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Posted: 11/12/2012 7:31:06 PM EDT
[#1]
I have that picture saved but it says Israel. 
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Posted: 11/12/2012 7:31:56 PM EDT
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**COC VIOLATIONS**
 And big nasty socialist governments
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Posted: 11/12/2012 7:32:15 PM EDT
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Socialist Policy Actually just the opposite, most of them are being raped by outside forces like huge banks.  Ignore him, he is one of the ones working hard to see your kids and grandkids living in fucking mud huts 
He hates America, capitalism and any economic theory not written by Karl Marx. |
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Posted: 11/12/2012 8:23:27 PM EDT
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Because they accept non-westerners. I'm going to say a big NO to that one. How many homeless Vietnamese refugees do you see on the street? One generation ago we had an influx of tens of thousands of Vietnamese into this country. Within a generation they became engineers, businessmen and doctors. My engineering department at school was mostly Vietnamese, and only one white woman in my class. I know it's not a popular idea here on GD but plenty of non-"western" cultures have a vigorous work ethic and have done well in America busting ass. Having a strong sense of family and the importance of education go a long way to instilling a non-entitlement ethos into a culture. |
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Posted: 11/12/2012 8:29:32 PM EDT
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My personal favorite theory is that we become too civilized, and feel too guilty about everything. Then we go full retard about everything we can think of ways to fingerfuck.
I think it happens right around the time that society starts legalizing incest and cannibalizing it's most productive members so the morans won't feel butthurt about being morans. If we were to repeal all the laws and overturn all the lawsuits that promoted complete freedom from personal responsibility and liability, along with banning all of the safety/warning stickers on ladders, electric hairdryers, and forks, Darwin would take care of a lot of the rest. |
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Posted: 11/12/2012 8:38:07 PM EDT
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Pick one of the seven deadly sins and you'll have your answer
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Posted: 11/12/2012 8:42:36 PM EDT
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Quoted: Government This To much government. Its like a malignant tumor.
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Posted: 11/12/2012 8:52:52 PM EDT
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History repeats itself. Instead of learning from mistakes we treat every time like it's the first time.
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Posted: 11/12/2012 8:56:10 PM EDT
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Welfare state.
Specifically unrealistically expensive entitlement programs that are impossible to pay for, so more money is printed and debt is taken on to do so. Unsustainable is the word. |
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Posted: 11/12/2012 9:01:35 PM EDT
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This western country is doing quite well.
But we do have an overwhelming majority conservative government. 
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Posted: 11/12/2012 9:02:59 PM EDT
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"When we base society on humanism, which he defines as "a value system rooted in the belief that man is his own measure, that man is autonomous, totally independent", all values are relative and we have no way to distinguish right from wrong except for utilitarianism. Because we disagree on what is best for which group, this leads to fragmentation of thought, which has led us to the despair and alienation so prevalent in society today. Another premise is that modern relative values are based on Personal Peace (the desire to be personally unaffected by the world's problems) and Affluence (an increasing personal income.)"
He warns that when we live by these values we will be tempted to sacrifice our freedoms in exchange for an authoritarian government who will provide the relative values. He further warns that this government will not be obvious like the fascist regimes of the 20th century but will be based on manipulation and subtle forms of information control, psychology, and genetics. - Taken from "How Should We Then Live". 1976 |
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Posted: 11/12/2012 9:03:35 PM EDT
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Liberalism... which means giving everything away. Goes under the names socialism and globalism too.
When we didn't do that we were untouchable. Quoted:
This western country is doing quite well. But we do have an overwhelming majority conservative government. Canada and Australia usually do well during times of high commodity prices (which is to say when everyone else is getting screwed). |
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Posted: 11/12/2012 9:04:33 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Because they accept non-westerners. Bingo. Multiculturalism social engineering will be the downfall of western civilization. Specifically the allowed mass immigration of muslims. Lack of effort in WWIII |
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Posted: 11/12/2012 9:08:55 PM EDT
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Because despite what was proclaimed in the 90's and kids are taught in history, the cold war was a draw.
