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  • There Will Be Boundaries

    05/05/2025 3:06:51 PM PDT · by little jeremiah · 15 replies
    Clusterf**k Nation ^ | May 5, 2025 | James Howard Kunstler
    It’s vain and futile to suppose that the disordered minds of Western Civ’s entrenched Wokester Jacobins might ever be subject to polite persuasion about anything they believe. They believe only in the power of pushing their fellow citizens around, and so, alas, the only persuasion that might conceivably work to stop their infantile assaults on liberty, truth, and decency is to push back harder until they suffer and break.This is something that most parents with young children instinctively understand. You don’t negotiate with two-year-olds. You tell them how things are and what sort of behavior is required of them, as...
  • “No-Go” Zones and the End of the Utopia

    05/05/2025 6:54:48 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 25 replies
    Legal Insurrection ^ | 4 May, 2025 | Nora Dimitrova Clinton
    A shocking example of Western countries’ suicidal policies, and a warning regarding our own “sanctuary cities,” is provided by the Swedish “no-go” zones. Similar trends have emerged in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austria, and elsewhere in Western and Central Europe. The suicidal immigration policies of Western Europe and leftist U.S. administrations reminded me of “The Arsonists,” the widely discussed 1950s play by the Swiss author Max Frisch. In it, an otherwise decent citizen hosts arsonists in his attic, due to his naivete and misguided sense of propriety, and ends up assisting them in setting his own house on fire....
  • the second world - a tour of "you don't wanna go there"

    05/05/2025 8:33:06 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 22 replies
    bad cattitude ^ | 3 May, 2025 | EL GATO MALO (The Bad Cat)
    people are familiar with the common construct of “the third world.” they are also familiar with the idea of “the first world.” what’s interesting to me is the idea of how one becomes the other and the presumption of the causality and the pathways by which that occurs. it’s worth some exploration. worryingly, this is a topic on which i think most people’s intuitions and utopian hopes are hopelessly wrong to the point of being outright dangerous. in an attempt to clarify and circumvent such, i’d like to add a new construct to the list, that of “the second world”...
  • The Battle Of Marathon, The Fight For Western Civilization And The Traitors Amongst Us

    04/17/2025 8:24:32 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 5 replies
    AND Magazine ^ | 16 Apr, 2025 | Sam Faddis
    If there is a single moment in time in which the fate of Western civilization was decided, it is the battle of Marathon, 490 BC. The Persians under their king Darius landed in Greece, only 26 miles from Athens itself. A vastly outnumbered Greek force marched out to meet them. The Persians had already conquered huge swathes of the Middle East and South Asia. A relative handful of quarrelsome Greeks seemed unlikely to pose much of a challenge to them. But they were. When the day was done, the Persians were vanquished. The idea of Persian invincibility was destroyed forever....
  • Why Elon Musk is right about George Soros: At the core of Soros’s project is the destruction of America and what she stands for.

    11/09/2023 10:13:27 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 40 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 11/09/2023 | S.R. Piccoli
    Something some observers of public life in the United States and elsewhere have been wondering for a long time is whether, if you wanted to destroy American civilization, its values, traditions, and institutions, you would act differently from how George Soros has acted so far. I’m pretty sure the answer is no. Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO and the world’s richest man, seems to agree. “In my opinion, he fundamentally hates humanity,” Musk said during an appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. “He’s doing things that erode the fabric of civilization, getting D.A.s elected who refuse to prosecute crime. That’s...
  • J.D. Unwin and Why Sexual Morality May be Far More Important than You Ever Thought

    01/07/2025 11:21:03 AM PST · by TexasKamaAina · 7 replies
    Unwin examines the data from 86 societies and civilizations to see if there is a relationship between sexual freedom and the flourishing of cultures. What makes the book especially interesting is that we in the West underwent a sexual revolution in the late 1960’s, 70’s, and 80’s and are now in a position to test the conclusions he arrived at more than 40 years earlier.
  • Civilization and Barbarism

