• their culture’s understanding that having intellectuals means allowing people to make controversial statements that progress the social conversation.
• migrant labor, often illegal, is easier to exploit, cheaper, and increases consumption
• The use of social welfare as a means of support for migrants rather than as a means to support citizens has placed Renaud Camus, who began his life as a socialist, on the right.
• a politician is elected that makes life better so that you have more friends and a healthier social life, or a politician is elected that allows Meta to make you AI friends, substituting human relationships with an artificial replacement?
• Renaud Camus has before called himself a racist. He does so because, in his own words, “anti-racist has changed” and therefore so has “racist.”  When he says he is racist, he is referring to the use of the term “race” before the advent of what was called “scientific racism.”
• the problem with anti-racism: there is no way to discuss race because to discuss race is to discuss differences, which is to discriminate—in the most classic sense of the word as to recognize a distinction between things—which means to be racist
• While Kendi makes allowances for ethnicities, nationalities, and individuals, the practice of anti-racist thinking does not
• He believes it is good for France to be French and that keeping France French is preferable to making France not French
• in Europe is that the pressure is towards seperatism, cantons, enclaves; a fragmented society far more than a creolized one.

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• “Be careful who you pretend to be.”
• “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
• Mother Night.
• neoliberal monsters
• thoroughly betrayed what they previously upheld as their core values
• they closely resemble the people they used to unsuccessfully attempt to “wake up” through protest — callous, disinterested and pre-programmed.
• Neoliberalism is the flip side of the coin that has neo-conservatism on the other side.
• They never discuss the war crimes and all around hawkishness of the Democratic administrations for which they voted.
• So-called radicals, would-be revolutionaries, pretended to understand that the liberation of the human race had to derive from The People ourselves and would never be issued to us by means of an intrinsically corrupt political system
• Yet, when their supposedly “lesser-of-two-evils” candidates win, the lesser-of-two-evils voters behave as though they are satiated
• silence necessary critiques that should be brought forth resoundingly against unacceptable policies (irrespective of party affiliation).
• the hypocrisy of The New Neoliberals is acute, pronounced and absurd
• dehumanizing medical mandates
• shun the vaccine injured
• Genocide in Gaza — when Democrats do genocide, it’s genocide-light. You know, like Bud-light or Marlboro-light. Genocide under a democratic administration is the low calorie version.
• War with nuclear potential in Ukraine
• Censorship
• It was the “liberals”, however, (well groomed by neoliberalism) who spearheaded “cancel culture” and various censorship measures in the name of biosecurity during Covid
• Their tendency to overreact indicates the burdensome cost of sustaining a contradiction over a prolonged period of time.

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