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When it comes to our struggle against globalism, anti-whiteism, replacement migration (read: invasion), and the other ills of our age, I often find that there are parallels with, and lessons to be learned from, the history of the Irish struggle for independence and nationhood. As this April 24 will mark the passing of 107 years since the Easter Rising of 1916, my mind has again been wandering to that sorrowful and spirited history.

As I was flipping through the pages of some old books on Ireland’s past, I was reminded of something about the Easter Rising which struck me as relevant to what we are living through today: The rebels met with almost universal disapproval, and indeed scorn, from the citizens of Dublin. Perhaps this is something you already knew, but it is worth keeping in mind.

Being European/White Nationalists and race realists, one of the most demoralizing realizations we are forced to come to is that so many of our fellow kin are stubbornly and smugly set against us. Not only are they like turkeys voting for Christmas, and not only do they cluck with delight at the sight of their slaughterers, they then flash their talons at us and attack us for trying to spare them from their fate.

The Dubliners of 1916 — the normies, if you will — opposed the rebels for reasons similar to the reasons why our fellow countrymen oppose us. The status quo back then was good for them. Thanks to British rule, they had jobs, and they had a sort of middle-class level of comfort. Why muck all that up? Today’s normie also desires to maintain the status quo because it provides him with comfort and financial benefits, and we can add to this his love affair with the wide variety of “ethnic cuisine” which mass immigration has bequeathed him. Assuming you can get today’s normie to admit mass immigration is even happening, he will then sneer with some variation of the following: “You want to stop immigration into [insert European country here]? Not me. He he, I’d hate to be stuck eating boring [insert European food here]. I’m glad immigrants come and give us delicious food like kebabs and curries.”

Just as we nationalists today are slandered with accusations of being funded or fomented by Putin’s Russia, as was stated frequently during the four years of Donald Trump’s presidency and is still said of nationalist movements and parties across Europe, the 1916 rebels were accused of working under German orders. The moderate Irish parliamentarian John Redmond proclaimed of the Rising that Germany “plotted it, organized it, and paid for it.”

In the aftermath of the Easter Rising, the people of Dublin and Ireland at large turned even more sour towards the rebels. Not only were the British companies which they worked for threatened by these nationalists, but buildings had been destroyed and innocent civilians had died, too. And all this while many Irish mothers and fathers were worrying about the fate of their sons fighting in the Great War. They didn’t need these upstarts adding to their concerns.

These things have been on my mind and have given me pause for contemplation. Ireland was under British rule for over 700 years. Some like to go very far back indeed to trace the beginning of our subjugation, but I think we can all agree that since 1945 things have been grim for those of us who believe in sovereign European nation-states inhabited by an insurmountable majority of European people. Quite often we tell ourselves that it’s over, we’re not going to make it, and there is no political solution, so we’d better to go off-grid, live in the woods, and ride out the coming societal collapse.

There may be some truth to all this. Life in a major city like Dublin in 2023 is not quite the same as it was in the early 1900s. The imposition of high technology and its inherent nefarious second-hand effects has also left us with a multitude of problems that people a century ago didn’t have to contend with. Times are tough. Things aren’t looking great. We may have an inconceivable array of comforts, conveniences, and amusements compared to our forebears hundreds of years ago, but I require some convincing that we are somehow better off than them because of it. In many ways, ranging from physical and mental health to relations between men and women and societal cohesion, we are faring a lot worse.

If we take 1945 as the year in which things started taking shape as the world we find ourselves in today, that’s a little fewer than 100 years. Is that a long time in the grand scheme of things? Maybe. I can certainly understand why someone would examine the past 100 years of British nationalism, for example, and come to the conclusion that it has all amounted to nothing. After nearly 100 years, the British Right has not only failed to move the ball up the pitch, but they have scored numerous own goals. This can in fact be said of the “the Right” all across Europe and in the United States. Meanwhile, the globalists and “progressives” have poisoned our nations to such an extent that even the Irish are now happy to sell out their hard-won country to globohomo.

But the example of 1916 still lingers. Maybe 1945 was similar to 1169, the year when the Anglo-Normans moved into Ireland and began what would be their centuries-long occupation. Maybe we are only in the first century of what will be a centuries-long struggle, too. Maybe we are, truly, in an eternal struggle, and just like the men who fought and died on April 24, 1916 and the following days, we are fated to be despised by our fellow countrymen, and not until our deaths will our people see us as freedom fighters and martyrs.

Whatever the future may hold, I could not imagine myself not doing what it is that I do. It isn’t much, anyway, but we are in fifth-generation warfare. We are in Marshal McLuhan’s guerilla information war, and there really is no distinction any longer between civilian and combatant. Like members of an outlawed religious sect, it is our duty to work underground, in the shadows, preserving forbidden knowledge and doing what we can to whisper our ideals into the ears of our fellow men. In this age when it has never been easier for someone to create a persona online and use the Internet to get his message out, I would be derelict in my duty were I to remain silent in the face of the destruction of so many things I hold dear.

I don’t deny that things seem very bleak right now, but remember these words you have read today. Get back to me in 700 years and let’s see where we’re at.

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