I’m not sure if returning to UK is a good idea and I think Brimelow and Derbyshire would agree
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Aside from the fact that things have deteriorated in the UK since VDARE was incorporated – which is when they should have started advocating this not-quite-rhetorical policy – there is the question of how the UK would have fared over the last quarter century if people could have so much as thought about repatriation as patriotic immigration reform without saddling it with that virulent word weapon forged by Leon Trotsky: “racism”.
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I happened to just watch a retirement YouTube channel. The Youtuber is a man that moved to the Philippines as a divorced retired man.
He started out with lessons learned and promises he made to himself. Never get married. Never buy a big house.
He said the Philippine woman are so traditionally feminine that he dropped his promise about relationships. He said they enjoy striving to look good and be feminine.
Of course some might say the women are only interested for his money. Ok. No man really cares if a woman is interested because of his money any more than thinking it inappropriate for men to be interested in women because of their looks.
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The current model seems to have been selected by American women based on similar self-interested standards as yours 
Here’s an interesting report about who profits: How Thousands of Middlemen Are Gaming the H-1B Program
In all, nearly half the H-1Bs in Bloomberg’s analysis went to outsourcing or staffing companies.
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It’s not even close to being so simple. Consider the tale of Henry VIII. The Catholic Church was absolutely adamant that high status men not be permitted to Africanize civilization – not even through serial polygyny (mendaciously called serial monogamy so as not to rile the military base of civilization).
Women? They’re just going to go along with the Africanization once high status men (mesopredators) are permitted to divorce and remarry without severe consequences.*
See “Race, Gender and the Frontier” about how civilization is a metastable state that can be easily fall into Africanization.
* This is one of the reasons Elon Musk’s approach to “fertility” is so anti-Christian. To the extent Christianity can be said to preserve the culture of individuality, it is a socially-imposed replacement of the ecologically imposed monogamy of pre-civil northern Eurasians. See Kevin MacDonald’s “Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition”.
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One could argue that China and Islamic world still did okay with polygyny…
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Yes, to the extent that they didn’t have to compete with a civilization founded on individual integrity. A culture that permits polygyny can support individual integrity only if it permits individual men to challenge other men – regardless of status – to single combat to the death. And even so, one can argue that the time of the individual human organism is over because there is nowhere the individual can escape from the group and the group has developed quite an appetite for sniffing out individual humans wherever they may try to flee and hide – even to Galt’s Gulch – or to Camp 38:
In long range planning we are fully aware that wealth based upon some government’s defending our peaceful possession of it is worthless. Mass manipulators seem to take over all governments. Nothing has real value in our eyes but people. The ultimate purpose of everything done is keeping mobs of zombis from meddling in our lives. Because we have great wealth everyone on the outside accepts the bare statement that children here are privately educated. Because we pay taxes on such a big scale the "company houses” in Camp 38 are not individually inspected. Liberal appraisals are accepted by our agents "as a concession for not disturbing the eccentric owners who choose to live quiet, retiring lives.” Training in that sort of language and when to use it is training for the Hundred in “armament” and “strategy.”
Allowing rentiers to monopolize the positive network externalities of technological civilization blocked technological civilization from getting off the planet. It was a very big mistake. Perhaps the biggest in the history of life.
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I agree with you that societies need to be extremely selective about the values and ideologies of what forms states.
Ultimately, however, it’s still natural selection among states and the constituencies that can try to get their representatives into positions of power within those states.
The same way that Zelensky was elected through the TV show Servant of the People (2015 TV series) - Wikipedia – maybe the future leader of the free world will be elected through a massive multiplayer role playing game that you, @jabowery, can conceive. We know that interactive media will take over scripted media.
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This picture says it all about the Democrats. Doing exactly the thing that you are accusing others of doing in one picture.
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It’s worth looking at the comments in the thread as well.
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It seems the defense will be that he served in a war from a different country. The Veterans of Foreign War organization defines service in a war. To declare you were involved in a campaign, is dishonest. People confuse war versus campaign.
The medals the army awards demonstrate actual participation in order to prevent stolen valor.
Therefore, the question is whether he has an Iraq campaign, global war on terror or an Afghanistan campaign medal.
Service in a war, campaign, or expedition on foreign soil or in hostile waters
- An authorized campaign medal (see a full list of qualifying medals and badges)
- Receipt of Hostile Fire Pay or Imminent Danger Pay (verified by a military pay statement)
- Service in Korea for 30 consecutive or 60 non-consecutive days
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I am certainly no expert on military service. I am sure @Devereaux can explain if the military considers it acceptable to claim you participated in an operation or campaign that was ongoing while you wore the uniform but didn’t actually participate in the operation.
