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Region: Libertatem
The memes after Elon bought Twitter are hilarious
Narland, Miri Islands
This is one case where I think DeSantis did the wrong thing for the right reason. We need more self-government and less Statism. The answer wasn't to shackle Disney with the same inept bureaucrats that the other Floridians have to suffer through, but give all businessmen and individuals the same freedom to compete in the marketplace (no pun intended) that Disney enjoys, and let the customer vote with their wallets.
For over 300 years from the settling of the continent thousands of self-governing communes sprung up all over what would become the US. Some were successful like Amana becoming towns and cities themselves, and most went the way of the dodo (especially after 1840) mostly because Marx and other thick-skulled ideologies that have never worked. Try to start a community today with what the Progressive Statists have done to us in the last hundred years, and see how far you get. Unless you have W. Disey's clout, not very.
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It just occurred to me that when cities became expansionists (when they got more from monies by acreage rather then by population -- i cant recall when the switch took place --- sometime in my lifetime), that they could care less about how rotten their malgovernance and the depopulation it causes, as long as they had the huge infrastructure to frank. They got a gubment plantation that they get subsidized whether there is maximal people in them or not. Anyone have any thoughts on that?
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We have always been at war with eBaysia.
It certainly seems that way. Cities never seem to get better and the same people always get voted in
Everyone talking about Trump returning to Twitter but I would rather have Alex jones back on social media, if not just for the memes
Narland, Auxorii
I have yet to find a social media platform that has good enough privacy and equitable terms of service.
Most TOS are akin to looking out the window to wave to a neighbor.
The neighbor crashes a brick through your front window with a note attached:
By picking up this brick you agree to have me crawl through your window and stuff.
Do you wish to continue?
Agree? [checkbox] Disagree? [checkbox]
Regardless, the neighbor has a beacon set up just outside your property to shine a tracking spotlight into your window to follow your movements, see what you are wearing, eating, watching on the screen. He pretends you are his friend but it is a façade to relay the information of your personal habits to total strangers (his actual friends) so that they and the others can rate you, assize you, and merchandize you.
The creep factor is off the scale.
Suzi Island
My Twitter followers went from zero to zero. It might be a coincidence, but it is probably from not having Twitter in the first place.
Miencraft, Auxorii, Suzi Island, Rateria, Miri Islands
That's what makes the Humancentipad episode of South Park so funny. The absurdity of not reading the tos and what they could put in there
May day is the perfect day to remember the death toll of communism
Narland
Mayday, a call of distress; or the the day Marxists celebrate burning everything to the ground so that rainbows and unicorns magically appear. But it doesn' t and they start murdering everyone around them until it does. But it doesn't, so they ramp up their agiprop campaign that has and does continuously blame free enterprise, belief in a supernatural Supreme Deity, the natural nuclear/extended/traditional family, individual personhood, love of liberty, and anyone who deviates from the Plan.
But it doesn't help, so the murderous oppression of humanity continues until morale improves. But it doesn't, and eventually they run out of "capitalist" monies to exploit, collapsing under the weight of the administrative ineptitude of their very own unrepentant moral stupidity. And as usual, it's everyone else' s fault but theirs.
Happy Mayday everybody. :)
I just remembered that August 23 is officially Rememebrance Day for the crimes of statism but every day we should remember
Narland
Maybe I was too generous when I thought the left wouldn't get this upset about not being able to kill unborn babies. The utter rage I'm seeing is actually quite shocking and the decision isn't even official
Narland, The United States Of Patriots
I've avoided Facebook today, but I can hear the screeching.
Narland
The nature of the human condition is such that when we are:
.....indulged to do evil,
.....take comfort in its banality,
.....expect it as a privilege, and
.....delude ourselves of our self-righteous superiority for
..........practicing it,
..........tolerating it, and
..........identifying with it
that when at threat of being robbed of it (or it is actually taken from us) and
the light of the truth about its moral depravity is exposed,
the general reaction is
.....incredible viciousness against the concept of its delinquency, and
.....livid malice against those who point it out.
