Aug 09, 2024

Yeah, I know I’m late to the party. I know all of your favourite dissident Substackers have been piling on their hot takes like it’s a summer barbeque and the coals are just perfect. Well, I’m here now, so let’s get grilling.

On the 5th of July, Keir Starmer’s Labour Party won the General Election in the Nation Formerly Known as the UK. Around a month later, ‘quiet choirboy’ Axel Muganwa Rudukubana murdered three young girls at a dance class in Southport (apparently centred around the music of Taylor Swift). Rudukubana had previously been spotted dressed as Doctor Who on the BBC’s Children in Need charity telethon, at the age of 11, which is rather curious.

Riots then erupted in Southport and a few other locations, and hysterical press reports of ‘far-right thugs’ planning further actions across the country on Wednesday the 7th of August proved to be rather anti-climactic, as noted by The Stirrer:

So what actually happened on the evening of Wednesday 7^th August in cities and towns across the country? Well, from the patriot/anti-immigration side, hardly anything to be honest. Sure, there were a few places where they did turn out but not in any great numbers. It’s midweek and the vast majority of them had work the next day. The risk of taking to the streets when there’s a significant chance of getting nicked and subsequently losing their jobs was probably a deterrent. As are the prison sentences already being meted out by courts sitting all day and all night. It’s interesting how some people on the Left are now applauding these sentences not long after decrying those handed down to the Just Stop Oil protesters who stopped the traffic on the M25 motorway. Consistency doesn’t seem to be a strong point of the Left, does it?

Starmer has received the nickname ‘Two-Tier Starmer’, referring to allegations that the ‘patriotic’ protesters have been policed more heavy-handedly than the ‘anti-racist’ counter-protesters. In any case, Starmer has announced a predictable bullet-point list of measures to ‘crack down on extremism’ or whatever. There was even talk of ‘covid-style lockdowns’ to prevent civil unrest. Interesting timing, eh?

Elon Musk has even jumped in, claiming that Europe is heading for ‘civil war.’ Whatever Musk’s motives are in for getting involved in this cluster-fuck, I have to agree with Maajid Nawaz in saying that they do not strike me as particularly noble. Musk and his former colleague Peter Thiel seem to me to represent a faction of the tech-bro elite who are savvy enough to realize that woke ideology and the policies it supports (open borders, gender madness, bureaucratic proliferation, DEI) will rapidly hasten the collapse of Western civilization; this does not necessarily mean that their vision of the future is any less awful or insane than that of their libtard rivals. NeuraLink implanted in your skull, anyone? No, didn’t think so.

Much of the dissident sphere has been driven to some fiery rhetoric by these events, and by the recent (apparent) assassination attempt on Donald Trump. I appreciate the intensity and challenge of these times, and the urge to be proactive, but now more than ever I would advise caution and restraint. Your rage is understandable, but can easily be hijacked; many factions would like direct access to your nervous system for their own nefarious ends. In Musk’s case, that might be taken quite literally.