Posted on 03/06/2023 4:28:22 AM PST by MtnClimber
Yes. Rome collapsed because it relied on a mercenary army, slave economy and could no longer feed itself. Raging inflation decimated the economy. Defenseless Rome collapsed when migrating hordes swept over the border seeking plunder, rape and ruin.
History may not repeat, but it sure does rhyme.
A dispassionate reality of life: This action must be taken — deliberately and with strong determination and fearlessness — wherever and whenever the criminal bums appear lest the civil society be destroyed.
And a few days ago the moon, Venus, and Jupiter were in alignment. Same as foretold the fall of Rome, and not seen since. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.
We are so screwed, that’s the reason a typical GOP politician is simply not enough. We need bold changes. The kind typical politicians are anathema to.
Nations hostile to The United States control the Democrat party and are using it to weaken and destroy The United States.
The Democrat party is the enemy of our country.
YOUR world is not the whole world. Stop being narrow. Listen to Jordan Peterson and he will tell you that in psychology it is well documented that girls have more gender issues than boys traditionally for over 100 years. They both typically grow out of it by the time they reach 18, but some need to talk about it.
With today's social media and children living on it, the whole gender, appearance and social constructs are more confusing than ever.
Leaving these children with no guidance or handing them over to the genital mutilators is equally evil.
“Most know the result of such Medieval street living is unhealthy, violent, and lethal for all concerned. Yet no one knows—or even seems to worry about—how to stop it.”
What % of Medieval street living people were obese? What % would refuse food and shelter if it was offered to them? This is a gigantic difference between our present-day street people and those of the far past. Our societal conditions are truly unique in all of history.
Freegards
Well, that's the million dollar question - isn't it?
“With today’s social media and children living on it, the whole gender, appearance and social constructs are more confusing than ever.”
You need to let go of the confusion angle. What can be confusing for a person to look between their legs and see what is obviously there?
It is called the power of suggestion, suggestions made by ghouls and amplified on social media and the demonic schools. Suggestion is what makes advertising so powerful. And you won’t have to look too hard to find psychologists admit that the hard promotion of it is the motivation behind all of the stupidity.
Gender confusion has never entered the domain of literature, cultural awareness, etc. There have always been “tomboys” because energetic young girls like to be around boys.
For most of our lives we were lectured that the old southern states—Florida, Tennessee, Texas—were backward and uninviting. Now even liberals often flee to them, leaving behind supposedly cosmopolitan Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Chicago, Baltimore, and New York. The more people leave the blue states, the more those states praise themselves as utopian.
The elite who caused this premodern catastrophe assumes they will always have the money and wherewithal to ensure that themselves and their own can navigate around or even profit from the barbarism they unleashed. For them the critic, not the target of criticism, is the greater threat.
A mere 10 years ago, if an American learned that a man was arrested for clubbing, robbing, or shooting innocents, and yet would be released from custody that day of his crime, he would have thought it an obscenity. Now he fears that often the criminal will not even be arrested.
Folks, the entire article is worthy of a slow read. Please, enjoy the whole article. And then ponder how insane are his conclusions, especially for those of us who remember a different way.
At some point, the adults will need to take over.
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Attis to Giton:
Stimulated there by a raging rage, the wanderer/ threw down upon him the sharp weight of flint/ and so he felt as if his limbs were left without a man
And the leftists will not even allow Satyricon to be studied in most colleges.
Wow! Great article. Passing it along in email.
The first candidate who proclaims fentanyl as a WMD, and classifies drug cartels as terrorists, gets my vote.
How did all of this so quickly erode our great country? Our crisis was not the next generation of foreign Hitlers and Stalins. It was not earthquakes, floods, or even pandemics. It was not endemic poverty and want. It was not a meager inheritance from past generations of incompetents. Nor was it a dearth of natural resources or bounty.
Instead our catastrophe arose from our most highly educated, the wealthiest and most privileged in American history with the greatest sense of self-esteem and sanctimoniousness. Sometime around the millennium, they felt their genius could change human nature and bring an end to history—if only they had enough power to force hoi polloi to follow their abstract and bankrupt theories that they had no intention of abiding by themselves.
Thumbs up!
We have redefined felonies as misdemeanors warranting no punishment. Misdemeanors are now infractions that are not criminal. Infractions we treat as lifestyle choices. Normality, not criminality, is deemed criminal. We all know this will not work, but still wonder why it continues.
We know it's evil - we know it's happening... and we know more people are involved than just George Soros.These are psych-ops beyond our understanding. How's that possible? How is it happening and who's behind it?
Note to self to read later.
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