems. If there are areas where the signs aren't in English, on the other hand, that indicates that there are large masses of population who have not assimilated, may not even be interested in assimilating, and are being aided and abetted in their own alienation by shopkeepers (and politicians) who cater to it. It's divisive and unhealthy. If you get into a situation where you have multiple generations who fail to learn English, you end up with a terrible problem where the younger generation is too Anglicized to fit in back in the Old Country (as Americans call countries of origin), but are nowhere near capable of successfully navigating English society. These are problems that thoughtless pro-immigration cause, when they advocate for levels of immigration that are too high. They should be ashamed of themselves for not thinking through what they are proposing, and how they are trapping people they claim to want to "help".
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  43. They don't have a list, but their intention is probably summed up best by the phrase, "We plan to tear down everything English they will let us tear down." This fight is becoming existential. The only positive outcome is for people who have assimilated to English culture to remain, and those who do not intend to assimilate to English culture, to leave.
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  44.  @lesleygurnick4050  If you never get started it will never happen. You should get started.
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  45. Do we need to pressure the British Crown to take seriously the "Defender of the Faith" title? War might be necessary.
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  46. "We used to have books called 'Men of Glory' and 'Women of Glory'" Iirc, the muse of History is named "Cleo", which means "Glory".
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  47. You cannot remove Newton from the history of science. F=ma is the most useful equation in human history. Almost every Department of Engineering relies on variations of that single equation, including Civil Engineering, which is devoted to the case where it is equal to zero. Are Greeks of today to be especially despised now, because of the "Greek savior" role the ancient Greeks played in the Renaissance? The activists are insane, and their activities are absurd.
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  48. China is now (once again) a Mandarinate. This is the antithesis of the liberty-minded democracy that Francis Fukuyama celebrated as the End of History. We are now in a new Cold War, to see if liberty will survive. Unfortunately, governments throughout the world are attempting to become Mandarinates, against the sovereignty of their own people.
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  49. "British are looking across the Atlantic and thinking, I'd like a little bit of that" "And even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the Old." Depends on which part of the Empire, eh?
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  50. Who says Trump isn't handling this as well as anyone would? I mean, apart from the media / hard Left who have been unhinged in their criticism of him for years.
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