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No.

By what I've said, 'nation' is ethnicity (read: not country), and 'ethnonationalism' is redundant emphasis that ethnicity is nationality.

The redudant 'ethno' part is there since 'nation' (natal) has been coupled with/lost in the meaning of 'country' (land).
A nation may or may not have a country; a nation is not a country, nor is the country the nation.

You lump ethnonationalism with SJWism because your brain is lighting up that the two mutually exclusive, opposing behaviors emphasize race--and so therefore are "similar."

SJWism is virtue signaling for heckin' updoots, including even the cry of the most coddled and non-oppressed that their ethnicity and "fellow ethnicities in solidarity" are being holocausted, while they call for equal treatment and equal welcome of every ethnicity (into one "nation", confusing 'country' with 'ethnicity') and yet the practice of unequal treatment against Whites.

Ethnonationalism does not call for equal treatment and welcome of all ethnicities. It does not confuse 'nation' with 'country'.
Whites *are* the oppressed nation, thrashed by the governments over the countries in which they live.

Civic nationalism--your brand--is SJWism "but without race."
The moment any nation ignores ethnonationalism and pivots to civic nationalism, they get SJW-land (see: any White country, least enthonational and number one SJW-ism lands now.)
Ethnonationalism is the reality. Accept that or live with SJW-ism (in other words, nons bitching).

I understand someone veering for optics. He does do that--yet he also swings to his right.

I'm sure Milo is saying a lot of false things about Fuentes these days. I've seen some in passing. (tbh I take Milo as "truthful" as Candace Owens.)

These criticisms aren't recent events. They aren't behind-the-curtain tales told from Milo. They were public, for the sake of his PAC, and from when Milo would only gush over Fuentes.

>He's Dan Bongino. He's Kash Patel. He's 2016 Trump.

What I mean by this is that his words are large and more pro-White until he gets what he sees as a spotlight / path in. (His PAC. Or backing Kanye. Etc.)

Fuentes swung right with Torba on Gab.

People would warn Fuentes about Milo, warn Fuentes about Torba (and warn Torba about him),and warn Fuentes about using his PAC to support Trump (and used Fuentes' own past words against Trump in this regard), and so on.

He proudly held himself as above White nationalism, loved distancing himself from "wignats"--not just spergs (understandable), but any account espousing actual nationalism and not nationalism lite. He distanced his PAC from White nationalism as much as possible, vehemently.

And then that fell through.

Now, as the momentum in general pushes right, he's riding the wave. Yes, the wave to the right *is* one he was a part of giving momentum to when it was smaller.
It is also true that he tried to push back on the momentum when it went further right than his PAC dream. The political-oil-rig PAC he thought he was standing on fell.

He's a grift, giving harder words until a rope up is in reach. Whenever he (has thought he) had the inkling of political promise, he has ran to back niggers (Kanye), fags (Milo), jews (Milo).

He's Dan Bongino. He's Kash Patel. He's 2016 Trump.

I agree with Kulak's point. However, the point Kulak gives isn't that a draft attempt won't happen--only that it can't be *successfully* enforced by press gangs and isn't meant to be enforced (only said to leaders who are hopefully "not so senile as to believe the yes men around them").

>And if you think the US is anywhere near being able to even potentially enforce this with authoritarian methods

The only authoritarian method Kulak gives a ctrl-F consideration to is 'press gangs,' but that's not the favored method of pressure of the US and hasn't been for decades. Resource denial is. (Remember covid days.)
A next piece ties back to this through a topic Kulak addressed but understandably dismissed because it has so far gone unused.
>The NSA records everything and listens to nothing
True, so far.
Palantir sure is getting a lot of money and access lately.
That issue of daunting fed-to-people ratio Kulak gives loses significance as a barrier when it's shifted to fed-to-program and when the goal isn't enforcement but resource denial.

Understand that I'm not suggesting who they're going to draft nor that it would be successful at all.
I'm only showing that the method of press gangs doesn't seem to be the method chased, so whether press gangs are feasible or not doesn't seem to indicate whether they intend to implement a draft--no more than being unable to swim shows whether one intends to cross a river when that one is building a (sure-to-fall-apart) raft.

What actually happened in 2008? (I was young)

From what I loosely gather (heard, not claim), it was something about mortgage loans lended to applicants who couldn't afford them or mortgage interest rates suddenly rising on already established homeowners (I'm not sure how that one would be, unless mortgages weren't at fixed rates).

I really don't know because "explanatory" (exculpatory) articles play hot potato and shrug, and I wasn't old enough at the time.

Anyone here know?

(off-topic from your post, but you're someone here to ask about this)

How much would be reasonable to expect to spend on beginner gear in the US for HEMA, for two-handed longsword? (Mask, gorget, gloves, jacket, longsword)
I've been borrowing, and don't want to keep doing that.

I know it leans expensive. I'm double-checking with you (thank you) that I'm not missing out on a smarter avenue. My irl people (each deeply libshit) are pointing to Purpleheart Armoury as the only worthwhile option. True or not true?