One is safer trying to calm a rabid animal in its death throes. Unless we are able to repent by the grace of a higher power to save us from ourselves into a more perfect way, all that is left is a horrific emptiness of our denial and the expression of utter brutality to continue our depraved acts/activities. As moderns we tend to forget what the ancients understood all too well.
Miri Islands
That's the point of the leak. Get people to pressure justices to change vote. Pray for these justices' strength
Narland, Nosam Republic, Miri Islands
Our biggest mistake as a civilization was assuming our ancestors were dumb, superstitious and had no wisdom to impart upon us
Fortunately Western Civ was born trying to recapture the wisdom of the ancients while keeping the best of the medieval (although it was called Christendom at the time), while forging thought provoking change for a better future. The past, present, and future were all considered factors. Renaissance, Reformation, and Enlightenment (in the broad Christian Theist sense not necessarily the co-opted Marxist/Atheist sense) had several thousand years of human history, arts, and literature from which to draw. They had emerging modern technologies from which to better live and communicate with other peoples, cultures, and civilizations those in the past didn't. And they had the desire to leave the world a better place for their posterity. They did a fairly good job for the most part.
We have stubbed our collective individualist toes a few times along the way. Almost all involve rejecting the fruits of Liberty and enslaving the mind to forms of tyranny and despotism that has failed in the past. Almost every upcoming generation willingly gave their lives, fortunes, and honor in order to overcome an evil of their generation, and stayed our course for a better future. We have been most blessed by Divine Providence in this regard.
Western Civ has done more to improve the human condition (body, soul, and spirit) in fewer centuries than any other civilization on record. We still have a lot to offer and quite a way to go. We have the wherewithal to throw off the shackles of Statism and reclaim the banner of liberty for our forebears, our contemporaries, and our progeny.
The enemies of any civilization are those who would rather tear down (and obscure) the past than humbly learn from it, refuse to communicate openly and honestly in concord with those of the present, or who would implement their willful (and arrogant) plan for the future over others by fraud and coercion.
Miri Islands
Traditions hold value even if we don't like them with our modern and often wrong sensibilities
Narland, Miri Islands
I hope everyone enjoyed their Mothers Day and got to spend it with their moms.
Narland, Rateria
Every year I send my Mom 2 lbs of german chocolates for Mother's Day.
Every year she calls me to say, "Son, you know I am alllergic. If I mail them back to you will you eat them?"
Then I say, " Oh, all right. If you insist." :) JK.
She likes cards and flowers.
Auxorii, Rateria
Am i the only one suspicious that the only reason the elite are allowing roe v Wade to be overturned is so the made up right of privacy can be quietly erased and allow for more government surveillance
Narland
Roe v Wade being overturned simply returns the issue of abortion to the voters. Also privacy has unfortunately been almost non-existent between the Patriot Act and the rise of social media oligarchs
Miencraft, Narland, Auxorii, Miri Islands
Historic legal privacy (quite limited naturally which is a privilege of station) and includes expectation of privacy, freedom from scrutiny of otherwise natural bodily functions, conjugal activity, norms of modesty confidence between spouse, physician, priest, lawyer, confidante etc. The Constitution recognizes a stronger form and that is right to be secure in our homes, papers, and personal effects, which recognizes our right to privacy with and within our homes, papers, and personal effects. The Patriot Act / Homeland Security acts are direct assaults on our rights not only to be secure but our right to historic common law due process (which must be changed by changing the Constitution by the way or such changes are unlawful).
Rateria
I guess you're right but instead of it being "unconstitutional" and ignored it's now simply permissable
God I hate California so much. We're in a drought and they're considering water rationing and now Huntington Beach residents are demanding our largest desalination plant in the state be shut down for environmental concerns. Because the defused brine from the plant kills plankton
Narland, Rateria
California's fall has been quite sad
Narland, Rateria, Miri Islands
People are being intellectually dishonest when they blame mainstream political commentators for violent extremism like the Buffalo shooter
Narland, Rateria
I got a lot of flack on the NS forums a couple of years ago for saying the California was a failed State. I don't think it can recover in the next 20 years. Maybe 40.
