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Culture War Roundup for the week of December 30, 2024

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can’t help but think he is closer to the truth than most other people in these internet spaces.

He is which is why it's so painful for him. Modern social technology has given up the ability to self govern and be violent to the state which wants to do this more and more. As bad as the rotherham situation sounds, I wouldn't have been surprised had it happened in some blue or purple state in the US.

People don't have the right to acknowledge any of these issues, especially if violence is an outcome. Wanting everyone involved and those who abetted this dead at very least if not given punishments from the medieval ages is completely healthy, we just can't do it because the state has a monopoly on violence. You go there and shoot some people and then everyone who is in your camp has to find ways around it.

Power is assymetrical, anders breivik isn't the norm, unless you have elites in the UK who don't want these pajeets deported after a healthy dosage of brutality then you'll keep getting this.

If someone who frequents the motte actually went out and did something, everyone who posts here would get questioned. Chimping out now would set people back. Charlottesville serves as a good example of this psy opping works.

One last thing, I'd be surprised if most people here who are honest in their thought would not want mass deportations at the very least if not something far more brutal like I do. Having this place become the comment section of Blog.reaction.la will not lead to any better outcomes. Jan 6 people are still rotting in jail cells.

I wouldn't have been surprised had it happened in some blue or purple state in the US.

The US has the second amendment. Even in Hawaii or Massachusetts, there’s a good chance of KR-approved retaliation.

I kinda disagree somewhat. Any act of violence in these scenarios is rebranded as the second coming of Hitler. The US unlike the UK seems to have a more pro migrant image to begin with.

These are racially and religiously motivated sex crimes by people who are holy cows in a bioleninist state. No one's going to mow down anyone. Cain Velasquez tried, ex UFC heavyweight fighter, won the belt too, dude is now probably gonna face time, granted he fucked up his attempt what I will call completely justified violence which is unfortunately illegal now..

I would want even worse things to happen to those who do this than KR, I'm also aware that any act will immediately make be spun into you being the stereotype besides you rotting in jail.

Migrants attempting rape gangs on underclass girls in blue states would have the problem that the underclass is also Cathedral-protected.

Plus, I imagine Middle Eastern migrant rape gangs would be substantially less interested in US underclass girls than they would be in UK white chavs in the first place. iasip_you_certainly_wouldnt_be_in_any_danger.mp4

Sloot, surely you have no major criticism of the gangs, given their view of young western women lines up almost exactly with your own?

This seems uncalled for. These guys are literally raping and torturing young women. You don’t have to be a feminist or respect those girls to find that repellent.

Sloot’s view on these girls and the state of western womanhood is, as far as I can tell, the same as (the dreaded) Jim’s, which is to say near identical to the Mirpuris in question.

Again, leaping from "you have views on western womanhood which I find medieval and repellent" to "you'd totally shove broken glass up a young girl's vagina, wouldn't you, admit it" seems excessively uncharitable.

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