FILDEBRANDT: The war against mass migration
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Summary
Martin Sellner is the Head of the Remigration Institute based in Vienna, Austria. He is an author of books like Regime Change from the Right and has been a prominent intellectual and leader in the identitarian and remigration movement in Europe, particularly in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and other adjacent countries.
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Today we're going to be speaking with Martin Sellner.
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He is the head of the Remigration Institute based in Austria.
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He is an author of books like Regime Change from the Right and has been a prominent intellectual
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and leader in the identitarian and remigration movement in Europe and particularly in the
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German-speaking world, obviously Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and some other adjacent
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I'm pleased today to be joined by Martin Sellner,
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Everyone who has not been to see the Ringstrasse
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All right. I want to talk to you for a little while now. Your name has been, I think, emerging, you know, first from Austria and then across the broader German-speaking world, then Europe, and it's even starting to get its way into North America.
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I expect that I'm going to get an email after we publish this interview from the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, Press Progress, the usual round of people who think that any vision beyond having a multicultural economic zone makes one an extremist racist.
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So I'm expecting that to happen because I've seen your name pop up as someone who's very dangerous and should not be talked to, listened to or read about, which is why I have to talk to you now.
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Some people, I want to see maybe if this is correct, some people have attributed the term remigration itself to you.
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well no um the word itself does not come from me it was used scientifically in political sciences
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all the time and it was yeah just a very like um factual term for the pros of somebody
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returning to his homeland but then in france in the year of 2012 2013 french identitarians were
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starting to use the term in an activist context and we took it because we founded the biggest
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patriotic ngo the austrian chapter the identitarian movement and we were the first one to put
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re-migration into actions we had banners we had flyers with re-migration and then in the year
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about 2022 23 after covid there was a huge push against from us with a re-migration campaign and
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then it took on speed and i have the credentials bloomberg you know bloomberg they wrote in a big
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analysis piece that i was the most important re-migration influencer during this period so
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yeah i take this badge of honor and i think we've been very influenced in mainstreaming this term
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and this idea on the globe okay well i think that yeah that's certainly fair that's i've seen your
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name associated with it quite a bit uh i mean i mean maybe for those who aren't as deep into this
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uh topic maybe explain what what is re-migration and what is identitarianism yeah so i think i
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started through migration because it's actually quite easy you have immigration you have re-migration
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re-migration means the process of inversing these flows of migration not just closing the border
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but also sending illegals home but also creating push and pull factors so that unwanted migration
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also unwanted legal migration stops and people who don't fit uh slowly but sadly go home there
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are many proposals many concepts we have an amazing deportation policy from restore britain
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i've written a book myself about this issue and it's basically just uh the 180 degree answer the
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inversion of all the multiculturalist policies we had until then so that in summary is remigration
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it means we stay and they go and uh this is based obviously on identitarianism which is
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uh kind of um an umbrella term for national conservative right-wing thinking in europe
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there's the european new right i don't know if your viewers are familiar with that it's a
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philosophical political movement which was very prominent in france and germany after the second
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world war and basically understood okay the core of all right-wing politics has to be the identity
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the ethnocultural identity and continuity as a threat so it's not so much about a political system
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or an economic system or a certain belief set no it's about this threat and this is basically the
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ideology of identitarianism it means putting identity putting the people first and trying
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to create an alliance and creating a bridge between all these different ideological and
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economical sects that splinter the right. So, I mean, it's, that's obviously a movement
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mostly associated with the right, but, uh, you know, I, I think from what I've taken away from
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your saying and, you know, what I've observed, it's not exclusive to the right there, you know,
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there's, uh, you know, the Danish social Democrats for an example, I think, uh, could be considered
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kind of a light version of identitarianism, but found on the center left. Uh, I don't,
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Maybe you want to correct me if I'm wrong about that, but it doesn't seem to be exclusive to the right.
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It's just obviously most associated with the right because the right tends traditionally to be more nationalistic than the left, but not exclusively.
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You know, I think there are many arguments and many cases to be made for re-migration also from an ecological or even like labor and lefting perspective.
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unfortunately they're very alone within their political scene from the left who say mass
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migration is undercutting wages it's against the interest of the working class mass migration is
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making the rich richer and it's also keeping up an unfair and unbalanced world system so
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this mass exodus especially from skilled people the brain drain from africa is not making africa
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richer safer or better it's a very important moral case for immigration and also ecologically if you
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look at europe and especially countries like switzerland austria germany this idea of ever
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growing nations where we don't have enough space and we have to cut down all our forests and
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destroy all our beautiful meadows just to increase building and housing for millions of africans and
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arabs coming in are also very important arguments found on the left and you're absolutely right and
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spot on the danish social democrats are way more progressive in their immigration policy right now
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than the german christian conservatives and you see a also very important point that i always
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focus on metapolitics how important is the public discourse um and uh how this public discourse
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and public perception always trumps the political party system uh well yeah i i do want to get into
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of metapolitics, but we'll get to there. We'll talk to maybe about the issues first, but I am
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interested in that and how you see that fitting in. Why would you use the term identitarian
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as opposed to nationalism? I know in Germany and Austria, the term nationalism carries some
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unwanted historical baggage, but certainly outside of Germany and Austria, I think it carries less
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of a stigma but uh what would you see as the difference between them and why would you kind
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of choose to use the term identitarian more than nationalism how philosophical can i get in my
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answer that's the question that's up to you so yeah you're right like the term national obviously
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has kind of a baggage in austria and germany people see it and it's perceived as way more
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radical than for example in the anglosphere but for us also identitarian and identity is a term
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which is way more bigger and also older because if you look at the modern nation nation state
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it's quite a new phenomenon the and one of important hero of a movement is leonidas the
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spartan king or prince again the french guy who fought for the austrian army against the ottomans
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and back then you didn't really have nations and so we think that also just focusing on the
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nation state national identity has some pitfalls for example you cannot really achieve a european
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unity like this idea of being united here also in the whole west and as your people with european
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descent and for me identity is just the encompassing term because there is a threat from leonidas to
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us from prince organ to us and over different changes of political systems from tribes to
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nations to empires this always has been our identity and that's why we defended and that's
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one of our four thinkers and that's as philosophical as it will get said identity is what
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stays the same during change and that's what what we want to defend and that's why we love this term
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am i correct then in saying that identitarianism is kind of national it's then just kind of
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pan-european nationalism not in the eu bureaucratic sense which i think is actually anti-nationalist
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uh you know it's it's against the you know the the identities of of europe's nation states but
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uh identitarianism would be like kind of pan-european nationalism without the anti-national
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nationalism is that a fair way of looking at this it's a good way but we are not like european
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nationalists like we we believe in the nation state obviously but as identarians we try to
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balance the three levels of identity as we say it's like the civilization level which obviously
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is above the nation the national level and the regional level we also love regional cultures
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we are big fans of regional identity regional culture which is very important to us so we
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don't like it when for example the nation state act as an agent of equalizing everything and
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destroying regional cultures but also if you only focus on the nation state you can forget
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the civilizational bond but obviously we are also against the european bureaucracy so
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So identitarian just basically means balancing out those three levels,
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defending them, and also understanding the both sides of your identity,
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So we say our identity has three layers and two sides.
