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By: Szopen

Szopen — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 10:39:34 +0000

Bulgaria has ethnic minorities. It’s about 9% Turkish plus 4% Roma.

As for my country, Poland, it’s not a high-trust society. I’d say we are mid-trust. :) Compared to Sweden, Denmark, Norway, or even Germany, especially for those countries from two or three decades ago, we are a really low-trust country with a lot of corruption. However, compared to southern countries, yeah, compared to them we have higher social capital.

But we are already being destroyed.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 21:07:24 +0000

I disavow the “high-trust/low-trust” dichotomy because it misplaces the proper emphasis. “Trust” is not a cause; it is a consequence; thus, it cannot be described in such a fashion as would permit one usefully to analyze any society of man. The cause of trust is honor. Not only can an individual or group be described as honorable or dishonorable, but the fine contours of such honor can be outlined along many dimensions. For instance: Germans will honor the spirit of a contract; Jews will honor the letter of it; Armenians will honor nothing. Japanese are tranquil in peace but fearsome at war; Blacks are fearsome in peace but flaccid at war; Gypsies are flaccid in peace and at war; Chechens are fearsome in peace and at war. Etc. Crossbreeds may exhibit one or the other or a schizophrenia between them. Of course, the biology of honor could be studied by any academic worthy of the name.

By: Dr. No

Dr. No — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 19:46:17 +0000

Bulgaria is a culturally monolithic ethnostate. They have neither tens of millions of ultraviolent illiterate IQ-55 African colonists within their borders nor any significant number of a certain (((Tribe))) who would bend their government into a thing to serve them. This is why Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, Romania, the Baltic States, and so on, can have nice things. Though the per-capita GDP in these nations is a tiny fraction of that of the US, they are high-trust societies. They lack Muh Diversity and Muh Multiculturalism. This is mainly because their welfare states are not thus far sufficiently generous to attract Mbogo and the rest.

German and Scandicuck politicians in the EU want to hold Hungary, and all the rest of this group of nations, at gunpoint and force them to bring in the aforementioned African horde. If the Bulgarians and the rest bend on this, in five years they’ll be craters and flaming rubble, and Sofia will be indistinguishable from Stockholm, Munich, Paris, and Detroit. As they can see what is happening in Northern and Western Europe with their own eyes, they will have no one but themselves to blame.

By: Phileas Frogg

Phileas Frogg — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 13:49:55 +0000

One wonders if/when he will ask the question or connect the dots as to why exactly we have developed a low-trust society where previously we had maintained a high-trust society. When will he take the time to look around, cast back his memory, and play an internal game of, “One of these things is not like the other…”

Moral of the story: Trust > Regulation
Logical query: What builds Trust?
Conclusion: Homogeneity.

Logical query: How then do we build Trust?
Conclusion: CANNOT COMPUTE, RACIST IDEAS, SHUTTING DOWN.

I have scant hope of such an epiphany at this late hour though. At this point the issues are so obvious that anyone beyond a certain age who still parrots the, “imperatoria fides,” is provably stupid.

By: VXXC

VXXC — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 22:14:48 +0000

So says a socialist? Well, he might be a real socialist. He probably also more to the point voted Democractic most of his life.

This is only the Democratic party since the 1960s, thanks for checking in…

Perhaps the lesson is: Bulgaria had Communism before it had Democracy?

By: Bob Sykes

Bob Sykes — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 15:23:39 +0000

“Germany, like much of northern Europe, is a high-regulation society, but it’s also high-trust…”

Evidently, Arnade has never heard of the large Asian and Africa immigration wave engulfing the EU.