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2022 Jul 12, 1:18pm   42,832 views  658 comments

by Patrick   follow (59)  

Arrived in London this morning. Internet is spotty, but I'll try to report thoughts.

- almost no homeless, saw just one so far
- lots of trash though
- prices seem reasonable, a bit lower than SF, but that's because the pound is so low against the dollar
- the majority of people on the street are clearly not English; they are from everywhere else on earth

I did not know there was a Saint Chad:

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605   goofus   2025 Dec 21, 8:47pm  

Patrick says


Yes, and I think a major goal of the Ukraine war was to get as many Slavic men as possible to kill each other.


I think so too. “Fight to the last Ukrainian” was a statement of intent. A dress rehearsal of the broader war some would like -- with locked borders, roving conscription thugs, and feckless leadership.
607   Patrick   2025 Dec 24, 8:44pm  

I saw it myself. Poland now is like the US was in the 1950s. Good economy, strong local communities, strong sense of patriotism.
608   Patrick   2025 Dec 26, 3:12pm  

https://slaynews.com/news/27-year-veteran-hero-firefighter-fired-offensive-term-fireman/


A senior fire officer has become the latest victim of the UK government’s speech policing after he was forced out of his job for “sexist behavior” for failing to discipline his colleagues for using the “offensive” term “fireman.”

Simon Bailey, a 27-year veteran of the Avon and Somerset Fire Service who had previously been commended for bravery, was disciplined for allowing what investigators called a “longstanding campaign” of “sexism” in his station.

Bailey has just lost his case after suing his former employer for unfair dismissal.

The hero fireman received a written warning in July 2023 after a tribunal found he presided over an “openly sexist” workplace.

He was accused of allowing “sexist behavior” for failing to challenge staff who used the term “fireman” instead of “firefighter.”

The disciplinary action followed complaints in 2021 from firewoman Sasha Acheson, a former England Women’s rugby player.





This guy has been brave in multiple ways. Definitely a hero!
609   Ceffer   2025 Dec 26, 3:24pm  

The purpose of KommieKuntism and standard Royalist feudalism is to harvest the maximum suffering and death from the subject populations, without disposing entirely of the herd or its mundane labor capacities. Demoralization through rampant injustice backed by the twisted forces of political power are par for the course.
610   Patrick   2026 Jan 9, 11:19am  

https://slaynews.com/news/uk-government-expands-censorship-laws-begin-preemptively-scanning-private-messages-illegal-content/


UK Government Expands Censorship Laws to Begin Preemptively Scanning Private Messages for ‘Illegal Content’

The new Online Safety Act 2023 (Priority Offenses) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 took effect on January 8, 2026.
611   Patrick   2026 Jan 10, 5:29pm  

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/serial-rapist-metropolitan-police-officer-allowed-join-force-5HjdQNh_2/


Serial rapist Metropolitan Police officer allowed to join the force 'because of drive to improve diversity'

A review published on Thursday found that thousands of police officers and staff were not properly checked amid pressure during a national recruitment drive from July 2019 to March 2023.



PC Cliff Mitchell applied to join the Met in 2020, but the vetting process flagged up a previous allegation of raping a child in 2017, and his application was rejected.

However, a vetting panel, made up partly of senior officers, overturned the decision because the force wanted to improve the number of officers from ethnic minorities.

PC Mitchell went on to carry out a “campaign of rape” against two victims, including a child under the age of 13, while he was a serving officer.

He is one of 131 officers and staff at the Met who were not properly vetted and went on to commit criminal offences and misconduct.

PC Mitchell was jailed for life and sentenced to serve at least 13 years after he was found guilty of kidnapping and rape.


Yes, he was raping a child while employed as a policeman, and that was predictable given his past. But think of the bright side! He improved diversity in the British police force.
613   Patrick   2026 Jan 16, 8:12pm  

The British government made a cringy video game to "teach" white British youth to love their groomers and their replacement population.

But it's backfiring because the target audience of young men is in love with the feisty far-right girlfriend of the main character.

https://barsoom.substack.com/p/amelia-sans-merci


622   Patrick   2026 Jan 16, 8:41pm  

https://barsoom.substack.com/p/amelia-sans-merci


Around the same time that Amelia was being born, images of Persian women lighting their cigarettes with the Ayatollah’s photograph went viral.




