Tag Archives: Immigration

It’s immigration, stupid!

Australia is in terms of landmass, a very large country but the population has always been relatively small and as of writing is somewhere north of twenty five million people. If you don’t include Alaska, it is comparable in landmass … Continue reading

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The Lion King: A Subversive Masterpiece

I always have a number of topics/ideas in drafts and this is one I’ve probably had for the longest time. I usually get around to them eventually and the fact that this has now been written is proof of that. … Continue reading

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Coming Home

It has been almost a year since I returned to live in Australia after close to ten years abroad. In coming back to Australia I find myself feeling somewhat like Odysseus arriving home after his eventful journey from Troy. I … Continue reading

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Your Situation & Everybody’s Situation

Vox Day recently made a post titled “It’s not about you” where he discusses the irrelevance of ones personal situation to the truth. I’ll quote him in his endearing frankness here: Communism is either correct or incorrect. It doesn’t matter if it … Continue reading

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Mexican Flags

In 2006 I was in the United States on university exchange. This was my first and to date my only visit to the USA unless I count a trip to Guam a few years ago. There are many things I … Continue reading

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Immigration & Absolutes

I would argue (and I don’t think I’d get much disagreement), that if you were to bring 1,000,000 Anglo-Celtic Australians into Japan, you would get an increase in violent crime, theft and public drunkenness. I’ve said this before and may have … Continue reading

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Addressing Racism & Terrorism

It is common and not at all unreasonable to talk of racism being largely a result of resentment and personal failures. We’ve been cultured, (again not unreasonably) to see racists as lower-class, poorly educated and with the resulting poor life … Continue reading

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Slapping the hand that votes

As I’ve cared for menagerie of pets and now have children, I’ve had plenty of direct experience with the idiom, “bite the hand that feeds you.” To be quite honest, I’ve done it myself. My purpose for rephrasing it in … Continue reading

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