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
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
Deputy Prime Minister of The Netherlands and ‘Far Right’ PVV (Party for Freedom) Member Fleur Agema
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?
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Tomb of Saladin in Damascus Syria. Often difficult to know what to do with yourself when you visit the tomb of genuine world historical figures, you feel you need to show reverence - I walked around it a few times. You can see in the corner the janitor dumped a vacuum cleaner box
Saladin’s tomb is in a small mausoleum at the back of Damascus’ famous Umayyad Mosque, not really advertised. You wouldn’t know it was there unless you read about it beforehand. Mentioned to me casually, “oh yeah we’ve got Saladin out in the back if you want to go have a look”
Richard the Lionheart on the Third Crusade fighting his great frenemy the noble Saladin, so noble that even Christendom could not help but admire him for his virtue… a story about as ‘legendary’ as it gets. Maybe I was expecting the mausoleum to be more appropriately ‘hallowed’ but I did enjoy the more homely, casual ‘approach’. Tatty and ragged but warm carpets, the tomb itself for all intents and purposes covered in what was a glorified tablecloth. I can’t say whether it had that ‘approach’ by design, whether it was because of indifference or whether it was supposed to be ‘modest’. It did in this way though feel like there was a genuine ‘authenticity’ to the space, it was the opposite of impersonal. You could go and touch the tomb, run your hands over it - the few people who were hanging around outside all seemed fairly indifferent about it all. Nice to visit
NIGERIANS REACT to British Conservative Party Leader Kemi Badenoch saying that she identifies as a Yoruba not a Nigerian and using the phrase “our ethnic enemies”
Actually Competent Politics - don’t see that often anymore
Basically Fineism with Majority Southern European Immigrant Stock and a little Germanic and Celtic and Mapuche Stock Characteristics (Deport the Bolivians before it’s too late)
“We will reform the Institutions with our own Syrian DOGE”
“Sure sure sure. Umm, sure… but so, like, okay, you know, so, like, sorry if you’re just hearing this for the first time but if what you’ve got is, what you’ve got is a political ecosystem with all these entrenched interests like all these um competing interests sorry to blackpill I think of it more as a clearpill but you’re not going to get very far without like, basically a Monarch. Or not even a Monarch, you know, like a CEO, think like FDR’s Presidency the kinds of absolute powers he had then. And so- you know, what you need is you need this kind of absolute power. You know if you only have that symbolic institutional power umm, through these ‘Institutions’ I mean come on that’s not how power works you know like the system is going to eat you up and like chew you up and, um, spit you out. Like you’re fucked basically. Again, sorry if you’re just hearing this for the first time-”
Women and especially middle-aged women as ruthless enforcers of social norms, curtain-twitching HR naggers as the backbone of society who uphold norms even if those norms are maladaptive. Change the norms to adaptive ones and you will have an iron grip on a ‘well-ordered’ society
Call it a kind of ‘Karen Nationalism’ or ‘Pantsuit Enforcing’ - hate the HR ladies all you want but their perennial societal role is as a piece of value-neutral norm-enforcing social technology, they are a weaponised longhouse waiting ready for the taking
“Afternoon mate hope you’re having a Cecil Rhodes day mate. Can we come in mate don’t have time for a chat do you mate just want to have a little word with you mate you don’t seem too happy about the new Cecil Rhodes Mars Base mate you haven’t been radicalised have you mate?”