It will probably get so bad that the people will reorganize themselves and vote in a new State Constitution. Of course this won't work because California's problem is rejection of God and Nature's God, self-evident truths, right reason, individual self-governance and the conceptual framework from which to objectively determine good from evil, right from wrong, and evaluating best to worst fit. This has been effectively eliminated from the classroom and hard to find in the public consciousness of its institutions. A good and well written Constitution is the fruit of an already constitutional constituency.
It would be better to dissolve the State and allow itself to revert back to a US Territory. Let better the better people of the next generation of Californians rediscover how to govern themselves beneficently in Liberty and Equality instead remaining shackled with the worst of ungovernable institutions and their unmanageable so-called public servants.
Miri Islands
I've been waiting for this state to go broke for a long time now but it just seems it won't happen. With all the tech firms taking root here, all the port traffic, the vast pool of skilled labor, even the most incompetent politicians can't seem to screw it up. I can't imagine how much of a powerhouse this state would be if the government would just get out of the way and stop with these absolutely braindead policies. Hopefully with the continued Exodus of skilled workers and jobs the state can finally enter it's much needed decline
Narland
It would be an astonishing feat for California to break itself so badly that it no longer had monetary potential. It's kind of like Haiti. It can so badly mismanage its potential that only the most desperate of monies will find its way there. But there will always be corrupt monies looking for whatever favors can be bought. I hope that Cali never gets as bad as Haiti, but the Left is hellbent to make it there.
Miri Islands
Interesting that the Buffalo shooter does not consider himself a Christian or a Conservative, but a "...populist(,)... ethno-nationalist eco-fascist national socialist."
Rateria
The guy was a psycho, he'd post pictures of animals he killed and constantly talk about how he would shoot up this place and that place. The guy should have been red flagged but again government incompetence has ruined the day
Narland, Rateria
The FBI is too busy going after Project Veritas and parents who show up at school board meetings to worry about mass shootings
Miencraft, Narland, Miri Islands
Does anyone think the news media is going to report that Hilary Clinton's former campaign manager while under oath spilled the beans of framing Trump?
I hope he isn't so distraught about it that he gets suicided.
Miri Islands
I had not heard about this. Could you please send me the story?
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/20/politics/hillary-clinton-robby-mook-fbi/index.html
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2022/05/21/breaking-news/hillary-clinton-approved-trump-russia-leak-to-media-campaign-manager-says/
https://www.westernjournal.com/2016-clinton-campaign-manager-points-finger-hillary-court-agreed/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/michael-sussmann-trial-abc-nbc-cbs-msnbc-ignore-case-at-center-of-trump-russia-probe/ar-AAXwHBJ
I hope these help. It is on the front page on Whatfinger, Breitbart, Fox, and Legal Insurrection. Surprisingly, MSN has a good overview of the trial.
Rateria
Both accusations, The Trump Russia Collusion Hoax and the Urination Tape Hoax (that wasted vast amounts of Trump's time and energy while POTUS) was green lit by Hilary Clinton, and perpetuated by an accommodating national media and subversive administrative state.
How much could Trump have accomplished if he wasn't hindered by the malicious libel, slander, and wrongful abuse? It was the point of the Leftists, the Beltway Establishment, the Administrative State and the RINOs -- to destroy him utterly (or be complicit about those who would seek to utterly destroy him) as a President of the United States, a father and husband, a businessman and entertainer and a fellow human being whom they disagreeably disagree.
If they are so horrid as to do that to one of the most powerful men in the world at the time, what will they attempt on you and I once they turn their attention to us for even less?
Miencraft
They have ruined people's lives over bad jokes on Twitter so its already happened to us normal folks
You can't always explain evil
Narland, Miri Islands
That helps. Thank you.
Narland
The answer to school shootings isn't to turn our schools into limited access prisons, penitentiaries, and asylums.
