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Posted: 1/27/2021 9:38:44 PM EDT
When we look back on things like the Khmer Rouge or Nazi Germany or the Spanish Civil War, it's in the abstract. We think about the big picture, the major impacts and outcomes, the top leaders, the major battles. We don't really think about the day-to-day, the mundane existence of everyday people. We don't think about how they were just going about their daily lives, going to work, raising their families, going to school, spending time with kids, etc.
People, we are now living in an era of historic change. Reading some of the things the Biden junta is enacting and more they're preparing for, this is the Enabling Acts all over again. It's a massive campaign for "social justice" and that's never a good thing. Marxists won in Nepal, fighting for "social justice" (and made orphans of thousands of kids). The Khmer Rouge fought for "social justice." Vladimir Lenin was a staunch advocate for democracy and fighting for "the people." You can bitch about it, you can talk tough about what you're not going to let the bad government men do, but at the end of the day, this is a major tectonic shift with implications for global change. How many of those major global change moments happened without violence and bloodshed? Serious question. The movement to a global economy was remarkable in world history for bringing major change without violence; indeed, that was its very purpose. But a political movement to bring about social justice has always resulted in tyranny and bloodshed, as far as I know. Anybody can feel free to prove me wrong. I don't know where this ride ends, but it sure is going to be interesting for the next 20 years. War? Famine? Collapse and depression? Chaos and disease? Just throwing out some perspective to help avoid getting angry about the end of an Age. |
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It’s all in the name of this great reset bullshit. They’re lining up the cards and setting the stage.
They know exactly how people will react so they’re playing those cards. |
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Any history major who studied actual history and not leftist programming knows exactly what movie they’re watching right now.
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It's incredible and sad that we know it's happening and still can't manage to stop it.
I watched zero dark thirty today bc i have no life. It makes me proud of team america and grateful for having the best intelligence and special forces on our side. But I couldn't stop thinking about how scary it was that assets like the cia and seals could be turned inward on all of us one day. And in the case of the cia, they already have been, like with the spying on trump. |
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I am in my 50s and we have been getting pushed further and further even in my lifetime. It needs to to break to be rebuilt.
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Honestly, I'm not a fan.
US Culture, and truly civilization a whole, looks like it peaked in the late 90s and we're just in for a downward slide until death. Things were always getting better every year the first two decades of my life but since ~2000 everything has stayed the same or gotten worse. Cosmetic changes and variety, but that's it. We're stuck. |
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Quoted: I am in my 50s and we have been getting pushed further and further even in my lifetime. It needs to to break to be rebuilt. View Quote Attached File |
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Quoted: Correct you are and the Leftist have no idea what awaits them. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/255759/7464E8A3-B7BC-4DFE-A026-CF462B7AF9E6_jpe-1799869.JPG View Quote Attached File |
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So what is the best real estate strategy for the coming revolution/collapse?
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Quoted: Honestly, I'm not a fan. US Culture, and truly civilization a whole, looks like it peaked in the late 90s and we're just in for a downward slide until death. Things were always getting better every year the first two decades of my life but since ~2000 everything has stayed the same or gotten worse. Cosmetic changes and variety, but that's it. We're stuck. View Quote when, not if, it steps off looks like it would be a good time to settle some scores. |
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I’d prefer a slower pace of life but the vast majority just handed the country off to people that are gonna stab us all in the back while waving our flag in our faces. Everything the founders warned us of has been actualized. Shit, our very first President warned us of rising political parties in his farewell address...
