THE VOICE OF REASON
Solon, (born c. 630 BCE—died c. 560 BCE), Athenian statesman, known as one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece (the others were Chilon of Sparta, Thales of Miletus, Bias of Priene, Cleobulus of Lindos, Pittacus of Mytilene, and Periander of Corinth). Solon ended exclusive aristocratic control of the government, substituted a system of control by the wealthy, and introduced a new and more humane law code. He was also a noted poet.
2) Men who want to be considered marriageable so they can one day have legitimate children to properly parent
3) Unmarriageable men prepared to say that promoting marriage is in the national interest because it is a child protection scheme for rearing the next generation in optimum conditions to prevent national degeneracy
POTENTIAL OPPONENTS OF PATRIARCHY
4) Feminists wishing to destroy the patriarchy who know that feminism bribes men with fornication which distracts them from marriage and becoming fathers of legitimate children and their running dogs AKA men who pander to these women in order to fornicate with them AKA Morally Compromised Slut Fuckers (MCSFs)
5) Unmarried parents not prepared to admit the error of their ways
6) Those have no intention or prospect of getting married or becoming parents of legitimate offspring because they are LGBT or in some other way unmarriageable not prepared to pay lip service to marriage AKA unmarriageable childless men and women
Which category are you?
TO RESTORE THE PATRIARCHY YOU MUST BE PREPARED TO
a) criminalise extramarital sex
b) abolish no fault divorce
c) repeal anti-discrimination legislation eg the Equality Act 2010
International Migration between the Two World Wars
The first sizable wave of post–World War I Jewish
international migration from Eastern Europe occurred in 1918–1921, when
more than 200,000 Jews emigrated from Soviet Russia to different European countries, mostly through neighboring Poland and Romania;
they settled chiefly in Germany, and later in France. In the first
years of the 1920s, however, many of these refugees joined the general
Jewish migration movement to the United States and Palestine. Moreover,
some migrated to these destinations later—especially those who escaped
Germany after Hitler’s seizure of power—but in migration statistics they
sometimes appeared as immigrants who originated from Russia/Soviet
Union. For this reason the number of Jews who immigrated directly from
Soviet Russia to the United States and Palestine is rather unclear.
The war in Iraq was conceived by 25 neoconservative intellectuals, most of them Jewish, who are pushing President Bush to change the course of history. Two of them, journalists William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer, say it's possible. But another journalist, Thomas Friedman (not part of the group), is skeptical
This suggests that too many Jews settling in Germany in the interwar years after they were kicked out by the Russians caused the antisemitism of Nazi Germany.
When liberal Jews deliberately encouraged immigration into their host countries - in the hope that plenty of other minorities in their host country would stop them from standing out like a sore thumb and take the heat off them - I don't think they knew what they are doing.
Sometimes, you can be too clever for your own good.
They must be feeling sick as a parrot now for causing their host nation to invite in all those antisemitic Muslim migrants whose countries America had destroyed at the behest of Jewish neocons.
The dysgenic feminist State won't go away quietly and will only go when it is overthrown by men, not by women whose legs you like to film and slavishly agree with who need to go on courses. If Elizabeth Hobson were a man, would she get any kind of a job as Director of Communications? The fact that she is "resident anti-feminist on Radio Kent" says how harmless she is. Unmarried mothers are hardly going to call for the patriarchy to be restored and the only way to do that now in our "advanced" matriarchy is with Quran.com/24/2 Elizabeth won't be agreeing to be interviewed by me, will she?
It is interesting that when Elizabeth couldn't be interviewed by Piers Morgan and Mike Buchanan said he was prepared to stand in for her, he was refused. A dysgenic feminist state prefers the young to the old, the female to the male, the inarticulate to the articulate, the irrelevant to the relevant, all because she has good legs. Anti-feminism won't be taken seriously until and unless alpha male leaders take charge and stop hiding behind women. Mike Buchanan was born beta and will always be perceived as beta by women and men.