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And as identitarians, we want to understand it and defend all of it.
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uh you know the the obvious kind of knee-jerk uh reaction or critique of them is like well
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that's racism that's discriminatory it's a it's exclusionary um i mean you obviously will get
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that on a daily basis that's kind of just what what they'll throw at you um i don't know what
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what's the response to that that uh you know the focus on your you know your identity your ethnicity
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uh your nationality wanting to you know make sure austrian austria is austrian france is french
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england is english um you know how do you respond to your critics they'll just say well you're just
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uh you know racist ethnocentrists yeah racism as you know is a conversation ender it's basically
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always a sign that the other side has no arguments left and racism has become a code word for
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anti-european and very often anti-white hatred and sentiments because it's only brought up
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against european and white people when they just want to exist and just want to cherish the
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existence and preserve the existence and um identitarianism in my opinion is the absolute
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opposite to real racism which is when you hate groups when you have a blanket hatred against
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groups or you want to kill people or really treat them in a negative way just based on the ethnicity
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because as an identitarian patriot i love my own culture but i respect all the others because when
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i love my own culture how could i deny anyone else to love and to maintain his own culture so
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what we want actually is a multipolar world full of identities and full of nations and we just
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demand politely but also very consequently our own place and our own country in this world and
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to claim that this is racist is completely outrageous and i just want to make this more
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concrete with an with a little anecdote ellen musk whom we all know an ex he's talking very
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often about natalism about increasing birth rates and he was talking very often about japan and
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south korea that south koreans are dying out we need to increase the birth rates there
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nobody cared and suddenly when he started talking about europeans and said we need to save white
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europeans everybody's freaking out exactly same situation same terms but suddenly it's obviously
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seen as offensive to not want to fade away into the darkness and i think this in itself if we
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want to talk about real racism is actually racism when you want to deny a whole ethnic group is the
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right for an identity the right for pride and the right for survival so i would say no that's
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completely wrong but i'm very happy when my opponents bring this up because it's been so
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overused that nobody cares anymore so it's a very very big argument we um we published a guest column
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from uh daniel tyree of the canadian dominion society and you know they're very involved in
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the remigration uh project um and it was called what is a canadian and uh you know he tried to
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make the argument that it's well it's you know the original indigenous people and it's uh largely the
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descendants of the original english scottish irish and french settlers and then other europeans who
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came and successfully assimilated into it uh you know i i come my family's germany austria etc but
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we've largely assimilated into anglo-canadian culture um but you also have to say you have
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an austrian face i have an austrian face i don't know if that's a good thing or bad thing my prussian
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oh it's an amazing it's the best thing it's the best thing but if i would see you on the street
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i would think like you're you look austrian maybe from upper austria something like that so that
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that would be my my classification well thank you thank you but my prussian opa might not like that
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but my my more austrian bohemian oma would so um so he so you know defining what is a ethnic
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canadian is is much more difficult i think than defining what is an ethnic austrian was an all
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But for the most part, largely indigenous to the
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bottle piece to it today someone who disagrees maybe with how he defined it um but i think it'd
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be okay well i'll just ask you then what is an austrian i would say um austrian is obviously
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somebody who lives here has this austrian passport in the legal sense but apart from this
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classification you also have the very long and very ancient history of the people who
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have been living here and for this you have um a culture an ethnicity a lineage but also
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a consciousness and i think these uh things together the lineage the culture but also the
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consciousness of being an austrian and of being part of this um as edmund burke put it this deep
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pact this contract between those who are living those who have passed away and those who are yet
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to come this makes somebody an austrian but obviously i would say apart from that if it
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gets to be more concrete we are people that loves to eat we have amazing music uh we we are have
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the perfect combination between the rigidity the order from the german culture language sphere
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which we're obviously a part of together mixed with a bit of southern and eastern european flavor
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so that's that's what you have in vienna that's what they have in austria and obviously we are
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also deeply shaped our history because austria was the bastion of europe so the austrians always
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in a border region had to defend their identity against turk situations against the hungarians
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before they became christianized and then part of the european civilization and also as part of a
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border area of the whole uh german empire and the german area uh this was always an area of a lot of
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war warfare and having to defend your own identity and that's also what makes the austrians a very
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patriotic very stubborn people we also mountain people we have all the mountains in the area
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eructa iraq people so that's that what makes an austrian and um i hope you're satisfied with this
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definition yes i uh i i i often get asked by people uh you know if they're going to europe
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on vacation or something they say derek what's the best part of germany i always say austria
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um you know well yeah i know that's a loaded answer but uh you know it's it's got the culture
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and whatnot uh a shared culture but it's it's actually more stronger more pronounced to there
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um true true it's a bit like getting very uh but uh but i would say also like um uh yeah um i think
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austria has the best from both sides but you know when it comes to canada i understand your identity
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is way more complex but still also the austrian identity as it exists today for example also
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austria as this nation state is something very new and changing a bit and shaping the identities for
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example after the second world war the majority of austrians did not identify with austrian at all
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like they said okay we're all germans but this is changing steadily in austria
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so there is something that you can call an ethnogenesis the dutch people were part of
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the german empire swiss german swiss same but the dutch people they would now say okay we're dutch
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so what's happening or what's going on in canada i think it's an ongoing process it's an ongoing
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process of forming a very distinct identity but obviously basing suddenly identity only on ideas
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on abstract values will not lead to real nation and a real identity but basically just you know
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a zone an economic zone where different uh a conglomerate of different ethnicities lives
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for a while you know basically like liminal space or like an airport lobby so i think it's up to us
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canadians and as european canadians of the descendants who founded this nation to define
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what it means to be canadian it's harder but it's also cool because um so uh you can be very creative
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in this process as well well austria is a particularly interesting case uh i i'd be
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interested in your take on it because i see it um you know you mentioned you know the dutch uh
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they were always maybe a bit more different they spoke of a very different dialect you know the
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know, the Austrians obviously have a different dialect than, you know, high German and, you know,
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Berlin, etc. But, you know, I see them as a part of a ethnic German identity, but with a civic
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national identity as well. Civic identity as Austrians, but still national in the sense of
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the German world. So similar-ish, but maybe not as much as, say, the Swiss, you know, or the
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Swiss-speaking Germans. You know, so you can have overlapping identities, you know, in Alberta,
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but we still have a different civic identity i i don't know how much maybe that fits in with
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the parallel with austria too um it it might fit in a bit but austria also has a different history
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in a way you know like uh also the austrian empire uh was in this in this uh duel in this
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conflict with prussia and had had their own policy obviously back then austria was not part of a
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people it was the noble house the aristocracy of the house of austria but i would say yes
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there definitely similarities but obviously at the moment i'm i'm quite quite happy that we are
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not part of the uh the german nation which is run by i would say a left-wing suicide pact
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and in austria the freedom party for example is polling at around 30 39 and there's a high chance
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that we are able to really make re-migration a reality in austria within the next years so i
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think at the moment especially when the zeitgeist is so anti-european anti-white anti-national
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anti-national then it's maybe even better to have smaller entities and smaller communities
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which is easier to uh get political sway and to maybe even flip the whole thing
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that sounds like another parallel with a lot of what's happening in alberta right now
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uh at the risk of okay everyone just stay with me for a second this is going to be kind of a niche
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ish thing to talk about but i i i think it's instructive of kind of the one of the problems
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facing re-migration identitarianism nationalism etc i want to talk about the recent state election
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in baden-vertenburg so for those who don't know let's put it up on the map baden-vertenburg is
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Let's also, yeah, let's put the election results up as well.
