How to Actually Unite the Right

 

As someone who hates "woke liberal cultural Marxism", that is even less liberal or Marxist than Holy Roman Empire is Roman, I unfortunately often find myself opposing other rightists over one or another issue. While we all agree that woke is bad and must be opposed, we cannot quite agree on how exactly we should oppose it. 

I am not the only one who wanted to unite the right, but so far previous attempts ended up in failure. Reason for that is that all these alternative identities come with more unwanted baggage, that Hillary Clinton's presidential run. This baggage repeals those who would otherwise join the right to oppose the woke but did not do so. The baggage gets in the way.

What Does not Work

I will example each individual attempt and explain what is wrong with each of them and then propose the alternative.

To begin with nationalism. At first glance that sounds good and right, why should we neglect our national interests in favour of some globalist agenda. Great? Not so much. Problem with nationalism is that different nations have different interests. Before long nationalism will devolve into this vs that country, arguments over borders, history and more. Instead of uniting right, it will divide us into small one identity groups squabbling with each other rather than fighting woke. Its already happening with Greenland where American nationalists ended up fighting fellow nationalists from Denmark and Europe over the frozen wasteland island. All the while woke quietly laugh in the corner.

To solve the nationalism problem, some might turn towards Christianity. Once again at first glance it looks like a solution. It solves the problems nationalism created. All nations under one god, deus vult, slay the infidels, crusades, heroism what not to like? Once again once you look closer, it's not good at all. To begin with Christianity varies from denomination to denomination, some of these are almost complete opposite from one another. Christianity has so much baggage, it's not even funny, inquisition, brutality, witch trials, Church corruption, paedophilia scandals, schisms, you name it. No one will want to associate with this mess. Christianity is actually woke: a lot of things Jesus actually did in bible can be considered woke. That makes it a poor rally point to oppose wokism. Sure, some American denominations recast Jesus as gun touting and dinosaur riding, but that would not work outside the US as people can only see such Jesus as a joke. Finally, Christianity devolves into the same problem as nationalism, but one time bigger. Instead of opposing woke, Christians ended up opposing Islam and other foreign religions. Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and Shintoists are natural allies of anti-woke coalition, yet by focusing on Christianity one turns these natural allies into enemies. Worst offenders and woke beneficiaries are not Muslims or Hindus, but Christian West Africans or African Americans who are also Christian. Thus, Christianity does not allow us to go after real enemy. Once again, as we squabble over insults pork and prophet Muhammad, woke quietly laughs in the corner.

Well then Capitalism sure has no baggage, right. Capitalism won Cold War and build all this prosperity, sure it will win over backward communism-no foodyism, right? Not so simple, both capitalism and socialism used to be narrow economic theories that later got stretched to fit other things. That produces lots of inconsistencies in definitions and more. What capitalism means in purely economic terms is different from what it means in Cold War context. As prices go up, salaries go down and jobs are harder to find than ever, defending current economic system is a dead-end approach, and capitalism that won Cold War is so happens to be this current economic system. Also, whole capitalism vs socialism dichotomy devolves into economic arguments over theories that are long outdated and irrelevant to modern automated economy. Arguing over economic systems designed for pre-automation economy is like arguing over chairs on a Titanic, completely pointless. Yet while right is bogged down in making way in these ancient economic theories, left is quietly laughing in the corner. 

Woke calls itself socialist or Marxist, but it actually does not have even slightest idea what "means of production" even mean, much less what seizing them will do. The only seizing they know of is of Marijuana plants. Woke does not have any real economic ideas, it is based on Bookchin nonsense that just takes drab "socialist" aesthetics, feminism and inclusivity and calls it "cool". It is as related to actual Marxism as Memphis in Tennessee is related to Memphis in Ancient Egypt, it's called the same name, it has a river of different kind and a pyramid also of different kind, that is about it. 

It's pointless to argue with woke over economy, woke is all about identity and to oppose it we need to create a competing identity that is more interesting and compelling than woke is.

Other alternatives are Confederate Rebel flag; it only has limited traction in the US and controversial even there as its associated with backwardness, poverty and stupidity of trailer dwelling rednecks. Do you want to march for being a like trailer dwelling redneck? Probably no, so it cannot be a Confederate flag. 

