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 Well, they thought destroying nationalism would make people indifferent about their own fates or the well-being of their loved ones, but it seems to mostly have removed a layer and collapsed loyalty down to ethnic groups and individual regions or Länder.

People don't stop wanting to organize with the like-minded and their neighbors, just because you dissolve the borders. They want to organize even harder because they see how useless or even destructive the national government has become.

It's like, they can't even protect the borders. 
https://c.tenor.com/WWVi9fWzzD4AAAAd/tenor.gif 
 2015/2016 was quite wild - and a massive political flop.
2020/2021 was very unique - and a desaster.

I see a pattern and I am not sure if I like it. o-o 
 What we have now is schizophrenic politics: 
1) There are no borders, until there is a bad flu and then they seal them within 24 hours.
2) It is impossible to track down and detain violent foreign criminals, but the prisons contain people arrested for wrong-think or for not paying their radio fees.
3) There is no German identity, but we must rush to get everyone a German passport, so that they can identify as German.
4) We need more children, but only if they don't have German parents, and arrive as fully-formed adults.
5) The government solves no problems, but we should pay more taxes.
6) The climate regulations drive windmill and solar panel builders out of the country.
Etc. Etc. Etc. 
 Anarcho-tyranny

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 The west is in decline, Bukele put it succinctly in his interview with Tucker 
 Yes, but it's fair to say that we would prefer to decline surrounded by our own ethnicity and living in peace, rather than surrounded by people who hate us and wish we would hurry up and die off faster. 
 Nrrrr, I'm easy. I'm probably going to end up living in Asia anyway.

Either Asia, or the moon. 
 Well, all of Europe can't move to Asia to get away from half of Asia and Africa moving to Europe.

Musical chairs, but make it continental. 
 We're Bitcoiners, I think you'll find we have lots of choices moving forward. 
 Speak for yourself. I'm stacking sats individually. 😂

Besides, not spending the rest of my life surrounded by foreigners, here or abroad. That ain't my scene and being an immigrant in other countries isn't a dream job, like it is in Germany. 
 On the moon, we'll al be immigrants and foreigners.
 
 Enjoy your moon. I'll stick to the Alps. 
 Will do, thanks. We will have a guest apartment if you need a place to stay 😂 Lacking in atmosphere, but great views. 
 We're not in decline. Don't fool yourself. We love kicking ass..🗡️🦅🗽🇺🇸✝️😂 
 We're in decline, but I don't agree with the doomers who say we couldn't turn it around, long-term.
But turn-around is only probable if the population isn't constantly diluted with large numbers of newcomers. Especially unproductive ones with an incompatible culture.

We're not mass-importing Brazilian engineers, Indian software developers, and South African doctors, after all. A lot of us wish we were, but they're usually like, Nah, bro. Have fun with your Muslim fundamentalists and sky-high taxes, bro.🤙 
 Agree, that's incompatible and unsustainable for any developed society. 

Your government and my government have to stop doing stupid, crazy shit.

We have to keep calling them out, and being brutal. That's why they've been so keen on censorship the past few years.

Get on them. Stay on them, and demand results. Your overlords are enjoying the cushy life and wealth they're stealing from you..🗡️🦅🗽✝️😠 
 This is the Japanawse way so far, and I support it. The powers that be, not so much, and the pressure they're putting on Japanese public opinion to make it amenable to immigration is enormous and along the same lines used in Europe -- "who will pay your pension and wipe your dementia-ridden ass?"

It's almost like they all put in place these "public service and pension" unsustainable Ponzi schemes, created the problem, and now insist that they have the solution. 
 *Not to mention the 30 year long propaganda campaign against zero inflation that the Japanese people have be subjected to, culminating in the current Abenomics aberration in which the government managed to increase the sales tax and purposely created massive inflation. 
 Also illogical, since they also tell us that robots and AI will take all our jobs.

Can't the robots wipe our ass, or are they only able to perform open-heart surgery and paint imitation Van Goghs? 
 They're already here:

https://www.unitree.com/g1/
 
 Let's hope. Although those hands need a lot of work. And those fine motor skills... I was imagining that robot wiping my 120 year old ass when the nut scene cut in, and it made me flinch so hard *I* cracked a nut. 
 And imagine the amount of backdoors enabling remote control by State actors and corporations these motherfuckers will have. Instead of flinching, I'm shuddering now... 
 I wouldn't want to access a robots back door, you don't know where it's been 😂  
 I bet you *those* are even closer than the ass-wiping type. 
 😂  
 Western civilization/culture has always been multi-ethnic, and that's not the cause of major strife, just as within the Islamic world. To remain desirable, the West should welcome from anywhere anyone who can make the West a better place, as it has done for centuries.