Inspired by the courageous and beautiful Persians, I made my own first contribution to Amelia, depicting her lighting her cigarette with a burning picture of Keir Starmer, or with a burning progress pride flag.







Whether in imitation, or inspired directly by the Persians, similar images soon appeared.



624   Patrick   2026 Jan 16, 8:45pm  


So I guess in addition to purple hair, Britishness, and racism, another of Amelia’s canonical characteristics is that she’s a smoker, which honestly fits the archetype of a rebellious alt girl. ...


625   Patrick   2026 Jan 16, 8:50pm  

https://barsoom.substack.com/p/amelia-sans-merci


Amelia’s explosive popularity seems out of step with the image of the right as conservative and traditionalist. This may be what led to Shout Out UK’s fortuitous misstep in the first place (assuming that Amelia wasn’t just the creative director’s shadow persona self-insert, which is distinctly possible). Rightists, they may have reasoned, are generally hostile to the aposematic fashions beloved of the left’s gender-ambiguous hall monitors. Reactionary Christian conservatives prefer their girls to be demure, submissive, and modest; they dislike tattoos, piercings, and brightly coloured hair. By associating nativist extremism with a purple-haired alt girl, they’ll drive the chuds away from racism! It’s brilliant!




... I’ve thought for a while that this conservative presentation is a gross strategic error. The right should instead embrace the ready-made aesthetics of the antihero: leather jackets, sunglasses, leather boots, and so on. it should take its aesthetic cues from heavy metal, punk rock, jazz, industrial, and techno, not country and western or easy listening Christian contemporary. It should dress with a bit of edge.




Amelia’s resonance is a function of her subversion of contemporary sartorial norms, which code Manic Panic hair as visual shorthand for insufferable shitlibbery. ... Amelia as chudette, as sweet-natured Nietzschean e-girl, as rabid remigrationist with a fag in one hand and a burning fag flag in the other, this is something unexpected, novel, and therefore interesting. The right-wing is not supposed to be visually striking, it is not supposed to grab eyeballs with loud colours, it is expected to be aesthetically dull and uninspired, it is supposed to behave and obey the rules (which were written so that it will always lose). Amelia presents possibilities that haven’t been explored yet ... if the authoritarian den mothers of the longhouse can appropriate punk rock fashions and wear them like a skinsuit ... could not a cyberpunk right do the same?
626   Patrick   2026 Jan 16, 8:55pm  

https://barsoom.substack.com/p/amelia-sans-merci


Amelia poses a question. Can we hyperstition manic pixie dream radicals into existence? This is almost the same question as: can we psyop the existing supply of art hos into adopting right-wing opinions? Can they be seduced to the dark side, which is to say to the forces of the good, the true, and the beautiful? At the individual level it’s a known phenomenon that women will tend to adjust their beliefs to match those of their boyfriends and husbands; can we do this at the collective level, as well? Can we hold frame, letting them know that gay race communism might offer them a ‘career’ but at the price of romantic loneliness ... that they have to choose between being ‘good’, and being loved? Women love nothing more than male attention. By projecting the political imperative of remigration and reconquista onto a whimsical avatar, perhaps a signal can be transmitted into the collective mind ... ‘Men want this ... you can be this ... doesn’t it look like more fun than whatever you’re doing right now?’



627   Patrick   2026 Jan 16, 8:56pm  


The purest and most powerful form of modern mythology, however, is not to be found in comic books, fantasy novels, or conspiracy theories, but in the humble and unserious meme, which has grown to encompass, supersede, and transcend the other forms with its ubiquity.



628   Patrick   2026 Jan 16, 8:59pm  


Before Trump was elected, Pepe had been deified via his connection with the primordial Egyptian god of cosmogonic chaos, Kek...

This fueled the half-serious, half-ironic belief in meme magic on the forum – the notion that memes could be used to prophecy, or perhaps even to change reality. Proliferation of a meme could establish a sort of resonance between the consciousness of human beings and the universal mind, leading to the manifestation of the meme in reality.


