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Mar 13 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Enjoyable thing about places like Iran or Russia is they are only countries who will create longwinded intellectual and cultural genealogies for enemies out of reverse orientalism, or occidentalism. Discussions in civilisational terms you won’t see anywhere else outside the right Image Famous example of this occidentalism was the former Iran President assuming Americans read Tocqueville because Tocqueville was the lens his own conception of America was filtered through from a distance Image
Mar 10 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
China announces new law to formalise further the project of ‘Sinicization’ to ‘promote national unity’. Few countries prepared to top-down systematically integrate their minorities with their majorities like this. Which model of integration is most likely to work? Image China passed a previous ‘Ethnic Unity Law’ in 2020. This new 2026 proposal further formalises it. Extracts below from Tibetans reacting Image
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Mar 9 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
‘THE ART OF THE DEAL’ has a major flaw in that it doesn’t include a chapter on securing deals by threatening to drop missiles on people if they don’t accept your deals. Hopefully new editions of the book will fix this - it’s a very powerful and underused negotiating technique Image If you were Cuba’s president would you accept the deal?
Mar 8 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
White House Latin America Policy 2026 Image The Cuba KONAMI Code is there to press. Complete control of the Americas under the star-spangled lusotropical USian banner is within easy reach
Mar 4 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I love Brazil 🇧🇷 Image Lights are from the infamous ‘Rocinha’ favela. You might think they spoil the view of Ipanema beach but actually in a way they contribute to it; you look out and you really get full-on Brazil, full-on Lusotropicalism all included in just the one vista Image
Mar 4 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
British Islam AKA ‘Rubber Dinghy Rapids Islam’ About British ‘Rubber Dinghy Rapids’ Islam and why it is more extreme than Islam in other parts of the world
Mar 4 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Islam in the 21st Century has seen the emergence of two new major aesthetic and ideological forms of the religion - ‘Mr. Beast Islam’ and ‘Rubber Dinghy Rapids Islam’. Both exist along the same spectrum but represent two very different evolutions for Islam under hypermodernity Image ‘Mr. Beast Islam’ is the aesthetic and ideological evolution of Islam especially in the Gulf - in wealthy, increasingly liberal, demographically secure and competently governed ‘Basically Fine’ often previously quite hardline Islamist states

‘Rubber Dinghy Rapids Islam’ is the aesthetic and ideological evolution of Islam especially in Islamic diaspora populations in the liberal west - often from poorer migrant backgrounds with less sophisticated versions of Islam in societies where as deracinated minority populations they cling to increasingly hardline interpretations of that Islam as an in-group identifierImage
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Mar 3 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
‘Mr. Beast Islam’ is one of the main aesthetic and ideological variants of Islam today. It represents the development Islamic forms have undertaken in the wealthy Arab Gulf and so, downstream of that, will be the form that Islam takes in many places in hypermodernity Image ‘Mr. Beast Islam’ and Dubai Airport
Mar 2 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Some commentators will critique people who move from their British provincial towns to places like Dubai as ‘Rootless Cosmopolitans’. Sorry we live in Hypermodernity we are all ‘Rootless Cosmopolitans’ now. With so many forces aligned against you what incentive is there to stay? Image Point I make sometimes recently with ‘Nobodycaresanymoreism’ - if you are person inclined to believe in the inveterate bonds of community, nation, ethnos etc. you might be disappointed to find that in some cases many people actually have a revealed preference for hypermodernity
Mar 2 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Idea of ‘Dubai’ sends certain kind of person apoplectic. Suggest it can offer real quality of life improvements for many British migrants, a red mist will descend and you will be subjected to rant about lack of real culture or importance of paying tax. They hate seeing others win Image If you are a lower-middle from Scunthorpe and you could choose to live either in Scunthorpe or in Dubai why in many cases would you not choose Dubai. Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson are not currently resident in Scunthorpe either if you want to make the ‘culture’ argument Image
Mar 1 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
“Incoming missile barrage from American cruisers, they’re targeting critical infrastructure”

“Hit Dubai again”

“Israeli rockets are raining down on Tehran”

“Hit Dubai again”

“New intel that the shelling hitting Isfahan is being signed-off by the Saudis Sir”

“Hit Dubai again” Image
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Mar 1 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
“I want Iran to go back to how it was before the Islamic Revolution” Image A surprising but not unwelcome comeback for these two Image
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Feb 27 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
If you wanted to dissolve the identities of old nation states so that you could more easily turn them into patchwork vibey moodboard states for a new C22nd patchwork political meta blasting them with mass migration, globoslop culture and nobodycaresanymoreism a good way to do it Image Still difficult to say how resistant to hypermodernity tribalism-maxxed societies are… even a group like the Somalis possibly less durable than you would think if you subject them to nobodycaresanymoreism over very long sustained periods
Feb 26 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Bhutan opening up to nomad visas and skipping political crises of the C21st, going to straight the C22nd patchwork political meta where the international class just live wherever they want and all countries are vibey moodboards now rather than nations in the old Westphalian sense Image In this nobodycaresanymoreist model legacy countries are an ‘aesthetic’, not coherent places as such. Eg you want to move to the Yookay patchwork state because you like the old Harry Potter aesthetic that it used to have historically. You can sort of get that in some parts there
Feb 25 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Efforts of Simon Bolivar to institute ‘Liberalism for 130IQ+ Latinos but for all Latinos’ are instructive. Towards end of his life he became very disillusioned - because a lot of Latino culture is ‘like that’ he concluded only way to govern the place was instead with Caudillismo Image In many ways like in Haiti the Latin American revolutions a truer kind of liberalism than what was advanced in America or Europe. In praxis, as Bolivar discovered, these new systems didn’t even suffice to make the new countries reach the ‘Basically Fine’ threshold
Feb 24 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
>diasparoidette
>get maudlin k-drama beamed into brain for years on end
>these korean men are so sensitive and caring and handsome, wish there were some men around me like that…
>father walks into room
>he says stop watching that mawkish crap
>makes me marry 2nd cousin asif
>mfw Image ‘Korean’ is one of the major ‘Globoslop’ youth cultures for female Generation Alpha POCs. Compare vs males below:
Feb 24 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Map of Modern Day Mexican Cartels vs Pre-Columbian Mexican Ethno-Linguistic Groups Image Now you are beginning to see
Feb 24 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
By the 22nd century the world’s two major competing ideological power blocs will be ‘Lusotropicalism’ vs ‘Gattaca but Wasian’. The conflict between these two ideologies will form the basis of that century’s Cold War Image Which ideology should win the 22nd century Cold War?
Feb 23 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Are you a fan of this ideology? Image Gene editing really one of those technologies that has the power to change the ‘Political Meta’. Certain amount of priors you can just throw out if it ever comes close to some of the at present more science fiction depictions of the process
Feb 17 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
“Mr. Prime Minister, it’s me - Lee Kuan Yew. I’ve returned from the dead. How is Singapore going?”

“Mr. Lee… I…”

“Wait a minute - this place is a lot more Chinese-ier than I remember… why are there so many Chinese now?”

“You’re meeting me at a very Chinese time in my life” Image
Image I am in a very Lusotropical time in my life right now - the most Chinese time I have had in my life was probably during the 2010’s
Feb 16 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
You would think Singapore of all places would be safe from replacement migration dynamics but reports are that the Mainland Chinese migrants there are now displacing the older Singaporean Chinese and so ‘Chinese-ifying’ the country. Is it really just the same shit everywhere? Image Lee Kuan Yew cautioned accepting too many migrants too quickly even if they are from the same ethnic background. Even with the limited number of Mainland Chinese arrivals they may still have arrived too quickly