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The Green Party came one, maybe two points ahead of the CDU.
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The CDU is the nominally conservative, so-called conservative party in Germany.
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um and the afd the more nationalistic identitarian party came in a strong third but you know not in
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contention to be the first place party but came in a strong third um all the other parties either
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were shut out of the local parliament or are extremely small and so the cdu was in a position
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where it could decide how the government was going to be formed here it could play the junior
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coalition partner and support putting the greens led by a turkish guy in power or it could be in
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power itself as the senior coalition partner but they would have to allow the afd to be the junior
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coalition partner they chose as conservatives to be a junior coalition partner under a turkish
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Green Party guy, than to be the government themselves as the senior guys, but allow the AFD
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in. So for a Canadian, for a Canadian, there's no exact parallel to a Canadian audience, but
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bear with me with the analogy. This would be like Pierre Polyev deciding that he will be Deputy
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Prime Minister under Elizabeth May, rather than be Prime Minister himself, but allow Maxime Bernier
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to be a part of the cabinet that is the madness that is taking place right now um
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i i know that there's a there's firewall braumeier all that stuff could could you just explain for
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a canadian audience why the hell a conservative would rather be second place partner under turkish
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greens than lead the government themselves with the assistance of people who are uh as conservative
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as their own party was probably 15 years ago because the greens are secretly ruling germany
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you know the green party uh in baden-württemberg they're very strong but on a national level they're
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not that strong at the moment in germany so they're polling from the latest poll at 12
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but if you look in media in elections of journalists if you look at elections and
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pollings in universities the green party has an absolute majority there everywhere and with this
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majority and with their media power they've created a firewall which means the afd is untouchable
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the afd um is has a very severe and very viral illness and you mustn't have to do anything with
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them and the cdu is so afraid of the green party and so afraid of the media apparatus
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and also of the antifa that they basically say okay we don't want to have power we are
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we are complying so the cdu is completely cucked they're politically castrated in austria and
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germany uh the christian conservatives and they're the slaves of the left they're living in the
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basement of the left and they always when they have a high result have to form coalition with
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the left and then um find some middle ground some compromise and that's why obviously all of the
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promises are always broken just to make it a bit more um more palatable for the people
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once there was a case in the german parliament where the cdu wanted to pass a motion and divorce
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a majority that they could have with the afd and some other deputies it was a time when the
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coalition was broken and it was a free play of forces and then just for thinking about it like
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the cdu was attacked by antifa anti for attacking cdu politicians say okay you're fair game we are
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treating you like the nazis now and then the cdu completely backed down and didn't bring in any
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motion uh just for fear that this motion would be passed through with the votes of the afd
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politicians so even the votes of the afd politicians are toxic it's a very crazy i
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would say semi-religious behavior and um yeah this is what's going on in germany and unfortunately
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another thing i don't know how it is about canada in germany it's harder cycle by cycle to win for
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patriots because of the ethnic vote so migrants are forming a bigger and bigger part of the electorate
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non-assimilated migrants, and they're obviously
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from time to time, and I actually haven't asked
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data points, and I'm just going to start putting that
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in, because I think that's an increasingly defining
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um i want to come kind of come back to where we were asked i asked what is an austrian
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the follow-up question to that and this is going to be a spicy one but i'm sure you've gotten it
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before is can a non-european become an austrian can an african can an arab become an austrian
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can they be austrian again i make the separation between the civic nationality and uh like the
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ethno-cultural identity yes civically obviously you can get a passport unfortunately it's super
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easy in austria it's very easy to get the austrian passport but when it comes to the to this um
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identity that i mentioned before there also have to be a differentiation so yes you can assimilate
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into the austrian culture and i think there are some migrants who've done this way better than
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austrian so they know more about austrian music history and they're also more well mannered but
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obviously you cannot be trans austrian so when it comes to the lineage you cannot fake a lineage and
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you cannot assimilate yourself into an ethnicity that just doesn't work i know it's harsh to say
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that but it's just the reality and they have to be very true truth is the ultimate goal and the
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ultimate value and uh just as you as a man cannot become a woman obviously i cannot become an
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african or chinese ethnical ethnically if i really would wanted to does this make this person not a
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real austrian so that's that's a big debate it's basically an ontological debate my stance is yes
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some people who have a different descent can assimilate into the broader poly body politic
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and the people and can become part of this nation obviously it's a long-term process that in the
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end also takes several generations but this has been exception and it cannot be in masses because
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otherwise the very identity that people would want to assimilate into would be destroyed by that
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and my argument for this is always if i would go to japan if i would become part of the japanese
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culture i'll learn the language i'll learn kendo and and judo yeah and uh become immersed in
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japanese culture and maybe also married japanese and then at some point japanese would accept me
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still i wouldn't claim that i'm ethnically japanese and would understand that people
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see me a bit differently and if there was a mass immigration from austrians to japan then i would
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also say no i don't want chippin japan to become austria i wanna want japan to stay a homogenous
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japanese nation so i've i'm against a total radical one or the other way i think there's always
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um some form of assimilation this has always been also the reality we have been true to reality here
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but it has to be measured it's also the question how many how fast from which culture and there is
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a limit for this capacity and obviously the capacity of chappen chappen to take in chinese
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people or koreans even though maybe japanese would have a different opinion here is higher
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than taking in african people or norwegian people and vice versa the capacity for austrians to take
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in croatians or italians or french people and simulate them is higher than to take in um
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southeast agents or africans so that's how i see it but obviously i get it it's a very um yeah
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very spicy debate it has to be debated until you always i think have to make a difference between
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the legal question the ethnic and cultural question but also the philosophical level
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and the political reality so i want to tease that a bit more um you know an austrian cannot become
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an ethnic japanese like that's not possible and a japanese person cannot become ethnically
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austrian even they might well integrate and be successful there but you can't just change ones
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like they can't but yeah a german could become an austrian an austria could become a german
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because those are extraordinarily close so maybe that's a bad example um because there's a sense
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of shared nationhood even if they're different states and civic identities but even here even
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here i would have to have to say if like many many prussians would come to a small austrian town you
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know then if it's too many then they would break the culture like all the traditions or everything
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would break down there so even this would be obviously wouldn't be a big issue um but still
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if it would go on and can't uh city by city the regional culture would die and vice versa because
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people are quite different also within a nation and we also want to maintain those differences
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my family on until uh until they passed away we we still had prussian austrian fights over what
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kind of dinner we eat at christmas so uh i i hope i can uniquely understand i hope the austrians won
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every christmas yeah we eat that's love with rouladen not potatoes oppressions are very good
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in many things but cooking is not one of those the austrians the austrians one of my family for sure
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um okay so yeah japanese can't become austrian austrian can't become japanese but what about
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something that is more adjacent that is clearly a different national ethnic identity um but you
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know it's closer that but it's within the same maybe civilizational umbrella do you think can
