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The Paris attacks are 'exactly how civilizations fall,' just like the collapse of the Roman Empire
Business Insider ^
| 11/17/2015
| Paul Colgan, Business Insider Australia
Posted on 11/17/2015 8:34:22 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Immigration and invasion are how civilizations fall.
But it’s “racist” to say it.
To: SeekAndFind
Awhile back I read an interesting article about why Rome fell. The author listed all the usual reasons, but then he added one more: Rome fell because it couldn't conceive of ever falling.
Rome was, after all, Rome! It had survived, and even flourished, after Hannibal's invasions, numerous internal revolts, etc. So there was no need to take any real precautions. Rome could never fall. Until it did.
I see a lot of that thinking in the West today, America included.
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posted on
11/17/2015 8:44:59 AM PST
by
Leaning Right
(Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
11/17/2015 8:45:07 AM PST
by
Southside_Chicago_Republican
(If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
To: SeekAndFind
Excellent history post whose valuable lessons few in power will likely heed.
Those who ignore lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
Why is it so few can see the existential threat that Islam presents to non-Muslim’s freedom, way of life, and survival?
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11/17/2015 8:45:47 AM PST
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MarchonDC09122009
(When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
To: Leaning Right
I have a simpler view:
Civilizations fall when they are incapable or refuse to defend themselves.
Incapable because they have destroyed their own economic function.
Refusal when they feel their own civilization is unworthy of defense.
Who does that describe?
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11/17/2015 8:50:17 AM PST
by
Uncle Miltie
(islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.)
To: MarchonDC09122009
"Why is it so few can see the existential threat that Islam presents to non-Muslimâs freedom, way of life, and survival?"
Part of it is because their capabilities are so meager.
They are a very large street gang, in essence.
That's not to say they will not develop real military capability. But today, any modern army could easily defeat them.
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11/17/2015 8:53:49 AM PST
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Mariner
(War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
To: Roman_War_Criminal
The cause of America’s decline is the internal degeneration of traditional morals, purely economic thinking to the exclusion of political thought; selection of outsiders as “leaders” i.e. a negro community organizer from Chicago; adoption of cosmopolitanism to replace patriotism. In short internal rot.
To: SeekAndFind
Rome didn’t really fall. It was “fundamentally transformed “.
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11/17/2015 8:59:13 AM PST
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Argus
To: SeekAndFind
The Paris attacks are 'exactly how civilizations fall,' just like the collapse of the Roman Empire Among other reasons, Rome was destroyed by admitting so many people who had no loyalty to Rome.
One of the Other reasons is "Democracy", whereby the power blocs in Rome granted the vote to all these unloyal "citizens" and then bribed them with bread and circuses to support the existing power blocs, very much in the manner that Democrats bribe poor people with welfare to keep voting Democrat.
The Democrat policies of unlimited "immigration" and Welfare vote bribing are exactly what destroyed Rome.
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11/17/2015 8:59:18 AM PST
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DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
To: DiogenesLamp
One of the Other reasons is "Democracy", whereby the power blocs in Rome granted the vote to all these unloyal "citizens" and then bribed them with bread and circuses to support the existing power blocs, very much in the manner that Democrats bribe poor people with welfare to keep voting Democrat.The Curley Effect
To: SeekAndFind
The left has had a campaign for a 150 years to destroy the west from withing..to destroy its heart... it was by this they thought they create the window for the revolution.. but they just opened the door for the barbarians..
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11/17/2015 9:07:00 AM PST
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tophat9000
(King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans Patr a in rebellion... teach him why)
To: Roman_War_Criminal
Hear! Hear!
That is EXACTLY correct!
To: kosciusko51
The Curley Effect Yup. That pretty much nails the phenomena. So now I know the sociological-political term for it. Thanks for that.
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11/17/2015 9:09:45 AM PST
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DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
To: Argus
Rome didn't really fall. It was "fundamentally transformed". Yep. And it's a shame that they didn't declare everything south of Po River a "safe place", where invader "microaggression" would not be welcome. All that barbarian looting, pillaging, etc. would have been avoided.
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11/17/2015 9:27:46 AM PST
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Leaning Right
(Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
To: SeekAndFind
At the rate it is going Europe will soon become our number one islamic enemy.
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11/17/2015 9:32:39 AM PST
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PoloSec
( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
To: DiogenesLamp
Your welcome. This was one of the many gems I've found on
Free Republic that I keep on my home page.
To: Roman_War_Criminal
One of the best responses in the Republican debate was when Huckabee said, “Immigration without assimilation is invasion.”
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11/17/2015 9:41:53 AM PST
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Doche2X2
To: SeekAndFind
Mmmmm, not really. Rome primarily collapsed from being too big for the technology of the time and basically losing control of itself, eventually the outposts were so independent they just stopped being part of Rome. By the time the Goths sacked Rome (bearing, again, no real resemblance to what happened in Paris) Rome was already pretty collapsed, heck Rome wasn’t even the capital of Rome anymore. Paris is how wars start, not how civilizations end.
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11/17/2015 9:42:50 AM PST
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discostu
(Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right B, A, Start)
Gibbon was, of course, a notorious hater of Jews.
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11/17/2015 9:43:06 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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