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You do know what "gentrification" actually means don't you? It means pricing the traditional working class Catholic families out of an urban neighborhood, and replacing them with loft work spaces, 750K "co-op" apartments and "cool" breweries, cafes, and art galleries. And no, it's no better if the pretentious cafe has drawings of Evola and Junger on the wall, and "fash" poetry readings, it would still be post modern ways of life displacing actual traditional ways of life.

If this isn't what you mean by gentrification, then you need a new word, and a better explanation of your stance, because that's what that word actually means.

Are you even a native English speaker "Rajeev?"

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we're not going after polack neighborhoods or some shit, we're taking back Detroit

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Are you going to just replace pretentious woke cafes with overpriced hot drinks, with "fash" cafes? If so you are utterly underestimating the degree of social rot we are dealing with, and the magnitude of real change required.

Right wing gentrification within the current social milieu isn't going to cut it. I address this here:

https://substack.com/home/post/p-144571152

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I really like pretentious cafes

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Well then you are part of the problem. If we are going to restore a society with masculine virtues that isn’t a man bunned, soy lattied gay multi-culti hellscape you need to cut that shit out.

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I think the question of scale may be causing some static. You're totally right that Detroit is a hellhole, but I don't think a revitalization of Detroit to its former glory is Phase I or even II or III. Instead, the beginnings (and chief objectives) are likely much closer to what you have in mind, e.g., localism in discrete areas that can collaborate and synergize with one another and the wider world by utilizing the internet and other technologies. Once these have developed, then profits can be leveraged to begin re-colonizing our own country.

Some areas will likely be much too far gone to even bother with in terms of a true revitalization, Detroit would certainly be one of them if any are truly too far gone. But that doesn't mean that we should let Chinese firms buy up all the cheap property and reap the profits of our destruction. Rather, we should be the ones to pillage the ruins and use what profits we can obtain from doing so to build something greater in areas that are prime for such endeavors. I don't want a "fash" cafe in Detroit. I want a thousand "fash" villages all over America. I call it Backyard Nationalism.

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I like the sound of that a lot better than “gentrification” which is a word that always raises my hackles.

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Have you ever actually been to Detroit? I have lived on the outskirts of Detroit and currently am in northern Michigan. Saying you are going to take back Detroit, is like saying you were going to take back Rome after it was sacked by the barbarians. Shitlib cities are over, they are too massive, and there is too little to work with there to revive them.

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