Today is St. Patrick’s Day, which is when people around the English speaking world celebrate having driven the Irish from their community. Businesses dust of the old “Irish Need Not Apply” signs and post them up. People mock the Irish by getting drunk and starting fights in public. Everyone wears green. Going out for corned beef and cabbage is a big thing, even during the pandemic. The meal is capped off by leaving a small tip in the tradition of the flintiest people on earth.
This is not true, of course, but it would probably be a better way to respect the Irish people than the current way of celebrating the day. St. Patrick’s Day in America is mostly just another version of Cinco de Mayo. That is, a reason for restaurants to roll out some themed specials and college kids to wear silly outfits. The difference is the college kids will not get in trouble for making fun of the Irish or for culturally appropriating them by wearing stereotypical Irish clothing.
The Irish are, however, a good topic for dissidents to study. Ireland struggled through a long and unpleasant occupation by a people who sounded a lot like them and looked like them but were not them at all. The Irish were ruled for a long time by clever, resourceful aliens. Crushing Irish resistance became an obsession with the British at times, even when it was not in their interest. This is, of course, the situation for white people in America now, just without an armed resistance yet.
How the Irish fought the British and how the British fought back is something highly relevant to modern America. The Irish eventually won their independence by driving up the cost of occupation. This came at a heavy cost to the Irish, as well. There are more people of Irish descent in America than in Ireland, because the long battle with the British made living anywhere else better for most Irish. There is also the fact that Ireland was never and will never fully united under the Irish flag.
Ireland is also a great example of how negative identity can destroy a people much faster than a conqueror. The Irish during the struggles became a people defined by their hatred of the British and their long history of oppression by the British. This made them wholly unequipped to go into the world as a full independent people. Ireland was immediately consumed by globalism. First it was the boom-bust of global economics and then it was the homogenization of global culture.
Starved of its ancient enemy, the Irish had no reason to exist, so the Irish ruling class joined the global ruling class, in spirit if not actuality. What that means for Europeans is embracing a plan of self-eradication. They elected a gay Indian as their ruler and set about importing as many nonwhites as they could find. Ireland’s Project 2040 promises to import a million Africans. If you do the math, they plan to make the Irish a minority in Ireland in this century. It is a plan for national suicide.
There is a popular meme where you see American soldiers disembarking on D-Day being told their kids will be trans or some other equally vulgar fad. The idea is that if our ancestors knew what defeating the fascists would lead to in a few generations, they would have refused to fight. One suspects that if Michael Collins could have seen Leo Varadkar, the gay Indian prime minister of Ireland, he and his compatriots would have turned their guns on their own people.
It is no surprise that the Irish have often called themselves the blacks of Europe, as they share the same sense of identity as American blacks. The Irish think the comparison works because they are both musical people, but it works better in the context of negative identity. Both the Irish and American blacks are defined by their long struggle, real and imagined, with another people. Without that struggle, the Irish have ceased to exist in a meaningful way. Like their memories, Irish is history.
There is a lesson here for dissidents across the West. It is not enough to hate the ruling class and hate the liberal democratic system that sustains them. Hatred is a powerful motivator and a powerful rallying cry. It can only be a tactic in the larger strategy for national independence. It may feel good to hate a person or a group of people, but it can never come to define you or your people. By rooting identity in the relationship with another group, you become that group’s slave.
This is why Jews have survived as a tiny minority, often among people who hate them, without having to assimilate. Jewish identity is a positive one. It is largely the same in all times and all places. They adjust to the host population or in the case of Israel, the relative strength of her neighbors. Otherwise, Jewish identity in 19th century Russia is the same as in 21st century Manhattan. The people and places change, but Jews and the complaints about them remain the same.
This is why “Yes, But Is It Good for the Jews?” is an old punchline to jokes. Jews are famous for always thinking first about whether some situation, even a disaster, is good for them and their people. They joke about it among themselves. No one ever asked, is it good for the Irish, but plenty of Irish wondered if it was bad for the British. They were, in effect, putting the interest of the British ahead of their own. Because they have a positive identity, Jews never think this way.
