Posted on 04/22/2022 10:50:24 AM PDT by Kaslin
On July 2, 1863, Confederate forces approaching Gettysburg found the high ground already occupied. A Union Signal Corps was stationed atop the large, smooth hill known as Little Round Top, where they could observe troop movements and communicate that intelligence to battlefield commanders below.
Since this gave the Federals a distinct advantage, the Confederates resolved to take the lightly guarded hill. Signal Corps officers, seeing the soldiers in gray amass for an all-out assault, sent up a cry for help. It was answered by Maj. General George Sykes and Colonel Strong Vincent, whose combined divisions were able to beat back the Confederate attackers in some of the fiercest fighting of the war.
The Union held Little Round Top, though many of its finest sons perished in the effort. And that seemingly minor victory, one small “skirmish” in a long series of bloody engagements, helped them win the Battle of Gettysburg and stop the Confederate advance in its tracks. It turned the tide of the war.
Remember that story next time some squish Republican tells you, “This isn’t the hill to die on.” Sometimes, it is. And sometimes you don’t “die.” And if you do die, figuratively speaking, your sacrifice may still propel your side to victory. And even if that doesn’t happen, at least you “died” fighting for a worthwhile cause. There are far worse things.
Today, we battle a new form of oppression, “transgenderism,” which seeks to deny reality, erase women, and butcher children. If we surrender or succumb to those who would thus enslave us, we are lost. Our country is lost. Western culture, the greatest the world has ever known, effectively ceases to exist.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
One of MANY hills, townhall, but, yes.....this is one.
At the very least, they should stop sharing their “preferred pronouns.”
The following quote from Theodore Dalrymple, written when Political Correctness was just gaining traction,is more and more relevant and especially with regard to transgenderism:
Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.
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In before the pathetic lost causers Stull living in 1863.
This is why Trump’s endorsement of Dr.Oz is so troubling. Trump needs to be questioned on his opinions of the trans push on our children. All leaders do. And anyone who equivocates even in the slightest needs to be banished until the gates of Hell are ready for them.
Heck, I even want DeSantis questioned as to why his bill stops at middle school, when children’s minds are most vulnerable to this poison.
Re: “But we also need those who might be neither conservative nor religious yet recognize the harm transgenderism causes to our communities, schools, and children.” ( from the article)
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We must SHUT DOWN GOVERNMENT K-12 SCHOOLS. Vouchers for all!( Yes, I am shouting!)
We must find ways around university and college schooling! If a job didn’t need a college degree in 1950, 1970, or 1980, IT DOES NOT NEED ONE NOW! ( Yes, I am shouting).
This indirectly led to the disaster at Appomattox.
And thus Lincoln's special military operation changed the American theory of “consent of the governed” to “majority of the bayonets.”
And.. the losersare.
Never forget Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s bayonet charge that won the day on Little Round Top.
I did a thesis on the leadership of Col. Chamberlin for MIOC many years ago. The leadership and wisdom he showed both days and weeks before the attack enabled his troops to trust him on that day. He and his brother were incredible leaders and incredible men of God.
Right. Chamberlain’s “swinging gate” maneuver prevented the rebs from outflanking the Union line. His 20th Maine charged in the face of a rebel charge and as you say, saved the day. But that was on day three. I think the opening article is about earlier in the three day battle.
The destroyer commanders at Leyte Gulf used a similar thought process to Chamberlain’s. Can’t retreat. Can’t stand here and fight. Only choice is to attack.
“And.. the losersare”
This sentiment reflects the Might Makes Right and Obey Your Politicians theory of government. There’s a reason that Karl Marx felt comfortable writing for the GOP’s flagship newspaper. And it’s what modern Tories would be crowing if the rebels of 1776 had been defeated.
“ Heck, I even want DeSantis questioned as to why his bill stops at middle school, when children’s minds are most vulnerable to this poison.”
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I think actually they are most vulnerable in early elementary school. Then when they reach the alienation of adolescence they will already be groomed for the irreversible self-butchery that will keep them feeling alienated for a lifetime, however short. A school to suicide pipeline, I fear.
Stop it in elementary school while you have the (relatively) easy votes. Then come back for the rest.
Thanks for the Dalrymple quote. He certainly saw today.
Byll, your vanted Confederacy socialized whole industries and violated Civil Rights far worse than what Lincoln did.
That is a distortion meant to misdirect people. You forget to mention these were war measures and not normal governance. Every government does this during war. We did it in WWI and WWII and even in the Civil War.
But perhaps you can tell me how many newspaper editors, legislators and congressmen the CSA locked up and how many thousands of political prisoners they had?
"...you are therefore hereby commanded forthwith to arrest and imprison in any fort or military prison in your command the editors, proprietors, and publishers of the aforesaid newspapers, and all such persons as, after public notice has been given of the falsehood of said publication, print and publish the same with intent to give aid and comfort to the enemy; and you will hold the persons so arrested in close custody until they can be brought to trial before a military commission for their offense. You will also take possession by military force of the printing establishments of the New York World and Journal of Commerce, and hold the same until further orders, and prohibit any further publication therefrom.A. LINCOLN.
"Freedom of speech"? "Freedom of the Press"? What's that?
How very Stalinistic.
“Isn’t there a lost cause board you can go to.”
You know you fight for the lost causes harder than for any other. - Jefferson Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS-wNkz1m4k
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