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Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/421435/32EBBDC3-E59A-4CB1-99D9-4A1BD41BCB9F_jpe-1799873.JPG View Quote Right up until he is disarmed, lined up on the side of the road in a ditch with his family, and shot in the back of the head......... |
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Quoted: I’d prefer a slower pace of life but the vast majority just handed the country off to people that are gonna stab us all in the back while waving our flag in our faces. Everything the founders warned us of has been actualized. Shit, our very first President warned us of rising political parties in his farewell address... View Quote |
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Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/421435/32EBBDC3-E59A-4CB1-99D9-4A1BD41BCB9F_jpe-1799873.JPG View Quote Based off of that picture, your avatar should be of those birds in swapped positions.. |
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Quoted: Honestly, I'm not a fan. US Culture, and truly civilization a whole, looks like it peaked in the late 90s and we're just in for a downward slide until death. Things were always getting better every year the first two decades of my life but since ~2000 everything has stayed the same or gotten worse. Cosmetic changes and variety, but that's it. We're stuck. View Quote It’s because dumbasses don’t know the difference between enduring rights and permissions and privileges based on transient popular culture. They’ve traded the former for the latter. The Indians have bought the pox ridden blankets again. |
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Quoted: Honestly, I'm not a fan. US Culture, and truly civilization a whole, looks like it peaked in the late 90s and we're just in for a downward slide until death. Things were always getting better every year the first two decades of my life but since ~2000 everything has stayed the same or gotten worse. Cosmetic changes and variety, but that's it. We're stuck. View Quote True, and this is one of the little factors underneath it. Every generation in America did a bit better than the one before. Until now. I heard on the radio this week about how millennials are the first generation to have it worse than their parents, and I believe it. There's a lot of pieces to the puzzle, you can't just shrug it off as millennials are lazy, entitled morons who made bad choices. Offshoring America's wealth for global "free trade" helped make that mess, too, reducing opportunities. Then there's the social progress America has made, which leaves little undone. I somewhere read that when a society has erased most of its injustice, it starts to make mountains out of molehills, and elevate what had been really minor things to the level of major social injustice. See today's emphasis on "white nationalist extremism." There really isn't any such thing as white bigotry in any meaningful sense, but society focuses on the little things and makes normal people out to be monsters when they didn't do anything wrong. |
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Quoted: True, and this is one of the little factors underneath it. Every generation in America did a bit better than the one before. Until now. I heard on the radio this week about how millennials are the first generation to have it worse than their parents, and I believe it. There's a lot of pieces to the puzzle, you can't just shrug it off as millennials are lazy, entitled morons who made bad choices. Offshoring America's wealth for global "free trade" helped make that mess, too, reducing opportunities. Then there's the social progress America has made, which leaves little undone. I somewhere read that when a society has erased most of its injustice, it starts to make mountains out of molehills, and elevate what had been really minor things to the level of major social injustice. See today's emphasis on "white nationalist extremism." There really isn't any such thing as white bigotry in any meaningful sense, but society focuses on the little things and makes normal people out to be monsters when they didn't do anything wrong. View Quote Should’ve gotten that job flippin burgers instead of moving home and eating into their inheritance during the recession... |
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I'm finding it difficult to think sanely anymore. To top this all off it's felt like living in a prison for the last 10 months and now it's going to become even worse.
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Well OP, I’d quibble on the Spanish Civil War - what was Franco suppose to do when the marxists were digging up dead nuns and executing live priests.
The General took out the trash and rightly so. We could only be so lucky for that kind of leadership. |
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Quoted: Well OP, I’d quibble on the Spanish Civil War - what was Franco suppose to do when the marxists were digging up dead nuns and executing live priests. The General took out the trash and rightly so. We could only be so lucky for that kind of leadership. View Quote Yes, but it was a period of radical social change, precipitated by extreme "progressive" policies like "land reform" and attacking organized religion. In Spain, the Whites won instead of the Reds, a rare exception. But there was still a massive social upheaval that nobody got through unscathed. People fleeing the country to avoid the conflict, people getting conscripted into one or the other side's armies, propaganda on both sides, social disintegration. We've stepped from the ladder to the top of the slide. Get ready to take a ride! |
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It reminds me of the early 1930's. An implacable hostile foreign power rising feeling its time now to dominate the world has come, and an idiotic Democratic President waling away at the foundation of our economy with his dictatorial edicts and packing of the Supreme Court.
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Quoted: True, and this is one of the little factors underneath it. Every generation in America did a bit better than the one before. Until now. I heard on the radio this week about how millennials are the first generation to have it worse than their parents, and I believe it. There's a lot of pieces to the puzzle, you can't just shrug it off as millennials are lazy, entitled morons who made bad choices. Offshoring America's wealth for global "free trade" helped make that mess, too, reducing opportunities. Then there's the social progress America has made, which leaves little undone. I somewhere read that when a society has erased most of its injustice, it starts to make mountains out of molehills, and elevate what had been really minor things to the level of major social injustice. See today's emphasis on "white nationalist extremism." There really isn't any such thing as white bigotry in any meaningful sense, but society focuses on the little things and makes normal people out to be monsters when they didn't do anything wrong. View Quote |
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View Quote This... There is a major difference between our situation and previous leftist genocides: This is coming primarily from women and effeminize men. No civilization can rule without the support of the warrior class and a strong majority of masculine men do not support the left's agenda. Any crackdown is going to go sideways real fast. They do not have the support of the police, fireman, construction workers, bikers, truckers, vets and active duty military and they are rapidly losing the unions. We are the majority and they are afraid of us. Their agenda is extremely unpopular outside of a handful of cities and a backlash is inevitable. Once that backlash starts there is nothing they can do to stop it... |
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Here's another thought: except for a few immigrants who came here from places like Cambodia, Yugoslavia, nobody in America knows what it's like to live through this kind of social upheaval. As I said in the OP, it's an abstract thought exercise for 99.9% of Americans, even those of us who think we see clearly enough to know what's coming. We can cite the historical examples, but we don't know how it is to live through it. I suspect there's a feedback loop that happens, as people lose their shit and start contributing to the cycle of unrest, breeding more social disintegration.