It is a polite, well armed, and goodly free and open society. That means putting those who show through their immaturity and indolence that they cannot manage the freedom given them with respect the life, liberty, and property of others in all beneficence and goodwill, be put into an asylum before they act our on their bad judgment and convoluted thinking. Keep them there until such a time as they can show that they are able to shed their hatred, ingratitude, and malice. Do like we used to do (under the Quakers and beneficent organizations; not the govt assisted Behaviorist sociopaths that took over the psych hospitals in the 20th Century).
Miencraft, Miri Islands
I am beginning to believe that the controlling organs of the Democrat(ic) Party has lost its way so badly that it would take a miracle for the Party as a whole to return to sanity.
Miri Islands
Just look at the cities controlled by Dems. Once proud, safe cities are being decimated by high crime
Miencraft, Narland, Miri Islands
Seattle went from one of the best hidden gems of a city in the country to a hellhole so bad that a branch of my family have permanently left. Even the last holdout, a studio musician thoroughly infused with Cascadiac anti-culture could no longer stand it. He left last year for a red county in another state. (He gets slightly miffed when I say Cascadiac instead of Cascadian :) But I reserve Cascadiac for the lunatics running the asylum.)
Despotism is always an abject failure no matter how one disguises it with new labels.
I have returned, howdy
Rateria
Howdy.
Rateria
May everyone find comfort and solace this US Memorial Day weekend.
Kumquat Cove, Rateria, The United States Of Patriots
Welcome back
After these shootings I keep hearing the same thing: these shooters are cowards! Great! Allow teachers to carry and these shooters will think twice about shooting up the kindergarten when Mrs Smith could pull out Mr Wesson
Narland
Funny sad and strange how things changed:
.....We used to bring our guns to school so the local Peace Officer could check our weapons for malfunctions, to see if we were properly trained in their use, care and maintenance, and most high schools in my area had a Student Gun Club.
.....The 10 Commandments and the Golden Rule was the societal benchmark. We were taught ot overcome hate with love, and evil with good. Thous shalt not kill, and Thou shalt not covet your neighbor's stuff was pretty clear. It didn't dawn on any of us to actually shoot somebody no matter how much we would have liked to because that is what the wrong kind of people do.
.....Nobody was drugged up on psychotropics. if you had a rough life, you were taught to deal with your issues, overcome them, and get on with your life.
Now we live in Bizarro World:
.....Kids are cloistered like fish in a barrel and no one has a gun within reach to defend themselves.
.....The teachers are forbidden to teach kids not to kill, steal and destroy, as that is a violation of the mythical separation of church and state. Teaching kids to hating others because of their skin color is all the rage. Hate and evil are met with teaching kids to be just as hateful and evil (like that is going to work).
.....Kids drugged up on psychotropics at the first signs of mental anguish leaving them in a state of perpetual arrested development and moral confusion.
Kumquat Cove
Pills are a huge problem in our society today. Nobody faces their problems head on, nobody does the introspection and asks why am I feeling this way? Nope, it's: here take this pill. When the pill doesn't really work and the problems continue to give them anxiety and stress they lash out. Nobody takes responsibility for their actions. Back in the times you were talking about kids were well adjusted and responsible. They never even had the option to take the pill, they had to face their problems head on and it made them stronger in the long run
Narland, Kumquat Cove
Before HiPAA, it was relatively easy to identify which brain meds the school shooter was on. I do not recall a school shooting in which there wasn't a direct correlation, but i do remember that the correlation was significantly above the 85% range. For a while, Accutane was a frequent common denominator in the cocktail of meds. There was a Canadian women soldier who took a fully automatic weapon out of an armory and shot up a mall that did not seem to match the general profile. After HIPAA not even Fox News will broach the subject.
I worked for a few years at a "remote group care facility for adversely affected at-risk youth" which was bureaucratese for a "youth ranch for unwanted children who had fallen through the cracks of the state run foster care industry and were lashing out at the rest of society," or as my grandfather would say, "an orphanage." The kids that came to us from the juvenile justice (i use that term loosely) side, were almost always on a cocktail of drugs. The state just assumed that kids being doped up on 2 or three meds that were never tested for its interaction with each other, let alone cleared for juvenile use was mandatory. Thank God, we had a clinical physician affiliated with the Brentwood Institute to help wean the kids off the drugs, and put then on high-nutrition regimen of mostly unprocessed foods. (OC, A small number of kids still needed certain meds ~2%).
