Nationalist Resurgence in Europe

[Bezprym]

Come on, Enflamme and me can't be more different. We are on the opposite sides of the Aprician spectrum (and here I'm not only talking about politics). Enflamme is here for two reasons: taxonomy and girls.

I meant the attitude, not ideological beliefs or any goals. Just pure hostility.

Anyway, it's better to stop here, so I will do so.

[Grenzland]

Really, Grenzi-Benzi? In France, we learn that in the 6th grade. But it's true that we are intellectually more advanced. Even alnorte is more clever than you.

Whatever, my clever philosopher of the EU.

[Melki]

I meant the attitude, not ideological beliefs or any goals. Just pure hostility.

Anyway, it's better to stop here, so I will do so.

Hostility is unfortunately a common denominator in TA. You've been here for 5 years, you know better than me what I mean. Sometimes, I agree I go too far, and in these cases I'm the first one to regret it. And sometimes, it's just impossible to remain indifferent.

[Bezprym]

You've been here for 5 years

Less, I registered the account in 2012, but haven't been using it.

[B01AB20]

[B01AB20]

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

You wanna play with me, Bez? OK then but let me warn you: I'm a big fish.

Today's European Union is comparable in many ways to the Roman Republic in its waning days (all the ways lead to Rome), just before it collapsed. Too bloated, too sick, suffering a long agony. It was a period of civil war between the proponents of the people's interests (the populares) and the partisans of the established order (the optimates). The Senate (= the European Parliament) was too blind and resourceless to face reality. Authoritarian military chiefs (the imperatores) like Julius Caesar, Pompey and Mark Anthony (= Orbán, Le Pen & Wilders) became ambitious and exploited the fears of the people.
Facing these tyrants, philosophers like Cicero, who wanted to preserve the Republic at all costs, were powerless (Anthony ordered his execution), and nothing could prevent the Roman Republic from turning into a terrible Empire, full of mad dictators (Caligula, Nero, Domitian, Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Commodus...)

Well, I believe in wise philosophers like Cicero and Lucretius, not in populist leaders like Caesar or Augustus.

What about you, Bez? You seem to be very strong when it comes to sarcastic posts, but not brainy comments.

[Mortimer]

There are Identitarians in Austria too.

https://iboesterreich.at/

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

How's this for a deal, Europeans stop pillaging and bombing African and Muslim countries and Africans and Muslims stop emigrating to Europe? That's a fair deal isn't it?

I have a better idea: you leave. If Europeans pillage and bomb African and Muslims then we'll call it payback for the Barbary slave trade and for Ottoman invasions. You should go back to Bosnia, which exists today because of those horrible pillaging and bombing Western Europeans.

[catgeorge]