The US killed the USSR in a spurt of spending forcing them to collapse trying to keep up. Meanwhiel the USSR killed the US by spending approximately 85% of the KGB's budget subverting the media, law and education establish by influencing social movements and college journalism education and legal departments. So the USSR got a bullet to the brain pan after a long fire fight. The US got a slow wasting terminal disease from the blood spray. |
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Posted: 11/12/2012 9:42:22 PM EDT
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Everyone acting as if our demise is a direct result of 1. Non-Whites living here or 2. Religion on the wane, are high. The Founders were clear that the government wasn't meant to be run as a theocracy, dictating others beliefs, which is usually what is actually desired from many of you, although you're discreet enough not to say it openly. And as for the Non-Whites, that really is just bigoted non-sense, non whites can be hard working Americans just as much as whites. Some have been targeted by Liberals to use as pawns, playing on their fears as minorities in a country that does have a history of racial tensions. Then preying on these fears to solidify their votes for socialism.
In any stereotype there is usually a grain of truth, and acting as if it's purely racial or religious makes people sound like they really are the bible thumping racists that the Liberals accuse them to be. |
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Posted: 11/12/2012 9:52:36 PM EDT
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Because patriotism isn't hipster. It's for old people.
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Posted: 11/12/2012 10:04:52 PM EDT
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Quoted: We Global now.Because patriotism isn't hipster. It's for old people. |
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Posted: 11/12/2012 10:06:20 PM EDT
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All the above
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Posted: 11/13/2012 3:09:51 AM EDT
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Socialist Policy Unrealistic gluttony how Progressive.... Progressiveism has been intend for over 100 years on the destruction of the West and the implimentation of One Rule for "THEM" and 1000 rules for "US" Control of the masses by a ruling group of Elites who know far better than the rest of us how to live,work, pay taxes and do as we're told. All overseen by JBT Loyalists given an extra bowl of oatmeal for kicking a citizen when he's down.. They are Rascits, they are Eugenicists, they have all begun the same way, rotting away the core values of a society, controling the education systems content, poisioning the minds of the young making them Statist robots with only the interest of the Ruling class in thier future decision making. And at some point, THEY start stacking up bodies in a soccor stadium..
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Posted: 11/13/2012 3:10:30 AM EDT
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At the top for too long? Gotten soft? Seems as if the entire western world is fixin' to take a huge shit. Bunch of media fearing pussies. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 3:13:36 AM EDT
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Posted: 11/13/2012 3:16:58 AM EDT
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Socialist Policy +1 |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 3:18:47 AM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Government This To much government. Its like a malignant tumor. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 3:20:01 AM EDT
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At the top for too long? Gotten soft? Seems as if the entire western world is fixin' to take a huge shit. I would post an image or two but.... |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 3:22:48 AM EDT
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MTV
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Posted: 11/13/2012 3:24:56 AM EDT
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Quoted: My personal favorite theory is that we become too civilized, and feel too guilty about everything. Then we go full retard about everything we can think of ways to fingerfuck. I think it happens right around the time that society starts legalizing incest and cannibalizing it's most productive members so the morans won't feel butthurt about being morans. If we were to repeal all the laws and overturn all the lawsuits that promoted complete freedom from personal responsibility and liability, along with banning all of the safety/warning stickers on ladders, electric hairdryers, and forks, Darwin would take care of a lot of the rest. You misspelled morons.  |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 3:25:20 AM EDT
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First 49 posts nail it.
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Posted: 11/13/2012 3:26:07 AM EDT
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Socialist Policy Unrealistic gluttony how Progressive.... Progressiveism has been intend for over 100 years on the destruction of the West and the implimentation of One Rule for "THEM" and 1000 rules for "US" Control of the masses by a ruling group of Elites who know far better than the rest of us how to live,work, pay taxes and do as we're told. All overseen by JBT Loyalists given an extra bowl of oatmeal for kicking a citizen when he's down.. They are Rascits, they are Eugenicists, they have all begun the same way, rotting away the core values of a society, controling the education systems content, poisioning the minds of the young making them Statist robots with only the interest of the Ruling class in thier future decision making. And at some point, THEY start stacking up bodies in a soccor stadium..
