Define alt-right for me
You and I are likely following the same path. My thoughts of income distribution come in the form of giving a man a chance to earn his living and grabbing a piece of the pie through his own efforts.
I feel this has been shortchanged by a couple of Man’s inherent flaws - greed and desire to control others. Those are (imo) spiritual issues, but to keep the discussion from being sidetracked, I place much of the blame of our economic on a government that has not only not protected us from modern “robber barons” but has been bought off and abetted their efforts with your aforementioned bad policies.
When we incentivize movement of our economic bedrock of manufacturing through taxation and regulation, we have literally jeopardized our continuation as a society.
Would like to discuss more, but off to church, because Man does not live by bread alone. 
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I haven’t heard you voice your opinion on the carrier deal
The Carrier Deal is looking more and more like pure optics, showmanship and threatening of a major Defense Contractor.
(These are all things that the President Elect is VERY good at…the “Art of the Deal”…).
What I want to see is the general implementation of what his overall Economic Policy will be.
That’s where things get much harder.
We’ll see.
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People who freak out when they enter a 7-11 and see an Indian guy behind the counter. I bet that was your initial reaction as well…
Seriously, “alt-right” is just a nice term for neo nazis. No shaved heads, “88” and Celtic cross tattoos but the ideology is the same, only with a slightly nerdy spin.
Sure, they may use the bland term “international elites” when talking about what plagues the white man today, but whenever they drop their guard we know what they’re actually talking about.
Parse through pro-Trump commentaries on YT or reddit and you’ll run into the creepy phrase “Jew York Times” in lest than a minute.
The problem with the term alt-right is it was designed to include what you just described but will be more freely used. Basically the media can label people as a neo nazi now without them fitting the definition of it we all know.
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I worked in manufacturing back in the 70s and I can tell you most of those jobs did not pay high wages. Granted I was in the south and most of them were in textile mills and the machine shops that supported them. Many were low skill assembly type jobs or machine operators that any body could do. This way of manufacturing was expensive and inefficient. I don’t have the numbers but I will try to find some later. I would bet that manufacturing output is much higher now than back in 70s because we are much more efficient due to technology. Those low skilled jobs are never coming back.
This link is interesting.
I wonder why we never had a nasty term for the far left because sure as I am typing this Obama was the furthest left in his thinking than any President ever elected to the job, Yet, no “alt-left” talk–It’s almost like the left wing media was in cahoots with him…oh wait they were.
I agree and it’s exactly what we need. The American worker, and also every business person of every stripe and color needs to start believing that America is great again. Every positive action is first just a thought.
Well said, just as everyone on the right is a racist according to many in the left wing media. It worked for so long for them I doubt they are going to abandon it. Although I will say I think they are on the demise since Trump has taken them down and wikileaks has exposed them for what they really are.
I have been thinking about this for a while.
For sake of argument; let’s say that “the” media (more on that later) is liberal. (I don’t want to argue that).
I do not believe that it’s overall influence is nearly as influential as its critics would have you to believe. In fact, the Internet and Social Media appears to be having a far greater influence than the “liberal” media.
I would go so far to say…independent of Trump…that they (the “liberal” media) are having little influence on national outcomes.
So…I agree with the “demise” part of Mainstream media…from newspapers to Networks…and if Trump revealed anything, it is how powerful the Internet and Social Media have become…and Trump used it like a fine-tuned instrument.
The world is changing and people that refuse to change with it will be left behind. Right now there are millions of job openings because of the skills gap. We have a
structural problem that can only be fixed when people are willing to go back to school and move to another area. Many of my friends back home complain about how all the good jobs are gone and blame the government or the immigrants and never take a hard look in the mirror. Many refuse to go back to school and many of those that do refuse to relocate, so they are stuck in an burned out textile town that is never coming back. I saw this coming back in the 80s and decided to get a degree in computer science and never looked back. The America that live and work in has never been greater.
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You say all this while living in a white Racially homogeneous country.
We all know you’re here only because you’re worried Trump will stand idly by while Putin annexes your corrupt potato land
Its the cool new way to call people nazis without invoking Godwins law.
Calling people nazis got so old and tired that the left needed a new word.
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Neo Nazis have had a history of being fake movements with the intention only to smear conservatives.
There probably aren’t even 10,000 avowed “neo-nazis” in a country of 320M.
Oh, it’s not a term of the Left - it is a label created by its adherents in a conscious effort to rebrand and the movement for marketing purposes.
My, my, we’re a little thin skinned, aren’t we?
First and foremost, there’s no danger of Putin annexing my “corrupt potato land” (where did you get “potato” part from? I’m not in Ireland), and if he does - we’ll let’s just say we’ll all have bigger problems if he decides to roll his tanks through Europe. Incidentally, when people insult my country they use the Nazi card, but I guess that’s not an option for you as you probably consider the term a compliment.
Secondly, I’m not sure that you realize that posting on T-nation is not an optimal way to influence US foreign policy so that settles the “we all know why you’re here” part. Not that it’s pertinent to the discussion, but I’ve been reading t-nation for 15 years and I remember when it was called T-Mag, was issue-based and there were cartoon characters of the staff on the front page.
Thirdly, I get that as an immigrant you’re trying to fit in with your buddies from the Traditionalist Worker’s Party.
You immigrated into a new country, everything is strange and frightening and there are sooo many non-white people around spoiling the legacy of the British Isles in the former colony. Like many poor white in the South Antebellum and white trash South Africans, you believe that the only asset you have is your skin tone. So you probably subscribe to Twitter feeds of leading “alt right” figures lamenting how your new country is going down the drain with the liberals and the much maligned Mexicans, citing invented or misinterpreted quotations from the Founding Fathers while fantasizing about an Aryan homeland in Alabama.
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toddrc brings up a point that is being debated in Corporate American as we speak.
The “cradle-to-grave/great-paying/benefits heavy” job that one can just do for a Lifetime,right out of High School…and then you retire… is gone. (Let’s leave Government Jobs out at this point. I’m speaking of Private Sector).
AT&T is the first that I have read of that is changing the paradigm.
They are essentially saying this…
“We will be committed to employing you…but you have to be committed…ON YOUR OWN TIME and at YOUR EXPENSE…to reeducation and retraining” as Technology and markets change.
AT&T then says that if you do that…you have first shot at the jobs that open up.
(I think that they even post for their employees the Job openings and what skills are required).
There simply are not going to be many jobs in the future that are High Paying that a robot and/or computer can do.
(As a side note…I was looking at an old episode of “The Twilight Zone” the other day, and I was struck by the number of people in an office who were doing things like ledgers, billing, basic accounting, etc…that can now be done on a Laptop. There are a LOT of industries like this. The greatest loss of jobs is due to Technological advances; not trade and illegal immigration. That is a fact.)
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Well said I could not agree more.
Edit: But this is happening at the same time that the MSLM has shown itself to be in the can for whomever the DNC chooses.