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a polish person become an ethnic austrian can uh can a croatian person become an ethnic austrian
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because these are obviously close especially it's a croatian because they shared you know the austro
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hungarian empire the habsburg empire before uh they're obviously close and adjacent but they're
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different can they become a genuine ethnic austrian to you you see uh here the question is what you
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mean by ethnicity and it's actually like a philosophical question basically comes down to
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how do people react to you an example let's say a polish person as a child is being adopted by
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an eastern german family he will have a totally um unproblematic german identity
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why because culturally he's raised assimilated as a german and also from his phenotype the looks
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he appears completely normal german he sees himself as a german and he um is perceived as
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a german but obviously if you look differently people will not perceive you as an ethnical german
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this will also change your own identity about yourself and will force you in a way to have a
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more complex understanding of your own history and if this polish person although like from his dna
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and his looks he he's completely like the majority of eastern german people let's take this for the
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sake of the argument uh he sees poland as any other um slavic nation poland czech republic no
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difference but if suddenly his parents tell him you know what you were adopted from a polish family
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uh from a polish city from krakow then suddenly for him his identity will shift and change you
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know and he will say okay well interesting maybe i'll try travel there once whenever like there's
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a a soccer game between germany and poland he will see differently then so these things um are
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real if you make them real and if you think about them yes in a way but of course if you have a
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different ethnicity people re will react differently to you and it doesn't mean they're
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racist or discriminatory again if i wanted to go to japan and then similar in japan still people
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will ask me ah do you speak japanese and where do you really come from and i wouldn't see this
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racist because it's just a normal a very normal reaction so let's say yes they can assimilate
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easier but still like the lineage is just a reality that just exists it's not it's not evil
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or good it's just there and um you cannot really change it but in many cases like this example
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it doesn't really matter if you don't make it an issue or don't even know about it
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okay uh so meta politics most people have probably never heard the term
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might i ask you also about your opinion how you see it or is this like um
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yeah i i know you you're the interview i'm the interviewed but i think it would be maybe interesting
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I'm asking you all these hard and spicy questions
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because it's easier for me to ask the questions.
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I've got ancestors who were very early settlers
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recent ancestors who came from places that used to be a part of Germany and used to be parts of
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Austria. But I mean, those places where my ancestors are from are no longer parts of Germany,
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no longer parts of Austria. And that doesn't make me Czech. That does not make me Polish,
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even though those are now a part of the geography of where they're from. I have no identity whatever
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with those places. So when people talk about your identity is just, it's the geographical
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location you you live in this place and therefore you know uh you know Justin Trudeau used to say
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a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian you know you got the papers you are therefore Canadian
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I thought well okay um so that's just you're talking about us just being a
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an economic zone again it's it's purely geographical you live there therefore you are I'm
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like well that would make me Polish uh that would make me Czech but I don't have a as far as we can
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tell you know i've done ancestry.com i've got no check i've got no polish um so i i have no
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identity whatever but those places even though i've got you know i'm geographically from there
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so um i i agree uh but you know north american society i think has always been by necessity
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more assimilating uh than than the european nation states uh you know we were you know
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original english and french settlers combined with uh you know the indigenous people who were
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here before um and so even the french and the english had to find some commonality and there'd
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be intermarriage between them um more so than you would say between english and french people in
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europe because they had they were in separate polities different kingdoms um you know and then
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we you know we integrated irish and scottish and then eventually western canada sub settled largely
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there was americans who came up with their own identities germans ukrainians um and then eventually
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you know, we had Chinese people come building the railroad. So we've always been a bit more
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fluid. But it was never until very recently wasn't a big issue, especially in English Canada,
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because there was still an Anglo identity. You know, you might immigrate from Germany, and
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we'd still eat a lot of German foods, but we'd also adopt the local foods, we would learn to
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speak English, and we would intermarry with English families. And we would take on an Anglo
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canadian identity and there was uh what was the term you used um genomorphosis uh
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ethnogenesis and and and and so it was fine um but you know other communities uh that came
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from you know other civilizations and other more different ethnic backgrounds they would integrate
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successfully but not as much um like we have a chinatown in calgary we don't have a german town
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we don't have a ukrainian town um i'm a member of the austrian club because it's one of the few
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good places i i can get um uh you know i you know i i can i can find the food but you know there's
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there's no area that's like this is the german area of town and it's clearly identified as such
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and the architecture of all the buildings here is this that just didn't happen they they assimilated
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to anglo-canadian culture um most chinese people have actually assimilated pretty well here but
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there it is still more distinct you have a chinatown the architecture is different the food is
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different and so it it's not a hundred percent um it's more difficult question to answer here
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i would also make a difference between integration and assimilation here you know for me like
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integration is basically when you work well within the function society and you can also integrate
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um it's a it's a functional structural thing as an ethnic enclave as chinatown for example but you
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can also integrate for example as a radical muslim so a lot of muslim terrorists were very
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well integrated they were studying and like they looked completely normal they paid the taxes and
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the bills so and for me assimilation is when you completely identify with the ethno-cultural
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community of um the nation the community you want to be a part of but what you said is very true
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there's a saying when a cat becomes kitten gets kitten in a stable there are still cats and horses
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so obviously this theory of total milieu theory which is a staple of the left is wrong in any
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case it's wrong when it's about gender but it's also wrong when it's about ethnicity and both
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are taboos of this trans ideology that basically wants human beings to become eight atoms and to
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become completely interchangeable like resources you can uh push around the globe um sex change
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operations and changing your nationality all the time you can become whatever you want and this
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is obviously part of this ideology of modernity i would say this trans ideology of transgression
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transsexual trans ethnic and so on and um i think as conservatives our thought has to be rooted in
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reality and we just need to create a serious scientific but also measured debate about a
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the subject. It doesn't go in any radical or extreme direction, just looks at the facts and
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then thinks, okay, what do we learn from these facts and how do the influence and how to the
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effect our politics? I strongly would expect you'll agree with the critique I'm about to make,
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but I'd be interested to know why you think it is that the multiculturalist, I would say left,
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but it's not just the left. I mean, you could look at the CDU in Germany. Actually, frankly,
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even, you know, the conservatives in Canada are officially pro-multiculturalism. There's
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factions within the party that are, you know, less so. But I would just say, so maybe the left
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is the wrong term for it. But multiculturalist ideology, broadly speaking, you know, believes
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that, you know, they don't seem to think that, you know, Europeans, and this is an easier debate
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to define in the European context and say North America, as I discussed, but in the European
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context, they seem to believe that Europeans aren't allowed to have their own distinct
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countries, their own distinct nations. But every other country and every other civilization on the
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planet can. Nigerians are allowed to have Nigeria for Nigerians. And to say otherwise is colonialism.