    12/15/2024 6:03:44 AM PST · by RoosterRedux · 18 replies
    American Thinker ^ | Lars Møller
    As the true scale of German war crimes committed during the 1940s eventually became known, the public response across the West was one of outrage and disbelief. That the native country of such master spirits as Immanuel Kant, Johann W. von Goethe, and Ludwig van Beethoven could also have bred the vile Nazi mob looked like a mystery. It was such a long way from the creation of philosophy, poetry, and symphonic music, respectively, to the implementation of fake-scientific, inhumane eugenics after the seizure of power by Adolf Hitler. And the distance between good and evil became infinitely long as...
  • Belgium bans Jews from sporting events like it was World War II

    08/12/2024 1:09:54 PM PDT · by george76 · 42 replies
    New York Post ^ | Aug. 12, 2024, | Post Editorial Board
    All it took was a little bit of graffiti for Belgium’s third-largest city to side with hate. A group of Israeli frisbee athletes was scheduled to play in an international competition in Ghent last week when a vandal spray-painted antisemitic graffiti near the field: “Boycott Israhell Now!” Insanely, the town’s mayor and police force reacted by booting the Israeli team from the competition. ... More, the town told the coaches and team members they couldn’t even watch the game. In 2024, people in a major Western European city (a university town, no less!) are being banned from sporting events because...
  • George Will: House Republicans voted to endanger ‘civilization’ with Ukraine aid opposition

    04/24/2024 12:28:32 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 51 replies
    The Hill ^ | 04/24/2024
    George Will, a conservative columnist for The Washington Post, went after House Republicans who recently voted against more aid to Ukraine in a Wednesday opinion piece in the Post. In the opinion, highlighted by Mediaite, Will said the 112 Republicans House Republicans who voted against Ukraine aid “voted last Saturday to endanger civilization,” calling them “ignoble.” “Hoping to enhance their political security in their mostly safe seats, and for the infantile satisfaction of populist naughtiness (insulting a mostly fictitious ‘establishment’), they voted to assure [Russian President Vladimir Putin’s] attempt to erase a European nation,” Will wrote in his column. Opponents...
  • Why have we left it behind? What happened to explain our exodus?

    04/18/2024 5:11:03 PM PDT · by Racketeer · 25 replies
    Twitter ^ | April 18, 2024 | Culture Critic
    Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. This is what American cities looked like a century ago. Everything you see here was demolished. Why?
  • Towards a Global War? Ducunt fata volentem, nolentem trahunt

    04/17/2024 7:24:49 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 4 replies
    Rorate Caeli ^ | April 17, 2024 | Roberto de Mattei
    Towards a Global War? Ducunt fata volentem, nolentem trahuntAs missiles and drones ply the skies from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, the concern of Western diplomacies seems to be to procrastinate as much as possible a general conflagration that everyone believes is inevitable. One reason for this pessimism is the apparent lack of a way forward in the face of increasingly intractable international issues, such as those in Ukraine and the Middle East. Only an axiological view of politics could offer a glimmer of light, but today every state, every coalition, makes Carl Schmitt's categories its own, according to...
  • DISPARATE IMPACT THINKING IS DESTROYING OUR CIVILIZATION

    04/10/2024 3:02:06 PM PDT · by Thank You Rush · 55 replies
    IMPRIMIS ^ | FEBRUARY 2024 | HEATHER MAC DONALD
    The American Medical Association today insists that medicine is characterized by white supremacy.
  • Liz Truss: Ten Years to Save the West

    04/02/2024 7:19:26 AM PDT · by RandFan · 15 replies
    Twitter/X ^ | April 2 | Liz Truss
    @trussliz My book Ten Years to Save the West is out on April 16th the UK and U.S. We must change the system and be prepared to fight for conservative values. elizabethtruss.com
  • America’s Stunning Embrace Of Paganism Signals The End Of This Country As We Know It

    03/28/2024 9:07:17 PM PDT · by chickenlips · 85 replies
    The Federalist ^ | March 27, 2024 | John Daniel Davidson
    The following essay is adapted from the author’s new book, Pagan America: The Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come. It’s hard to survey the state of our country and not conclude that something is very wrong in America. I don’t just mean with our economy or the border or rampant crime in our cities, but with our basic grasp on reality itself. Our cultural and political elite now insist that men can become women, and vice versa, and that even children can consent to what they euphemistically call “gender-affirming care.” In a perfect inversion of reason and...
  • The Civilizational Masochism of the West-We are swiftly approaching the consequences of our suicidal blindness