INSTEAD OF CALLING FOR THE ABOLITION OF NO FAULT DIVORCE, THESE ANTI-FEMINISTS WANT TO BAN MALE CIRCUMCISION AS A DOG WHISTLE TO ANTI-IMMIGRATION AND UNEMPLOYABLE ISLAMOPHOBIC AND ANTISEMITIC BETA MALES OUR DYSGENIC FEMINIST STATE HAS CREATED AND MARGINALISED
So what are the solutions she advocates? Banning male circumcision in an egregious display of antisemitism and Islamophobia? Does she even call for the restoration of the patriarchy?
Many people see these protestations are just a cover. That matriarchal Iceland is seeking to ban circumcision is a clear implicit display of hostility towards Jews and Muslims. Deny it all you like, but you will never be able to disprove that impression.
The term for circumcision in Hebrew – brit mila – “a covenant by circumcision”– emphasises that it is this covenant which created the Jews a nation, by Abraham’s acceptance of circumcision on behalf of his yet-unborn descendants. Even non-observant Jews who do not take the biblical story seriously, accept that for Jews, for at least two millennia, circumcision was the one indispensable commandment that makes one a Jew – not living in the Jewish homeland, obeying other commandments, or anything else.
To ban circumcision, to ban joining the covenant, the rabbinical court and many Jews fear, would be (however unintentionally) to ban Jewish national identity itself.
Iceland male circumcision ban: MP behind plan 'didn’t think it was necessary to consult' Jewish and Muslim groups, amid growing anger 'I don’t see it as a religious matter,' insists Silja Dögg Gunnarsdóttir, a female MP. The matriarchy of Iceland understandably feel threatened by the patriarchal moral values Judaism and Islam represent.
By 1996, 70 percent of inmates in state juvenile detention centers serving long-term sentences were raised by single mothers. Seventy-two percent of juvenile murderers and 60 percent of rapists come from single-mother homes. Seventy percent of teenage births, dropouts, suicides, runaways, juvenile delinquents, and child murderers involve children raised by single mothers. Girls raised without fathers are more sexually promiscuous and more likely to end up divorced. A 1990 study by the Progressive Policy Institute showed that after controlling for single motherhood, the difference between black and white crime rates disappeared.
It is so obvious that gentile non-Muslims cannot compete against Jews and Muslim immigrants in their own homelands. This pointless show of implicit antisemitism and Islamophobia will get you nowhere. In fact, it is just a waste of time and energy and is indeed a form of displacement activity. If you are against feminism, restore the patriarchy. Since Elizabeth Hobson is herself an unmarried mother, it would be like expecting turkeys to vote for Christmas.
SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEMS CAUSED BY FEMINISM
Has Elizabeth Hobson articulated any solutions to the problems caused by feminism? I hope someone will attempt to answer this question if she and Mike Buchanan do not.
GENUINE LEADERSHIP AND MORAL AUTHORITY IS REQUIRED FOR RESTORING THE PATRIARCHY
You will never be able to successfully challenge feminism without restoring the patriarchy. How sad that the men who wish to challenge feminism are no longer even capable of conceiving of the idea of restoring the patriarchy.
The only way to restore the patriarchy is of course to reconsecrate marriage.
Marriage cannot be reconsecrated by a Directrix of Communications who is herself an unashamed unmarried mother who cannot see the point of marriage, can it?
Or by a leader who refuses to talk about supporting marriage - the indispensable ingredient of patriarchy.
The reason why you dare not talk about restoring the patriarchy is because you already know that men who already have been the victims of feminism - including Mike Buchanan himself - are in fact unmarriageable. The more you continue to hide behind women who do not respect marriage, the more morally compromised you become and the less moral authority you will have.
Leadership is everything about moral authority, but the concept seems to be entirely lost amongst male political activists.
6:15 Immigration analogous to a henpecked husband not knowing how to say no
14:00 While diversity can cause conflict, fair enough rules and a social order should be able to resolve conflicts. Egalitarianism in itself creates conflict because everyone thinks they are as good as each other. In the animal kingdom in a fight for resources, the smaller weaker animal easily gives way to the stronger bigger animal. It is only when both parties are equal in size that conflict is certain. The polite fiction that egalitarianism - a kind of moral communism - is the fairest and best social system must be exposed for what it is: a lie.
