Posted on 02/08/2023 5:18:04 AM PST by blueplum
Dane-Geld
-Rudyard Kipling
It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
To call upon a neighbour and to say:—
“We invaded you last night—we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away.”
And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you’ve only to pay ‘em the Dane-geld
And then you’ll get rid of the Dane!
It is always a temptation for a reach and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say:—
“Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the
time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away.”
And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.
It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say:—
“We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!”
Apparently, the position that no "reparations" should be paid ever, to anyone, on account of 19th Century slavery, is not permitted. The correct answer to these greedy negro bastards is "go sodomize yourself".
I’ve read two stories this morning about reparations on FR this morning. I am feeling a bit racist. I’m thinking about this abstractly at the moment and I am concluding it is a natural protection mechanism and there isn’t anything wrong with it. There needs to be major push back on reparations. I hope it will be peaceful, but I doubt that will be the case. Our nation is cruising for CWII because of Democrats, yet again.
The Progressives opened this can of worms, and they are ultimately going to make all of us pay when the backlash comes. Anyone with a room temperature IQ knows that there will never be any reparations payments. Its impossible. Who would get the money? What if I’m half black? Or a quarter black? The questions are endless. Its so administratively difficult that it will never happen.
BUT, the expectation is now out there. “When do I get my check?” When this farce collapses under its own weight, the reaction is going to be very interesting to watch. I’m glad I live nowhere near a large city.
Fine, give ‘em reparations. Whites will have all the money back in no time.
True! Socialism is grounded in envy and revenge.
There is no end to the madness. None of it makes any sense, but the Left continues to push their agenda aggressively.
After they force all the white people to move out, like they always do, are the black folks going to be paying themselves.? How’s that going to work.??
The media’s flattering, always positive portrayals of blacks, and the heavy use of blacks in commercials where they are always portrayed as the smart, cool ones — isn’t this a form of reparations, perhaps unintentional.
Whites are receiving anti-reparations from the media.
Blm has already declared that no amount will be enough. They were squawking about $250,000 not being enough. $2.5 mill won’t be enough, nor will 2.5 bill. It will never be enough as more and more “Gimmedats” seek their pot of gols,at the end of the gov rainbow
“Saul Alinsky and his disciples were not/are not stupid. “
The stupidity of Alinsky and his disciples would fill an encyclopedia.
any reparations paid by a state are ultimately paid by the federal govt
you don’t have to live in MA to pay for this bs
you pay federal taxes at all... and you’re paying for it.
One could wish, that members of such committees would include several, if not most, would publicly be, “No, not once cent!”. As it is now, the discussion is, “How much money?” and “Who gets to receive it?”
The drug cartels will get most of it.
Bkmrk
[There is a level of stupidity so deep and unique that it can only be assigned to liberals.]
Correct, are thee.
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