The West rather needs a better way to get rid of the hostile invaders who want to burn the place down or fundamentally eradicate Western values. Surrendering culture in the name of inclusiveness is just a flagrant own-goal, and certain Western societies have themselves primarily to blame. 
 Your government loves you. Be grateful!! 
 Germany hasn’t  had a good run really, Weimar, Hitler, East/West split, Stasi etc…

You folks did make some very good microphones though… oh and tape and some nice cars. 
 Middle Europe, in general, has been down on it's luck. Everyone marches through. 
 Yes. The lack of consistency is really exhausting, but that is intentional: 

”In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is...in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.
Theodore Dalrymple” 
 gm

great quote:

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 Oh. Laser eyes now? 
 nah, laser eyes *always amiright

🤓 
 Good mornin pura vida friend
Many blessings to you.
Long live #bitcoin 
 Fascinating  
 Hmmm. I’m seeing a pattern here. Seems like this is the story with a lot of governments. Hmmm. 

No, it must be my imagination. 
 That is absolutely on point!! 
 A nation state is defined by the borders it controls. There is simply no point to a nation state without borders, and I think everyone now knows that, regardless of whether they are happy or sad about it.

The main political differentiation now is mostly

Yay, nation state gone! ☺️
Nooo, nation state gone! 😢

Everything else is just noise. 
 Borders are just lines on a map, why shouldn't people move freely across them? 
 Why don't you go test that theory somewhere that real ones still exist... 
 Without using trained killers to force them open for you though. 
 What you are really arguing for is that you can travel where you want but others should be restricted based on some arbitrary criteria. 
 Bullshit, I never said I had any right to go into someone else's territory unmolested.  😂

That would be you. 
 Arbitrary? No, it's because you aren't them & they don't want you there. 
 But go ahead & test it. 🤣 
 So stay home and don't leave your house then. 
 Ok retard. 
 I'm arguing for property rights being respected. 
 I don't have to justify to anyone why some particular person shall not be allowed on my property. The same rule goes for communally-held property.

Trespass at your own risk. 
 Well the "community" you are in says otherwise. Not only that, they should get lots of tax payer benefits too.  
 That's how it is with communal property. You do not have to protect and maintain it, alone, but you also don't get to direct its usage, alone. 
 When people travel to different countries, the don't violate property rights. 
 The literally do. A border is just some entity's property line. 
 Whose exactly? A country is just a name for a place on a map with lines squiggled around it. No property rights are broken crossing them. A country isn't the same as private property. People have a god given right to travel the realm freely. 
 It belongs to the one willing to defend it, like all property. That is usually whoever is already in possession of it.

Property rights trump freedom of movement. 
 Funny how many animal species understand & yet so many humans seem not to... 🤣 
 And the animals seem not to need .gov... 
 The government is there to enforce the "free movement over other people's property without getting shot, speared, or mauled" right. 
 That's the theory... 
 One they've been failing at recently. 🤣 
 Right to travel does not equate to right to be accepted by the locals. Down to them refusing to sell you land and refusing to sell you building materials and food if one of their number does sell you land. In the absence of laws regulating discrimination that would happen some places.

Sincerely a local from a part of the world where if you moved here tomorrow your descendants might be considered locals in 100 years. Maybe. 
 I am not arguing that it is. So you agree we all should have equal right to travel across borders unhindered? 
 Nope. I'm from Texas.
We shoot trespassers first and ask questions, later. 
 I guess. Good luck to you if the people whose border you want to cross don’t want you there and you decide to fight it out with them. Hope it works out ok for you. Not that it’s my business one way or the other. Unless you’re talking about where I’m from and then if I’m forced to pick a side it won’t be on theoretical principles. It will be based on who I’m related to. Whether that’s an illegal immigrant from another country or a legal one from New York, Ohio or Pennsylvania. 
 Also in the absence of government owned “public” property there would be places that would have no “public” property and right to travel might be restricted just to people from the area by the ownership instead of open to all. I guess that’s the real question. Is any government ownership of property legitimate given there funding mechanisms or is it all ill gotten gains from criminal activity. Speaking of taxes. While education is one of the biggest line items at the state and local levels it’s not immediately clear to me why people should have the right to move into an area en masse and necessitate all sorts of previously unneeded infrastructure. Including maintenance and staffing of the infrastructure. Especially if they immediately get the vote and can start voting to raise the taxes of people whose families have been paying in to build and then maintain what was previously enough infrastructure for the population. 
 Paying in for generations I mean. I went to elementary school in the same building my grandparents did. Now there’s a dozen new schools in the county and property taxes are higher than ever. That’s all from legal immigrants. I wonder how many new teachers that is. Yeah people moving here en masse is great. 
 All tax is theft so there's that  
 Now you are talking, freedom of movement and government theft and social welfare are separate things. Hence why we need plan B. 
 Why should someone be denied crossing a border because someone doesn't like them? Isn't that bigoted?  Passports haven't even been around for a 100 years, there's no such thing as an illegal immigrant. That statist communist speak. 
 Are we talking setting up shop in an existing community or starting a new community in the boonies? Its unrealistic to expect people to not react in certain ways to their community being changed without their input. And it will change. If for no other reason that more people means more problems simply in terms of needed infrastructure and the fact that a certain number of people just aren’t going to get on board with societal norms for whatever reason. 
 I'm talking if someone packs up, moves to your town, rents a house, looks for work etc.. why is it a problem? Regardless where they are from?   
 Again, you are assuming anyone needs to answer to you. They don't need a "good" reason to protect their own land. 
 It's just a discussion, no one says you need a good reason to protect your land. But that's not what you are doing. You are saying people shouldn't be allowed to cross borders and move freely if they like, only you can. 
 Only the people who own the land have the right to cross the land. Everyone else has to ask for permission and their request may be rejected for any reason.