Nazi insignia and symbolism, including flag of Kekestan, while stylish fundamentally comes with the baggage of autocracy, totalitarianism and genocide. No one wants to associate themselves with people who run Auschwitz of Buchenwald, or those who suppressed democracy. Also, Jews hate Nazis and would oppose anything that endorses them, no matter what you think about Jews our fight is not with them, there is no point in alienating them.

Finally, pro-Russian and pro-Putin sentiment essentially comes with the same baggage as Nazi symbolism. Also, Russia is not as conservative right-wing utopia as stereotypes claim it is. If anything, Russia is more woke than woke itself. It's unwise to ally oneself to this wolf in a sheep's cloth that is more feminist than most feminist Bostoner. Finally Eastern Europeans, like Poles, hate Russia with burning passion. Poles are natural anti-woke allies and you do not want to alienate them over your pro-Russian sentiment.

Finally, traditional pagan religion, is too fragmented and varies between different places. It can devolve in the same factionalism as nationalism.

Of all that was tried, Ancient Rome is by far least problematic. However, it also fundamentally comes with a baggage. How to address Rome's ultimate collapse? What period claim as the definitive? Early Empire will repeal supported of democracy. Meanwhile Republic had certain flaws of its own and not as picturesque as Early Empire.

What is Best Alternative

However, there is something that is much better than Rome and that is Japan. That is what we do to unite the right and beat the woke.

Unlike rather forgotten Rome, Japan has lost of fans and hardly any haters. Even those who hate Anime or something else about Japan struggle to articulate their concerns and are often dismissed as pointless. 

Most of the right likes something about Japan. Alt-right watches anime, Muslims watch anime, Hindus watch anime, even Chinese who hate Japan watch anime. Everyone on the right likes anime, it's one thing that truly unites us.

That love extends to different aspects of Japanese culture. Japanese tech makes it seem like country from the future. At the same time, they have fondness for preserving beautiful things from times past. They even imitate beautiful things from other cultures to enrich theirs. Generally, Japan is land of beauty and appreciation of beauty. At the same time Japan is also a country of warriors who have high standards of nobility and honour. Japanese manners are impeccable and Japanese ideals about what women should be like is what most right can agree on. 

All in all, Japan is all we love and all we want our societies and the world be like. Yes, there are few things like karoshi and paternalism that we do not care or like, but for the most part the idealised and refined image of Japan is what we all aspire. So why not just adopt it as an identity?

Nothing wrong with such cultural appropriation and embellishment. If anything, woke cultural "Marxism" is far less Marxist than out cultural Japanism.  We can even use a more poetic word for it: Yamato Culture to distinguish it from actual Japan just in case and give us more ownership over the movement. I see no arguments against.

Yamato Culture of United Right

Yamato culture aspires future and technological progress. We want to see robots in our daily life, space exploration. We want to see men transcend their base outdated past and ascent to the higher level of existence, free from misery and privation and with resources to advance science, technology and culture. 

At the same time, we preserve what was beautiful and important about the past. If a culture has substance and merit, it deserves to be preserved. At the same time, we do not allow base and savage practices to continue into the future. 

Yamato culture is meritocratic and rewards ability and skill. We appreciate all things beautiful, intellectual and refined and reject all things ugly, base and savage.

We give equal opportunity, but do not take from those who are better to prop up those who fail. Equality not equity. Universal Basic Income over systems that give welfare to some but not to others.

Yamato men are men of high honour, high culture and high standards. They are noble beings who do not reduce themselves to things that are beneath them.

Yamato women are well mannered, humble, respectful and subservient to their husbands or boyfriends.

For individual terms to refer to ourselves and things we value or care about we can use long phrases such as Men of Yamato Spirit or men of culture, or men of Yamato or just Yamato. We can also use simpler the knights, samurai, nobles or the Lords. Noble spirit, Yamato spirit.

As for symbols, then while it's good to use Japanese symbols, but it will be good to distinguish ourselves from actual Japanese people and their things. For example, a Rising Sun Flag but with black instead of white background might work. Sun itself can be made yellow/gold instead of red, for better colour contrast (something like this), or a thin while outline can be inserted between sun and a background.

