"Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail."
-Theodore Roosevelt
“The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.”
Hon. Alex Kozinski, dissent in Silveira v. Lockyer, 328 F.3d 567 (9th Circuit 2003).
The really bizarre thing about the current turn in American politics is that like. Nothing is wrong! I mean there are problems. But a normal level of problems. It’s not like crime is rising, or the economy is going down the toilet, or anything like that, and the populace is freaking out as a result. Instead it’s just like. Spontaneously self destructing. Pure ideology
I mean we did just have, like, absolutely historic levels of inflation that were in fact Really Really Really Bad
also it’s funny how I’m pretty sure you meant this to be about right-wingers flipping their shit about various right-wing axe grinding talking points (and don’t get me wrong those are valid things to make this observation about), but the notes are full of communists doing exactly the thing you’re talking about about “late capitalism”
The only people I see freaking out right now are leftists.
well of course you do, because when someone on your side does it you don’t think it counts as freaking out.
Eh, I’m not sure that’s true in this situation. Show me the current equivalent of leftist committing domestic terrorism on Tesla dealerships.
that’s not the only thing you qualify as “freaking out,” if that was the standard then the communists on this thread are also not freaking out
I think on the one hand the numbers support what you’re saying. On the other hand, the books are being cooked.
We have twisted ourselves in many states so that crimes by illegals are downgraded to misdemeanors because they don’t want to make the illegals more deportable. We have prosecutors in major jurisdictions refusing to charge people based on race.
Barely 5 years ago we had months of riots. Militias were at the forefront of those riots and, in at least one instance, ambushed and killed someone from a militia that ideologically opposed to them.
I’m not saying it’s the end of the world, but the extremism is growing and getting worse.
It is with the heaviest of hearts that I bring you sad news today. Murphy, the eagle who incubated a rock (and later raised a foster eaglet after his rock “hatched”), passed away at age 33 (almost a decade longer than long-lived wild eagles!). A tornado hit his local area. It’s believed he sustained blunt force head trauma, likely from spooking during the high winds, as his cage and fellow eagles were unharmed.
Murphy is survived by his foster son, Baby 23-126, who was successfully released into the wild, and a second foster eaglet he was still caring for; this eaglet is expected to be able to be released as well.
I know a lot of people on Tumblr enjoyed seeing his story, and I know we will remember him fondly.
ah yes, the nazi party. well known for their staunch isolationism and focus on autarky
I mean I get the connection. Americans didn’t want to waste more blood and treasure fighting Europe’s wars for them. Not that surprising that the guys who would be on the receiving end of it would agree regardless of what else there is to be said about them.
Nazis did believe in autarky, tho. Hitler had some wild ideas about trad, industrialization and farming. He thought that industrialized societies would make goods and trade them to poorer, agricultural countries and then the less advanced countries would have all the advanced technology AND all the food and then the industrial countries would be at a disadvantage and would starve and then this would cause a communist revolution. So Nazi Germany had to move in and conquer all the weaker agricultural states so that this wouldn’t happen.
Of course this is fucking retarded and any economist with two brain cells to rub together could tell you why it’s retarded. Most mainstream sources don’t tell you about this because they want you to think that Hitler was some kind of Uber-capitalist and a huge advocate for free market policies and not another moron central planner.
