Posted on 06/12/2025 6:43:03 AM PDT by Starman417
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded - here and there, now and then - are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as “bad luck.”
-Robert A. Heinlein
Ingratitude, ignorance, and GREED...
Only a fool refuses to see Truth.
John 14:6: I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
That's absolute. And any suggestion to the contrary is false doctrine. A lot of that on FR.
I think that the ingratitude, ignorance and greed are real.
Endemic.
So don’t get me wrong when I say, the source of the problem is external (foreign). The endemic social problems are just being exploited by forces that want to unravel our civilization.
It seems the more information is available, the more ignorant people become.
Ignorance is not shameful . It just means you don’t know. You can learn and you won’t be as ignorant. It’s the hubris of the young who think that they know. They think they know everything, including morality. They think they know right from wrong - and honestly their idealistic ignorance is kind of charming. Would that it were only so. Sadly they project this ignorant morality onto people who are very far from ignorant and demand those people (usually one side) abide their idealism. It’s not possible if both sides don’t agree completely, and yet the ignorant will get irate over the lack of change by the experienced. Even if there is change it’s not enough for the ignorant to be happy. Because they are ignorant. I was fortunate to learn at a young age, I need not focus on other people’s problems I need to focus on myself. Which is why I joined FR.
This claim is simply nonsense: Europe had much higher defense budgets until 1989.
Europe also acquired a much higher standard of living after WWII for the same reason the US did: US-style mass production became the norm instead of artisanal production and the post-WWII replacement or rebuilding of European infrastructure also greatly enhanced productivity. The Europeans also took the lead over the US in certain industrial technologies such as electric-arc steelmaking and monocoque automobile construction.
The US didn't stay engaged in the world to help Europe but decided to spend money helping Europe, fought to prevent Soviet expansion, and created institution like the UN and World Bank because it knew spending lots of money and the occasional small war were much better alternatives to another world war.
We seem to have forgotten that and that the cause of the last two world wars was a "multipolar world" with no rules preventing wars of conquest. I know the adage that God looks out for the United States, but I also know the adage about not tempting the Lord thy God too much.
Yep. Label Barack Hussein Obama as a (an apostate) Muslim Foreign Agent here to Disrupt, Destroy, Sandbag, and Cripple America and Corrupt American Culture.
Then, EVERYTHING he did, does or doesn’t do makes complete sense.
I saw what he was in 2008 and he has lived up to my expectations.
AND barely 7 years after 09/11/2001.
Both
The culture was rotting
This false prophet showed up and enhanced the cancer
Look at how stupid half of our population has been since he showed up
He’s a smooth-talking false prophet of the Devil and Satan
Yes. What you say is Truth.
I’ve said this since mid 80s
The black spot of Nazism and the latter Klans tied our hands for too long
It has been auch a hammer against any defense of white Christian nationalism or western civilization in general
It’s fading a bit now
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Bump
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