It's amazing how well nourished children given some love, discipline, responsibility, purpose, freedom, and space, to grow and develop into mature adults, can and do flourish. Teach them to how to read, write, and think for themselves in logical, rational, reasonable, and cogent manner with a good moral understanding of objective reality, a strong sense of ethics, and some intestinal fortitude to think, imagine, and do for themselves so they in turn can help others do so -- they can overcome just about any adversity.
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I have become a cynic in this regard, that I think one of the purposes of HiPAA was to hide poorly tested pharmaceuticals being foisted on the general population as beta-testers until they could get the the dosages, interactions, and particular applications down to acceptable levels without causes a furor.
Kumquat Cove, Miri Islands
Happy killdozer day!
Sad to see a once great city Philly completely falling apart
Narland
What's going on there
There was like ten shootings this past weekend including one on south street which is a nice area
The Democrats and RINOs of Congress are about to start their first Nazi/Commie/Fascist show trial. 5th if one includes Uncle Ollie's kangaroo hearing, Clarence Thomas' high tech lynching, Cavanaugh's witch trial style lynching, and Barret's low brow lynching. Goebbels, Pound, Povolini, Alfieri, Dzerzhinsky, and Stalin would be proud.
Those who have have forsworn their oath of office to defend and protect the Constitution (with its Bill of Rights), and instead act like lawless dialectic determinants in the despotic crushing the human rights of their political opponents by lies, fraud, coercion, and pageantry will most likely be hailed as heroes of the anti-American Revolution. However, it is still to be determined of this revolution will succeed or if Liberty-loving, law-abiding Americans can regain their country, and return to being a free country. Time and Providence will tell.
Woot! Every person in this small sample cancer test saw their cancer go into remission! I hope the data holds.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2201445
Rateria
The storming of D-Day 78 years ago. My grandfather was parachuted in. Out of his original platoon, only a handful made it home. It is hard to believe that the generation that went half-way around the world to defeat Nazism, Fascism, and Imperialism are mostly gone. If you see a WW2 veteran this year, please, thank them.
Rateria
Not many left sadly. The last WW2 vet in my family died this year
Narland, Rateria
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Many of them just 18 to 22. Young men who knew the value of the cause
Narland, Rateria
Some neighbors are going to have a pot luck get-together (byob) later today to watch the Congress Show Trial attacking Trump and his supporters. One of them thinks this will be "a hoot" (in her words), but I think I will get some needed shut eye and take a nap instead instead. The Statist duopoly in DC will probably quadruple down when this travesty backfires.
Miri Islands
The Dems realize that they are heading to historic losses in November. They think the average voters still cares about 1/6 but at this point only beltway reporters and hyper partisan Twitter idiots care about it
Narland, Miri Islands
They have been trying to push the narrative that 1/6 was worse than 9/11 and not a soul on earth believes it for a second and nor should they. I hope this show trial makes the Dems seem like imbeciles like usual
Narland
So the democrats have gotten to the point of arresting political opponents and putting them on trial. If they keep this up, the battle of Athens is gonna look like a block party
Narland
Morally insane people do not understand the resolve that people who have a grip on reality actually hold. I have come to the conclusion that ideological Statists are morally insane and practicing Statists are both morally and criminally insane. Blaming others for that which one is actually doing in the hopes that no one will call you out for your evil is a clear sign of criminal insanity. We used to lock them away from society until they got better. Now we send them to Washington DC.
When reading old literature, I used to think that: when an evil antagonist was incredulous (as he was defeated by his own machinations); even as the protagonists takes the stage in the climax to right some wrong; then afterward (the antagonist) wondered how he was so afraid/worried that such a nutjob could had gained such power; I didn't think that's was very realistic. The antagonists either yells "this cannot be" or "it's all your fault," etc. Now I am beginning to believe that these authors were onto some strands of truthfulness regarding the state of mind of the evil antagonist as he finally fell.
