europe really needs a moderate party to acknowledge that these people have legitimate concerns and that you don't have to reduce the spectrum to making a choice between wide open neo-liberalism and totally insular fascism - that there are places on the spectrum, in between.

i'm not going to pick a side in a fight between christians and muslims, i'm going to go have a beer and let them kill each other.

but, immigration to europe is not the same thing as immigration to north america. our indigenous peoples are largely dead. but, europe has a strong indigenous population that has a right to maintain it's own culture in the face of waves of unwanted immigration.

pluralism is a choice, and the principles of democracy mean that if the people don't want it then the state should reject it. and, at the end of the day, i'm in favour of self-determination.

it was in the mid thirteenth century that the polish took the brunt of the damage in stopping the mongol invasion of europe. they lost the first two fights, but they slowed them down enough. they won the third battle. this is an area that has known invasion and that has suffered from it. their reaction should not be dismissed out of hand.

https://www.indy100.com/article/60000-people-far-right-wing-fascist-march-poland-white-europe-independence-day-islamophobia-tommy-8051011?utm_source=indy&utm_medium=top5&utm_campaign=i100

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.