The movement should be primary cultural with no baggage that can slow us down or repel those who might want to join us.

We should avoid bogging down in any economic arguments as these are pointless in current socio-economic reality. Elon Musk said that work will be optional in 10 years' time, there is no point in splitting feathers over how dying economy will run in the meantime. We should be neither pro nor anti-tax or pro or anti-welfare or such. The only exception is support for UBI.

We also should avoid any compromises with women. Women do not appreciate when you meet them halfway, so we will not. We have out standards and values and if they do not meet those, we will not accept them. It's better to have less women but good ones, then have more but of questionable quality. No woke feminists, no Karens and no women liberation. Women who respect and admire Men of Yamato, can come with us, those who do not walk away.

We oppose woke because woke is ugly and uncultured. Woke drab, grey "socialist" so called "aesthetics" are ugly and unworthy of a man of culture.

We reject uncouth savagery of woke and those who participate in that culture. We reject woke's "black culture" as an insult to culture. We do not consider "gangsta rap" a form of culturally significant music and do not listen to it. Black artists who work in different genres like Boney M who sing disco are excepted. Yamato is anti-rap only. 

We do not support woke's so called "social justice" because it's not justice as we see it. We find woke so called "social justice" as unjust. Black people and women already have it much cozier than they deserve and we should take some of that away.

That is a basic breakdown of Yamato Spirit and Yamato culture that can actually unite the right. We should abandon old, outdated identities that no longer serve any meaningful purpose and unite behind one Rising Sun banner. 

"The side will rise."

Tale of Two Lenins

 

Famous historical personalities often have plenty of various monuments dedicated to them, things or places named after them. Sometimes other people get to be named after them as well. Sometimes such people manage to become famous in their own right, and not as impersonators of their famous namesake. Such was the fate of the person of this article.

Name Vladimiro Lenin Illich Montesinos Torres sounds too frivolous even for a one of the Terry Pratchett's stories, yet life is stranger than fiction and such person indeed exist. Unlike Vladimir Illich Ulyanov Lenin, Vladimiro is only famous in his native Peru. Furthermore, unlike original Lenin, his namesake is dedicated anti-communist. 

If you think about it, it's not too hard to guess why his Peruvian parents decided to name their son this way. Socialism and communism are very popular in Latin America, and they likely wished to for him to become Peru's own revolutionary leader who will bring communism to Peru. Fate, or Vladimiro himself had other plans.

Unlike his namesake, Vladimiro became staunch anti-communist and is now famous for being architect of purges during Alberto Fujimori's rule as President of Peru, during which Vladimiro was director of National Intelligence. Even with Alberto gone, Vladimiro continues Fujimorism together with Keiko Fujimori.

This story is one of the examples where children of dedicated leftists end up disillusioned by their parents' ideology and go in the opposite direction. Other such example is Alt-right children of left feminist boomers.

This also shows that children are not guaranteed to follow wishes of their parents and walk the path parents envisioned for them. Even when you name them after a historical person, whose qualities you wished for them to embody, they might become polar opposite of that.

Thus, this is a tale about to Lenin's, one is founder of communism and USSR, opponent of American. The other is anti-communist director of intelligence and pro-American CIA collaborator. Such is life.

Unlike my conservative, patriotic, anti-welfare parents, I personally fight for individual freedom, welfare and European and Western unity against Putin style autocracy.

When Both Countries Are Super Cheap and Use Fabian Like Strategy in War

When both countries like Fabian like strategies, war can gradually get very silly. Current war between Russia and Ukraine is just such war.

It begun rather normal with armed columns rolling the roads and taking control of places, but then gradually feel lower and lower.

Ukraine's Bayraktars, equipped with Hellfire missiles were making, rust coffins out of expensive Russian equipment, equipped with thermobaric weapons and such. Russian solution: replace expensive equipment with inexpensive one and make Ukraine expend all its good ammunition against these, then bring back good weapons and win. A big brain plan, that did not age well.