14:45 Dennis's response was difficult to read. Was he referring to when he was talking about "the fundamental differences" of black and white people? Their alleged criminality? Their aggressive manner? The kind of music - non-white - that they like? I remember Greg Johnson talking about his horrible bus journey in DC when he sat next to a black woman with a baby who changed its nappy in front of him. The other thing he said about black people was the way they just said anything that popped into their head, without filters. This actually made me think of low class poorly educated white people accused of being white nationalists. These so-called fundamental differences are therefore just class differences and would exist even within an all-white society. Oh, and the other thing Johnson complained about was the way white people no longer enforced whatever rules of behaviour they once had. I hope Dennis will address these points that I omitted to raise in my hurry to talk about being conflicted with regard to lowering the speed limit and putting speed bumps in the road at 15:44
19:00 " ... a genetically homogeneous society, people who vibrate on the deep unconscious frequencies of racial kinship that binds us all together. It's basically a longing for brotherhood and belonging. Diversity takes that stuff away - that is the problem with diversity." "It robs you of your God-given natural birthright to be part of an ethnic community."
When white people were ensconced in their Christian homelands, they had the European Wars of Religion, the American War of Independence, the American Civil War, the Napoleonic Wars, the Wars of German Unification, and then the First and Second World Wars.
When the Pilgrim Fathers left the Old World for the New World after enduring Christian on Christian religious persecution, they found that this practice of Christian on Christian persecution continuing between the Quakers and Puritans.
Even now, they still haven't gotten over it and are now talking about having a civil war to resolve the differences between Feminists and Nationalists. This Culture War is really a culture war to restore the patriarchy, which is as old as the hills if you think of it in terms of the eternal battle of the sexes. The weapon men have against immoral women is the rules of marriage that forbid and punish extramarital sex. The weapon immoral women have against men and the civilisation their ancestors built is to seduce them into sexual immorality. This story is as old as the hills and is even mentioned in the Torah. The Chinese call the eternal battle of the sexes Yin and Yang.
"And by the way, of all the sins listed, what’s interesting is you’ll find that sex before marriage is not on the list."
But fear not, for it is certainly mentioned at quran.com/24/2
21:00 I talk about gang culture. My apologies for omitting to mention "postcode gangs" where different gangs of mixed race gangs kill each other when they stray onto the territory of another gang in another postcode.
How would we treat our identical twin who expects us to share exactly half our goodies with him or her, including our sex partners and any love and respect we may get? I think most of us would murder that identical twin if we knew we would get away with it.
The immaturity and cowardice of anti-immigration political parties who refuse to address underlying and longstanding social problems for fear of upsetting their underclass supporters who have no interest in matters such as state education and marriage and only want the welfare state for whites only.
The marriage licence had the purpose of licensing only married people to have sex and children with each other and to privilege the married over the unmarried. Marriage is eugenic.
On December 27, 1932 the USSR Central Executive Committee and Sovnarkom issued a decree About establishment of the Unified Passport System within the USSR and the Obligatory Propiska of Passports. The declared purposes were the improvement of population bookkeeping in various urban settlements and "the removal of persons not engaged in industrial or other socially-useful work from towns and cleansing of towns from hiding kulaks, criminals and other antisocial elements. "Hiding kulaks" was an indication at fugitive peasants who tried to run away from the collectivization. "Removal" usually resulted in some form of forced labour.
Passports were introduced for urban residents, sovkhozniks and workers of novostroykas (новостройка, a major construction site of a new town, plant, railway station, etc.). According to the 1926 Soviet Census 82% of population in the Soviet Union was rural. Kolkhozniks and individual peasants did not have passports and could not move into towns without permission. Permissions were given by chairpersons of collective farms or rural councils. Repeated violation of the passport regime was a criminal offence. Passports were issued by the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (Soviet law enforcement) and until the 1970s had a green cover.
