In the long civilizational struggle — especially in the West — between the “progressive” forces of “Why not?” and the protective “Why?” of conservatives, the victory of the former always signals the death not only of the latter but of both parties. Like the scorpion stinging the rescuing frog to death in the middle of the pond, thus dooming them both, they simply cannot help themselves. It’s in their nature to tear down, ransack, and destroy, even at the cost of their own existence. This weakness-from-within is how civilizations fall (Gibbon, in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, speaks of it as “effeminacy”) and it’s repeated itself so many times over the course of the past two thousand-plus years you’d think we’d learn by now. But you would be wrong.
When the Spartans were at the height of their military power they sent a delegation to the Oracle at Delphi and, with no small amount of conceit demanded: Can anything harm Sparta? The answer (which probably didn’t have much effect on their considerable egos) was short and to the point: “Yes, luxury”.
Soft living begets soft heads.
US troops are now legitimate targets in the Middle East.
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/us-troops-iraq-come-under-fresh-drone-attacks-after-iran-said-time
Such is the change of the United States Governments credibility in the political sphere.
Remember Afghanistan!
“Remember Afghanistan!”
2008 sounded like a good time for Obama to start f*cking with Russia and set the stage for regime change in Ukraine, huh?
2014 we made change a good year for the Biden’s fortune future, now 2023 look at our good fortune – wow we are rich rich rich.
(((“As we have seen this week, the outcome of “decolonization” is barbarism.”)))
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Just once I want someone to explain to me in detail how colonization is a negative thing. Archeologists and biologists are so fond of informing us that all human life evolved from the “cradle” of Africa. So, by simple reasoning, one could deduce that all human life outside of that very specific location in Africa was subject to colonization. Without such colonization, there would be a tiny little speck of a place in Africa overpopulated and under-resourced. In fact, the species (and all others with it) would have long died out for lack of food.
I not only perceive colonization to be a good thing (a very, very good thing). I question how any “tribe” of “indigenous” people can actually wear that label without dishonesty outside of that small speck in Africa. Now, if you want to apply the “first come first serve” principle that is a different story altogether. But, just as in gun rights….it’s the wielder of the gun who is responsible for it’s use….just as it is the wielder of colonization that must be judged…not the actual act. Colonization can present the good and the bad, benefits and the detriments. There are good neighbors and bad neighbors…and sometimes the difference is a nice fence.
Everywhere was colonised. What they specifically mean is a modern version of that where only white, Judeo-Christian people displaced other races, whether peacefully or not, because it was literally privileged genoicde. Or something.
The probability that those currently called “indigenous” in north america were the first people here is somewhere around zero, but you are never permitted to speak of it in their company
Orson.
You win the award for succinct encapsulation of what it is.
I would share a brew with you leaning on a neighbourly fence any old time.
We are all indigenous to planet earth. As it has been for thousands of years strength determines who lives where.
What goes up …
Yes, like…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/breaking-bidenomics-30-year-fixed-mortgage-rates-hit/
Must be hard on the Banking to make a decent profit.
Considering that ordering and creating actual cash is incredibly expensive.
I bough a home during the jimmy Carter days… The payments were a nightmare.
It’s the failure of conservatives. Evil should be destroyed not negotiated.
Nothing more dangerous than “tolerance” because it prophylactically eliminates “judgement” and “discernment” … both of which are fundamental human instincts for survival.
Sorry, I won’t “tolerate” Murderous Muslim protestors taking over our colleges and even Congress. I don’t tolerate murderers … I refuse to be their muderee.
BTW … where are those “moderate Muslims” who George Bush assured me practiced a Religion of Peace? Cutting off infants heads is “peaceful”? Have another drink, George.
Dubya was/is part of the Deep State, so was his daddy, so don’t take head to any of his assurances. Also, there is no evidence of Baby decapitation, so probably best not to put that out there. I generally agree with your first two paragraphs.
Yes, there is. Various government heads (several countries, including the U.S. State Dept.) and journalists have seen the photos.
“BTW … where are those “moderate Muslims” who George Bush assured me practiced a Religion of Peace?”
In the same place all “moderate” Yanks and Canucks are: lying down in the tall grass with their eyes closed, lips sealed, hands over their ears, but their arses sticking up in the air.
“The Israelis can’t take [the Hamastanis] (not if Israel means to remain a Jewish state), the Arabs don’t want them, and neither the Americans nor the Europeans should have anything to do with them. Actions have consequences.”
Yes, they should. Which is why Israel must insist that Joe Biden and his European vassals take the Hamastanis. Let them murder the Jew-haters of the Nations, not the Jews. (I hear Detroit is half-abandoned. Isn’t there room there?)
When the daughters of the genteel anti-Semitic “elite” find out that they, too, can be gangraped by a pack of sons of dogs, pigs and monkeys, and bled out like a prize pig themselves when the Hamastanis have had enough, well, then, MAYBE then they’ll ask if it was such a good idea to call for a “Free Palestine.” By then, of course, it’ll be too late.
