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2005-04-29 Europe

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Posted by 3dc 2005-04-29 00:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What's the downside? ;-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2005-04-29 12:53:06 AM|| 2005-04-29 12:53:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 We get to listen to the Gotham Image chucklehead's near-unreadable whining about it.

Posted by Pappy 2005-04-29 2:00:59 AM|| 2005-04-29 2:00:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I wouldn't be too hard on them. They are just begining to recognize that multiculturalism, large scale immigration of unassimilated and largely unemployed minorities might just be a problem. To date the Left has considered this 'progress'.

Posted by phil_b 2005-04-29 2:28:43 AM|| 2005-04-29 2:28:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Phil maybe, but it is painfull to watch, slug's speed would be almost a blur in comparison.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-04-29 2:42:21 AM|| 2005-04-29 2:42:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 He prolly ran across this old graphic.

Posted by .com 2005-04-29 5:46:40 AM|| 2005-04-29 5:46:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 The use of allegory in most leftist articles leaves me confused. I don't have their knowledge of popular culture to understand the points they are trying to make. The comment section, as usual, was more informative. At the bottom was a link to an article about the different schools of political thought in this country. To abuse a punchline from a old joke i'd like to say, I thought I was a cowboy but I just found out I'm a Jeffersonian.

http://denbeste.nu/external/Mead01.html

Posted by BrerRabbit 2005-04-29 7:38:37 AM|| 2005-04-29 7:38:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 .com, interesting graphic. Whence did it come?

Posted by RWV 2005-04-29 12:14:35 PM|| 2005-04-29 12:14:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Don't feel confused, BrerRabbit. They're just using all that allegory cuz they're too dense to use reason. That's why narrative is so important to them since they don't understand little things like causality, probability, confidence intervals, risk premiums, analysis, synthesis [here is where I wish I could do the shrinking text thingy, but am too lazy to look up the source].....

Posted by 11A5S 2005-04-29 12:16:23 PM|| 2005-04-29 12:16:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Forget the dopey rhetorical tropes. Using the standard leftist reliance on "cultural contradictions", the guy has arrived at a very valid insight: the European center can't hold.

There will be a populist backlash that will at some point gain critical mass across Europe. The European political class is almost completely blind to this and will be sandbagged by new Fortuyns. They may or may not assume a religious cast, but they will all draw from a deep reservoir of popular discontent with the elites' cluelessness, fecklessness and arrogance.

The big question is whether these inevitable populist upsurges will be accompanied by organized violence-- brownshirt or blackshirt, militia or vigilante or what-have-you.

Posted by thibaud (aka lex) 2005-04-29 12:26:32 PM|| 2005-04-29 12:26:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 thibaud (aka lex):
Itâs a rhetorical question, but what does history teach us about Europe? Itâll be blackshirts from Belfast to the Bosporus.

Posted by Secret Master 2005-04-29 1:34:38 PM|| 2005-04-29 1:34:38 PM|| Front Page Top

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