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Tucker Carlson on What is to be Done

We have been discussing how to proceed against our anti-civilizational political enemies. This essay by Carlson is not all that good, but it is worth a quick read-through. His points about truth and death are spot on.

Nicole Gelinas in Regressives explains how a healthy progressivism transmogrified into regressivism rendering Gotham the shithole it now is.

The beauty of blog is that the blogger is under no editor who might take umbrage at the occurrence of 'transmogrified' and 'shithole' in one and the same sentence.

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3 responses to “Tucker Carlson on What is to be Done”

  1. Dmitri Avatar
    Dmitri

    Carlson’s historically relevant examples from Wrangel’s memoir alone make the piece worth reading — middle class Russians sitting in the cinema watching movies ignoring the revolution on the streets + red ribbons in support of Bolsheviks worn on the dresses of Romanov’s royal family females… And evergreen Orwell stories. Carlson is a master storyteller.

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  2. BV Avatar
    BV

    Dmitri,
    Glad you liked it. I’ve heard it said that the Beatles played a role in bringing down the USSR: the youth saw the freedom (and license) in the West and were attracted by it. Agree?

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    Dmitri

    Hi Bill
    Beatles were indeed popular in the seventies and a few other Western rock groups as well. But their music was extremely hard to get a hand on and only young people from so called “intelligentsia” circles in large and mostly well educated cities like Moscow and Leningrad had access to some Beatles songs which were distributed in Russia in some music store. Never on radio or TV to the best of my recollection. Plus the language barrier… So I wouldn’t attribute much influence to them. If we are looking for the biggest causes, USSR imploded mostly because of the failed socialist central planning, lack of incentives for the entrepreneurially minded and US-led economic and propaganda push (especially Reagan administration’s).

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