Has Block gone demented? Must be the seed oils.

This is basically the argument which sane South Africans have made for years. The endgame of this moron philosophical schizophrenia is allowing black settler colonialist Xhosas expropriate and oppress whites, coloureds and zulu who had all been there for hundreds of years longer than the Xhosa. The beginnings of this is happening in the UK & Canada as we speak. At some point if the left doesn't take into account the concerns of the people deeply invested in a particular place, regardless of their origins, they cannot be surprised when those same people regard leftism as Xenocracy and embrace blood-and-soil anti-globalism.

One cannot both be on the side of people incentivized to keep things going and those with incentives to strip everything for personal gain. For all their faults, the Socialists at least nominally on the side of building despite not actually understanding how that happens in the first place. Most of liberalism now is just locusts from the Managerial class self-justifying their plunder.

This gets at the core of the post-libertarian reasoning, which is this: "If I don't belong here, then where?" It's not the FSP. The longer the uniparty refuses outright to answer this, the more they feel justified concluding where the system considers them to belong is "Face down, in a ditch."

The first domino to fall in the west's shift to protectionism and dirigisme. US is trying to save mass migration by making it an integral part of dirigist goals, but ultimately an 80% subsidy of the imported workers won't be sustainable.

Pretty much everything here was obvious to me years ago. In the sea of trolls, astroturf, feds and mentally ill people online, political organization is not really possible. The state has 0 problem with this, as it allows the machine to trundle on unobstructed.

Once everything becomes a game of posture and affect, will it ever be possible to articulate a coherent politics again?

It's been this way for a long, long time. The only coherent politics remains anarchism, because it's the only option. You live in it now, get over it. Being honest about it makes things better, not worse.

the lessons from the secret history of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan have profound implications on our understanding of how the modern Russian Federation is run, and, for the Americans and British especially, it might provide an explanation for the otherwise baffling Washington decision to repeat the same experiment in Afghanistan that the USSR did only a few decades prior.

Rurik is at his best dunking on his old bosses:

To be fair, I didn’t expect the Kremlin to be behind Pool though. But I should have. The Kremlin exclusively does business with grifters, charlatans, hoaxers, criminals and ethnic criminals. Without exception. ... They supported Bernie Sanders. Anyone who has worked at RT or who remembers their coverage of the 2015-16 primaries and elections will confirm it to you. Hell, they offered me a job back then shilling for Bernie and I told them to shove it (I supported MAGA at the time). The reason why they supported Bernie is because he’s an old Trotskyist who used to literally support the USSR. That’s probably where they picked up the Pool contact because he was an Obama-supporting Occupy Wall Street activist at the time and RT was having a field day with that whole street circus, which ended up birthing the SJW movement as we know it, by the way.

You mean people started defrauding the metrics behind BVM??? shocked, simply shocked.

Given they're a non-problem statistically, the rightful remedy is platitudes, or any other non-productive LARPing that makes people shut up and move on to more productive things, like looking for cat pictures online.

It's telling that all of the new right has correctly diagnosed the problem of the managerial order, but do not yet remotely grasp the incentives involved that always turn it to shit, and therefore how to fix it. The book people should talk about is "Moral Mazes". Ultimately, appointed bureaucracies are a complete disaster. Management should be elected by shareholders, and being a shareholder ought to be a condition of election. In general it's the same problem with our political order -- far too many are enfranchised to make decisions for which they have no skin in the game, and so decide to plunder (as it has no consequence on their future but a positive one).