Where did Bluesky come from? I've only heard about it since the election. Makes me suspicious that there's money behind this push for liberal migration.

Women will be as right wing as the men in their lives are. Like in everything else, they are naturally followers, not leaders. The best women in my experience are the ones with wise, conservative fathers who go on to marry wise, conservative husbands.

Going to school in England in the early 2000s, I remember one time in PE class where our teachers thought it would be a tremendous idea to have us learn how to do a haka dance, despite us living on the complete opposite side of the world, and all being pasty white teenagers. Of course, 'multiculturalism' was all the rage at the time.

That was my only personal exposure to Maori culture, and it's one of those memories where you occasionally think about it in the shower or just before you fall asleep, and you cringe with embarrassment at how stupid you must have looked, even all these years later. The 'multicultural' exposure had the opposite effect on me, because I now have an instinctual negative reaction to the Maori, despite never having met one!

Thank God for small blessings.

Hmm, I've always made Japanese curry with those roux blocks, but maybe I'll try this next time. Thanks for sharing.

I suppose the question is whether or not the average American will feel a negative or positive impact on their wallet during the Trump presidency. I have no doubt that the media will be hungry to blame him if there is a negative effect, even if it's only temporary. Thankfully Trump doesn't have to worry about re-election, but the Republican party will have to take responsibility for the results after he is gone.

I often think about this. I am a staunch nationalist, but I have never lived through the horrific violence of a world war. Both wars appear to have been so traumatising to Europe that they entertained ideas which to us appear completely insane (due to their manifest effects in the modern world). Perhaps, though, when you've lost a good portion of the entire continent's young men to a pointless meatgrinder, the 'peace and love' crowd start sounding a lot more palatable.

I still believe that nations which look out for their own people's interest first and foremost CAN live alongside each other without inevitably coming to blows, but the challenge is finding that balance.

Yeah, I think the shift from a hugely globalist economy to a more protectionist one has the potential to cause some serious short term pain for the US, but it's definitely the right decision in the long run. The issue is that you know if any economic hardship occurs during Trump's presidency, it will be laid at his--and by extension, the Republicans'--feet.

Thanks for the extremely detailed reply. A lot to think about there. I guess like any significant political course change, it is a gamble and there are always risks involved. Most Americans I know, including my wife, had the best economic years in recent memory during Trump's first term. American voters appear to be willing to trust Trump's ability to make a deal for a second time, despite the risks.

I guess that's my main concern. America is quite clearly capable of being self-sufficient, being a continent-sized country, but the transition from a globalist economic stance to a more protectionist stance is going to be painful if done too quickly and without a lot of thought. Just thinking about how enmeshed the American manufacturing sector is with China makes me cringe. It'll be like untangling Christmas lights...

My understanding is that America's post-WW2 policy was to deliberately cripple its domestic manufacturing and offshore a lot of it in order to buoy up allies against the Soviets and help war-wracked countries rebuild. I think it makes a lot of political and strategic sense to start bringing that back to the US, but I share your worry that the transition period might be painful in the short term, and I know Trump will get the blame if that's what occurs.

Yeah I definitely understand that America is capable of being self-sufficient. I long for the pre-WW1 isolationist policies if only because of their knock-on social effects. It would probably be better for the rest of the world as well if America turned its focus inwards.

European here. Thanking God right now. Feel free to pity my countrymen and their stupidity.

Bear in mind, most Europeans believe only what they are told by the media (like most Americans, for that matter), and the media over here has never had a good word to say about Trump.

Biggest lesson you can ever give a son with regards to women. Pay no attention to what they say, watch what they do.

As a European, I always found jaywalking to be a mysterious infraction whenever I saw it referenced in media. Having been to America several times now, however, I understand why it exists.

Whether having urban public space tilted more towards cars than pedestrians is a good idea can be argued, but obviously they're not repealing this law for any thoughtful reason like that.

I used to be a pretty prolific multiplayer gamer back in the days of server browsers. I met some good friends across many different games. Nowadays I pretty much only play single player games, with the exception of racing games, in which I don't talk to anyone. Matchmaking is the main culprit for this. It's so much more difficult to make friends in online games than it used to be, because you're only together with the same people for one game at a time.

I never interacted with him here specifically because he reminded me of a guy I used to be friends with in high school. The similarities in the way they both spoke were uncanny. Maybe they're manifestations of a particular archetype of British nerd? The guy I knew was a huge nerd, like me and the rest of our friends, but I think he was uncomfortable with it, so he always had to have 'figured out' whatever we were talking about, and had a habit of bringing conversation around to himself.

For the guy I knew, it was a sign of insecurity and autism. I suspect it's probably the same for our ex-resident game dev.