Maybe they have rules so that the folks in the Pentagon can get medals too.
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A selection regime can be called natural only to the extent that human agency plays no part. This, by the way, is why mesopredators push the “no free will” meme: It elevates their ascendency, however unsustainable, to a kind of inevitability against which resistance is futile. It’s psychological warfare waged against God’s will latent in the individual.
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At the scale of the systems we’re talking about, human agency is just a minor natural effect, trumped by the physics of human nature.
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If human agency is a “natural” effect, then of what use is qualifying anything as “natural” since everything is “natural”?
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I am certainly no expert on military service. I am sure @Devereaux can explain if the military considers it acceptable to claim you participated in an operation or campaign that was ongoing while you wore the uniform but didn’t actually participate in the operation.
Maybe they have rules so that the folks in the Pentagon can get medals too."
The military has a variety of ribbons and medals (they are different) to signify different things. Remember, there is no “reward system” in the military besides making higher rank and awarding honours.
Campaign ribbons are generally ribbons that are given out to those who served in a particular campaign. Sometimes they are merely a period of time, others are specific campaigns. Thus pretty much everyone got a National Defense ribbon for being in the services, in whatever capacity, during the period we were engaged in the Vietnam issues. There were also specific ribbons for participation in wars of various types. So, there were Vietnam campaign ribbons, Iraqi Freedom ribbons, Afghanistan ribbons, Dessert Storm ribbons. The last was primarily what the reserves got
for Dessert Storm as the Active Duty took most of the deployed positions forward, while the Reserves who were called up back filled the holes left by the Active Duty troops leaving.
At the next layer, there are personal ribbons and medals. So, the Purple Heart is a medal you “win” by being wounded in combat. Enemy shelling works also, so you don’t have to be actively in combat when you’re wounded; you merely have to be wounded from enemy action. Then there are the various valour ribbons, from a Commendation Medal to MOH. Usually a MOH recipient wears only the ribbon representing that award. When you see one, it is striking.
LOastly there are individual awards like the Air Force Achievement Award (or Army or Navy). There are given out in recognition of some “outstanding” activity not involving combat. If it was a “combat award” it had a “V” in the middle, signifying it was won during combat operations.
?Clear as mud now. To the original question, no, you cannot claim to have participated in combat activities - even driving a truck - if you did NOT actually do your duty while IN A COMBAT ZONE. There were ways to game the system, but those were done primarily for pay purposes, NOT to claim combat experience. So higher ranked pilots would often fly into a combat zone the day before the last day of the monnth, and fly out the second day of the subsequent month. The rules were if you spent a day in a combat zone you got combat pay for that month. So these guys would get combat pay for the “two months” they were in a combat zone.
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I’d like to see James Webb interview JD Vance:
Both of these men may pretend to the messianic status of The Return of The King Arthur as symbol of Border Scots to redeem the anglosphere in a manner far more authentic than the son of a wealthy mafioso whose “A Nation of Immigrants” contributed to The Death of the West. But James Webb is too old now to take an active role in any but that of a Sacred King to be sacrificed along the lines that I’ve suggested. Vance is another matter, given his youth and being heir-apparent to the legacy of a miracle.
I’m not going to immediately dismiss the possibility that Vance may have been so deeply affected by that miracle that he may become a difficult case for his mesopredator handlers despite his grooming as symbol of “The Meritocracy.”
If so, that would be a miracle, indeed!
Let us pray that the combination of his marriage to a woman from India, the eruption now happening in the land of King Arthur and his debt to a miracle leads him to understand the importance of masculine sexuality in territorial allocation.
I’ve seen Western men who married non-Western women (Derbyshire springs to mind) among the most patriotic. What they’ve lacked in “sexist” opinions just may be remedied by the increasingly conspicuous circumstances demanding a more realistic treatment of masculinity.
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If JD Vance wants to give back to “his people” the highest leverage thing he can do in his current position is to get Peter Thiel et al to finance The Foundational World Model proposal that Tegmark et al cannot. There is nothing more pernicious than Ivy League sociology’s ethnic fear of and hostility to the Scotch Irish baked into the foundation of the USA in 1787. It is that irrational fear and hostility that prevented the application of Moore’s Law to break the back of pseudoscientific sociology by imposing an objective metric for scientific validity.
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