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I have a general political theory on the current Democratic Party that no matter what gift Trump gives them they will find a way to mess it up.
ICE has had a lot of bad vibes lately. Enter the Bad Bunny Super Bowl show. I had never heard of him before Trumps rants on the Bad Bunny being in the Super Bowl. I don’t know if he was picked by the wokes or simply the NFL trying to find away to grow the game outside the US.
I think a general view of the center-left is to be nice to immigrants (empathy) even if they are closer to economic migrants than asylum/desperate. This feels like a cooking the frog too fast type moment where the message seems to be we will replace your culture and you will like it moment. The Super Bowl to me is perhaps the American Holiday most linked to Americana and they did the event completely in Spanish. The performance was trashy with some sort of sugar plantation theme (which were never in America and most of Spanish-Speaking Americans are not sugar plantation culture).
My hope is that this has gone too far and even my liberal mother will have an issue with explicit replacement.
sugar plantation sex
I was also starting to consider Americans thoughts on what is generally referred to as LATAM which is basically anything south of the Rio Grande. Most Americans probably group them into one group even though they are distinct economically and in their ethnic makeup. I don’t think the other south of the border types would be happy with their presentation when we could have found other groups with positive cultural traits if the goal was marketing to LATAM. Maybe I am missing a group but when I think of south of the border I think there are a few broad groups.
If the NFL goal is to grow the game I don’t see how highlighting sugar cane field sex would be viewed as a good way to reach out. Groups from these regions only have significant presence in Miami and Puerto Rico within US territories. From what I can tell southern cone twitter hates the performance.
After viewing the performance I will rate it worse than my fears. Politically I will rate it as good for my side in the category of the wokes always find a way to ruin electoral chances for the Democrats.
Edit: Empire which America is should never degrade itself especially on the big stages. It’s actually one reason the stupid amount of money we spent on the new Fed I can understand. When Milei comes to Washington (any Leader) and signs some currency swap the building he meets with Bessent or Powell needs to loudly say Empire. In Dunk and Egg show the bad Targaryen gets it right the dragon never dies even in a puppet show. The Super Bowl is one of those stages for the US.
I’m going to say something that people will think isn’t true or if it is true will make them think mean things about my wonderful fiancé: she literally cried during the halftime show. With many ‘ wtfs ‘ and ‘ where the fuck are we safe ‘ etc etc
She’s been told in her industry she needs to learn Spanish to get a promotion. Shes moved to SFL from Vermont where she was, as best as I can say it, picked on by Spanish chicas for being white and called racist by the blacks, and over the last two years I’ve made her safe enough to start seriously thinking about shifting demographics changes and what they mean for the country in our lifetime.
It was just the cherry on top for the way a certain segment of the white population (that is, the majority of the white population) get treated by minorities.
This halftime show (as well as last year) is anti white propaganda and it’s starting to make normies absolutely furious.
Not sure what, if anything, will happen but history doesn’t take kindly to minorities making the majority feel unsafe and unwelcome.
So what? What does it matter how furious they get, as they sit and impotently stew in their fury, doing nothing?
Assuming whites are still the majority — plenty of people in my social circles believe we're already a minority (the "official figures" being deliberate lies from a hostile government, the actual number of illegal immigrants being at least an order of magnitude higher…).
Edit: And it's not just some of us "far-right crazies" saying we're the minority now. As Democrat Gene Wu, minority leader of the Texas House of Representatives, said in an interview a couple months ago:
(Emphasis added.)
The Gene Wu thing was crazy. I thought about including it in my original posts. I did see on twitter that he was adopted by white parents but I believe that is false by google and his parents are Chinese.
Where does he get these beliefs:
His thesis I believe is obviously false. Balkanization is far more likely. Blacks and browns are not going to align with Asians and Indians. All those groups moved to America because they liked what white people built even if it was just economic migration. They have little common beliefs amongst them. You end up with Newsome types or a court Jew like Jacob Frey ruling over different tribes that don’t like each other.
For the HBD people this seems to be evidence that 2nd/3rd generation immigrants escaping communism etc revert to the political systems they are genetically predisposed to.
And how did things go for the minority groups in the Balkans… and how would they have probably ended up if outside powers hadn't intervened?
Sure they will; the same way Genghis Khan united the warring, feuding, fractious Mongol clans: by providing a common enemy to fight… and plunder.
This is a point Steve Sailer has been reiterating for a couple decades now: that "hating whitey" is the "KKKrazy glue holding together the Coalition of the Fringes." I see no reason for it to become less effective as the white demographic shrinks… and thus becomes easier to kick around and loot.
Because they liked it, or because they want to loot it?
But they do have the common belief that the white man is evil and screwing them over, so do they need anything more?
I keep encountering this argument, that as whites become a smaller and minority, we'll never have anything to fear; that even when we're down to 10% or less of the population, we can never face any real oppression, because the majority will be too diverse, divided, and busy fighting each other to ever do anything to us. I've encountered it here more than once.
And it's nonsense. Ahistorical nonsense.
To give the most obvious example how, apply this argument to Jews in Medieval Europe. The Teutonic Knights are fighting the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Novgorod Republic — and vice versa — and they all hate each other, so the Jews are perfectly safe. Those people are all too busy warring with each other to commit any pogroms, don't you know?
Or look at diaspora Chinese in Southeast Asia. (Read Lee on what he had to deal with in Singapore.)
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. And groups that hate each other have had no problems, historically, in dishing out the abuse to minorities — especially materially-successful "middleman minority" types — they both hate.
Who would rule?
The first three I don’t believe have ever ruled over a multicultural society. The first group has mayor of London but we are talking way more fragmented. The second Singapore would be closest example. The third never. The fourth occasionally in Mexico or Venezuela but while their people are the majority. The fifth yes they could pull it off.
It doesn't matter. Power can be contested and fought over and whites looted, oppressed, pogrommed, etc.
So we have a "Vivek type" in charge of the Fuck Whitey Coalition for a few years, with the property and labor of whites expropriated to the primary benefit of high-caste Indians, then an internal power struggle puts the "African" faction in the ascendancy, and we get one of them in charge of the Fuck Whitey Coalition, and the expropriated property and labor of whites goes mostly to the blacks for a bit. Then his lack of competence puts a mestizo Hispanic in place to depose him, so now whites are being oppressed for the benefit of mestizo Hispanics. Then a Chinese guy (with quiet CCP backing) tosses him out, and now whitey is looted to benefit the Chinese. Then he dies, and the Hispanics and blacks get into a low-level civil war — with plenty of street level ethnic violence — for a bit… and both sides rob Whitey for loot to fund their conflict…
Ask the Jews how power struggles over leadership in Medieval Europe worked out for them.
Edit: and it's not like you need someone to "rule" for people to deal with murderous cannibals living among them. (See also this).
You would need to assume outside intervention for any of that to occur. S Africa could be 100% white in a fortnight if they had the will to do it and there was no threat of outside intervention. Whites don’t lose in war when united.
Nonsense. I mean, not even most "white supremacists" of my acquaintance think that whites are so superior that they can overcome any numerical disadvantage, no matter how huge. I mean, consider a scenario where whites have shrunk to about 100 people, against 8 billion+ non-whites — including quite a few intelligent and technologically-competent people (like the East Asians). Are you saying that so long as those hundred whites are "united," they'll triumph despite the > 80-million-to-one disparity?
And besides, as the Dreaded Jim likes to say, whites are wolves to whites. We aren't united, and we won't be united. Even when we're 5% or less of the American population.
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