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And that's actually probably fair, that when Europeans try to essentially come in in large
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numbers and potentially even dominate India, that's colonialism. And that's probably a fair
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critique. What if it's the opposite? That, you know, France should be predominantly, not maybe
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exclusively, but at least predominantly the preserve for Frenchmen, that Poland should be
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predominantly the preserve for the Polish. That is seen as racist, exclusionary, hyper-nationalist,
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overall just bad negative thing. But if you, you know, if we said that, well, we shouldn't have a
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bunch of Poles moving to, or we shouldn't have a bunch of Frenchmen in Algeria, that's perfectly
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reasonable and could be violently resisted as it was in the 1950s and 60s. That could be violently
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resisted. And that is a good thing. But if you just believe in, you know, that French should
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maybe not have a ton of Algerians, that's racist. What do you think is the reasoning behind it?
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what is the philosophical grounding of it that what's good for the goose is not good for the
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gander now we're going to very deep into the roots of the great replacement of replacement
00:43:58.460
migration and i would really say it's this ideology this universalism of self-hatred and of
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white and european guilt and you brought up the algerian french example i always bring up in a
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talk to left wing people the white flight from south africa there's a huge re-migration going on
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after hundreds and hundreds of years the boers the people living there even longer than the in
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some of the invading black tribes then are leaving africa there's an immigration rate from whites from
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south africa do you like this or not answer for most laughingers yeah that's great because the
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colonial allies finally leave the country they have nothing to do in to do with uh from the first
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place so okay and why is it then racist if i demand remigration for europe for people who
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who just came here a few years ago who are very often illegal who contribute nothing to society
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who two gang rapes a day in germany cause tremendous horrors here not all of them but
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like a very large number it's completely incongruent and it's just anti-european and
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anti-white that's basically the suckers that's basically the core of it and it would be as if
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when you bring up the colonial example when the english colonized india we would say it would
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it's racist if the indians resist the british if the indians defend their nation against the british
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get an act of indian racism yeah an anti-white indian racism that's how it is now we are being
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called racist just for defending our own country in our own territory and i think this is basically um
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yeah a remnant of a secularized version of christianity it's an abuse of our history
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you obviously have in germany the second world war but for you have the colonization in the uk
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also the colonizations of everywhere you find a mcguffin that is basically the core of this
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huge ideology of guilt and guilt is something you can use to rule it's a very powerful tool
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to rule people and i would say in the end this destruction of european ethnic identity
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and national identity makes europeans easier to govern divided emperor divide and conquer
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it makes it easier also for international corporations to sell their products if you
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destroy nation states and you have only a huge amount of consumers who cannot organize themselves
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anymore if post-national gang language is totally chaotic then it's easier to rule that it's easier
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to sell there and it's easier to make money it's a free flow of information of capital of people
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all around the globe and the nation states are hindrance to this idea of a new feudalistic
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global order but obviously we're going to put into conspiracy theory there i have a proof of
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that i have no distinct group of people but if i would need to make up a theory why some rulers
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because this part right here is going to get clipped
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into something from the Canadian Anti-Hate Network
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and the whole constellation of far-left organizations
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that think this conversation should not be allowed to take place,
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that no one should be allowed to watch this, listen to this.
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conspiracy theory to instantly discredit something.
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There's obviously uncredible conspiracy theories.
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i've had to apologize to a few people i was like maybe you're not as crazy as i thought um but
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you know they had the word theory to the end that this is a uh this is a racist theory it's made up
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it's not real um so i maybe if you want to elaborate on that what do you mean by great
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replacement is it a theory um you know is this uh you know what do you mean by that
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first of all about conspiracy theories i think we need new conspiracy theories because all the
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odd ones ran out because they all became true so the sheets are the only ones holding out at this
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point yeah but um when it comes to the great replacement it's not a theory it's a reality
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it's not a conspiracy theory it's a government praxis it's a descriptive reality and it's just
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the product of birth rates of natives going down and replacement migration migration to replace
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these people fading away and since the 1970s in most european nations we had no positive birth
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rates and so since then the whole population growth can be contributed to replacement migration
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or replacement births so it's very descriptive and what they do in a very clever rhetoric trick
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they take certain theories about why the great replacement is happening then they disprove those
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theories and then then they say the whole thing isn't happening at all and this is as if you would
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look at the burning of rome you know we know there was a huge fire in rome the city burned for one
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week this is the fact the prescriptive fact and now there are many theories some people said nero
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himself burned rome down others say the christians did it others say it was just you know an accident
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but if you disprove one of these theories the fire still happened same with jfk there are many
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theories about who and why uh killed uh jfk but if you disprove one of them jfk still was killed
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and it's the same with great replacement doesn't matter which theory is true and who is really
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responsible it is happening it's a description and the prescription is remigration so i don't really
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care who's behind it. I think this is a debate you can talk about. It's very interesting. Way
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more important is the question, what can you do about it? And obviously, this attempt of the left
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to claim it's a conspiracy theory, straw man, it refuted and then claim it doesn't happen at all
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is very cheap and very easy to refute. You know, I should say they still use the word theory at
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the end, but they don't actually seem to deny it actually takes place now. They used to deny it's
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taking place now they kind of say it's taking place and it's a good thing here's why you should
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support it uh so they've kind of moved on they're actually no really they kind of say theory at the
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end just because i i guess they're used to saying it and it maybe kind of helps to discredit it
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but they don't really deny it now it's just yes it's happening but here's why you should like it
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um so i i guess there is no denying of course we have replacement migration i mean it's just math
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It's undeniable. We're very deep into it. It's not a new thing at this point.
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I guess the question would be, is it intentional or not? Is this just the way it's happening?
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I think it's partly intentional. I would say there are three important groups who form this
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lobby of the great replacement first there are certain economic interests for example in austria
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there's a huge asylum lobby people make a lot of money lawyers social workers a question for you
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see if you if you are good at guessing guess how much money how much euros that it does it cost
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per month for one refugee underage and unaccompanied so he has no family he's underage
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and he lives in vienna and how much does it cost one month to accommodate him
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all right well i i want to get on to uh something you mentioned kind of at the top i promise we get
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back to it uh uh metapolitics this is uh i don't think sorry there's a question oh sorry i i didn't
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catch it as a question do you want to rephrase yes like how much do you think there's a minor
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a minor refugee cost per month in austria and vienna well just cut out this little part where
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i missed it yeah um i i don't know but i i would imagine for the most part it'd be similar to
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canada and most european countries where the the net contribution of money in versus money out is
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obviously in the negative 18 000 euros one yes minor migrant in in vienna it's the highest rate
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costs 18 000 euros a month and this money goes into the asylum industry so those people profit
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economically 18 000 euros a month 18 000 euros 18 000 i can show you the the newspaper article you
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can put it on the screen yeah send it to us we'll throw it up i'm uh i'm not saying you're wrong but
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i mean that's higher than i would expect i expected it to be crazy i don't know how many
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there are but like how long does an austrian has to work to produce this before taxes you know it's
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crazy and um so then the second group political parties they profit from mass migration because
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they just import the voters naturalize them and then they give them our money and then they get
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voted by them and then i would say the third group an ideological group who hates the nation hates
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christianity hates white people hates european people like the self-hatred especially universities
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and they just like it they like it they love it they love the great replacement and they are like
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a very small but a very loud group especially universities and media you notice this um self
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hatred like an ideology and i think these three groups combined they create this very strong very
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rich very powerful lobby in economy politics and media yeah i know we certainly have that in in
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canada you uh you know there were uh you know we've always had a fairly perm permissive liberal
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which is too bad because we would have legitimate good
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ones. We had these kind of diploma meals that were fake schools.