According to the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China, all citizens are equal and enjoy the same rights, regardless of gender, beliefs, or ethnic background. However, this legal equality does not always extend to the workplace or everyday life, and discrimination and racism in China do exist.
In China, on top of everything else, they also have astrology-based discrimination!
1:39:00 My White Pill
Things must get worse before they get better, so we should look upon deterioration as improvement!
I should have said all empires are by definition multiracial and multiracial and America is indeed a global empire. Their survival depends on good rational government and fair enough rules ie patriarchy and civic nationalism capable of keeping the lid on all the inevitable social tensions that exist in any society.
1:49:00 "Fundamental British values" https://www.thejc.com/comment/analysis/faith-schools-battle-over-british-values-1.59543 Jews, traditional Christians and Muslims are having trouble accepting the gay marriage and transgenderism of "fundamental British values" which becomes a discussion on submission and domination. Appearing to be submit could mean that one is asserting control over our emotions by not losing one's temper and having a tantrum only to feel bad later for having behaved badly.
2:14:00 Religion and white solidarity https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/96RQWJV
2:17:00 The principles of liberalism currently ignored by illiberals
2:17:15 The pub is the community centre for atheist white men, but they just get drunk and steal each other's women and then fight each other
2:17:30 No safe spaces for white men, anywhere at all in the UK, unless it is the Masonic Lodge .... https://www.michigandaily.com/section/viewpoints/op-ed-straight-white-men-need-safe-spaces-too
2:19:00 The dysfunctional political system of the West
2:20:00 The solution in theory should be considered even if you think it is unlikely to be implemented in the current political order.
2:21:00 Trump, populism, civic nationalism, protectionism
2:22:00 China
The doctor in questions is an Orthodox Jew. Clearly, uncontrolled immigration discombobulates and upsets Jews too who are confused about whether they are white and if so whether the alt-right would accept them. They are like immigrants concerned and disturbed about immigration. https://t.co/MBRi6gNwVU
In my case, I don't think I am white but "identify as white" in the sense that I am deeply aware of how and why the tyranny of the totalitarian and dysgenic Feminist State would anger them as men. I don't need to be white to use my imagination.
The most important thing to bear in mind is that immigration is now such a problem that *Orthodox Jews in the West* are having an identity crisis! They want to complain about immigration so much they join white nationalist groups. In extemis, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
To restore the patriarchy, shame sluts. To shame sluts, use https://t.co/jtJmkTuWSa Sluts are the soldiers of feminism by bribing susceptible men with fornication they cannot refuse.
Once it is generally agreed that sluts must be shamed for the good of society, feminism would become an army without soldiers. Sluts and socialists are the eternal enemies of society.
If you are reading this, I assume that you are an atheist who recognizes that modern culture is a disaster and that Islam is a morally promising alternative. Your problem is that you cannot accept Muslim beliefs. I will address this problem.
First I will address atheism. Atheism means believing that there is no god. The problem with this is that most atheists don't have a coherent definition of god, and to take a position on the existence of something that you haven't properly defined is simply silly. The main attribute of god that atheists object to is that is god is supernatural. Yet pantheists define a god that is not supernatural. I believe that the Old Testament idea of God is not supernatural either. The definitions of "god" found in dictionaries reflects the Christian nature of our society, not the historical use of the concept of god. A more reasonable definition of god is a global force or set of forces that cannot be described scientifically. For example the forces that shape human history can be considered god if you believe that history is shaped by a consistent set of forces. Because people are unsatisfied with concepts that aren't described and explained, god has historically been described through personification and explained as supernatural. But these are not necessary attributes of god. The key point of the idea of god is that just because one cannot describe a force mathematically or explain the mechanism of the force doesn't mean that the force doesn't exist. Forces that cannot be described or explained (yet) are still real and must be respected. This is the concept of god. The concept of monotheism is that there is one consistent set of forces that applies across time and space. This consistent set of forces we call the one God. This concept makes science possible. It also makes it possible to study history to determine which moral systems worked. If you accept what I have written so far, then you are no longer an atheist. You can now honestly say that you believe in God, but that your view of God differs from the Muslim view. This is a big step forward, big enough to allow you to participate in a mosque without fundamental conflict.