This does not change, merely because the people who own the land are a group. 
 Using the same logic, I can choose not to recognise your ownership of the land. 
 Yes, so come and take it.

Property rights don't need to be recognised to exist. That is why they are natural rights. 
 Damn  
 So is freedom of movement. 
 Natural rights have natural consequences. Move across my land without permission and see what happens.  
 And this is usually why some form of government, preferably very limited in scope is required.

Every one has a right to move freely. 

Every also has a right to property.

The US has often ignored the right to movement. Property owners can prohibit others from their property entirely. And driving is treated a "privilege" that can be revoked. 

Other nations try to strike a balance. Where one can traverse a property but not damage it or cause a permanent change.

Rights WILL conflict with another. Some rights take priority over other rights. Some rights only exist as a consequence of other rights (for example, life is the ultimate right. Without it no other right can exist).

The proper role of government is to protect one's rights. Part of this is solving the conflicts that occur when rights conflict with one another. 
 Individually? It’s not. When you’re talking about doubling, or more, the population over the course of 20 years it becomes a problem. That person should also accept that they aren’t a part of the community in the way that someone from there is and they need to accept being treated differently by people until they assimilate which might take a few years, a few decades or a few generations. 

I’m not even saying they need to be forced out. Just don’t expect people to like their community changing or be nice and accepting of the people doing the changing. I would be down with anyone trying to force that acceptance being forced out. 
 Especially if you move to small town/rural area and not a city that already had 100,000 people in it. 
 There are usually natural limits such as housing and number of jobs.  
 They can just terrify the locals and take their houses, when they move away. That's the usual path. 
 Tell that to the people who are coming in and putting in 1000s of houses every year. In the county I live in I mean. Hell the mayor in one of the small towns near me is *bragging* about getting ready to double the population in a 5 year period. 

Why shouldn’t the locals feel a certain way about that? The ones that aren’t getting kick backs from land developers I mean. 
 I think those limits don’t apply in a system where the banks just throw loans at people because they can just create the money that they loan out. 
 Isn't that an issue with the mayor then? 
 People have the right to be bigoted. I'm not the thought police. 

Their property, their business. Their home, their castle. 
 The Open Borders movement is a branch off of the Communist International and a step toward One World Government.

Don't need borders, if the UN and the WEF rule everyone, everywhere. 
 Every country is already under control of the communist cabal and people were free to travel in the past, whats changed? 
 Transportion became much cheaper and more efficient, through things like automobiles, large steel ships, and air flight, so people started arriving in larger numbers from further away.

Yes, and the first thing they did was give us the EU and dissolve the internal borders. That's how they roll.
Ethnic property rights are a brake on international communism. And always have been. 
 They didn't desolve the borders and they are still manned within the EU. 
 You said themselves that they are now merely lines on a map. 
 They are arbitrary lines on a map that change many times in history. Some people take meaning from them, others see them for what they are, just lines. 
 You don't need nation states to keep people out. Example: instead of protecting its borders like it wants to, Texas cows to the Feds.

I would like to add that sovereign nation states are already dead, which is a fact exploited by globalists, if the plandemic hasn't already made that completely obvious. 
 Texas is a state in a federation. 
 It's a federation in name only. Texas is a region in the (dead) US nation state. Once it re-asserts some sovereignty, then I would agree. 
 Real borders always were ethnic, which is why everything turned to shit when the British started redrawing them... 😂

Then the US did it. 
 I agree, which explains the difference between the administrative EU borders and the real Schengen borders within which you can move freely.

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 Fuuuuuuuck i keep forgetting just how absolutely massive France is o.o... Damn. 
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