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you know, kind of lower class, unskilled workers, you know, why would you hire a entitled
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Canadian who maybe, maybe he won't work as hard, you know, because we grew up in a rich and
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plentiful, peaceful country. Hire the harder working guy from over here. Sometimes they will
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work harder. And it brought in all this cheap labor. So it very much, it's often business
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interests what i couldn't what i have a harder time understanding is that the official labor
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unions not labor not union members union members are actually kind of voting very much on the right
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in canada now and increasingly so in the united states as well a kind of blue collar not the
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government unions which is actually most unions in canada now they're public sector but private
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sector unions the workers tend to be on the right and they understand there's a huge mass migration
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problem. But the leadership of all the big unions in Canada, they are against cracking down on mass
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migration. And that doesn't make sense to me because it would seem to be very directly in
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the interests of the workers. I'm kind of making like the Danish Social Democrat argument here
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that I very much agree with, that you're undercutting your workers here. It's supply and
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demand. If you have demand for workers, but you massively inflate the supply, but the demand stays
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the same well the price goes down it's just the simplest law of economics and so that so why would
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like i i have yet to figure out why it's here i'm gonna guess it might be the same in in europe that
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these these labor organizations are for open borders even though it's completely cooking the
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supply and demand of having a strong working class true it's uh it's very peculiar i would say it's
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the treason of the working class by the marxists and this is because the marxists the socialist
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revolutionaries you know they were disappointed by the native working class because they wouldn't
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do a communist revolution with them and during the cold war that didn't happen you had all the
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student movements the sds in america the student revolts in france and these were all entitled
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marxist students who read marcus adorno and all these you know marcus adorn and all these thinkers
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and they were angry that their own working classes didn't revolve with them and then basically i
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think they were looking for new revolutionary subject in the working class because all of
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these trade union organizers all these bosses and all this uh um intelligentsia of course they are
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not workers themselves and they've betrayed their own workers because with them they cannot make a
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revolutionary socialist movement and they think with importing arabs and importing migrants they
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have another attempt and another shot for their revolutionary marxist dreams but that's just my
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personal theory maybe also just mad i don't know well they might be half right that they're perhaps
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importing revolutionaries but it might not be a marxist revolution it might be more along the lines
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of the iranian revolution that you're gonna get uh most of these guys need to be steeped heavily
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in marx more than they're steeped in the writings of an ayatollah uh okay uh so i'm gonna go back
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to something you mentioned right near the top of our discussion and that was metapolitics i don't
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think most people have even heard the term you use it uh if i did a word search in your i read
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your book regime change from the right um here well let's put an image of the book oh there you
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go you've got it right there uh you can order it on amazon i'm actually shocked you can order that
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on amazon still i'm embarrassed i'm embarrassed that it's still on amazon yeah yeah like when i
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don't get canceled from something i'm like what am i doing wrong like yeah uh anyway you can you
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can get it on amazon it's uh i think it's very fairly priced um but if i did a word search of it
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i think metapolitics would come up as one of the the most frequently used words throughout it um
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why don't you just kind of give a short what is metapolitics and and how does it apply to the
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broader debate around western identity western civilization remigration what do you mean by it
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and how does it apply if my fellow activists will see this clip they're going to laugh because i was
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known for a while in vienna and austria as somebody who couldn't finish one sentence without
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using the term metaphors i think it's a fair critique i've read the book i i think you'll
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like the word a lot yeah yeah why because the concept is so important that's why the right
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wing the conservatives always lose because they don't get it they don't get it they think the
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parliament is the center of power no the parliament is a stage the center of power is somewhere else
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it's in media it's in the discourse the words and um the thoughts so language and thinking are
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intertwined if you control the words if you control the media if you control the culture
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then you control the national debate and on the long run you control the elections and you can
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change political parties even the animal political parties that's happened in europe so in europe
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the left the left-wing culture the left thing media all the moves in the books they were pushing
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this ideology and moving ever farther to the left and the conservatives followed them so the center
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the real center in the overturned window of political opportunities was moving to the left
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because the left are going leftwards and the right are following and then if you meet in the middle
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the middle ground is always moving and that's why the left that's why the left wins because they
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understand that power lies not in party politics it also doesn't just lie in numbers and facts and
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studies it lies in emotions and strong images and you were talking about the anti-hate groups
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in canada just look at this amazing meta-political success of the left they've
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coined the term hate we also even use it hate speech so hate is something that is associated
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with the right wing hate you know as a basic human emotion i think the left wing people hate
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as much and maybe even more as we do but still they've made it a reality in our mind therefore
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reality um in our political world you know this course is hate is now something con attributed to
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the right and that's what i mean by metaphysics everything that's outside of party politics
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is actually really stronger and influences party politics way more and that's why we need way more
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alternative media way more right wing activists way more writing think tanks way more writing
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counterculture music comics memes because that's where the actual power lays and that's uh also i
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would say uh the the message of this book all right this conversation go a few ways from here
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but i um i want to test your theories a bit with some real world examples um in britain for example
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i'd say you know identitarians or nationalists they won the meta-political debate on brexit
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largely fueled on the immigration issue that if we if we have brexit we take back national
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sovereignty we'll get out of the eu's system of open borders and we could then stop mass migration
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take take back some national sovereignty and control here uh they won the debate they won the
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vote they won the brexit referendum and then they won subsequent elections with big conservative
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majority governments to follow through on brexit and end mass migration as one of the probably the
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single biggest motivating factor behind the brexit vote there you know there's quite a few
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other things but that was the big one they won the votes they said they won the meta politics
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they won people over you know they made the legacy media was still over and most big institutions
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They won like two or three majority governments afterwards.
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They won the partisan political parliamentary debate.
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um that's just a british example but there's other examples as well in in germany the most
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recent federal election a big majority of germans voted for the afd um in second place and uh and
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the cdu in first combined a very big majority uh and you know friedrich merits ran on you know
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shutting the borders ending mass migration they still got more mass migration so can i maybe can
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Even where they're winning debates and they're winning the parliamentary elections, they're losing in the actual results at the end of the day.
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Because I think it's actually, in reality, a proof of the metapolitical theory.
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But if you look at the talking points of the discussion, people talked mostly not about migration, but about economics.
