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Sep 14, 2024 • 4 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Dutch Minister of Asylum and Migration Marjolein Faber and Deputy Prime Minister Fleur Agema are great examples of Pantsuit Deportation Politics, very un-intimidating cuddly and not weird EU Social Democracy HR ladies sensibly and sophisticatedly opting out of EU Migration Policy

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POV: Your asylum application has been rejected and you are being deported back to Bomalia but in a progressive, sophisticated and not weird incel-like way
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Deputy Prime Minister of The Netherlands and ‘Far Right’ PVV (Party for Freedom) Member Fleur Agema


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Your School Crush and First Love that you are ‘meeting in a bar for drinks’ 15 years after you last saw her because your first marriage to another woman fell through and you ran into her again in a store while you were visiting your hometown and you thought why not give it a go? Image

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ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 Profile picture
Dec 10
YOOKAY PARALLAX

Quoted article below by a British Muslim writer makes the suggestion that ‘The Left’ should co-opt the term ‘Yookay’ as a positive descriptive term but then goes onto to repeatedly misunderstand what is actually meant by the term. Don’t think this is because the concept is obscure or especially difficult to understand - commentators like Lord Frost have been able to give accurate accounts of what is meant by it. These writers are then either disingenuous and pretending not to ‘get it’ for rhetorical purposes (possible) or, more likely, just do not exist in a conceptual headspace where it is really even possible to ‘get it’. WRT ‘Yookay’ here they are seemingly unable to conceptualise the world historical demographic and cultural change that recent migration into Britain represents

This inability to enter into a different conceptual space was capture by Jean-François Lyotard with his notion of ‘The Differend’ - which refers to a situation where a conflict between two parties cannot be fairly resolved because there is no common language or framework of judgment that both sides recognise. In a differend, one party’s suffering or claim cannot be properly expressed or validated within the dominant discourse, meaning that misunderstanding occurs not because of falsehood, but because of the inability to be heard within the available linguistic or conceptual system. This is a perennial feature of contemporary British political discourse

I have not yet seen a mainstream ‘Left Wing’ person argue “Yes and that radical population and cultural change is a good thing” when they try to critique the concept of the ‘Yookay’. This is strange, because the ‘Yookay’ represents the actual material outcome of their ideological project. This is what you wanted! Instead they often try to pretend ‘Yookay’ doesn’t represent any meaningful change at all and, if they address the account itself, that all the images there are fake or don’t pick out any meaningfully representative aspect of Britain. This is a generous version of the position:

“Britain hasn’t meaningfully changed at all but also all these obviously new cultural interpolations are good things and we are happy that they have been introduced”

The author of the article herself does not even reach this level. She says “we should reclaim Yookay” but then describes ‘Yookay’ as class antagonism erroneously misdirected towards “black and Muslim people”. It is therefore a ‘populist cope’. ‘Yookay’ so-reclaimed to her then apparently means a united multiracial working class front against ‘The Rich’ ergo the ‘Yookay Aesthetic’ will be reclaimed as a ‘good thing’ because it represents anti-capitalist solidarity(?)

I mean why bother at this point? She doesn’t even mention demographic and cultural change as an important component of the concept because to her, again, there hasn’t been any meaningful demographic and cultural change. Any counterbalancing of a ‘Historical Britain’ to the ‘Yookay’ represents, she says, “a fictitious past”

My sense of the concept, and sorry if indulge myself a little here, is that it does ‘pick out’ meaningful changes in national character - and because many of those meaningful changes are (by many subjective evaluations) undesirable the act of documenting them and pointing out that these changes have taken place is read as some kind of attack by ideological advocates of that transformation. Some of these commentators will also leap to “ergo it must be a racist project” to bridge the gap between their idealised visions and the actual reality of that sweeping national change. Here it becomes difficult to describe these changes in strictly neutral terms, let alone negative terms. If commentary on real world imagery and videos (that because they are real necessarily represent some aspect of the real world as it actually is) is not strictly positive you are in danger of having your posting construed as crass and racist attacksImage
Again, would like one person to actually defend the change at a properly intellectual level instead of just denying the demonstrable change represents any kind of change at all. You cannot ‘co-opt’ a term if you are unprepared to honestly address the actual original sense of it
‘Tribune’ was first founded in 1937 as a democratic socialist magazine and its previous editors have included Aneurin Bevin, Michael Foot and… George Orwell. It is now owned by a Tunisian Islamist
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Dec 7
MINNESOTA - “SOMALIA’S PROMISED LAND” 🇸🇴

In recent weeks a new meme has emerged on Somali social media in which Somalis claim Minnesota is the promised land for Somalis and invent histories about how Somalis came to settle there. Collection thread of some of these memes 🧵
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“A native American Somali man who's ancestors and tribes dwelled the land of Minnesota for centuries .🪶 Fun fact traditional dishes like banana and rice were served in thanksgiving back in those days also”
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Nov 18
ON THE THIRD WORLD CITYSCAPE - ABOUT GUATEMALA CITY 🇬🇹

Spent some time in Guatemala City. It isn’t a very interesting city but it is a good example of what an average Central American / Third World city looks like. A thread about the common features of these kinds of cities 🧵 Image
When you fly in above, I don’t want to say the place looks like slum but it does look sort of the next step-up from a slum. Just a sea of corrugated iron roofs. These kinds of cities are not hugely appealing from above. It looks visibly ramshackle Image
There are whole areas of the city that you “just don’t go”. “Aye aye aye… es muy peligroso” you will be warned. “We don’t go there”. This threat is a little exaggerated, you can walk more places than people say you can, but it is also true that there are places you shouldn’t Image
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Nov 17
“Bro if immigrants scare you don’t ever visit Dubai, 90% of the country are immigrants”