Ukraine soon figured that they do not need good ammunition against cheap weapons Russia begun to send against them. Sure, you need a Hellfire to take down expensive thermobaric artillery that can fire from a very safe distance, but against BTR, WWII era tanks like T-34 and the like, something cheap like $500 Amazon drone with explosives attached by a duct tape would work just as fine. So, Amazon drones took to the sky as Hellfire and Javelin was kept in storage in case Russia will bring back its thermobaric weapons again.

Russian solution: go even cheaper. Several years into war Russia started to send soldiers on literal dirt bikes, vespas or even sent them on food with explosives attached to them in hope to beat Ukraine in cost of war competition. Meanwhile Ukraine started making their own home designed drones that are even cheaper than Amazon ones to make sure they are never out of ammunition.

By now most fighting has long gone from the battlefield to twitter. Words and insults are cheap, and both sides are very generous with dishing these at their opponents as they sit and wait until the other side gives up or gets abandoned by allies or runs out of ammunition or soldiers or both. 

As much as it is offensive and insulting to the soldiers involved, the war gradually devolved into a clown show. And Russia carries most blame for it going this way.

I can only imagine Americans and Europeans looking at this mess rather puzzled. 

That reminds me of the time when in Fate/Zero Gilgamesh looked at heroic spirits trying to defeat the monster, caster summoned. "Sure, they are mongrels, but they were supposed to be heroic spirits..."

Well as things stand the whole war process does not move anywhere so a Korean style ceasefire is the only solutions.

On Machiavelli's Prince

 

Nicollo Machiavelli is often seen as being ruthless and cynical person. His name is even associated with a mercurial, cunning and shrewd behavior.

That however is rather far from the truth. These stereotypes hardly do justice to this man, whose writings are above all sober and practical rather than radical and immoral. However, that fails to take into consideration a reality of the world he lived in. Sure, every so often he advocates things that can be considered immoral or unethical, but there are far and in between. Most of his advice is rather sober and benign even.

To begin with, I would like to point out that Machiavelli lived in rather dangerous world of renaissance Italy, where assassinations were commonplace. After witnessing this over and over again, he concluded that most of these deaths were completely preventable. If only people in power thought a little bit ahead, they could easily see that certain decisions would lead towards these regrettable outcomes. 

Princes, who were meant to rule for live, in reality barely lasted a few years in office before being assassinated by one of another aggrieved party, whom they managed to wrong while in office. That typically followed by the raise of a new prince who would take over from a deceased one, deal with perpetrators, then proceed to make all the same mistakes that got their predecessor assassinated and in turn end up being assassinated by someone else they wronged.

Machiavelli personally thought that a republican government is superior to that assassination galore he was witnessing, but he was also a practical man with realistic outlook on reality. He understood that princes are there to stay and it is wiser to figure out a way to work with them, rather than sit on moral high horse and perpetrate the same cycle of bloodshed over and over again. 

Modern dictators would do well to head his approach as democracy, internet and popular sovereignty is here to stay and trying to beat it with censorship, blocking the internet and riot police will do them no good, but they will not listen until revolution will kick them out. Even afterwards they would prat about how another squad of riot police would have tipped it in their favor and how Americans are plotting to destroy them with their internet and freedom of speech.

Machiavelli's advice to princes was mostly practical. It was meant to prevent them from aggravating any of their subjects to such an extent, that they would resort to assassination. It was not the ideal vision of perfect governance, but of a one that actually works. Perfect is enemy of the good and Machiavelli understood it. Instead of talking about how politicise should be government in a perfect world, he focused on how they could be government better in a real world he lived in. Nowadays his advice is too much of a real politics for some more idealistic people, but it actually work and princes who heed his advice did last longer and sometimes managed to die a natural death.

This advice is not purely historical. Even if our much more peaceful world politicians are sometimes assassinated in office. Thus, Machiavellian advice on how not get assassinated in office is as relevant as ever. After all you are but one bad decision away from being replaced by your keys to power. CGPGery video Rules for Rulers is modern take on the same principles that guided Machiavelli in writing his Il Principe. Not how world should work but how it actually works.

