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Post by artraveler on Nov 19, 2023 21:51:10 GMT -8
Yes old Hank stole virtually all the property belonging to the Catholic Church. Unfair taxation is always theft. Sadly, governments only engage in unfair taxation.
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Post by artraveler on Nov 20, 2023 13:48:45 GMT -8
A few thoughts on the modern university and radicalism www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/11/the_plight_of_jews_on_college_campuses.htmlIn sum, many schools edged ever closer to become schools of theology, whose mission was indoctrinating their novices in good and evil, and thousands of youngsters just wanting to survive drank the Kool-Aid.
Unfortunately, these indoctrinated youngsters are easy marks for Islamic attacks on Israel and Jews more generally. Jews are the perfect “bad” according to the university-invented theology. They are white, venerate book learning and high Western culture, excel economically, thrive in meritocracies and often against great odds, cherish family life, generally believe in G-d, and have built a first-world nation in a region notable for poverty and brutal violence. In a sense, “the Jew” embodies everything the modern left hates. If only Hebrews were dependent on government for handouts and lived dysfunctional lives, they might have caught a break.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Nov 21, 2023 7:27:13 GMT -8
That was tough to read. You and Chat KFZ were talking about Henry VIII recently, how he basically destroyed or otherwise plundered the Catholic establishment in Great Britain.
The problem with tyrants is that they are evil and typically choose the wrong targets. But we could use a Henry would would lay waste to the university system, removing its poison from our nation.
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Post by kungfuzu on Nov 24, 2023 12:07:43 GMT -8
I think this 10 second video is a good summation of the types leading the West. If I had a hammer Over-educated twit does not begin to describe it.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Nov 24, 2023 13:29:31 GMT -8
No, but it's a good beginning. These listings on IndiaMart show that the hammer is not an unknown commodity in India, in case this guy is a recent import. And I know they have them in Great Britain. I'd rather be as dumb as a doornail Yes, I would If I only could I surely would
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Post by kungfuzu on Nov 24, 2023 14:14:11 GMT -8
Channeling your inner Paul Simon I see.
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Post by kungfuzu on Nov 25, 2023 21:04:35 GMT -8
Kunstler's most recent piece. I hope he is correct. Suicide Cult
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Post by artraveler on Nov 26, 2023 8:10:29 GMT -8
Damn, I wish I had said that!
Western Civ is like a Sarah Lawrence grad with a nose-ring, trained up to despise her own history and culture, trafficking with the incubi of barbarism
You may have lost count of how many times Russia has been invaded across the vast plain of Ukraine, but the Russians have not forgotten and their attitude about it is synonymous with the phrase Never Again. What part of that did the USA, Germany, France, and the rest not understand?
There still may be time to defang the Russian Bear and bring Russia into the West but the opportunity to do so was lost during the Bush and Obama administrations. A second Trump term in 2020 might have led to reproachment. It could in 25 but the opportunity is passing thanks to Biden.
America’s psychodrama has been equally deep and dreadful as Europe’s, but we are heading toward our own political reckoning, and many here have had enough of a life without boundaries in every sense of the word. “Joe Biden” has been the perfect embodiment of no boundaries. And his party is in the process of being destroyed by that before they can complete the destruction of our country. The battle is here, too. And it is joined. Stand back and watch.
Not to rain on his parade but it is going to take a massive civil revolt at the ballot box next year to even begin the restoration of Western values. Could it happen? Yes, will it happen? The best answer is maybe.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Nov 26, 2023 9:46:28 GMT -8
To get the full effect for our readers at home:
Yes. Put that in the realm of "I wish I'd said that."
One of the problems I have with this guy is his Trump eschatology. "If only Trump were in charge, we could be friends with Putin." I've never bought that. I don't care how far Trump sticks his nose up Putin's ass and admires his sheer authoritarian control of Russia (and Trump clearly admires power for power's sake), Ukraine was invaded by Russia. Ukraine was not preparing for war against Russia. Ukraine had a previous deal whereby they would deliver up to Russia all its nuclear weapons in exchange for peace. And his whole attitude is the condescending and morally dubious idea of "Well, Ukraine is so messed up, they don't deserve defending." We can debate what to do about Ukraine. But I can't take this clearly lunatic Trumpian approach.
The trouble with Kunstler is not that he's wrong but I think he's being intellectually dishonest in this regard. It's as if he uses this trope to sprinkle over whatever other legitimate subject he is addressing at the time.
And he didn't for a moment address the reasons for our cultural suicide. He is just among the online purveyors spouting grievance and discontent. And if you read the reader comments to this article, Jesus H. Christ, I wouldn't want these guys running things either. They are an inchoate mob of a different kind. It's hard to find a theme in all that rumbling. And it is my considered opinion that these are the same moral cowards who would not stare down the HR director at their own place of work when it came time to sign the "diversity" papers and listen to the "white man bad" lectures. But now these same fellows want someone else to do something about it.
But, if the election of Milei in Argentina and Wilders in The Netherlands (it was always the style I learned to capitalize the "The") is a trend in the right direction, that's certainly a good thing. Electing Trump as president? If China then invades Taiwan, that will be Biden's fault, of course. Rinse and repeat.