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because it was and it still is too spicy to talk about mass deportations which actually would have
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been needed to stop um the the great replacement or a fortress uh britain like building a wall and
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the rwanda plan all of this so they won the political power but they did not win the
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meta-political power why because in the uk there are no big media no big alternative media not no
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big street movements or big ngos and think tanks there's no counterly there's no power in academia
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who is demanding mass deportations on who is demanding a complete closed border policy
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this talking point still is not really in the british media and society and you see this right
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now with the taboos the drupal low is breaking with restore britain so what i would say is if
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conservatives and patriots get in power even if they want to do certain political things they
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are unable to do them if those things are not completely normalized all the taboos have to be
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broken and you see right now rupert law is starting to break these taboos right now years and years
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after brexit with which which was a proxy vote uh nativist vote but in the debate didn't really
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normalize the idea of mass deportations or completely shutting the border fence so i would
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say the brexit was a prime example of conservatives winning political power without having a real
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meta-political influence in media academia or on the national discourse
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well but in the german example i mean it's it's a different set of circumstances you have the
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so-called firewall where unofficially it's a rule you're not allowed to deal with the afd
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But there, you know, a big majority of people voted for parties that would stop mass migration.
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Even Friedrich Mertz, I mean, I didn't believe it.
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But he was saying, yeah, no, we're shutting the border.
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We're ending mass deport, we're ending mass migration.
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Syrians with Syria safe can go back to Syria.
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But it didn't happen, even though a big majority of Germans voted for it. And it was explicit. It wasn't mixed with a bunch of economic stuff. It wasn't, you know, the National Health Service in Britain will save money and, you know, arguments, you know, around that kind of thing. It was explicit.
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But there, I mean, it was less than 24 hours after the votes came in.
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And he said, no, ending mass migrations off the table was less than 24 hours.
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So there, I feel like the metapolitical debate was won to an extent.
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I mean, it was not a resounding win, but a majority of people voted for parties that were explicit about this issue.
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But then the actual the way that translated on the parliamentary level, they lost.
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i wouldn't say that the medical debate in germany was one at all i wouldn't say that
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in german media re-migration uh like um sending syrians home is normalized at all in the debate
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and this is where i would measure metapolitical victory so i agree with you it was a political
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victory for mats and for writing parties but why did people vote for mats devoted for mats because
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still this idea of the nazification of the afd this demonization is still so strong in german
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media therefore meta politics that the majority is not yet voting for the afd so a lot of people
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in germany who are voting for the conservatives actually have the convictions of the afd but they
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still have this then this ideological stranglehold of the left that i think voting for afd is
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something evil is something negative and this is the meta-political force and dominance of the left
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and matt is profiting from that because obviously he's not as attacked so it's not verboten to vote
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for mats and he's using afd talking points because he knows what people actually want
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but in the end he betrays them again and again so the meta-political power would be to de-demonize
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the afd that the afd gets substantial majorities which make it impossible to govern without them
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this would be the meta-political victory and for this you have to normalize re-migration you have
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to break these taboos and you have to break the ideological dominance of the left so i would know
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i would say that um these political victories aren't real like um results of a big
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meta-political victory because still these ideas are not normalized and i'm a living example of
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that i wrote a book about remigration and until recently i got banned from germany i got driven
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out of german cities german police was crashing my book readings and this is not really a sign
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that a talking point is normalized and mainstreamed in a certain society so i would say that we have
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not yet reached at all this meta-political goal of having totally mainstreamed our ideas
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and the question of the great replacement society if this would be the case then it would be debated
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as global warming you know as a big important question that everybody has to find an answer for
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every political party would have to bring up a re-migration policy because it's so normalized
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and it's so standard that this uh re-migration is um an important question and then it will come
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policy so i think we are metapolitically too weak and what you're actually seeing is populist
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populist wins by populist parties writing populist even in the parliament like in italy maybe in
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france or sometimes in austria but lacking the metapolitical the metapolitical power the think
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tanks the academics the experts the alternative media the activists on the streets and therefore
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their political power becomes futile because it's not backed by a real meta-political force
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i want to challenge your theory on maybe this is the hardest challenge to your theory with the
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united states there there is a very large populist right movement or national conservatives there is
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a very very vibrant uh alternative media all the biggest media in america are actually all
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alternatives and independence at this point, to various degrees.
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He even said he was going to ban Muslims from immigrating.
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Like, stuff that was outside the Overton window.
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He was running for president on stuff that was outside the Overton window.
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the second time obviously dispute but you know because ultimately don't return to office and then
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he returned to office again uh he's gonna build the wall there's gonna be mass deportations they
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win the presidency republicans win the house republicans win the senate um after a very
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short experience with mass deportations they've essentially pulled the plug on it they're not
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doing mass deportations anymore they they kind of hyped it up a lot on social media you know they'd
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have these like kind of uh you know set the hype music they'd have these little edits going out
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you know showing having ice going and you know arresting some some pedo or something and who
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should be deported uh they were very public about it but you know there was some backlash you know
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in minnesota and whatnot and they've just kind of pulled the plug on it they're still doing
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deportations and they're doing it more aggressively than europe but the idea of mass deportations that
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everyone who's illegal is gonna get out um now they're limiting you know trump has said well
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you know, if they're working on farms or, you know, they're doing these kinds of things and
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they haven't committed a violent crime in America, yeah, we're just, we're not going to really get
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around to it. Uh, you know, there, I feel like kind of business interests have probably, I've
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intervened, uh, to lobby and say, okay, you want to get rid of the guys committed, you know, you
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want to get rid of gangbangers who are illegal migrants? Fine. But you know, the guys who are
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just picking berries on a farm in, you know, in California, no, they get to stay, even if they're
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illegal um there's no wall i mean there is there more they have cracked down on their southern
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border but there is no wall he's had three terms now uh he's into his third term and there's no
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wall it kind of gets negotiated away for other things um so there i feel like they very much
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did win the meta-political debate that was what people wanted super majorities of americans say
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they want it substantial parts of even democratic voters want it um they won total political power
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They have the Supreme Court. They have the presidency. They've got the House and they've got the Senate. They had everything set for it. But it appears that that project, they're done with it. So am I wrong? I think they won the metapolitical debate and then they won the power political parliamentary debate. They won the votes and they still lost.