Despite sound advice on how best to govern, people keep repeating the old mistakes that lead us to assassinations revolutions and such. When your country has a revolution, that is not because CIA have organised it, it is because you displeased your keys to power and they have gathered to remove you.

How We can Integrate Metric and Imperial Systems

 

After getting thoroughly tired of dealing with traditional measuring systems, Europeans have agreed to replace it with universal international system that will be standardized and simple to use. They created such system and world lived happily thereafter. Right?

Turns out no. A few countries continue to use traditional 'imperial' units. One of them is very important one, the United States. Because of the US these imperial units crawling back into Europe, in form of computer screens, that are measured in inches and other things.

As much as some might want to lambast imperial system and Americans who are still using it as silly, they do stick to it and thus world has two rather incompatible systems, that make conversion between them or even within imperial system a nightmare.

That however does not have to be the case, as there actually exist one very simple solution and its name is a tonne, a metric tonne to be precise. Metric tonne is a former traditional imperial unit, that made its way into a metric system, by adjusting its value to be precisely 1000 kg, thus essentially becoming equivalent of a Megagram, but with a shorter more traditional name.

Metric tonne does not have the same amount as tradition tonne, either of them. The US short tonne is lighter than metric tonne while British long tonne is heavier than a metric tonne. Even before metric tonne was introduced to further confuse things, they were already confusing to begin with.

Here lies a solution, instead fighting over weather imperial or metric units are better, we can simply introduce the metric version of traditional units and end debate with that. While at first glance that looks like unnecessary duplication, it is more useful and valuable than initially apparent. 

To begin with traditional units are more natural, people used them for a long time, they have catchy names with character to them. They make sense in a rule of thumb sort of way, it's easier to estimate with them. One inch feels like smallest among that actually matter, meanwhile one centimeter is just too small to care. You can market an increase in couple of inches as people can see rule of thumb difference between them. You cannot do the same with centimeters as one cm difference looks more like an adjustment then an increase. 

On the other hand, as example with ton shows that exact values of traditional units do not matter. Even before metric system there were different values of the same units used by different countries, so nothing wrong comes with creating another one or adjusting a value of a traditional unit to match that of a nearest metric unit. 

Inches matter not in their precise to the decimal point value to centimeters but in approximate rule of thumb way. Nothing wrong will come from adjusting value of an inch to be exactly 2.5 centimeters. Such metric inch will be easy to scale and convert into metric system. 4 inches makes one decimeter and 40 inches one meter. Who says we cannot have both traditional units and easy conversions at the same time. We actually can.

We can do the same with other traditional units. Metric pound can be exactly 0.5 kilogram or 500 grams. Metric mile can be exactly 1.5 kilometers, Metric nautical mile exactly 2 kilometers. One metric foot exactly 30 cm or 3 decimeters. One metric ounce is exactly 30 grams. Metric yard can be equivalent of square meter. Metric furlong exactly 200 meters. And metric gallon can be exactly 5 liters. 

That will keep close approximations of traditional units around while at the same time allow for an easy conversion to a metric system and back. Best of both worlds.

Just like that metric tonne example allows us to solve a complex imperial vs metric system debate and intergrade both system into a single one. 

Trump Should Build a Wall to End the War in Ukraine

 

Negotiations to end war in Ukraine again stalled. Russia wants Ukraine to withdraw from the most effective defensive position they have in the country because its residents are one of few pro-Russian people left in Ukraine. Ukraine refuses to do so because they have good reason to suspect that once defensive line is in Russian hands, they will roll over the rest of the country unopposed. Break through does not look in sight.

However, there is a clever way out of this seamlessly unsolvable predicament, and it involves one of Trump's signature policies: building a wall.

To be exactly precise Trump should offer both sides that Americans will come down to Ukraine and build a series of defensive fortifications that will separate conflicting siders from each other. The Wall can mostly follow existing line of contact, with exception of Donetsk Oblast where it will follow its administrative border with Dnipro and Kharkiv oblasts instead.

