Earlier this week the press begrudgingly gave president Trump kudos for referring to the terrorists as losers. There is a feeling among the media class (perhaps the public at large) that the best way to describe these people is with belittling, dismissive language. As if not giving them "honor" of an even footing. I can't say for certain, but I don't think a man who plants nail bombs at a teeny booper concert is overly concerned with what the western media thinks of him.

These men are very committed and the western media parsing the meaning of the words brave and cowardly doesn't really sway that level of commitment. It is a pointless, navel gazing exercise.

Europe needs to figure out if they really want immigrants or not. It's one thing to say you do, praise all the kebab shops, and then fuck up the end game. France is something like 20% non-French and you would never know it by looking at their media or politicians. Combine that with their tyrannical policy of laicite, a sluggish economy, and you got yourself a discontentment stew brewing.

The French will of course never admit this. They are all Frenchmen, eyeroll.jpg. Their problems are the problems of Europe as a whole however. They are told they need immigrants to infuse life into the welfare state, they bring in the immigrants, the immigrants use the welfare state because they can not find a job, faith in the welfare state erodes because of perceived unfairness. So who benefits from this? It's certainly not the immigrants or the natives.

I would venture to say its the capitalists who strive to keep wages stagnate and the working class divided. The same thing happens here in America. Mexicans are paid a half sum in cash with no benefits and then when the work is done, they conveniently get caught in an ICE raid. Nothing ever happens to the businesses or farms that use the labor. How strange. This of course is another topic.