The next step is to honestly consider Islam. It is only fair and reasonable for you to consider Islam with an open mind. You should attend mosque regularly. There will certainly be people there who will explain to you why they think you should accept Islam. Consider what they say. And read the Quran. As you gain understanding of Islam, it will become clear to you whether or not this is something that you can believe. If you can accept Islam, then you are done, no need to read more. But if you can't accept Islam, continue reading.
Even if you can't accept Islam, you should still support Islam because it is the only major moral force in the world today. As a believer in monotheism, you are still closely aligned with Islam. To fit in, avoid undermining the beliefs of Muslims with pointless debate. Instead, focus on areas where you agree. I also recommend that you do daily prayer at home. The purpose of prayer is not to benefit God, but to benefit yourself by reminding yourself of the importance of religion. I do one 4-repetition prayer in the Muslim form each day. Doing daily prayer will prevent you from feeling like a hypocrite in the mosque, and will make prayer in the mosque more natural.
If you find yourself in this position, as a non-Muslim attending mosque and supporting Islam, then I hope you participate in this forum. There aren't many of us and we can give each other advice.
But the main thing is to take the first 2 steps above. Reject atheism and start attending mosque. Do not be intimidated by Islam, and don't settle for being part of degenerate modern culture.
You will find that the Koran is a more sophisticated book of rules than the New Testament. You may even know that the Koran was revealed after the New Testament was cobbled together.
https://t.co/U7Page6wIQ actually says you will discover when you are dead that only Islam was the right religion, but if you don't believe in an afterlife, why would this bother you?
You'll find that Chapter 8 is called THE SPOILS OF WAR. https://t.co/mEWtWRrlxi Striking at the throats and fingertips of your enemy is obviously the best way of quickly disabling your enemy in a sword fight. The followers of Muhammad were not trained soldiers and had to be told.
https://t.co/hScGXjQEVi is about how fewer Muslims can defeat a greater number of non-Muslim enemies in battle. The proportion varies depending on how steadfast Muslims are.
13:30 Abdul Wahid: "Pakistani election results should be seen as "a rejection by the people of Pakistan of what they have for the last seven decades: a manipulation of politics by the secular political elite and the very leadership of the army over decades - not in their own interests , but in the interests of the elite within Pakistan or the influence of the United States, which has had a huge influence."
15:30 Abdul Wahid in response to point that all nation states have their problems: "Not all nations go through the security crises that Pakistan has in the last 15 years since the War on Terror - a "war on terror" that civilian government and the military conspired with the United States against Muslims neighbouring in Afghanistan and really damaging Pakistan's security by moving its troops from its hostile frontier with India and getting them to save America's interests in Afghanistan. Not every nation in the world sees itself as subservient to the IMF agenda in an economic crisis. Those nations of the world and ex-colonies are often subject to that and what you have never seen in the history of Pakistan is a government that has been willing to take a stand against that world order which subjugates countries like Pakistan, the Muslim world and indeed much of the rest of the world."
If we have faith, wisdom should triumph over folly, good over evil and patriarchy over matriarchy. I like to think it is only a matter of time before enough people who matter get the balance right between promoting the national interest and treating minorities decently.
The UK should become a one party state and stop pandering to minorities. Labour are clearly conflicted between keeping both its Jewish and its more numerous Muslim members happy.
You try so hard (in your world) to sound intelligent but fail miserably. What a ridiculous (and offensive) tweet. How dare you refer to people in this way. Especially those who have been so persecuted. Shame on you.
No intelligent reasoned response to my tweet so far. Just gasps of horror and disgust that I should dare to speak on the subject at all. I do not think I have said anything obviously untrue, illogical or immoral, have I? https://t.co/bH7OE0P2vD
Apparently, no gentile can discuss this subject without being accused of antisemitism. Look what they did to poor old Ken Livingstone. It was disgusting that Jeremy Corbyn couldn't even protect him. No honour amongst thieves.
At the very least, it is a woman who has made a bad bargain for the sexual access she allowed a man eg by getting a reputation for being a slut, being thought a slut by the man, by her friends and family or by the man's friends and family.