If the pubs are open in your part of the hellscape that is Covidian America, enjoy a green beer and some inauthentic Irish culture. Everyone, even the Irish, are entitled to have some fun when the chance arrives. In between points of green beer, think about why Irish has been reduced to a trashy holiday and how best the fight for national sovereignty can avoid the fate of the Irish. If freedom means infinity Africans and gay Indian prime ministers, what is the point of the struggle?
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Ireland’s Project 2040 promises to import a million Africans.
I’ve started to wonder how much of this type of insanity is driven by American imperialism, direct and / or cultural.
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95% of it is my guess.
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The flintiest people on earth are not the Irish, but the Scots. That’s how “scotch“ tape got its name.
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Or the invention of copper wire – 2 Scots fighting over a penny
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Your best one yet.
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The next iteration of “Celtic Woman” will be black, Pak, and trans.
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Should be interesting to experience the Irish jigs with rapping and twerking.
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At some point, the Irish Catholic began to identify with the universalism of his church more than with his own blood-and-soil ethnicity. I once heard an Irish radical from the Bay Area declare – speaking of the WASPS – that the reason they, the Irish, were hated was because of their catholicity. Essentially, he was admitting that the Irish Catholic possessed a negative identity. This Irishman was more concerned about why the Irish were hated than with why they could rarely assimilate effectively. It was an interesting version of the “race card” he was using. And indeed, you’ll find many Irish Catholics falling back on that old oppression canard. I sometimes think that the Irish will commit mass miscegenation before they will even THINK about joining forces with other whites to protect themselves from the coming diversity storm.
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In what way did the Irish not assimilate effectively in the US? I’ve always thought of them as having done so at least as well any other people in terms of culturally integrating into the country they emigrated to.
You mentioned Michael Collins, a favorite Irish rebel of mine. If for no other reason than as a cautionary tale, it is noteworthy to point out that the history of the Troubles was marked by constant infighting and splits within the IRA and the myriad other dissident groups struggling against the purported enemy, the Brits. Collins was able to negotiate this morass and won freedom for all but the six northern counties; for his trouble, deValera’s faction had him assassinated for selling out.
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There is a good argument that the real reason he was killed is the IRA could never exist in peace. Anyone with a positive vision for the Irish, standing as equals with the rest of the European people, was more of a threat to the Irish “patriots” than the British. You see this today on our side. The negative identity crowd always attacks those who promote a positive idea.
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This. They were an earlier version of the PLO and successor groups.
Collins was killed in 1922, Ireland was split in 1925, Collins and others expected a much smaller Northern Ireland, 2 maybe 3 counties, I’m not sure if he would have agreed to the 6 county split
Z Man has been subtly promoting/mentioning Fascism lately. We are currently experiencing some kind of next gen Fascism with the merging of Corporations and the Government into one woke religious complex. Or maybe it’s communism.
Who really knows. There are no leaders. It’s just a bunch people semi-promoting lone wolf attacks without trying to be too obvious.
I think it’s time for me to move on from this type of content. It’s just the same thing over and over. No real changes. Not high-IQ material. Just pandering to white geezers.
Maybe try to launch a satellite or cure a disease instead of griping. Lead by example.
Bye all. Good luck.
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Before you leave, please wipe the tears from your comment. Wouldn’t want it to smudge.
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He obviously hasn’t availed himself of Gottfried’s primer on fascism.
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I get your point. Sooner or later, the time for complaining ends and the time for doing begins. Hell, Steve Sailer has been complaining/noticing for 25 years without ever telling anyone to do something.
That said, there are a lot of newbies finding their way to our side, and they need help.
But, yes, we all need to start doing things that can help. Personally, I’m at step one, trying to find like-minded people in my area so we can form small groups. I realize that sounds pretty mundane, but it’s a start.
For others, action might be leaving the country or moving to more rural areas. Those are fine as well as long as we’re all moving from complaining to doing.
Btw, you can accomplish normal goals in life while trying to help your people. Jews do that everyday.
Good luck to you.
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The “I’m tired of talking. We have to do something” stuff is ever followed with “So, here is what I’m doing to help our people.” That guy will respawn as a new character in a while and the cycle will start over again. Never mind that there is a lots of doing happening. So much doing that the FBI has arrested 200 people for doing stuff and they are just getting started.