“Those people are guest workers”

“And somehow… they aren’t collapsing.
They’re booming”

“They aren’t eligible for citizenship”

“I might get a UAE passport myself”

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Another day in upside down world where someone uses an example that demonstrates the exact opposite opposite of what they are trying to argue to argue because they don’t know anything about anything
Have to make some version of this tweet maybe every three months
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Nov 16
BEST OF R/LEGALADVICEUK 🧵

r/LegalAdviceUK is a reddit subreddit where people ask for legal advice about their problems. Because of the levels of dysfunction in Britain (AKA ‘The Yookay’) today they often read as parody. Here is a thread of some of the more absurd recent posts Image
“Caste-based discrimination at my workplace” Image
“One of my councillors is campaigning to be elected in a completely different country” Image
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Nov 11
ON STUPID HIGH CRIME LEVELS IN A ‘TOTAL MESS’ COUNTRY LIKE GUATEMALA 🇬🇹

When you visit a ‘Total Mess’ Central American country like Guatemala or Honduras, formerly El Salvador, you get a lot of people spontaneously materialising out of the aether to tell you “don’t go outside in the cities they aren’t safe” “don’t walk anywhere at all it isn’t safe” “don’t go out at night there are dual machete-wielding werewolves on the streets” etc. This danger is a bit exaggerated on a personal level, I often find these claims of danger exaggerated anyway, if you are a moderately sized male you will be basically fine walking around many slightly dangerous places at night. Walk with a swaying gorilla gorilla gait so banditos know you are the big bossman, make shrieking gorilla noises to ward them off too if you want, no problem. Obviously though the slums, barrios, favelas etc, yes you would be retarded to go into. Really just needs a good spider sense to intuit where is it and isn’t okay to go.

Either way, it is true there is a lot of crime. You do think, how is there this much crime? It isn’t even like in the west, Yookay, were crime is overlooked for asinine human rights reasons. What exists in a place like Guatemala is a special type of state that ‘some’ have called the ‘Mafia-Corporation Complex’. This is a kind of state where corruption has become so endemic that gangs are basically intertwined with the structure of the state - they are almost an extension of the state itself because they are so enmeshed in its political patronage networks that the state’s formal institutions (customs, immigration, judiciary, police etc) become penetrated, manipulated and co-opted. Rule of law is weak and impunity is high so gangs function as a kind of parallel state structure.

What is the ‘corporation’ part here? In a ‘Total Mess’ country like Guatemala crime-groups will run extortion, arms trafficking, drug trafficking, human trafficking, illegal logging, mining, money laundering, whatever etc. through legitimate businesses. Legitimate businesses (or hybrids) facilitating that money-laundering then obtain government contracts through corrupt channels and / or get kickbacks for serving as fronts. This is de facto state capture (where state institutions serve private illicit interests rather than public good and governance is undermined) which vis-a-vis crime results in a huge spike in violence & insecurity (where criminogenic markets incentivise high homicide rates, arms proliferation and the formation of gangs to control competing territorial claims).

The high levels of gang violence then have downstream effects across society - in the creation of a culture of crime among more ‘normal people’ that is both more incentivised and less commonly prosecuted (on top of the regular incentives that exist already) and in actual physical space where physical territory disputes encourage more crime. In Guatemala some of these gangs are even transnational and associated with the Mexican cartels which leads to state capture by international networks of interests and violence; everything all just so entangled and entrenched that unless you ‘have the balls’ the inducements are really not there to undertake the thankless task of dismantling the ‘Mafia-Corporation Complex’. You would have to upset a lot of people *and* be immune to bribes, threats of violence and fake legal prosecution yourself to begin to fix it.Image
THE POPULIST EFFECT TURBO-CHARGED

When you have a country that is this captured almost all popular politics becomes about fighting crime and corruption. Guatemala is interesting in this way in that it doesn’t have long-standing political parties. Almost every Guatemalan president since the country’s democratic transition in 1985 post civil war has come to power with a different political party - and that party usually collapses or fades soon after leaving office. This is because almost every party comes to power on a populist pledge to defeat crime and corruption - unlike the previous party that promised that - and then immediately fails in its pledge to defeat crime and corruption. Then the next new party promises to defeat crime and corruption and the cycle continues. Actually a lot of the parties making these pledges are corrupt to begin with, have crime ties to begin with, so it isn’t like they are all Bukele-style noble crusaders who fail because they encounter institutional obstacles.

One example - Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales (2016 - 2020), a political ‘outsider’ former much-loved comedian who campaigns on the slogan ‘not corrupt, not a criminal’. Morales rides a wave of populism to defeat the ‘corrupt establishment’. Soon afterward it transpires that Morales’ family is corrupt, that Morales himself was getting kickbacks, taking illegal donations, that he tried to expel an independent UN commission on corruption in Guatemala because it considered recommending removing his legal immunities as president etc.

Many such cases, the cycle just continues…Image
The UN Commission (CICIG) was incredibly popular domestically and had succeeded in significantly reducing corruption levels in Guatemala. Morales expelled it from the country for abuses of power and overreach in who it (probably rightly) said needed to be prosecuted (ie Morales) Image
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