Posted on 11/09/2023 6:35:51 PM PST by Rummyfan
The West has been flooded with barbarians, who are no longer at the gates but well inside them.
But the threat of the barbarians from without is minuscule compared to the reality that barbarism itself has become perfectly normal within our society, and barbaric practices have been adopted by many Americans.
The chances that a graduate from a prestigious college in America will embrace barbarism are likely higher than your average illegal alien, at least from a few years ago. Most illegal aliens come here to live the American Dream, and prior to Biden’s open door/let’s hand you a check policy they likely got jobs and kept their heads down.
College students? Not so much. BLM and Antifa barbarians? They are barbaric nihilists bent on destroying everything that is good about our society.
Over the past few years, we have seen an explosion of violence and property crime in our cities, and the political activism that is normal on college campuses has turned into mob action aimed at intimidating and silencing anybody the activists don’t like.
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Keep the aliens, off the studies majors.
Ditto
1) We don’t like the barbarians.
2) The only way to get rid of the barbarians is to destroy the barbarians.
3) We could go around destroying all the people we don’t like.
4) But if we did that, we would become barbarians.
5) We don’t want to be barbarians.
6) So we surrender to the barbarians.
I think we are stuck in a descending spiral of civilizational decline. And the only way out is to decide that Item #4 above should be judged as a false statement.
I don’t see coming to any kind of accommodation with these people. So where does that leave us?
There’s not that many “barbarians” in America. So in a way we’re lucky. But it doesn’t really matter. All of the college students are “woke”. Our media is woke. The wealthy is woke. The Deep State is woke. That’s why you saw a lot of support for Hamas despite the terrorist attacks in Israel. They said that it was justified. So there’s not much left for me to say, really.
These are like the ones that followed the Nazis in Europe......VICHY HUMANS.......
It’s really #3. If we confine ourselves to merely destroying the people who want to destroy us (not just mouthy but actually trying to do so), we’ll do OK.
It would perhaps also help if we’d stop bankrupting ourselves to throw money at the people who haven’t yet killed us but only say they want to, and maybe treat our own people like humans instead of the enemy.
The fact that the opposite occurs could lead someone to get some kind of impression about who the real barbarians are.
Both clearly NOT GUILTY, but my preference is 99.
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the only way out is to decide that Item #4 above should be judged as a false statement.
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Absolutely true, and anyone who disagrees is a dangerous imbecile.
There’s not that many “barbarians” in America.
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Huh?
It leaves us at a replay of the Spanish Civil War.
Or, we need Our Own Homeland !
BS. Full stop . No thanks.
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It’s not so much the actions that make the barbarian as the interior disposition and motivation (which tend to be reflected in the actions). People can do things that look the same on the outside for very different reasons, and some can be heroes while others are devils.
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Well, assuming the validity of the above observations, what are your thoughts regarding how civilized people should deal with barbarians, bearing in mind of course the existential nature of the issue?
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