If Russia does not have any further ambitions beyond Donbas, such solutions will suit them. Regardless of what Moscow planning, it will be hard for them to argue against this initiative without looking dishonest. As a bonus for Russia, Ukrainian troops still fighting in Donbas should be required to fly a flag different from regular troops stationed in other parts of Ukraine, possibly an UPA flag. That Russian troops have better idea who they are allowed to attack and whom not.

Ukraine should not be against it either. Sure, the wall leaves certain parts of country outside of its protection, but it's better than nothing and more fortifications is always better than less. Once wall is completed it will push Ukrainian troops towards withdrawing behind it. While it will not require Ukrainian troops to withdraw voluntarily from Donbas as Russia wants, the very fact that is it there and there is protection behind the wall and Russian shelling outside of it, will push Ukrainian troops towards withdrawing.

All security guarantees can also be tied to the wall. Americans will only interfere if Russia crosses the wall into Kyiv direction but will do nothing if Russians stay east of the wall. The wall will provide certainty to each side; Ukrainians will know it's safe west of the wall and Russians will know to not cross it in the western direction if they do not want Americans to bomb Moscow.

Wall and its protection should also extend towards existing Ukrainian borders with Russia and Belarus. We do not want Russia to go around these restrictions by attacking where there is no wall or going through Belarus again.

Agreement on wall should also come with a partial ceasefire in all oblasts but Donetsk one. While it will not stop the war completely, it will certainly reduce it in scale and fighting will gradually draw down.

Perfect is enemy of the good, while a complete ceasefire is out of reach for now, a solution that will reduce fighting, damage and losses for both sides is certainly possible. A Wall in Ukraine is this solution. 

Russian Latin Alphabet

 

Romanisation of Russian language is often prone to some rather weird letter combination to express sounds that are not present in English language. This fact makes idea of adopting Latin alphabet for Russian language seem like stupid idea.

However, this does not have to be the case. By borrowing some ideas from Western Slavic alphabet such as Czech or Serbo-Croatian one can create a very simple and elegant form of Latin Russian Alphabet that is much simpler and more streamlined than native Cyrillic one.

All problematic letters can easily be spelled using just two simple tricks: use of coron (a little tick above the letter and use of 'J' in front of vowels.

'J' is pronounced like in German, Czech or other Eastern European languages, that is like 'Y'. This letter will be used frequently so it has to be easy to write be easy on eyes. 'J' is much more suitable for this role compared to 'Y'. 

Using 'J' also frees up 'Y' for hard fricative 'E' sound that is different from German 'J'. Using the same character for two distinct sounds creates confusion and this solution eliminates it.

In addition to being a short 'I', 'J' is used in front of every other vowel to create a softer version of the vowel. 'A' and 'Ya' (traditional romanisation) are treated as distinct letters in Russian language, but arguably one can call 'Ya' a composite sound of short 'I' and 'A'. If you apply this logic to other complex Russian vowels they all can be written in the same consistent manner of short 'I' in front of another vowel, that will reduce a total number of letters in the alphabet and make writing simpler. 

Because of that short 'I' will be used frequently and thus a simple easy to write and read character is needed to represent it, hence, I chose 'J' rather than 'Y'. Since 'I' is used for full 'I' it's only fitting that a similarly looking letter represent its modified short form. 

Second is use of coron (a small tick above the letter) to represent consonants that are absent in Standard Latin alphabet. People familiar with Skoda car brand can notice a small tick above letter 'S'. This tick is a standard feature of Czech language that is used to denote that this letter reads 'Sh' rather than 'S'. Czech language uses this coron above other letters, including 'C' in the very name of their country. I too used coron for extra consonants that exist in Russian language and used to be written as complex diphthongs like 'Zh', 'Ch', 'Ts' and even horrendous quad-thong 'Shch'. 'Shch' can now be written with only two corons above simple 'S', 'S' with single coron is 'Sh'.

Finally, as a bonus I brought 'X' into alphabet to write words that normally use 'KS' in Russian. 'Max' and 'Xenia' will finally be written like in Western languages instead of writing them as 'Maks' and 'Ksenia'.

Overall, I think the alphabet I created is not only better than traditional romanisation but even better than traditional Cyrillic alphabet. Sure, it might take time to get used to it, but it is certainly more convenient way to write Russian than what is currently used.