Apparently the potluck get-together got bored with the Congressional hearings and watched 2000 Mules and rewatched Freedom to Fascism instead. The usual suspects handed out Federal and State constitutions to the newcomers. Someone brought Romanian style lasagna that disappeared quickly. I should have gone, but I badly needed sleep. I am told that nine out of ten doctors recommend sleep for their patients who think they don't need sleep.
I don't always sleep, but when I do, I say something about it like what the world's most interesting man would say.
My dad came to the same conclusion. They accuse you of doing the very things they are guilty of doing. I want to know how it is societies keep allowing sociopaths to hold the reigns of power. Hopefully in the future we can build a system that prevents the immoral authoritarians from gaining power
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I think it is because we (Western Civ) in general went from being (like most ancients who could not afford to be delusional because reality would kill them) turned into existential subjectivists instead somewhere along the way. Europe crossed what Francis Schaeffer called the Line of Despair, a sort of Point of No Return, sometime in the 1890s to the end of WW1. The United States with its Progressive movement in the early 20th Century and the transformation complete from the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. The Cultural Revolution's subsequent March Through the Institutions which transpiring even now is nearly complete-- the sports industry and corporations is the latest to succumb -- thus the transformation is 99% complete). Now all they have to do is silence the middle class, especially those who hold to Anglo American Christian tradition of (absolute) Truth, Justice, and Liberty and all it entails (everything good about America).
Accordingly, the return back to sanity will require some very uncomfortable introspection, and hard choices:
***(Proclaim and actually practice Liberty, proclaim and actually practice respect for each individual's life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, and justly gained property, recognizing the inherent dignity of worth residing in each and every individual;
***proclaim and actually practice constitutional republicanism as the Constitution and Bill of Rights demands;
***proclaim and actually practice impartial retributive justice adjudicated with no pity upon the the merciless criminals who prey on society (meaning those who would deprive any fellow human being of their rights (actual harm) regardless of whether or not they are so-called common street criminals, white collar corporate criminals, or criminals masquerading as government officials and bureaucrats; in order to return back to a state of actual civilization; etc.
Or we can (in Robert Bork's words) continue our slouching toward Gomorrah; (in my words) continue to embrace the false Prophet Marx and his Existential priests of demagoguery who preach hate, envy, and covetousness by various forms of Socialism -- Communism (International Socialism), Nazism (National Socialism), Fascism (Corporatist Socialism), Fabian Socialism (Incremental bureaucratic Socialism), ad nauseum; in whom they all religiously believe that unwavering obeisance to their authority by their idiosyncratic dialectic determinism to the utter abolition of Western Civ (so that a magical unicorn can arise out of the destruction, but actually brings generations of darkness (in the sense of a dark age) to those who embrace it); is the only salvation for mankind.)
Unless there is a return to objective reality, the God of the Bible and the faith our our Founders) by repentance, revival, and reformation, it's all downhill from here. I am not saying everyone must become Christians (most will not be saved even among Christian families), but returning to the Christian principles will secure the bulwark of freedom that the haters of Liberty are so triggered about destroying. Even non-Christians benefit from a free and open society that confines itself to the negative application of law and which teaches and practices the Imperatives of Jesus Christ, much more so than an enslaved and close-minded society that that wantonly crushes everyone that isn't towing the party line, or won't conform to some made-up existential crises, or fails to show the proper homage of some narcissistic pretense.
I would like to return to a country as expounded by the best in our Founding Fathers and drawn from:
***Anglo-American Constitutionalism, and Euro-American Reformation / Counter-Reformation from King Edward II's proclamation, The Magna Charta, Acts of Tolerance, that governments to (but not limited to) the Constitution and Bill of Rights),
***recognizes the individual's absolute God given right to personhood and self-governance the principles of which can drawn from, and the of the Scriptures;
***the ethical and moral standards of Jesus Christ; and
***the theonomic imperative of all governments to serve God by being just, impartional, execute murderers, enforce due process, providing an honest contractual obligation to stop fraud, coercion amongst its people, provide defense to stop insurrection and invasion from within and without)
among other things.
