Comments by "William Innes" (@williaminnes6635) on "The Golden One" channel.

Even from a pro-mass-migration perspective, it makes no sense for Republic of Ireland. They make their nominal GDP playing tax and regulatory games, and they're not a very big peninsula. They don't need to bring in mass migrants to boost their economy, and they have nowhere to put them.
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@da1vinci1edi so a country is invaded, two factions form, one side wants their country back for the people and its indigenous traditions, they had been in power prior to the invasion, known for swift justice to criminals, and for being somewhat less corrupt than their predecessors, this faction flees to a series of natural fortifications, from which they fight, for twenty years, a combination guerilla and trench war, until finally the invaders give up, and they retake their country for themselves. The other faction are composed, at best, of indifferent takers of jobs program jobs and casual narcotics addicts, then kleptocrats, rapists, and child molesters at the less good end. They embrace, at least superficially, the ideology of the invader. When the invader retreats, this faction abandons the fight almost immediately. The occupation has functioned, for all intents and purposes, as a moral sieve to separate those willing to do battle for their own land and traditions from those willing to take money to give up and be left alone. Were this country any other than Afghanistan, these two factions would be referred to as the patriots and the collaborationists respectively. "Taliban" is if anything a compliment at this point in time.
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@TotalCommieJewDeathEnjoyer erm...does Finland count?
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I disagree. It is all well and good for people in a part of the world historically built on migration and maintaining regional if not national senses of themselves built on often very deep and organic civic narratives to say that it is absurd to build a sense of community on common ethnicity where they happen to live. However, while the notion of a western hemisphere ethnostate is risible for obvious reasons, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with an ethnostate in the eastern hemisphere. Now, naturally some eastern hemisphere countries are not in fact set up as ethnostates, due to the ways in which their borders have been drawn, or due to the ways in which the local majorities think about themselves - Ethiopia and UK for instance are self-conscious tribal confederacies within which ethnonationalism would not make any sense - certainly a Scot or a Tigrayan might be an ethnonationalist for Scotland or Tigray, of course, but these regions have a long history of association with the others within the confederacy - India has as much ethnic variety within it as the euro zone as a whole and is in the process of taking a second attempt at propagating a sense of civic identity greater than the set of very specific and very local subcastes to which most peoples in that continent have historically seen themselves as belonging, etc. - but where a local majority happens to have a sense of regional identity which incorporates an ethnic component, I see no reason why this ought to be seen as an intrinsically bad thing. Armenia for the Armenians. Lesotho for the Sothos. Bangladesh for the Bengalis. Korea for the Koreans. Israel for the Jews. etc.
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and I word that as "regional if not national" very deliberately, given at a sovereign level, common civic values where I live began to fail about six decades ago, leaving each region with only its own local or regional civic construct. (which seems insanely grandiose for a place that adds up to being Pennsylvania's placenta, but it's OUR specific little abortion within the rust belt)
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Not that it wasn't the good old days when the Catholics were second class citizens, of course, because they were the good old days.
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