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Post by kungfuzu on Nov 26, 2023 14:24:28 GMT -8
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Post by artraveler on Nov 26, 2023 14:33:45 GMT -8
Most likely a black owned business in a black neighborhood being looted by blacks. The business might have to close or move to a safer area. At which time the Al Charlatans and Jessy rip-off Jacksons of the world will say it is because of white racism.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Nov 26, 2023 14:37:13 GMT -8
We have our own kind of Hamas in our midst who would strip us to the bone at the first opportunity.
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Post by kungfuzu on Nov 27, 2023 21:17:44 GMT -8
What can happen to robbers. Bang you're dead The scumbag female is a clear example of what is wrong with America. 1. The bitch is dumb. 2. The bitch is immoral. 3. The bitch is entitled. 4. The bitch is not in jail. Did you hear her sputtering that the store clerk should have called the police "'cause you can't take matters into your on hands." What's the saying? "When you need protection in seconds, the police are minutes away." This idiot is the result of decades of failure (and worse) on the part of our betters, but it has been badly exacerbated over the last few years with BLM and Antifa. These thugs have been allowed to get away with all sorts of crimes over the last few year where they are at the point that many seem to think they can commit crimes without consequences.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Nov 28, 2023 10:11:16 GMT -8
Many blacks believe they have a right to plunder. This is what "social justice" has led to.
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Post by artraveler on Nov 28, 2023 15:38:01 GMT -8
Is it courious that although Blacks in the South have been guilty of the same behavior, the majority of looting and outright theft is in the progressive North and West. I believe this can be attributed to just a few cultural differences. Regardless of race the South has been, and still is much more religious then other regions of the country. Parental example and discipline is stronger, and there is a greater respect for elders, veterans, and property in large part because of the greater influence tradition and of religion. This incident in Dayton OH tends to prove my theory.
Does this mean the South is immune of influence from progressive states and the media? No, unfortatunatly not. we face the same trials, perhaps in lesser degree but they are still there. I think the more rural nature of the South also has an influence, as it does in our less populated states, Wyoming and Montana for example. Over the Holiday at least 24 people were shot in Chicago with at least four killed. This is mostly Black on Black crime and the solve rate is seldom above 50%. So your average thug on the streets of Chicago has a 50% chance of being tried. It is an incentive for murder. It is a wonder that anyone is bothering to work in the DA office, and surely the least capable attorneys.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Nov 29, 2023 8:22:49 GMT -8
We here can speak frankly. And you're speaking to someone who knows a black church pretty well. Yes, you're likely right. The attribute of looting is not strictly along racial lines. I'm not sure how you'd draw the graph, but there is a commonality of atheist/Progressivist as well. But race is a pretty stark dividing line even if we have to point out to the Dummkopfs out there, no, there is likely no black gene for looting. But there is a black culture in the big cities for looting.
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Post by kungfuzu on Dec 1, 2023 16:20:57 GMT -8
Further confirmation of the decline of the American Education System. Cheetah would get an A at Yale One can reliably bet that things are little better at the rest of Ivy League schools, not to mention other "Institutions of Higher Learning" across the nation. If the people I have come across over the last few years are any indication of the present state of our university system, then we are doomed. The incompetence of many is stunning. There seems to be a negative correlation between the level of competence, and the sense of self-entitlement on display by most of these types.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 1, 2023 17:11:48 GMT -8
Glad he said it out loud. But, ya think?
I would expect at some point that the prestige of a degree from an Ivy League school will collapse and such a paper perhaps even make one a laughingstock.
I will note that, even in the conservative press, there is a noted drop-off in just plain literacy.
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Post by artraveler on Dec 4, 2023 11:55:45 GMT -8
I have been saying exactly the same for at least 20 years. Of course it takes a Russian. The youtube interview is from 2016 and the book is, not surprisingly, out of print. I suspect you can find a copy at library or used book store. The article sums up his thesis very well. I personally believe the real crisis was during the War between the States. Both governments expanded power and never surrendered that power when the war was over. The 16th and 17th amendments destroyed the old republic. Alexander Markovsky Alexander Markovsky is a Russian immigrant, a senior fellow at the London Center for Policy Research, a think tank that examines national security, energy, risk analysis, and other public policy issues. He is the author of Anatomy of a Bolshevik and Liberal Bolshevism: America Did Not Defeat Communism, She Adopted It. Mr. Markovsky is the owner and CEO of Litwin Management Services, LLC. He can be reached at alexander.g.markovsky@gmai.com. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNlhohLi9cUwww.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/12/how_the_american_republic_was_lost.htmlThey crafted the Constitution not to prevent those individuals’ rise to power but to safeguard against their destructive impulses via constitutional restraints. Unbeknownst to many, though, Wilsonian progressives broke one of those restraints in 1913, mortally wounding the American experiment.
To preempt usurpation of power, the federal government’s authority was split between three branches of equal weight. Although the Founders did not explicitly articulate in the Constitution itself what they were doing, the overriding impetus was to contain the Executive branch because its control over the armed forces and government bureaucracy meant it had the greatest ability to challenge the other branches of government to alter the established pattern of constitutional authority.
the Senate was never intended to represent the interests of the people per se; it was intended to represent and zealously guard the interests of the states. By giving elective power to the states, the framers of the Constitution had constrained the role of the federal government solely to the responsibilities delineated in the Tenth Amendment:
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 4, 2023 14:01:14 GMT -8
That's a pretty good evaluation of the intent of the Constitution.
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