The Nations are begging, pleading the God of Israel they swear doesn’t exist to destroy them as utterly as he destroyed Sodom. Israel should not try to prevent that.
On the contrary—the enemies of Israel must be destroyed utterly, and the world accept that the Lord of Hosts is the One Lord, before the world can heal. That simply will not happen short of a catastrophe that relieves the rulers of the Nations of their wealth and power once and for all. If Israel is ever in a position to hasten that catastrophe, she should not hesitate.
The Lord will never abandon Israel. She will live, and her children, as did the children of Noah, will recount the deeds of the Lord. That is why the Jews from Mount Zion to the ends of the earth are united in their defense of Israel. That is why they are not afraid.
It is those who defy and deny God who are afraid.
It is they who have been reminded that their cities can be reduced to rubble, their idols smashed to pieces, and they themselves slaughtered like pigs or driven into the sea, their kingdoms destroyed as were Babylon, Rome and Nazi Germany, and their names blotted out forever.
The few luckless souls left in—what did they call Israel? ah yes—“shitty little countries” like Canada after the Day of the Lord will have far, far better things to do than recount the deeds of Pierre Trudeau, much less have pointless arguments about pronouns.
It will be no bad thing if those who called men women and women men, cursed God in private and libelled Israel on the CBC will not tell the tale of what they saw and heard on the Day of the Lord even if they live to do so, having been so terrified by the power of the Lord that they are robbed of the power of speech ever after.
Maybe then they will finally be ready to listen to wisdom.
Totally agree with above.
What are you rebelling against? Whaddaya got?
Breathing. Please be one of them thar stinky rebellious types and rebel against breathing.
Gibbon ascribed the weakness within as arising from the emergence of Christianity. He stated flatly that Christianity eroded what remained of Roman civic virtue by destroying the civic virtues that had provided the strength of the legions and its citizen soldiers. After about 300 AD, most of the Roman army were barbarian mercenaries because the citizen soldiers had either vanished or purchased substitutes.
He noted that Rome had been a religously open society but this was replaced by the hatred and intransigence of Christianity. The internecine violence among the various monasteries was one of the principal reasons for the repeated burning of the various libraries around the Roman world.
He noted that far more Christians were killed by other Christians than by all of the suppressions of Christianity of the pagan emperors. This last charge was why Gibbon was so reviled by the Roman Catholic Church. Religions cannot stand to be contradicted.
@cgh
You are seriously one weird duck.
Religious or not -full disclosure I am not – to disregard the Judeo-Christian values that have moulded our civilized western democracies to the potentials as they exists, is brain dead idiocy – Period.
In all fairness, please bless us with YOUR alternative system of governance from the Roman Empire through to the American Constitution that could/ should have avoided Judeo-Christian values and prospered better…..We will await your thesis……..
Then go back and try actually reading Gibbons’ Decline and Fall. It’s all there. It’s the longest section of Gibbon Vol I, chapters XV, XVI. It’s his longest section of the whole three volumes he wrote. Over 100 pages which detail, with sources and references of how the Roman Empire was corrupted and undermined by the subversion of Christianity.
This isn’t ME talking. This is what Gibbon actually wrote. Don’t believe me? Go read him; I gave you the specific text references. Then and only then we can have an intelligent discussion on this topic.
Gibbon was typical of all of the great Enlightenment thinkers of the 18th century. By and large, and this goes particularly for the drafters of the US Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, they loathed organized religion. To them, organized religion meant the Church of England or the Roman Catholic Church. All of them, every one, particularly including the great scientists of the early 18th century right down to Isaac Newton, all disliked those two organized religions. They were all firmly on the side of Galileo vs. Bellarmine. They regarded the Roman Catholic Church’s burning of heretics during the Renaissance as pure barbarism.
One book does not a history make.
Gibbon invented the modern method of prose writing in English. So yes, one book does.
History is filled with examples of where there is only one book on a particular topic.
The alphabet people love to point to ancient Greece and Rome as justification for butt sex.
@Bunny
Don’t know about “justification” but all those people are dead, and any of their children and grandchildren weren’t very happy in the end either.
Ain’t human nature grand.
Funny how a certain percentage of humanity are evil.
Evil here being defined as so stupid that they seek to destroy the society that enables their existence.
5% with 15% who can be gulled into just following along.
Apparently these numbers are enough ,when the other 80% just goes along to get along.
“That will never happen”,being famous last words.
We,Canadians in 2023,cannot say “It will never happen” as our State of Thuggery expands..
Because we know it can.
It happened in Germany during the 1930s and 40s.
We claim that it is different today,because we are so much more civilized than our Grandparents..
I see no evidence for that belief.
And what little history we keep,indicates that human affairs go in cycles..
And our Wasters and Destroyer are pedalling as fast as they can..
Meanwhile,we are asking ourselves the obvious;Who are these idiots and who needs them.
You may have noticed,we can survive without our Parasitic Overload.
They cannot survive without us,their host.
Banishment ..
Works for me.
Heh – John Robertson
A hard read, but you ain’t wrong by a long mile.
John, you are coherent, but try to be more coherent when being coherent.