Isn't accusing your enemy of what you are doing an Allensky method
Narland
Isn't that the rules for radicals guy
Narland
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One of the biggest blows to American civilization was the decision to treat schools and school children as outside the jurisdiction of the constitution.
Narland, Miri Islands
Happy B-Day Donald J Trump.
Miri Islands, Miami Jai-Alai 3
Shame the students are forced to take their indoctrination or face detention and a hit to their chances at university
When the Deweyites finally got to taking over our school system I was in grade school. They turned our public school (run as an American classical/eclectic grammar school) into a state run elementary hell-hole like most other city schools. We went from reading Beowulf and learning English according to its natural strata starting King Alfred up to now (Chronicles of England, Magna Carta, Chaucer, Milton, Shakespeare, Bible, Webster (and the other Founders), Joyce, and for some reason Hemingway etc), to the garbage "See Dick and Jane" and learning English by guess work.
Because so many people had moved into our area from already dumbed-down places, they couldn't understand what the big deal was when they took over. The idiocrats parroted the stupidity that is still heard frequently today that children's brains aren't fully developed so you can't give them the classics -- ignoring that for +6000 years of recorded history that children grow to utilize such childhood learning once they become mature adults. The skills learned becomes almost second nature to them in adulthood. The response from parent's who complained was, "Well send your kid to private school." An entire community of kids deliberately dumbed-down to appease the Teacher's Union is still a burr under my saddle 50 years later.
Another bur was when our district was "selected" to participate in the 1970s UN Global 2000 Educational Initiative -- joy, O, joy, third world crypto-Marxist pedagogy to boot. Fourth grade was was bad. I came home from school begging my parents, grandparents, anybody to homeschool me. Back then it was mostly Atheists, Communists, Hippies, and military families posted overseas who homeschooled, so my request sounded silly. The teacher was not interested in educating us, but turning us into "good" little Socialists, as if there is such a thing as good in Socialism.
My older cousins that got the public school education were smarter, more capable, and better equipped to handle the world than my age group of cousins who got the State Schools that still had the misleading "Public School" sign still up. My younger cousins were even worse off, as by this time the school was graduating functional illiterates (as long as they were "Progressive").
Miri Islands
Pete Hegseth's book "Battle for the American Mind" came out today. Please get a copy and read. Buy an extra copy if you can to give to someone who will read it, and do something about miseducation in America.
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GMS: I consider myself a Conservative Republican Nationalist with a slight Libertarian Economic streak, the Economic Libertarians are our Friends. Proud Republican Trump Supporter. Lets Play Jai-Alai - $.
Narland
Welcome to Libertatem. By Nationalist, I hope you mean Federalist.
Miami Jai-Alai 3
Independence would be a better option for some states.
Narland
I heartily recommend independence for the States of Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas.
Miami Jai-Alai 3
Federalist within the USA, Yes. But by Nationalist I mean, America First, Pro USA, USA, USA.
I look forward to many good conversations.
Miami Jai-Alai 3
"I look forward to many good conversations." lol.
I see no difference between my country and my nation, my nation sounds nicer than my country, like in nationstates. I don't have a problem with the word homeland in the department of homeland and national security, but it should be called the department of national security, and the ministry of national security in other nations, that have ministries rather than departments.
I Prefer calling them Ministers and Ministries in the USA, it sounds nicer.