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“We just need to do something man” — signed, a guy who totally isn’t a fed.
Funny how that comment came directly after that massage parlor shooting.
>”Do what? What do we do?”
>”Well, what do you think we should do, wink wink? Oh, and could you lean closer to that odd-looking clock when you say it. Enunciate and speak loudly.”
PS. You should outright ban that guy for good measure. Back-stabbing drama should be an automatic purge. We don’t need trash like that hanging around.
True. I read his comment very quickly and upon review, it’s pretty damn douchey.
But I get the desire of people to want to “do something” rather than just talk, though his comment now seems more like a way to get people to quit altogether. Whatever his motives, it’s good to remind people of what they can do in their own lives to help.
Also, as you mentioned, the FBI wouldn’t be arresting people nor would Congress be getting ready to pass legislation to attack us if we weren’t getting under their skin.
What they fear most is Whites is 1) viewing themselves as a people and 2) organizing, even in very small groups. You need the former before you consider the latter.
Blogs such as this are a way to get Whites to view themselves as a team and to feel alright about rooting for their team. Once they reach that point, they’ll naturally start thinking about organizing, which leads to all kinds of good things.
In addition to the blogs and podcasts and Gab, the comments also help Joe Normie find his way. The comments show Joe that many other “normal” people like himself – and not just the blog writer – think of themselves as a team and root for that team.
Basically, what I’m saying is that blogs such as this and the commenters are “doing something.” They’re helping Joe Normie make his way across the great divide. Without that step, nothing else will happen.
I bet dollars to donuts he is Irish and does the synthetic Irish identity stuff.
“It’s just the same thing over and over. No real changes.”
Yes, I suppose it is. But as wokism is repetitive I suspect the counter to it must be, too. This is a good place to let of steam and to remind oneself of the eternal struggle – and all it’s repetition.
“Not high-IQ material.”
Need it be? Perhaps a year ago, Z posted an essay about jelly beans in relation to how a central bank operates. I sent that one around, it was a good point made in an engaging way.
“Just pandering to white geezers.”
Quite so. And all the wonderful things whites have done and will do. And why we ought to be proud of it.
Very helpful. Clarifies your concept of negative identity.
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Negative identity is useful as a motivator to achieving your goals, but it can’t THE goal.
Btw, I always thought that Ireland was a great candidate for stealth invasion. There’s only 5 million people in the country. A couple hundred thousand dissident right Americans who earn the right to vote could easily tip the scales.
Alas, the Irish that I’ve met seem congenitally SJW. It’s bizarre. They’ve kept their Irish orneriness but have channeled that energy into being the most hardcore liberals that you’ll ever find.
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If hating your oppressors ends up taking your own people out, then blacks (at least our wondrous american version) should be gone soon – although probably not soon enough, but one can dream. And the majority of right thinking Whites better start thinking about what’s good for them and damn everyone else.
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Eventually the progs will tire of them. Neither progs nor nogs have a plan for what to do when that happens.
I saw Bono and U2 shortly after Trumps election.
What a God awful political concert.
After watching that fiasco I was thinking
Cromwell should have stayed and leveled Ireland.
But the regular Irish suffer the same as we dissidents here in America and we do need to seek out positive goals and a positive identity.
Good essay.
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My now deceased uncle made it his life’s mission to celebrate his irish heritage and all things Irish. He knew the songs, the traditions and certainly the drink. The panic washed over him after I did some family research that part of him may be Scottish. Of course the the two countries did a lot of fraternizing.
I never got the same feeling being maybe only half, but I do celebrate their hardiness and resolve. Also, the treatment as slave labor (whatever term you like) in America. Other than their contribution of crooked politicians they thrived and contributed much to America.
Don’t be too hard on their cultural and political surrender today, the U.K. isn’t much better.
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I didn’t know Micheal Martin was a gay indian.
His predecessor is the gay Indian.
