American-Polish Writer | Fmr Fellow @InstituteDanube | Catholic | Postliberal https://xitter.gq/t.co/SdLLZGkUUa
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Reflections on Poland 🇵🇱 in @amspectator:
Donald Tusk addressed the nation in a manner recalling General Wojciech Jaruzelski’s infamous 1981 martial-law speech and told his audience, “I would very much like us never to have to witness such scenes in Poland again.”
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Michel Houellebecq, France’s most famous living writer, has been charged with alleged hate speech.
Europe’s censorship laws are out of control, writes @NPinkoski 👇 buff.ly/YQuEKr9
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Having chosen a multicultural society long ago, France chose to limit free speech to make that experiment work. Therefore it's no surprise that the multicultural regime would indict her most famous writer and essayist, I argue for @unherd
Michel Houellebecq, France’s most famous living writer, has been charged with alleged hate speech.
Europe’s censorship laws are out of control, writes @NPinkoski 👇 buff.ly/YQuEKr9
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The Election Is Over. The Crisis of Liberalism Remains.
Tomorrow, November 12, I’m thrilled to be in dialogue with @fareedzakaria at @92ndStreetY in New York City, arguing in favour of the resolution: Be it Resolved: Liberalism Has Failed America.
Purchase tickets to the debate here:
92ny.org/event/america-s-lib…
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This matter had already been settled several years ago. After the Onfray-Houellebecq interview, Chems-Eddine Hafiz, the rector of the Mosque of Paris, filed a lawsuit against Houellebecq for incitement of religious hatred against Muslims. Haim Korsia, the Grand Rabbi of France, stepped in to mediate the dispute. Hafiz agreed to withdraw his complaint after Houellebecq promised to revise his comments in a future book, which he did in Quelques mois de ma vie (Flammarion 2023). This is naked political opportunism and cynical spectacle-making going into an election year. @VaubanBooks
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“I was very shocked that it was called a theory. It’s not a theory, it’s a fact.”
Michel Houellebecq on the Great Replacement, in remarks now under investigation by French authorities for their alleged “incitement to racial hatred.”
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Houellebecq's "Submission" showed how France would succumb to Islamisation, with society and state gradually tuned to protect Islam and attack its critics.
It seems a little too on-the-nose to then subject him to exactly what he warns of, for the crime of warning.
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EXCLUSIVE: New censorship legislation would let the Australian government spy on US & European citizens and report "sensitive information" about their lawful political opinions, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, and health records to foreign spy agencies, including the FBI.
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"On a l’impression que #Macron est en train d’écrire un nouveau chapitre au livre de Houellebecq, Soumission…" #PerpignanMLP
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"#Soumission de Houellebecq est une belle description de la lâcheté de nos dirigeants." #InvitéPol
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Houellebecq is one of the most highly-regarded European writers of the 21st century.
The fact that he is being formally investigated for his comments on Muslims and The Great Replacement is a further sign of the collapse of free speech in Europe.
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🇵🇱 108 lat temu odzyskaliśmy wolność, bo sześć pokoleń Polaków ani przez moment nie pomyślało, że polskość to nienormalność.
Sześć pokoleń Polaków wiedziało, że polskość to normalność! Ta normalność to pacierz polskiej matki odmawiany z polskim dzieckiem. To polska wiara, polski Kościół katolicki, polska odwaga i przekonanie, że Rzeczpospolita będzie trwać. To polska praca, literatura i kultura.
- Prezydent RP @NawrockiKn, Narodowe Święto Niepodległości
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Zapełnia się rondo im. Romana Dmowskiego. Cała transmisja z #marszuniepodległości w @TV_Trwam
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Droga Polsko, serdeczne pozdrowienia z Islandii z okazji Narodowego Święta Niepodległości 🇮🇸🌊🇵🇱
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There are around 200,000 people at this march, including the President of Poland.
Does @Reuters really think it is acceptable to tar them all with the brush of being "far-right"?
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On the occasion of Poland’s Independence Day, we extend our warmest wishes to the Polish people. As Poland marks this important day, we do so with a sense of reflection in the wake of the tragic events in Kraków. The United States stands in solidarity with Poland, reaffirming the strong and enduring partnership between our nations, rooted in our shared commitment to freedom, sovereignty, and transatlantic security. We honor Poland’s independence and stand alongside the Polish people.
Z okazji Święta Niepodległości Polski składamy narodowi polskiemu najserdeczniejsze życzenia. Obchodząc ten wyjątkowy dzień, czynimy to w atmosferze refleksji, w obliczu tragicznych wydarzeń, które miały miejsce w Krakowie. Stany Zjednoczone wyrażają solidarność z Polską, potwierdzając silne i trwałe partnerstwo łączące nasze narody, oparte na wspólnym przywiązaniu do wolności, suwerenności oraz bezpieczeństwa transatlantyckiego. Oddajemy hołd niepodległości Polski i stoimy ramię w ramię z narodem polskim.
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"Which NGOs are you mentioning?" says the lady
When I last counted the NGOs in the EU Transparency Register three years ago, there were 914. The vast majority were lobbying on climate and the environment, gender and migration.
Counting them was tedious manual work, because there is still no transparency about how much money NGOs receive from the EU. The payments are scattered across several databases that can’t be searched properly, almost as if by design. The public has no way of knowing.
What we do know is this: the EU is building a giant new fund for NGOs, media and culture called AgoraEU for the period 2028-34. The European Parliament wants €10.7 billion for it. That is roughly ten times what Horizon Europe has put into its Cancer Mission so far.
In 2019, @ManfredWeber campaigned on a European master plan against cancer. Today his @EPP is lining up with the Socialists, Greens and Liberals to keep the NGO money flowing.
I made the mistake of criticizing the EU’s financing of NGOs that are killing free speech. I was SCREAMED at, labeled as an EXTREMIST and called a PUTIN SUPPORTER by leftists. This all happened during a debate about FREE SPEECH.😂🥴🥱
🎥 @WebSummit
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Huge win! Congratulations @ADFIntl! So much work behind the scenes (years!) to secure this victory.
🚨BREAKING: The European Commission has announced that it will WITHDRAW a proposal to criminalise “hate speech” under EU law.
The initiative would have placed “hate speech” and “hate crimes” in the same category as human trafficking, terrorism, drug trafficking and organised crime.
The proposal required unanimous consent, but several member states BLOCKED the initiative in the Council due to free speech concerns.
This is a major victory for freedom of expression. But the battle is not over yet 👇
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The 3 fundamental parts of our time which are the Boomer worldview are:
1.) FDR managerial bureaucracy
2.) Civil rights religion
3.) Cold War hippie liberal internationalism
All of those are going to be destroyed during our lifetimes as power changes hands. Right now we are living in the interregnum of Boomer stasis where nobody believes in the current monoculture, but Boomers refuse to retire.
