In the 1970s, the British Labour Party's bourgeois liberal wing, which would become Labour's dominant bloc under Tony Blair, found itself in league with the "Paedophile Information Exchange".
There is a not insignificant portion of small l liberalism that sees age of consent laws as some legacy of Judeo-Christian censorship. In 2009, Anne Applebaum wrote a bonkers piece protesting Roman Polanski's arrest in Switzerland. voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2…
The fact that a Tulsi Gabbard's instincts are so much sounder than the original axis of evil's own David Frum is very on-brand for 2020
The thread here by Elizabeth Bruenig, no conservative her, should remind everyone remotely sensible that on some pretty fundamental moral matters, there is a consensus that transcends politics, even if the politicos spinning this are simply diabolical
California is the flagship of the liberal project: its object is the relentless obscuring of differences between right and wrong until what were always obvious moral evils are legislated for & then made 'norms'. It is happening in plain sight now.
Tulsi Gabbard & Nancy Pelosi’s daughter have a firmer grasp of basic moral truths than David Frum, who was George W Bush’s speechwriter....an example of how absolutely deranged the American Right’s ‘dead enders’ are now.
The @TheBabylonBee outperforms here: "Hollywood Elites Rush To Normalize Pedophilia Before They're All Outed By Ghislaine Maxwell"
Media circling the wagons around child pornography to make it seem a partisan matter is, on any view, simply abominable. Note that the 'highly principled' never Trump people are deathly silent (must not upset donors?) but a Tulsi Gabbard is not.
For some time, amid much mockery , I have said that traditional conservatives have far more in common with sensible social democrats than with the libertarians....this is an example of why that is so. You can compromise on wages etc but not on this filth.
Small l liberalism has a massive blind spot when it comes to the sexualisation of children. The prioritisation of adult perversions over the protection of children is a marker of not just liberalism but a prior pagan culture now reasserting itself in all its moral evils
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The problem of all Free Trade ideology for nation-states with real world responsibilities is its complete unrealism ... rather like open borders, free trade is utopian ... you cannot be a great or even regional power & rely overly on others supply to you in critical industries
Conservatism in the English speaking world, historically, was always Protectionist. The British Conservative Party & the GOP were historically for Protection and Tariffs (until Thatcher & the Bushs) - unchecked free trade & free markets were considered dangerous liberal heresies
The British Empire was almost destroyed for two World Wars by liberal Free Trade's slow gutting of British industrial capacity & but for Imperial Preference in the 1930s, there would have been few if any UK & Empire industries left for WW2 esp the Alone period of 1939-1941
This @Telegraph long read by @SAshworthHayes @CDP1882 on the UK's long-running rape (and in some cases murder) gang scandal is bracing reading and not for the squeamish. But it must be read - and acted upon.
Social media bill is another very poorly drafted law from the very same people who drafted the Voice constitutional alteration (which failed) & the Misinformation/Disinformation bill (which was withdrawn). Sheer lunacy for the Coalition to support the social media bill #Auspol
One of many problems we have with our Parliament in 2024 is its membership is simply not across how modern economies & communications work - you do not have to be any expert but you do need some lay understanding. One saw this in the Misinformation/Disinformation bill #Auspol
As a matter of public law - which binds everyone & should be as simple to follow as law can - the social media bill has ridiculous complexity & carve-outs ... and it is unreal to legislate on social media access separate from AI & exposure to its knowledge & also 'fakes' #Auspol
I am finally watching the @martyrmade / Tucker discussion on Churchill. I am not sure who among the critics have actually watched it. As I dislike Twitter pile-ons, I think everyone should watch what X says before X is put in the tumbril. My response as a Churchillian below.
Firstly, it astounds me (and no doubt many in the old Empire) why Americans in 2024 are so invested in the British Empire in the 1930s when the Americans of the 1939-1941 period wanted no part of WW2 & the US had to be bombed into WW2 & it was the Nazis who declared war on the US
Secondly, there is very little Darryl says that was not said earlier by many Revisionist historians of the same period, esp British ones wondering why they went through two continental wars that cost them their vast seaborne empire - cf Alan Clark, John Charmley, AJP Taylor etal
Very grateful to @dailytelegraph for this morning publishing me on the contribution of Australia's Jews & my philippic against societally cancerous anti-Semitism. I urge fellow Gentiles to speak up for our Australia that has always been a haven for Jews & must not disappear✡️🇦🇺
Very grateful also to the Adelaide Advertiser @theTiser for publishing my article on Australia's Jews & their enormous contribution to Australia and the worrying failure of so many critical institutions & alleged "leaders" of them, to denounce the anti-Semitism now in our midst.
It is uncanny just how much of the "Anti Zionism" that one reads about here ends up simply targeting individual Australian Jews for their being Jews...
US delaying arms & munitions to Israel is all about domestic US politics - US allies especially in the Middle East see Biden Admin wiling to dirk *even Israel* here means Egypt, Jordan, Gulf Kingdoms etal start to reevaluate relying on the US vs an Iranian arc with PRC/RUS ‘help’
Rightly or wrongly, the US' allies seeing that if the Biden WH will cut *even Israel* adrift on arms and munitions supplies in a war after a massive terrorist attack, that their alliance with the US, too, operates purely at the whim of domestic US politics ... Obama's 3rd term
A global military alliance of intelligence support & arms sharing (going to standardisation of kit & calibres etc) is only sustainable, ultimately, to the degree that allies trust in the support of each other, esp when the going is hard... no one respects disloyalty esp enemies