Its far worse, he’s a Cork man
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Good post, I agree with most of it
But just one point, Varadakar was never elected to be Prime minister, he became leader of his party, who at the time were the largest in the parliament, at the next election it took him 5 counts to be re elected, I don’t think that has ever happened. a sitting PM in Ireland will be elected on the first count and his vote will be large enough to elect 2 or 3 party members. he’s not popular and I doubt he will lead his party at the next election, I would bet he will end up working for the EU at some level
The next new PM (Taoiseach) of Ireland will probably be the Sinn Fein leader, who I suspect will be worse than Varadakar
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I left Ireland for the US in 1995, when the power of the Church was visibly waning and the country was relatively poor and traditional by western European standards. The Celtic Tiger boom in the economy ushered in Ireland’s first encounter with mass prosperity and embrace of divorce, immigration, diversity etc. The media have completely embraced modern progressive thought, as have the leaders. A recent referendum that approved abortion for the first time was passed two to one and dancing in the streets was observed. On visits home, friends and family are concerned in case my incorrect thoughts are heard out loud. The health dictatorship currently in place rivals that of England. I believe that a majority of people are still normal but that a vocal minority with veto power has seized control as in the US. I do agree somewhat with the negative identity ascribed to the Irish by the Z-man, but like to think that it is not on a par with black Americans.
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Do you think that changing the laws regarding taxes, corporate governance, residency and citizenship,
would facilitate the departure of the globalist locusts?
If the open invitation to multinational corporations disappeared,
would the non-Irish leave for greener pastures?
Could ordinary Irish be convinced to vote for those changes to law,
or is it too far gone? Don’t they still have a majority of the population?
Positive identity formation usually starts with aesthetics. Commies and…. others…. were quite successful with their initial appeals because they had a distinctive, edgy “look.” It has degenerated into hipsterism and face tackle these days, but everyone still has a distinctive “look” in mind when calling someone an “intellectual” – that look was a deliberate creation of the Bolshies. Social proof gets you most of the rest of the say there – it you’re gonna *look* like a radical, you have to really BE a radical.
Given that, a good place to start might be “I’m an American-American” or something like that. Look at pictures from 1948, and dress like they do. Listen to Benny Goodman or whatever. The look is the pride is the value system. I realize it can’t be totally backwards looking, but it’s an easy start. Most importantly, it gives people a meaningful excuse to turn off the tv and the smartphone, the two poz nozzles that do 95% of the daily damage.
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One of the best articles by Zman;
clearly written, cogent analysis.
excerpts need to be circulated far and wide,
printed and pasted up in public areas.
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Yes, very good indeed, a lot to unpack and think about here. It’s also interesting to note, in passing, that as American Jews have come more and more to prize hating the Goyim more than loving the Jews, their own numbers are plummeting due to assimilation, low fertility, and suicide, while in Israel, where a more positive identity holds sway, Jews are doing great. A “Light unto the Nations” indeed!
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A New Tomorrow (cont)
Reflex reaction.
When danger abounds & change is needed, the most common public contribution is the canary-in-the-coalmine shriek of warning. This is an attempt to induce a herd reflex reaction that will hopefully redirect everyone to safer ground. Voting is a variation on this theme and requires slightly more effort than public whining, but suffers the defect of the middleman. Now that vote fraud has been institutionalized, the latter has become a fool’s errand so the wailing & gnashing of teeth will only increase. There is a better path forward, but to take it, you must first put pouting aside.
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The major goal of the Puritan Roundheads was the extermination of both the Irish and the native Americans. The survivors of these two populations weren’t members of the warrior class and in general only wanted enough to eat and a warm, dry place to sleep. This remains the case today. Events like St. Patrick’s Day, an anti-holiday in England, are celebrations of ethnicity buried in a bloody past. So there must be some statute of limitations on incomplete genocide. The IRA was a huge inconvenience to ostensibly normal Irishmen. No one today would accept a rebellion by the Chiricahua Apaches in Arizona, including the overwhelming majority of those natives themselves. So, at some point in time, patriots are converted to criminals. Such is likely to be the case for Americans that continue to think with an 18th, or even 19th century American world view. No invasion will be necessary. The conquerors have been living in the US for some time.
Z-man …
The clock setting on the comment system is still showing EST, not DST.
All the time stamps are wrong.
I refuse to go along with the war on time. “Spring forward” is what got us in this mess.
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