Do you think the left-wing older woman got a good bargain when she had sex with this man who associates with Millennial Woes, an ethno-nationalist who wants to expel non-white and mixed race UK citizens?
Thomas Baden-Riess worries about falling out with Millennial Woes.
We caught a Twitter software engineer RED HANDED when he admitted that Twitter #ShadowBans to our undercover journalist. Twitter will never admit it: "it's a lot of bad press if, like, people figure out that you're like shadow banning them. It's like, unethical in some way." pic.twitter.com/MmBGKohWLj
It appears that they are trying to tell us that the only language they understand is violence because they will never play fair and even if you win following their rules, you will still lose. Time to wise up? https://t.co/PzLAUswS4i
Would you want to bring up the children of the woman who murdered your son if you are living in Britain and they are already in China and her shit family are trying to get you to pay them £60K to let you have them? https://t.co/zQU9ZY7Mdg#r4today
Is being British synonymous for being stupid these days? These seems to be no end to their self-abnegating masochism. Your son married some madwoman who murdered him and you want to bring up her children? Just stop it unless you want being British to be synonymous with stupidity.
Aren't other British citizens, especially non-white ones, concerned about the reputation of their fellow white citizens? I just find it embarrassing about this lack of a sense of what is right and proper. I wonder what Mrs Hunt, who is Chinese, thinks about this. @Jeremy_Hunt
What's so odd about not wanting to be be burdened with misbegotten grandchildren by a woman your son should obviously never have married who murdered him? It is an unseemly display of masochism by a feminised populace. Having a sense of propriety, I would let the matter drop.
If your husband murdered you, you should never have married him. I think we can agree on that, can't we? Your parents would then be additionally embarrassed that their daughter was foolish enough to marry a man who murdered her, showing her foolishness and their bad parenting.
I wouldn't want things just for the sake of having them. It is right and proper that Jack and Alice should stay in China to be reared by the grandparents of their daughter who murdered their father. Let the loss stay where it falls. Britain is declining, China is rising.
Why is it sociopathic to not want to bring up the children of the woman who murdered your son ? I imagine the wife of @Jeremy_Hunt would tend to agree with me and wonder at the masochism of the British. https://t.co/jb3M3bwhdF
Crazier and crazier: Ian Simpson is no longer married to mother of the late Michael Simpson, murdered by his wife, but he still wants to bring up the children of the woman who murdered his son. https://t.co/vYRw4RRe4u@Jeremy_Hunt
I will predict what's going to happen: the grandparents are going to pop their clogs from the strain, Jack and Alice will become juvenile delinquents and adult criminals and the British taxpayer will have to once again pick up the tab for this crap. @Jeremy_Hunt@DoctorEuge
The pity of it is that Ian Simpson - old enough to know better - does not have anyone close to him to shut up and forget about it. Maybe Social Services should have a quiet word with him. What I despise about the British is their love affair with stupidity and failure.
Jack and Alice are far more likely to have a much better education in China than the shit education they would get in a state school in Dorset brought up by an already senile stupid soft-headed 69 year old grandfather. https://t.co/mO6fl5gy40
Just because I can use truth/logic/morality to decide what to do for the best means I am a sociopath and psychopath, does it? These days, to be Far Right means you are guilty of using deduction as a form of reasoning to avoid and solve problems. You adore wallowing in stupidity.
You call me unsuccessful because I have not yet succeeded. I have not yet succeeded because libtards are actually mad and silly because their politicians are too afraid to tell them off because they are afraid of losing votes.
Nationalists are incels because they are not liberals with enough money to pretend that truth is lies and war is peace. We all know you only get the top jobs if you fall in with libtard values that cultivate failure and stupidity.
You should be ashamed of yourself, Ndora, prepared to waste taxpayers' money even for something you know must fail and is obviously unwise, just to make you feel a good liberal. Too bad you expect other people to make sacrifices to your deities of dementia and stupidity.