Kek was typically depicted in ancient Egypt as a man with a frog's head.
635   HeadSet   2026 Jan 17, 9:33am  

Patrick says





Dude is a bit swarthy for an Anglo-Saxon. Is she saying to breed with the immigrants to make those immigrants English?
636   The_Deplorable   2026 Jan 17, 12:54pm  

HeadSet says
"Dude is a bit swarthy for an Anglo-Saxon."

Nonsense. It looks like you have a problem with men and women getting
married and having a family.
637   Patrick   2026 Jan 17, 9:43pm  

The whole point of the comic is that the male hero of it is a regular English guy.
638   Ceffer   2026 Jan 17, 11:55pm  

I guess the Amelia meme has caught on.


https://x.com/Pirat_Nation/status/2012646114139230254
639   HeadSet   2026 Jan 18, 9:06am  

The_Deplorable says

HeadSet says

"Dude is a bit swarthy for an Anglo-Saxon."

Nonsense. It looks like you have a problem with men and women getting
married and having a family.

How the devil do you reach that conclusion?
640   HeadSet   2026 Jan 18, 9:10am  

Patrick says

The whole point of the comic is that the male hero of it is a regular English guy.

"Regular" English guys are Nordic and rarely have black hair. And for the few "jets" that do, it is unlikely both kids would have black hair. The fact that both the man and his kids have black hair implies that the man is an immigrant.
641   Maga_Chaos_Monkey   2026 Jan 18, 9:51am  

HeadSet says


"Regular" English guys are Nordic and rarely have black hair. And for the few "jets" that do, it is unlikely both kids would have black hair. The fact that both the man and his kids have black hair implies that the man is an immigrant.


The original British, Irish, etc., did have dark hair, brown or blue eyes and light skin. Before various conquests from the Vikings, Franks, and Anglo Saxons etc. I'm not sure if it's true but I've read that Sean Connery would be an example. At least in recent history.

Back 10,000 years you reach cheddar man, with dark skin, dark curly hair and blue eyes... I think that's the farthest back there is data for.
642   The_Deplorable   2026 Jan 18, 10:21am  

HeadSet says
"How the devil do you reach that conclusion?"

Your statement. Read it again.
643   goofus   2026 Jan 18, 11:20am  

Maga_Chaos_Monkey says

HeadSet says



"Regular" English guys are Nordic and rarely have black hair. And for the few "jets" that do, it is unlikely both kids would have black hair. The fact that both the man and his kids have black hair implies that the man is an immigrant.


The original British, Irish, etc., did have dark hair, brown or blue eyes and light skin. Before various conquests from the Vikings, Franks, and Anglo Saxons etc. I'm not sure if it's true but I've read that Sean Connery would be an example. At least in recent history.

Back 10,000 years you reach cheddar man, with dark skin, dark curly hair and blue eyes... I think that's the farthest back there is data for.


Be very cautious of anthropology when it veers into politically charged areas. For example, the Cheddar Man reconstruction with near African skin color. Here is his direct descendant, still living in the Cheddar area:


Same eyes, similar nose and face shape - incredible actually. And yet the skin tone is presented as dark brown, despite this man living in post- ice age conditions in high northern latitudes. Unless one is eating seal livers with high vitamins A and D (as the Inuits do), dark skin would be maladaptive.

Anthropologists base the skin estimate on the absence of one modern European lighting allele. However, East Asians are light from other genes, as were Neanderthals (who lived Europe over many Ice Ages, since 600kya). I suspect they missed a gene that kept pre-modern European groups, including Cro-magnons, light.
644   Maga_Chaos_Monkey   2026 Jan 18, 11:38am  

goofus says

Unless one is eating seal livers with high vitamins A and D (as the Inuits do)


Correct, and it wasn't just the UK. When Euros switched to cereals is when it's estimated the skin lightened up. Last I read ~7K years ago.

goofus says

However, East Asians are light from other genes


Also correct and so you might be right.

Yeah, that picture is super dark lol! I'm a genetics guy and don't particularly care about the politics of it or anthropologists. That reconstruction sure does look like someone was trying to make a point though!

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