Heimat
Narland, Miami Jai-Alai 3
I think a distinction should be made between the land and people. In the case of the America, the nation really represents something unique, and quite different from the concept that is in the mind of peoples such as the French, Turks, Czechs, or New Zealanders. The American nation is largely the result of the alliance of separate cultural groups divided in separate political entities, governing swathes of territory consisting of a wide variety of climates, biomes, flora, and fauna. In any other context, this collection of cultural groups would be identified as nations in their own right, and their territories as countries. From Yankees of New England, to the Southerners of Mississippi and Alabama, to the swamp monsters of Louisianan, to the tee-totaling Mormons of the Rockies and the Great Salt Lake, to Germano-Scandinavian alcoholics of the Upper Midwest, to those people on the west coast that nobody likes, America, the nation, is really just the supranational identity of various people who immigrated to this continent with the goal of escaping the East, settling down, and being left alone, who formed a military alliance protect their independence, and to allow business to take place with minimal internal wars. The American nation, unlike other nations, is continental in practice, and ideological, not strictly dependent on land, and not at all dependent on ancestry, religion, language, cuisine, or dress. It would be un-American to view a fellow American as in any way less American for the color of his skin, his place of origin, who or what he prays to, or if he were to wear a t-shirt and blue jeans or a kaftan or Lederhosen. What constitutes the American uber-nation is the commitment to independence (of the country and the individual), rule of law, mutual defense, and otherwise minding-your-own business so that a person can live and worship freely without undue burden or fear.
Narland
I agree with your definition of America, but I prefer to call it a nation than a country like in nationstates, it just sounds nicer. I agree with your definition of the Europeans, New Zealanders, Australians and Canadians to an extent similar to the Europeans.
Highway Eighty-Eight
I think American nationalism is quite unique in that it isn't based off ethnicity or even race. It was a belief that if you came to this nation you were determined to be free and fight for the freedoms of your fellow man. American nationalism has sadly been in a lot of trouble for a very long time and we need someone like trump to bring the concept of American nationalism to the forefront of politics. If the republican primaries are an indication of where the nation is headed we are looking at some prosperous times ahead
Miencraft, Narland, Miami Jai-Alai 3
Viva Trump 2016 2020 2024 and Forever - Make America Greater Again.
Miri Islands
Happy Father's day to all the fathers in the region
Narland
When I was a fledgling teenager a friend's dad in jest said, "Happy Father's Day" to me. I jokingly responded with , "Wow, you daughter never told me." It went downhill from there.
Our old Civics textbooks used to be clear on the matter. Our nationalism is Federalism (the term has been slaughtered so it is better to think Federation-ism). It indeed is ideological -- confined to the Natural Law concepts of Liberty and Equality as worked out in Classical Liberalism (in the proper conceptual framework) by the Northern European theologians, philosophers, and statesmen such that the only duty of government is benign indifference until someone's rights to life, liberty or property were violated.
Our founders tended to use the term country to encompass the entirety of the land (and all the people in it) of the States in that Union (emphasis on the States in Union). Nation tended to mean the Union itself (emphasis on the Federal government as the State of the United States for the people -- what became governance limited to Washington, DC, forts, military bases, post offices, and ports of entry to do the 20 things the Constitution delegated it to do). To my rural grandparents, the country was more important than the nation, and to my urban great-aunts and uncles, the nation was more important than the country. The split is still seen today between rural and urban Americans.
In the civics books, American was anybody who embodied the ideals of Life, Liberty and Pursuit of happiness and pursued it as a citizen and statesman. Unamerican were words one did not want to hear as a Citizen. I think the concept needs to be brought back to the forefront.
America is unique in world history. We did at least 35 things and did so differently from the European monarchists and democrats --all at the same time. They thought the concepts would lead to our destruction. The unheard of extreme liberty under the ethics of Jesus Christ brought about the greatest engine of wealth and prosperity the world has ever known. (OC other nations did some of things things at sundry times, but it was too little to let its subjects have the the tools to live freely in self-government. If Liberty dies here it dies for centuries.
I was going to do a short glossary, but this is too long already. If it is a political term, you can best bet that the definition has been twisted to frame a Dialectic Determinist narrative.
Instead of having a senate and a house of representatives, how about having a council of governors and a house of representatives, to balance the political ideological balance of the council of governors, with a president and vice president of the nation? The governors can propose laws to the house of representatives in groups of governors and separately? The governors administer the laws of their states and the laws of the house of representatives, through their council of ministers? I Prefer to use the term nation instead of country, it sounds nicer, like in nationstates. I Prefer a Council of Ministers and Ministries instead of departments and secretaries, it sounds nicer.
Narland
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