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Watching Britain’s decline is like rubbernecking a car accident
American Thinker ^ | 10 May, 2025 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 05/11/2025 4:47:53 AM PDT by MtnClimber

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To: Chickensoup

Wouldn’t that be Pakistan?


41 posted on 05/11/2025 7:39:40 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: MtnClimber
"Stockholm Syndrome" is the name given to a condition where hostages sometimes bond with their captors.

It should be called "British Subject Syndrome".

42 posted on 05/11/2025 7:43:08 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: MtnClimber

No, more like driving past a car jacking and not even bothering to call 911.


43 posted on 05/11/2025 8:20:23 AM PDT by bobbo666
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To: MtnClimber

Commie trash care only about power; power that they will use as bullies to abuse anyone who defies them — on anything. That is why the ones in power do nothing about the Islamic rape squads — they live vicariously thru the monsters.


44 posted on 05/11/2025 8:21:51 AM PDT by bobbo666
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To: FLT-bird

Yep. We’ve been betrayed by them too.


45 posted on 05/11/2025 8:37:03 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: MtnClimber
The UK started dying with Attlee in 1945.
46 posted on 05/11/2025 9:28:50 AM PDT by cowboyusa
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To: MtnClimber
“there won’t always be an England,” is a paywalled article in the Daily Mail that looks at the city of Leicester.

And here it is, archived. So sad:

Inside Britain's most segregated city: Areas where nearly half the adults speak little or no English, restaurants with women eating behind curtains and deprived streets where imported religious warfare threatens to break out...

47 posted on 05/11/2025 11:29:20 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Think about it: The Supreme Court is nine lawyers appointed for life by politicians. —David Horowitz)
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To: FLT-bird

The problem with saving them from their government is that they come here and vote DNC just like the hordes leving Blue states for Red states when they retire....


48 posted on 05/11/2025 11:31:29 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: mewzilla
https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/briefing-paper/493/immigration-and-population-change-in-the-uks-towns-and-cities

Appalling, and those stats were four years ago.

49 posted on 05/11/2025 11:33:21 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Think about it: The Supreme Court is nine lawyers appointed for life by politicians. —David Horowitz)
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To: kosciusko51; Nateman
And then there are Coldplay's lyrics to Viva la Vida from 2008, which astounded me then. They were foresightful:

I used to rule the world
Seas would rise when I gave the word
Now in the morning I sleep alone
Sweep the streets I used to own

I used to roll the dice
Feel the fear in my enemy's eyes
Listened as the crowd would sing,
"Now the old king is dead! Long live the king!"
One minute I held the key
Next the walls were closed on me
And I discovered that my castles stand
Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand

CHORUS:
I hear Jerusalem bells a-ringing
Roman cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror, my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can't explain
Once you'd gone there was never
Never an honest word
And that was when I ruled the world

It was a wicked and wild wind
Blew down the doors to let me in
Shattered windows and the sound of drums
People couldn't believe what I'd become
Revolutionaries wait
For my head on a silver plate
Just a puppet on a lonely string
Oh who would ever want to be king?

CHORUS

50 posted on 05/11/2025 11:47:15 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Think about it: The Supreme Court is nine lawyers appointed for life by politicians. —David Horowitz)
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To: Jumper

Years ago, when Democrats and other “lefty lites” rushed to conform to the latest transgressive belief or behavior of the bullies among us, I used to say, “Life is like high school.” But now, with global communism organized around the world and its ugly tentacles like cancer over the internet, the best/worst I can say is, “Life is like the universities.”


51 posted on 05/11/2025 12:00:03 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Think about it: The Supreme Court is nine lawyers appointed for life by politicians. —David Horowitz)
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To: MtnClimber; All

Thanks posters. BUMP!


52 posted on 05/11/2025 12:53:39 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Albion Wilde

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”


53 posted on 05/11/2025 1:09:07 PM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: Albion Wilde; Liz; GOPJ; Candor7; sushiman; Bikkuri; nopardons; mass55th
Thanks, Albion.  I have been moved by the Viva la Vida tune from time to time, but never saw the lyrics.  Great for us to read that to harden our determination to stop the civilization-destroying "virus" of communism and lawlessness.  Thank God Trump and his team are in power and fighting for survival -- and serious reform -- of the USA.

I am living in Japan now, a very law-abiding, merit-based, and family-strong culture that's a kind of flashback to what it seems America was like in the 1950s, the decade of my birth.

As an American-in-Greater-Tokyo, I need to tell the people I meet here about the dangers of a declining civilization and the importance of keeping "We the People" of Japan ever watchful and committed to freedom, education, faith, and self-reliance.


54 posted on 05/11/2025 2:31:58 PM PDT by poconopundit (Kash Patel, his portrait's in Webster's next to the word "gangbusters". Go Kash go! Love ya man!)
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To: FLT-bird

Nope.
They voted this garbage in.
Don’t need more demonrats.
Plus they are scared of kitchen knives and scissors.
I saw one of their media clo nearly faint at looking at a regular machete.
Euroweenies are not wanted.


55 posted on 05/11/2025 2:35:31 PM PDT by 1ScrappyArmyMom
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To: 1ScrappyArmyMom

They specifically voted against this over and over again only to have even the Tories be just as bad (Cameron) or even WORSE (Boris) than Labour had been about letting in hordes of 3rd world and especially muslim invaders.


56 posted on 05/11/2025 3:27:00 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: poconopundit

I was just wondering the other day, that I hadn’t seen your posts as much lately. Great to hear you’re enjoying a great adventure, living in what is reportedly still such a civilized country! One of my family members has visited there a few times and it always impressed by Japanese society. In return, they are lucky that you are a maga american and not an “ugly” american guest! Hope all goes well for you there! Work-related move?


57 posted on 05/11/2025 4:33:17 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Think about it: The Supreme Court is nine lawyers appointed for life by politicians. —David Horowitz)
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To: Nateman

Ozymandias! Ah, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Memorable poem. He lived a very short life, but we are still reading his work.


58 posted on 05/11/2025 5:20:49 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Think about it: The Supreme Court is nine lawyers appointed for life by politicians. —David Horowitz)
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To: krug

“I asked someone smarter than me why all these countries are admitting these POC POS into their countries,”

Japan , where I live , is allowing more and more foreigners into Japan . I live in the suburbs of Kumamoto City , and every day when taking my afternoon walk see different ones every day . I’m guessing Pakistani , Malaysian and the rest can’t be sure . They’ve even got them working at the Lawson convenience store on the corner . They are all young : early 20’s . Mostly males but I do see some female Malaysians with their head scarfs on riding bikes or the bus . I haven’t heard of any trouble with them , yet , but I do know that the city we used to live in , in Saitama Prefecture , hs a huge problem with Kurd “ refugees “ . You’ve got to follow the money . Japan is being pressured by NGOs and others to accept more foreigners . Japanese debt massive and apparently they are getting some “ relief “ from aforemmentioned NGOs and others .


59 posted on 05/11/2025 9:16:13 PM PDT by sushiman
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To: poconopundit

As an American-in-Greater-Tokyo, I need to tell the people I meet here about the dangers of a declining civilization and the importance of keeping “We the People” of Japan ever watchful and committed to freedom, education, faith, and self-reliance.

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A good thing.


60 posted on 05/13/2025 12:34:25 PM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray...."Our Father, who art in heaven......" )
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