Definitely, furthermore the main component of education is still the family, no matter the current propaganda. There again better in China. https://t.co/j4t9D2kzEa
If you were the children of a mother who had murdered your father, would you prefer to live with your mother's parents or your father's parents while your mother is doing time?
I would fear for those children if they are left in China. Their Mother & the Chinese Grandparents may resent them. So if they can bring them to the U.K. even paying for them because they love them, then The British Grandparents are the best solution.
Their maternal grandparents would have a every incentive to look after their grandchildren to the best of their ability since their murdering daughter is unlikely to provide them with any more legitimate grandchildren. The Chinese regard bastardy as a disgrace. @Jeremy_Hunt
Their maternal grandparents would have a every incentive to look after their grandchildren to the best of their ability since their murdering daughter is unlikely to provide them with any more legitimate grandchildren. The Chinese regard bastardy as a disgrace. @Jeremy_Hunt
The question should be asked is whether the school Alice and Jack would attend in China is better than the school they would attend living with their grandfather in Hartest, Suffolk being indoctrinated with "fundamental British values". https://t.co/FrP8h2JB2z@DamianHinds
The robots at Facebook always urge me to “boost my post.” This sounds kinky, but it’s Zuckerspeak for buying advertising. I’ve avoided these offers because I’m no computer genius. For me, high-tech is writing down my password somewhere.
But then I kept seeing ads for Yossi Klein Halevi’s new book, “Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor.” I have a book coming out called “The Virtue of Nationalism.” Like a knucklehead, I figured if Yossi could boost his post, so could I.
I pressed “Boost Post.” Soon thousands of people were seeing my ad, and I was psychotically checking the click count every four minutes. “Your ad is doing better than most promotions on Facebook,” the robots flattered me. I was like Fast Eddie playing big-time pool. How could I lose?
It lasted two weeks. Then a red announcement appeared: “Your ad was not approved because your Page has not been authorized to run ads with political content.” My boost was now stamped with a verdict in red letters: “Rejected.”
Why Does Facebook Think I’m ‘Political’?
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I found a window for submitting appeals. “My book is concerned with the historical development of the nation-state and the case for preferring it to imperialism,” I groveled. I offered to send the robots a copy so they could see for themselves.
Facebook’s sentient programs don’t wear dark glasses or have menacing names like Agent Smith. A response came from “Veronica”: “The text and/or imagery you’re using qualifies as political, based on the definition we’re using for enforcement,” it said. “You must authorize your page to run political ads.”
Me? Run political ads? I scoured Facebook’s definitions, which said “political content” is support for candidates, ballot initiatives or legislation. “Dear Veronica,” I pleaded. “I don’t see anything in the ad that qualifies as ‘political’ based on Facebook’s definition. Could you specify which aspects of the ad qualify as ‘political’?”
A reply came from “Sol”: “The text and/or imagery you’re using qualifies as political.”
A friend put me in touch with a Morpheus-like figure struggling to liberate mankind from Facebook. “You’re not alone,” he said. “Even major media like the New York Times and small businesses that aren’t political are being told to register.”
I figured if the Times could register, so could I. For days I answered the robots’ questions and uploaded personal documents. Finally, they mailed me a paper letter with a secret code. I entered it. The robots were pleased: “You’re all set. When the Page admin has completed the next step you’ll be able to run ads.”
Who was “the Page admin”? What “next step” was it contemplating? I recruited a computer-genius friend to help. He spent days hacking through the Zuckerspeak. After a dozen runs, the robots issued a green check-mark saying I’d “linked my ad accounts” (to the mother ship, I believe).
Ads with political content were “approved.” I was in. I brought up the ad and clicked “Boost Post.” The robots replied: “Your ad was not approved because your Page has not been authorized to run ads with political content.”
After 10 weeks, I have no ads. But I’m left with a question, like a splinter in my mind, driving me mad: Did Facebook get its “political ads” policy from Monty Python, while outsourcing customer service to HAL from “2001”? Or is it simply unwilling to run ads for a book about the virtue of nationalism?
Mr. Hazony is author of “The Virtue of Nationalism,” out Sept. 4 from Basic.