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so first of all meta politics is not something you can win once like an election and then you
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granted power for some years it's an ongoing battle you have to always project power what
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i would say here is a classic classic example of conservatives winning one battle and then going
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home back to the farms back to the shire you know thinking everything's done for and now everything
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will work out and that's not the case because you need to project power as the base against
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for your own political party when it's in office and then is when the real work starts because
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that's a big problem there's a pain point for every writing politician trump talks about his
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business friends and there are many lobbies in america influencing all the time and if the
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re-migration voter base does not become a lobby itself which encourages uh trump or any any
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politician but also becomes a pain point for them if they betray their voters then they will get
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betrayed over and over again one example is meloni in italy she promised a c blockade when she was
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in power no c blockade this would be the moment where writing alternative media independent media
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writing activists would need to do actions get on the streets do a c blockade themselves to embarrass
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her to force her to step in and to do something one example just to be concrete we in austria did
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this in 2018 when there was a big u.n migration pact and we had a government of the freedom party
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and the conservative party in austria they um had intentions to sign it they didn't really care
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about it but then we made a huge campaign petitioning demonstrations we brought to the
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public um attention and then the freedom party and uh really really put a lot of pressure on
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the conservative party and austria was one of their own western european countries who did not
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sign this pact minor example but if we would have slept it would have done nothing then nothing would
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have happened so we need to become a lobby ourselves we become need to become loud and
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powerful and we need to support but also criticize the right-wing party in power another concrete
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example so the left is very well organized the right didn't win over the metapolitical dominance
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in america the universities the ideological state apparatuses according to louis it was still very
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much left wing but um the right had a very good momentum going on like now we had ice and what
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happened to ice ice during the raids was harassed persecuted watched and hindered by the lefty people
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by the antifa in a way that made them almost powerless or really really really slowed them
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down and what did right-wingers do they clamored about it online so why didn't they create an
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ice supporting movement going there binding the forces you know um off the left not violently
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obviously but just filming them talking to them hindering them and hindering the the ice rates
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and helping eyes like a volunteer eyes helping force just one example what what one could have
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done but the problem is in my opinion the right wing doesn't really understand how um they have
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to work while the political party is in power so again i would say it is a it is um yes it is a loss
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but it will it isn't against my theory of change because you see it on the left working all the
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time where left-wing politicians are in power during black life matter the left-wing groups
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start acting they start forming a radical flank they start pressuring they start lobbying
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and they're way more effective in that than the right i i think you uh especially the first part
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of your answer uh maybe touched on it right you know we talked about in austria where the you know
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the uh the people's party the kind of the mainstream conservative party uh wanted to sign
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a migration pact and then there was there was pressure from the right in the american example
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I think the problem is that Trump voters are too loyal to Trump, that there's a cult of
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personality around it. I know a lot of people watching, I'm kind of offside with a lot of
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Western-centered readers and viewers on the Iran war. I think it's a total betrayal of everything
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Trump stands for. He ran for president three times saying no more these forever war, you know,
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Team America World Police. And he was explicitly said no war with Iran. The Democrats are going
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to get us into a war with Iran, and it could be World War III, and then he does it anyway.
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And most Republicans, I mean, there's a significant dissenting minority, but most Republicans
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say, well, Trump's for it, therefore I'm going to trust him, and I'm for the war.
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Same thing with ending the mass deportations with ICE.
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You know, ICE is still doing its thing, but not anywhere near the scale that it was.
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Well, Trump says it's too hot politically, so we're just going to have to take his word
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for it. And this is a case, I think, of where the voter coalition is too loyal to its leadership,
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that the leadership does not fear their own core voters. In Alberta, I know you wouldn't know about
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this, but, you know, during COVID, we had a conservative government that was supposed to
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be a populist conservative government. And then they did kind of the same kind of lockdowns and
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mandates as Justin Trudeau was trying to impose nationally and other left-hand politicians in
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other provinces. In Alberta, we're not that loyal to our leaders. We overthrow, actually, we haven't
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had a conservative leader, like we're very conservative here. We have pretty much just
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conservative governments. We haven't had a conservative premier finish a single term
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since I was in high school. 2004 was the last time one conservative leader did not get overthrown
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during their own term. So we overthrow them all the time. So we overthrew that guy. And it's
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Because, you know, we're loyal to them to a point.
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They're the leader of the movement to an extent.
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But if they deviate, you know, at least in Alberta, we overthrow them.
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And so I think maybe where it went wrong in the United States is Trump became too dominant with the movement.
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So that when he deviated from the program, when he deviated, people just said, it's a part of the plan.
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we trust the leader and we're not going to therefore make him pay a political price for
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deviating from it uh which again i see sort of a medical failure but i see that as almost that's
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more on the on the parliamentary side that we're not willing to make the leader of the party of
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the movement of the country etc pay a political price on a political level for betraying what
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they said they stood for true i completely agree with you um and that's a problem because we should
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should follow ideas not people because it is about ideas and it's about policy and not about
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politicians and I also understand yes some Trump voters some other people feel betrayed I have to
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say for me the way more important point in geopolitics where I also have my opinion is
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migration is mass deportations because that's actually what's really saving the American
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nation that's also what would cause irreversible damage contrary to geopolitical decisions if it
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wasn't um pushed through and here again i think it's a question not about the theory of change
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about met politics but no about political willpower and organization because we need to learn from
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successful lobbies they all is clamoring about trump and other right-wing politicians are
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influenced by these lobbies true yeah but if we cry about it doesn't change we need to become a
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lobby ourselves and how does it work it's very clear very easy so how does the nra work how does
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pro-life movement work how does the israel lobby work in america they create powerful think tanks
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and institutions that influence the core water base of the political party they get their data
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they organize them they create newsletters petitions they they create huge events and then
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they uh they forge a political weapon they turn a political weapon out of the five ten fifteen
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percent of the core water base of the political party that are die-hard fans and hardcore fans
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of the ideology and then they use them in grassroots constituents of activism to influence
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the certain politicians and west is happening on the right quest is happening on the question of
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migration i'm not hearing about anything about the lobby for remigration organizing big conferences
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mobilizing the republican voter base voted for trump to stop mass migration we just are talking
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we have so many talking heads we have so many podcasts influence alternative media what we're
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lacking is grassroots organizers activists think tanks to understand that we really need to become
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a lobby and those things not happen by themselves by wipes and memes but by grassroots brutal
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grassroots organization and i think that's why um it's not working so well in terms of
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re-migration because the re-migration movement is very vocal very visible especially if you're
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on x but it's not very organized it's not very structured it doesn't really have a sense of
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power like left wing or some other right wing lobbies have so i would i stick by my theory
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of change by metabolic sorry i wasn't convinced but i agree with you that we are not really
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having big successes on this play field until now well i i'm not not convinced by it i'm just
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looking at where have we won certain battles but still not actually won the war uh so that's where
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i'm going i i think what you were just saying was also an excellent plug for your own organization
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the institute for remigration well of course this was uh by accident yeah yeah that's exactly what
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we're going to do i'm i'm i've been an activist for a while we've done a lot of things i'm maybe
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some of your viewers even knew know about different europe where we chartered a ship and went to the
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mediterranean we um put up fences in the italian french alps we uh block streets so i've been
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doing a lot in the office my office was the streets been also organizing a lot of rallies
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and demonstrations and now i want to focus on exactly this field because i think that's the
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missing puzzle piece of the remigration writing movement we have a lot of great alternative media
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which is of utmost importance so i think what you're doing is really metapolitically very very
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important and as you said no one else in canadian media would even talk to someone like me it takes
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someone like you who is independent who can choose to whom he talks by himself huge very important
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we have activist movements we have parties but i think like kind of a missing piece are think
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tanks organizers who take all these resources forge certain narrative strategies to turn us
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into a real powerful lobby and that's what we're intending to do with the institute for immigration
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which is in start to understand the like in the state of being founded right now okay well uh
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martin selder i'm very grateful for your time um keep up the work you're doing uh keep us up to
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date with uh with what's happening and uh perhaps we'll touch base i'm gonna be over in your neck
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of the woods uh not too uh not too long from now thank you very much and greetings to all canadian