    03/21/2024 7:09:19 AM PDT · by SJackson · 9 replies
    Frontpagemagazine ^ | March 21, 2024 | Bruce Thornton
    Last week, Joe Biden issued a schoolmarmish warning to Israel, which he has been browbeating for months to placate his party’s anti-Israel left and Muslim American voters in Michigan, a critical swing state. Speaking to the press, he threatened, “There’s got to be a ceasefire because Ramadan – if we get into circumstances where this continues to Ramadan, Israel and Jerusalem could be very, very dangerous.”This solicitude for Muslims’ sensitivity about their faith bespeaks the West’s long bad habit of caring more about Islam––the faith that conquered and occupied, and to this day still occupies, much of the Christian Roman...
  • New Article: Why Civilizations Collapse

    03/09/2024 11:45:41 AM PST · by TexasKamaAina · 28 replies
    The Palladium Letter ^ | 03/08/2024 | Samo Burja
    Since collapse in material technology is always preceded by collapse in the practice of social technology, Dark Ages are always preceded by Intellectual Dark Ages. Knowledge of these social technologies is highly compartmentalized and, as a result, they are not understood explicitly by all parts of society. This means that a society undergoing an Intellectual Dark Age doesn’t realize it is going through one at all—all the people who would notice are long-gone, and those who remain are miseducated, role-playing the forms left behind by their predecessors without realizing that they’ve lost the substance. Often not just the knowledge, but...
  • The Green Energy Cult is Killing the West

    02/10/2024 10:24:30 AM PST · by Starman417 · 26 replies
    Flopping Aces ^ | 02-08-24 | Vince
    Years ago, I wrote a post about how cheap air travel to Europe was ruining America. My point was that the Americans visiting Europe were confusing what they experienced as a tourist with the reality of life in Europe. These progressive American fans of two-hour lunches and 6 months of maternal and paternal leave didn’t have a clue about how average Europeans lived. Indeed, a couple of years later, the Foundation For Economic Education came out with a study that showed the poorest 20% of Americans were better off than the average European. Basically, the average European suffers from high...
  • This Isn’t A Third World Country, An Apocalypse Didn’t Happen, A Nuclear Warhead Didn’t Detonate…. This Is Democrat Run Oakland, California

    02/03/2024 2:55:00 PM PST · by grundle · 41 replies
    Twitter ^ | February 2, 2024 | Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes
    This Isn’t A Third World Country, An Apocalypse Didn’t Happen, A Nuclear Warhead Didn’t Detonate…. This Is Democrat Run Oakland, California “Of all the bad places I've been to in the United States, I don't know if I've ever been to a city that's as vastly rundown, abandoned, and out of control as Oakland, California. This is the side of town where most of the homeless camps are located. Some look like something you'd see in Haiti, lean to shacks made of recovered junk that serve as 4 walls and a roof but that's just about it. Other areas just...
  • It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like 1776

    01/27/2024 3:14:01 PM PST · by Red Badger · 15 replies
    PJ Media ^ | | 8:14 AM ON JANUARY 27, 2024 | DREW ALLEN
    I argue in my recently published book, "America’s Last Stand: Will You Vote to Save or Destroy America in 2024," that “our present conflict is unprecedented in our own nation’s history and in our own lifetimes and marks the third major test, which will determine whether America survives or dies” — our previous major tests being the American Revolution and Civil War. While it was the left’s unprecedented and unlawful efforts to indict and imprison former President Trump that compelled me to make such a claim, more recent events have unfortunately reaffirmed its validity and served to exacerbate already deteriorating...
  • Are Intact Airplanes Too Much For The Shrinking Middle Class To Ask For?

    01/25/2024 8:25:52 PM PST · by bitt · 30 replies
    thefederalist.com ^ | 1/12/2024 | PEACHY KEENAN
    Things we once enjoyed have suddenly gotten so much worse. Not just a little worse, but way worse. You pay more, you get less, and it sucks. Social media was on fire this week in the wake of the Claudine Gay incompetence scandal at Harvard, the 737 IKEA MAX airplane scandal at Boeing, and the ongoing scandal of fanatic, destructive DEI hiring rules at airlines, air traffic control towers, colleges, corporate America, and everywhere else that matters. Things got so wild that Elon Musk replied positively to one of my anti-DEI screeds, and Matt Walsh credited me for some of...