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The end of The Republic of the United States of America
Rise of the Marxist police state of the Woke Left |
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Quoted: Quoted: I wasn't a history major, but Germany 1933 seems to fit. Or Spain early 30s. What else? Russia, 1917. Fuck. I know what my next book read is going to be. I listened to one lecture about the causes of the Russian Revolution, but there's certainly more to know. |
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Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/421435/32EBBDC3-E59A-4CB1-99D9-4A1BD41BCB9F_jpe-1799873.JPG View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Correct you are and the Leftist have no idea what awaits them. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/255759/7464E8A3-B7BC-4DFE-A026-CF462B7AF9E6_jpe-1799869.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/421435/32EBBDC3-E59A-4CB1-99D9-4A1BD41BCB9F_jpe-1799873.JPG |
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Quoted: Here's another thought: except for a few immigrants who came here from places like Cambodia, Yugoslavia, nobody in America knows what it's like to live through this kind of social upheaval. As I said in the OP, it's an abstract thought exercise for 99.9% of Americans, even those of us who think we see clearly enough to know what's coming. We can cite the historical examples, but we don't know how it is to live through it. I suspect there's a feedback loop that happens, as people lose their shit and start contributing to the cycle of unrest, breeding more social disintegration. View Quote Those who fled communism are pretty pissed they're gonna have to live thru it again. |
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And, it's not just us. By 2050 the CCP wants to be the world's preeminant economy. It will need Taiwan to have it's sense of completion. There is no better time than when the US is in turmoil.
Iran desparately wants to unify its people. The best way to do that is to attack Israel. Israel knows that, and has promised to attack Iran pre-emptively if we rejoin the Iran nuclear deal. There is no better time for Iran to attack Israel, and likewise no better time for Israel to attack Iran. So, we're looking at a spectacular time for world turmoil. |
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I was living in Nepal in the ‘90s when the Maoists slowly took control. First on the village level then winning national elections. After they murdered the royal family, they assumed absolute power in the resulting political vacuum.
My point is, nobody sees it happening until it already has. |
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Quoted: I'm probably not being very clear, trying to say the Commies (and future commies) are thinking this time will be different, Socialism will miraculously work. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Last time they didn't have a massive surveillance state run by big tech. I'm probably not being very clear, trying to say the Commies (and future commies) are thinking this time will be different, Socialism will miraculously work. Honestly, the people at the top don't care. They've got theirs, and they think they will get more. It's the useful idiots below them who think "we're the people we've been waiting for." "Yeah, this time Naziism will work. It was just the wrong people the last time." |
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Quoted: Honestly, I'm not a fan. US Culture, and truly civilization a whole, looks like it peaked in the late 90s and we're just in for a downward slide until death. Things were always getting better every year the first two decades of my life but since ~2000 everything has stayed the same or gotten worse. Cosmetic changes and variety, but that's it. We're stuck. View Quote I agree. Serious question - can we say that Osama won? |
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I'll repost this; as America is unique in one way no other country in History is. There are men here and there is a 2nd Amendment here.
We are simply allowing them some space -- for now. Until we dont. "The most terrifying force of death, comes from the hands of "Men who wanted to be left Alone". They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know, that the moment they fight back, the lives as they have lived them, are over. The moment the "Men who wanted to be left Alone" are forced to fight back, it is a small form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. . . . Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these "Men who wanted to be left Alone", fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. TRUE TERROR will arrive at the Left's door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy . . . . but it will fall upon deaf ears." View Quote |
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Quoted: It reminds me of the early 1930's. An implacable hostile foreign power rising feeling its time now to dominate the world has come, and an idiotic Democratic President waling away at the foundation of our economy with his dictatorial edicts and packing of the Supreme Court. View Quote Biden < Chamberlin. At least Chamberlin didn’t do his best to tank the British economy I am, of course, assuming that Biden is in charge. Nero fiddled while Rome burned is something else that comes to mind |
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Quoted: It’s all in the name of this great reset bullshit. They’re lining up the cards and setting the stage. They know exactly how people will react so they’re playing those cards. View Quote its all following the plan https://thesecrettruthabout.com/the-georgia-guidestones-mystery/ |
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