You might want to look in to who writes the textbooks before you make the false claim on who "controls education systems content". |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 3:33:10 AM EDT
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Because entitlement policies are self reinforcing. No one wants to given up "their" social security or medicare because they "paid into/for it". That the money is gone or that their contributions are no where near the pay out is irrelevant to them. They have been counting those chickens before they've hatched and have planned their lives around the idea that they will receive that money. The only politicians that can then get elected are those that refuse to touch existing entitlements, and those that promise more get a huge boost in their electibility. Once you've reached critical mass so to speak, where a sufficient enough portion of the population in a democratic society is receiving these entitlements there is no going back. The only way to correct the problem is for the system to become fiscally impossible. Unfortunately that also tends to have sweeping negative consequences for that society and tends to produce shifts in the structure of the political system itself as well as the geopolitical status quo.
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Posted: 11/13/2012 3:53:43 AM EDT
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Because entitlement policies are self reinforcing. No one wants to given up "their" social security or medicare because they "paid into/for it". That the money is gone or that their contributions are no where near the pay out is irrelevant to them. They have been counting those chickens before they've hatched and have planned their lives around the idea that they will receive that money. The only politicians that can then get elected are those that refuse to touch existing entitlements, and those that promise more get a huge boost in their electibility. Once you've reached critical mass so to speak, where a sufficient enough portion of the population in a democratic society is receiving these entitlements there is no going back. The only way to correct the problem is for the system to become fiscally impossible. Unfortunately that also tends to have sweeping negative consequences for that society and tends to produce shifts in the structure of the political system itself as well as the geopolitical status quo. Social Security is not an "entitlement" it is insurance and not mater how many times you repeat that lie it is not going to come true. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 3:57:53 AM EDT
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Quoted: According to our very own government, it is listed as an entitlement. Quoted: Because entitlement policies are self reinforcing. No one wants to given up "their" social security or medicare because they "paid into/for it". That the money is gone or that their contributions are no where near the pay out is irrelevant to them. They have been counting those chickens before they've hatched and have planned their lives around the idea that they will receive that money. The only politicians that can then get elected are those that refuse to touch existing entitlements, and those that promise more get a huge boost in their electibility. Once you've reached critical mass so to speak, where a sufficient enough portion of the population in a democratic society is receiving these entitlements there is no going back. The only way to correct the problem is for the system to become fiscally impossible. Unfortunately that also tends to have sweeping negative consequences for that society and tends to produce shifts in the structure of the political system itself as well as the geopolitical status quo. Social Security is not an "entitlement" it is insurance and not mater how many times you repeat that lie it is not going to come true. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 4:01:03 AM EDT
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Inviting, and accommodating leeches.
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Posted: 11/13/2012 4:14:03 AM EDT
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Fear of others doing better than they.
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Posted: 11/13/2012 4:15:45 AM EDT
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they abandoned the ideals that made them successful, for the false promises of soft socialism and the "safety net". |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 4:20:13 AM EDT
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FIat currency always screws up in the long run. There is usually a long period of success and extreme growth until we realize that we dont have infinite resources to sustain growth. Then faith is lost in the fiat currency and there is an implosion. Persian, Greeks, Romans, French, history repeats itself since we ignore the consequences of past actions.
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Posted: 11/13/2012 4:37:14 AM EDT
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Because entitlement policies are self reinforcing. No one wants to given up "their" social security or medicare because they "paid into/for it". That the money is gone or that their contributions are no where near the pay out is irrelevant to them. They have been counting those chickens before they've hatched and have planned their lives around the idea that they will receive that money. The only politicians that can then get elected are those that refuse to touch existing entitlements, and those that promise more get a huge boost in their electibility. Once you've reached critical mass so to speak, where a sufficient enough portion of the population in a democratic society is receiving these entitlements there is no going back. The only way to correct the problem is for the system to become fiscally impossible. Unfortunately that also tends to have sweeping negative consequences for that society and tends to produce shifts in the structure of the political system itself as well as the geopolitical status quo. Social Security is not an "entitlement" it is insurance and not mater how many times you repeat that lie it is not going to come true. If you think the current iteration of SS is insurance, you might want to recheck the definition of the word "insurance". |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 4:49:35 AM EDT
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Laziness Fist post People have all of the western greed with little of the motivation. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 5:18:54 AM EDT
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We're doing pretty well over here.