Anyway, he brought some life to this place so I'm not happy he's gone. Hope his game turns out well.

Again, I will preface my response by agreeing that America as a nation has many reasons to be rightfully pissed off at Europe and the way Europe has behaved, especially internationally, since WW2. That being said, I believe that, much like with a case of domestic violence, the foul play usually cuts both ways.

In particular, America has been all too happy to nurture that soft helplessness in Europe, because it serves America's international policy to have a vast outpost of vassal states that will do its bidding. It's done the same thing in South East Asia for much the same reasons - intentionally hamper its own domestic industry to promote strategic partnerships abroad. Had NATO not existed, and Europe been forced to look out for its own interests following WW2, both parties would have been better off. The American empire has made a conscious decision to involve itself in others' affairs all over the world, despite being a country that could essentially be self-sufficient and isolationist.

Both of us probably agree that America and Europe desperately need to turn their attentions inwards to deal with the rot and strife which has built up. Neither should concern themselves much with international affairs until they have repaired their foundations.

I also don't think you should hold the average European accountable for the decisions of their elites. I certainly don't for the average American. Neither of us has much control over whether infinity Africans are dumped into our lands, because we were never consulted. The cry of 'Help me fellow whites' is a genuine one in 90% of my experiences, and it comes from people who think like you, are in a very similar position to you, and feel genuine kinship towards you, because at the end of the day we are very similar.

For what it's worth, I am personally planning on moving to the US in the not too distant future, partially for the very reasons you outlined. I still think it is the best place for a man to take a stand with other likeminded men. That being said, I'm not delusional about the prospects in America. Despite the guns and the governmental 'checks and balances', it is in a much worse place demographically, and that fact is only hidden by its size. Balkanisation seems basically inevitable at this point, but I'm taking the bet that if I am on the right side of the new borders, I'll have a better chance than I would in Europe.

Well I definitely appreciate where you're coming from. It's no secret that America's post WW2 foreign strategy has basically been to hobble its own manufacturing base in order to gain allies elsewhere (Japan, Germany, the UK, etc.). I also think Europeans have their own legitimate reasons to feel slighted by America's social influence around the world. American media exports over the last 70 years have had a corrosive effect wherever they have manifested (I recognise that there is a difference between what the American people want, and what the American government wants, for the record).

All that aside, we don't live in the same world we did 100 years ago. Europeans, as a people, are no longer ascendant. We are but one group in a world which has become much more globalised and multi-polar. We are besieged from all sides by outsiders who, frankly, don't care about the finer differences between an American white and a European white.

You can say that you don't recognise any tribe between the US and Europe, but I can guarantee your enemies will. I think we need to put historical gripes behind us and come to terms with the fact that that we, as a people, are vulnerable now.

Well I guess in an ideal world tribe and nation are synonyms, but I was thinking more 'Anglo Saxons' in this particular example, which is a tribe that is spread across multiple nations.

As someone from the UK, helping out other countries in the Anglosphere when they experience a natural disaster is one of the only forms of 'foreign aid' I would support if we lived in a sane world. Order of care should obviously be family > town > nation > tribe > race > everybody else.

Just to give my two cents, soda is probably my biggest vice, next to alcohol. I am in the habit of drinking a glass of it a day with dinner, yet I remain thin. To be fair, I do intentional exercise about three times a week, but I don't think that's the main reason why I keep the weight off, I think it's because I live in a country where walking frequently is an accepted part of life. I get a lot of incidental exercise just walking to the store, or work, or church, or even just going out for an evening stroll.

That was the biggest culture shock to me when I visited America for the first time; everyone drives everywhere, for any reason. Dollar store is 15 minute walk away? Eh, I'll just jump in the car, I can't be bothered. Even my then-fiancée, now-wife remarked when I visited that she was seeing parts of her small town which she had never explored before because we were walking around rather than just driving from place to place.

Portion sizes and snacking are also a big problem in America, but the lack of incidental exercise from walking is a huge contributing factor, I think. I will be moving back with my wife fairly soon and that's something I am going to have to navigate in my own life. How do I incorporate the walking which I used to do when the country is built around driving everywhere? Otherwise, if I continue to eat like I do now, I probably will start putting on weight.

The Great Sorting continues apace, I see.

I think a lot of issues in the modern world which have become the remit of the state used to be managed by religious bodies instead. Having the church as a balancing force for the state allows for another mechanism of enforcement of order in society. You don't have to make laws for everything when people broadly agree on what is considered good and evil.

The best kind of regulation is, of course, self-regulation, but in my opinion the only way that you will even get close to this for the majority of people is some kind of guilt or shame culture. That relies on people being raised with the same myths, and the same belief in divine judgement.