The French Far Right, Trump's Realism, and Other Topics

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[north-sea]

It's the sensible centrist position to not want to become a hated minority in your own homeland.

[bensanderson]

Whenever I hear the media use the term “far right” I immediately substitute the words “normal people”. For example: “Today in France the far right won a stunning victory”. Substitute: “Today in France normal people won a stunning victory”.

[berserker]

I'm waiting for the politicians who denounce human rights.

[LeeD-oujy]

I live in a pretty small town in the UK. It’s become very obvious of late that more and more migrants are arriving. Eastern Europeans have been here for decades, particularly poles. But now, there is a stark increase in sub Saharan Africans. For now, there are little problems but let’s see what happens as those numbers increase. We’re heading towards zero hour for Europe and Europeans.

[johnbones]

Far right, where is the far right. It's just the right. Lunatic left is a more realistic description.

[ScotianDoomer]

I went to UofT around the time you were there I believe. The Phil department always leaned heavily analytic with a few exceptions. Best profs were Gerson and Thompson imo. Anyways, shame what happened to you. Thanks for the content. Your work explaining Dugin to a western audience is invaluable.

[bellingdog]

The LFI (part of the New Populist Front - Left) have said they will drop their candidate from the 3rd round if the RN are leading and they are 3rd to help Macron's party win. Just remember that, the so-called populist would rather centrism than populism if it's not their populism.

[LeeD-oujy]

A lot of people starting to notice these days. The great noticing is upon us, lads.

[hemlock]

And that posh area experience of that woman in your opening is very recent compared to the almost State of Nature level intimidation and ethnic gang violence that much poorer citizens have endured since the 1980s (Australia anyway), yet who were called racists for complaining about (mass heroin dealing, cultural 'wall of silence' with police since too intimidated by violent ethnic drug gangs, assassinations on local politicians etc). I wouldn't be surprised if that women would have called those poorer citizens "racists" for making the same complaint she is now, only before she had phenomenologically experienced for herself. That's one of the most wicked things about the middle class.

[AIainMConnachie]

”Far right”
Could you do a kind of précis of the history of this term in the media with emphasis on how & why it arrived at its current (mis)use? Would appreciate that. Good video as usual.

[arktseytlin]

When you read about defense of Constantinople, Cyprus and Malta in 15-16 centuries, and the battle of Lepanto, you realize the magnitude of the crime perpetuated against Europeans by their elites

[danieltemelkovski]

In the past decade, I have had many opportunities to note that although "racists" often go too far, they are at least going through life with their eyes open. God only knows what the rest are doing.

[FritztheCat-ke]

Seems like a fairer treatment of Trump that I am used to from the main stream media. Have they seen the writing on the wall and want to mend fences for their past behavior?

[BillyBob-bdhj]

Well, at least they aren't speaking German 😂😂😂😂

[jacobwhite]

I live in France … and frankly this Twitter Post seems invented. Where are the sources for this?

[creampuffwar]

Why do you not place the word “Far Right” in inverted commas?

[DanFeldman-Edge]

Mr. Millerman, you are conflating Zionism with Judaism. They are not the same thing. Many rabbis since the inception of Zionism have critiqued it as anti-Semitic.

[kittenlang]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I feel Trump is the first anti-war candidate in my lifetime, and in my second half century. As far as France, blame starts with Macron's husband. That's the simplest truth of the matter.🕊️

[mandys]

is there an outreach program or programs for the immagrants in france? because that article makes it sound like they are left out in the streets... i mean... regular citizens could organize to help them... find housing, get food and clothes... integrate into communtiy. if left to just the govt, it is very difficult... i know in the us that there were reg citizens reaching out to mexicans... many of them couldnt speak english and felt alienated once they moved here.... the other side of this is to help them... try to anyway

[jamessheffield]

“The Jew living under Nazism is the privileged negative referent of the new biopolitical
sovereignty and is, as such, a flagrant case of a homo sacer in the sense of a life that may be
killed but not sacrificed. His killing therefore constitutes neither capital punishment nor a
sacrifice, but simply the actualization of a mere ‘capacity to be killed’ inherent in the condition
of the Jew as such. The truth—which is difficult for the victims to face, but which we must have
the courage not to cover with sacrificial veils—is that the Jews were exterminated not in a mad
and giant holocaust but exactly as Hitler had announced, ‘as lice, ’ which is to say, as bare life
[zoe]. The dimension in which the extermination took place is neither religion nor law, but
biopolitics Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, trans. by Daniel HellerRoazen. Stanford: Stanford