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Posted: 11/13/2012 5:28:26 AM EDT
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Because entitlement policies are self reinforcing. No one wants to given up "their" social security or medicare because they "paid into/for it". That the money is gone or that their contributions are no where near the pay out is irrelevant to them. They have been counting those chickens before they've hatched and have planned their lives around the idea that they will receive that money. The only politicians that can then get elected are those that refuse to touch existing entitlements, and those that promise more get a huge boost in their electibility. Once you've reached critical mass so to speak, where a sufficient enough portion of the population in a democratic society is receiving these entitlements there is no going back. The only way to correct the problem is for the system to become fiscally impossible. Unfortunately that also tends to have sweeping negative consequences for that society and tends to produce shifts in the structure of the political system itself as well as the geopolitical status quo. Social Security is not an "entitlement" it is insurance and not mater how many times you repeat that lie it is not going to come true. If the Amish ask the question, the government says that it's not insurance, it's a tax.
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Posted: 11/13/2012 5:33:11 AM EDT
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Socialist Policy This.... socialist is just communism turned down to a lower setting. Thus it takes longer to cook the people into sheeple then slaves. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 11:14:59 AM EDT
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Socialist Policy Actually just the opposite, most of them are being raped by outside forces like huge banks. The force to do this comes from the government, and the facade they use to obscure it is Socialism. I agree with the first part of your post but this has nothing to do with "socilaisim". A lot of the countries that this is happening in already had their own form of socialism in place. And the socialism, over time, created ever increasing debt to the point of unsustainability and a growing dependent class which prevents said nations from economically growing their way out of said socialist mess. It isn't rocket science. Socialism destroys nations. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 11:22:53 AM EDT
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Laziness Fist post People have all of the western greed with little of the motivation. Yep. That post is actually much of the root of the problem. Laziness and being too soft or civilized. The West has no noble cause to pursue and without a cause it is drifting. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 11:24:14 AM EDT
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Political correctness helped uncouple shame from receiving entitlements, thus nullifying any social disadvantages adhering thereto. Same process helped remove the stigma from teenage / unwed pregnancy. In this manner, the dependant class is nurtured and cultivated.
Multiculturalism removed traditional societal pressure to conform to American values and identity. Suddenly it's OK to have balkanized enclaves of hyphenated-whatevers, instead of thinking of themselves as American. They see themselves as apart from America and as a result, are parasites on the organism instead of part of it. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 11:26:02 AM EDT
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Because the people of Western Civilization stopped believing that our civilization is special, worthy of defending, and worth propagating.
So we feel guilty for what we have accomplished, and feel as though we have stopped everyone else from accomplishing the same. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 11:29:59 AM EDT
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Laziness Modern nations reward those without ambition and will. It is interesting to see how many legal immigrants create small businesses compared to americans who are willing to sit on a couch and collect benefits. One more reason? Asia undercuts the West on prices because of lower wages and less regulation. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 11:33:50 AM EDT
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At the top for too long? Gotten soft? Seems as if the entire western world is fixin' to take a huge shit. Because of Cultural Marxism they allowed the mass immigration of low IQ non-whites. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 11:37:42 AM EDT
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Democracy. We were a Republic.
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Posted: 11/13/2012 11:38:30 AM EDT
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At the top for too long? Gotten soft? Seems as if the entire western world is fixin' to take a huge shit. Because of Cultural Marxism they allowed the mass immigration of low IQ non-whites. The problem isn't boatloads of dumb darkies, or whatever. The problem is that they were allowed –– or, more precisely, fiercely encouraged –– to exist as a cultural monolith bereft of the civilizing advantages of the nation to which they emigrated. Assimilation is inevitable. Having savages assimilate into a civilized society is preferable, but it looks like we're going the other way. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 11:53:00 AM EDT
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At the top for too long? Gotten soft? Seems as if the entire western world is fixin' to take a huge shit. Because of Cultural Marxism they allowed the mass immigration of low IQ non-whites. The problem isn't boatloads of dumb darkies, or whatever. The problem is that they were allowed –– or, more precisely, fiercely encouraged –– to exist as a cultural monolith bereft of the civilizing advantages of the nation to which they emigrated. Assimilation is inevitable. Having savages assimilate into a civilized society is preferable, but it looks like we're going the other way. The traditional mechanism of assimlation was free markets, i.e., if you want to earn money and make a living you need to become productive. Welfare and socialism destroy assimilation. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 11:56:37 AM EDT
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We are failing because we have lost our balls.
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